The Execution Of The Sentence Against Satan

In the end time scenario, the invisible supreme personality and the eschatological protagonist is God the Father. Because of His invisibility, He cannot rule the Earth directly. He must do so through an Adam, a human representative. That human representative is Jesus, the last Adam and the second man who is the Lord from Heaven. Because Jesus has a visible body, He can relate with the external physical environment. 

Satan is like God. He has no visible body with which to relate to the externally physical environment. He too must rule the world by proxy. His visible human representative in the last days is the antiChrist. He is the visible eschatological antagonist. So, the war between God and Satan is a war of proxy. When Satan is cast down to the Earth at the midpoint of the 70th week of Daniel, he will possess the antiChrist. He will give him his power, seat and great authority. So, when Christ defeats the antiChrist at Armageddon, Satan is defeated. When Christ triumphs at Armageddon, God the Father is the victor.

The Final Disposition Of Satan 

The execution of the sentence against Satan for his rebellion against God in eternity past is in four stages. In the first stage of the sentence which was carried out in eternity past, he was cast out from the Heaven of heavens to the Dark Void and starry heavens. 

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?”(Isaiah‬ ‭14:12-17‬ ‭KJV‬‬).

The second stage of the sentence against Satan will be carried out at the middle of the 70th week of Daniel. He shall be cast down to the Earth by the archangel Michael with his fallen evil angels.

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”(Rev.12:7-9‬ ‭KJV‬).

The third stage of the sentence against Stan will occur at the end of the Armageddon Campaign. He shall be arrested and incarcerated in the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Throughout the Millennial Reign of Christ and the saints, Satan shall be imprisoned in the bottomless pit to remove his evil influences on the residents of the renovated Earth.

“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”(‭‭Rev.‭20:1-3‬ ‭KJV‬‬).

At the expiry of the Millennium, Satan shall be paroled to carry out the final rebellion against God which shall end in a divine conflagration and his final imprisonment in the Lake Of Fire where the antiChrist and the False prophet have been cast into a thousand years earlier.

“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”(Rev.20:7-10‬ ‭KJV‬‬). 

Avraham’s Shallom