KNOW YOUR ENEMY EPHESIANS 6:10-12, 16

I JOHN 5:19 “…THE WHOLE WORLD IS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE EVIL ONE.”

SATAN’S PERSONALITY HIS ORIGINAL NAME WAS LUCIFER, WHICH MEANS, “SHINING ONE, MORNING STAR, OR SON OF THE MORNING.”

ISAIAH 14:12 “HOW ART THOU FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING!”

EZEKIEL 28:12 “…YOU WERE THE MODEL OF PERFECTION, FULL OF WISDOM AND PERFECT IN BEAUTY.”

EZEKIEL 28:14-15 “YOU WERE ANOINTED AS A GUARDIAN CHERUB, FOR SO I ORDAINED YOU. YOU WERE ON THE HOLY MOUNT OF GOD; YOU WALKED AMONG THE FIERY STONES. YOU WERE BLAMELESS IN YOUR WAYS FROM THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED TILL WICKEDNESS WAS FOUND IN YOU.”

ISAIAH 14:12 “HOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! HOW YOU ARE CUT TO THE GROUND, YOU WHO WEAKENED THE NATIONS! “

ISAIAH 14:13-14 “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.’”

SATAN’S POSITION 1. HE IS A PRINCE (JN. 12:31, 14:30, 16:11, EPH. 2:2) 2. HE IS A RULER (1 JN. 5:19, MT. 12:26, 25:41) 3. HE IS A god (2 Cor. 4:4)

SATAN HAS HIS OWN RELIGION HE HAS HIS OWN CHURCH (REV. 2:9, 3:9) HE HAS HIS OWN GOSPEL (GAL. 1:8) HE HAS HIS OWN MINISTERS (2 COR. 11:15) HE HAS HIS OWN DOCTRINE (1 TIM. 1:4) HE HAS HIS OWN COMMUNION TABLE AND CUP (1 COR. 10:21)

SATAN’S POWER THE WORLD IS HELD CAPTIVE BY SATAN (2 THES 2:9) SATAN IS NOT ALL-KNOWING OR ALL-POWERFUL SATAN IS NO MATCH FOR GOD (I JN. 4:4)

SATAN’S PURPOSES 1. HE IS THE GREAT DECEIVER (JN. 8:44, REV. 12:9) 2. HE IS THE GREAT DIVIDER 3. HE IS THE GREAT DESTROYER (I THES. 2:18, EPH. 6:16)

SOMETIMES B.U.S.Y. MEANS: B EING U NDER S ATAN’S Y OKE