When God created the angelic entity called Lucifer, he was the greatest of his creation.

At that time, he was the ultimate.

He sealed up the sum of beauty and perfection.

He was the anointed cherub that covers.

He was the greatest of God's creation.

But when he fell, he became the gruesome entity that we call Satan.

We talked about what Lucifer was like in the last podcast, but what is Satan like now?

Why does Satan fall?

What are his characteristics, what's his personality?

And how can we know it?

We'll talk about these topics on this week's episode of the Faith by Reason podcast.

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And we are obviously still on our topic.

Our series as that mirror series on the blog called Know Your Enemy, which is really about Satan and the fallen Angels, and we are starting off with Satan and we will get to the fallen angels and in a couple of podcasts, but we want to concentrate on the chief fallen angel, the entity that we know as the devil and Satan and In the last podcast, we looked at what he was like before he was Satan, when he was Lucifer, the light Bearer, and as I said in the preamble, he was the seal of perfection.

He was God's greatest creation to that time.

He was perfect.

In other words, he was complete.

Perfect doesn't mean he was flawless.

Obviously he had a flaw, which is why he fell.

But perfection means he was complete.

He had everything going for him.

He was the anointed chairub that covers, which means he was God's chief angel.

He was in charge of all the other angels.

And that's what he was like before he fell.

We went in that in detail, and you can listen to the last podcast to get some details on what he was like.

But of course he fell, and in this podcast we're going to talk about a little more about why he fell and what he's like now.

And we touched a bit on why he fell when we looked at the Isaiah fourteen and it talks about the I wills when Satan says in Isaiah fourteen, I will ascend into heaven.

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

I will sit on the mouth of the congregation and the sides of the north.

I will ascend about the heights of the clouds.

I will be like the Most High.

So there's a misnomer that Satan wanted to be God, that the reason that Lucifer fell and became Satan was because he wanted to be God.

Well, that's not entirely true.

He couldn't be God, and he knew that Satan.

Lucifer was not stupid, He wasn't dumb.

He didn't he didn't think he could become God.

He can't.

You can't be the first cause if the first Cause created you.

He wasn't completely insane, although he could be argued that that he went insane a bit later, and we'll talk about that in a bit, But at the time he knew he couldn't be God.

In fact, the eye wills don't say I will be God.

He says I will be like the most High.

I will be like God.

So what may him want to be like God?

Well, again, as I talked about a bit in the last podcast, if you look at those eye will statements, all of those things that he aspires to in his eye wills are all things that are the ultimate destiny God's god ordained destiny for man, Man will ascend into heaven.

We are on earth, now we will redeemed.

Man will descend into heaven.

Man will be exalts from above.

The will have a throne above the stars of God, the stars being an idiom for the angelic beings.

And the Bibles are very clear that we will rule over angels because as a bride of Christ, we will be one with Christ.

Means will be one with the Godhead.

So we will have that ultimate destiny.

I will sit in amount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north.

That means the mounts of Congregation was God's holy mountain where his ultimate angels were and the angels that that helped him govern.

And we talked about that way back in this series on Adam and Eve in Eden, and again that's something that man will will will have and his ultimate destiny.

He said, we'll send sind above the heights of the clouds.

I will be like the most high.

And again these are all things that are the destiny, God's ultimate destiny, God's plan.

And you can go back to the series and the podcast on the meaning of life and God's plan to deal deeper into that, but the bottom line is God's plan is for us to be us man to be like him.

So all the things that Satan wants to be are things that God has destined for man.

So then it will stand to reason that Satan's goal was not to usurp God's throne.

He can't do that.

His destiny, his goal and not dis justine, excuse me, his goal, his aspiration was to usurp the authority that God was planning for men.

So Satan is not God's enemy per se.

Yes, he does oppose God's plan, but he's our enemy.

He's the enemy of mankind.

And yes, he usurps God's plan to the extent that God's plan is for a man to be one with God and to rule God.

So and so in that is in that sense, he's he's he's got technical enemy, but reas got theoretical enemy.

Excuse me, But technically he is man's enemy because he wants what we had, and that's what we aspire to.

And I believe that his fall was obviously it was based on pride.

Ezekiel twenty eight and as a fourteen both make it clear that pride is what calls his fall, that what was he proud of in order to be prideful.

That means that you think you're better, You're you're a comparative thinker, You're comparing yourself to someone else.

You think you're better than someone else.

And I think that someone else he thought he was better than was men us, You and me, men and women.

My supposition, and again this is not stated verbatim in the Bible, but I think if you connect the dots, it's you can come up with a likely scenario, which I kind of do in a in a sort of a humorous way in the blog post called to Rival the Devil, which you will see in the show notes.

Well, I think that God probably told Saytan, hey, you know what I'm going to make man.

I'm going to make man, and I'm going to make man lower than you.

He's initially because he says man's created a little lower than the angels.

But his ultimate destiny is to come to my throne to rule with me.

And I don't think Lucifer could deal with that.

Lucifer had he had pride because of his attributes.

Ezekiel twenty eight says that he was lifting he was lifted up in pride because of his beauty, because of his splendor, because of how spectacular he was.

And so he thought, well, if I'm so great, how can you make this creature called man that's going to be less than me rule over me?

I think he just couldn't deal with that, and he decided that he would rather try to usurp God's plan than be a part of it.

He could not bring himself to be subservient to these creatures called man that he felt were beneath him, so that pride caused him to fall.

And every interaction or every everything that Satan has done since then has been to bring mankind down.

He doesn't Satan doesn't fight God.

I mean, that would be ridiculous.

He can't win.

He knows that he fights man.

Everything Satan does is not to harm God directly.

It is to harm man and to keep us from our destiny.

And the very first thing he did to it was was to precipitate the fall and original sin.

And again you can go back to the podcast on original Sin and on the Surpa the Nahash which is the shining one, which is a title for Satan.

Satan didn't lose his luster when he when he fell from grace, he still can appear as an angel of light.

Paul says that pretty clearly that Satan can't transform himself to an angel of light, so we can still mimic his previous his previous visage as this angel of light.

And so he was a shining one, a nakash, and he tempted Eve and she ate the forbidden food than Adam did, and then original sin happened.

And he can go to the podcast to look at the what happened there in the entire narrative.

But the point is that Satan's first act once he was dethroned, once he was kicked out of heaven, was to start corrupting that he never his goals haven't changed.

So let's talk a little bit about what Satan is like now.

We talked about what he was like before when he was Lucifer, So let's let's kind of dive in and talk about what he's like now.

What are his characteristics, what are his attributes?

Well, one of the first attributes and again there's I Will I'm gonna have a link in the show notes to the blog poles I do on this where you know this guy go into detail about swamp Satan's main attributes.

So I'll hit on a few of them, a few of them here pretty quickly.

One of them is Satan's a liar.

That's a huge thing.

Jesus himself says that Satan is a liar and the truth is not in him.

Satan is incapable of telling the truth.

Now, to understand that, I mean to know what truth is.

Truth is not just facts.

Satan can state facts, but he but he can't state truth.

So I mean it must be a difference between truth and facts because a fact it doesn't necessarily mean it's completely truthful.

I'll give you an example.

Let's say that you have a coworker who or a friend who accuses you of something that you didn't do well.

That's a lie.

But what if someone comes to you and says, hey, this person over here, your friend or coworker accused you of doing this thing you didn't do well.

That statement that the person made is a true statement.

Your friend or coworker did accuse you of something, but what they accused you of wasn't It didn't really happen, So it's a lie.

So you can state a fact that's not necessarily leading to the truth.

I can say, hey, so and so said this about you, and it's true this so and so did say this about you, but what the person about you isn't true, So that can't be truth.

Even though it's a fact.

The fact that I'm telling you that someone said something doesn't mean that the thing the person said is true.

So it can't just be stating facts because Satan can state facts, so off the Bible, he'll state a fact, but it's not truth.

Truth has to be something a little deeper and truth you want to the non contradictory, objective definition of truth.

Truth are facts that are good.

And we know what goodness is.

We did a series on good and evil.

Good is that which creates.

So if we break it down, truth is facts that create, facts that lead to good, that lead to creation.

Satan can't speak that.

Satan cannot speak any fact that's going to lead to good or lead to the creation of goodness, or lead to any creation whatsoever.

Satan can't create.

Satan can't bring life.

And that's kind of a big thing there to keep in mind when you get to revelation, which I'm still in the on the blog.

On the blogs right now, we've been talking about revelation and the judgments there.

And one of the things that Satan will what will do in that period of time, in the tribulation period, is he in his Antichrist will he will allegedly bring the Antichrist back to life.

Well, that has to be a farce because Satan can't create life.

But you know you can.

You can read the Blood post side.

I have a whole series on the Antichrist, and you can go there if you're interested.

Anyway, Satan cannot speak truth, he cannot create.

So anything that Satan says, even if it's a fact, it's not truth.

So Satan is a liar.

So we know that, okay, And we also know that that Satan is a deceiver and that goes comprehanded in hand with the whole lying part.

But the deception is a little different being a liar, I mean you you're misrepresenting truth.

But a deceived to be to deceive someone means you're you're using craftiness, you're using wisdom.

Basically, Satan is a perversion of what he was when he was Lucifer.

So as Lucifer, he he represented God, he was God, he was he was an image bearer of God, and God is truth, and Satan obviously has no truth in him.

He was also full of wisdom.

Ezequel twenty eight says he was full of wisdom, but that wisdom came from God.

He no longer has that God given wisdom.

So what he has is a twist on wisdom, which is craftiness.

That makes him a deceiver.

Eve said herself that you know the Satan, the serpent, and Nakash deceives me and I ate of the fruit.

So he he is a liar and he's a deceiver.

He used, he twists wisdom.

He's very tricky, He's very obviously, he's intelligent, and he uses his wisdom in in in a in a sense to the trick you and be deceptive, to be seductive.

That's why we should whenever we engage Satan, we just stand up to him using the word of God.

When Satan at tempted Jesus, Jesus didn't get into a conversation with Satan.

Jesus just quoted the Bible, the truth, which Satan cand not come against.

So when you are dealing with Satan, don't try to get into an argument with him.

No, don't try to get him some kind of philosophical debate.

What you do is you quote truth of the Bible and then you leave it there and he can't do anything with truth.

We also know that Satan is vain, that vanity did not go away.

He was prideful, he was comparative.

He believed that that because he was so beautiful and so desirable that that he should be worship and he still has that desire today.

Satan wants to be worshiped.

He wants he told Jesus, of all things.

He's so insanely vain that he told Jesus that he would give him all the kingdoms of the world if Jesus would fall down and worship him.

I mean, that's how if only vanity pushes the point of insanity, could actually demand worship from your creator.

But that's where he is.

So that's another thing Satan is not.

I don't think he's He's not saying anymore because again he does not have any new knowledge.

Satan does not have free will.

He that's something he has in common with God.

God doesn't have free will.

I know.

If you that seems sacrilegious to you, then please go to the blog in the podcast on the nature of man.

The thing that makes man unique in the universe is that man has free will.

Free will does not mean the ability to think freely.

What it means is the ability to act outside of your nature.

That's what free will is.

God doesn't have free will because God cannot act outside of his nature.

Satan doesn't have free will because Satan can act outside of his nature.

We man, we have free will because we can choose to act outside of our nature.

Our nature is to be not always a completely right and jest like God, but we can choose to be right and just under certain circumstances.

So we can choose to be like God in a limited basis because we can't do it completely, but we can choose to do it on occasion, which is why, which is the only way we could actually be saved.

And we'll talk about that when we get to salvation.

So yeah, so Satan, he doesn't have free will, and because he's cut off many new knowledge, he can't form new knowledge.

I think everything about him is twisted into total insanity.

He has no rationality.

I mentioned he's a liar already.

He's also an imitator.

Satan loves to imitate God.

He wants to be like the most High.

Remember all the things that Satan has says he wants to be they have a change.

Satan cannot change his mind.

He cannot change who he is.

He cannot change his nature.

He does not have free will.

He is always going to do and pursue the same thing always.

His goals have not changed, his method of operations have not changed.

I think we talked about this a couple of podcasts ago.

He is who he is, and the good news is that since we know what he is and who he is and what he wants, then we can anticipate it, so we shouldn't be surprised by the way he attacks us.

I mentioned a couple of podcasts ago.

He will always attack you in the same way that that place you always fall.

When you say, oh, I can't believe I did that again, that's because that's your weak point and Satan knows it.

And if you know where your weakness is, then you can prepare your defense and you can be in prepare you and you can say, you know what I know, I always fall or I always slip up in this area.

Well, then take the steps necessary to fortify your life in that area.

Where you're always slipping up so that he can't tempt you in that area anymore.

And if he can no longer tempt you in that area, then he has lost that power over you.

So, as I said, he's an imitator.

He wants to imitate God.

He wants to be worshiped like God.

He is going to say things.

He's not going to tell you things that He's not going to attempt to in a way that you know is blatantly wrong.

He's going to attempt to in a way that seems right.

Again, look at the temptations of Jesus.

Everything that Satan intention to do seems okay.

You know, hey, Jesus, you're hungry.

Why don't you turn these rocks into bread?

That doesn't seem like a bad thing.

Doesn't that mean he's hungry?

He has the power of God.

Why doesn't he just if he turned these rocks, these rocks into bread?

Or he tells Jesus say, you know what, Look, if you want to have the world right, you came here to reclaim the world.

Well, you don't have to go through the cross, you don't have to be tortured, you know, or do any of this stuff.

Just Oh, it was worship me and I'll give you the world.

Well, that doesn't sound like a bad deal.

You know, Jesus wanted the world.

He wanted to claim the world.

Satan offered it to him.

But again he did it in a deceptive way.

So Satan is not going to attempt you to do anything that's outlandiously bad that you don't want to do.

He's going to attempt you to do something that you want or something that seems appealing, but the way that if you follow it at leads to destruction.

If Jesus had turned the stones to bread, he would have acted out of the will of God, because God didn't tell him to do that.

If he had fallen down and worship Satan to get the world, well again, he would have been Even though it would have been something that he would have fulfilled what he quote unquote wanted, which is to claim the world, it would have been in a way that would have obviously been destructive because it would have meant worshiping the devil.

So that's what he does.

He imitates God, he imitates goodness.

What Satan tempts you to do seems good on the surface, but it always leads to destruction.

You have to look at the long term.

Remember the definitions of good and evil.

Good is what creates in the long term.

Evil is what destroys in the long terms.

You have to look at the long term.

So if something is good in the short term, but it's destructive in the long term, is evil.

If something seems destructive in the short term but the long term result is good, then it's going to be good.

So look at the long term whenever you're dealing with Satan.

And lastly, Satan is full of wrath.

The Bible makes that very clear, is that he has wrath.

He is you know, he's extreme angry because of his position.

He knows that his time is short and his ultimate destiny is to fail.

And you know we're talking about that in revelation right now in the blog post.

But he always comes in slowly, seductively.

But if you resist him, you will find out what that wrath is like.

In fact, one thing that Chuck Missler, the late Chuck Missler, would always say is that if you don't believe the devil exists, just try posing him for a little bit.

Because Satan's tactic is number one.

He's going to try to subtly deceive you and get you on the wrong path.

But if you resist that, his next way of dealing with you is intimidation, and that's where the wrath comes in.

So Satan is wrathful.

So those are some of the things that Satan is.

These other stuff too, He has other attributes, so we'll probably be talking about before we end this series.

But he is a liar, he is vain, he is full of wrath, he is deceptive, he is an imitator.

He is insane, he has no free will, he cannot change.

And something that we'll talk about probably in the next podcast is or maybe in this one if I have time, is that he is the legal he well he was rather than the legal owner of the earth.

Adam gave it up to him when he was tempted.

And actually we'll talk about that in the in the next podcast.

In this podcast, I want to wrap things up by talking about something else that is a part of Satan's nature, his identity.

Now that you don't hear very much in churches.

I think some of the things I just said about him you've probably heard before.

And he's a liar, he's a deceiver, he's wrathful, he's vain.

All this stuff.

It's probably not unfamiliar to you.

I'm sure you've probably if you've done any study on Satan, if you've heard any sermons on Satan, then you've heard some or all of the of those same attributes.

But here's one that's actually pretty interesting, and that is what that is.

Satan is, in my opinion, and I think the Bible supports it, Satan is the unquote god of death.

What do I mean by that, Well, first of all, don't confuse that with the Angel of Death, who was talked about in Exodus during the Final Plague, the plague where the first born were killed and gouts in the Angel of Death, that's a whole different entity.

When I say Satan's a god of death is because death is something that Satan was given a certain amount of authority over which Jesus claimed from him.

He claimed the keys to death in hell after the crucifixion.

So, but how did Satan take on this role this?

Why was he given the role the god of death?

Will look at the curses that were pronounced after original Sin.

We talked about them briefly in that series, but you know, the man was curtain Adam was cursed in a certain way.

Mankind was won't even female kind of were cursed in a certain way.

And then there's a curse on Casha of the serpent.

One of the parts of the curse says that he will eat dust all the days of his life, which is that's one of the reasons that we know it wasn't an actual, you know, reptile snake that was it wasn't really a talking snake at the type because snake's on ey dust.

What he was saying, by dust dust is an idiom for man, actually man's death, because at death we turned back into dust.

He said, from the dust you came from the dust, you show return.

I was part of Adam's curse.

And then in the same verse he says that the nahash the serpent, Satan will eat dust, he will hunger for dust.

So, if dust represents the death of man, which it does because just a few verses earlier, and in the same chapter in Jenesis chapter three, if dust represents man's death, and then then Satan will want will eat dust, he will hunger for that dust.

Then that means that Satan hungers for our death.

He is doomed to want our death or why is that a curse on him?

It's a curse on Satan because Satan didn't just want to corrupt man.

He didn't just want to take man's man's dustiny.

He wanted man to worship him.

He wanted to he wanted to take God's place in man's life.

Satan wants to worship.

But the curse is this creature that you want to worship you all, you also desire his death, and that's what Satan is and that's what he does.

No.

So to understand that, we have to go back and look at the definition of what death is.

Death is, and we talk about this in the series.

In the Eden series, death is the inability to repair.

On the other hand, life is the ability to repair.

The fact that we keep living is because we can keep repairing.

And as long as you can repair, and you will keep living.

Once you are unable to repair, then you know, because all of ourselves are wearing down.

And if you can and if your body can repair, then you can keep living.

But your body can no longer repair that damage is always happening, then you will you're you'll you know, experience organ failure of some kind and you will die.

Physical life, according to the Bible, is in the blood, and Leviticus says that life is in the blood.

Jesus says that words, obviously good words created, words that are creative or that bring creation of bring life.

Jesus said that now my word, my words are life.

So life is blood physically and words spiritually.

So good blood and good words repair and they and they cause growth, and they give the foundation for growth.

So it would stand to reason then that death would come from bad words, and you know, and anything else like that, or are in bad blood or curse of blood which we unfortunately are born with, that will lead to death.

So if you wanted an entity to die, who are hugring for their death, how would you do it?

Well, you would do it by making sure that their corrupt blood stayed corrupt, that you know that they did not have access to pure, perfect blood which we would have through which man has through Jesus, that they accept his sacrifice.

So you want to keep them away from Jesus, and you also want to give them words that will not lead to life.

And what does Satan?

What was Satan's or Lucifer's bailey quick when he was when he was Lucifer, it was songs.

He was all about music.

So isn't it interesting that one of the ways that Satan tries to corrupt us is through music.

And I'm not going to get into a whole thing about you know, rock and roll and rap music and things like that, because I happen to be a fan of some of those genres, but I won't deny that a lot of it is very negative.

And I also I won't deny that at times I don't do it much now.

When I was younger, I enjoyed listening to lyrics that were, you know, not wholesome.

And again I understand it and admit that they did not bring positivity.

They absolutely did not.

In fact, I know that when I was listening to those to words and songs that had a lot of negative connotations, it didn't make me feel good.

It didn't.

It didn't give me a good disposition towards other people.

It was bringing me death.

It was it was spiritually.

It was caused me to spiritually die.

Now, obviously I wasn't going to I wasn't gonna be as complete spiritual death because I'm still saved.

But those words were not causing growth.

They were causing stagnation, and they were they were actually wearing me down there, making me less spiritually alive.

And that's a lot of what Satan does with music now and in the past.

So we need to keep that in mind and be very cognizant of what we're listening to.

On the other hand, you know, good words, positive words, positive music leads to life, to growth, and I don't think it's too far fetched if you really think about it.

When you immerse yourself in songs and movies that are negative and have just really downbeat messages, full of full of you know, violence and elicits, sexualization, and even if you hang around people who have that type of language and live in that type of lifestyle, you are going to feel drained because your spirits is not growing.

On the other hand, if you are around uplifting people who give you uplifting words and uplifting music and things like that, then you are going to feel but you basically more more to your circumstances.

And if you are around good fruit, as a Bible says, then you're going to reap good fruits.

You're going to have you're going to have good results.

On the other hand, if you're around negativity, it's going to breed negativity.

It's causality, cause and effect.

Whatever the causes are you around, you are around, are the effects will be seen in your life.

Just to get a bit more macabre, and I'm not going to spend too much time on this because it's not something I want to dwell too much.

But when you think about it, blood is very very important to the dark side, to Satan and Satanic uh people who people who follow Satan and Satanic ways, and the demons and whatnot.

If you look at things like, you know, let's take the whole the whole vampire genre, which I believe is extremely demonic, not necessarily the movies and stories and TV shows per se, but the idea of vampire and vampirism is real.

There are people who who drink blood and are get into these really odd rituals.

But blood is always involved in conjuring so called evil, conjuring spirits which are actually demons.

Why Because there's something and I don't know exactly where it is.

I don't know the physiology or the spiritual the spirituality of it necessarily, but life is in the blood.

It's pretty clear.

The Bible says that and these rituals that involve blood are required to manifest these demonic entities because there is life in human and animal to a blood.

So all these these satanic rites, these rituals are always very bloody and they and why because that blood is needed to bring these to manifest, these these demons, I mean these the vampireze.

The whole the mythology of vampires is that they need blood to live because they're dead.

So these dead things need blood, and demons are they're not alive in the way we think.

They're a lot of them.

To call it the refyeme, which means the dead ones are almost literally the walking dead.

They desire human blood, they feed on it.

And again it's very macab and I want to spend a whole bunch of time on it, but it's just something to keep in mind when you hear about some of these weird ritualistic satanic ceremonies.

They always involve blood, particularly innocent blood.

They want the blood of a virgin or you know, it's really horrible, they want the blood of babies because that's the most they consider the most pure and innocent blood, and that's what they feed on to manifest themselves like and I don't don't know how.

It's not my area of expertise or other Bible teachers who specialize in demonology who I read them.

I know their work, but I don't have the expertise to speak on it too much.

But I have so I studied it enough to know that it happens, and it's it is very macab and not just you know, the blood that brings that manifest these these demonic inties are also the worst, these evil chants.

I'm not going to say any of these words because I don't want to be I don't want to be guilty of saying uh though, these these evil things on the air and and and maybe inavertently manifesting something I don't want to but they are all of these rituals involved blood, They involve these demonic chants.

They're saying some type of word.

Russ Disdar, who isn't actually an expert in this kind of demonology.

If you want to look up his his his website, just google russ are U S S disdar d I z d A R.

That's his specialty.

He talks about these things called twilight languages.

These are actually supposedly demonic language, is that these practitioners speak at these rituals to manifest evil.

So it's all about death, death coming from evil words, and the spilling of human blood.

And that is what Satan that he's a god of He is the god of death.

He longs for the death.

He hungers for the death of men spiritually and physically.

He wants us all dead.

He wants us physically and spiritually, he wants us all wiped out, and he wants us all to be separated from God spiritually.

Those are his goals he had, and the problem is that he's in opposition to himself because he wants our worship, but he also wants us destroy it, so that that contradiction that he has to constantly live with and exists with is part of what's driven him completely insane, so insane that he keeps fighting even though he knows he's going to lose.

One of the most interesting parts of Revelation, and at some point, hopefully next year, I'm going to do it verse by verse a commentary on Revelation, which is because it's my favorite book.

But one of the things about Revelations that's never was many things about revelation that don't completely make sense to me, and I will readily admit that during in those podcasts as I have on the blog post, but one of them is the whole Armageddon scenario itself.

Armageddon is when the forces of evil, including Satan, try to physically make war against God, and that just doesn't make sense to me.

Why on earth would you think you can turn rifles and bows and arrows and guns against God and kill them.

Well, the only way you could think that is if you are completely insane.

Satan knows he's going to lose.

If you were saying and you were gonna lose in you would just you'd give up.

But he's not.

He doesn't give up.

He continues to fight even though he knows he can't win, because he's not saying.

He's completely insane, full of wrath, vain, lying, deceitful.

That's who he is.

So the whole purpose of this is not to bring you down.

It's not to scare you.

It's the opposite.

You're only you're only afraid of what you don't know.

The only the reason you were afraid of the dark as a kid was because you couldn't see what was happening, you didn't have any knowledge.

So because you didn't have knowledge of what was happening, you were afraid.

But if you do have knowledge, then you're not afraid anymore.

Fear.

Knowledge and fear are antithetical.

If you know something, then you know what to do about it.

So my goal with in this podcast and in this entire series is again not to dwell too much on Satan, not not because I you know, just to be I guess you could call it, you know, the salatiousness, not just to salaciously dwell and Satan because you know, evil and all that kind of stuff is you know, popular and like I said, very very silatious, and we'll probably get a lot of hits because again this is the serial of Satan has been the most popular on the Faith by Reason website.

No, the reason that I am going over all this information with Satan is so that you know who he is, what he is, what his methodologies are, so that you can be prepared, so that you don't have to be afraid, so that you do know how he operates, and most important, that you know his limitations.

That he is not like God, he is not all powerful, he is not God's equivalent on the evil side.

Satan is a created being.

He is very limited in what he can do.

He can't come up with any new ideas.

All he can do is just old stuff over and over again.

So again, as soon as you, once you really know how he operates and where he's going to attack you, then you have a defense and he can never break through that defense because he can't think of anything new.

He has that one place he's going to attack you that one place.

And once you realize that and you put in you get your defenses in place so that he can't attack that area again.

Once you deal with whatever it is that as making you weak in that area, be at your temper, be at sexuality, be at alcoholism, be again any anything he gossip, whatever, whatever your weakness is, find out why you're weak there, pray to God to help you to find get to the root of it and to root it out.

And then Satan has no way to attack you anymore, at least not not in I mean here.

He'll turn to it to intimidation, and he'll try to intimidate you.

But now that you know that he his intimidation is impotent.

As he is, Satan is completely impotent against a Christian because we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us.

The only thing Satan can do is that we allow him to do.

Remember, he couldn't make Adam and Eve eat the fruit.

All he could do is temp them.

If they had said no, then guess what.

Satan would have completely failed.

So he could only do what we allow him to do.

And the purpose of this series is that you know him well enough that you know how he's going to come at you, so that you will not fall, and that you want to allow him to do what he wants to do.

All right, So that is going to wrap up this post cast, So I appreciate you listening.

Please leave any comments or questions either perferably here on the website.

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And in the next podcast, I think we're going to just wrap up a couple of the loose ends about Satan's kingdom and dominion here on Earth.

I touched on some of that in this podcast, but I'll just go over briefly why Satan has legal dominion over Earth.

But I think I'm also going to well, and I think I'm definitely going to start talking about the other demonic entities.

Satan is not alone.

He has a legion of followers people.

If Revelation twelve is to be seen as a look back at the fall of Satan, and it says he Satan casts a third of the stars to Earth, and a lot of people believe that means that he a third of the angels fell with him, and angels are extraordinarily numerous, means he has tons and tons of minions who work with him.

Because he's not he's not he's not like God, he's not omny present, he can't be everywhere once.

So Satan is not necessarily a person.

The one tempting you is probably one of his other demonic against if we're going to talk about them or begin to talk about them in the next podcast.

So again, the next podcast, we're going to start talking about demons and hiss.

Sounds like more and more fun stuff.

And again, so thank you for listening and I will talk to you next time.

M