He Can't Lead the Nations Astray Anymore - Revelation 20

Revelation 20 identifies the dragon as "the serpent of old, the Devil and the Satan."

Of course, you have to go back to Genesis for the first appearance of The Serpent. We see the "Devil" and "Satan" woven in and out of Scripture from then forward, throughout all of the 66 books in the Old and New Testaments.

If the final chapters of Revelation are a summary of it all; if they comprise the "closing arguments" of God's plan, then it follows that the most important points are contained therein. If you have been following the narrative from Day One, that is, Genesis, then these closing points will be clear.

What is the chief activity of The Serpent? Apparently, to "lead the nations astray."

It says elsewhere, by Paul, that we fight against "powers" and of "principalities." Christ urged us to seek, not a Kingdom of the world, but the Kingdom of Heaven. He paid no attention at all to worldly Kingdoms. He did not command us to gain political power.

Yet, why have people today, on the political Left, embraced Scripture and used it as a bludgeon against Christians? Why have they partnered with "Christians on the Left," thus splitting the Body of Christ, with accusations of hypocrisy and failure to follow the words of Christ? Why do they insist on using government as God's tool to help the poor and needy?

The concluding remarks in Revelation seem to portray the nations as Satan's greatest tool. And we know that Satan can and does use Scripture to vex believers. Indeed, he very well could have tempted Christ with the words: "Why don't you take charge of the world's governments now, and feed the hungry? Why do you hate them so much?"

When the Left uses Scripture . . . especially when it uses New Testament scriptures, use the final few chapters, the concluding chapters, as your counterpunch.