Satan's Ministers Transformed as Ministers of Righteousness 2 Corinthians 11:15

Paul the apostle told the church members in Corinth, “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light”, and in chapter eleven and verse fifteen of Second Corinthians, Paul told the church members it's not a “great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness” where we read:

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

The verse begins, “Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;” Paul began with the word, “therefore” which means “then, accordingly, consequently and these things being so” “it is no great thing” or “it is not a grand, abundant, large or numerous thing” “if his ministers” which refers to “whether Satan's servants, waiters and attendants” “also” or “even or if they” “be transformed” which means “changed in figure” “as the ministers” or “like the servants or attendants” “of righteousness” which means “the state of him who is as he ought to be and the condition acceptable to God”. Paul did not think it something unusual or grand that Satan's “servants” are “changed or altered” into “servants of conditions acceptable to God”.

The verse goes on to say, “whose end shall be according to their works.” Paul added the words, “whose end” which means “whose termination and end” “shall be according to” or “will be down from, through out, toward and along” “their works” which means “the servant's business, employment, enterprise, undertaking and that which they do”. Paul stated that their “final termination” will be “toward and along” the measure of their “business and enterprise”.

When we think through these words of Paul, we see how Satan uses false “ministers” to do his “handy-work”. Though they appear to be “ministers of the light”, they are actually “ministers of darkness and evil”. Jesus Christ shall be the ultimate judge of such individuals, and the wise servant of God continues in the word and Spirit of God so they will not be “fooled”. God delights in His servants of “truth”, and He shall judge those who “are transformed into ministers of righteousness” but used by Satan.

Next time Paul tells the church members, “as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then,

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