What We Learn About Satan

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What We Learn About Satan

• from the Book of Job

2
What We Learn About Satan

• He is REAL (16)
• Not divine or deity, but limited (Job 112 26
  Zech. 32 Luke 46 2231 James 47 Rev.
  201-3, 7-10)
• Was created (Col. 116) and originally good (Gen.
  131 Job 386-7)

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What We Learn About Satan

• He is REAL (16)
• Sinned and fell sometime after creation (2 Pet.
  24 Jude 6 Lucifer falling is not a reference
  to Satan, but to the King of Babylon, Isa. 1412
  144,16)
• Can change form (Gen. 31 2 Cor. 1114)

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What We Learn About Satan

• He is without RESPECT (16, 9-11 21)
• Does not respect sacred places (Gen. 31
  Zech. 31 Rev. 127)
• Does not respect our sacred Creator
  (Job 111)
• Does not respect sacred saints (Job 11,5,8 1
  Tim. 514-15 Jude 9 Rev. 213)
• Does not respect sacred unions (1 Cor. 7)

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What We Learn About Satan

• He is RELENTLESS (113-19 21-7)
• Tries hard to catch his prey without delay (1
  Pet. 58)
• Goes after the best of the best Eve (Gen. 3)
  David (1 Chron. 211) Job (11) Jesus (Mt. 4)
  Judas (Lk. 223) Peter (Lk. 2231)
  Ananias (Acts 53) Paul (2 Cor. 127
  1 Thess. 218)

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What We Learn About Satan

• He is RUTHLESS (113-19 21-9)
• Uses any and all means available lies and murder
  (Jn. 844) partial truth (Mt. 46) steals or
  sows weeds (Mt. 1319, 39) demons and illness
  (Lk. 1017-18 1316 Acts 1038) opposes (Acts
  1310) correction (2 Cor. 25-11) blinds
  (2 Cor. 44 1114-15) wily (Eph. 611)
  lying wonders (2 Thess. 29) snares (1
  Tim. 37 2 Tim. 226) imprisonment (Rev. 210)
  deceit (Rev. 129, 12)

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What We Learn About Satan

• He is RESTRICTED (112 26)
• He is powerful (Acts 2618)
• He is limited by God (Rev. 201-3, 7-10)
• He cannot tempt greater than man can bear (1 Cor.
  1013)

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What We Learn About Satan

• He is RESISTED (120-22 210)
• Jesus resisted him (Mt. 410 1 Jn. 38)
• We are told to resist him (Eph. 427 610ff
  Jas. 47 1 Pet. 58)

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Satan in the Book of Job

• The Devil made me do it
• Behold, we call them blessed that endured ye
  have heard of the patience of Job (James 511)
• because greater is he that is in you than he
  that is in the world (1 Jn. 44)