Originally posted by BobRyan:
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Just what is the point of "Chastisement", is it not to "DELIVER" the child from "Wickedness".
There is no case where God defines his own work of chastisement (take Heb 12 for example) as "Turned over to Satan".
Satan is not in charge of disciplining God's children. If you have a text where God asks Satan to do Him some favors - point it out. Until then - Satan is at war with God Rev 12.
In Christ,
Bob </font>[/QUOTE]
If you have a text where God asks Satan to do Him some favors - point it out.
Ge 2:7 And the LORD God
formed man of the dust of the ground,
Flesh is made from "DUST".
Ge 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go,
and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
"DUST", (FLESH) is Satan's "BREAD OF LIFE" in the same (Spiritual) sense Jesus is our "BREAD OF LIFE".
Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Joh 6:54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Joh 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom
he may devour: (EAT)
God gave Satan "ALL FLESH" for his "bread of life", and during the trib, God allows him to "EAT" his fill, but not the "SOULS" of believers.
This is why Satan can "CLAIM" (kill) the "FLESH" of believers but not their souls, he also attempted to "CLAIM" the "BODY OF MOSES", but God isn't finished with it yet, Moses is coming back as one of the Two witnesses.
Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the
body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Satan would also "CLAIM" our "flesh" if there wasn't someone who was "GREATER" than he "IN US", (Holy Ghost) so he must "FLEE".
Once "HE" is "taken out of the way" (rapture) Satan can devour flesh to the point "NO FLESH" would be saved except Jesus shorten those days.