{"id":10540,"date":"2018-12-12T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T16:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2018-12-12T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T16:22:30","slug":"when-and-why-did-god-give-satan-rule-over-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/10540\/when-and-why-did-god-give-satan-rule-over-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"When and Why Did God Give Satan Rule over Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, Pastor John.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In reading December 9th’s excerpt from the Father and Son book, these questions came to mind:<\/span><\/p>\n

Question #1:<\/span><\/p>\n

When did God give Satan the Earth to rule?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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We are not told, but I assume it was after Adam ate the forbidden fruit, thus trusting and submitting himself to Satan and his word instead of trusting and obeying God\u2019s.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, even before Adam sinned, God could have entrusted care of the earth to Satan as a good thing.\u00a0 There is no reason why God could not have done that, as part of His organization of His creation.<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Question #2:<\/span><\/p>\n

The question of why God gave Satan rule over Earth also came up for me.\u00a0 Was God tired of human sin?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whenever God did that, it was for the good of people, especially those who belong to Him.\u00a0 Sinners who follow Satan\u2019s lead behave better than do sinners who will not submit to any authority.\u00a0 Satan loves order, and those who are like him love it, too.<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Question #3:<\/span><\/p>\n

Why didn’t God just give Satan another creation of his to rule?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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…and just leave us in peace?\u00a0 That is how people think of Satan, but it is not how things really are.\u00a0 The human race would probably be even worse off than it is now if Satan wasn\u2019t around, trying to keep people is some kind of decent order.<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Question #4:<\/span><\/p>\n

Did Jesus send back the Holy Spirit as a compromise to his Father’s curse of Earth through sending Satan to rule?<\/span><\/p>\n

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No, he send back the Spirit to save us from our sin, just because he loves us.\u00a0 Satan wishes he was important enough to be the reason God sent us his Spirit.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Wow, that single excerpt from the Father and Son book brought up a lot of questions for me \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lots of love,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Allison<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I think it is wonderful that you are thinking on spiritual things.\u00a0 Jesus has answers for us if we just ask, as you have done.\u00a0 And his answers will set us free from the diseased thoughts of Christian superstition.\u00a0 I am so thankful for that!\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Lots of love back to you and Brad!\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi, Pastor John.\u00a0 In reading December 9th’s excerpt from the Father and Son book, these questions came to mind: Question #1: When did God give Satan the Earth to rule?\u201d ==========\u00a0 We are not told, but I assume it was after Adam ate the forbidden fruit, thus trusting and submitting himself to Satan and his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}