TOPICS PAGE: http://www.eztech.com/bibletalks/topics.htm EMAIL: bibletalks@eztech.com Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The Bible Talks about SATAN. (Also called Tempter, Prince, Ruler, Devil, Murderer, Liar, Dragon, Serpent, Angel of Light). SATAN IS A CREATED BEING. A FALLEN ANGEL. PRIDE LED TO HIS FALL AND THE BEGINNING OF SIN. ISAIAH 14:12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!" ISAIAH 14:14 "I (Satan) will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will belike the Most High.'" (Satan's pride). EZEKIEL 28:15 "You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you." SATAN BROUGHT SIN AND DEATH INTO EXISTENCE. ROMANS 5:12 "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned." 1 JOHN 3:8 "He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil" . SATAN RULES OUR WORLD AND THE KINGDOM OF THE AIR. JOHN 14:30 "I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. (Jesus recognizes the rule of Satan). EPHESIANS 2:2 "....in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince (ruler) of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,... " SATAN AND HIS DEMONS, FORMER ANGELS WHO FOLLOWED SATAN, HURT PEOPLE IN VARIOUS WAYS. 1). HARM PHYSICALLY: MATTHEW 12:22 " Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw." LUKE 13:16 "So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound - think of it - for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?" 2). THROUGH DEMON POSSESSION: MARK 7:26 "The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter." LUKE 4:33 " Now in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried out with a loud voice,...." 3).BY INFLUENCING WHAT A PERSON THINKS AND DOES. MATTHEW 16:23 "But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men." ACTS 5:3 "But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?" SATAN CAN ALSO FOOL PEOPLE BY APPEARING AS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. 2CORINTHIANS 11:14,15 "And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works." BELIEVERS MUST BE ALERT AND FIGHT SATAN. (Use faith, prayer, and Biblical knowledge as weapons to fight Satan). EPHESIANS4:27 "...nor give place to the devil." Ephesians 6:12 "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." JAMES 4:7 "Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." 1 PETER 5:8 "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." SATAN FIGHTS THE SPREAD OF THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS. MARK 4:15 "And these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown. And when they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts." 2 CORINTHIANS 4:4 "...whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them." JESUS CAME TO RELEASE US FROM THE POWER AND CONTROL OF SATAN. ACTS 26:18 '"...to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me." ROMANS 16:20 "And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen." 2 TIMOTHY 1:10 "...but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,..." HEBREWS 2:14 " Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,..." SATAN'S FUTURE IS ASSURED. (Read Revelation chapter 20). GENESIS 3:15 "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel." (Satan "struck" the "heel" of Jesus at the cross but that did not get rid of Jesus. Jesus will "crush" Satan's head and that will be the end of Satan and his rule. The "crushing" is still in the future). MATTHEW 25:41 "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:..." ROMANS 16:20 "And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. "1 JOHN 4:4. 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