{"id":15003,"date":"2024-08-26T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15003"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:11:28","slug":"judas-or-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15003\/judas-or-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"Judas or Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I apologize if you covered this and I missed it:<\/span><\/p>\n

Do the scriptures say that Satan entered Judas before Judas went into town and revealed Jesus’ whereabouts for 30 pieces of silver (Luke 22:3)?<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was before.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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If so, was it actually Satan (in Judas) who gave up Jesus’ location to those men?\u00a0\u00a0It seems that Satan would have done that if he could because it would have pleased Satan to put Jesus in a position where Jesus had to reveal himself as king of the Jews\u2014which (he thought) Jesus surely would HAVE to do now to save himself from the men who wanted him dead\u2014that is\u2014if Jesus was ever going to occupy his place as a (worldly) world ruler\u2014as Satan understood Jesus’ place to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What Satan did was equally what Judas did after Judas was possessed.\u00a0\u00a0The Accuser didn\u2019t make Judas do anything.\u00a0\u00a0They were as one.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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With that, and assuming Satan believed that once Jesus fulfilled his position as world ruler (Satan’s current position), Satan would be free to move into the higher position he felt certain was coming his way…<\/span><\/p>\n

If Satan believed he had Jesus in this “pickle” where Jesus would have to go ahead and occupy his place as world ruler (even if it wasn’t God\u2019s time yet), would that have been reason (a good enough reason in Satan’s mind) to forever leave his glorious cherub body – believing that a new and better body waited for him just around the corner along with his assumed promotion?<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you<\/span><\/p>\n

Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, Jerry.\u00a0\u00a0I mentioned that in our last reading.\u00a0\u00a0Here is one portion of the Father and Son book which dealt with that:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSatan\u2019s original sin was pride at being \u201cperfect in beauty\u201d (Ezek. 28:12), and he would never have left his perfectly beautiful body to possess a human except in hope of receiving something greater.\u00a0\u00a0It may even be that Satan thought that if he was granted to sit at God\u2019s right hand, he would be given a body more glorious than the one he first had.\u00a0\u00a0That may not be the case, but either way, the promotion he hoped for was of such glory that whatever was lost in the process of attaining it would be worth it.\u00a0\u00a0That hope is the only thing that could have lured Satan out of his perfectly beautiful body to possess the lowly body of a mortal man.\u00a0\u00a0The significance he attached to this mission is revealed in the fact that Satan had never before abandoned his body to personally possess anyone.\u00a0\u00a0Sensing that it was a mission of unparalleled importance to God, it would have been a mission of unparalleled importance to him, as well.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n

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