Resumo de Satan, His Enfernal Majesty, Who Is He???

Satan is an angel. God made him before the world began . Satan was very powerful and very wise . But he became the first sinner . Apparently at one point in the past he led a rebellion in heaven against God. In Satan?s fall, he drew a vast number of angels with him . Some of the fallen angels are loose and some are bound in a place called the Abyss. The loose ones we call demons. Of the bound ones, there are two kinds, permanently bound and temporarily bound . Satan and his demons now wage war against God?s kingdom . Some people think that Satan lives in hell, but hell is where Satan and the wicked will be sent at the last judgment. Satan now dwells on earth. At the Second Coming of Christ, he will be bound for 1,000 years . After the thousand years, he will be set free for a short time and will go out to deceive the nations . The devil?s final end will be in the lake of fire , which was prepared by God for the devil and his angels.Satan is never explicitly called an angel in the Bible, but these are the things that make us think he is an angel (fallen angel, of course): In the first two chapters of Job Satan comes in to God's throne room with the rest of the sons of God (a term often used to describe angels in the Bible).
The apostle Paul says that Satan masquerades as an angel of light . The emphasis in this phrase is probably on masquerading as a good angel as opposed to masquerading as an angel when he is really some other creature. Satan is called a spirit. The word spirit when not referring to the spirit of a human being or the Holy Spirit usually means angels, either good or bad.Satan is classed with the spiritual hosts of wickedness . This is Paul's phrase for demons.If Satan is not an angel, then what else could he be? There aren't a lot of other categories to place Satan in: God, man, creatures under man, angels. Satan is certainly not God. He's not a human being and he's not a creature under man's dominion. We'd be going very much beyond Scripture to create a new category of being that the Bible never speaks of.
Satan is not self-existent. He is created.He is not sovereign.Satan rules a domain of demons, but he does not rule beyond the bound of that confinement of rule which God has given him.
Satan never has cast off the government of God, since the rebellion totally failed. He has been exiled to the earth and the domain around it . Satan?s chain stretches just so far and God allows him to go that far and no farther. He operates completely within the sphere of God?s allowance . God even uses Satan to His own ends . Satan is not omnipotent . He is powerful, yes, but not all powerful.Satan is not omniscient .Satan is an angel and angels don?t know everything . There is no indication in Scripture that Satan can read our thoughts. But he?s pretty good at predicting our behavior, because he?s an expert on human nature. Satan is not omnipresent.He?s fast, but not omnipresent. Being a creature who dwells on earth, Satan cannot be in more than one place at a time. Job 1:7 makes it clear that Satan roams here and there. He was thrown to earth in a war with Michael and other angels and lost his place in heaven". If Satan can lose his place, then he is not in every place. But Satan is the head of a network of subordinate devils who make his influence felt all over the earth Satan's principle activity is as accuser. The word devil means slanderer, accuser. The devil accuses us before God . Revelation says that he is the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night. He also slanders us before men. He tries to make sure that any good work done by Christ's church receives a bad name. The devil and his demons also accuse us to ourselves. He wants to make us feel guilty.

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