Expert: Brenda Martin - 10/24/2010

Question
Hi Brenda, It's William again,thank you for answering my first question, now that we know Satan and God our in a fight for our souls. Do you think there is rules between them? Such as, God can't turn up as a god and tell us the truth about the fight for our souls? So he solved this by coming to us as a man, so as not to break the rules. More rules such as, God can only use love to catch our souls, where as Satan can use love and the seven deadly sins to catch our souls, and when you see it this way, you can now understand why god is helpless to help us at this time. Plus it answers a lot of questions about gods real love for us.

Answer
"SATAN AND GOD ARE IN A FIGHT FOR OUR SOULS/LIVES. DO YOU THINK THERE ARE RULES BETWEEN THEM?"

When Satan led Adam and Eve into sinning against God, he was really leading a rebellion. He was challenging Jehovah’s way of ruling. In effect, Satan was saying: ‘God is a bad ruler. He tells lies and holds back good things from his subjects. Humans do not need to have God ruling over them. They can decide for themselves what is good and what is bad. And they will be better off under my rulership.’ How would God handle such an insulting challenge? Some think that God should simply have put the rebels to death. But would that have answered Satan’s challenge? Would it have proved that God’s way of ruling is right?

Jehovah’s perfect sense of justice would not allow him to put the rebels to death right away. He decided that time was needed to answer Satan’s challenge in a satisfying way and to prove that the Devil is a liar. So God determined that he would permit humans to rule themselves for some time under Satan’s influence.

GOD IS HELPLESS TO HELP US AT THIS TIME.

:¬) by no means, but God is allowing Satan to rule over mankind meantime, allowing something doesn’t mean your “helpless” Satan only exists & rules because the Creator lets him.

Jesus never doubted that Satan is the ruler of this world. In some miraculous way, Satan once showed Jesus “all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.” Satan then promised Jesus: “All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me.” (Matthew 4:8, 9; Luke 4:5, 6) Think about this. Would that offer have been a temptation to Jesus if Satan was not the ruler of these kingdoms? Jesus did not deny that all these worldly governments were Satan’s. Surely, Jesus would have done that if Satan was not the power behind them.

Of course, Jehovah is the Almighty God, the Creator of the marvellous universe. (Revelation 4:11) Yet, nowhere does the Bible say that either Jehovah God or Jesus Christ is ruler of this world. In fact, Jesus specifically referred to Satan as “the ruler of this world.” (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11) The Bible even refers to Satan the Devil as “the god of this system of things.” (2 Corinthians 4:3, 4) Regarding this opposer, or Satan, the Christian apostle John wrote: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.”—1 John 5:19.

HOW SATAN’S WORLD WILL BE REMOVED

With each passing year, the world is becoming more and more dangerous. It is overrun with warring armies, dishonest politicians, hypocritical religious leaders, and hardened criminals. The world as a whole is beyond reform. The Bible reveals that the time is near when God will eliminate the wicked world during his war of Armageddon. This will make way for a righteous new world.—Revelation 16:14-16.

all the best
Brenda