The Bible God Salvation
Understanding Angels 0 Origin 0 Nature and Purpose 0 Work and Ministry 0 Satan and the problem of evil.
The Adversary 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour A Deceiver, a Liar, and a Temptor.
Personality 0 He is a real person He is not an inanimate force but a personal being with mind, will, and emotion. 0 He possesses intelligence Even though sin has corrupted his original wisdom, Satan is still the most knowledgeable creature in the universe. He was fully aware, for example, of the strength of Job (Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7) and the weakness of Peter (Luke 22:31).
0 He possesses memory Satan reads the Bible. 0 Jesus answered Satan s temptations in the wilderness with Scripture (Matthew 4). 0 Satan also used Scripture when he quoted Psalm 91:11-12. For it is written, he shall give his angels charge concerning thee; and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone (Matt. 4:6).
0He possesses a will Paul instructed Timothy in dealing with backslidden Christians. He said to be gentle, but firm, "that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will (2 Tim. 2:26).
0 He possesses emotions. 0 Desire He has certain goals; he has things that he wants to see accomplished. And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat (Luke 22:31). 0 Pride In describing the qualifications of a deacon, Paul lists the following restriction: Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil (1 Tim. 3:6). 0 Wrath Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time (Rev. 12:12).
The Names of Satan 0 Abaddon, Apollyon, destroyer And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon (Rev. 9:11). During the sixth trumpet judgment, he will kill one-third of all humanity. (See Rev. 9:18.) 0 Accuser of the brethren 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 (Rev. 12:10). 0 He accused Job before God (Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7). 0 He accused Joshua the high priest before God (Zech. 3:1).
0Adversary, to bind, cause distress, oppose O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? (Psa. 74:10). 0Angel of light And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14). 1 John 4:1
0 Anointed cherub 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 (Ezek. 28:14). 0 Beelzebub, prince of demons But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils (Matt. 12:24).
0 Belial, worthless, reckless, lawless" And what concord hath Christ with Belial, or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? (2 Cor. 6:15). 0 Deceiver, to lead astray 0 The first deception involved Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:1-7). 0 The final deception will involve millions at the close of the Millennium (Rev. 20:7-8). 0 Devil, slanderer - This is his second most referred to title, used 35 times.
0 Dragon And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon (Rev. 12:3). The title dragon is used 12 times, and each instance appears in the book of Revelation. 0 Enemy, The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels (Matt. 13:39). 0 When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him (Isaiah 59:19).
0 God of this world In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them (2 Cor. 4:4). 0 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path (Psa. 119;105). 0 The true God brightens the path of his people, while the false god blinds the minds of his followers.
0 King of death Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil (Heb. 2:14). 0 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Gen. 2:17). 0 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Rom. 5:12).
0 He is called the King of death because by successfully tempting Adam, the devil helped to bring about both physical and spiritual death. 0 Physical death The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away (Psa. 90:10). 0 Spiritual death But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Rev. 21:8).
0 Leviathan, one who dwells in the sea of humanity In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea (Isa. 27:1). 0 Liar 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 (John 8:44). 0 Satan was the source of both the first and final lie in the Bible concerning the very nature of God. 0 First lie Gen. 3:4-5. 0 Final lie 2 Thess. 2:3-4, 9, 11.
0 Lucifer, light bearer, daystar, shining one 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! (Isa. 14:12). 0 Murderer For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother s righteous (1 John 3:11-12). 0 Prince of the power of the air 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. 2:2).
0 Prince of this world After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself (John 12:31). Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me (John 14:30). 0 Roaring lion Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour (1 Pet. 5:8).
0 Ruler of darkness For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph. 6:12). 0 Satan, hateful accuser, adversary, opposer This is his most referred to title, used 52 times. 0 Serpent But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ (2 Cor. 11:3).
F. C. Jennings writes: Serpent The word for serpent in Hebrew is nachash, which may come from the root, to hiss; or, as Dr. Taylor Lewis writes, is far more likely to have had its sense from the secondary meaning of that root to shine, whence brass, the shining metal. This gives, as the first thought in the word for serpent, splendor, glistening, bright, shining, either from its glossy appearance, or, more likely, from the bright glistening of the eye. The first impressions of mankind in regards to the serpent were of the splendid and terrible kind beauty and awe. (Satan, His Person, Work, Place, and Destiny, p. 15)
0 That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan (Rev. 12:9). 0 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years (Rev. 20:2). 0 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? (Gen. 3:1). 0 Son of the morning 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! (Isa. 14:12).
0 Tempter, one who entices another to evil Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil (Matt. 4:1). For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted (Heb. 2:18). 0 Thief 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 (John 10:10).
0 Wicked one, When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side (Matt. 13:19). 0 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked (Eph. 6:16).
THE SLANDERER 0 The term, devil, as used so often of Satan, means, slanderer, defamer, one who accuses falsely. 0 This name reveals him in one of his key characterizations in Scripture. As the slanderer, he is one who defames the character of God and one of the ways he seeks to do this is by accusing believers (Rev. 12:10). 0 Job 1:6-11; 2:1-6
SATAN SLANDERS GOD 0 In Genesis 3 Satan attacks the character of God. This is evident in the slanderous nature of his questions and statements to Eve in the temptation vs 1-5. 0 So today, under his deception there is a common sentiment echoed: 0 The God of the Bible is vengeful. 0 How could a loving God send people to hell? 0 I refuse to believe in a God like that.