Why study the doctrine of Satan?
Simply we need to know our enemy. The best team in sports always know their opponents strengths and weaknesses just as good as theirs.
Revelation 12, Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28
Vs. 1-5: is Satan’s Past history. And vs. 7-17 is Satan’s Future Failures!
Who is Satan??
- Satan is “an angel created by God, who served God, until he rebelled against God, and now he opposes God in every way.”
- Again let me be clear, Satan is not a guy dressed in a red suit with a pitchfork. He’s absolutely not that. Get that image out of your mind. Satan is an angel. He’s spiritual. Not necessarily a physical bodies like us. He has Personal, intellectual, and emotional capacities. He’s …show more content…
He wanted it to be about him, and we see that Satan’s downfall was pride, and that’s why Pride can be such a problem… Me, I, I want people to praise me, and acknowledge me… And it begins with an I problem. We look inward, but we need to look …show more content…
16…. We’re going to look at him, this is the guy, that did that, that made the world…
- So what happened to Lucifer? How did he fall? Pride filled his heart… Ezekiel 28 sheds some more light on it… Turn to Ezekiel 28…
(Read Ezekiel 28:12-17)
- It was about Satan. He was in the garden of Eden it says
- And so he was kicked out of heaven because he launched a prideful rebellion… and it says he was cast to the ground… [The destiny of Satan is hell, in Matthew 25:41 it says, God made hell for Satan and his angels, that was and is his destiny, it was not originated for us, but people will end up here…]
Back to Revelation 12…
- And so 33 percent of the angels went with him… and these angels are now known as demons they’re the one’s who followed Satan in his rebellion…
- Same problem with eve, do you want to be made like God?
[2 chron 20 Jehoshaphat was surrounded by the Edomites, and he sent the band into the battle… there is power in praise, the enemy is defeated, the enemy is losing….]
- And these Angels are very deceiving, angels who were in the presences of God, and saw his glory, ended up following