Isaiah 14:12-15. "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! 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: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."
Satan, the Devil, the Great Dragon, the Serpent, the Op-poser, the Deceiver, the Father of all Lies, and yes he can even appear, as bright Angel of Light, and a Murderer from the beginning.
His greatest, to date, deception, is the fact that most people think he does not exist! Or that he is but a symbolic figure in the Bible! Well just look at what he has the power to do, because of the "Natural Disasters, that we blame as an act of God, are in facts Satan's efforts! But the again only God can create, and Satan can only destroy!
However,as you can see, from Isa. 14:12 God gave Satan a name, at the beginning, as "Lucifer" Therefore is the GOD' s Word gives him a name he must be real and exist, agree?
As for his abilities, think of an Octopus, and it's clever trickery, can change its shape, and color, as can Satan appear to each just as each visualizes him in their minds!
Sadly enough, sin actually got it's start in heaven. It began when Satan questioned God's decision, to create earth and man, through Jesus Christ. In his great self pride, he was envious of Christ, and began a campaign, of planting seeds of doubts, about God' s government and judgments. As sin had not ever existed before Lucifer became the Devil, all this was new to them,.
DID GOD IN FACT MAKE A DEVIL?
Ezekiel 28:15. "Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee."
Ezekiel 28:14. "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."
Ezekiel 28:12-13. "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. 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."
Yes, God the Creator did create a perfect creature, until the created began to think he was greater than the Creator GOD!
2 Corinthians 11:13-15. "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 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."
Please know that Satan has his co-workers, well entrenched into every religion of man, which worships God through Christ Jesus, and these He calls wolves in sheep clothing...
Matthew 7:15. "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.Matthew 10:16. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."
Please know that Bionically he even tried to tempt Christ, for 40 days and nights, Matthew 4:8-11 "Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him."
If Satan self-pride is so great, that he attempted to have Christ Jesus worship him, what makes you think we all are not venerable to him? Only Christ is able to put a wall around those who accept Him in Love and trust.
Job 1:9-10. "Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for naught? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land."
Note: "Hast Thou not made a hedge about him [job]"? Those who do not have this hedge have no protection, and read Job to learn what Satan did to him, to get Job to curse God, in which he Satan failed!
What are we told led Lucifer the Morning Star, to sin?
Ezekiel 28:17. "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."
Please read the next verse and learn Satan that old dragon, has already been Judged and sentenced, but the punishment have not yet been delivered, not until; the 1,000 years after Christ's Return to earth, where we shall meet Him in the clouds! Many reject this order of events, but that is what the Bible has written in it!
So, who originated sin?
1 John 3:8. "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil."
Revelation 12:7-9. "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
Note: (j.b.) Many have asked, "Why, did not God destroy Satan then and there"? God needed to show the whole universe, sin in its totality of evil. Plus, if He had done so, would this not firmly plant the seeds of doubts against God and His Government, plus would not all them obey from a position of fear, rather than from the position of LOVE?
1 John 4:8. "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
God can not love Himself, thus love MUST be shared, given to others, who in turn give us love, thus completing the circle!
This can be fully and openly shown by His gift of His only PREEMINENT SON Jesus Christ...> John 3:14-17. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
Amazing Fact!
From the year 1496 B. C. to A.D. 1861-- 3358 years-- there were 227 years of peace, and 3,3130 years of war! Or, 13 years of war for each and every year of peace!
That is Stan's legacy! He always uses humans to do all his dirty work. So how can so many think that he is not real? Have they not ever seen the news?
Want/Need more? Visit your Seventh day Adventist Church, 9:15 AM. any Sabbath/Saturday, you just may be glad you did.
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