Why Does Satan Attempt To Keep Jesus From The Cross

1. "I ought to be crucified, crucified on a cross, not pitied! Crucify me, oh judge, crucify me but pity me!" (1.2.36)

Charles B. Hodge, Jr., is a prolific writer and a minister of the Church of Christ. He closes each chapter of The Agony & Glory of the Cross with “The Cross…there is no other way!” Thus, I have taken Reverend Hodge’s declaration for the title of this review. He further explains his thesis of the importance of the cross: “Jesus could not save Himself and still be our Savior. There is no way but the cross.” The unique approach to teaching the New Testament – and Christs’ journey to Calvary – requires several readings, analysis, and return to biblical text.

the statement by Jesus to God when He is being crucified and asks his Father to

A description of the fall of Satan and his demons can be found in Revelation 12:9, which says “And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world-he was thrown down to earth, and his angels were down with him.” The purpose of demons throughout the Christian belief is that just as God’s angels are sent to praise him and aid believers, Satan and his demons are bent on the hindering God’s name on the Earth and the destruction and deception of all those who follow and serve God. Their sole purpose is to cause distress, mayhem and chaos to the faithful’s world and combat the work of God. Demons can be incredibly powers, and the Bible states that any human being who trifles with Satan or his followers is a fool and enters extremely dangerous territory.

At one point the devil was trying to tempt Jesus and “[he] was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil.” (Matthew 4:1) The devil ( Satan) is purposely

Jesus, like Adam, was also tempted by Satan. He was led into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit for forty days to be tempted by the devil 5. Unlike Adam in Paradise, Jesus was in the wilderness with nothing around. Jesus was also fasting for those forty days. The devil used Jesus’ vulnerable situation to try and get him to disobey God in what is called the Three Temptations. The devil tempted Jesus to turn stones to bread in an attempt to get Jesus to feed himself instead of waiting for God to supply his needs when he felt the time was right 5. And Jesus replied “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. 5" The devil also tempted Jesus to jump from the pinnacle of the Jerusalem Temple to try and manipulate God into protecting Jesus 5. And Jesus replied, “You shall not tempt the Lord your God.5" In the last temptation the devil tried to convince Jesus to bow down to him by telling Jesus that he would give him all

Satan deceives all in his presence, even the fallen angels whom he claims as his "peers", whereas, God is not capable fabrication. Pride is also another example of an attribute to the Father of Deceit and in veracity the most influential attribute to Satan's character. His pride leads him to avenge war in heaven and to return to Earth to deceive Man: "New war, provok't; our better part remains/To work in close design by fraud or guile/What force has effected not: that he has no less/At length from us may find, who overcomes/By force, hath overcome but half his foe." Satan cannot back down from God without a fight. Even though he admits that God was the "Potent Victor", he claims that God may have won the battle, but not the war. Satan must fulfill his pride by retaliation.

This is especially evident when looking back upon wars fought in history. Though it did not seem so at the time, the victor was clearly when looking back upon them from the future. The theme of the image is interpreted to mean that Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, has already died and saved us from our sins; however, Satan is still present in the world seeking the ruins of souls. The work of Satan can easily be contradicted thanks to the victory of Jesus Christ, opening up the gates of heaven for us and offering us redemption from our

In Mark 10:45 Jesus spoke how the Son of Man came to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. Jesus words at the last supper meal showed His intention of the cross when He spoke, “This is my body given for you” and “this cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you” (Luke 22:19-20). Jesus saw his death as an outpouring of His blood to make redemption and forgiveness possible. Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane that He was willing to follow through with His death on the cross, if it was still God’s will for Him to do so (Mark 14:35). Jesus knew God’s redemption time was at hand when His enemies came to arrest Him in the garden. Jesus went with them willingly saying in Luke 22:53, “…this is your hour-when

Everything from which the cross-Christ and his crusaders presume to save was made by god and indeed is a rebellion on god’s will, they otherwise impute to Satan. “Their Kingdom of Christ” is to change god’s creation preferring “the wrong.” According to theism, god made them inferior , i.e., psychic and/or bodily cripples. He is the real goal of their vengeance of “putting all in the wrong." Their crucifixion of the world (The Gospel of Philip) is a deputy war on god of the “enemies of god” (see: Ro 5:10). Since they cannot get god, they take vengeance on those who god prefers in the views of the would-be gods. For instance, the cross perpetrators’ mass-murder on the witches committed for centuries, mostly was the deadly grudge of the ugly

Further, Satan feels that God put him into too prominent of a position in Heaven to become an ambitious angel. He concedes that if God had made him an “inferior angel”, then he would still have been a happy angel, willing to accept God’s superiority. During this moment, Satan does not desire authority. This is substantial, in that his sole mission is to overpower God. Instead, he blames God for exposing him to power and fame.

“Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Matthew 16:24 (ESV). When Jesus used this picture of His followers taking their crosses to follow Him, the disciples knew what He meant. In Roman times, Crucifixion was a very common method of execution and the condemned criminals had to carry their crosses through the streets until they reached the site where the execution took place. Following Christ meant true commitment, the risk of death, personal sacrifice and no turning back. Today we struggle to fulfill Christ's Great Commission because we are guilty of a great omission. We fail to deny ourselves!

Satan acknowledges Jesus. His demons acknowledge Jesus. What satanists don't acknowledge is that their god and leader also angrily and desperately acknowledges that Jesus, for His Father, will soon be imprisoning Satan and his demons, for future total destruction of them. (Revelation 12:12; 20:1-3, 7-10) Satanists are also being blind-sided to the fact that their god, Satan, cruelly DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THEM or

Satan is so high in his own esteem; he cannot bear to be a servant and must be a leader, as he says in Book I, “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n” (line 263).

According to the New Testament, the Son of God died on the cross. Propitiation is by death of the person of Jesus. However, for Valentinians and Trinitarians, the divine person did not die; only a human image or body died. Both have the divine person experiencing death without having to die.