Redeemed Double Cross

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“John the Baptist announces Repent, the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He’s announcing a new kingdom, a new king coming and as I said earlier, that usually involves an invasion, a taking over or a defeating of the existing kingdom. And while he tries to point out the insincerity of the Pharisees, he brings up the point that there is a wrath from which we must escape.
The Book of Wisdom tells us God created man for incorruption and made Him in the image of His own eternity, but through the devil’s envy, death entered the world and those who belong to his party experience it.
When Jesus came and announced that he would usher in a kingdom, the Kingdom of God, it implies that there existed some other kingdom here first, the Kingdom of Darkness. In John 12 Jesus calls the devil the ruler of this world. In second Corinthians 4:4, they call Satan God with a small g of this world who blinds the minds of unbelievers. In Ephesians 2, Saint Paul calls Satan the Prince of the power of the air. Saint Peter, in his first letter of chapter five, verse eight, says, Your adversary, the devil, prowls like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. Resist him firm in your faith. And first, John 5:19 says, ‘The whole world is in the power of the evil one.’ God out of love for us has revealed these truths through his sacred scriptures so that we can be on guard against the wiles and the snares of the devil and resist him. What’s the strategy? We better know it. We better pay attention.