{"id":659,"date":"2009-12-16T13:59:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=659"},"modified":"2009-12-16T13:59:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T17:59:05","slug":"a-question-about-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/659\/a-question-about-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question About Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/text\/books\/fatherandson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/text\/books\/fatherandson.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey Brother John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I was listening to one of the chapter\u00a0cd&#8217;s regarding the Father and Son book today and it gendered a question.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Although the Son was hidden from him, do you think that Satan may have been aware of the existence of an empty throne?<br \/>\n==============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">When John was taken up into heaven for his revelation, he saw no throne beside God&#8217;s, ready for another person (i. e., the Son).\u00a0 So, I am not sure there ever has been an empty one.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em>==============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">After this question came to my mind, I pondered it, and these are some things I thought of.<\/p>\n<p>Being &#8220;full of wisdom&#8221; it seems unlikely that Satan would have thought it possible to sit on a throne with God unless there was already one available and unoccupied.\u00a0 It seems to be too great a thought to have it come to him &#8220;out of the blue&#8221; so to speak.\u00a0 Even for someone full of pride it seems that he would have to be provoked to aim that high.\u00a0 In the book of Esther, Haman was full of himself but his ambitions didn&#8217;t peak until he thought that both the king and Esther thought as highly of him as he did.\u00a0 If Satan did have knowledge of a empty throne, and thought of himself as Haman did himself, then he would have seen himself as the only one worthy to occupy such a place.\u00a0 When the Son was suddenly revealed and was told by God to sit down at his right hand then he would have felt cheated, mistreated, and furious toward the one who, in his eyes, stole his rightful place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billy H.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, all that could have been true about what Satan thought, but an empty throne did not need to be there in order for him to be aware of the possibility of reigning with God.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/text\/books\/fatherandson.pdf &nbsp; Hey Brother John, I was listening to one of the chapter\u00a0cd&#8217;s regarding the Father and Son book today and it gendered a question.\u00a0\u00a0 Although the Son was hidden from him, do you think that Satan may have been aware of the existence of an empty throne? ============== When John was taken up into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}