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Satan is Paralyzed

"...that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and all discernment..."(Phil.1:9)

For as much then as the children are partakers

Of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took

Part of the same; that through death he might

Destroy him that had the power of death that is

The devil.

And deliver them who through fear of death were

All their lifetime subject to bondage.

(Hebrews 2:14, 15)

Thank God Jesus has delivered us from the bondage of fear of death. I want you to observe the phrase in our text "...him that HAD the power of death, that is the devil..."(Hebrews 2:15). Notice that Satan HAD the power of death. The implication of this phrase is that he had that "power"sometime but does not seem to have it NOW !;. Satan does not have the power of spiritual death any longer. Physical death still remains an enemy to man but it will eventually be put underfoot:

So when this corruptible has put

on incorruption, and this mortal has

put on immortality, then shall be

brought to pass the saying that is

written"Death is swallowed up in

victory."

(1 Cor. 15:54)

People will continue to die physically until the saying is brought to pass..."Death is swallowed up in victory". However our Lord Jesus Christ has destroyed the authority of Satan who had power over spiritual death. Rev. 1:17,18 shows us that He actually took from Satan the keys of hell and death:

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one

Dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying

Unto me "fear not, I am the first and last: I am

He that liveth and was dead; and behold, I am

Alive forever more and I HAVE THE KEYS OF

HELL(HADES) AND DEATH.

(Rev. 1:17,18).

Hell and Death are no longer under Satan's jurisdiction. The English word"destroy"in our text in Hebrews 12:14,15, is from the Greek word "Katargeo"which means : ...to render null and void; to abolish or bring to naught, make of no effect or paralyze. In His combat with Satan, Jesus left him paralyzed. Satan was rendered completely powerless and ineffective. In fact Satan was crippled, disabled and immobilized. I will like us to read Hebrews 2:14,15 from the Amplified Bible version:

Since therefore[these His] children share in

Flesh and blood [in the physical nature of human

Beings], He [Himself] in a similar manner partook

Of the same [nature], that by [going through] death

He might BRING TO NAUGHT AND

MAKE OF NO EFFECT him who had the power

Of death - that is , the devil

And also that He might deliver and completely

Set free all those who through the haunting fear

Of death were held in bondage throughout the

Whole course of their lives

(Hebrews 2:14, 15)