The
Day The Earth Turned Into A Graveyard
He replied,
"I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Luke
10:18
The day
Satan (who is also called the Devil) fell like lightning from heaven is the day
that the Earth turned into a graveyard! Let’s find out how, when, why, what
& who was involved?
It’s the
Lord Jesus Christ who had witnessed the fall of Satan (the Devil). He was
giving this account of what had happened in God’s presence. The Devil was
thrown to this Earth as a result of his rebellion towards the LORD. The day he
was thrown to this Earth, was the day this Earth was turned into a graveyard.
This needs to be explained clearly to you.
The Lord
Jesus Christ was saying this to the disciples because he had sent them, two by
two and gave them the authority over demons so that they could set lives free
from their evil grips. The disciples came back rejoicing saying, “even the
demons submitted to them”. They were wondering how this could have happened to
them. To this He explained.
The Lord
Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End of everything
and had witnessed this whole episode. It was God the Father’s decision to throw
the Devil to this Earth.
Why
was he thrown to this Earth?
The Devil
was responsible for bringing death to one third of the hosts of heaven
eternally, including himself. He corrupted heaven with his evil nature. He
became the author of death and the hades, where there was once no need for one.
He fell from heaven because he had no place there in God’s presence.
This Earth
will be his temporary prison until he will be thrown into the lake of fire
reserved for him, the angels that had together rebelled against God and all his
future minions or ‘followers’ who will follow him there eternally by obeying
his sinful nature already sowed in them, at the end of all things with the
present earth and heaven.
How
did this Earth Become a Graveyard?
Ever since
he fell to this earth like lightning, he brought death to everyone on this
Earth. He is the author of death and the hades. Hades was created for him and the
angels that fell with him to this Earth.
If you
would notice it, the Devil had even access into the Garden of Eden on Earth. Wherever
he was placed, he would bring death and that was his evil purpose all the time. Now
in the Garden of Eden, he deceived Adam and Eve; the first of God’s created man
and woman, bringing eternal and spiritual death to them. Take note of this: He even brought death into
God’s creation. Death was never spoken about until the fall of Adam. Satan (the Devil) fell and he made Adam to fall too by deceiving Eve first.
The Devil made
this Earth a graveyard with his presence here, from the start he deceived Adam and Eve to sin against
the LORD and brought death to them.
Spiritual death happened in the Garden of Eden and God had to send all
of them out of that Garden. They all deserved a curse on them and could not remain there. For the Devil, first he fell out of heaven
and now out of the garden that God had prepared for Adam and Eve. The Devil’s
movement was even restricted on Earth, as a result of this. He and the demons are in a restricted prison now;
which is also called the abyss. For Adam and Eve, It was a restricted life of
sowing and reaping. They chose to sow the sinful nature of the Devil in themselves
before God could sow the divine nature of Christ in them, who was revealed as
the Tree of life in the Garden of Eden. They reaped what they chose to sow, for
they experienced the first horrible death recorded in the Bible. It was the
murder of their own son, Abel in the hands of another son, Cain. How painful a
grief it must have been for them to see one son killed before them by another
of their son who was filled with jealousy. They chose to sow the sinful nature
of the Devil in mankind and here are they reaping what they have chosen to sow.
Ever since,
the Earth continued to grow as a graveyard at Noah’s time after the great floods. The
Devil had managed to convert this Earth into a permanent grave yard. We saw the
world continually becoming a massive graveyard through wars, murder, sicknesses and diseases, plagues,
old-age and punishments of God for the stubbornness of our sins.
The coming
of the Lord Jesus Christ to this Earth (massive graveyard) was prophesied by
nearly all of the Old Testament prophets. He came to this Earth to bring us
back to God’s Garden. He had to come in the form of flesh to die for our sins and
come to life again. He gave us victory over death. He defeated the Author of
death and condemned Him and the demons eternally. Whoever continues to obey the
sinful nature of the Devil in them, will be condemned with them into the lake
of fire eternally too. Whoever believes, loves and obeys all that Christ had
commanded will escape this second and eternal death.
History: From the Garden they were sent out to the Graveyard
outside, through their own disobedience to God. Now, from the Graveyard, we are
sent back into the Garden of God through the obedience of Jesus Christ our Lord.
He humbled Himself to be lowered into this Graveyard to save us back to God and place us safely in God's Garden forever, permanently.
1 Corinthians 15:50-58
I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the
imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not
all sleep, but we will
all be changed-- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be
changed. For the perishable must clothe
itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
When the perishable has been clothed
with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is
written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." "Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the
power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand
firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the
Lord, because you
know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
