Why Doesn’t God Destroy Satan?

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Welcome to The Rapid Bull, Daily Edition, where we provide a quick Biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The argument goes like this, if God is all powerful, why doesn't he destroy

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Satan? Now there's an assumption in that question and challenge that we have to recognize right off the bat, and that is that somehow

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Satan is not fulfilling the purposes of God. Now in the last episode that we talked about Satan and why

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God created him, we looked at Romans 9 specifically in verse 22, which states that God has to display his wrath aloud sin, but notice the difference.

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He didn't cause sin, he allowed Satan to violate his own law.

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By the way, I do think that's interesting, because most of the people that would give this challenge would say that somehow

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God has to be in control of all things, and if God forced everything to happen and left no choices of his free moral agents, then wouldn't they complain that God made them puppets and they have no choice?

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Well the reality is, why doesn't an all -powerful God destroy Satan? Because Satan is

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God's devil. That's what Martin Luther referred to him as. He is God's devil. He does not do anything that God does not allow.

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He is fulfilling the very purposes of God. And so Satan, even though he is trying to destroy

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God, is actually doing exactly as God would desire, because God is sovereign.

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And therefore, Satan cannot do anything that God does not allow. That is the thing we end up realizing.

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