Author's note:

I haven't had a real difficult life ...though I've experienced things I would have preferred not to.  Yet, I believe God gave me those experiences to give me a more accurate view of the total war ...the principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and wickedness.  Is that the same darkness spoken of  "in the beginning ...", which the Light took control of, before introducing us?  Or is the darkness, sometimes just the absence of  Light ...the absence of Him.

I worked in a prison ...and I saw many who appeared very sincere in their sharing of what they've learned, mostly from their mistakes. One shared with me that they believed it was God's grace that they got caught, because otherwise they don't believe they would have honestly taken a serious look at their life, to turn it around.

That was a real blessing to me that they'd shared that ...but others, though they were in the vast minority, were involved in gangs within the prison.  Some of the leaders of those prison gangs would get furious when things did not go the way they wanted them to go. And if something, or someone interfered with their activity ...they went into a rage, and tried to make everyone pay for crossing them or preventing them their unrestrained freedom. (Though they were confined to the prison for their past actions, many got even worse with their anger and rage within the prison, never accepting the attempt to curb any of that behavior.)

Even with extreme cases, rehabilitation could be a hope.  But what would you say about someone who has not changed one bit ...over, let's say, probably more than well over six thousand years.  We have a written record that clearly shows the intent ...of someone who knows he can't win.  So, with that in mind, what do we see? We see an attitude of rage ...trying to take as many people down as possible.  And after a thousand years of Jesus ruling the earth when He returns ...the old deluder will rally up resentment, anger, and rage to try to get as many as he can to turn against Jesus again.  I am so glad that I know the ending ...and that I know that Jesus has a place prepared for us who believe. And the most certain thing is ...for once, and for all (for all who are with Jesus) we will be rid of the destroyer of our peace, as he will not be allowed in that heavenly paradise.