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At one time Satan was a beautiful angel and his name was Lucifer. Almighty God gave him the job to be caretaker of the earth. Lucifer believed he could be worshipped like Almighty God and exalted himself to be like God. This study has scriptures showing that Satan has access to God's throne and to the earth. There are no scriptures describing a horned creature surrounded by fire, tormenting people for all eternity. There will be a future time period when there will be a war in heaven. Satan will be thrown out of heaven and confined to the earth, as a human form. When Satan is cast to the earth, he will know he has a short time to live. He will cause much chaos on the earth and many people will be deceived. Satan will be "chained" for a thousand years, similar to a person in prison. Satan, along with those who followed him, will be permanently destroyed by Almighty God.
Satan Working Today
Job 1:6-11 and 2:1-3 Satan desired that Job would curse the one true Almighty God. Satan was working evil intentions then, as he does today.
1 Peter 5:8 Peter symbolically depicts the devil "as a roaring lion" warning us to be aware and not easily deceived.
Ephesians 6:11-13 Our fight is a spiritual fight, not a fleshly fight. Spiritual armour provides ability to withstand against evil.
Satan - god of this World
Genesis 3:1-5 Through Satan's deception and lie, Adam and Eve died.
John 8:43-44 Christ said there was no truth in Satan and that he was a murderer from the beginning and the father of lies.
Luke 4:3-8 Satan has power of all the kingdoms of the world. Satan offered to give this power to Christ if he would worship him.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 The god of this world can be very deceptive, don't be blinded!
Ezekiel 28:13-17 Lucifer was in the Garden of Eden and is described as being a very beautiful creature. God set Lucifer up as the anointed, covering cherub (a particular rank of angels). Iniquity was found in him and he will be cast out of the mountain of God and destroyed.
Isaiah 14:12-17 Lucifer thought he could exalt his throne above the stars of God. Men will see him, in the form of a human and be amazed that he deceived the nations.
Revelation 12:7-12 Satan, the accuser, will be cast out of heaven and put on the earth. This will be a very troublesome time.
Revelation 20:1-3, 7 and 10-15 Satan will be bound for a thousand years. After this thousand year time period, Satan will be released for a short time and will again desire to deceive the nations. Satan will then be cast into the lake of fire along with all those that followed him.
Readers have left 6 comments.  6. Re: Capt.Guest User, UnregisteredIs it that the king james was not translated from original Hebrew text than what was it that it was translated from and why? — Guest Userhebrew and greek. 5. Mr.Guest User, Unregistered Is it that the king james was not translated from original Hebrew text than what was it that it was translated from and why? 4. Who is Antichrist?Bible Research, Unregistered In response to "letter to the thessalonians".
I am confused about your commentary regarding Satan and the antichrist.
Who is antichrist?
"Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son"
(1 John 2:18,22).
You mentioned Revelation 13:8. This chapter speaks of the Beast, which will be ruled by an evil leader, but I don't read anywhere in Revelation that talks of "The Antichrist". (The Beast is a government.)
According to the reference in 1 John,any person who denies the Father and Son is antichrist. John even explained that there were antichrist people living at his time.
3. letter to thessaloniansGuest User, Unregistered when paul attneds to those 'that sit in the temple of god, shewing themselves to be god', he is referring NOT to satan, but instead to antichrist (the work of satan) who will show himself as god and claim the perogative of god and perform miracles in the name of god. the deception will be (or currently is) very convincing. rev.13.18, "...let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man..." 2. Reply to Mrs.Guest User, Unregistered You are correct in the understanding of the name Lucifer. The original text and meaning of this is "light bearer," and "shinning one," or "son of dawn."
Within the chapter of Isaiah 14:13,14 a description is made, it reads "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."
Paul, in a letter to the Thessalonians makes a similar reference, "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time" (2 Thessaloninans 2:4-6).
Who is this referring to?
1. Mrs.Guest User, Unregistered Was the name "Lucifer" in the original text? Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language? In the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference.
Why Lucifer? In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the rising sun.
The scholars authorized by ... King James I to translate the Bible into current English did not use the original Hebrew texts, but used versions translated ... largely by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome had mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place. Lucifer the morning star became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to rule eternally in hell. Theologians, writers, and poets interwove the myth with the doctrine of the Fall, and in Christian tradition Lucifer is now the same as Satan, the Devil, and --- ironically --- the Prince of Darkness. |
