GodReflection: Has God Noticed?—The World Is In Chaos.
New Mexico, the forty-seventh of fifty states in the U.S.A., was carved from the Chihuahua Desert in 1912. With each edition of New Mexico, the state magazine, is a feature column with the title One of Our Fifty Is Missing. The editor shares humor every month from stacks of stories received of misguided passport requests, mail returns, and hilarious conversations from encounters with those who do not realize New Mexico is one of the fifty.
Today, of a more critical concern, Satan is missing. He is never in the news. I seldom hear his name or presence mention in conversation. Do you ever hear him blamed for the chaos and destruction in our world? Does he exist? Or did he disappear along the way? I will return to address Satan in a moment.
It all started out so good. When I read the Creation Song in the first two chapters of Genesis, I find ‘good’ as God’s chosen descriptor. Seven times at the end of 
each breath of creation, God declared all to be good. No flaws to be found. Absolutely no lack or fault was present in God’s new world. It was perfect. The first man and woman had no concept or word for chaos. They lived in eternal good. What happened?
Scripture does not share the number of sunrises and sunsets that took place between the end of Genesis chapter two and the beginning of Genesis chapter three. Could it have been hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of there was evening and there was morning?
In Genesis chapter three Satan the deceiver enters the picture without introduction. Where did he comes from? After deception and a lie the man and woman disobey God. For the first time chaos is introduced. The good of the garden is no longer available. Satanic chaos begins to roll across the globe in the attempt to destroy all of God’s creation.
From that point forward, Scripture assumes the Devil’s presence. With Matthew the first book in the New Testament, through the risen Jesus’ vision shown to John the Apostle, the presence of Satan and his created chaos is assumed and warned against. As we read destruction is everywhere.
Prophetic Literature is full of symbols used as a communication technique. For example, the first believers to hear Jesus’ revelation to the apostle John, knew Babylon was inserted as symbolic language for Rome. Some allude to the 
Prophet Ezekiel’s lamentation over the King of Tyre as the same type of symbolic language for Satan’s origin. In chapter twenty-eight listen to the prophet.
Thus says the Lord God: You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God . . . You were blameless in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you . . . you were filled with violence, and you sinned.
So, I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and the guardian cherub drove you out . . . Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground (Portions of Ezekiel 28:12-13, 15-17).
From the Garden encounter in Genesis, through the remainder of our Bible, Satan, The Devil, The Evil One, The Deceiver, is a present actor. God created both angelic beings and humans beings. Why should it be difficult to grant the same created freewill to angels as the created freewill gifted to humans?
The I come across a second witness in Revelation chapter twelve: The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
When I combine John’s testimony with the previous passage from the prophet Ezekiel, and then see all the chaos and destruction in our world, it is no surprise Jesus teaches his first disciples and all who follow to pray to the Father in heaven to deliver us from the evil one. It seem fair to reach the conclusion that indeed Satan made an entrance into our world. He is the author of chaos. AND he is not missing.
Is it possible when we call God to account for all the chaos in the world and in our lives, we should instead recognize the responsible party as Satan? Don’t you think he must be elated with all the chaos while never being the target of blame?
Stay tuned.
Dr. Gary J. Sorrells
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Thanks for studing and sharing about this. We need the preparation.
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