All About the Devil

[Todd]

Part 1.

Is there such a being as Satan? Multitudes of Scholars and intellectual people deny his existence, save in the imagination of ancient and illiterate people. By many, Satan is looked upon as a product of priestcraft, a relic of superstition, a myth of a bygone age. With others, Satan is merely an abstraction, a mere negation, the opposite of good. "All the devil there is, is the devil within you" are the last words of "modern thought." The words which Goethe puts into the mouth of Mephistpheles--"I am the spirit of negation"--is accepted as a good workable definition of the devil. He is regarded as a mere abstract priciple of evil. As someone has a quaintly put it, "They spell devil without a d, as they spell God with two o's. Good and evil is thier scheme."

But the more general conception of Satan, the one that prevails among the masses, may be gathered from the visual representations of him appearing on street posters, in illustrated magazines, and upon the stage--where he is pictured as a grotesque monster in human form, having horns, hoofs, and forked tail. Such a conception come to be regarded as a bogey with which to frighten naughty children, or as a fit subject for jest and joke. Much of this comes from the fact that men have read Milton's Paradise Lost, but have negelected the book of Job; they have considered the experiences of Luther instead of the Epistles of Peter and Jude. To avoid Skepticism on the one hand and ridicule on the otherm we must resort to the Scriptures to formulate our views of this doctrine.

The Fact of Satan

According to the Scriptures, there is a being called "the Devil" and "Satan" -- a real being who has a real existence. Concerning this they leave no room for doubt (Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7; Zechariah 3:1,2; Matthew 4:1-11; 13:19; Luke 10:18; John 13:2; Acts 5:3; Ephesians 6:11,12; 1 Peter 5:8).

The Personality of Satan

In the Bible the personality of the devil is made empathic. He is not only the source of evil in others, but the mbodiment of evil in a person.

1. Personal pronouns are used which unmistakeably reveal personality: Job 1:8 (thou); 2:1,2 (himself, thou); Zechariah 3:2 (thee).

2. Personal characteristics and elements of personality are clearly ascribed to Satan.
A. Intelligence. His temptations are spoken of as "devices" (2 Corinthians 2:11) and as "the wiles of the devil" (Ephesians 6:11); similarly in Revelation 2:24 we read of the "depths of Satan"(Greek, "deep things"). Further, in Revelation 12:9 he is termed "that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which decieveth the whole world." To deceive implies design, and design is the product of intelligence, and intelligence is inseperable from personality.
B.Memory. In his conflict with Jesus in the wilderness, Satan quoted from the Old Testament Scriptures (Matthew 4:6), which is impossible for an abstraction.
C.Knowledge. When the Devil is cast down to the earth, during the tribulation period, we are told he has "great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Revelation 12:12). The impersonal, however, cannot be said to know.
D.Will. Satan possese a will or the power of choice, which is further proof that he is a personal being ( 2 Timothy 2:26; Isaiah 14:13,14).
E.Emotions. Wuch Emotions as desire (Luke 22:31), pride (1 Timothy 3:6), and wrath (Revelation 12:12) are attributed to Satan. But desire, pride and wrath cannot be predicted of the law of gravity--they are inseperable from personality.
F.Executive and organizing ability. In revelation 12:7 and 20:7, 8 we find Satan marshalling his legions to engage in warfare, and in Ephesians 6:12 we have the intimation that that he is at the headed of graded and organized forces.

3.Personal Actions are attributed to him.
A.He speaks. He is represented as talking with God (Job 1:9,10) and arguing with Jesus(Matthew 4:1-11). Speech belongs to personalities.
B.He Tempts. The first time this mysterious being introduced to us in the Bible he appears in this capacity, inciting our first parents to disobedience. In Matthew 4:3 he is expressly termed "the tempter." And again, in 1 Corinthians 7:5 and 1 Thessalonians 3:5, the saints are warned against his machinations. To tempt implies design, and design argues intelligence and moral qualities, and these are inseperable from persoanlity.
C.He accuses. To accuse unquestionably argues a conscious and rational entity (Revelation 12:10; Job 1:9-11).
D.He Makes War (Revelation 12:7; 20:8,9)
E.He performs miracles (exodus 7:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:9)
F.He is capable of recieving punishment (Matthew 25:41). A mere abstraction cannot be punished. What is nothing more than a negation cannot be tormented. What is incorporeal and intangeble cannot be cast into the lake of fire. That the scriptures declare that Satan shall be punished is conclusive evidence that he is a person, and a person endowed with moral responsibility.



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[Todd]

Part 2.

The Original State of Satan

It is obvious from the teaching of various passages of scripture that Satan was not always the fallen depraved creature he is represented as being since his first appearance to man in the Garden of Eden. This teaching is not so direct as that on other subjects with which Scriptures deal, but sufficient is given upon the origin and character of satan to show that his first estate was not one of degredation but one of exaltation and perfection.

the Origin of Satan. It is evident from the holy and righteous character of God that He could not have created anything that was esentially and originally evil. Man today is a sinful creature, but has not always been such (Ecclesiastes 7:29). Originally man was created in the iage and likeness of God, but by an act of willfull disobedience he corrupted his nature and became sinful. The same is true of that part of the angels that apostatized: they were not created in a fallen condition. Peter tells us that the angels "sinned" (2 Peter 2:4), and Jude declares that these angels "kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation" (vs. 6).

From these two examples furnished by sinful man and the fallen angels we might reasonably conclude, from the law of analogy, that the same principle would hold good concerning Satan. It is unthinkable for us to suppose that God would create the devil, though we must believe He created the one who subsequently became the devil. But we are not left to the uncertian speculations of reason, the Word of God itself gives us definite information which establishes this fact (Ezekiel 28:13,15; John 1:1-3; Ephesians 3:9; Collosians 1:16; Revelation 4:11).

One of the few passages which seem to throw light upon the origin of satan and of his position and condition before his apostasy is to be found in Ezekiel 28:11-19.

11 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 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.
14 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.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16 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.
17 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.
18 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.
19 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.

A careful reading of these verse produces the conviction that the prophet is here referring to some other than an earthly king or a mere human being. He must have been borne by the spirit of prophecy into some other time and place, and to some other person. Ezekiel must have been taken back to a far distant period of time. while the king of Tyrus was a historical person, we are compelled to to conclude that he must also have been a typical character--a figure of satan himself. Such terms as here found could never have been employed to describe any mere human king, aor any human being whatsoever.

Granting that these verses refer to Satan, let us note the description. In verse 13 he is spoken of as being in the garden of God. satan was indeed in adam's garden; he did not, however, appear there as a minister of God, but as an apostate and malignant spirit eager for the ruin of the new creation. Hence, the Eden of this passage must of been of an earlier date. Nor did it at all resemble the garden in which Adam was placed, for we read nothing of trees pleasant to the sight and good for food; but the prominent feature is the covering--that is, probably, the pavillion or palace of Stan--which is described as being made of gold and of every precious stone. Yet, while this description dies not in any way remind us of the adamic Eden, we cannot but be impressed by its resemblance to that of the New Jerusalem, with its buildings of pure gold as it were transparent glass, its foundations garnished with all manner of precious stones, its jasper walls and its gates of pearl. And that city, be it remembered, seems to be destined habitation of the church , composed of those who will be spiritual beings of a higher order equal to the angels, and, with christ as their head, will have succeeded to that same power which Satan and his angels are now so fearfully abusing (Luke 20:36; Revelation 5:10).

The altter part of verse 13 should be translated "The service of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared with thee on the day thou wast created." Music is one of the neccesary attendants of royal state. In Daniel 3 we have enumeration of the various instruments which were to signal the time of the king's pleasure (vs.5); and in Isaiah 14 the pomp of the ing of Babylon and the noise of his viols are said to be brought down to the grave with him. The Blast of the trumpet accompanied the manifestation of God upon Mount sinai (Exodus 19:16) and the trump of the archangel will sound the return in glory of the King of the whole earth. the meaning, then, of this clause seems to be that Satan was from the moment of hus creation surrounded by the insignia of royalty; that he awoke to consciousness to find the air filled with joyful music of whom God has appointed to stand before Him. In the next verse, we seem to pass from royalty of Satan to his priestly dignity (Ezekiel 28:14). He is said to have been, by God's appointment, the "annointed cherub that covereth." {i]annoited{/i] doubtless means consecrated by the oil of annointing, while the Cherubim appear to be the highest rank of heavenly beings, sitting nearest to the throne of God and leading the worship of the universe (Revelation 4:9,10; 5:11-14). Possibly they are identical with the thrones of which Paul speaks in Colossians 1:16. The words that coverth indicate an allusion to the cherudim that overshadowed the ark; but we cannot, of course, defince the precise nature of the office of Satan. The general idea seems to be that he directed and led the worship of his subjects.

He is also said to have been upon the holy mountain of God and to have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. The mountain of God is the place of his presense in visible glory, where His High Priest would, of course, stand before Him to minister. The "stones of fire" may, perhaps, be explained as follows: we know that the station of the Cherubim is just beneath the glory at the footstool of the throne (Exekiel 1:26). When Moses took Aaron, Nadab, Abihum and seventy of the elders of Israel, "there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were, the body of heaven in its clearness. . . . And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire upon the top of the mount" (Exodus 24:10,17). This paved work of sapphire, glowing with devouring firem is perhaps the same as the stones of fire; if so Satan's presence in the midst of them would indicate his enjoyment of the full cherubic privilege of nearness to the throne of God. Verse 15 shows that god is not the Author of Evil. For Even the Prince of Darkness was by creation perfect in all his ways, ans so continued until iniquity was found in him and he fell.



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[Siren]

I KNOW SATAN EXISTS

 

[p_p_man]

I'm not a student of the Bible...

...but the odd times I've read passages from it I've always been struck by the way that God is often portrayed as schizophrenic (thinking about little old Job here). Which if he can be a schizo there's no reason not to suggest that he can also be Satan.

 

[p_p_man]

My Post Script...

...which I forgot in my last post.

Which follows that if you believe in God then you also believe in the Devil.

 

[bluntforcemama]

Speak of the Devil, and She will appear....


now whose soul do I take tonight?

 

[LittleRedDevil]

I know I exsist. Want me to prove it? *wiggles eyebrows suggestively*

 

[p_p_man]

Only your...

...eyebrows? I expected more from someone so devilish...

 

[Ask For More]

Something more Liz Hurley-esque would be greatly arousing

 

[p_p_man]

Or...

Megan Ryanish...

 

[DevilMayCare]

A Contrary Opinion

IN PRAISE OF THE DEVIL

This article is written in praise of Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, or whatever you want to call him. I must first make it clear that I am not here claiming ontological status for the Devil; that is, I am not claiming that he exists in the sense that you and I exist. I am quite serious on a symbolic level in what I write but my statements praising the Devil and attacking Christianity, God, and Jesus are not to taken as implying the real existence of any of these supposed beings. The only one of these that I think one could reasonably believe actually existed is Jesus. It seems probable that there was a human being who was a political and religious leader at the time though it seems to me to be absurd to believe claims about his origin or divine nature. My praise of the Devil is not entirely (though it is mostly) serious, and it is to be taken on a purely symbolic level. My goal is to bring out the values and perspective of the Christian tradition and to demonstrate how it is fundamentally at odds with the values held by myself and all extropians and with the perspective that we share.

The Devil - Lucifer - is a force for good (where I define 'good' simply as that which I value, not wanting to imply any universal validity or necessity to the orientation). 'Lucifer' means 'light-bringer' and this should begin to clue us in to his symbolic importance. The story is that God threw Lucifer out of Heaven because Lucifer had started to question God and was spreading dissension among the angels. We must remember that this story is told from the point of view of the Godists (if I may coin a term) and not from that of the Luciferians (I will use this term to distinguish us from the official Satanists with whom I have fundamental differences). The truth may just as easily be that Lucifer resigned from heaven.

God, being the well-documented sadist that he is, no doubt wanted to keep Lucifer around so that he could punish him and try to get him back under his (God's) power. Probably what really happened was that Lucifer came to hate God's kingdom, his sadism, his demand for slavish conformity and obedience, his psychotic rage at any display of independent thinking and behavior. Lucifer realized that he could never fully think for himself and could certainly not act on his independent thinking so long as he was under God's control. Therefore he left Heaven, that terrible spiritual-State ruled by the cosmic sadist Jehovah, and was accompanied by some of the angels who had had enough courage to question God's authority and his value-perspective.

Lucifer is the embodiment of reason, of intelligence, of critical thought. He stands against the dogma of God and all other dogmas. He stands for the exploration of new ideas and new perspectives in the pursuit of truth.

God demands that we believe everything that he tells us, and that we do everything that he says without questioning. Destroy a tribe including the women, children and animals down to last one? (Joshua 6.21). Why of course. Wait a minute, this doesn't seem very nice. SILENCE FOOL. HOW DARE YOU QUESTION ME. I AM GOD AND YOU MUST OBEY ME WITHOUT QUESTIONING. ACCEPT WHAT I SAY ON FAITH. BURN THOSE WHO DARE QUESTION MY WORD. DESTROY THEIR BOOKS. SHUT DOWN THEIR SCHOOLS. TELL THEM THAT DISOBEDIENCE MEANS THAT THEY WILL BURN FOREVER AND EVER, IN UNIMAGINABLE AGONY FOR ALL ETERNITY, AND REMEMBER THAT YOU WILL SUFFER THE SAME UNLESS YOU GO OUT AND TELL THEM THIS. Yes Sir, God Sir, whatever you say. See, here I am burning their books, pulling out their nails, torturing them for questioning Church dogma, banning the use of anaesthetic in child-bearing (since the pain is their just punishment for the acts of Adam and Eve). Help! I thought an improper thought! Help me to blind my mind God, help me to not see what my reason tells me. Let me repress thoughts of sexual desire, doubts about you and your orders, feelings of tolerance.

They call Lucifer the Prince of Lies. A lie is defined by the Christian as anything which contradicts the Word of God - as told to us by the Bible and God's representatives on Earth. If we accept this definition of a lie then we should praise lies. A "lie" is then a questioning of blind dogma. The "lies" of Lucifer are attacks on irrational beliefs, beliefs based on fear and conformity to authority. Of course we should not call these lies. They are temptations to think for ourselves, a call for independent thought, a plea for taking responsibility for our own thinking and our own lives. Praise Lucifer! Praise the pursuit of truth through rationality. God was right to tell us to not worship false idols, but he refrained from telling us that all idols are false, and that all worship is dangerous. Even our praise of Lucifer must not be worship of an idol, but rather an expression of our agreement with his value-orientation and his perspective.

God and his Godists hate Lucifer's call for rationality. Critical thinking digs at the very roots of God's and their power over our minds. Independent thinkers do not make good slaves. Lucifer is the Prince of Lies because he is an expert at helping us to be rational. He shows us how to use our intelligence and how to take responsibility for ourselves. We should emulate him in encouraging this trend in ourselves and in others. He needs help since he is working against the laziness and neuroticism of many humans. It's so much easier to just not try to think, to sit back and let other people tell you what you should do, what to believe, and where to give your money. Why, if I had to think for myself I would have to face the fact that I might be wrong. Horrors! I would have to think carefully about my life and the reality that I live in carefully and that would take a lot of work. No, it's much easier to have faith, to accept, to believe, to obey.

God also hates us to enjoy ourselves, If we let ourselves experience too much pleasure then we might lose interest in obeying him. We might start running our own lives to bring us positive rewards rather than directing ourselves to avoid his wrath. We might become focussed on pursuing the positive instead of avoiding the negative. That would result in the downfall, of religious and state authority, so God has to stamp out such tendencies. He hates Lucifer who keeps turning up and tempting us to have a good time, to enjoy our lives. Adam and Eve's sin was to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge. They dared to disobey a direct order which God expected them to obey without question, blindly. They acquired reason and intelligence, and an ability to decide for themselves the values that they would pursue. Ever since them humans have been uppity - always giving God trouble. Dammit, even some of the Catholics are questioning the Pope's infallibility. Well that's just tough God; some of us are going to do our best to see that humans continue to become even more difficult to handle - both by you and by your human followers on Earth - the religious authorities and the Statists.

God likes altruism, altruism understood as true self-sacrifice and not as giving up a minor value to achieve a more important one (which is just one aspect of rationality). If God can just get us all to be good altruists then we will be so much easier to control. Altruists do what they are told without complaint; a complaint would be based in self-interest; it would be a claim to live one's own life without having to direct it towards the lives of others or towards the interests of God or "the State". Lucifer perseveres in trying to point out to us that we have no reason to accept altruism. We can choose our values for ourselves, just as we can think for ourselves. Lucifer himself values the pursuit of happiness, knowledge, and new experiences. Most of all he values self-responsibility and independence even if that means that some people will not choose to value the things that he values. The extropians among us who share his perspectives and value- orientation should help him in his work.

God had a clever and nasty strategy to promote altruism and therefore obedience. He tries to get us to believe in Original Sin. He wants us to believe that we are born sinful, that we were evil and needed saving even before we had done anything. We need God and his agents to save us from Sin otherwise we will burn FOREVER and we will miss out on an infinite and perfect reward (though he never tells us just what this is). Our path to salvation lies in service to God, selfless self-sacrificial service to God and his dogma. Without the idea of original sin we might not be so careful to obey God since we might figure that we were living pretty well and would go to heaven anyway (foolishly failing to inquire what heaven is like). Fortunately for God, Original Sin guarantees that we will always feel under threat. We will always be unclean and in danger of suffering hellfire.

To make quite sure that our personal responsibility is destroyed, and that we put ourselves in God's hands for him to mould us as he wishes, God and his moronic minions repeatedly tells us that Jesus Christ is the Way and that he died for our sins. Redemption lies through faith and obedience. Notice what happens when Christ supposedly died for our sins. His act brought about our possibility of salvation. What I want to know is: how can someone else's act excuse me from anything? I am responsible for my own actions. Nothing that I do can take away the fact that someone else acting in a certain way, and nothing that they can do can absolve me of my own responsibility. Original Sin and salvation by Christ are both deeply offensive ideas to me and to all extropians who value individual responsibility.

In ending this discussion, I want to remind you that you are all Popes. You are all you own highest authority. You are the source of your action. You choose your values - whether you do so actively or by default. You choose what to believe, how strongly to believe, and what you will take as disconfirming evidence. No one has authority over you - you are your own authority, your own value-chooser, your own thinker. Join me, join Lucifer, and join Extropy in fighting God and his entropic forces with our minds, our wills, and our courage. God's army is strong, but they are backed by ignorance, fear, and cowardice. Reality is fundamentally on our side. Forward into the light!

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[lavender]

 

[unusuallyconfused]

It is amazing to me that some people think they are smarter than GOD. I don't think God has rules set to punish people from having a good time. If that were the case, we could just let our little children do what ever they want. No, we have rules in the best interest of the child. The Devil was JEALOUS of God. That is an ugly emotion and causes people to do UGLY things. I am no morally righteous person and far from judging anyone anything. That is between you and GOD.

But to think Satan is the thing is a little deranged in my opinion. God Is all knowing all powerful creator of this world. Think about how complex we are. Just our bodies alone require various specialty doctors. And there is a continued subspecialization. Now I am not one to preach, but I just couldn't ignore this one. Why would I side with a loser? Satan is that. Satan dosn't have a book that tells the future now does he. The bible has systematically given us information in the future. Well, I am done with this.

Barbar

 

[Never]

Here are my thoughts on the subject.

Dealing with the Devil.

Demons and devils and beasts, oh my
Such a hellish bunch abound.
Within the wall of grey bones
These ghouls wail in fury and sound.
Who is this dark lord, this fallen prince?
With silver thorns wrapped round his brow?
Do you not know Lucifer, my dear?
To whom all the other's bow?

Once a shining son was he, I say,
Now cursed to walk like Cain,
Among the damned, tormented souls,
His pride has cursed to pain.

A king of hell, a prisoner of hell,
As lost and damned as they,
Who with sweet lies and promises,
He deceived from God's true way.

His glittering throne is not true gold,
His concubines swell but are barren,
His flawless face, once held so high,
Was trampled by the Son of Man.

Watch how his demons tremble,
Watch how all the evils stoop low.
At the madness of heaven's firstborn,
Trapped so far below,
Below the sky, below the earth,
Where only darkness speaks its name,
Beware; his madness might soon be yours,
Your fate and his the same.


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Oh, go to hell.

 

[Todd]

Part 3.

The original perfections of Satan.

He possessed the sum of all creature excellencies. No defect was to be found in him: he was created perfect and remained so until he choose to sin (Ezekiel 28:12-17).

12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 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.
14 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.
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16 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.
17 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.

1. Fulness of wisdom (vs. 12).
2. Perfection of beauty (vss. 12, 17).
3. Holiness of nature (vs. 14).
4. Perfection of conduct (vs. 15).

In brief, he maintained a perfection of wisdom, beauty, moral nature, and creature conduct until his fall.

The original position of Satan.

Satan seems to have been the highest of all God's created intelligences, and his position and perogatives seem to have been in accordance with the place given him in God's creative order and as befitting one possessed with his endowments (Ezekiel 28:14)

Satan is here described as "the annointed cherun." Scripture furnises us with a number of examples where "annointing" is connected with induction to an office, and in the verse now before us the reference is apparently to God's appointment of Satan to fill a certain position. Here we see the exercise of divine soveriegnty in the inherent right or by struggle, but by the gift of his divine Creator and soveriegn. It is a point of deep interest to observe that in Old Testament times men were appointed to fill but three offices--the prophetic, the priestly, the kingly (1 Kings 19:16; Leviticus 16:32), and there are some who infer from the hints dropped in Scripture that Satan originally filled each of these offices himself(cf. Ezekiel. 28:13 with Exodus 28:17-20; Isaiah 14:13 with Ezekiel 28:17)

The original domain of Satan

The general interpretation of Ezekiel 28:13,14 is that Satan was created as a guard or protector to the throne of the the Most High. This is reasonable. Like the golden cherubim, covering the visible mercy seat in the Holy of Holies of the earthly tabernacle, he was created a guard and covering cherubim to the heavnely center of glory. It is expressly stated that he was located by the Most High upon the holy mountain of God--the mountain being a symbol of God's power, government, and eternal throne (Psalms 48:1; 68:15; Isaiah 2:2). Over this exalted throne Satan was set as a covering Cherub. He is also said to have been in "Eden, the garden of God," which is evidently another Eden than that in which Stan appeared as a serpent. It is probably a reference to the primitive creationm and the whole passage suggests a position of great authority for which he was created and annointed.



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