Season 5 Podcast 68 A New Voice of Freedom, Argument for the Existence of God, Episode 43, “Dimensions of Life, Pt 5, Dimension Six The Final Judgment Pt B.”

There are two curious scriptures in the New Testament that are much talked about.

“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:16)

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1 Corinthians 6: 19)

Christians hold those scriptures dear to their hearts; the idea that we are temples is revolutionary. Now imagine living in the eternities being one with God. In Revelation 21:22 we read,

“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.”

In literature and art Satan has been presented in frightful images. Revelations is a difficult book to read because it is so unsettling. It is so unsettling because one cannot help but believe that we are now living in the day The Book of Revelation is being fulfilled. Satan wants us to fear him because that gives him power over us. If we fear God, that is if we love God enough that we will keep his commandments—in other words we fear justice—we will have power over Satan. Isaiah gives us a strange image of the downfall of Satan.

“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? All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.” (Isaiah 14:12-19)

Satan is certainly more powerful than we are, and anyone who thinks that of themselves they are superior are in for a terrible awakening. But Satan is not more powerful than God. There is no comparison. The end is never in doubt. Even Satan knows that. As John added,

“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” (Revelation 12:12)

It is Satan who tries to take away light and truth for that is the only power he has. In fact, Satan targets the following: light, truth, freewill, agency, faith, hope, love, freedom, self-reliance, charity, belief in God, and belief in absolute law.

Being devoid of light and truth himself, he cannot create. He can only destroy that which God creates. He wants everyone to be as miserable as he is. He wants us to fail. He wants to persuade us to get as far away from light and truth as possible and the further away we are from the Light of Christ the more power Satan has over us. He is the Prince of Darkness, and darkness is his domain.