SATAN'S CHOSEN EMISSARIES

"As princes appoint ministers of state to enforce their whims and wishes, so Satan sends out special emissaries to carry out his plans.

Satan knows he must have the cooperation of all his subjects in order for his kingdom to thrive, but he is especially pleased to use the most wicked. As princes appoint ministers of state to enforce their whims and wishes, so Satan sends out special emissaries to carry out his plans. He too has his chosen disciples like Elymas, whom Paul called "full of subtlety... and child of the devil" Acts 13:10. It is to this inner circle of dark hearts that he imparts the mysteries of iniquity and the depths of degradation.

But even with these chosen few he does not share everything. He always holds his own purse and the sinner's too, so that he is the investor and the sinner only the broker to trade for him. In the end, all the ill-gotten gains drop into the devil's pocket. Everything the sinner has-- time, strength, intellect and all-- is spent to keep the devil on his throne.

"How," you may ask, "did such a low creature come to hold such a mighty principality?" Not lawfully, you can be sure, though he is clever enough to show a claim, which appears legitimate.

For one thing, he claims the earth by conquest. It is to some degree true that he won his crown by power and politics, and that he keeps it the same way. Yet "conquest" is a cracked title.

A thief has no legal right to the wallet he takes from his victim simply because he puts it in his pocket and claims it is his own. Nor is the wrong thus committed ever made right by the passing of time. Years may go by before he is discovered; he will be as guilty on the day of his arrest as on the day he perpetrated the crime. Now a thief on the throne is no different from one in the alley. Satan has indeed kept his stolen title a long time, but he is no less a criminal than on the day he first took Adam's heart from God.” 


Quoted material from, ”The Christian in Complete Armour Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare” by Gurnall and James S Bell. http://www.moodypublishers.com/pub_productDetail.aspx?id=41823&pid=53617