This will be the last post in the current series examining the character and career of the primary antagonist of our existential narrative, and our adversary in spiritual warfare – the being called “Satan”. In the last two posts, we looked at Satan’s partners in crime, the many fallen angels who rebelled with him against…
Unlike God, Satan is not transcendent. He can’t be everywhere at once to rule his kingdom, but he has help. When he initiated spiritual warfare and fell from Heaven, a great number of angels fell with him. The Bible doesn’t give us a great deal of information about angels, and since human curiosity abhors a…
Pride led the angelic being called Lucifer to rebel against God. But he wasn’t alone in his rebellion. Other angelic beings followed his lead and left Heaven as well. Most probably joined Lucifer’s initial spiritual warfare for the same reasons that he did. While others succumbed to the same thing that has led many of…
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. – 1 John 5:19 Satan’s position toward man is one of antagonism, envy, and continual spiritual warfare. When God created Adam, Satan saw more than a new creature in the universe. He saw a rival. Although…
“From now on we are enemies, You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature on earth…