Who is The Devil? We must avoid two extreme positions when it comes to the Devil or Satan. Ignorance of who he is and how he operates can be deadly because saints easily become his victims. On the other hand, we must avoid tendency to ‘promote’ him out of context, making him out to be what he is not. Knowledge of who the Bible says Satan is becomes the wisest course to take. That is what we will do in this study. Satan is a created being who once was Lucifer the archangel (a Chief angel with responsibility over other angels). He worked very close to Elohim as worship leader that served right at the Throne of Grace as the anointed Cherub who covered the Divine Presence. Filled with wisdom and beauty, he was wired to produce music. Pride and vaulting ambition caused him to err and seek to seize the Throne from Yahweh, leading to his transmutation from Lucifer to the Devil. Because he was an arch angel, he had access to much of the mysteries of life and in his fallen state has twisted them for dark purposes to make men to switch loyalty from Yahweh to himself. Isaiah 14: 12 – 17 tells us the origin of the fall of Lucifer while Ezekiel 28: 11 – 19 goes further to describe how Lucifer was when he was created and assigned as Chief worship leader of the heavenly choir. Isaiah 14:12-17 (KJV) 12) How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13) For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; 14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15) Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16) They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17) That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? The ‘I principle’ in which Lucifer allowed his self to be projected beyond measure can be seen in verses 13 and 14 where his ambitions were projected five times! Self life propels ambition like nothing else. Ezekiel 28:11-19 (KJV) 11) Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 12) Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13) Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold; the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14) Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15) Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16) By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17) Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness; I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18) Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19) All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. Just as Satan was created and has license to roam about at this time, one day, he will be bound in the bottomless pit and ultimately, he will one day be destroyed: Revelation 20:1-3 (KJV) And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 3) And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled; and after that he must be loosed a little season. Revelation 20:7-10 (KJV) 7) And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8) And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9) And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 10) And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Satan tries to suggest otherwise but he does not have the immutable attributes of God. He is not Omni Potent, Omnipresent or Omniscient . However, because he is the master of deception and lies, he has organized his dark kingdom in such a way that his agents represent him at all strata of life so effectively that the unwary are led to believe that he is everywhere. It is critically important to Satan that the saints have a distorted view of who he actually is and the true extent of his power and operations. Once you under estimate Satan, you are set up for him to deal with you. If you over rate him to the degree of ascribing to him qualities that belong to Yahweh alone, you open a door of oppression for yourself. For this reason, we must pray for revelation to have a proper understanding of this enemy of Yeshua and of our souls. The truth is that Satan is not everywhere at the same time, a quality ascribable Elohim alone! These are various ways in which Satan operates: He wanders throughout the whole earth. Job 2:1-2 KJV Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord. 2) And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. He also walks about like a roaring Lion seeking who to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 (KJV) 8) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: In so doing, one of his chief methods is to create occasion to accuse saints before Yahweh Revelation 12:10 (KJV) 10) And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night Sin makes saints filthy and gives Satan room to resist prayers, negating Presence of Yahweh. Zechariah 3:1-3 (KJV) And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. 2) And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? 3) Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. Like a thief, he is constantly seeking who and what to steal, kill and destroy John 10:10 (KJV) 10) The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
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