We all know that Satan is the mastermind behind much of the wicked global chaos going on right now, right? I don’t want to drag your mind through the mud by rehearsing all the deception, danger and flipped values that are spreading unabated. It seems like we need a global savior to fix it all, and that’s what the antichrist will set himself up to be. He doesn’t actually come on the scene until the tribulation—after the rapture of the church—but the spirit of antichrist is definitely here and setting the stage!
Oh, but there is an end to Satan and his minions, and that’s what I want to focus on here. Above all, Satan is a murderer. He likes to lie in wait and capture people. “Gotcha!” is probably his favorite word, starting with Eve, then Adam, then Cain, etc.
Though the devil likes to hide himself, you know how he manifests through scripture—including his prescribed end? Let me show you from four passages in Psalms:
- Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. (Psalm 7:14-15)
- For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. (Psalm 35:7-8)
- They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah. (Psalm 57:6)
- Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. (Psalm 141:9-10)
These nets and pits figuratively represent the snares the enemy uses to subdue and eliminate. It’s just that they don’t always work as planned! You can think of Bible examples. In Genesis, Joseph’s wicked, jealous brothers literally threw him into a pit. But he was rescued. In the end, his brothers feared the retribution they deserved. But Joseph, standing as a proxy for Jesus, said: But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. (Genesis 50:20)
In Esther, wicked Haman only had one enemy. Mordecai the Jew. He secretly built gallows to hang righteous Mordecai on. That didn’t end so well for wicked Haman: So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. (Esther 7:10) In this case, the nets and pits were gallows, and Haman “fell into it.”
In the Garden of Gethsemane where wicked Judas betrayed Jesus, the figurative nets and pits were swords. Jesus said to his sleeping disciples, Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me. And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. (Matthew 26:46-47)
David had a few words to apply to this prophetically: The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. (Psalm 37:14-15)
Maybe it’s here we should quote one of our own proverbs. “What goes around comes around!”
Just know that all the net-laying of Satan and his globalist groupies is temporary and is under the overarching control of our sovereign God who has declared the end from the beginning. (Isaiah 46:10)
The net and pit that the devil used on Adam and Eve in the beginning to get them (and therefore us) to sin is going to swallow him up at the last: And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Revelation 20:10) Hallelujah!
R&J Shee
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