What will the God of peace do shortly?...

God will crush Satan under the feet of the saints.

Romans 16:20 is one of the key, critical verses of the Scriptures that provide insight into the Divine plan of redemption.

Satan soon shall be crushed under the feet of the saints!

The crushing will not be a temporary setback in which some of the branches are cut from the massive trunk of rebellion and sin. This shall be a death wound, a shaft in the heart, a striking off of the head, a destroying of root and branch, a purging from the earth of the thought, the motive, the imagination, the attitude, the word, the deed, the very memory of sin and rebellion against the most high God.

Many contemporary writings by Christian teachers reveal that the assumption still is being made that Heaven is the eternal home of the saints and that the present earth and our sinful body belong to Satan and cannot be taken from him.

How such error can continue to flow from the pens of men and women who are so well instructed in the Scriptures is difficult to understand.

Heaven is not the eternal home of the saint. The present earth, and then the new earth, are the proper homes of the saint. The spirit heavens are the home of the angels—a different race of intelligent creatures. The earth is for people. The new earth is for the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the saints, and the nations of saved peoples of the earth.

Neither the present earth nor the new earth belongs to Satan but to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus does not look with joy on thieving, lying, murdering spirits who are destroying His possessions. He soon will come and destroy such spirits with a wrath incomprehensible to human beings.

The nations of the earth do not belong to Satan but to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our physical bodies do not belong to Satan but to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Nothing belongs to Satan! The earth, its peoples, death, life, light, darkness, the present age, the ages to come, every creature, every thing—allbelong to Christ and His saints.

Nothing belongs to Satan and his followers—not even the keys of Hell. All has been given to Christ.

Satan’s eternal home is the lake that burns with fire and sulphur.

Who will destroy Satan and his followers from the earth?

It is God in Christ in the saints. The point of action is the feet of the saints.

It was mankind that opened the door and allowed Satan, sin, rebellion, and death to enter the hearts of men. It is God in Christ in mankind who will drive Satan, sin, rebellion, and death from the hearts of men and then will close the gates against them for eternity.

The process of driving out wickedness and closing the gates against it for eternity is taking place today in God’s firstfruits, Christ’s conquerors, the holy remnant whom God has called out from the spirit of Babylon.

When the process of redemption has been completed in the victorious saints it will be extended to the remainder of the elect, and then to the rest of God’s creation. Even the memory of Satan, sin, rebellion, and death will be destroyed from the earth.

This is not to say that everyone will be saved. There will be some who will not receive Christ as Lord of all. These are rebels and they will not be permitted to enjoy the wonders that God has prepared for those who love Him and are obedient to Him.

Therefore prepare yourself to rule in righteousness, or to be ruled in righteousness, or else to be destroyed along with Satan and his followers. The saints soon shall take the Kingdom.

If you desire to rule in righteousness, permit the Lord Jesus Christ to fill your heart with His love of righteousness and hatred of lawlessness. Open the everlasting doors of your personality and allow the King of Glory to enter. You will find He is strong and mighty in battle, and that He has entered you so the inheritance that is His and yours may be restored to Him and to you (see Psalms 24).

The following passages of Scripture will strengthen your confidence that God has ordained that the saints shall crush Satan under their feet, and that the victory shall be total.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel (Genesis 3:15).

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies (Genesis 22:17).

But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them (Deuteronomy 7:23,24).

And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled (Judges 7:21).

The story of Gideon and his victory is an important type of the Day of Christ.

The trumpet of God will sound through the saints as with one voice they announce the return of Christ as King of all kings and Lord of all lords.

Then the earthen vessels, the "pitchers" (physical bodies of the saints) will be "broken" in resurrection transformation. The light of incorruptible, eternal resurrection life will blaze from their personalities. Every thing and work of Satan will be crushed under them as they advance in the fullness of the power and wisdom of the Spirit of God.

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life (Judges 16:30).

The above episode from the life of Samson is a symbolic portrayal of the Day of the Lord. Just before the coming of Jesus a repentant Church, the "hair" of its sanctification growing out, will bow in the death of absolute obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The restored sanctification plus the death of obedience, in association with the coming from Heaven of the Lord Jesus Christ, will destroy the kingdom of darkness.

And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him (I Samuel 5:4).

On a prior occasion, Dagon had been toppled (I Samuel 5:3). The initial toppling of Dagon typifies the destroying of Satan’s authority on the cross of Calvary.

But as soon as God in Christ in the saints confronts Satan in the last days, both the head of Satan and his power to work will be cut off. This will take place "upon the threshold," that is, at the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet (Psalms 91:13).

To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord (Psalms 149:8,9).

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit (Isaiah 14:13-15).

Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more (Ezekiel 28:18,19).

Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom (Daniel 7:22).

And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? (Joel 2:11).

And saviours [deliverers] shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s (Obadiah 21).

Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off (Micah 5:9).

For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder (Nahum 1:13).

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah (Habakkuk 3:13).

And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded (Zechariah 10:5).

And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts (Malachi 4:3).

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you (Luke 10:18,19).

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God (Romans 8:19). And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled (II Corinthians 10:6). And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming (II Thessalonians 2:8).

And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him (Jude 1:14,15).

And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with sulphur. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh (Revelation 19:19-21).

"And the God of peace shall bruise [crush] Satan under your feet shortly."

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