God's Nature (and the devil's)

"Any life without God in it is overcome with death."

AN ANGEL stands in peace, for God’s nature created him. (All angels are male. Woman was made solely for Adam. Genesis 2:23.) Those angels which sinned and were cast out of God’s Presence, were, in that moment, removed from all of God’s nature, except the seed of life itself. They no longer have peace, nor wisdom and stature, nor a bodily form. This is ongoing. It was not a “one and done,” although the moment of being cast out was one event; there has not been and will not be another. For those which fell, there is left only continual restlessness, fear, and hostility, all the things God is not, with no way to escape them.

Now, do not doubt God’s nature. It was abundant in them when they served Him. However, they are entirely bereft of it forever, now, and He has no intention of redeeming them. He has the ability but no need. Forgiveness is His nature, and man is given His salvation through Jesus’ death on the cross and His glorious Resurrection. There is no salvation without both His death AND His Resurrection. But for fallen angels, called devils and unclean spirits, there is no rescue.

Jesus became human, not angel. In fact, He is Lord of Hosts with the Spirit and the Father. His name is above any other, we read in Ephesians 1, including any natural or supernatural authorities. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He is also Jehovah. On the earth, during His natural lifetime of thirty-three years, He was Son of God and God, one in unity with the Father and the Spirit. He is Christ, which means “Anointed One.” But Philippians 2:7 says He laid aside His power, as God, and walked led of the Spirit, just as He has instructed us to do in Galatians 5. He was human in every part. He saw sin, was tempted by sin, but refused to sin (Hebrews 4:15). He had a will just as we do to make choices. Angels have no right to choose. They were created to minister for the heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14), and that’s us.

Unclean spirits, also called devils and demons, a word I do not like to include, are subject to all the bondages (effects) of death that they try to force upon men. They are consumed by fear, violence, and confusion. They know only lies. In fact, their only comfort is to tell themselves huge gaping lies. When you lie to yourself enough, you become blinded by it, you defend it, you rely upon it. They have no memory of their lives in heaven. Why would God leave them memories of what is holy? What has been seen of their work in the human mind is a reflection of the state of their own.

Any life without God in it is overcome with death. Death, meaning spiritual death. When Adam and Eve sinned, they did not die physically, at that moment, but found themselves without the glory of God which had clothed them. God was not unaware of their state nor seeking them because they were lost to Him in the garden. He wanted them to see what sin had done. The same must be understood of His words to them about the consequences of sin. He was not cursing them to pain and toil and death. Their actions had done that. He had already planned to send Jesus (1 Peter 1:20).

So, too, with fallen angels, now unclean spirits. Their actions put them in the state they are in, and we must know it so that we are not deceived by them. The devil is called the father of lies, not that he birthed them as a creator. He cannot create anything. But that he is the first to sin. He tried to deceive Jesus in the wilderness. I pointed this out before, but as a fallen angel, he used a verse about the nature of angels in order to fool the Son of God, the Word of Creation. He also caused Jesus to have two visions. Jesus was not frightened by either his voice, his words, nor what he saw. In this, think back to Moses and Aaron in front of Pharaoh. Pharaoh’s magicians were able to create a devilish vision, but notice, Moses’ rod consumed theirs. They could not do the magnitude of what God did to deliver his people.

The devil is limited to what we allow him to do in us and through us. Or better said, DEATH is limited to what we allow it to do. Because the devil is not in every man’s ear nor can devils see into the human mind and read all our thoughts. In a state of oppression, the human has allowed them access, but outside of that, it is that they know how to deceive and are familiar with human thinking patterns. But just as a thief cannot enter our physical house; we refuse them entrance; we refuse Satan and spirits the right to do anything to our physical house. This is our right as humans. Satan never gained our dominion (Genesis 1:26). He is not and cannot ever be human. Jesus, on the other hand, was born in human flesh and resurrected in a glorified body. He is like us, and we will be like Him. Satan lied to Him in the wilderness when he said he had “all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them (Matthew 4:8-9).” He was hoping, for that is all it was, that Jesus did not know the truth and would give in.

Jesus is Truth, and because we are in Him, we know the Truth – of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, and of His judging of the devil. The devil is a speck in the sight of God. All his works, created through sin, have been destroyed by our Savior. He has no throne, no authority, and no ability greater than God in us. Legally, he isn’t even an enemy anymore because of Jesus. The word “enemy” in the Greek means “the hostile one,” which is far more accurate. He is hostile, jealous, envious, and malevolent. We, however, are at peace and can face anything in this world because the peace of God lives inside us.

The God of peace sent the Prince of Peace to bring the good news of peace and send the Spirit of peace so that we would have peace on earth, goodwill to men.

“Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his!” (Colossians 2:15 TPT)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
www.suzannedwilliams.com
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