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Satan's Government
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Genesis 3:1-6  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Though God had warned them of the penalty of eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Eve was persuaded by the Devil's clever arguments to eat of the fruit that led to self-centeredness and death! Adam also willingly ate the forbidden fruit. Whether Adam fully realized it or not, he thus lost his opportunity to conquer Satan and replace him as ruler of this world. Instead, Adam obeyed Satan, placing himself under Satan's government. Pentecost: Only 'Firstfruits' Now Called!

John 17:14-16  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) The world Jesus speaks of is Satan's anti-God system working in and through men. Within it are the cultures of all nations on earth. Jesus is clearly not of that anti-God system, and He declares that those accompanying Him, the apostles, were not of the world either. They were of the same system as He—the Kingdom of God. The same is true of those in Christ today. John W. Ritenbaugh The Offerings of Leviticus (Part Eight): Conclusion (Part One)

Galatians 4:8  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Before a person comes to know God, he serves those that are not gods by nature. Satan is the god of this world (I Corinthians 4:4), but he was not made to be so. In another place, I Corinthians 8:5, Paul says that there are many lords and many gods, but we know there is only one true God. Many beings attempt to pawn themselves off as gods, each of whom has a kind of "truth," or better, a "philosophy of life." John W. Ritenbaugh Truth (Part 1)

1 John 5:19  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) "Lies in wickedness" should be translated "lies [under the sway of] the wicked one," as the New King James has it. John makes an all-inclusive statement of Satan's position in terms of the earth. The wicked one, the Devil, holds authority over all operations of all cultural systems on earth. He is the king, he holds authority, over what the Bible calls "the world." John W. Ritenbaugh What I Believe About Conspiracy Theories

Revelation 13:1-18  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Chapter 13 begins with a very colorful, almost overpowering, vision showing an overview of the political system that Satan works through. There is just enough given here to connect this with the Daniel 2 and 7. What arises in Revelation 13 actually has its beginnings long before Jesus Christ, all the way back to Nimrod, showing a definite time progression. This is the system that rears its head at the end time, but the vision is given so that we will understand that this is the system that Satan has always worked through. John W. Ritenbaugh Revelation 10 and the Laodicean Church

 

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