Who is satanas

Is Satan capable of inception? Does he whisper temptations in our ear? These are all valid and, frankly, somewhat haunting questions. I am not left emotionally unmoved by the many destroyed marriages and ministries around me that Satan has devoured.

I trust your experience is comparable. It is vital that you and I rightly discern and evaluate Satan. Our entry point for discerning the person and activity of Satan will be Colossians We will discover much there, but upon developing three guiding exegetical questions, we will unearth as many unanswered questions as we answer.

Grasping a wholistic picture of Satan requires a full canonical scope. These questions force an excursion into the terrain of biblical theology. After building out a stable biblical-theological framework, we will be in position to establish a few conclusive truths—also known as dogmatics. Due to space limitations, our exegetical motion does not attempt exhaustion.

Rather, it is controlled by a mere three questions, which I believe naturally arise from the text:. The answer is found in verse Satan had no record of debt with which to accuse. This is the primary way he was disarmed. That much we can discern from Colossians. The language used describes a parade. Satan was rendered powerless, and then becomes something of a cosmic joke.

He was showcased in the theater of God before his own rebel entourage and before the angels of heaven. Satan is not acting in isolation but seems to have an organized, mobilized, rebel army, perhaps even a hierarchy. But more centrally, the thrust of Colossians is that when Jesus looked to be at His weakest, He was actually putting on invincibility. Three days after his death, Jesus kicked the hinges off the door of the enclosed tomb outside Jerusalem.

On Friday, Satan surely heckled, hissed, and laughed while hovering over the blood-bespattered carcass of our Lord. He never saw it coming. Whether blind, bound, or brazenly willing, they join Satan for a doomed destiny. They condemn themselves to eternity in hell.

When Jesus Christ died, He overcame them Colossians Only in the authority of Jesus does anyone have power to stand against the devil. Thanks for the article. Based on my research, Satan makes a grand entrance in the New Testament. I talk about this in my new publication. Click the link below. The history in this chapter precedes 2Sa 23, by Figure of speech Hysterologia App See note on He moved-He suffered him to be moved. By He-brew idiom and also by modern usage a person is said to do that which he permits to be done.

Here we have the historical fact. The winged sun disk was the icon of the official state-god Asshur but in times past this emblem had an 8 pointed star with wings instead of a solar disk, which was the official seal of King Saushtator of the Mitanni Empire during the 15th century B. The Assyrian Empire kept records of people who be became Hebrews by leaving the Habor River region because they felt unduly over-taxed and singled out because of their religious affiliaton.

Satan is not only an Enemy of GOD,but also an enemy of man,Satan plans to uproot Holiness from mankind with misunderstanding. Yes this is David responding to the other David. Rather, in the biblical sense, your jailer is your tormentor: this means Satan and his demons will be jailed tormented in death for ever, no parole.

The sentence given to Satan, and all those who appose God, sets a precedent like smoke that lingers on forever, even after the fire goes out, Revelation Most of criticism of Mr. The fact is that whole books of the Old Testament say nothing of Satan.

In addition, many passages which many cite as allusions could just as well be literal about figures such as the Prince of Tyre Ezekiel — sometimes a prince of Tyre is a prince of Tyre or a celestial body Lucifer in KJV Isaiah He employs an elegant metaphor, by comparing him to Lucifer, and calls him the Son of the Dawn; and that on account of his splendor and brightness with which he shone above others. The exposition of this passage, which some have given, as if it referred to Satan, has arisen from ignorance; for the context plainly shows that these statements must be understood in reference to the king of the Babylonians.

But when passages of Scripture are taken up at random, and no attention is paid to the context, we need not wonder that mistakes of this kind frequently arise. Yet it was an instance of very gross ignorance, to imagine that Lucifer was the king of devils, and that the Prophet gave him this name.

But as these inventions have no probability whatever, let us pass by them as useless fables. In Isaiah , it is a cherub that is being addressed as that spiritual ruler who was the de facto unseen King of Babylon, whom also was active and mature in the Garden of Eden thousands of years before cf. Ezekiel He moves to rule over chief kingdoms through means of violence. So who is Lucifer? He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.

When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. In that passage, we find that the origin of the Angels and Seraphims were not entirely Creatio Ex Nihilo created out of nothing. Angels not only have the ministerial capacity of creating or controlling winds or gusts that affect humanity and this Creation, but their origins were likely in their being created from winds the breath of GOD also. The same formula of Psalm cited above also applies to the Seraphims.

Seraphims are not only also, but primarily known to most by their designation as the Cherubims four faced, one on each side of the head, and six winged creatures. These have a ministry of creating or controlling fire, and were likely first created from fire. Prior to the Creation of the Heavens and the Earth, in Heaven or the heavenlies, GOD breathed, and the wind was formed; and out of the wind, created He the Angels by the spoken word.

GOD generated flame from Himself, and fire was formed; and out of the fire, by the spoken word, created He the Seraphim. And to that end, by a Lake of Fire Satan and his angels who follow him will be destroyed by the second death. The Seraphim by physical description in detail that we know of are before the Throne of the Father e. Because we see that GOD in and by His very nature both offers free will and intervenes as according to His own free will and in part the free will requests of those He created, a timeline and a set of wide boundaries for all His Creation was established, and because Adam allowed communication and intervention and interaction with the envious cherub who also fell prior to and then later permanently at the Garden of Eden and spiritually died after a fashion there along with his two victims also, because Adam fell by means of what seems to be apathetic passivity to be swayed and just go along by free-will in being a victim to Satan, our time and connection is so intertwined to the confines of influence set by what happened in the Garden of Eden that our state of sin is rooted in a chronic bent nature to unconsciously or consciously to just about always repeat that same flaw.

One more thing in regard to Job , as that verse tells us that the Cherubim sang, while the Angels shouted for joy. Fire sings, and the wind shouts. To sing like an angel is biblically to sing like you shout or perhaps flat and off key. When someone sings like a cherub, that is perhaps like one alone, part of two, three, or even 4 singing in perfection.

Again, the Seraphim and Cherubim, it is to be remembered, are the same creature. Unlike the paintings of the cherubs in Western Art, cherubs are NOT baby-faced kids with little wings flying about wearing nothing but a diaper loincloth. Seraphs or Cherubs are the fiery winged priests of Heaven. They are the Levites and the Kohenim. They are the Ministers of GOD. The function of the Cherubim is likened as to that of being the Levites of Heaven.

Their feet were the feet of straightness, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a foot of a calf; and they shone out in sparkling brilliance, like the color of burnished copper. And the hands of a man from under their wings on the 4 of their sides; their faces and their wings were to the 4 of them. Joining each one to the other, was their wings. They did not turn in their going. Each one set their face of a man toward the front as they went. The likeness of their faces: the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right to the 4 of them, and the face of an ox on the left to the 4 of them, and the face of an eagle [to the rearward of their heads] to the 4 of them….

Surrounding the Throne of the Father, as He looks to the Cherub on His right, He sees the face of an Ox — that of the servant and slave. The Ox slave gives his back to man who tills the field. The Ox slave hauls the cart of man, who travels with his goods from the field to the place of market. The Ox slave performs the will of his master. The eagle makes its nest in high places. Its home is in the bosom of the heights, the skies, or the heavens.

It descends to the ground, and ascends again to the great heights from which it came. Its ability to see even small details from the heights of the heavenlies is part of its fame.

Without seeing and hearing what the Father says, even from within, this one can or simply will do nothing. He is to be revealed as after the likeness or similitude of one beholding the face of the Father.

As the Father looks to the left, He sees on the Cherub, the face of a lion. The lion is representative of one who stakes out a domain, and rules over it. The Servant who like an Ox falls and in the Resurrection as Lion, rules. The Son of Man who is humble shall be exalted in the Image of the Father hence the location of this face being both before and behind the back like the Eagle.

The symbolic quality of the lake of fire is further evident from the context of references to it in the book of Revelation.

Death is said to be hurled into this lake of fire. Re ; Death obviously cannot be literally burned. Moreover, the Devil, an invisible spirit creature, is thrown into the lake. Being spirit, he cannot be hurt by literal fire. While the foregoing texts make evident the symbolic quality of the lake of fire, it has been used by some persons to support belief in a literal place of fire and torment.

However, this cannot refer to actual conscious torment. In the Scriptures fiery torment is associated with destruction and death. Death, Hell, Satan, the False Prophet, The Antichrist, The fallen angels, the souls of unsaved men not written into the book of life do not cease to exist when thrown into the lake of fire which IS the second death. Notice this event occurs years AFTER the false prophet and the antichrist have been thrown into the lake of fire, yet this verse tells us that these two ARE there when the Devil — Satan is thrown in.

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Along with other pagan gods, these horned idols were particularly feared "because of their association with the wilderness and with sexual frenzy. Many modern audiences are used to seeing Satan as a chiseled, handsome man, such as in the Netflix series "Lucifer".

This incarnation of the devil first appeared in the 17th century. In , John Milton published his epic poem "Paradise Lost," which tells the story of Satan's expulsion from heaven and his temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. In the 18th and early 19th century, there was a revival of interest in "Paradise Lost. During the 19th and early 20th century the image of the devil was used in advertisements and satirical cartoons.

In one cartoon, he is being chased away by a women's suffrage campaigner. Along with his horns, he is also entirely red, with a pointed beard, and carrying a pitchfork. Related: 20 of the most bizarre stories from the bible. The devil's red tights actually originate in theatre productions. In , composer Charles Gounod adopted the folktale "Faust," which had also inspired Marlowe's earlier play, "Dr.

Faustus," into an opera, in which the devilish character of Mephistopheles wears a Renaissance-era costume, including red tights, also known as hose. In his book " A History of Opera: Milestones and Metamorphoses " Opera Journeys Publishing, , Burton Fisher wrote: "Marcel Journet sang Faust's Mephistopheles over a thousand times, providing the stereotyped image of opera characters as devils in red tights.

During the 20th century, the devil continued to be re-invented by writers and filmmakers, placing him in the guise of mysterious strangers, smart businessmen and even children, as in the horror movie "The Omen". In Mikhail Bulgakov's novel " The Master and Margarita " first published in Moskva magazine, , the devil appears as a smart but secretive stranger, who is accompanied by a talking cat.