Satan an Angel?

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Satan is called a lot of things: The Devil, Prince of Darkness, Lucifer, Evil One, but was Satan an angel?

Angels (Seraphim, cherubim, and archangels) are created eternal beings without number. Humans usually are unable to see angels. Their purpose is to do GOD's will and guide and protect believers.

Fallen angels, on the other hand, are Satan’s instruments of wrath. The fallen angels rebelled and became evil, and Satan is such an angel. God created everything including the angels. In Genesis 1:31 GOD “saw all that HE had made, and it was very good” . Satan originally was good also.

Unfortunately, Satan tried to usurp GOD’s power. With a group of GOD's angels on his side, Satan sought to overthrow GOD's kingdom by waging war on the ALMIGHTY and HIS faithful angels. In Revelations 12:9 we see that Satan lost and was tossed from the Kingdom forever along with His subjects. In Matthew 25:41 we note that presently, they are Satan’s demons, living in Hell, taunting human beings all the time.
We are informed of little else about Satan including when his evil intentions begab but since all that GOD made was good, it is likely that this hunger and yearning to destroy God’s Kingdom came from within.
Satan and his demons lure unbelievers to eternal damnation by undermining the words of GOD in the Garden. He continues to tell people that they will not surely die if they eat of the fruit or, in other words, if they strive to be their own gods separated from the GOD. They also threaten the peace of believers who, though sealed by the Spirit of God against death for eternity with God, suffer from the effects of sin.

Focusing on the enemy takes one’s eyes from Jesus, but it is worth recognizing some of his ploys to ensnare the unwary. Satan is a liar — the Father of Lies or Deceiver are two of his names. Satan tells people they do not need God, and that they are good and there is no such thing as sin.

Satan suggests that small deceptions are okay — only big lies matter. Satan entices people to imagine doing wrong things as long as they don’t do it (hurting or killing someone; lusting after another man or woman; wanting coveting the possessions of others).
Lucifer means “bringer of light,” a name he received in modern times from the belief that Isaiah 14:12 refers to Satan: “How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn!” Satan spreads only darkness. Convinced by the Devil’s deceptions, the Word of God is “folly to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God” , note: I Corinthians 1:18.
Being bound to the one true God sounds like slavery in the human sense and not freedom. Christians know that the Father set His people free by connecting them forever to Christ through the Holy Spirit. This bond removes the yoke we were carrying previously, such as addiction. Satan simply hides the yoke piling the load higher.

Satan tempts one to choose a distraction to “fix” a problem such as alcohol, in the face of despair. This “temporary soothing savior pushes us into greater self-hate” until “self-condemnation becomes a self-fulfilling loop of prophecy that, over time, becomes more and more inescapable and more and more damaging.”
The temptation could be working too much, excessive exercise, or gossip. While the individual is responsible for acting on the temptation to sin, Satan is adept at crafting its appealing guise.

Satan is very powerful. In Luke 8, Just consider what he was able to do with the man in the graveyard. He is the prince of demons who likely started and led the heavenly revolt in which he and his followers fell. Since then, Satan has ruled this world --- note: John 12:31, with the power to bind and to oppress.
Once one invites Satan in and keeps Christ out, that person is quickly overcome by the evil one. His deceptions are powerful to unbelievers. Satan, being an angel is stronger than human beings. Fortunately, he is not, however, more powerful than the HOLY SPIRIT --- nor is the Devil Christ’s “equal opposite.”
GOD always provides us a helper. HIS Word is full of examples: Moses and Aaron; Ruth and Naomi; and David and Johnathan. Christians are inhabited by the HOLY SPIRIT, their comforter, interceding for us with the FATHER. “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life” note: II Peter 1:3.

The HOLY SPIRIT is much more powerful than Satan or any angel. So, while one should never underestimate the battle that continuously rages around us in the spiritual realm, Satan cannot claim a person who has received salvation from CHRIST. While Satan is in charge of this world, GOD is holding him back from exercising his power to its fullest extent. “For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way” II Thessalonians 2:7.
 
Lucifer means light bearer
He made the "choice" to rebel against God. Apparently at one time ions ago he was on the right side of the line
He wanted more than what he was entitled to and rebelled when he didn't get it.

I think it sez a lot about the agency we're given the right to chose which side of the line we wanna be on.
People say, "well, I don't believe in God cuz he allows this."
Allowing people to chose evil was part of the rules when we checked into life Some people just check into life sour.
 
Lucifer means light bearer
He made the "choice" to rebel against God. Apparently at one time ions ago he was on the right side of the line
He wanted more than what he was entitled to and rebelled when he didn't get it.

I think it sez a lot about the agency we're given the right to chose which side of the line we wanna be on.
People say, "well, I don't believe in God cuz he allows this."
Allowing people to chose evil was part of the rules when we checked into life Some people just check into life sour.
"We're all just visitors here, of our own device"
 
Satan is a problem but a far bigger problem is figuring out why God allows him so much freedom to wreak destruction in our world.
 
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flawed satan is dead, happens to everyone else with the same problem. - triumph over evil is the requirement for admission to the Everlasting.
 
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flawed satan is dead, happens to everyone else with the same problem. - triumph over evil is the requirement for admission to the Everlasting.
And you have triumphed over evil?
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And you have triumphed over evil?
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not made easy a life's pursuit, I am not a christian, have you even tried, messiah ... never a quote from that book not one page is without corruption or any of the desert religions.
 
Satan is a problem but a far bigger problem is figuring out why God allows him so much freedom to wreak destruction in our world.

It was because of Adam's sin. He lost human's dominion of the world to Satan and thus Satan became "god of the world and prince of the power of the air." God left our universe because of it.
 
Satan is a problem but a far bigger problem is figuring out why God allows him so much freedom to wreak destruction in our world.
The "world," being the world of the holy people, is free of Satan. Jesus defeated him two thousand years ago. He does not run loose in the kingdom of God; he's loose only outside, where the dogs, idolaters, and evildoers reside.
 
Satan is a problem but a far bigger problem is figuring out why God allows him so much freedom to wreak destruction in our world.
The "world," being the world of the holy people, is free of Satan. Jesus defeated him two thousand years ago. He does not run loose in the kingdom of God; he's loose only outside, where the dogs, idolaters, and evildoers reside.
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The "world," being the world of the holy people, is free of Satan. Jesus defeated him two thousand years ago. He (they) does not run loose in the kingdom of God; he's loose only outside, where the dogs, idolaters, and evildoers reside.
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are you a christian, the religious itinerant surly defeated evil were they to enter the Everlasting how would you know otherwise as a christian ...

no, they do not run loose - they're dead.

what's your issue with dogs ...
 
Satan is a problem but a far bigger problem is figuring out why God allows him so much freedom to wreak destruction in our world.
The "world," being the world of the holy people, is free of Satan. Jesus defeated him two thousand years ago. He does not run loose in the kingdom of God; he's loose only outside, where the dogs, idolaters, and evildoers reside.
If "holy people" were entirely free of Satan, they would not die. Satan, is still manipulating society in a vain attempt to get what he wants ----- namely to become G O D. Yes, Christians are free from the wages of sin from an eternal standpoint, but we are still stuck in a body that is dying as a result of sin (either our own or of those around us).
 
Satan is a problem but a far bigger problem is figuring out why God allows him so much freedom to wreak destruction in our world.
The "world," being the world of the holy people, is free of Satan. Jesus defeated him two thousand years ago. He does not run loose in the kingdom of God; he's loose only outside, where the dogs, idolaters, and evildoers reside.
If "holy people" were entirely free of Satan, they would not die. Satan, is still manipulating society in a vain attempt to get what he wants ----- namely to become G O D. Yes, Christians are free from the wages of sin from an eternal standpoint, but we are still stuck in a body that is dying as a result of sin (either our own or of those around us).
Death is not the arrest of biological functions. It's condemnation.
 
The big picture is, God has a plan to build an eternity (which we call Heaven) for angels and humans to live with Him forever. God on the other hand is completely sin incompatible. An analogy is that you built a huge mansion then invite all your friends and relatives to live in. You however need to set up rules such that they won't be able to to do criminal deeds inside your mansion such as training your kids up to be drug dealers of prostitutes. If they don't follow your rules, you kick them out of your mansion.

God did the same by setting up Law for both angels and humans to follow. Angels are given an extended period of time such that by the degree of freewill granted, there will be 2/3 of them saved in the end through a Judgment of Law. These 2/3 angels will enter the final Heaven. By the degree of freewill granted to humans, there should be less than 1/3 of them saved. However by the bad influence caused by the more capable and more intelligent fallen angels to humans, the actual outcome becomes 0. That is, by the influence of Satan and his angels, there won't be any humans saved if judged by the same set of Law.

So either humans as a whole need to be destroyed or an alternative must be provided for the redemption of humans. This alternative is of course Jesus Christ. With Jesus' crucifixion then humans can thus be judged by covenants instead of Law. With this Judgment of covenants, there will be less than 1/3 humans saved in the end.

That said. Satan is a cherub identified with 2 wings. Satan ever tried to fight God but he went insane at some point where he realized that he has no hope to win. Since then he's driven by his insanity to try to keep as many souls as possible desperately.
 
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flawed satan is dead, happens to everyone else with the same problem. - triumph over evil is the requirement for admission to the Everlasting.
The Everlasting is guaranteed. WHERE is not.
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The Everlasting is guaranteed. WHERE is not.
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for all the Everlasting there would be where imperfect but not condemned spirits might be given refuge and a second chance ... better to just get it right the first time than take a chance on beneficence - especially for the kind of warrior god that does seem to be in charge.

playing with fire is not a good idea.
 
Satan was never an angel. He is a serpent and he and his progeny have been with us since the garden. John Milton and his epic poem Paradise Lost have had an inordinate influence on Christian thought. Those who believe that Satan was a cast out angel are following a false path.

He is a liar and a murderer and is very much still with us.
 
Satan is a problem but a far bigger problem is figuring out why God allows him so much freedom to wreak destruction in our world.

It was because of Adam's sin. He lost human's dominion of the world to Satan and thus Satan became "god of the world and prince of the power of the air." God left our universe because of it.
Link plz. Thx.
 
Satan is a problem but a far bigger problem is figuring out why God allows him so much freedom to wreak destruction in our world.

It was because of Adam's sin. He lost human's dominion of the world to Satan and thus Satan became "god of the world and prince of the power of the air." God left our universe because of it.
Link plz. Thx.

You can study the fall of humanity -- How did the Fall affect humanity? | GotQuestions.org.

One realizes that God gave Adam dominion over heaven on Earth. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Genesis 1:26

However, Adam and humanity lost it through original sin and God had to leave the universe and Earth. In turn, Satan gained the power of death and gained dominion over the universe and Earth.

"In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." 2 Corinthians 4:4

"In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—" Ephesians 2:2
 
Satan is a problem but a far bigger problem is figuring out why God allows him so much freedom to wreak destruction in our world.
The "world," being the world of the holy people, is free of Satan. Jesus defeated him two thousand years ago. He does not run loose in the kingdom of God; he's loose only outside, where the dogs, idolaters, and evildoers reside.
If "holy people" were entirely free of Satan, they would not die. Satan, is still manipulating society in a vain attempt to get what he wants ----- namely to become G O D. Yes, Christians are free from the wages of sin from an eternal standpoint, but we are still stuck in a body that is dying as a result of sin (either our own or of those around us).
And that's the process of SANCTIFICATION God Himself working in us and through us so that we can become more like His Son. Different trials, circumstances, etc. help in this process to make us, as Believers, face our own sin, confess it before God, and claim His forgiveness. Being freed from the power of sin.
After that comes GLORIFICATION when all the saints will be free from the presence of sin once and for all.
 
A person who believes he is "holy" and therefore beyond Satan's reach is deluding himself, and it's a dangerous delusion.
 

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