ANGELIC CONFLICT
THE HISTORICAL CHESSMATCH BETWEEN GOD
AND SATAN IN HUMAN HISTORY
Panorama of the Angelic Conflict throughout human history
– the historical Chess Match between God and Satan and God's final checkmate.
1) Eternity past: Eternality of the Father, Son, and
the Holy Spirit.
2) Creation of the heavens, Gen 1:1.
3) Creation of Lucifer and all angelic beings, Ez
28.
4) Creation of original perfect earth, Job 38:4-7.
5) Lucifer's ministry on the original earth, Ez 28:12-16.
6) Rebellion and Fall of Satan while on perfect earth, Isa
14:12-15.
7) Judgment, devastation, and darkness on the earth, Gen 1:2.
8) Sentencing of Satan & perhaps opportunity of grace,
Col 1:20.
9) Preparation of Lake of Fire for Lucifer, Mat 25:41.
10) Satan's countercharges and appeals to God.
11) God's postponement of execution of judgment on Satan.
12) God's move: six day restoration of the earth, Gen 1:2ff.
13) God's move: creation of Adam and Evil, Gen
2:8-15:
14) Focal point of angelic conflict: man's
volition.
15) Satan's move: tactical victory through the Fall of Adam & Eve.
16) Satan's tactical victory would prove to be his own
downfall in that he provided God a platform to demonstrate the compatibility of
divine love, justice, and righteousness.
17) Satanic tactical victories gain in Gen 3.
a) Gains rulership over the earth,
cf. Mat 4.
b) Brings about the spiritual death of man.
c) Brings about the physical death of man.
d) Transfers man from kingdom of God into kingdom of Satan.
e) Destroys man's freedom and right of rulership
over the earth.
f) Destruction of perfect environment.
g) Gains opportunity to make his case as god of this world.
18) God's move: Manifestation of justice and love
through the promise of a Redeemer who would regain all that man lost, Gen 3:15.
a) Redeemer would conquer Satan.
b) Redeemer would suffer.
c) Redeemer would provide regeneration for man.
d) Redeemer would provide immortality through resurrected body.
e) Redeemer would provide entrance into the kingdom of God
f) Redeemer would regain rulership
of the earth (millennium)
g) Redeemer would provide perfect environment (millennium)
19) Satan's move: murder of Cain to prevent the coming
of the Redeemer, the Seed of the Woman.
20) God's move: another son: Seth.
21) Satan's move: corruption of the human race, Gen
4-5.
22) God's move: Enoch, Gen 5:22.
23) Satan's move: demonic infiltration into the
human race, Gen 6.
24) God's move: Flood and Noah.
25) Satan's move: Tower of Babel.
26) God's move: Diversity of languages.
27) Satan's move: Religion and polytheism.
28) God's move: calling of Abraham.
29) Satan's move: temptation of Abraham.
30) God's move: Israelites into Egypt.
31) Satan's move: attempted annihilation of all Jews,
Ex 1:8-22.
32) God's move: Moses and 10 plagues.
33) Satan's move: motivated Pharaoh to go after
Israelites.
34) God's move: exodus.
35) Satan's move: paranoia and panic -
"bitter" water.
36) God's move: provision.
37) God's move: The Mosaic Covenant.
38) Satan's move: Golden Calf.
39) God's move: Kadesh Barnea.
40) Satan's move: terror in hearts of Israel,
unbelief.
41) God's move: new generation under Joshua.
42) Satan's move: compromise and decadence, Judges
21:25.
43) God's move: positive volition of Samuel
44) Satan's move: Samuel's evil sons and the
clamor for a king.
45) God's move: Saul.
46) Satan's move: Saul's apostasy and demonism.
47) God's move: David and the Davidic covenant.
48) Satan's move: Attack David through
temptations.
49) God's move: Solomon
50) Satan's move: apostasy of Solomon.
51) Satan's move: apostasy of Israel and Judah.
52) God's move: 5th cycle of discipline on Israel and
Judah.
53) Satan's move: attempt to destroy all the Jews
54) God's move: return and restoration under Persia
55) Satan's move: attempts to stop the rebuilding of
the Temple.
56) God's move: prophets with clearer prophecies of the
Messiah.
57) Satan's move: persecution of the prophets
58) God's move: Alexander the Great and Koine Greek,
59) Satan's move: Antiochus' persecution of the Jews.
60) God's move: Romans with law, order, and roads.
61) God's move: Incarnation of God-man, Jesus
Christ.
62) Satan's move: attempt to kill Baby, tempted
Jesus to bypass the Cross, distortion of message of grace, crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
63) God's move: Cross, provision of
salvation for the world, imputation of the sins of the world, resurrection of
JC.
64) Satan's move: anti-Semitism, corruption of the
church, Acts 5; persecution of the church, Roman persecution, Nero
65) God's move: tremendous power, growth, and witness of positive
believers to spread the gospel, apologetics by apostles, Ignatius,
Martyr, Aristides, Tatian, Athenagoras,
Theophilus and Irenaeus
66) Satan's move: merge the state and church, 324 A.D.,
Christianity becomes superstitious and paganized.
67) God's move: biblical apologetics by the likes of
Tertullian, Athanasius, Ambrose, and Basil the Great, St. Augustine, Boethuis.
68) Satan's move: St. Augustine's rejection of kingdom and
doctrine of double predestination.
69) Satan's move: creation of Islam.
70) God's move: small remnant of positive believers and
biblical apologetics by Anselm, Peter Abelard, Albert the Great, Thomas
Aquinas, and Bonaventure.
71) Satan's move: inquisitions and persecution of
Bible believers.
72) Satan's move: Renaissance (1350-1650)
to get man absorbed with the temporal life.
73) God's move: Used Renaissance as tool for
preparation of the Reformation.
74) God's move: Reformation, remnant of doctrinal
believers, apologetics by Tyndale, Knox, Zwingli, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Blaise Paschal. Leibniz,
Paley,
75) Satan's move: Counter Reformation (1545-1563) to
stop reformation of the catholic church.
76) Satan's move: internal attacks against
Protestantism as per the rationalism, empiricism, and deism of Descarte, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche,
77) God's move: counteraction movement in
Germany. Moravian believers and the spread of the
gospel to millions.
78) Satan's move: Kant's (1724-1804) undermining of
special revelation, Hegel's (1831) undermining of an inerrant Bible, and Schleiermach's (1768-1834) existentialism,
79) Satan's move: Higher Criticism in Germany.
80) Satan's move: fascism and atheistic communism
81) Satan's move: Darwinian evolution.
82) God's move: 19th century missionaries and remnant
of Bible teachers, and development of systematic theology.
83) Satan's move: liberal Protestantism as per Barth, Bultmann, .
84) God's move: evangelicalism and fundamentalism,
apologetics by C.S. Lewis, Gordon Clark, Cornelius Van Til,
Copleston,
85) Satan's move: corruption of evangelicals and
fundamentalists, anti-intellectualism.
86) Satan's move: ecumenical movement and neo-orthodoxy, and
deification of man, positive thinking.
87) God's move: Biblical apologetics as per Walter
Martin, Montgomery, Francis Shafer, William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, J.P. Moreland.
88) Satan's move: corruption of mainline Christianity with
programs, psychology, and spiritual apathy, new age Christianity, fideism, 1
Tim 4:1ff; 2 Tim 3:1ff.
89) God's move: rapture of the church.
90) Satan's move: anti-Christ becomes world
ruler, United Nations; sits on the throne in the temple as God, 2 Thess 2:4.
91) God's move: Satan cast out of heaven, halfway
through the tribulation.
92) Satan's move: attempted annihilation of believers and all Jews.
93) God's move: sealing of 144,000 and judgment on negative
volition.
94) Satan's move: last move to destroy Israel,
Armageddon.
95) God's move: 2nd Advent of JC, salvation of Israel,
beast and false prophet cast into the lake of fire, Satan imprisoned for 1,000
years.
96) God's move: set up 1,000 year millennium and
special rewards for "winner" believers (overcomers).
97) Satan's move: after 1,000 years he is released and
gains allegiance for a world wide rebellion against
Jesus Christ.
98) God's move: Judgment of Satan and all unbelievers, Great
White Throne.
99) God's move: Destruction of heavens and earth
100) God's final move: Checkmate: Eternal state
and blissfulness for believers, Satan and unbelievers in the lake of fire
forever.