Nothing More To Prove

How Lucifer plotted to murder Him!
Think you the sword was sent by Herod alone,
When innocents were slain at Bethlehem;
Or the Nazarenes, so eager to stone?
Yes, but, in the end, he did it, you say,
At Golgotha, when He was nailed to the tree?
That was not His last, but His winning day!
Satan thought he'd won; instead, bent his knee!
Again, the Fiend will try to bring Him down,
When Armageddon's drums in sorrow beat;
That ending's writ; the King will keep His crown;
The devil burn fore'er, his fall complete!
His flesh was slain, that redeeming grace live:
Nothing more to prove; nothing more to give!

Lucifer was chief of all the angels in heaven; he was beautiful, the Angel of Morning Star. He brought evil into the world by rebelling against God, trying to take His throne. He persuaded one third of the angels to fight with him against Michael and the good angels. He lost the battle and was cast out of heaven, together with the angels who fought with him. (See Revelation 12:7-9)

Angels evidently don't die. His name was changed to Satan, and God gave him freedom to roam at will on the earth, and he continued his war against God. When man was created, Satan fought God by causing Adam and Eve to sin, and through the years since, he has blocked as many as he can from accepting Christ's free offer of salvation. Peter advised Christians to, "Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." (2 Peter 5:8)

Satan has tried to kill Jesus. When He was born in Bethlehem, Satan caused King Herod to have all male children under two years of age at Bethlem killed with the sword (Matthew 2:16). When Jesus spoke to the people of his home town at Nazareth, they became enraged at him for claiming to be the Son of God and tried to kill him (Luke 4:14-28).

But when Jesus died on the cross at Golgotha, He came back to life on the third day, defeating death. For that reason we have hope that we, too, will live again after we die.
Death was Satan's last chance to keep people from being redeemed to heaven.