For this week’s blog I have taken an excerpt from my book “A War to Be Won: A Study in Spiritual Warfare” concerning the nature of Satan and what the world has tried to make him into:

Hollywood has tried to pacify the Devil with cartoon images and ridiculous Halloween costumes.  They make him out to be a tiny, red dwarf perched upon our shoulder who tempts us in opposition to his angelic counterpart speaking into our other ear.  If only he were that benign, we would simply flick him off and march on in bliss to eternity. But the Bible describes Satan in far more menacing terms.  Never in scripture is the Devil portrayed as someone to be mocked or trifled with.  In fact, even the angels are cautious when it comes to him.

Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

Who is he?  Why does he do the things he does?  Why does he hate us so?  These questions are often left unanswered.  The prince of evil is generally shrouded in mystery, so that we envision him as an impersonal “evil force,” rather than an individual being.  Like in Star Wars, we think of him as “the dark side of the force,” being the opposite manifestation of God’s supreme goodness.  This perspective inadvertently makes him the equal-opposite of God, putting him on the same place as the creator.

However, the Bible paints a very different portrait of Satan.  It seems to strongly hint at who and what he is, which helps us to better understand what he does and why…

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– Kerry