MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/18/2026
10:28 AM
My
Worship Time Focus: “His
Purpose”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
4:34b
Message of the verse: “Have You come to destroy us?”
Now in this short verse there will be a rather short
SD for this morning. In this verse we
can see the fear, or better the demon was terrified, and it was not only because
he knew who Jesus was, but also because he knew what His purpose for him and
his fellow demons was. Let us look at 1
John 3:8 “8 Whoever makes a practice of
sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God
appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.” MacArthur adds “Destroy translates a
form of the verb appollumi, which means, ‘ruin,’ ‘bring to nothing,’ ‘abolish,’
or ‘bring to an end.’ The demons have
been sentenced to eternal torment in hell for their rebellion against God. This one was terrified that Jesus was going
to carry out that sentence right then and there and send him to the bottomless
pit (8:31; Matt. 8:29).
“The book of Revelation unfolds God’s
ultimate plan for Satan and the demons.
In chapter 20 verses 1-3 the apostle John wrote,
Then I saw
an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great
chain in his hand. And he laid hold of
the dragon, the serpent of ole, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a
thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over
him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand
years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.
“After the
tribulation, as Jesus prepares for His thousand-year earthly reign, He will
imprison Satan (and by implication the demons) in the abyss. The abyss is currently the temporary place of
imprisonment for some of the demons (those who sinned in Gen. 6; cf. 1 Peter
3:18-20); Jude 6).”
(cf. 1 Peter 3:18-20); Jude 6)
“18 ¶ For Christ also suffered once for sins, the
righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to
death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which he went and proclaimed to the
spirits in prison, 20 because they
formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while
the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were
brought safely through water.”
“6 And the angels who did not stay within their
own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in
eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day.”
“It is not
their final place of punishment, which is the lake of fire (Matt. 25:41).”
(Matt. 25:41)
“41 "Then he will say to those on his left,
‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and
his angels.”
“The abyss
will be the holding cell, so to speak, for Satan and all the demons during the
millennium. After one last, desperate assault
on God and His people (Rev. 20:7-9), Satan and the demons will be thrown into
the lake of fire, where they will undergo eternal punishment (Rev. 20:10).”
(Rev. 20:7-9)
“7 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan
will be released from his prison 8 and
will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth,
Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the
sea. 9 And they marched up over the
broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved
city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,”
(Rev. 20:10)
“10 and the devil who had deceived them was
thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet
were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
Spiritual
Meaning for My Life today: When I look at the world today, as it is
getting worse off each day as we speed toward the times that are described in
many of the prophetic books of the Bible, including the book of Revelation, I
see that times are much more difficult.
By reading and studying the Bible it gives me peace because I know that
the Lord is in charge of my life, and that the Lord will care for me as I go
through this very difficult time with my wife’s illness, but in the end we will
all be with Him, and that comforts me.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to trust the Lord to bring my wife
to a place where she can get good treatment for her cancer.
5/18/2026
11:07 AM
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