We’ve been looking at the advent and incarnation of The Redeemer from the perspective of His spiritual enemies. From the point of view of Satan and his minions, Jesus was a hostile force who had come to conquer them and take their territory. Having failed to prevent Jesus’ advent and being unable to personally defeat…
We’ve been looking at the advent of the Redeemer from the perspective of His (and our) spiritual enemies. In the last post, we saw that as God revealed more details of how man’s Redeemer would arrive, Satan and his minions focused their war efforts to prevent the invasion. But despite their best efforts, they always…
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…
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…