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Christian Warfare Ephesians 6: 10-20 - “stand against the wiles of the devil”; 2 Corinthians 10:4 “the weapons of our warfare are not carnal”; James 4:7 - “Resist the devil”; 1 Peter 5: 8 - 9 - “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith”
Christian Preparation 2 Timothy 2: 15 - “Study” 1 Thessalonians 5:21 “hold fast that which is good”; John 14:6 – “The way” 1 Corinthians 12:10 - “discerning of spirits”; 1 John 4: 2-3 - “Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come”
Christian Weapon/Tools John 1:1 “The Word”; 2 Timothy 3: 16 “All Scripture”; John 15: 3 – 7 “Without Jesus I can do nothing/Abide in Him” Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me”
Ruler Of This World Ephesians 2: 2 - “prince of the power of the air”; 2 Corinthians 4:4 - “the god of this world/age” Ephesians 6: 10-20 - “the rulers of the darkness of this world/age”; John 14:30 - “the prince of this world” 1 Corinthians 10:20 - “fellowship with devils”; Deuteronomy 32: 17 - “They sacrificed unto devils” 1 John 4:4 “greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
Satan Wants to be Worshipped 1 Timothy 4:1 - “doctrines of devils”; 2 Corinthians 11: 13-14 - “Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light” Luke 4: 5 - 7 - “If thou therefore wilt worship me”; 2 Timothy 3: 5 - “Having a form of godliness”; Ezekiel 28: 1-36 – “Lucifer”; Isaiah 14: 12 -21 - “I will be like the most High” 2 Corinthians 11: 4 - Preaching another Jesus, or if ye receive another spirit, or another gospel
Satan and His Angels and Agents’ Fall Luke 10: 18 - “beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven”; Matthews 25: 41 - “everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels” Revelation 19: 20 -“Beast/False prophet: These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” Revelation 20: 10 - “the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone” Revelation 20: 2 - 3 “the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan and bound him a thousand years / And cast him into the bottomless pit” 1 Peter 3: 19 - “the spirits in prison”; 2 Peter 2: 4 - “God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness”
God limits Satan Genesis 50: 20 - “ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good” Job 1: 12 - “only upon himself put not forth thine hand”; Job 2: 6 - “he is in thine hand; but save his life” Psalm 24:1 - The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Satan & Miracles, Signs, and Wonders Exodus 7: 10 – 12 – “Pharaoh called the wise men and the sorcerers/ the magicians, they also did in like manner with their enchantments and cast down their rods, and they became serpents” 2 Thessalonians 2: 9 - Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders” Deuteronomy 13: 1-3, 5 - “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder/ Thou shalt not hearken”
God Forbids All Forms of Occult Practices 2 Samuel 28: 1 - 25; 1 Chronicles 10: 13 - 14; “Saul consulted a medium for guidance, instead of the Lord” Leviticus 19: 26 - “neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times”; Exodus 22:18 – “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”; Leviticus 19:31 – “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them” Deuteronomy 18: 9 - 12 - “pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer” Isaiah 47: 12 -14 - “Stand with thine enchantments/ thy sorceries/ Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee”; Galatians 5: 20 ”Idolatry, witchcraft” Acts 13: 6 - 12 – “Paul withstands Barjesus/Elymas the sorcerer/false prophet seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith” Acts 19: 13 - 20 – “[Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva] confessing and divulging their practices. / those who practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all;” Acts 16: 16 - 20 – “girl with a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by soothsaying” 2 Corinthians 2: 11 – “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices”
Satan Influences
Satan Effect Lives (Job 1: 6 -9; 2: 1 – 4) - Satan Can Cause Pain-Illness (Job 1: 18 -19; 2:7; 1 Cor 5:5) Satan Effect Finances (Job 1: 14 – 17) - Satan Influence World Events (Dan 10:13) Satan Effect Personal Relationships (Job 1 & 2; John 7) - Satan Influence Political Events (Matt 2; Rev 12)
Interpretation of Dreams Belong to God Genesis 40: 7 – 8 - “Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God?” Isaiah 8: 19 - “when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?” Isaiah 45: 11 - “Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me” Daniel 2: 27 - 28 - Daniel answered the king, "No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery which the king has asked, / but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries”; Daniel 1: 17 -20 - “he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm”
We Can Not Communicate with DEAD People
Luke 16: 19 – 31 – “between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence” 2 Corinthians 5: 6 - 8 – “whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord / I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord”
Two Kind of Angels · God’s Angels – Spirit-beings Sent by God (Ex.23: 30), Accountable to God (Job 2:1), Respond to God’s will (Ps. 91:11), God chooses which angel (Matt. 18:10), Fulfill God’s will (Luke 4: 10), Speak in the name of God (Luke 1: 28), Bring awe, respect, fear (Luke 1: 11 – 13) · Fallen Angels – Demons – Spirit-beings Oppose God, Requested by humans, Respond to rituals (at their will), We choose our favorite angel, Fulfill our will (at first), Speak like us (if they choose), Appear friendly and natural to us.
Satan/Lucifer is a created being: Ezekiel 28:15 “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee). Psalm 148: 1 – 5 “for he commanded, and they were created”; Colossians 1: 16 - “For by him were all things created” · Demons are intelligent, but not omniscient: Mark 1:24 – “demons were aware of Jesus was”; Matthews 8:29 - “demons were aware ultimate destiny”; 1 Timothy 4:1 – “Paul refers to doctrine of demons” · Demons are localized, but not omnipresent: Matthews 8:28 – 34 “sought Jesus not to send them out of the country”; Acts 16:16 - · Demons are powerful, but not omnipotent: Mark 5: 3-4 – “break chains/no one could bound the man”; Mark 9: 22 “cast boy into fire and water”; Matthews 9:32 – “impaired speech of a man”; Matthews 15:22 - “Kept girl in cruel vexation” ; John 10:21 “demons are limited in their powers, can’t do what God can do”
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