do you remember Revelation 20:10?!, it is written there that satan will be thrown into the "lake of fire and brimstone", where the first beast and the other beast will also be thrown, and that they will be tormented day and night forever and ever, so how do you see satan as a servant of the true God when God intends to throw him into that place and satan will be tortured day and night forever and ever (he doesn't seem to be pleasing to God)?!, or where in Scripture can you find a verse/passage in which Jesus Christ is seen to have used the services of satan?! Blessings
Rev 19:19 Then I saw the beast,
the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army.
20 And the beast [
verse 19 the kings of the earth] was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Now all this is spoken of the same people, in the same circumstances of willful rebellion and obstinate unbelief; and the great God of heaven and earth is he who judicially blinds their eyes; makes their hearts fat, i.e. stupid; gives them the spirit of slumber: and bows down their back, etc. On these very grounds it is exceedingly likely that the apostle means the true God by the words the god of this world. And as to the expression this world, αιωνος τουτου, we are not to imagine that it necessarily means wicked men, or a wicked age; for it is frequently used to express the whole mundane system, and all that is called time.
They have resisted the grace which God gave them, and have refused to yield to the evidences which amply prove the Messiah ship of Jesus; and therefore their eyes were judicially darkened, as it is said in the prophet: He hath closed their eyes, and hath given them the spirit of slumber. That is, they have shut their eyes against the light, and their blindness and stupor are the consequence.
But what if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, and that He might manifest the riches of His grace towards the vessels of mercy, which He hath before prepared unto glory etc. Here it evidently cannot be said that it is one God who shows his wrath, and makes known his power in the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, and another God who shows his riches in the vessels of mercy. According to the apostle's doctrine, it is one and the same God who does both. For in all these words quoted from the apostle no other God is understood than He whose Son, sent by Him, came saying, " For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not might see, and that they which see might be made blind," Regarding this it is well said of God, "Thy judgments are a great deep."' The apostle, in admiration of the unfathomable depth of this abyss, exclaims : "0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out ! You cannot distinguish between what God does in mercy and what He does in judgment, because you can neither understand nor use the words of our Psalter " I will sing of mercy and judgment unto Thee, 0 Lord." Accordingly, whatever in the feebleness of your frail humanity seems amiss to you, you separate entirely from the will and judgment of God for you are provided with another evil god, not by a discovery of truth, but by an invention of folly. So you think snakes are made by en evil being; while you consider the sun so great a good, that you believe it to be not the creature of God, but an emission from His substance. You must know that the this God, in whom, alas, you have not yet come to believe, made both the snake along with the lower creatures, and the sun along with other exalted creatures. Adam Clarke Commentary e-Sword - the Sword of the Lord with an electronic edge & [ BOOK XXI,] TWO PRINCIPLES 383 -386 REPLY TO FAUSTUS THE MANICHAEN
The works of Aurelius Augustine / a new translation, ... v.5. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Now all this is spoken of the same people, in the same circumstances of willful rebellion and obstinate unbelief; and the great God of heaven and earth is he who judicially blinds their eyes; makes their hearts fat, i.e. stupid; gives them the spirit of slumber: and bows down their back, etc. On these very grounds it is exceedingly likely that the apostle means the true God by the words the god of this world. And as to the expression this world, αιωνος τουτου, we are not to imagine that it necessarily means wicked men, or a wicked age; for it is frequently used to express the whole mundane system, and all that is called time.
They have resisted the grace which God gave them, and have refused to yield to the evidences which amply prove the Messiah ship of Jesus; and therefore their eyes were judicially darkened, as it is said in the prophet: He hath closed their eyes, and hath given them the spirit of slumber. That is, they have shut their eyes against the light, and their blindness and stupor are the consequence.
But what if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, and that He might manifest the riches of His grace towards the vessels of mercy, which He hath before prepared unto glory etc. Here it evidently cannot be said that it is one God who shows his wrath, and makes known his power in the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, and another God who shows his riches in the vessels of mercy. According to the apostle's doctrine, it is one and the same God who does both. For in all these words quoted from the apostle no other God is understood than He whose Son, sent by Him, came saying, " For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not might see, and that they which see might be made blind," Regarding this it is well said of God, "Thy judgments are a great deep."' The apostle, in admiration of the unfathomable depth of this abyss, exclaims : "0 the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out ! You cannot distinguish between what God does in mercy and what He does in judgment, because you can neither understand nor use the words of our Psalter " I will sing of mercy and judgment unto Thee, 0 Lord." Accordingly, whatever in the feebleness of your frail humanity seems amiss to you, you separate entirely from the will and judgment of God for you are provided with another evil god, not by a discovery of truth, but by an invention of folly. So you think snakes are made by en evil being; while you consider the sun so great a good, that you believe it to be not the creature of God, but an emission from His substance. You must know that the this God, in whom, alas, you have not yet come to believe, made both the snake along with the lower creatures, and the sun along with other exalted creatures. Adam Clarke Commentary e-Sword - the Sword of the Lord with an electronic edge & [ BOOK XXI,] TWO PRINCIPLES 383 -386 REPLY TO FAUSTUS THE MANICHAEN
The works of Aurelius Augustine / a new translation, ... v.5. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
do you remember Revelation 20:10?!, it is written there that satan will be thrown into the "lake of fire and brimstone", where the first beast and the other beast will also be thrown, and that they will be tormented day and night forever and ever, so how do you see satan as a servant of the true God when God intends to throw him into that place and satan will be tortured day and night forever and ever (he doesn't seem to be pleasing to God)?!, or where in Scripture can you find a verse/passage in which Jesus Christ is seen to have used the services of satan?!
Blessings
