People of the Beast vs the People of God
Teaching Pastor; Staff Governing Elder; Staff Director
Satan calls forth two beasts to leverage his power on the earth, and there will be a time when it seems that he is winning. Yet in every age, even as we see various manifestations of Satan’s power, God is sovereign over all.
Study Questions
Application
One way Satan seduces us is by presenting good things as ultimate things—family, work, marriage, success, etc. What danger is inherent in this? Where are you tempted to turn a good thing into an ultimate thing?
God calls us to patient endurance and faithfulness, even amid suffering. What does this look like for you?
Key Points
Satan invites us to leverage our own agency to gain power, yet Jesus wins all the kingdoms of the earth through sacrificing his life blood.
While it is true God has destined some of us to suffer and even die for him, we can trust him because he suffered and died for us.
God took the greatest criminal act of all time and turned into the greatest good.
Earth-dwellers are those rooted in this world—its comfort, benefits, and power.
If we fixate on events and figures in the past or future, we won’t recognize the ways the world is seducing us now.
There will be a time of ultimate judgment, but this is a gift from God. It frees us and invites us to trust in his ability to make things right.