Satan accuses and deceives mankind |
Satan is constantly accusing all people before God, as he
did Job, in order to drag them into hell. (Job 1:9-11) However, even Satan cannot perpetrate his
evil activity unless he first finds an object partner with whom he can form a
common base and engage in give and take action. Satan's object partners are evil spirits in
the spirit world. The object partners to these evil spirits are the spirit
selves of evil people on the earth, and the vehicles through which these evil
spirit selves act are their physical selves. Accordingly, the power of Satan is conveyed
through evil spirits and is manifested in the activities of earthly people. For example, Satan entered into Judas
Iscariot, (Luke 22:3) and Jesus once called Peter “Satan.” (Matt. 16:33) In the Bible, the spirits of evil earthly men are called “angels” of the devil.
(Matt. 25:41)
The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (à Eschatology) is a restored
world in which Satan can no longer instigate any activity. To realize this world, it is necessary for
all humanity to eliminate their common base with Satan, restore their common
base with God, and engage in give and take action with Him. The prophecy that in the Last Days God will
confine Satan to a bottomless (Rev. 20:1-3)
pit signifies that Satan will be utterly incapable of any activity, since here
will no longer be any counterpart with whom Satan can relate. In order to eliminate our common base with
Satan and be capable of judging him (I Cor. 6:3), we must understand the identity and crime of Satan and accuse him before God.
However, God endowed human beings and angels with freedom;
therefore, He cannot restore them by force. Of their own free will, human beings are to
bring Satan to voluntary submission by upholding the Word of God through
fulfilling their responsibility. Only in
this way can we be restored to the original ideal purposed by God at the
creation. Because God works His
providence based on this principle, the history of the providence of
restoration has been repeatedly prolonged. (àPredestination2)
Divine Principle -- The Fall of Man: Section 4.2 -- Satan's Activities in Human Society
As a master of
persuasion, Satan easily deceives mankind into focusing on anything but God.
Through the theory of evolution, for example, he has convinced millions that
God doesn't exist.
This is an excerpt from the Divine Principle taught by the
Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Rev. Moon had
personal experiences with the fallen archangel Lucifer who became Satan. To really understand our human problems
today, we cannot avoid learning about the true nature of Satan who is the only
enemy of mankind. All the other antagonists
are psydo-representatives who challenge us in different ways to make us suffer
or change and become stronger. Rev. Moon
discovered the origin of Satan, how he works in our lives, and how he covers
his activities in lies and deceptions.
Even though the story of the Fall of Man sounds like a fairytale, it is
the symbolic account of what happened to our human ancestors Adam and Eve in the
Garden of Eden. Similar versions are
found in other religious teachings. The
facts are that we have to look for the root cause of evil and how we can
eliminate it.
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