Thursday | 05 November 2026
When the woman and Adam ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in disobedience to the Lord God, they became dead to Him and were joined to the enemy of God. The devil became their father and the source of their culture. Joh 8:44‑45. Paul identified this culture as ‘the law of sin’. Rom 7:23,25. Having departed from God’s fatherhood, every action taken as a citizen of Satan’s kingdom is a reproach against the Father. Man was taken captive by Satan to his kingdom as he became man’s king and ruler. Consequently, the fate of the devil and of the kingdom of Satan became man’s fate – that is, the eternal judgement of God.
The power of Satan was destroyed through the cross. Col 2:15. His kingdom was judged and its power was broken. Declaring this implication of the cross, Paul wrote, ‘Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage’. Heb 2:14‑15.
Propitiation for mankind required the destruction of Satan’s kingdom. The apostle John said, ‘He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.’ 1Jn 3:8. All judgement, both of Satan and of mankind, is now under the judgement of the cross, from which Christ now rules as Lord of heaven and earth because of the resurrection and new creation. On the cross, as Christ suffered the torment of eternal judgement, the flames of the lake of fire were lit. On the day of judgement, death and hell (the place first reserved for the fallen angels) are cast into the lake of fire, with everyone whose names are not found written in the book of life because they chose to remain citizens of the kingdom of darkness. Rev 20:12‑15.
Further Study:
John 8
References:
Joh 8:44-45
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.
Rom 7:23
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:25
I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Col 2:15
Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Heb 2:14-15
Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
1Jn 3:8
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
Rev 20:12-15
And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.