- “HOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!
- FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART: ‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; - I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.’
- YET YOU SHALL BE BROUGHT DOWN TO SHEOL, TO THE LOWEST DEPTHS OF THE PIT."
Isaiah 14:12-15 (NKJV)
• Satan is not God, he is a created being; he however wanted to be like God the most high:
"I [Satan] WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH' " (Isaiah 14:14).
"WHO OPPOSES AND EXALTED HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD OR or THAT IS WORSHIPPED, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD."
1 Thessalonians 2:4 (NKJV)
• Everything about Satan is all lies and deception because he has nothing good to offer whoever follows him.
- The Bible says he deceives and he accuses the Believers before God:
9 “So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN, WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, FOR THE ACCUSER OF OUR BRETHREN, WHO ACCUSED THEM BEFORE OUR GOD DAY AND NIGHT, HAS BEEN CAST DOWN.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
Revelation 12:9-11 (NKJV)
• The Bible also calls him the devil and Satan, a murderer, a liar, AND the father of lie:
“You are of your father THE DEVIL, and the desires of your father you want to do. HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, FOR HE IS A LIAR AND THE FATHER OF IT" (John 8:44 (NKJV).
READ: Isaiah 14:11-19 to know more about how Satan came to be; Ezekiel 28:11-19 about his fallen; And Revelation 20:1-3,10 about how his end would be.
• The mission of Satan is to steal, kill, and destroy:
“THE THIEF DOES NOT COME EXCEPT TO STEAL, AND TO KILL, AND TO DESTROY. I [Jesus] have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).
- If someone believes Satan's lies or deception, It means he has succeeded in stealing the heart of such a person, and his main assignment is about stealing, killing and destroying—Those who are his victims.
- Jesus Christ is calling you to come to HIM, and you open the door of your heart for Him that He may dwell with you:
"BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK. IF ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, I will come into him [or her] and DINE with him [or her], and he [she] with Me" (Revelation 3:20). - Those who believe the devil, his lies and deceptions, would end their journeys on earth where the devil himself will equally end his:
2 “He laid hold of THE DRAGON, that SERPENT of old, WHO IS THE DEVIL AND SATAN, and bound him for a thousand years;
10 THE DEVIL, WHO DECEIVED THEM, WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE WHERE THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever” (Revelation 20:2,10 (NKJV).
READ: Revelation 19:19,20
• For whoever following SATAN not to end up where the devil would, such a person should come to Christ Jesus through WHOM he or she will have an access God the Father: “JESUS SAID TO HIM, “I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE. NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME" (John 14:6).
“Nor is there salvation in any other, FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN BY WHICH WE MUST BE SAVED.”
Acts 4:12 (NKJV)
“YOU CAN ENTER GOD'S KINGDOM ONLY THROUGH THE NARROW GATE. THE HIGHWAY TO HELL IS BROAD, AND ITS GATE IS WIDE FOR THE MANY WHO CHOOSE THAT WAY.”
Matthew 7:13 (NLT)
• If you want to allow Jesus to come into your HEART, say this prayer:
JESUS I acknowledge that you died for my sins AND resurrected that I may be justified, reconciled with God, forgive my sins and come into my heart, I accept you as my Saviour and Lord.
Thank you because you have done it. Amen!
• If you took the step above, you did pray the Prayer sincerely; then endeavour to take a step further and join a Bible based Church.
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• You will not fail in Jesus' name.
Peace!