Luk 4:5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him[d] all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Luk 4:6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.
Read part 1?: http://fcyap-godisgood.blogspot.com/2014/10/exactly-what-was-delivered-unto.html
Here's part 2...
In the fourth generation of the descendants of Abraham, they were slaves in Egypt now ruled by a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph...
The Lord God kept His promise to Abraham and brought them out of Egypt and they were...
Exo 32:9 And the Lord said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people;
Best summarised in Psalms 78...
Psa 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk according to His law
Psa 78:11 And forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them.
Psa 78:12 Marvelous things did He in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided].
........The Lord did...the Israelites rebelled...
Psa 78:17 Yet they still went on to sin against Him by provoking and rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness (in the land of drought).
Psa 78:18 And they tempted God in their hearts by asking for food according to their [selfish] desire and appetite.
Psa 78:19 Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish [the food for] a table in the wilderness?
.........The Lord did..the Israelites rebelled...
Psa 78:32 In spite of all this, they sinned still more, for they believed not in (relied not on and adhered not to Him for) His wondrous works.
Psa 78:33 Therefore their days He consumed like a breath [in emptiness, falsity, and futility] and their years in terror and sudden haste.
Psa 78:34 When He slew [some of] them, [the remainder] inquired after Him diligently, and they repented and sincerely sought God [for a time].
The pattern of rebellion never stopped...Why? What was fundamentally wrong?
DIGRESSION...
OK..Let's do a digression here and talk a little bit about the devil. By the way, where's the devil?
Isa 54:16 “ Behold, I have created the blacksmith
Who blows the coals in the fire,
Who brings forth an instrument for his work;
And I have created the spoiler to destroy.
Isa 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the LORD.
This passage in Isaiah is so revealing of who the devil really is..the spoiler (waster, destroyer, devastator) was created by the Lord God to destroy...hmnn...Don't ask why..God knows!...He did warn Adam!...
I am afterall trying to bring light to a "spiritually hard" question...try this for size...if the serpent didn't persuade Eve (who would persuade Adam..Adam was so mesmerised by Eve's beauty he just obeyed!) the serpent(Amplified: devil) would end up unemployed!
The spoiler's job was to form a weapon (the Law) against (in judgement of) you and I. He was created as a sort of guardian of the Law...incredible?..He is even pro-active! searching out for victims..
1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
He is even a temptor...did it to Jesus...
The Law..it doesn't help anyone..like a mirror, it just points out to you your failure to comply, kills you for it by condemnation.
If you haven't..do read my note Fall of Man?..Glimpse of Grace...
ANSWER TO THIS NOTE'S QUESTION:
Now I can see it! the devil was given this authority because of the Law! Because by the Law, Man will be condemned! Our ancient Israelite brothers and sisters found that out the hard way! The whole world was under the Law at that time..
Rom 2:14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,
Rom 2:15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)
Rom 2:16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel
The devil by the Law had power over "all the kingdoms of the world"(Before Jesus came..).
2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
The devil had the power of death because of the Law...
Heb 2:14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
Isaiah 54:17 prophesied of Jesus, our Redeemer who would die for us and give those who believe the heritage, by Grace! not by works!....
Gal 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
BACK FROM THE DIGRESSION:
No cliff-hangers here...Hebrews..He..brews...yo
Heb 8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
Heb 8:8 Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah--
Heb 8:9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.
Man!..the Lord God found fault with the Law!(Ten Commandments, Levitical or not, the whole lot...) How can it be? didn't Jesus say this...
Mat 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
See that?..Jesus came to bear the brunt of the wrath of God (the Law..Sin can only be atoned for/covered by blood..temporarily by the blood of bulls and lambs)..knowing how helpless we were..Jesus the last Adam released a permanent solution to our ever increasing debt in sin...by fulfilling it...How? Bear the wrath! God Himself in the flesh and blood would bear the wrath that was intended for us...for by dying on the cross...having His Own Blood shed before Himself...He has forever wiped away the requirements of the Law!..incredible! Amazing Grace!
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
Heb 8:11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds[b] I will remember no more.”[c]
Heb 8:13 In that He says, “A new covenant, ” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Today..because you and I believe in Jesus..we will not be judged by the law any longer..woe to any that falls under the law..
You all know this...
Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Joh 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Joh 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
None of us can boast of what we have done, is doing, can do, will do...the Lord God gave us His very best...
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Eph 2:9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Jesus is the only way...Praise the Lord..Amen!
Here's part 3: http://fcyap-godisgood.blogspot.com/2014/10/exactly-what-was-delivered-unto_34.html
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