Does the devil have a chance to repent and be forgiven???
Yet you(satan) said in your heart, " I will ascend to heaven.....I will make myself like the Most High, but you are brought down to the grave to the depths of the pit" (Isaiah14:13-15)
Can satan be forgiven?? Its a question that has been asked and has been thought of. But satan actually has no hope for the flagrant blasphemous sin he commited. When an individual makes the choice to sin they are all of sudden overwhelmed by the truth that they have committed an offense against God. Its a natural reaction to feel guilt after sinning (some people call this the guilty conscience) which causes you to confess your wrong and turn from it. This even happens when your not a christian. Forgiveness is not only gift from God or his expressed mercy, but also a time of space given by his grace. In order to answer the question about if satan can be forgiven you have to examin the reason "why" God wont do it. If there is anything about God its that he is a God of principle and purpose. Behind everything he has made and done he has done it for a purpose. When God created the sun he made sure placed it not too far or close from the earth in order to give off the right type of temperature. So when God created human beings(you and me) he placed us on earth, and when he created the angels he placed them in heaven. And when he placed human beings on the earth he made sure to have us live in a system called "time" but since the angels are with God in the spiritual word, that world in which he lives in doesnt run by "time" but by eternity and in eternity there is no such thing that exist as "time" because eternity is forever. Time cant keep up with eternity. So when satan sinned against God it was in heaven right? Heaven is where God is so it was in eternity. It was mentioned earlier that when we sin, we are provoked with guilt to turn away from our sins to God. When we ask for forgiveness God looks at us and says, ''okay, at this certain day and TIME you sinned. Im going to forget what you did at that TIME and give you some space(new TIME) to start over again and live right". But the reason why God cant do that for satan is because God looks at him and says, "since we live in a realm where time doesnt exist. I cant look at you and predict WHAT TIME you did this sin, so there is no SPARE TIME because I dont have any TIME to give you to start over." Thats another reason why the enemy is so jealous of us. When your jealous of someone its because they have something you dont have. What we have is TIME, and that will be something that he'll never have. But for those that live habitually sinful and refuse to repent. The bible says that when you dont repent that you store up Gods wrath on you(Romans2:5). When you fall and know that you have let God down, are you taking advantage of the time he's giving you to repent? Take it now because time is here but its also running short(1 Corinthians 7:29). I hope this provokes and stimulates you to meditate on the goodness of God towards mankind and to appreciate what it is that he's given us. Because in reality we dont deserve none of the benificiaries...But man, thats why his grace is so beautiful.
Grace and peace.
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