'Let's just accept this for what it is--Satan wants to cause the most harm he can'

"When Satan and his minions rebelled, that's roughly a third of heaven. There's nowhere in Scripture where Satan and his minions get a second chance; they're going to end up in hell," explains Columbus, Ohio Preacher David Reid.

"Satan hates the Body of Christ.Without 'the mystery,' what's the answer to how God's going to reconcile the heavens? It was a secret. Our rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ are described as crowns. A crown is a position of governmental authority. It's a position of responsibility.

"Who are we replacing? Satan and his minions, the principalities and powers, the spiritual wickedness in high places.

"Right now, at this very minute, Satan and his minions remain in those positions, but the Body of Christ is one day taking those positions formally occupied by them. It's happening! 

"Romans 16:20 says, 'And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.'  Isn't that something? Satan's going to be bruised under our feet. He's going to spend all eternity in 'the lake of fire.' He's going to be tormented there. The dictionary meaning of the word torment is torture.

"How do you think Satan feels about this? Do you think he's happy about it? Do you think he resents you with every fiber of his being? What a humiliation.

"God's going to kick him out and replace them with these people made out of mud. We were formed of the dust of the earth. Your body is largely water. That's what God's using to displace Satan and his minions in the heavens.

"Let's just accept this for what it is. Satan hates the Body of Christ with a burning passion. He can do nothing to your spiritual body. When you get caught up at the Rapture, you have a spiritual body he can't harm. There's not a thing he can do to you then, so you know what he's doing right now? Satan wants to cause the most harm he can; he wants to cause the Body of Christ as much pain and suffering and problems as he can.

"So is this world going to make sense? Satan is 'the god of this world.' This world is going to be run in a way that is corrupt, evil, wicked and it's going to be oriented in a way that has hatred toward the Body of Christ.

"And you know what? He can make your life awkward or uncomfortable or unpleasant for a teeny little moment. That's it. You win, you win, you win. He's going to enjoy this moment of causing trouble, but it is a very brief window and that power will be taken from him."

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"In Genesis, you see the early development of religion, of art, science, culture as they're conceived by sinful descendants of Adam with the design of filling up man's mind to take him away from God," explains Richard Jordan.

"In Revelation, you see man's art and his religion, his science, in all of their splendor, but you see them judged and destroyed by God in Revelation 18.

"In Genesis, God sends a flood to destroy a wicked and adulterous, evil generation. In Revelation, you see that Satan sends a flood to destroy a chosen generation, an elect generation. In Genesis, the earth is deluged by water and in Revelation the earth is consumed by fire when Christ comes back.

"There's a company that passes through the Flood in safety in Genesis, finally finding rest and worship out there on the top of Mt. Ararat. When you look at Revelation, you see a company pass through the tribulation in safety; a little remnant finally finding rest and worship up on Mt. Zion. It's that 144,000 in Revelation 14.

"In Genesis, you see a guy by the name of Nimrod; the great rebel, the king. He becomes founder of the ancient kingdom of Babylon, the seat of infamy and apostasy--the seat of the original rebellion against God and the original development of idolatry.

"In Revelation, you see the ultimate fulfillment in the person of the Antichrist, that great rebel and king who becomes the revivor of Babylon--MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

"In Revelation, the nations are gathered, not scattered. In Genesis, you see Sodom and Gomorrah, the center of corruption. In Revelation, you see Sodom and Gomorrah as titles for the city of Jerusalem because of her spiritual declension and apostasy.

"You see the nation Israel in Genesis and all of history crystallized around the nation Israel. All the history of the world and man is focused right on Abraham and his descendants. In Revelation, everything again crystallizes around the people of Israel.

"There's a warfare in Genesis 14 against Abraham's family and it's overthrown and destroyed in a beautiful type of the Second Coming. In Revelation, there's a war against Abraham's people again and it, too, is overthrown. Look at Revelation 12 and 13.

"One of the wonderful touching things in Genesis 24 is Abraham sends out his servant to seek a bride for his son Isaac. It's a marvelous type of what God will do in reality, and you'll see it in Revelation where a bride is sought and found there for God's Son.

"There are two messengers in Genesis who go acting for God on behalf of His people seeking to get Lot out of Sodom. Fascinatingly, in Revelation 11 there are two messengers who go acting for God on behalf of His people seeking to get His people out of the city of Jerusalem that He calls Sodom and Gomorrah! Israel's Redeemer is prophesied in Genesis to spring forth from the tribe of Judah. Revelation is the place He's called the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

"You see the same thing with regard to the serpent. In Genesis, the serpent deceives man. In Revelation, it says he deceives the nations no more. In Genesis, the serpent's dominion began and in Revelation it ceases."

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