God always wins.

Though they plan evil against you,

though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

For you will put them to flight;

you will aim at their faces with your bows.

Psalm 21:11-12

God has no defeats against Him on His record. To be an enemy of God is always a losing proposition. Lots of people plan against God’s work. Lots of efforts throughout cosmic history have tried to work contrary to the King. All of them have failed and all of them will end in ruin. It is impossible to succeed in rebellion against God.

The devil is the first to try it, and from what I can tell in scripture, will also be the last to try it. But in the end, even Satan’s vast rebellion that spans millennia and spiritual realms is an abysmal failure. Satan fails even now! The victorious King of Kings is building His church even as Satan wants to tear it down. The gospel advances even as the devil leads the worldwide effort to tell his lies against it.

And human efforts also fail. Communism as a political system seeks to eradicate all religion? It withers in failure before Christ. Atheism seeks academic prominence? It is shown to be the self-deceived babbling of moronic fools. Tyrants seek to be worshiped in their authoritarian ego trips? God turns them into irrational madmen whose dreams of dominance turn to rubble. Armies march against the church? God keeps her safe as she grows underground, nurturing and strengthening hearts with freedom in Christ even when human dictators want to take it all away.

Enemies of God’s work face two possible ends if they refuse to repent of their sinful defiance: 1) They flee before the wrath of God as He judges sins and delivers His saints, showing themselves to be cowards before the true King, or 2) they look down the arrow shafts of His destruction as He aims His bows at their faces. God’s justice pierces true to aim… He gets them right between the eyes. And this assurance should help us to endure times when God is mocked. God will be defied by many. He will never be defeated. Our Lord always wins.