Satan's Description and Deeds

Satan's Description and Deeds

Who Is Satan?

II Corinthians 2:11 says Lest Satan should get an advantage

of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Before we discuss some of the devices of Satan, we first

need to know who he is. The name Satan comes from a Hebrew

word signifying an adversary, an enemy, and an accuser. In God’s

Word, we discover that Satan is God’s enemy and is against all for

which God stands. He is the archenemy of good.

Surprising as it may seem to some, Satan was not always

evil. In the beginning, he was an angel created in perfection and

beauty. Angels were given a will with a free moral choice, and

Lucifer (Satan’s name before he was cast out of heaven) chose to

do evil and rebelled against God. He was cast out of heaven to the

earth because of his sin. His present domain is limited to the earth

and hell.

 

Isaiah 14:12-15, How art thou fallen from heaven, O Satan,

son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground,

which didst weaken the nations! 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. Yet thou shalt be

brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

 

Satan’s sins were pride and covetousness. He desired God’s

throne and set his will against God’s will. Five times he said, “I

will” in this portion of Scripture.

This is still man’s sin today: the refusal to do God’s will, with

the same attitude of “I will.” Satan chose to rebel and it brought

him down to hell. Men are making the same choice today and

those who rebel will ultimately go down to the pit with the devil.

Lucifer had been gifted with beauty and had walked upon

the holy mountain of God. But even with all this, he was not content

with his position and by trying to usurp God’s authority, sin

entered into him when he attempted to overthrow God’s kingdom.

 

Ezekiel 28:12-19, ...Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest

up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast

been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was

thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl,

the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the

carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of

thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have

set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou

hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast

created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of

thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence,

and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane

out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O

covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine

heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted

thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the

ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold

thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of

thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will

I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee,

and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all

them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the

people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and

never shalt thou be any more.

 

From these verses, we see that God did not create Satan

evil, but made him perfect. By Satan’s own choice, he became

evil and was cast out of heaven.