Satans Attributes
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1) Satan is a real, supernatural person who is aggressive, intelligent, cunning, and destructive. He seeks to deceive and destroy humanity. 2) Satan rules over a kingdom of darkness and fallen spirits. He blinds people from believing in God and tries to be worshipped as god. 3) Satan uses deception, lies, and temptation to draw people away from God. He promotes spiritualism, divination, witchcraft, drug abuse, and false doctrines. 4) God is ultimately sovereign and in control. Satan will ultimately be defeated by God and thrown into eternal punishment. Believers can find protection through prayer and trusting in God's authority and power.
![The Sinister Person of Evil: Plan Deut 18:9ff When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. (10) There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire: [They were sacrificing their children on the alter of a demonic god]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/satansattributes-090527220009-phpapp02/85/Satans-Attributes-15-320.jpg)
Satans Attributes
- 1. Know Thine Enemy: The Attributes and Antagonism of The Evil One
- 2. The Sinister Person of Evil: Who is Satan? He is real; a person, aggressive, intelligent, cunning, and destructive. He is not, however, God’s equal in power, knowledge, presence, etc. He is supernatural.
- 3. The Sinister Person of Evil: 1 Pet 5:8 Your adversary, the devil roams about the earth as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour . Note the different terms used for Satan throughout Scripture: deceiver, liar, murder, accuser, tempter, prince, destroyer, the evil one, lord of the flies.
- 4. The Sinister Person of Evil: What is his Purpose? What is his Plan? How will he accomplish his plan? What are his attributes?
- 5. The Sinister Person of Evil: Eph 6:12- (We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness . . . ) Any soldier needs to be able to identify the enemy! The battle is not against flesh and blood, but against a person.
- 6. The Sinister Person of Evil: Position He is a ruler of the darkness of this age. He rules over a kingdom of fallen spirits; Eph 2:2 he is called a prince of the power of the air; Satan is “prince of the air,” moving the kingdoms of this world towards Armegeddon: Rev 16:14- These are the spirits of demons working miracles before the kings of the earth, to gather them to the great battle of that day .
- 7. 2 Cor 4:4 “ In whom the god of this world has blinded the mind of them that believe not .” His great desire is to be worshipped as the god of this age. Eph 5:41, Satan commands a legion of angels; Just as God has angels, Satan has angels. The Sinister Person of Evil: Position
- 8. It is sheer folly to underestimate the power of the evil one. He is a supernatural person, he has supernatural power, and he is the supreme dictator in the evil empire. It is likewise a seductive power; Like moths drawn to a flame, so the weak are drawn to Satan’s power. It is a limited power. The Sinister Person of Evil: Power
- 9. The end of Satan: Rev 20:10 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are also, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Satan’s end: Powerless and positionless- he will not rule in Hell. The Sinister Person of Evil: Power
- 10. Satan is a traitor, in open revolt against almighty God. His sin was pride; he wanted to rule in God’s place. His original name was Lucifer, which in Hebrew means “light bearer,” also called the angel of light, the first angel created. The Sinister Person of Evil: Purpose
- 11. The Sinister Person of Evil: Purpose Isaiah 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer. Son of the morning. How art thou cut down to the ground . . . Thou hast said in thine heart I will ascend to the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit also on the mount of the congregation; In the sides of the north, I will be like the most high!
- 12. The Sinister Person of Evil: Purpose When the 600 angels assigned to him said they will do as the first angel did, they were also cast down. In God’s presence, he was Lucifer: Son of the Morning; Cast down, he became Satan, the Father of Night.
- 13. The Sinister Person of Evil: Plan He rules over a kingdom of darkness , and his method is deception. Eph 6:11 “Take on the whole armor of God that we might stand against the wiles of the devil.” 2 Con 2:11 speaks of the “ devices ” of the devil. 2 Tim 2:26 speaks of the “ snares ” of the devil. Satan’s tools: wiles, devices, snares, lies.
- 14. The Sinister Person of Evil: Plan Spiritualism: Things renewed in the “new age.” People with Taro cards telling fortunes, contact with the dead, astrology: It is all of the devil. Lev 19:31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them.
- 15. The Sinister Person of Evil: Plan Deut 18:9ff When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of those nations. (10) There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire: [They were sacrificing their children on the alter of a demonic god]
- 16. The Sinister Person of Evil: Plan One who use divination, ( fortune teller ) one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, ( astrologer ) or a sorcerer, (11) or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead . (12) For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord, and because of these detestable things, the Lord your God will drive them out before you.
- 17. The Sinister Person of Evil: Plan Drug Abuse: We have an epidemic of drug abuse in this nation because we have an epidemic of demonic activity. The Bible teaches that in the last days we will have a plethora of drug abuse. Rev 9:21 and they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their immorality, nor of their thefts.
- 18. The Sinister Person of Evil: Plan The Greek word for sorceries is “ farmakei,a .” (pharmakeia). It’s the word we get “pharmacy” from, and many drugs do wonderful things. But the form of this word means; “ enchanter with drugs .” In the ancient Egyptian, Greek, Persian, and Roman cultures; All had lists of substances that “ steal away the mind .”
- 19. The Sinister Person of Evil: Plan False Doctrine/Apostacy: Where is the true faith today? 1 Tim 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful (seducing) spirits and doctrines of demons.
- 20. The Sinister Person of Evil: Plan Entertainment and Media: Angel of light, and he is hideously beautiful, and brilliantly deceptive. In the entertainment and media systems, we have reached new lows.
- 21. The Seductive Power of Evil Angel of Light; Seductive and alluring to draw us away from the God of all Creation through compromise and complacency. So we also are tempted and seduced by Satan with half truths and lies, to get us to buy into compromise, complacency, and contradiction of God’s will.
- 22. The Seductive Power of Evil Once the target is compromised, they are neutralized, and no longer a threat. Matt 26:40 ff. Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. Prayer is the key to surviving temptation, and not failing by falling into evil.
- 23. Sovereign Protection from Evil Three cords run through the Bible: (1) The dark and somber cord of Satan’s revolt. (2) The crimson cord of the blood redemption of Jesus. (3) The golden cord of the Kingdom of our Lord.
- 24. Sovereign Protection from Evil “ Thine is the kingdom ” means that God’s absolute authority is in control. “The keys to hell are to our savior given.” “ The Power :” Gen 18:14 “Is anything too hard for the Lord,” and Jer 33:3 Call upon me, thus saith the Lord, and I will show you great and mighty things which thou knowest not! “ and the glory ” John 14:18 What-soever ye ask in my name, that will I do that the Father might be glorified in the son.
Editor's Notes
- #2: These are treacherous and dangerous days in which we are raising our children. We need to learn to pray in days like this; to get hold of God. We have an enemy, the “Evil One.” In the model prayer, when our Lord taught us to pray “deliver us from evil,” the Greek usage of this word can also be translated “evil one.” We’re up against the organized, mobilized, demonized, and weaponized forces of evil. Wake up, get up, dress up, arm up, and go to war.