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Satan thrown out of heaven
Revelation 12:7-9
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 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.
The devil who is called satan – that old serpent, the dragon – deceives the whole world. The only thing he has going for him is deception. Satan deceives. The devil is not a creator; he is a perverter. He has never created anything, and he never will. He can’t create; all he can do is pervert something that God has already created. He perverted God’s anointing upon him. He perverted it into iniquity.
When he was Lucifer, the Bible tells us that God had created him perfect in all his ways, that he was full of wisdom and brightness, and beauty, and that he was the anointed cherub. But then the Bible says iniquity was found in him (Ezekial 28:12-15).
Satan is a counterfeiter. For all that God has, the devil has a counterfeit.
The Word of God brings life; the word of satan brings death.
The Word of God produces health; the word of satan produces sickness and disease.
The Word of God begets prosperity; the word of satan begets poverty.
God’s Word sown in the heart of man brings forth life, joy, peace, abundance, and health; satan’s word sown in the heart of man bring forth death, misery, worry, lack and disease.
It has taken satan hundreds of years to get people to the place today that they will absolutely kill themselves in less than seventy years with the words of their mouths.
Have you ever wondered why people in the Old Testament lived hundreds of years?
They didn’t know how to die. They hadn’t been taught to die. Of course, God told Adam that if he disobeyed he would die. But Adam didn’t even know what death was.
God created Adam to be an eternal being. God intended for Adam to live forever. He created him in His image, in His class, and never intended for him to die. But He warned him that if he partook of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that he would surely die.
God was speaking, first of all, of a spiritual death. Adam was spiritually alive. After he committed high treason against God, he was “born againâ€, but in a way opposite from the way you and I are born again. We are born into this life spiritually dead. When we make Jesus our Lord, we are born from death to life. Adam was already spiritually alive. When he committed high treason against God, he partook of another birth, and death was lodged in his heart. He became spiritually dead. Satan then became the illegitimate stepfather of all mankind. Adam died spiritually right then, and ultimately he died physically because the wages of sin is death. Sin will kill, because its wages are death (Romans 6:23).
But Adam, being in God’s class, didn’t know how to die. It took over 900 years for the first man to die; and his descendants lived a long time too. Why did they live so long? Because it took satan years to come up with his own vocabulary – God’s Word perverted. Satan was injecting death into his word while God was injecting life into His.
Through the centuries, satan has perfected this thing. He can kill a person now in a fraction of the time it took him to kill the first man.
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Satan thrown out of heaven
Revelation 12:7-9
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 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.
The devil who is called satan – that old serpent, the dragon – deceives the whole world. The only thing he has going for him is deception. Satan deceives. The devil is not a creator; he is a perverter. He has never created anything, and he never will. He can’t create; all he can do is pervert something that God has already created. He perverted God’s anointing upon him. He perverted it into iniquity.
When he was Lucifer, the Bible tells us that God had created him perfect in all his ways, that he was full of wisdom and brightness, and beauty, and that he was the anointed cherub. But then the Bible says iniquity was found in him (Ezekial 28:12-15).
Satan is a counterfeiter. For all that God has, the devil has a counterfeit.
The Word of God brings life; the word of satan brings death.
The Word of God produces health; the word of satan produces sickness and disease.
The Word of God begets prosperity; the word of satan begets poverty.
God’s Word sown in the heart of man brings forth life, joy, peace, abundance, and health; satan’s word sown in the heart of man bring forth death, misery, worry, lack and disease.
It has taken satan hundreds of years to get people to the place today that they will absolutely kill themselves in less than seventy years with the words of their mouths.
Have you ever wondered why people in the Old Testament lived hundreds of years?
They didn’t know how to die. They hadn’t been taught to die. Of course, God told Adam that if he disobeyed he would die. But Adam didn’t even know what death was.
God created Adam to be an eternal being. God intended for Adam to live forever. He created him in His image, in His class, and never intended for him to die. But He warned him that if he partook of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil that he would surely die.
God was speaking, first of all, of a spiritual death. Adam was spiritually alive. After he committed high treason against God, he was “born againâ€, but in a way opposite from the way you and I are born again. We are born into this life spiritually dead. When we make Jesus our Lord, we are born from death to life. Adam was already spiritually alive. When he committed high treason against God, he partook of another birth, and death was lodged in his heart. He became spiritually dead. Satan then became the illegitimate stepfather of all mankind. Adam died spiritually right then, and ultimately he died physically because the wages of sin is death. Sin will kill, because its wages are death (Romans 6:23).
But Adam, being in God’s class, didn’t know how to die. It took over 900 years for the first man to die; and his descendants lived a long time too. Why did they live so long? Because it took satan years to come up with his own vocabulary – God’s Word perverted. Satan was injecting death into his word while God was injecting life into His.
Through the centuries, satan has perfected this thing. He can kill a person now in a fraction of the time it took him to kill the first man.
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