SATAN'S OFFSPRING

Yesterday, I suggested that Satan's seed will be the Antichrist, the Son of Perdition (Rev. 13:1-10; 2 Thes. 2:3).  "Perdition," according to Webster's New World Dictionary, is defined as "complete and irreparable loss; ruin; in Theology, the loss of the soul; damnation; the same as hell."  Satan's son, like his father before him, desires to be god (Isa. 14:12-15; Dan. 9:27; Mt. 24:15; Rev. 13:8).  Failing to achieve that, his desire is to take as many human beings with him to his inevitable destination:  the Lake of Fire (Rev. 19:20; 20:10, 14-15).

Jesus also described the religious leaders of Israel as being the children of Satan when He said,  "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it" (Jn. 8:44).

But the most disturbing revelation as to the identity of the children of Satan is found in a parable describing the Church.  Jesus later identified the wheat and the tares: 

"Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in His field:  but while men slept, His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.  But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.  So the servants of the Householder came and said unto Him, Sir, didst not Thou sow good seed in Thy field? from whence then hath it tares?  He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto Him, Wilt Thou then that we go and gather them up?  But He said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into My barn" (Mt. 13:24-30).

Then Jesus explained the parable:  "He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

The person in the pew next to you may be a "tare!" 

Worse yet, the person next to him could be one too!