When I was a teenager, I played basketball on the freshman team of our large 5-A high school in Texas. Being vertically challenged, and not particularly fast, I mostly rode the bench. I did not make the team my sophomore year, but I enjoyed playing in church and YMCA leagues. What I lacked in skill I made up for in cockiness. After making a jump shot or driving for a layup, I often would taunt my opponent with typical on-court repartee like, “In your face!” or “Did your mother teach you to play defense?” On one occasion, after I spouted off in some boastful manner, a player from the other team pointed to the scoreboard and bluntly put me in my place. “I would not be bragging,” he said, “if my team was losing by twenty-five points in the fourth quarter!” I did not open my mouth the rest of the game.
It occurs to me the Devil and his earthly accomplices are doing a lot of taunting these days as they roll out the Great Satanic Reset. They brag openly about using medical tyranny to control the masses, as Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci did repeatedly during the so-called pandemic. They laugh derisively about their depopulation agenda, as Indian yoga guru Jagadish “Jaggi” Vasudev did in an interview following his speech at the World Economic Forum recently. They mock anyone who believes in God, as Yuval Noah Harari did when he said, “God is dead. It just takes a while to get rid of the body.”
Satan and his co-conspirators mock God; they mock Christians; and they mock truth. Yet, like my youthful boasting on the basketball court, their arrogance is not only wrong, but also embarrassingly unwarranted. Proverbs reminds us that false boasting is “like clouds and wind without rain” (Proverbs 25:14). Eventually Satan’s dark clouds of deception will be exposed for what they really are: a futile attempt to wrest control of the world from the hands of its Creator.
The hubris of the Luciferians reminds me of the evil false teachers in the first century. They were “clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever” (Jude 12–13). When you look past the raging sea and the empty storm clouds, you see nothing but pathetic pawns of Satan blindly marching to the Lake of Fire. When you pull up fruitless plants you find nothing but dead roots.
As the stage is being set for the Luciferian one-world system, in fulfillment of biblical prophecy, we need to fix our eyes on the scoreboard of God’s Word and remember Who wins in the end. The Antichrist’s reign of terror will be short-lived. He is destined to fail. One day, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords will return to take the throne that is rightfully His. And when He does, He will “tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God” (Revelation 19:15-16).
While we must be careful not to ignore the enemy, we must never cower in his presence. The Bible promises, “The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly” (Romans 16:20).
The next time you feel discouraged by Satan’s short-term advancements in this present evil age, just point to the scoreboard and remind him he is nothing but a great big loser.
