Text: Matthew 6:13; Galatians 1:4
The Origin of Satan:
Isaiah 14:12-20 - Satan was Lucifer - He was an archangel that served God in worship. He was a worshipper, He got prideful and was thrown out of heaven. Sin started within him. He sinned from the beginning.
Ezekiel 28:11-18 - This being became evil - worship was supposed to flow through him and not to him. Satan was thrown out of heaven for his sin.
Luke 10:17-20 - Jesus saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning.
1 John 5:19 - The world lies in darkness now.
There are three types of churches:
- The Militant Church - It depicts a body of believers who are not yet seated in heavenly places in Christ and are still battling to try to gain the victory over an enemy that hasn’t been defeated yet by the Lord Jesus Christ.
- The Defeated Church - This church gives us a picture of a church which is ignorant of the fact that they are seated with Christ and that they are supposed to be reigning in life through Jesus Christ or they’ve never used the authority they already possess. These believers are always ravaged by the wiles of Satan and are in a state of continual failure and defeat.
- The Triumphant Church - This is the biblical perspective of the Body of Christ state with Christ in heavenly places far above all powers and principalities (Ephesians 1:3; 2:6). The triumphant Church scripturally portrays a Body of believers who not only know, but exercise their authority in Christ and are reigning in life through Jesus Christ over Satan, a defeated foe (Romans 5:17).
Hints of a possible Pre-Adamic kingdom:
Satan was called Lucifer before his fall from heaven - He became Satan after his fall. He fell and caused humanity to fall. Satan will ensure your fall if you follow him.
The origin of demons, devils, or evil spirits is not made so clear.
Some scholars believe millions of years elapsed between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. Some believe there could have been an original earthly kingdom before the creation recorded in Genesis chapter 1.
The evil spirits that are here on the earth, could have been a part of that original pre-Adamic kingdom. Many scholars believe before the flood, a pre-Adamic kingdom existed - this would explain the discoveries of dinosaurs and other animals that once lived on the earth.
Isaiah 14:12-14
- Lucifer had a some kind of throne with some type of authority. He probably reigned below the clouds and stars (13).
- It’s possible that Lucifer ruled a kingdom here on earth which existed before Adam but at the same time prehistoric animals roamed this earth. Maybe Satan ruled his kingdom during this pre-Adamic creation and the evil spirits now on the earth were fallen spirit beings from that creation. We don’t have chapter and verse for it; but on the other hand, Scripture doesn’t refute it either. We do see hints of it in the Scriptures.
Man was not part of that pre-adamic creation - 1 Cor. 15:45 - The FIRST MAN Adam.
The other possibility is that evil spirits included those angels that fell in Lucifer’s rebelling (Rev. 12:4,9)
Peter talks about fallen angels in chains - 2 Peter 2:4 - some believe the fallen angels are in hell now.
Satan’s names reveal His nature and character:
- Adversary - 1 Peter 5:8
- Thief - John 10:10
- Murderer and Liar - John 8:44
- Accuser of the brothers - Rev. 12:10
- Deceiver - Rev. 12:9
- Angel of Light - 2 Corinthians 11:14
- The prince of this world - John 12:31; 14:30; 16:8, 11
- The god of this world system - 2 Cor. 4:4
Satan became the god of this world through Adam’s transgression. Adam was to rule and have dominion on the earth - Genesis 1:26, 28; Psalm 8:4-6
Adam forfeited his authority to Satan when he sinned and disobeyed God and obeyed Satan.
Luke 4:1,2, 5 - 8
(2) Tempted of the Devil
(5) All the kingdoms of the world
(6) All this power - For that is delivered unto me
Satan’s dominion after his fall includes the heavens - Ephesians 6:12 - High Places
Three Heavens -
-1st Heaven - The Sky Stars, space, the universe
-2nd Heaven - Where Satan and other spiritual beings dwell
-3rd Heaven - Where God dwells
2 Corinthians 12:2-4
It’s because of Satan’s rule in this world that we need to be delivered from evil.
Matthew 6:13 - Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil (evil one).
Galatians 1:4 - Deliver us from this present age.
Satan uses evil to fulfill his will on the earth.
3 wills on the earth
God has a will. Humanity has a will. Satan has a will.
Your will will be under the influence of either Satan or God.
Satan’s will is to kill, to steal and to destroy - John 10:10
Everything he does will manifest in these 3 verbs.
2 Timothy 2:22-26
The snare of the devil after being captured by him to do his will.
You will serve God or Satan. - When you serve yourself, you are serving Satan.
You serve God through righteousness and you serve Satan through sin.
The devil has his way when you are flesh ruled and God has his way when you are spirit ruled.
Deliver us from
- The evil one - Matthew 6:13
- Evil deed - 2 Timothy 4:18
- Strange women - Proverbs 7
- Unreasonable and wicked men - 2 Thessalonians 3:1-3; Psalm 140:1-2
How does the Lord deliver us?
- John 17:15 - 17 - Through His Word - the process of sanctification
- Ephesians 4:22; Galatians 3:20 - the putting off the old man - the flesh
- James 5:16- Prayer
- 2 Timothy 2:22 - Fleeing the temptation
- Through pureness of heart - 2 Timothy 2:22; Psalm 51:10-12; Matthew 5:8