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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.
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.