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The Amish Voice
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January 2016
WHERE IN THE BIBLE DID
GOD GIVE SATAN DOMAIN
OVER THE EARTH?
If our answer is to be one of faith, we
need to look at relevant verses in the
Holy Bible, and then we need to believe
those verses.
On the sixth day of creation, after God
created terrestrial (earth-based) animal
life, Genesis 1:26-28 says:
“[26] And
God said, Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness: and
let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.
[27] So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created
he them. [28] And God blessed them, and
God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and
multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it: and have dominion over the
fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth
.”
Please pay special attention to the above
bolded phrases that demonstrate God’s
purpose for man. Why did God place
man (Adam) on the Earth? The Bible
says that the human race was to be God’s
chief creation in the Earth. In other
words,
God
appointed Adam
(the first man) to
be king of the
Earth, and Eve
his wife was to
be queen of the
Earth. Adam
and Eve were
to be God’s
representatives,
His rulers, in
the Earth; as the
angels carried out
God’s will in heaven, Adam and Eve
were to
“have dominion”
over the earth,
to
“subdue [earth],”
to
“have dominion
over every living thing that moveth upon
the earth.”
Sometime before God created mankind
on Earth, He created spirit creatures
(angels) to function in the heavenly
places. One of these angelic-like
creatures—which is actually called a
“cherub”
(Ezekiel
28:14,16)—was
named
“Lucifer”
(Isaiah 14:12), and
Lucifer wanted to glorify himself instead
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lucifer wanted
to be
“like the most High”
(Isaiah 14:14).
He wanted to be
“possessor of heaven
and earth”
(Genesis 14:19, 22), and he
desired the praise that the Lord, the
Creator, alone deserved. This creature
fell into sin, and was re-named
“Satan”
(Hebrew
for
“adversary”). Satan became
God’s chief enemy (Ezekiel
28:11-19). Once Satan polluted
heaven with sin, he moved
toward infiltrating the Earth with
sin and rebellion against God.
Satan knew that in order to control
the Earth, he would first have to take that
power from God’s human race. We read
in Genesis chapter 3 how Satan deceived
the first woman (with Adam
voluntarily
following his wife into the trap) into
believing and following his lie program
first begun in the heavens:
“[1] Now the serpent was
more subtil than any
beast of the field which
the Lord God had
made. And he said
Satan’s Domain
—Shawn Brasseaux