Satan is the leader of all fallen angels and the lost We’ve seen that Satan the person is a fallen angel. He was created holy but fell from grace due to the sin of pride. He wanted to be like God. His first recorded act following the creation of the world was to deceive Eve in the Garden of Evil, resulting in tearing apart the perfect fellowship between Adam and Eve and God. That single deception, resulting in the fall of man, and its attendant separation of natural man from God, has been the cause of all suffering, heartache, and…
All angels were created holy, but many, including Satan, sinned and fell from grace. Satan is the leader of all fallen angels and the only one referred to by name. The others are referred to as “demons,” “unclean spirits,” “evil spirits,” and the devil’s “angels.” Since fallen angels were created as holy angels, they likely have the same potential powers and abilities as holy angels. But since fallen angels, unlike holy angels, operate contrary to God’s moral law, we may be confident that the Holy Spirit’s temporary restraint on Satan (2 Thess. 2:6-8) includes restraining the full use of those…
Satan is a fallen angel. The literal meaning of the Hebrew and Greek words translated as “angel” is “messenger.” God has used holy angels as messengers to His people, but that’s only part of their overall role, which is glorifying God and serving Him and His people. Angels are spirit beings created by God and numbering at least in the hundreds of millions (Rev. 5:11). As spirit beings they may have spiritual bodies but they don’t have permanent “physical” bodies like humans. They were likely all created at once, before the creation of the earth (Job 38:4-7). Their numbers are…
Satan is Real In the introduction to his book, “Satan: His Motives and Methods,” Lewis Sperry Chafer wrote: “The name Satan has by no means been lost. It has, however, been associated with a most unscriptural fantasy. Without reference to revelation, the world has imagined a grotesque being, fitted with strange trappings, who has been made the central character in works of fiction and theatrical performances, and by this relation to that which is unreal, the character of Satan has come to be considered only one of the myths of a bygone age.” Chafer’s comment isn’t particularly striking today because…