Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From
going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.- Something about that wording is making me go.....
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God
formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Dust is...dry earth. Man is the dust of the ground so man is the dry earth before it receives life giving water...living water. Water and earth make clay that He forms into His servants....
Jeremiah 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold,
as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in Mine hand, O house of Israel.
So, where it is written that Satan was...."
going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it" what is being said?
Before I end up going on a side trail, as so often happens to me, my quest in this thread was finding what is meant by Satans' going
to and fro IN the earth. Does that mean....his spirit is in some men, for man is earth? We know he can and does do this for it is written....
- Luke 22:3 Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
Both phrases,
to and fro and
up and down, take place "
in the earth," and are often associated with....the
locusts. Locusts have four stages of life, a long part of which is spent "
in the earth," or "
under the earth," where they do much undercover damage without others knowing...until the damage is evident. Sort of like a secret government, one that controls, dictates policy without obvious recognition to the world. They are the king makers (
although it is our Father that places all authorities...good and bad).
- Joel 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
If these locusts, undercover men in power, weren't secretive as they did their dirty work then the world would reinstate
DDT and kill the nasty bugs. Truth be known, they may well be the ones that banned it in the first place. These locusts eat away at the roots of our government, our freedom, our way of life. Soon...they'll be out in the open. Poking their ugly heads out of obscurity and into the world. Devouring everything in their paths as they take to the air.....
- Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
There we see again that his spirit does enter and "
worketh in," some.
- Isaiah 33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Bullinger writes that "
to and fro," as used there, means to
apostatize and "
knowledge" is calamities or
wickedness. So, the verse could be understood as....many shall run in apostasy while wickedness is increased.
- Joel 2:9 They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
I see these that appear to be as men to be fallen angels...they join the locusts in rampaging through the city, through us...with great deception (
causing the apostasy), pretending to be of the city...of us, Christian. This is the time of the great tribulation.
- Ezekiel 28:14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
The saints are His "
stones of fire." Satan, the "
anointed cherub," at one time, walked "
up and down" among the saints but....no more. Now he walks up and down among children of disobedience....
Back to the begining....Satan (
was/is now) going
to and fro in the earth and
walking up and down in it. To me this means his spirit is (
in the earth/in certain men) and as he is going "
to and fro" in them then he, in them, is causing apostasy. They are children of disobedience. As Christ walks IN us....he walks "
up and down in them."
- 11 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
I believe I now understand...
In the earth and on the earth but....who are those "
under the earth?"
- Revelation 5:3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
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