Wed.'s Devo - The Defeat of Satan

Read Isa. 14:1-28
In the very last days God will once again choose Israel and set them in their own land. People from other nationalities will unite with them and Israel will embrace them. They will take the people who once oppressed them and make them their slaves. Israel will be a strong nation that doesn't fear other nations. The wealth of the ungodly nations will be gone and their ungodly people will be judged harshly. The physical earth will rejoice and respond to the coming of the Lord. Hell will tremble as it has to give up its dead. All the kings of history will be brought forth to be judged. Satan will fall from heaven and be put in hell. I know we think of Satan being in hell right now but that is not what the Bible says. He is the prince of the air (Eph. 2:2) and roams the earth like a roaring lion seeking people to devour. One day he will be locked up and eventually thrown into the lake of fire and destroyed forever! He thought he would become greater than God because he has always been deceived and is the great deceiver. God will expose Satan to all who have ever lived so they can see him for who he really is. They will look on him and wonder how he could have deceived so many people and destroyed so many cities. Satan will not be allowed to rest in death but be made to watch as God destroys all of His enemies. This will all happen in the year that the king Ahaz ("possessor") dies. So when Satan the great possessor of evil dies God's people will really live!!!
Lord, thank you once again for your great plan to destroy evil and let righteousness reign. You REIGN!