God was never fooled
When he made humanity and set her free to do her own bidding he knew the outcome. He wanted willing relationship, but such only comes at great cost. It costs the creatures he loves pain as they go their own way. He does not take pleasure in that. It even cost him everything as he would come and redeem those people. He would come with his own life.
Satan did not understand this, or more likely just figured God was wrong. His perspective was that allegiance came from gifts. Look at the interaction between himself and God over Job. Satan told God that Job was God-connected because of God’s blessings. God proceeded to show Satan that was not so. Allegiance was built on something else entirely. Satan wanted allegiance. He wanted a people who were his very own, but humanity is God’s project. Satan may have thought he could do it better, but he was not successful.
A summary of chapter 17
This chapter started off with an image of a woman riding a beast. That woman became drunk, infatuated, unthinking, uncontrolled as a result of her actions. Those actions were a Satanic extension. Satan, as Father of the Foul, fired the emotions, the hungers, the hates, the motivations that are natural for humans. What Satan did not count on is the people of the world going rogue on him. In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve went rogue on God and surely Satan experienced a wicked pleasure over that. Well, at the end of time what goes around comes around and Satan faces the same problem from these pesky people. People can be dominated, but they, ultimately are divided against Satan. They want the same things as he wants. That does not play well, and eventually Babylon, Satan’s crown jewel of the anti-God, decided to be her own God.
God the Father allowed an ancient kingdom, called a beast, to rise from the jail of the Abyss. Many kings of the earth threw their allegiance behind this presumed dead character and they marched first upon Babylon. Then they marched to Armageddon. The first battle they won, the people of Babylon being no match for the one who fed their fires. The second battle they lost being no match for the one who made their souls and made the universe.
What we need to do is accept the offer of God and join his team, not to do our own bidding, but to do his. That is what will be the best thing of all times for us.
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