Satan and his plan that backfired on him.

Satan and his plan that backfired on him.
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"I will establish a feud between thee and the woman, between thy offspring and hers." (Gen.3:15)

From the above words of God addressed to Satan we can infer the fact that  

 a great battle

between the reign of God and the reign of darkness,

and

between grace and sin

had begun right from the creation of man.

Lucifer,

the brightest and most beautiful of all angels God had created,

committed the sin of pride

and

rose  against God, his Creator.

His revolution ended in utter failure

and he fell into the abyss of hell

together with his companions.

Pride,

which was the cause of his failure,

continued to occupy him

and

he decided to establish his own kingdom,

the kingdom of darkness.

When God created man for His kingdom

Lucifer decided to draw him to his side.

From that moment began the battle

between the reign of God and the reign of darkness.

He might have thought

that he had won the battle by drawing Adam and Eve

to his side by making them sin

by breaking the spiritual relationship between God and man.

But, infinitely loving God would not allow His

'lovingly and in-His-own- image -  created' human beings to be lost just like that.

God is all-powerful.

If He had so willed He could have annihilated Satan to nothing even  before his tempting Eve.

But He permits evil,

that is,

does not hinder evil from happening,

if a greater good can be drawn out of it.

According to His eternal plan,

God decides to re-establish the relationship between God and man

by becoming a Man

and

amending for man's sins.

But it infuriated Satan and he decided that this should not happen.

So when Jesus was born he took steps to kill the child through Herod.

But Herod's efforts failed,

as Joseph and Mother Mary took Him to Egypt and returned after Herod died.

He lived in Nazareth for thirty years without publicly  showing Himself  as the expected Saviour.

Before entering public life He went to a wilderness,where he remained for forty days fasting.

Satan wanted to verify for Himself if He was Jesus.

So he tempted Him thrice.

He started the first temptation with the words,

"If thou art the Son of God.."

At the end of the third temptation, Jesus said,

"Thou shalt not put the Lord thy God to the proof"

Now it was sure that it was Jesus,  Son of God,  born to amend for the sins of world.

Then he left Him in peace until the time should come.

His plan was to kill Jesus before the amendment was done.

How exactly was the amendment going to be made might not have been known to him.

So satan helps those who plan to crucify Him.

He made use of Judas, who voluntarily accepted to betray Jesus.

Where sin is, there surely Satan is.

So satan plans to crucify Jesus making use of the scribes, Pharisees, Jewish elders and Judas.

Of course he succeeded in  carrying out the plan.

Jesus was crucified.

But, poor Satan! 

His plan backfired on himself!

His plan to put an end to the kingdom of God backfired on himself

by putting an end to his own kingdom!

By sacrificing Himself on the cross

Jesus amended for all the sins of the world,

ranging from the first sin committed by our first parents, 

to the last sin yet to be committed!

There was another blow for Satan.

Jesus prayed to His heavenly Father  to forgive those who crucified Him as they did not know what they did.

His prayer was genuine.

How can His loving Father ignore His dear Son's prayer?

We can believe that with the abundant grace showered by God on them they repented for their sins and were forgiven.

There is nothing wrong in believing positively.

But Satan lost his helpers.

Jesus brought us   salvation by His victory over Satan.

You may say  that even now sins are being committed and Satan is as busy as ever.

True.

But Jesus has sent his representatives all over the world, to forgive the sins committed by us.

They lay all the Satan's efforts waste.

But we must remember one thing,

we cannot get our salvation,

always available with Jesus,

just like that.

We must earn it with our hard work,

which will be easy with God's  grace,

which is always available for us.

Ask, it shall be given.

Lourdu Selvam.