Can someone please explain satan to me?

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Originally the one who became the Devil was a perfect spirit person, one of God’s angels. (Job 1:6, 7) He made himself the Devil when he became obsessed with a selfish ambition to be worshipped by humans. So he challenged God’s right to rule, even insinuating that God does not deserve to be obeyed. He charged that humans serve God only when bribed with blessings. Satan claimed that under personal hardship all people would “curse” their Creator.—Job 1:8-11; 2:4, 5.
Such accusations from Satan required responses that could not be answered simply by a show of force. In fact, executing the Devil in the garden of Eden would perhaps have suggested to some that the Devil was right. So God, possessing absolute authority, began legal proceedings to settle such issues in the minds of all observers.
God is keenly aware that while those legal proceedings take place, humans continue to suffer. Yet, he is determined to close the case at the earliest time possible. The Bible describes him as “the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort.” (2 Corinthians 1:3) Clearly, “the God of all comfort” will not allow the Devil to live any longer than necessary, nor will He allow the effects of his influence to remain. On the other hand, God will not eliminate the Devil prematurely, without the universal court case being completely finished.
When the issues are finally settled, God’s right to rule will have been thoroughly vindicated. The legal case against Satan will stand as a touchstone for all eternity. Should a similar challenge ever arise again, Satan’s example could be pointed to as a precedent that will not need to be repeated.
 
I believe much of the problem is that some parents aren't raising their children correctly. If parents don't teach their children about consequences, then we have people growing up thinking they are immune to the repercussions of their actions.

"Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
 
So when I explain the gospel to people I have heard on more than one occasion, "well what's satans point of view?" "Why is God so mean to him?" I understand that God is 100% justified in doing whatever he darn well pleases but I also am confused as to why people think that satan is this poor picked on and persecuted being. I mean he wanted to take the place of God which is essentially like really really bad, like spiritual high treason.

How do you explain to someone that satan is the ULTIMATE EVIL? He's the one who wants to stop us from having a loving relationship with God and that's like really REALLY bad. How do I explain that God is not mean because He is just?
Lucifer then was named when he was throw out of heaven for disobeying God. he not only disobeyed but his jelousy got huge and he didnt like the way God was worshiped and all the glory was going to God. So he rebelledagainst God. noticed he was only thrown out of heaven, and not destroyed or killed? Evil will not be allowed in heaven, it dont havea home there, so thats why God thrown Luficer then named out of heaven.

When Lucifer got thrown out of heaven, he was then called prince of the air, in which he roamed the air of the earth. looking to devour and cause havoc and defy God all the more. Hence when He tempted Eve in the garden of eden. Satan was the name given to him later on. as he gained what he thought was control over people as they followed his easily influenced evil.
today Satan is still displaying evil and I think you are doing well trying to tell people how Satan can be. So God bless you on that.

If you are going to witness to people, its always good to have the backing of God behind you. As cunning and decieving the devil is, he can quickly change your witnessing around by twisting the truth to make it all about him, and I think thats what has happened in your situation when you were asked questions. if you are going to witness, its advisable not to do it alone, go with a group of people or with a friend. that way you are going with force, and back up. and certainly God will be in the midst. as it say, were ever 2 or more gathered, i am with you in the midst. and make sure you pray before you witness too,

But God bless your heart wanting to witness.
 
You know sometimes I am called to go to the deathbed of a nonbeliever? Many of them are more aware of the devil and demons and such than they are of God...often many of them have seen demons or whatever. I often reason with them that they have seen the evil and know its real, that they should open their mind to the truth that there is a good God.

You know in chapter 12 of cor 2 Paul writes he was tormented by a demon, and after he pleaded the 3rd time God spoke to him saying His grace was enough for Paul, and told him that He was allowing Paul to be attacked because it made him stronger. Though many people refuse to believe it, this is what led me to God as well. Though satan does exist, and his entire mission is to destroy you, God does in fact use them for His purpose.
Though yes, satan does exist, and command millions of fallen angels who are dead with him, and they are all working to ruin you, we need not be afraid, because they, like us, are 100% in Gods hands and authority.
 
So when I explain the gospel to people I have heard on more than one occasion, "well what's satans point of view?" "Why is God so mean to him?" I understand that God is 100% justified in doing whatever he darn well pleases but I also am confused as to why people think that satan is this poor picked on and persecuted being. I mean he wanted to take the place of God which is essentially like really really bad, like spiritual high treason.

How do you explain to someone that satan is the ULTIMATE EVIL? He's the one who wants to stop us from having a loving relationship with God and that's like really REALLY bad. How do I explain that God is not mean because He is just?

The devil want everything to work out of harmony, he opposes unity. If satan didn't had came in between God and His creations, we wouldn't of had all this problems that we are having right now. satan loves what he had created, havoc.

Proverbs 4:14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
or walk in the way of evildoers.
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
turn from it and go on your way.
16 For they cannot rest until they do evil;
they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.
17 They eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.

1 Peter 5:8 Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Job 1:7 The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”

Mark 3:26 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come.
 
Satan really bad poo poo head. He smell like fish and no deodarant. He pull off mattress label. He cheat at checkers! Jk He had Jesus killed.
 
JohnathanbChristian must not really be Christian :/

And Christ totally overcame satan, and will be his deathblow in the end. He never once had an adverse affect on Christ.
 
JohnathanbChristian must not really be Christian :/

And Christ totally overcame satan, and will be his deathblow in the end. He never once had an adverse affect on Christ.

Satan possessed Judas to deliver Christ to death. Maybe you should read every enteraction between Satan and Jesus. Oh my some punk thinks I'm not Christian, I'll snuggle my stuffed animal; NOT!
 
Christ was prophesied to die on the cross long before He was born. He came back from death and conquered the grave. Satan did not have his way with Christ. The seed of man will bruise satans head, and satan will bruise His foot.
 
You can think Satan is a house cat but consider this: he translated Jesus himself when he tempted Him. Satan will have multitudes of Christians beheaded during the tribulation. Satan will give life to a non living idol. You think Satan is a pushover kitty? KNOW YOUR ENEMY
 
Yeah, satan is a real threat to those who do not take the warning seriously. He leads you to believe that there is no God or heaven or anything, and that all that is silly things only people of lower intelligence believe, all in order to lead you away from the only One who can save you from certain doom, all because he is doomed and in his rage wants to take you with him.

Yes, to us he is powerful. He will conquer the entire world, he will lead people to a false religion, he will do everything in his power to take you to hell with him. And we are told we could never stop him, that only Christ will stop him.

He finds many people willing to do his work for him. People who dont want to believe, people who have been mislead, people who want to believe life is about fulfilling all their pleasures before they die. You are doing his work for him, too.
 
And all he has to do is convince you to not follow Christ in any way he came imagine.
 
1 John 4:4 greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.

Satan is the prince of the power of the air the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience. Ephesians 2:2
 
Why don't you two take your petty bickering to PM and stop hijacking this thread. This girl came here for help, not to watch you two take jabs at each other and argue.
 
I'm gonna pray you meet Satan. Everyone talks big. Jesus is God and ofcourse He won against Satan, but with your attitude I'd say you wouldnt. The snare of Satan on novices is pride.
 
I think much of this has to do more with peoples view on authority and victim roles than a desire to understand. So often now people do things against the rules or the law, yet when busted and given consequences they are shocked that they have consequences.
Satan had consequences. People hate consequences, so people sympathize more and more with wrong doers than with justice. This may be the issue you're having now. People see poor Satan as the guy just doing his own thing and God is the big, bad consequence monster that didn't let him get away with him just doing what's normal for him.

Because humans are incredibly gullible and satan convinces them he is persecuted because wants people to follow him

I believe much of the problem is that some parents aren't raising their children correctly. If parents don't teach their children about consequences, then we have people growing up thinking they are immune to the repercussions of their actions.

"Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6

So many presumptions...

I don't "feel sorry" for Satan. I'm not rebelling against authority and/or afraid of consequences. I have not been duped by Satan, nor have I talked with him or even formally met him. My parents raised me just fine, and I am perfectly aware of the consequences of my actions, including eternal damnation.

The reason I don't follow God's laws is because I don't agree with them.
 
RE explaining satan:

never thought about this question before - it is a very difficult question and it will be very-clumsy, at best and - just quoting Scripture will not suffice.

Evil cannot exist without-first, that it is defined. Human authorities write their own laws which may or may-not respect Divine LAW. In "first things first," - it stands-to-reason that satan's existence and attributes matters not until all agree upon The Existence of THE SUPREME SOVEREIGN of This Universe. If HE Does Not Exist then - neither does satan.

From The Foundation, before Adam was, before this Earth was - HE Purposed The Futuristic Advent of The New Jerusalem and The New Earth. The New Earth will-be where "the few," who proved to Truly be saved - will live in Eternity, with no more tears nor heartaches!!! The vehicle HE Purposed to-bring Eternity to fruition is HIS Chosen race i.e. The Racial House of Jacob-Israel, from Genesis to Revelations. It is HIS Use of HIS Own people that HE Returns Warfare to satan that satan is waging against HIS WORD.

WHO HE IS and WHAT HE HAS DONE, for HIS Own people - this Knowledge and Understanding Of, has followed HIS Chosen Seed-Line. HE Established The Culture HE Provided HIS Chosen race to live by, Nationally First and Individually Second. What HE Established AS GOOD and RIGHT defines Evil!!! HIS Own people make their lifestyle choices daily. every day and this choices will uphold THE GOOD or The Evil. The conscience, HE Has Provided helps, at lot of times, HIS OWN people to-avoid choosing THE EVIL.

satan himself chose to overthrow HIS Reign and Rule and was overthrown, By HIM. The best that satan can-do is use temptations that folk will choose THE EVIL. Ted Bundy chose "a way to go," for his life and over 50 women were tortured-to-death. Ted Bundy choose THE EVIL. Inside him - the black dog was chewing-up the white dog, according to American Indian Culture.

satan's passion is recruiting "the Bundys," all day long - every day that THE EVIL will be chosen. satanic influence attacked Ted Bundy very strongly. Ted could-have said no. He could-have prayed for help, from a strong angel. Who is satan? he is "a pressure," like the wind - one cannot know for where it come nor know where it goes! One can just feel its pressure!

THE ALMIGHTY SOVEREIGN Defined THE GOOD for HIS Chosen race THAT, generation to generation - HE Would have "soldiers in the fields," returning satan's warfare against otherwise - good folk!!! The Bible Instructs IT'S folk to-have "a bunch of kids," THAT when parents are old - there will be a couple that will minister to their parents when their parents are old and feeble!!! HE has "a bunch," of children WHEREBY only "a few," will stay close to HIM!!! WHY? The easy choice is-always THE EVIL!!! satan is "a pressure," that promotes "THE EVIL," over THE GOOD and THE EVIL is very easy for him to-sell!

I discuss, via email, "the great trouble," that America is-in, with THE LORD though Local Church Religion is-ignorant of this most important matter! The Understanding of this is-entwined in "the aspects," of HOW and WHY America, over the past 3 generations, has-been transformed into this World System's Chief pagan nation - so ruling over it!!! Though "this satanic warfare, against The Bible, in America, is waged, by THE EVIL, 24/7 - the only response that-has-come from Local Church Religion has-been to-sing AMAZING GRACE and VICTORY IN JESUS as-if ONLY nothing has-ever been wrong!!!

Ron Stauffer

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Some Sign-Offs:

{It is TOO LATE to pray for America: Isaiah tells us re times “such as these,” – THE LORD WILL NOT HEAR our prayers AND America (and all her Biblical Sister Nations) has-long-since followed “the same pattern,” of National Cultural Destruction THAT her genetic ancestors i.e. The Historic, Flesh and Blood, Non-Jewish House of Jacob-Israel – followed into Divine Judgment (without Rapture) over and over and over!!!}
{It is TOO EARLY to-employ “The Obedience,” of 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Chronicles 7:14 FOR - Divine Intervention as The Disclaimer, in Verse 13 tells us THAT Verse 14 WILL NOT WORK as-long-as THE LORD’S OWN people, have sufficient access, to Resource and Energy enough, TO OBEY the prophets, in putting THE EVIL, out of The Land – SO STAYING Impending Divine Judgment!!!}
{Religious Prison has “no iron bars” YET it is Absolutely-Secure IN-THAT there has-been no-escapes from it, NO, NOT ONE, in-over 2000 years – ONLY Pardons!!! It is “the only prison,” WHEREBY “those so incarcerated,” of their-own selves CANNOT KNOW THAT they-are so-incarcerated!!!)



{still looking for allies re The Edomite (3 generation) Culture War, against The Bible (consequently against Christ) THOUGH they have-long-since "won it" THOUGH only on an-informal-basis WHILE formality cannot-be very-far away THEN, HE WILL DELIVER, HIS OWN people, into Great Tribulation, once again, THOUGH – this time FOR -"the last time!!!"}


{“none are-more hopelessly-enslaved than-those who falsely-believe they are-free” – Johann Gothe}
{“The Religiously-Lost, of their-own facilities, cannot-know THAT they-are Religiously-Lost!!!” – The Bible}
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

~~Thomas Jefferson



(When Edomite-Washington DC, wrote Christ, its “bill of divorcement,” by tossing, HIS LAW, out of America, as-if IT-WERE, some “smelly sack of garbage,” – man’s local church “co-signed it,” by just-singing AMAZING GRACE and VICTORY IN JESUS as-if ONLY NOTHING “was wrong,” – this act of Absolute Apathy disenfranchised HIM From, Any Longer, BEING America’s BENEFACTOR and-was “The Foundation,” THAT ALL OF America’s Great National Tragedies WOULD INDEED HAPPEN and-was The Foundation THAT Edom-Washington DC WOULD continually-follow, “it’s same course today of Illegally-Legally (i.e. violating The Constitution WHILE-Making “law of The Land) legislating “evil to be good,” AND “good to be evil!!!” Consequently – 1000s of otherwise-innocent lives, are destroyed 24/7 via “the many aspects,” of America’s “pagan culture,” of Death (America was-born with The Biblical Culture of Life!!!)!!!



[FONT=&quot]{SO, SINCE Edom-Jewry Communism has-murdered “hundreds of millions,” (and murders millions-more, each year) AND it is the: "finest ideals of the Edomite-Jewish mind" WHAT - does this tell-us about Edom-Jewry AND about who-blesses “these ideals,” by continually-blessing Communism’s Headquarters i.e. The Political State of Israel (not-to-be confused with The True Israelites, of The Flesh and Blood House of Jacob-Israel) WHEREBY America has-long-since become “the most Divinely-Cursed nation so-blessing her FORMER BENEFACTOR’S “racial enemies WHEREAS this is Biblically-Forbidden!!!?[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Anti-Communism is Anti-Semitism.”[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Jewish Voice, July - August 1941.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“Some call it Communism, I call it Judaism.” [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Rabbi Stephen Weiss.}[/FONT]
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From The Biblical Prospective “things,” have-been getting “worse and worse,” for “The Traditional American people,” for the past 3 generations AND FOR TOO LONG “these things,” have-been getting “worse and worse,” faster and faster!!!
From The Edomite Prospective “things,’ (re America) have-been getting “better and better,” for them, for the past 3 generations AND FOR TOO LONG “these things,” have-been getting “better and better,” faster and faster!!!
One already consequence, America has-long-since been-transformed into This World System’s Chief Pagan Nation, so-ruling over it!!!
Another consequence has-been The Transformation of America’s Original, Inherent-Biblical “Culture of Life,” INTO The Same Old, Anti-Christ, Babylonian “Culture of Death!!!” America – just like the-rest of here genetic-sister nations FEATURES The Culture of Death!!!
All this while – ALL that has-been heard-from The American-Made, 501c3, Mainstream, Local Church System re this, is-singing AMAZING GRACE and VICTORY IN JESUS as-if ONLY NOTHING is wrong!!! Consequently – The Current “Handwriting On The Wall,” Testifies of THE LORD’S Condemnation of America WITHOUT Rapture (this is not “the time,” to be ignorant of The Sowing and Reaping Doctrine!!!)!!!
 
Satans job is to test our free will, to give us the option of turning to our Lord or turning another way. His job is not so much to get you to bow down to him but to get you to turn away from the Almighty. We know he is evil because Jesus refereed to him as "the evil one".