Today, taking a look back at one of the many false doctrines out there and say what does scripture say. I be honest, many false doctrines out there look legit, until you dive into scripture. One false doctrine is about the authority of the devil as far as being a ruler over the earth. His authority is destructible. What is the devil first mistake concerning his claim to being before God existed. That was the false doctrine I encounter and it threw me for a loop with evidence they wanted to present. Many groups have many doctrines and theology out there that do not line up with scripture. It matters not how many I they want to dot or t they cross to make their theology seem to line up with scripture, somethings will never be so.

I am one of those people if I hear something that does sound right in scripture I am going to find why or why not I disagree and see if the one speaking to me is wrong. If you only have those two verse above could you prove God was before the devil, the answer is yes. Why because it says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Leave our verse one it implies the Spirit moved over the face of the water, as if it already existed. Now do you see how someone with no intelligents will take that one verse and say the devil was before God, because God's Spirit moved over the face of the earth. In truth this is a very easy debunk, but if allowed to go on a tangent you will have that earth been destroyed before God hovered over it like in the days of Noah's flood and destruction.

It is important to know the earth had a beginning and it has end. It important to know creation is finite but spirit of man can be either finite or infinite. Meaning with or without end based on choice man makes concerning God's free gift of salvation. The very land one will discover if they continue to read Genesis one had not even been formed. When the flood of Noah came the entire earth was overed by water. When God forms water it was made on the second day and earth and all things that produce plant life was created on the third day. Light and darkness lets not leave it out was made on day one.

Genesis 1:3-13 KJV
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

What is my point if you study the scripture and you hit a snag with what someone is telling you stop, breath, relook at it, make sure of what was taught, and regroup with the word of God. Either you find you are wrong or you are right. It strengthen your knowledge of God's word. If you still having issue, then maybe the Holy Spirit is speaking to you about the problem, and it is time to ask maybe even for some help to divide the word of God correctly. To search out the answer in God's word. Just because the Holy Spirit pricks you heart something wrong, it does not mean you quiver and quake out of fear, but take God's word and use it as the Holy Spirit leads you to speak truth. Not everyone will accept that truth, or they may have verses that need to be untangled so they can hear the truth. Yet people have to be willing to talk and to fight for the unity of faith, that God's word will be taught with truth and righteousness and not lies of the devil who will twist every scripture possible. Sometimes it takes the study of whole book, a whole chapter or several chapters to get to the bottom of the issue.

Devil will act in control, pretend to be in control and even disguise himself as God. With the word of truth the devil lies will not stand and he will be defeated. God has been in power since the beginning of the universe as we know it today. God created the garden and the beast of the fields on another day. Whose power reigns not the devil. for God's and his word created and his word is Jesus. His laws created from begining of time, before Satan was even thought of. How do I know that God's laws were in place before the begining; the word created light by just being spoken. The word having the authority of God and the power of God from the beginning.

We can get stuck on the idea "because I thought"(Genesis 20), or he/she thought and did not study what God's word actually said. Law of God proclaimed to Adam that he was not to eat from the tree of knowledge. The tree of knowledge having both the knowledge of good and evil. That knowledge designed by God created by God. Even our ability to be tempted is a trait of humanity, our part of ourselves that does not make us equal to God because to be equal to God we would have to be completely inline and obedient to the word of God. God's word never changes, man never can seem to make up his mind. God's word is exact down the chalk line. Yet that chalk line has judgment, and mercy on both sides of it. One side of the chalk line for correction/mercy and other other for judgment. His word with absolute authority over everything.

One day we be walking in the word of God in Christ Jesus, by God's authority we will be sitting in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. How do we get to the point where we walking by that word of God, and not by our on will and way. It called learning to walk in God's grace for mankind and learn to trust in the Spirit of God and not your own thoughts or opinions of life situations, trusting in the will of God solely. This will take an eternity I am afraid to get it correct always, because of our humanity, first seen in the garden, when Adam and Eve's bodies were without sin and had not experience the cost of sin yet.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the absolute authority of your word that it is unchanging, with the condition of judgment, and mercy to that rules through out eternity. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Ephesians 2:1-6 KJV
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: