Where did Satan come from?

Is he this eternal force of evil and opposition to God's eternal goodness and they're doing this eternal battle against each other?

Or is he a created being who fell from grace?

And if he did fall from grace, what was he like before his fall?

And why did he fall?

We will talk about these questions and answer them in this week's episode of the Faith by Reason podcast.

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Tons of great information there, and we are of course talking about Satan, the devil, the dark side.

We are doing an entire series on our spiritual enemies, which has proven to be on the blogs, the most popular series that I've done on Faith by Reason, So I assume that these podcasts will hopefully be just as popular.

People want to know about the spiritual enemies, about spiritual warfare, and I am happy to oblige.

So in the last podcast, which is which was the first podcast in this series, we looked at whether or not Satan was a real individual, intelligent, malevolent being, or if he was just some abstract force of evil, and we saw clearly through the Bible that Satan is a personal being.

He is an individual, sentient being.

He's not just some amorphous force of evil.

He's not a he's not an analogy for general evil.

He's actually a personal being with a personal will and personal methodologies, and and he has his goals and he has his purposes and we talked about some of those in the last podcast as well.

In this podcast, we're going to talk more about how this being came into being and what he was like or or more or rather what he is like in his nature and his character.

We'll talk about that a little bit in this podcast.

We're basically going to be doing Satan's origin story.

So let's start by just starting out.

That's a very baseline and kind of dispelling another one of the myths about Satan, and that is the idea that Satan is this.

We again dispelled the myth that Satan is this eternally morphous force of evil.

We know he's a personal being, but is he the eternal force of evil in opposition to God's goodness?

And the truth is he's not.

The Bible does not paint him in that in that way, many other religions do paint Satan as or or they do have a force of eternal evil.

Specifically that the Hindu religion, they have their good create, their good Creator, and they're bad his bad counterpart.

You have no Shiva and Vishnu, who are in addition to the three hundred and sixty other gods, there's actually a few thousand gods if you put them all together, but about three hundred and sixty main gods in Hinduism, and above all of those are the the top two characters, the equal forces of good and evil, who are always battling each other, the Creator and the destroyer.

And even if you look at some other pagan religions, in the mythologies of Egypt and the Greek mythology and Norse mythology, you have the same thing.

You have all these different gods, but you have the top two gods are usually a god of goodness to some degree and a god of evil, a god of the light and the god of the darkness.

And they are always battling each other, and they are always equal to some degree in their power, and all of them have All religions have some type of in times prophecy, some type of a final reckoning, wherein the good God and the bad God.

That two most powerful gods get into their final battle, and usually the good god wins, and in some religions the bad god winds, which is unfortunate if you believe in that particular religion.

For example, in Norse mythology Ragnarok, you know the final battle of the gods.

And again, if you look at the different pagan religionship they'll all have something similar.

And those who are not Christians and don't understand Christianity, they will look at the idea of Armageddon as this final battle between good and evil and the Book of Revelation, and of course all you have to do is read Revelation once and you will know that's not the case.

But again, that's popular culture, and it's very popular in pop culture, in our movies, in our in our books, where good and evil have their final battle.

Let me think about every movie you see, in every action movie, every superhero movie, every movie with a hero's journey, they all in the same way, with the good guy, the hero who you've been following from the beginning of the movie, having his final battle with the big bad guy, and they're going back and forth, and they seem evenly matched or in many cases, that bad guy seems to have the advantage, and it looks like the bad guy's gonna win.

He's he's just he's gonna just he's about to destroy the good guy.

And then at the very last minute, the good guy finds some secret source of strength or some clever trick or something, and he pulls victory from the jaws of defeat and he destroys the bad guy.

And yay, that's not what That's not how it works in the Bible.

If you look in Revelation nineteen and twenty, when you see how Satan actually is finally defeated, it's not some big, huge battle against God that God or Jesus just barely come out ahead.

No, when this age is over, when Satan's temporary rule of this planet is done, God calls an angel, doesn't even name the angel, just some random angel and says, hey, you know, take Satan would tie him up and throw him in a pit.

That's it.

God doesn't even get his hands dirty, so to speak.

He just has one of his random angels do it.

Satan is so impotent against God that God just orders, you know, again, a random mator just tossed him to toss him into a pit.

Then when the final battle is over after the millennium, which obviously we'll talk about when we get there way a bit down the road, just speaks and say, okay, Satan, you've had your your lasbud of fund off to Hell with you.

That's it.

There is no battle.

God is infinitely more powerful than Satan.

Satan is a created being.

He is inferior.

He does not just dispel another myth.

He does not rule Hell.

Satan, despite what you might have seen in gothic image imagery from the medieval times, Satan is not ruling Hell with some pitchfork roasting centers over a charcoal grill.

No, Satan's fate is to be in Hell.

And by Hell I mean the lake of Fire there which Jesus speaks of it and they spoken of in Revelation.

Currently, by the way, there is no one in the Lake of Fire.

There's no one in Hell.

There are people in Hades.

There's a big difference.

We'll talk about it down the road at some point.

But Satan does not rule Hell.

He will be in Hell.

Hell is his fate and so, but why is that mythology so popular?

Unfortunately, it's it's another aspect that we get from Catholicism, which is is basically paganism lightly brushed with Christian brushstrokes.

But it's really just the adaptation of the pagan mystics.

We talked about mystics a few podcasts ago, and mystics merged themselves with Christianity in the early part of the ADS, and around three hundred AD when that merger happened, the Pagans came basically christianized all of their paganistic beliefs.

They just changed the names from their pagan gods to Christian names in order to upon themselves off as Christians.

And if you want to know more about that, just go to the sectional Catholicism in the categories.

I go pretty deep into that.

But one of the things that they have, one of the things that they adopted was taking some of their gods and calling them Satan.

So that's why you will see the Gothic images of Satan is having goats horns and goat leg and things like that, and you know red with his pitchfork and his tail with an arrow at the end.

Well, the Bible does not say that Satan looked like that.

We're going to talk about that in a few minutes.

Where does that come from?

That image comes from from pagan mythology.

That is an image of the Baphomet, which is a goat horned, a goat headed god, combined with the demi god Pan of Greek mythology, who had goat legs.

So that whole image of that imagery of Satan as the goat looking, bat winged demon, that that is not what he looks like.

That all comes from paganism.

So you have to divorce your mind from those things and look at what the Bible actually says about him.

And that's what we're wanting to talk about today.

And I think the best way to get started is, again, let's just go to the Bible.

Let's go to the areas that speak in vivid detail about Satan's career before, during, and immediately after his fall, and those two chapter those two sections are Ezekiel chapter twenty eight and Isaiah chapter fourteen.

Isaiah more about the fall, whereas Ezekiel chapter twenty eight gives you a lot of interesting detail about his career and what he was like pre fall.

So let's start with that.

Let's just let's go to Ezekiel twenty eight.

And before we get to the section, let me just set things up here and understand that the section in Ezekiel, that whole section, several chapters before and after Ezekiel twenty eight are really talking about judgments that God has against the nations, against the leaders of those nations.

And in chapter twenty eight of Ezekiel, God begins by talking about or actually passing judgment, or having Ezekiel prophesied judgment on a man called the Prince of Tire.

Tire was an actual country in north west of Israel, one of Israel's enemies, and they were a pagan nation.

And God starts with a judgment against the human leader of Tire.

But as it goes on, God changes and takes up a judgment against someone he calls the King of Tire.

And it will be very clear when we read this that this King of Tire is not a human being.

And just so you understand the context, because God is eternal, God does not see time the way we do.

He does not experience time in a straight up linear fashion the way we do.

God, you will often find the Bible where judgment will start in maybe a small picture since and then go to a more, much bigger picture, since so Ezekiel twenty eight stars with a small picture judgment against this individual man who is the Prince of Tire, but then expands and God has a judgment against the King of Tire, and this is a spiritual king.

It's actually Satan.

And the reason being that we'll talk about this in a couple of podcasts from now.

God gave not only does Satan have rulership over this world, which he you serve from Adam, but God gave a rulership or authority over every nation in the world to an angelic being.

And all those angelic beings ended up getting a little too full of themselves, and they fell and were corrupted by the power that was given to them.

In fact, there is a verse in Psalms how to Believe a Psalms ninety eight.

Don't quote me on that, will, I'll put it in the actual show notes, where God has a lament against He calls him, you know, the sons of God the bnaihi Eloheim, which is a title for angels, and he says that, you know, I gave you authority over the nations, and you've failed in that, and you're going to be die like men, which means they if they were to die like men, that means they weren't men.

To begin with, the point is that Ezekiel twenty eight starts talking about a human prince of Tire and then God expands a judgment to the spiritual king of Tire, and that in this case is Satan.

All right.

So with that background, let's start reading at Ezekiel chapter twenty eight, starting at verse eleven.

This is from the Holy Mean Christian standard version.

The word of the Lord came to me, saying, son of Man, lament for the King of Tire, and say to him, this is what the Lord God says.

You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect and beauty.

You were in Eden, the Garden of God.

Every kind of precious stone covered you.

Cornelian tlpaz and diamond, beryl, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and emerald.

Your mountains and settings were crafted in gold.

They were prepared on you.

The day you were created.

You were the anointed guardian cherup, for I had appointed you.

You were on the holy Mountain of God.

You walked among the fiery stones.

From the day you were created.

You were blameless or perfect in your ways, until wickedness was found in you.

Through the abundance of your trade.

You were filled with violence, and you send So I expelled you in disgrace from the mountain of God, embarrashed it, and banished you guardian cherup from among the fiery stones.

Your heart became proud because of your beauty.

For the sake of your splendor, you corrupted your wisdom.

So I threw you down to the earth.

I made you expectacle before kings.

You profaned your sanctuaries by the magnitude of your iniquities and the dishonest trade.

In your dishonest trade, so I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you.

I reduced you to ashes on the ground.

In the sight of everyone watching you.

All those who know you among the nations are appalled at you.

You have become an object of horror and will never exist again.

Okay, so there's a lot to unpack there, So let's just break it down and start at the beginning.

It says you were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

What that really means is he was the ultimate, the seal of perfection.

He was the ultimate creation of God.

This anointed cherup says you were in Eden, the garden of God.

Well, and that pretty much solidifies the idea that this is no longer a human ruler.

He's not talking about a human the Prince of Tire.

He's talking about the King of Tire, the spiritual power behind that evil empire of Tire.

Because the king of Prince of Tyrer, excuse me, was not in Eden, he would not have been old enough, and only the only people who were in Eden were Adam and Eve.

And God's not talking about Adam or Eve here, so this is obviously talking about a different being.

You weren't eat in the Garden of God, and every precious stone covered you, and all those precious stones he's talking about.

The interesting thing about that is that they are the same stones that are on the breastplate of the high priest in Israel.

When God established a law, he had a high priest who was the person who would take the sacrifices in worship from the Israelites and present them before God.

So Satan had these exact same stones covering him, which would lead you to believe logically that Satan or at the time, he was not Satan.

That this being his name is Lucifer.

Will find that when we look at Isaiah chapter fourteen where he is called the light Bearer, and light bearer in Latin is Lucifer.

So I don't know if that was his proper name, Lucifer, or if it was just his title of light bearer.

Either way, that's who he was.

He was created, and he was not created a satan.

God did not and cannot create evil.

He will not create his own enemy.

God did not create this evil being.

He created a light bearer.

He created a beautiful, perfect being who fell.

So I'll just continue to call him Lucifer, the light Bearer.

So Lucifer was basically the high priest.

He was perfect in wisdom and beauty.

Perfect means there was nothing higher created that was more beautiful than Lucifer.

He was the ultimate.

You could not be higher than this.

So that's when you see these silly, idiotic caricatures of Satan as this again gold horned, ugly, bat winged thing flying around the scary.

That is again a deception, it's a myth, it's paganism.

The Bible never calls him anything other than what he is.

Beautiful.

Why would you be tempted if Satan and Satan is the grand tempter, why would you be tempted by something as ugly and horrific and that would scare you?

Of course you wouldn't be You'd only be tempted by something that is beautiful, that would make you, that would be desirable.

Satan is not ugly, sorry, folks.

He was in his beauty.

Can he can continue to be beautiful even though in his fall obviously he's no longer what he was.

Paul says very clearly that Satan can transform himself into an angel of light, so he can still present himself as his amazingly beautiful, seductive and desirable being.

And that's what he was.

He was perfect in beauty.

He was the high priest of God.

He was the anointed cherub that covers.

So Satan was a cherub.

That's very interesting, and we'll talk about that in a second.

But you have to divorce yourself from this idea again.

Back to the idiotic pagan mythological paintings that we'll see that showed cherubs as these fat winged little babies.

That was that was ridiculous.

That's not what a cherub is.

If you look in the Bible, the cherub or cherubim and plural were the highest level of created beings.

They were the ultimate angels, and Satan or Lucifer was one of them.

These cherubs are not again little flying fat babies.

They are fearsome, amazing, incredibly glorious, powerful angels that were ruled over everything else that got it created at that time before He created man.

So he was the anointed chirps.

So the cherub the Cherubim were the co rulers of God.

They were part of God's high council.

They were the highest created beings, and Satan was over them.

He was the anointed cherup, that was the annoited guardian Cherub.

He says, you're on the holy mountain of God.

And we talked about this before in the Eden narrative that in Eden there was not just a garden, there was a mountain.

So he was there on the mountain of God.

In Eden, you walked among the fiery stones.

There's debate over what those fiery stones were.

Some people say that the fiery stones were an idiom or the different planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, you're in this neptune in Pluto.

If you consider Pluto a planet, I think that's still in debatable, but some say that.

Some say that to believe that the planets were the fiery Stones, and they were all apparently inhabitable before the fall, before the war in Heaven, which we'll talk about in a few minutes, and that as part of the judgment, they became inhospitable and they became you know, the the you know, the inhospital planets that they are now.

You know, Mercury and Venus are way too hot, and Mars is too cold, and of course Jupiter, Saturn and the outer planets are you know, cold and gaseous there and uninhabitable.

I don't know if that's true or not.

You have a lot of the talk about Mars.

You can apparently allegedly still see certain monuments on Mars pyramids, and there's a so called face on Mars.

I can't give that too much credence because there's just not a lot of proof of it.

I've seen some grainy photos that may look like there's a pyramid on Mars.

Maybe maybe not.

I can't again, I can't give much credence, but that is true, not just be more proof that you know it was.

It was inhabitable at one point, and it was and now it's not.

But I think the most logical are probably the easiest to defend.

The explanation of the fiery stones is that they are an idiom of angels.

Angels are the angelic beings are said to be made of fire, and so the fiery stones may just be angels.

He said you want.

So it says in verse fourteen you walked among the fiery stones.

It means he walked among the angels and he was over them.

And it says from in firse fifteen, from the day you were created.

So again, Lucifer was a created being.

If there's any doubt, he is not God's equal.

He is not pre existent, because we know that because evil cannot be pre existent.

We talked about this, and we talked about good and evil during the Eden series.

That evil cannot exist on its own.

Evil is destruction, Good is creation.

Good can exist without equal You can create without disruption, but you can't destroy without creating.

You can't destroy unless there's something to So something has to be created first.

So if creation or good is needed first, then evil has to be no less than second.

And if you're created, if you are seconds to come into existence, not eternal.

So Satan is not eternal.

He's a created being.

God created him, and again God can dispose of him anytime he wants.

So the question is why doesn't God dispose of Satan?

Oh, because he's basically a tool.

God uses him, and when God's done using him, he'll just dispose of him easily, as we talked about at the beginning of this podcast.

So he was blameless in all of his ways, are perfect in all of his ways until wickedness was found in him.

Wow says, through the abundance of your trade, you were filled with violence.

And you sind, what trade are we talking about?

What was he trading in?

But there was only one bit of trade or merchant.

I said he could have been trading in that he actually possessed.

As is a high priest, his job was to he had two judge number one reflect the light of God.

He was an image bearer.

He was the bearer of the light of God and as the high priest, his job was to bring the praise of the angelic beings to God.

That's what he traded in.

He took the praise.

Just as the Hebrew high priests would take the trade the praise of the Israelites and bringing it before God.

Lucifer would take the praise of the angels and bring it before God.

That's what he was trading in.

And but it said his heart became proud because of his beauty.

So what does all this mean.

That means that he thought he started started thinking highly of himself.

He started thinking comparatively instead of contrastively.

He thought that he was so beautiful that he deserved some worship.

Thinking contrastively as a part of worship means that you know you're not worthy of worship.

That's contrastive thinking.

Am I really worthy of worship?

No, I'm not.

I'm a creative being.

I'm bringing worship to God, who is the ultimate creator.

But when he started thinking comparatively because of pride, it says that his heart was lifted up.

Because of his pride, he started to think comparatively and said, well, I think I am worthy of some worship, maybe not all of it, but you know, I'm God's ultimate creation, I'm beautiful, I'm perfect in wisdom, and I should get a little bit of worship for myself, and I think that's where that's that's how he has falled.

His fall started.

That was the initiation, the initiation of his fall, and I think there is something more than that, which we'll talk about in the next podcast.

Is where he really saw a reason to not only have pride in himself, but have disdain for God's next major creation, which is us.

We'll talk about that again in the next podcast.

But it says that because of that pride, his wisdom became corrupted.

So you may wonder if if Satan was perfect, if Lucifer excuse me, was perfect in his wisdom and wisdom, would say he shouldn't rebell against God, why would he rebel?

Well, he did have that perfect wisdom, it says, until that wickedness, that pride was found in him.

As soon as he started thinking of himself as worthy of praise, as soon as he started thinking of himself higher than God intended him to, all that perfection was corrupted.

He didn't have perfect wisdom anymore.

He had imperfect wisdom, and in that impose the wisdom, that's where he fell.

That's when he thought he could actually be like God.

So, before we get into his fall, let's just let's take a step back and let's say examine what was he like so we know that again he was extremely beautiful, the most beautiful.

If you're ever to see Lucifer, you would see the most beautiful thing you've ever laid eyes on.

He was at the time the most wise because he got his wisdom from God.

He was he reflected God's light, so he was brilliantly bright and bright, beautiful, full of wisdom.

Another thing to note about him is what he may have looked like in certain forms.

He was a cherub, and we talked about what cherubs looked like, the Cherubim looked like in our series.

In even we talked about the serpent or the nahash, and what he really was.

We looked at the description of the chair of the Cherubim.

One of their descriptions is in Revelation chapter four and five, when the fourth cherub who are left, and obviously they were five, there's a fifth chair of Lucifer, who's obviously not in heaven anymore, but at the time they were a fourth chair of him in heaven, Lucifer not being one of those.

There are five total sheriuffs.

So before we see in revelation.

One they represent by the way their authority or their representation of the things that got created, the life that got created.

One looks like a man.

One of them looked like a man, which was obviously a symbol of mankind of humanity.

Another one looked like an ox, so that was kind of a symbol of the herbivores and land animals.

One was like a lion, which represented the carnivore land animals, and another one looked like an eagle, representing all birds and the avions.

But that's it.

But there was one missing.

There's one major category of created life that was missing, and that would be the cold blooded animals offishient of reptiles.

So if there was one section of life that was missing, and there's also one arab that was missing, it would stand the reason that that missing cherub would also represent that missing life, those missing life forms.

So Lucifer must have he was the fifth cherup in which he was, and he probably represented reptilian and fish, scaly scally animals, so and that's why he became known.

That's why then Nakash is called a serpent because Satan is often depicted with reptilian characteristics.

He's called the he's called a serpent, he's called the Great Dragon, the Great Red Dragon.

In Revelation chapter twelve.

Serpents represent sin throughout the Bible.

So I think it's pretty clear that Satan's is represented reptil in reptilian terms.

We talked about in reptilian terms.

I think he was the cherub that represented that world, the cold blooded of scaling reptilian fish.

Now that's kind of a contrast in my mind, at least about with the beauty, because I don't particularly find reptiles and fish to be that beautiful.

But that's just me.

Some people do like it.

Apparent, however, he was depicted in his reptilian form, it still must have been very, very beautiful, and probably not like the not so attractive reptilians that we see on Earth today.

But that was who that that's why you represented.

And there's even more proof of that when you look at a lot of the pagan deities that are also also have serpentine qualities, you will find them.

Well, I mean, backup, before I talk about those, let's talk about another class of angels that are called the seraphime.

You have the cherubimber that that are the top angels, and I think a level before below that are a group of angels called the Seraphime, and you will find them in Ezekiel, and you also, I think, also find them in Isaiah and some other chapters.

There's a group of angels called seraphig and that also designates some type of serpentine qualities, because the word seraph means it means a flying serpent.

That's what a seraph is, It's a flying serpent.

And so some angels, and I believe probably the part of the Angelicosa saying maybe had the most influence over worthy seraphim.

Not all of them fell, because there are still some in heaven, but it would tell me that this section of angels, the Seraphime, were probably the most vulnerable or the most easily induced by Satan, because Satan has all san reptilian qualities.

And as I said, you will find a lot of pagan deities that are depicted with serpentine qualities, especially here in the Americas.

The Incas and the Mayans all worshiped, are plumed or feathered or winged serpents.

That was that's in their mythology.

It's all their pagan costs.

Even even here in the United States of America, the Native Americans also worshiped winged serpents.

So I think it's pretty clear that in addition to whatever else Satan was, Lucifer was, he also had these these strong reptilian qualities, and he retains them to some degree.

So he was beautiful, he was wise, he he was the worship leader.

We'll see when we read Isaiah chapter fourteen that he was very skilled in music.

He was just extremely attractive character, and his job was to be the worship leader and the person who brought praise to God.

So let's now just quickly look at the fall how he fell, and I will be in Isaiah chapter fourteen, starting with verse twelve.

It's from the new King James version, because frankly I like it better than the Huloman Christian standard version.

Then I stop using that version.

I keep finding too many eras in it.

Anyway, during verse twelve, how you were falling from heaven, oh Lucifer, Son of the Morning, how you were cut down to the ground.

You weaken the nations.

If you have said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

I will also sit on amount of the congregation on the farther sides of the north.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds.

I will be like the most high it used to be brought down to Shiol to the lowest depths of the pit.

So let's break this down really quickly.

How you're fall from having old Lucifer, that's light bearer, You're cut down to the ground.

Who weakened the nations, And that's again speaking past and future tentts, A guess God does.

Because God doesn't see time the way we do.

He sees him as a person weakens the nation's future tints.

Even though he's talking about him falling in the past tense, he knew that this would be his role, would be to weaken the nations.

And again we'll talk about that in the future podcast a couple podcasts from now, actually, when we talk about how the angelic beings who got put over the nations fell as well.

And I believe that they committed the same sin as Lucifer and maybe were influenced by him.

But the reason that he fell where is because of the five I wills, and these are all his statements of pride, and when we look at him, they actually paint a really interesting picture that will give us more insight into the actual practical reason for his fall.

I mean, the theoretical reason that is that, or the philosophical reason is that he had pride, and that was true.

But what caused that pride?

What was a practical reason?

What did he see that made him say that I'm going to be better than whatever I am, than what I'm fighting against.

Let's look at the five I wills.

I will ascend to heaven.

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.

The stars are angels.

Stars are an idiom of angels.

I will also sit in the mount of the Congregation, the mountain of God, on the farthest night sides of the north.

That's where God dwelt in the north, and as not directionally speaking, it's a level of importance of hierarchy.

The north is considered the highest.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, so it will be in the heavenlies.

I will be like the most high.

So let's start with the last one.

I will be like the most high.

Some people will tell you, even some Christian theologists will tell you that Satan's goal is to be greater than God.

It's not.

He doesn't say that.

He never says I will be better than the Most High.

That's God's title, the most High.

He says I will be like the most High.

Satan isn't stupid.

He knows that he can't.

You can't be greater than God.

God is the greatest.

He is, He's the first.

Cause.

You cannot be greater than the first cause, he says, so be like God.

So if he he will be.

He wants to ascend to heaven.

He wants to be above the angels.

He wants to sit in God's on the mountain of God and in his congregation.

Basically, he wants to sit on the throne.

He wants to be above.

He wants to be in the heavens.

He wants to be like God.

Well, who is he comparing himself to.

He's not comparing himself to be greater than God.

He's not trying to be greater than God because we just said he can't be.

He can't be comparing himself to angels because he was the highest angel.

So who other than God and angels, who could ascend to Heaven, who would be on the throne of God, who will be in the Mountain of God, who is destined to be like God, not angels us human beings.

Redeem Man, Man, a saved man.

God's purpose in creating Man, and we talked about this way back in the past when we talk about the meaning of life God.

God's whole purpose of creating Man was so that he would have the bride of Christ, someone he wanted, a fourth person of the Trinity, as it were.

He was trying to create someone just like him so that they could so that he could have more of that perfect love.

The Trinity existed in a state of perfect love, three entities, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit existing in a state of perfect harmony and love.

And the only thing greater than that, or anything that could be more than that, is to have four persons right in that perfect harmony.

So God created a man to be that quote unquote fourth person of the Trinity or quadranty, whatever you want to call it, That would be Man.

That's our ultimate goal is to sit on the throne of God as the bride of Christ.

And if you're the bride in marriage, you are one with the person you marry.

So when we are married to Christ, we will be one with Christ.

We will be a part of the god Head.

We will be co errs with Christ.

We will have everything that Christ has.

We will be like the most High.

We will be on the throne of God.

We will be in the congregation and the size of the North, we will ascend to Heaven.

We will have all those things.

So the person that Satan sees as a rival, the enterity that Satan was rebelling against, the reason that Satan fell was not just because of pride, but because he saw a rival.

Satan felt that he Lucifer at the time, saw that he was the ultimate of God's creation, that there was no one more perfect in beauty or wisdom or authority.

But then he finds out that there is going to be another entergy that God will create called Man, that will ascend above him and be like the most High.

And if you look at what Satan's ambitions were with these five eye wills, they were actually to be like what God intended man to be.

So we're going to talk about that more in the next podcast about why Satan fell because he saw Man as a rival, And we're going to talk some more about what he's like now.

We spent this last podcast talking about what Satan was, what his identity and his personality with his career was before the fall.

Well, in the next podcast, we're going to look at his identity after the fall and the reason that he sees Man as his rival, as his enemy, not necessarily God, I mean God is is mis enemy.

And the fact that you know they have their cross purposes.

Man wants to God wants to elevate man.

Satan wants a man to be corrupted.

So their enemies in that sense.

But Satan is no threat to God.

Satan can't take anything that God has from him except man.

That's the only thing that Satan can affect.

And that's because a man has free will.

So I don't want to say too much more because I'm starting to get way too much more into what the next podcast is going to be.

But let's just say in this podcast now and let me know that the next podcast we're going to talk about Satan's minity towards Man, and also we'll do a deep dive into what Satan is like now since the fall.

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