Mike,

Is the Prince of this World who is being judged the beast within or Satan?

Joh 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

Thanks,

J____

Hi J_____,

Thank you for your question. You want to know who is being judged at this time, the beast within or Satan.

When we understand that those who persecute us are actually guilty of persecuting Christ, and that when we persecute Christ we are not rejecting Him but His Father, then I think you will have the answer to your question:

Joh 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father.

In the same way, when we are persecuted for Christ’s sake, those persecuting us are not just persecuting us, they are also persecuting Christ:

Mat 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Act 22:7 And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Act 22:8 And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

I hope all of these verses help you to see that when the prince of this world is being judged within us, Satan himself is “falling from [ our] heaven as lightning” and is being judged within his children who we all first are:

Luk 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Joh 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

Eph 2:2 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:
Eph 2:3 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.

We are all first “the seed of the serpent” before we become “the seed of the woman… Jerusalem above… espoused to one husband… Christ”.

Joh 9:39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
Joh 9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him [“of [ their] father the devil”] heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
Joh 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

Joh 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Joh 8:44 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.

So both are being judged as Satan is being cast out of us, just as both Christ and His Father are being rejected when we are rejected by this world.

Your rejected brother in the Christ,

Mike