Christ said “it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” also said “I have given you the keys to the kingdom”.
The purpose of the Gospel message is our cross over back to God. This is our Passover. As pictured with the Israelite’s at their Passover when the angel of death passed over them. That scenario was carried out physically for them to understand what happens invisibly. This is what our physical existence is about, our crossover.
We have another Passover symbolized by baptism. This is also symbolic of what happens to us invisibly. Unbeknownst to our carnal perceptions. We go into the water to put off the old and come back out to put on the new. We go in having been slaves to the kingdom of Satan whose reward is death, and we come out being free in Christ for “he who the son sets free is truly free”. We now are fellow citizens, members and saints of the kingdom of God at hand.
So then it is scripture that Maps out the kingdom for our participation in God’s Kingdom. We have the map and the keys whereby we can go there. Christ said I am the way the truth and the life. He said to follow Him where He is. He is whom we follow to the father where He awaits our arrival.
God says his word goes out and accomplishes all his desire, that it does not come back void. It comes back with us.
The unfortunate thing is scripture contains in it more then just the keys to the kingdom of God. God’s word has built into it distractions for the carnally minded. The place that we are called to is not for the carnal man even as Paul said flesh and blood does not inherit the Kingdom. They have an appetite of a difference source.
In the gospels Christ said that the kingdom of God is like a great tree in whom the fowls of the air nest in its branches. Confirming that there are many distractions, not to confuse the elect but to sift through the threshing floor to gather into His barn.
And even as the Garden of Eden had choices of contrast, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil in which you shall surely die, so too the scriptures portray the same Concepts.
So when someone goes to scripture there forethought of expectation and what they go there for is what they will be fed. And if somebody wants to know more about Satan, God will oblige them in that cause. But to go to scripture and use it to map out Satan’s kingdom, and figure out traits of that father, is an abuse and a misappropriation of scripture. Scripture is not given to glorify Satan. As a matter of fact and time Seekers looking for signs and symptoms and delving in to understanding Satan and his minions, have fallen from purpose. Christ came preaching the kingdom of God is at hand, and with the map and the keys present, to this we must give ourselves.
But it is the fearful minded that wants the details of end times and end times events, and the works of Satan and his kingdom. And by doing so we insult the spirit of Grace who has already given us the victory why? So that we do not have to fear these things.
Christ said the God of this age comes and has nothing in me. Meaning they have nothing in common. And I myself will not insult my God by a scribing some kind of power to Satan because I have understanding of his word. And if we read the words in the things that are said, it behooves us to believe it. And my scripture says the God of this age has been judged. So however you make it out and however you want to say Satan is rampat, in so doing you insult salvation. You deny the savior. For God sent his son into the world not to condemn the world but to save it. He does not come back again later to save it. The world is working just fine but you don’t believe it so there by you reject the words of God. But even as 1st John confers that we have come to know and believe that God has sent his son as Savior of the world. There is no other saving act than the cross. And if it’s not appropriate in the Here and Now and you don’t find your salvation in this day then you will be found as a denier in a unbeliever
The Kingdom of God is at hand.