The Lord's Restraint

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The Lord's Restraint
Topic Started: Nov 8 2009, 01:03 PM (88 Views)
Stephen	Nov 8 2009, 01:03 PM Post #1
Member Posts: 51 Group: Members Member #5,152 Joined: November 7, 2009	The Lord places restraint against satan and his fallen angelics in varying degrees over time. These angelics rebelled against the Lord long long ago [His judgment against this behavior is revealed in Genesis 1:2, Jeremiah 4:23-25, and Ezekiel 28:12-16; and He will ultimately destroy all of them. [Job 1:6-7; 38:1-7; Isaiah 14:12-27; Ezekiel 28:1-19; Revelation 12:3-4; 12:7-9; 19:20; 20:10; 20:15] Little restraint was placed upon satan and his angelic followers at the onset of the creation of humans of our kind about 6,000 years ago. This condition resulted in the Lord's judgment of a worldwide flood. [Genesis 3; 6:1-7] More restraint was applied after the flood and this restraining against satan and his angelic princes is revealed to the prophet Daniel by the Lord Himself. [Daniel 10:4-21; 11:1] Greater restraint has since been initially place by the Lord and this action was instituted at His first advent just after His ascension. This particular function of His holy spirit was activated at Pentecost [Acts 2:1-17] This further restraint has limited satanic activity to a level of influence, but with no latitude for actual manifested interaction including the possession of a human by a satanic entity. This type of influence cannot be induced against human will. Humans have the choice to resist any of it, but unfortunately many do entertain it including those who profess to be believers in Jesus Christ. [Matthew 24:4-5; 2Peter 2:1-22; 2Timothy 3:1-17; 4:1-5] He will remove a large measure of this existing restraining function which will allow for satan and his fallen angelics to directly interact with humanity during His coming hour of trial and judgment against an unbelieving intransigent world [2Thessalonians 2:1-12; 2Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6; Revelation 3:10; 6:12-17; 9:1-21; 11:7; 12:9-12; 13:1-7; 13:11-18; 17:8-14] Edited by Stephen, Nov 8 2009, 08:56 PM.
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