No Grace For Satan

I was asked. "What must I do to be saved?"
And it thrilled my heart; here was my first soul!
I struggled to speak. then became dismayed;
Not a word came; I was mute as a mole!
"The last preacher said I must be baptized;
Here's a cup of water; sprinkle on me!"
With mounting concern, I soon realized,
This fish is going back into the sea;
So I sprinkled him in the Father's name,
Thinking this will do unti we immerse.
By now the seeker was sorry he came;
"Compared to most folk, I'm not any worse."
"Satan! Quit your foolish dreaming!' said the imp;
"Grace won't work for you! Don't be such a wimp!"

This is the kind of stunt Satan is quite likely to pull---in the form of a lost man to approach a new preacher fresh from seminary and pass himself off as any seeker of salvation might, hoping to sneak back into heaven and be redeemed. But it won't work. He and the other fallen angels are lost forever; they have no chance of redemption. The grace of God is only for humans. The Holy Spirit recognized Satan immediately and befuddled the young preacher enough that the devil gave it up before the young man committed the error of accepting God's antagonist into the Kingdom of God.

John Milton's poem Paradise Lost depicts Satan picking himself up after his boot from heaven and giving his great monologue; he began in low spirits and felt sorry for himself, but, realizing that a defeatist attitude would only aid God, he pumped himself up and declared eternal his effort to unseat his Creator, vowing to carry the struggle to the ramparts of heaven itself. The great poet was able to make the fiend appear almost heroic to his readers, but we know what Satan's end will be from the Bible---he will be cast into the Lake of Fire in hell for eternity at the end of time. Until then, he is allowed to steal men's souls to accompany him to the Lake of Fire, and he is very successful in doing so.

It hardly seems fair to the human side of our nature that we are given multiple chances to accept Jesus Christ and be saved, while the fallen angels were not given a second chance. God says in Isaiah 55 His thoughts are not our thoughts; they are as high above ours as the heavens above the earth. He is the fairest of judges; Satan's crimes are so heinous that he doesn't deserve a second chance. Besides, God needs an almost-equal antagonist in the world to give each man the supremest of tests: Will he choose God for his champion, or His opposite number, Satan? If the evil one were not as vile as he really is, it would not be a sufficient test for men to decide.