Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . evil, deceived manyof the angels, persuading them to join him in rebellion againstthe government of God; with the result that Satan and allhis host were cast out. Christ said, I beheld Satan as light-ning fall from heaven. Luke 10: 18. Him the Almighty PowerHurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky. The Earth as the Battle Ground Then the great controversy which began in heaven wastransferred to this earth, and now centers around man. Forthat old serpent, the leader of the fallen angels, deceivedman, and persuaded him to distrust God and to
Our day in the light of prophecy and providence . evil, deceived manyof the angels, persuading them to join him in rebellion againstthe government of God; with the result that Satan and allhis host were cast out. Christ said, I beheld Satan as light-ning fall from heaven. Luke 10: 18. Him the Almighty PowerHurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky. The Earth as the Battle Ground Then the great controversy which began in heaven wastransferred to this earth, and now centers around man. Forthat old serpent, the leader of the fallen angels, deceivedman, and persuaded him to distrust God and to choose hisown way in preference to Gods way. Thus came sin anddeath into the world. And Satan, who had overcome manat the forbidden tree, became by his own usurpation and bymans perfidy, ^Hhe prince of this world. But Christ gave himself to save man, to deliver him fromthe bondage of sin, and to restore him to the glorious libertyof the sons of God. The same mighty power that overcameSatan and his angels in heaven is able to overcome his power. The Origin of Evil 261 in human hearts and lives. The controversy is still betweenChrist and Satan, and mans salvation or destruction is theaim of the contending forces. There is no neutral ground. Every soul must choose asto which side he will yield allegiance. In this choice lieshis eternal destiny. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servantsto obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sinunto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Rom. 6: 16. Therefore the Lord pleads with men, Choose soul that chooses life has the promise of it, for Christis able ... to save them to the uttermost that come untoGod by Him. Heb. 7:25. The Judgment upon Satan From the time of Satans rebellion it was assured, by thevery omnipotence of God, that there would come a lastjudgment when evil would be destroyed from the execution of judgment upon the fallen angels is thus re-ferred to by Jude: The angels whic
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