Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

down His life and take it back up again” by the will of the Father, not by the design of Satan! (See John 10:18.) Only when Christ was willing to die was death able to gain a final blow. However, even death was not prepared for the resurrection, because Christ kicked the bottom out of the grave and came out swinging the keys of death and hell, announcing that all power was given Him in heaven and earth (Matt. 28:18; Rev. 1:17–18). W HO H AS A UTHORITY O VER D EATH ? Prior to the crucifixion Satan appears to have had some form of limited authority over death. This is seen in the events surrounding Job. This righteous man was surrounded by a supernatural hedge that prevented any form of satanic assault on Job’s possessions, family, or his health. When the hedge was removed, Satan seized or destroyed all the livestock, slew Job’s ten children in a windstorm, and later came back requesting to attack Job physically. (See Job chapters 1 and 2.) In Satan’s request to mount the second wave of attacks, we read: So Satan answered the L ORD and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” And the L ORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”