Chapter 9 – The Enemy
Who is the devil?
Ezekiel 28:12-19 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. 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. 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. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 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. 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. 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. 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.
He is called many things in the bible. However, God never reveals his original name. I believe that is because he was completely stripped of that title to never be referred to in such a holy manner again. The closest to describing him in his original estate with God was lucifer or heylel which means the shining one. He will come pretending to be the Daystar (Jesus Christ) as the “morning star”.
He is also known as the King of Tyrus or Tyre, as in the scripture from Ezekiel above. Tyre means rock, and again he is pretending to be our rock, which there is only one, Jesus Christ. Our rock of salvation, the true cornerstone. Tyre controlled all of the merchant ships and therefore the distribution channel for all of the goods. (Reminds you of Amazon today doesn’t it) Through the ports of Tyre went all of the merchant ships of “Tarshish”. I believe this could be where the devil will be kicked back out onto earth, as it is prophesied (and may already be here) and described in Chapter 15 – The Anti-Christ.
Isaiah 23:1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.
Isaiah 23:5-8 As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn. Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
Isaiah 23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.
I’ve scoured scripture and I don’t really find where it says the full reason God destroyed the first earth age. Many preachers quote Revelation 12 below as stating that satan deceived a third of God’s children, which is why He destroyed it. But that verse says he drew the stars from heaven down to earth, so that doesn’t really make sense to me.
Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
I do believe it was satan’s pride and likely to do with Tyre. Good chance it was something he did to make himself like God. Just not sure what exactly that was and really, why would we have any record of that when God completely destroyed that world age. I think that is just one of those that we won’t know until we get to Heaven. And, I doubt we will care by then anyway.
Satan literally means the adversary in just about every biblical language you can think of… and that is what he is.
The name devil literally means slanderer. Similarly, he is also known as the accuser in front of our Holy Father.
Revelation 12:10 for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
He is called beelzebul (Lord of the Dung Hill) and beelzebub (Lord of the Flies), which the name baal is derived from meaning lord. He is also called azazel, the serpent and the dragon.
We talked about how he caused the destruction of the first earth age. Let’s talk about this one.
The very first prophecy in the Bible is regarding satan, which was God’s judgement on him after deceiving Eve and causing the fall of this world age into sin.
Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
God is so loving… He could have destroyed the world again, but His will is for all to come to repentance. Even the tares if they will accept Jesus. Nothing says they can’t.
Ezekiel 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
The devil, however, is already judged according to that prophecy in Genesis. The first part was fulfilled when they crucified Christ and “bruised his heel”, that act sealed his fate. Satan’s head will be “bruised” before this is all over.
Ephesians 2:15-16 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
Satan was not alone in all of this. There were fallen angels that came down with him to corrupt man. Peter talked about their punishment and their current habitation in this earth.
2 Peter 2:4-9 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
The word hell used in that verse is “tartarus” in the Greek, which is a different term than is normally used in the bible for hell. It’s actually a term from Greek mythology for the very inner part of the underworld where gods locked up their enemies. Very interesting that he would use that term for the fallen angels. But actually, they are our enemies so it would be a term that they would have fully understood back then. And all the implications thereof…
This is also talked about in Jude.
Jude 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Reference to the fallen angel’s banishment can also be found in the Old Testament.
Psalms 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
God is warning to respect his covenant because you don’t want to end up down there with them.
I keep having these visions of ants or bodies, all crawling over each other trying to reach a far- off light. This vision is persistent. Like for years I’ve had it… and while writing this book almost daily. Could have something to do with these fallen angels chained up in the dark places of the earth.
There has also been one verse that I couldn’t understand where God wanted me to put it, but it was clear that He wanted it in here.
Acts 14:2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
Those “unbelieving jews” aren’t our brothers and sisters of Judah. They are the spirits of the fallen angels that have the power to vex us and make our minds evil against good things. And, unfortunately, against each other. But that is almost over.
God knows who to blame for all of the sin in this world. Not that we have no responsibility in our sin. We always have to repent for what we’ve done. But, I think God ultimately holds satan and not us responsible for everything that has ever happened bad on this planet. He and his angels were the ones that taught us how to be bad. And still do through those spirits. We didn’t naturally have that tendency because God’s creation is always perfect.
Those same spirits are now teaching our children that they can choose their gender and change through surgery, everything about their bodies. That is basically convincing them that they are their own gods. What do you think they are doing creating their own virtual realities online? Literally creating their own “worlds”. Very lonely and isolated worlds with only you know who whispering to them about their “creations”.
Man has been trying to make their own path to “enlightenment”, or God, since we came into existence. This path to “enlightenment” can be evidenced in many religions and many ceremonies with magic and drugs all taught by our evil friends. Folks, throughout human history, whenever we have tried to make a human king for ourselves or a God or get to heaven or “reach enlightenment”, all of those paths have led to hell. Either hell on earth or hell to come. There is nothing new under the sun and that deception is all orchestrated by the same jerk.
The prophecy of what is coming to him and his buddies at the end of this age can be found in Isaiah.
Isaiah 14:12-22 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.
He has but a short time and his end has already been proclaimed and promised by our Lord. Hallelujah!