What do you say that Political Leftists, Atheists, and Evil People, especially satan-worshippers such as Democrat and the probable satan-worshipping Chelsea Clinton most hate the Lord Jesus Christ for?
My take on this - is that they all hate the Lord Jesus Christ first for being God (God the Son), and second, that He already destroyed all the works of the Enemy, of satan when He died on the cross and then capped that humongous, game-changing triumph when He rose again from the Dead through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Not only did He destroy satan's works and rose again from the Dead but He (Jesus Christ) personally went down into Hell and stripped satan personally of the keys to death and Hell. He showed satan and all his millions of demons down there who's the ultimate authority. They couldn't do anything about it.
Let's review something here from the Bible so you all get to know the relationship of authority that exists between Jesus Christ and all the demons.
Now, I'm going to quote the demons from this Biblical passage so you're getting the message directly from the enemy:
" Mark 5 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
5 They came to the other side of the sea to the region of the Gerasenes.
2 And as soon as He got out of the boat, there met Him out of the tombs a man [under the power] of an unclean spirit.
3 This man [a]continually lived among the tombs, and no one could subdue him anymore, even with a chain;
4 For he had been bound often with shackles for the feet and [b]handcuffs, but the handcuffs of [light] chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he rubbed and ground together and broke in pieces; and no one had strength enough to restrain or tame him.
5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always [c]shrieking and screaming and [d]beating and bruising and [e]cutting himself with stones.
6 And when from a distance he saw Jesus, he ran and fell on his knees before Him in homage,
7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, What have You to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? [What is there in common between us?] I [f]solemnly implore you by God, do not begin to torment me!
8 For Jesus was commanding, Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!
9 And He asked him, What is your name? He replied, My name is Legion, for we are many.
10 And he kept begging Him urgently not to send them [himself and the other demons] away out of that region.
11 Now a great herd of hogs was grazing there on the hillside.
12 And the demons begged Him, saying, Send us to the hogs, that we may go into them!
13 So He gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out [of the man] and entered into the hogs; and the herd, numbering about 2,000, rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea.
14 The hog feeders ran away and told [it] in the town and in the country. And [the people] came to see what it was that had taken place.
15 And they came to Jesus and looked intently and searchingly at the man who had been a demoniac, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, [the same man] who had had the legion [of demons]; and they were [g]seized with alarm and struck with fear.
16 And those who had seen it related in full what had happened to the man possessed by demons and to the hogs.
17 And they began to beg [Jesus] to leave their neighborhood.
18 And when He had stepped into the boat, the man who had been controlled by the unclean spirits kept begging Him that he might be with Him.
19 But Jesus refused to permit him, but said to him, Go home to your own [family and relatives and friends] and bring back word to them of how much the Lord has done for you, and [how He has] had sympathy for you and mercy on you.
20 And he departed and began to publicly proclaim in Decapolis [the region of the ten cities] how much Jesus had done for him, and all the people were astonished and marveled." 1
Let's contrast the above passage with this next one also from the New Testament, from the Book of Acts, from the Nineteenth Chapter, verses 13 through 20:
" 13 Then some of the traveling Jewish exorcists (men who adjure evil spirits) also undertook to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, I solemnly implore and charge you by the Jesus Whom Paul preaches!
14 Seven sons of a certain Jewish chief priest named Sceva were doing this.
15 But [one] evil spirit retorted, Jesus I know, and Paul I know [b]about, but who are you?
16 Then the man in whom the evil spirit dwelt leaped upon them, mastering [c]two of them, and was so violent against them that they dashed out of that house [in fear], stripped naked and wounded.
17 This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews, and Greeks, and alarm and terror fell upon them all; and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled and magnified.
18 Many also of those who were now believers came making [d]full confession and thoroughly exposing their [former deceptive and evil] practices.
19 And many of those who had practiced curious, magical arts collected their books and [throwing them, [e]book after book, on the pile] burned them in the sight of everybody. When they counted the value of them, they found it amounted to 50,000 pieces of silver ([f]about $9,300).
20 Thus the Word of the Lord [concerning the [g]attainment through Christ of eternal salvation in the kingdom of God] grew and spread and intensified, prevailing mightily." 2
If you were to read carefully those two passages from above, do you spot some marked differences between the two passages?
Let me give you a hand here if you didn't.
In the first passage, Jesus is singlehandedly confronting a single man who was possessed by many demons, many unclean spirits. And they're all terrified of him. They're scared. And before they leave the man He's commanding them out of, they're asking Him for permission to possess a herd of pigs or hogs nearby.
Moreover, if you keep reading, you'd notice that when the demon-possessed man saw Jesus Christ approaching, he ran and bowed down and worshipped Jesus. The demons were still inside the man and despite all those demons still, in him, they didn't stop him from worshipping Jesus. They couldn't.
So, here you have the first clue about a relationship of hierarchy and rank and authority that even the demons observed. They knew that Jesus outranked them all and outranked their leader, satan himself. Jesus was here all by himself confronting a whole legion of demons and they're all submissive to him. The entire incident shows that Jesus is running this whole show all by himself.
Now, if you turn to the second passage cited, you'll see some parallels between the two passages inasmuch as the sole demon possessing a man as reported in the Book of Acts, the demon here recognizes who Jesus is. The demon also recognizes who Paul the Apostle is.
So this demon also observes that there exists a relationship of authority, of rank that puts Jesus Christ at the very top, and those who truly belong to Jesus, above all the demons. The demon also detects the absence of Holy authority in these seven exorcists that was and is present in both Jesus Christ and in Paul the Apostle.
The demon rather than leaving their victim repelled the seven exorcists. The demon saw that none of them had any authority over him. Thus, we see that demons will bow to those in who they recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit. They detect when someone has the Holy Spirit in them when a confrontation of exorcism is going on.
And woe to anyone confronting a demon without the protection of Jesus Christ through the presence of the Holy Spirit. Those seven were playing with fire by having gone before that demon unprotected.
Now, let's look at this sermon by the pastor Charles Spurgeon who discussed that Jesus indeed did destroy the works of the devil.
" By THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SON OF GOD. “For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested.” The work of the devil was so clever, the foundations of it were so deeply laid, and the whole thing had such a semblance of omnipotence about it, and was, indeed, in itself so strong, that no champion was found in heaven or on earth that could hope to destroy it. It never entered Satan’s thoughts that God himself could deign to suffer and to die. He said within himself,— “If I can make man so to offend God that he must just be incensed against him, then I shall have done the work effectually. If I can make a man a rebel, God’s infinite holiness cannot overlook his rebellion, and he must punish him, and so I shall have made for God a perpetual race of enemies, and he will have lost the love of myriads of his creatures.” He did not know the boundless love and wisdom of Jehovah. Even his angelic intellect could never have conceived the matchless plan of atonement by sacrifice, propitiation by substitution. The blessed fact of the Son of God becoming manifest in human flesh, and dying in human form, to destroy the works of the devil, entered not into a creature’s mind. Yet this was always in God’s purpose, for the better display of his divine attributes. Behind, and under, and over the works of the devil the Lord had ever the design that this evil should be permitted that he might baffle it with love and that the glory of his grace might be revealed.
My text has in it to my mind a majestic idea, first, of the difficulties of the case,— that the Son of God must need be manifested to destroy the works of the devil; and then, secondly, of the ease of his victory. Have you been abroad at midnight when darkness has been all about you, dense and palpable? Not a star was visible, the moon had forgotten to shine; you could scarce see your hand when you held it before your eyes. The blackness seemed to be not only above, beneath, and around, but also within you. You were embedded in a thick, heavy, sensible ebon mass. How could all this be scattered? What power could uplift the pall and scatter the mass? Lo, in the east old Sol has lifted up his head, and the black walls have vanished: not a wreck remains, the works of darkness are destroyed by the manifestation of the light. That is the thought of the text— “For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested.” Uprising from his divine retreat in the silences of eternity, he appeared in human form, and thereby scattered and utterly destroyed the works of darkness. Let us see how this was done.
First, Christ’s manifestation, even in his incarnation, was a fatal blow to the works of Satan. Did God come down to men? was he incarnate in the infant form that slept in Bethlehem’s manger? Then the Almighty has not given up our nature to be the prey of sin. Despair may not be! If one is born on earth who is divine as well as human, then joy unto thee, O race of Adam! Hear ye, not the song, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men”? It cannot be that the race is given up to perpetual night if the Son of God is manifested in such fashion as this.
Next, look to the life of Christ on earth, and see how He there destroyed the works of the devil. It was a glorious duel in the wilderness when they stood foot to foot— the champions of good and evil! How dexterously the evil one played his weapons! how cunningly he tempted the Christ of God! But the Lord Jesus used the sword of the Spirit, and “It is written,” “It is written,” “It is written,” struck home till the evil one spread his dragon wings and fled away, for he had found his victor. Evil spirits had taken possession of human forms: legions of devils were established in men; but the Lord Jesus Christ had only to speak the word, and away they fled, glad to leap into swine and rush into the sea, to escape from his presence. They knew that he had come who was ordained “to destroy the works of the devil.”
All our Lord’s preaching, all his teaching, all his labor here below was in order to the pulling away from the cornerstone from the great house of darkness which Satan had built up.
But oh, dear friends, it was in his death that Jesus chiefly overthrew Satan and destroyed his works. Satan built upon this— that man had become offensive to God and God must punish him; that punishment was his hope for the continuance of alienation. Behold, the august Son of God takes the offender’s place! Marvel of marvels, the Judge stands where the criminal should have stood and is “numbered with the transgressors!” Behold, the wrath of God falls upon his Well-beloved, and Jesus suffers, that he may reconcile man to his God, and heal the breach which sin had caused. The deed was done. Man is no more offensive to heaven, for one glorious man’s boundless merit has put away the demerit of the race. Jesus has, by his unutterable beauties, removed the deformities of all who are in him. By his obedience unto death, the law is vindicated, justice is honored, grace is glorified. Man, accepting this great sacrifice, loves and adores the Father who ordained it, and so the works of the devil in his heart are destroyed.
Our Lord’s rising again, his ascension into glory, his sitting at the right hand of the Father, his coming again in the latter days— all these are parts of the manifestation of the Son of God by which the works of the devil shall be destroyed. So also is the preaching of the gospel. If we want to destroy the works of the devil our best method is to manifest more and more the Son of God. Preach up Christ and you preach down the devil. All kinds of reforms are good, and we are on the side of everything that is pure, and honest, and temperate, and righteous; still, the best Reformer is the Christ of God. The one medicine for man’s moral sickness is the cross and nothing but the cross. Preach the crucified Saviour; preach the incarnate God; preach Christ full of forgiveness and love, reconciling the world unto himself and you have applied the best remedy to the sore. Only be it never forgotten that Jesus destroys the works of darkness by his Spirit. It is the Spirit of God who puts divine energy into the sacred word. When the Spirit manifests Christ in a man then the works of darkness are destroyed in that man. When Christ is manifested in a nation then the works of Satan begin to fall in that nation; and in proportion as the Holy Ghost shall more and more reveal Christ to hearts and consciences, bringing them into obedience to the faith, in that degree shall the works of Satan be destroyed." 3
" Colossians 2:15 tells us that Satan and his evil hosts were spoiled, disarmed, stripped of their power, exposed, shattered, emptied, and defeated by our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus made an open example of their complete and eternal defeat! He disarmed and stripped Satan of his authority and took the keys of death and hell from him (Rev. 1:18).
The Body of Christ needs the eyes of their understanding enlightened to understand Jesus' complete defeat of Satan. This is the wisdom of God that each believer needs to understand." 4
If you've seen episodes of Perry Mason or Matlock, both of these are criminal defense attorneys who out who the culprits of murder are and if you see the sour looks of those guilty when outed in open court, you now have a good idea of how satan's human followers must feel when they realize that their chosen master's gigs are up.
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