Matthew 7:17-18 |
17Even so every good tree, bringeth forth good fruit. But a corrupt tree, bringeth forth evil fruit. 18A good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit: nor yet a bad tree can bring forth good fruit. |
Isaiah 45:7 |
It is I that created the light, and darkness, I make peace, and trouble: yea even I the LORD do all these things. |
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The Hebrew word is: רע
Transliterated: ra` Strong: H7451 from 7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral):-- adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.). H7489 רעע Strong: H7489 Transliterated: ra`a` a primitive root; properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally):--afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), + displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, X indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse. |
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Here's a comparison how that the first Authorised English Bibles do not have evil in divers places, til later editions..
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The first English translation from the original tongues of the book of Job has a deep insight to all of this. http://faithofgod.net/tanak/job.htm I am the way, the verity, (the truthful) and life. (the Resurrection.) No man cometh unto the father, but by me. -Iesus Jo. 14:6 http://faithofgod.net/WTNT/matthew_7.html http://faithofgod.net/TyNT/lk.htm#24:1 |
John 9 |
1And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth; 2And his disciples asked him saying: Master, who did sin: this man, or his father and mother, that he was born blind? 3Jesus answered: Neither this man hath sinned, nor yet his father and mother: but that the works of God should be shewed on him. 4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day. The night cometh, when no man can work. 5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6As soon as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind, 7and said unto him: Go wash thee in the pool of Siloe (which by interpretation, signifieth sent.) He went his way and washed, and came again seeing. 8The neighbours, and they that had seen him before how that he was a beggar said: Is not this he that sat and begged? 9Some said: this is he. Other said: he is like him. He himself said: I am even he. 10They said unto him: How are thine eyes opened then? 11He answered and said: The man that is called Jesus, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me: Go to the pool Siloe, and wash. I went and washed and received my sight. 12They said unto him: where is he? He said: I cannot tell. 13Then brought they to the pharisees, him that a little before was blind. 14( It was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.) 15Then again the pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them: He put clay upon mine eyes; And I washed, and I see. 16Then said some of the pharisees: this man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Other said: how can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was strife among them. 17Then spake they unto the blind again: What sayest thou of him, because he hath opened thine eyes? And he said: He is a prophet. 18 The jews did not believe of the fellow, how that he was blind, and received his sight: until they had called the father and mother of him that had received his sight. 19And they asked them saying: Is this your son, whom ye say was born blind? How doth he now see then? 20His father and mother answered them and said: we wot well that this is our son, and that he was born blind: 21But by what means he now seeth, that can we not tell or who hath opened his eyes can we not tell. He is old enough, ask him, let him answer for himself, of things that pertain to himself. 22Such words spake his father, and mother, because they feared the jews, for the jews had conspired already that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be excommunicate out of the Synagogue. 23Therefore said his father and mother: he is old enough, ask him. 24Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him: Give God the praise, we know that this man is a sinner. 25He answered and said: Whether he be a sinner or no, I cannot tell: One thing I am sure of, that I was blind, and now I see. 26Then said they to him again: What did he to thee? How opened he thine eyes? 27He answered them, I told you yer-while; And ye did not hear. Wherefore would ye hear it again? Will ye also be his disciples? 28Then rated they him, and said: Thou art his disciple. We are Moses' disciples. 29We are sure that God spake with Moses. This fellow we know not from whence he is. 30The man answered, and said unto them: this is a marvelous thing that ye wot nere whence he is, and yet hath he opened mine eyes. 31We know well enough that God heareth no sinners: But if any man be a worshipper of God: and do what his will is, him heareth he. 32Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. 33If this man were not of God, he could have done no thing. 34They answered and said unto him: thou art altogether born in sin: and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. 35Jesus heard that they had excommunicated him: and as soon as he had found him he said unto him: dost thou believe on the son of God? 36He answered and said: And who is it Lord, that I might believe on him? 37And Jesus said unto him: Thou hast seen him, and he it is that talketh with thee. 38And he said: Lord I believe: And worshipped him. 39Jesus said: I am come unto judgement, into this world: that they which see not, might see, and they which see might be made blind. 40And some of the pharisees which were with him, heard these words and said unto him: Are we then blind? 41Jesus said unto them, if ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say we see, therefore your sin remaineth. |
1 Corinthians 13:12-13 |
12Now we see in a glass even in a dark speaking: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know unperfectly: but then shall I know even as I am known. 13Now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three: but the chief of these is love. |
1 John 3:2-3 |
2Dearly beloved, now are we the sons of God, and yet it hath not appear what we shall be. But we know that when it shall appear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is. 3And every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, even as he is pure. |
2 Corinthians 3:6 |
which hath made us able to minister the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. |
Job 2:3 |
Then said the LORD unto Sathan: Hast thou not considered my servant Job, how that he is an innocent and virtuous man such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land? But thou movedst me against him, to punish him: yet is it in vain, for he continueth still in his godlyness. |
Luke 22:31-32 |
31And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired you, to sift you, as it were wheat: 32But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not. And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. |
John 5:45 |
Suppose not, that I will accuse you to my father. There is one that accuseth you, verily Moses in whom ye trust. |
Job 2:7-10 |
7So went Sathan forth from the LORD, and smote Job with marvelous sore boils, from the sole of the foot unto his crown. 8So that he sat upon the ground in the ashes, and scraped off the filth of his sores with a potsherd. 9Then said his wife unto him: Dost thou continue in thy perfectness? curse God, and die. 10But Job said unto her: Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also? In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips. |
Lamentations 3:38 |
Out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good? |
Joshua 23:15-16 |
15And as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you: so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil until he have destroyed you from off this good land, which the LORD your God hath given you 16when ye have transgressed the appointment of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: and have gone and served strange gods, and bowed yourselves to them. Then shall the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you, and ye shall perish quickly, from off the good land which he hath given you. |
Proverbs 16:4 |
The LORD doth all things for his own sake, yea and when he keepeth the ungodly for the day of wrath. |
Jeremiah 4:6 |
Set up the token in Sion, speed you, and make no tarrying: for I will bring a great plague, and a great destruction from the north. |
Jeremiah 6:19 |
Hear thou earth also: behold, I will cause a plague come upon this people, even the fruit of their own imaginations. For they have not been obedient unto my words and to my law, but abhorred them. |
Jeremiah 18:11 |
Speak now therefore unto whole Juda, and to them that dwell at Jerusalem: Thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I am devising a plague for you, and am taking a thing in hand against you. Therefore let every man turn from his evil way, take upon you the thing that is good, and do right. |
Ecclesiastes 1:13 |
applied my mind to seek out and search for the knowledge of all things that are done under heaven. Such travail and labor hath God given to the children of men, to exercise themselves therein. |
Amos 3:6 |
Cry they out Alarum with the trumpet in the city, and the people not afraid? Cometh there any plague in a city without it be the LORD's doing? |
Job 1:20-21 |
20Then Job stood up, and rent his clothes, shaved his head, fell down upon the ground, worshipped, 21and said: Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn thither again. The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away, now blessed be the name of the LORD. |
Job 19:25-28 |
25For I am sure, that my redeemer liveth, and that I shall rise out of the earth in the latter day: 26that I shall be clothed again with this skin, and see God in my flesh. 27Yea I my self shall behold him, not with other but with these same eyes. My reins are consumed within me, 28when ye say: Why do not we persecute him? We have found an occasion against him. |
2 Corinthians 4:3-6 |
3If our Gospell be yet hid, it is hid among them that are lost, 4in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest should shine unto them the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, which is the image of God, 5for we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and preach ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6For it is God that commanded the light to shine out of darkness, which hath shined in our hearts, for to give the light of knowledge of the glorious God, in the face of Jesus Christ. |
1 John 1:5 |
And this is the tidings which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. |
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The causes that moved me to translate, I thought better that others
should imagine, then that I should rehearse them. Moreover I supposed it superfluous, for who is so blind tare why light should be shewed to them that walk in darkness, where they cannot but stumble, and where to stumble is the danger of eternal damnation, other so despiteful that he would envy any man (I speak not his brother) so necessary a thing, or so bedlam made to affirm that good is the natural cause of blindness, and deafness to proceed out of sight, and that lying should be grounded in troth and verity, and not rather seen contrary, that light destroyeth darkness, and verity reproveth all manner saying. |
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? The Scripture of God is good to teach and to improve. (2 Tim. iij. and 2 Thess. ij.) Paul speaking of Antichrist, saith, "Whom the Lord shall destroy with the spirit, or breath of his mouth;" that is, with the word of God. And (2Cor. x.) "The weapons of our war are not carnal things, (saith he) but mighty in God to cast down strongholds," and so forth; that is, to destroy high building of false doctrine. The word of God in that day whereof Paul speaketh, (1Cor. iij.) which shall declare all things, and that fire which shall try every man's work, and consume false doctrine: with that sword ought men sharply to fight, and not to rail with foolish rhymes. Let it not offend thee that some walk inordinately; let not the wickedness of Judas cause thee to despise the doctrine of his fellows. No man ought to think that Stephen was a false preacher because that Nicholas, which was chosen fellow with him (Acts vi.) to minister unto the widows, fell after into great heresies, as histories make mention. Good and evil go always together, one cannot be known without the other. {NOTE how important it is to understand the meaning of the word Good and evil in order to comprehend that statement.} |
1 John 4:8 |
He that loveth not, hath not known God: for God is love. |
Philippians 2:5-12 |
5Let the same mind be in you the which was in Christ Jesu: 6Which being in the shape of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God. 7Nevertheless he made himself of no reputation, and took on him the shape of a servant, and became like unto men, and was found in his apparel as a man. 8He humbled himself and became obedient unto the death, even the death of the cross. 9Wherefore God hath exalted him, and given him a name above all names: 10that in the name of Jesus should every knee bow, both of things in heaven, and things in earth and things under earth, 11and that all tongues should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord unto the praise of God the father. 12Wherefore my dearly beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not when I was present only, but now much more in mine absence, even so perform your own health with fear and trembling. |
Revelation 12:10-11 |
10And I heard a loud voice saying: in heaven is now made health and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: For he is cast down which accused them before God day and night: 11And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death. |
1 Corinthians 10:13 |
There hath none other temptation taken you, but such as followeth the nature of man. God is faithful, which shall not suffer you to be tempted above your strength: but shall in the midst of the temptation make a way to escape out. |
James 1:1-27 |
1James the servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sendeth greeting to the twelve tribes which are scattered here and there. 2My brethren, count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations, 3remembering how that the trying of your faith bringeth patience: 4and let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and sound, that nothing be lacking unto you. 5If any that is among you lack wisdom, let him ask of God (which giveth to all men without doubleness, and casteth no man in the teeth:) and it shall be given him: 6but let him ask in faith, and waver not. For he that doubteth is like the waves of the sea, tossed of the wind, and carried with violence. 7Neither let that man think that he shall receive any thing of God. 8A wavering minded man is unstable in all his ways. 9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted, 10and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away. 11The son riseth with heat, and the grass is withered, and his flower fallen away, and the beauty of the fashion of it is perished: even so shall the rich man perish in his abundance. 12Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 13Let no man say when he is tempted that he is tempted of God: for God tempteth not unto evil: he tempteth no man: 14But every man is tempted drawn away, and enticed of his own concupiscence. 15Then when lust hath conceived, she bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished bringeth forth death. 16Err not my dear brethren. 17Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and cometh down from the father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither is he changed unto darkness. 18Of his own will begat he us with the word of life, that we should be the first of his creatures. 19Wherefore dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. 20For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God. 21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, all superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is grafted in you, which is able to save your souls: 22And see that ye be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man that beholdeth his bodily face in a glass. 24For as soon as he hath looked on himself, he goeth his way, and hath immediately forgotten what his fashion was: 25but whosoever looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein (if he be not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work) he shall be happy in his deed. 26If any man among you seem devout, and refrain not his tongue: but deceive his own heart, this man's devotion is in vain. 27Pure devotion and undefiled before God the father, is this: To visit the friendless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. |
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SA?TAN. The word itself, the Hebrew sa?ta?n, is simply an "adversary," and is so used in 1 Sam. 29:4; 2 Sam. 19:22; 1 Kings 5:4; 11:14, 23, 25; Num. 22:22, 32; Ps. 109:6. This original sense is still found in our Lord?s application of the name to St. Peter in Matt. 16:23. It is used as a proper name or title only four times in the Old Testament, viz. (with the article) in Job 1:6, 12; 2:1; Zech. 2:1, and (without the article) in 1 Chron. 21:1. The word devil is derived from the Greek word diabolos ("to slander"), and the term devil can refer to a greater demon in the hierarchy of Hell. At the same time, the term devil is also derived from the same Indo-European root word for deva, which roughly translates as "angel." It is easy to see how modern religions adapted the satan to mean "fallen angel". Only rationalists like Maimonides and Abraham ibn Ezra, clearly denied (devils) their existence. Their point of view eventually became the mainstream Jewish understanding. |
Matthew 12:17-37 |
17to fulfil that which was spoken by Esay the prophet, which sayeth: 18Behold my son, whom I have chosen, my darling, in whom my soul hath had delight. I will put my spirit on him, and he shall shew judgement to the gentiles. 19He shall not strive, he shall not cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets, 20a bruised reed, shall he not break, and flax that beginneth to burn he shall not quench, till he send forth judgement unto victory, 21and in his name shall the gentiles trust. 22Then was brought to him, one possessed with a devil which was both blind and dumb, and he healed him, insomuch that he which was blind and dumb, both spake and saw. 23And all the people were amazed, and said: Is not this the son of David? 24 When the pharisees heard that, they said: He driveth the devils no other wise out, but by the help of belzebub the chief of the devils. 25But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them. Every kingdom divided with in itself shall be desolate. Neither shall any city or household divided against itself, continue. 26So if satan cast out satan, then is he divided against him self. How shall then his kingdom endure? 27Also if I by the help of belzebub cast out devils: by whose help do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges: 28But if I cast out the devils by the spirit of God: then is the kingdom of God come on you? 29Either how can a man enter into a mighty man's house, and violently take away his goods, except he first bind the strong man, and then spoil his house? 30He that is not with me, is against me: And he that gathereth not with me, scattereth abroad. 31Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against the holy ghost, shall not be forgiven unto men. 32And whosoever speaketh a word against the son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the holy ghost, it shall not be forgiven him: no, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. 33Either make the tree good, and his fruit good also, or else make the tree evil, and his fruit evil also. For the tree is known by his fruit. 34O generation of vipers, how can ye say well, when ye yourselves are evil? For of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. 35A good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good things. And an evil man out of his evil treasure, bringeth forth evil things. 36But I say unto you, that of every idle word, that men shall have spoken, they shall give accounts at the day of judgement. 37For by thy words thou shalt be justified: and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. |
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Da 2:41 Where as thou sawest the feet and toes, part of earth and part of iron: that is a divided kingdom, which nevertheless shall have some of the iron ground mixt with it, for so much as thou hast seen the iron mixt with the clay. |
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The Greek word daemon, daemon, appears in the works of Plato and many other ancient authors, without the evil connotations apparent in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and in the Greek originals of the New Testament. Some say that Isaiah 14:12. "How are you fallen from heaven, O bright star [or shining one], son of the morning [or son of dawn]! how are you cut down to the ground, you who ruled the nations!" is about the "devil". Part of this is due to the fact that the term bright star or shining one is translated in Latin to lucifer, which means shining one. Now, the context of the verse and a bit of knowledge of history reviels that this is about the Babylonian empire. One of the main dieties of Babylon was "Ishtar", who was the "god" who was the morning star. Shining one, son of dawn is the morning star. The prophet was avoiding the use of the name of the not-god Ishtar. Reading verse 4, "That you shall take up this proverb against the **king of Babylon,** and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!", it becomes clear that this is the king of Babylon and his nation that is being spoken of here. While this mythological information is available to scholars today via translated Babylonian cuneiform text taken from clay tablets, it was not as readily available at the time of the Latin translation of the Bible. Thus, early Christian tradition interpreted the passage as a reference to the moment Satan was thrown from Heaven. Lucifer became another name for Satan and has remained so due to Christian dogma and popular tradition. |
Isaiah 14:1-23 |
1But the LORD will be merciful unto Jacob, and will take up Israel again, and set them in their own land. Strangers shall cleave unto them, and get them to the house of Jacob. 2They shall take the people, and carry them home with them. And the house of Israel shall have them in possession for servants and maidens in the land of the LORD. They shall take those prisoners, whose captives they had been afore: and rule those that had oppressed them. 3When the LORD now shall bring thee to rest, from the travail, fear, and hard bondage that thou wast laden with all: 4Then shalt thou use this mockage upon the king of Babylon, and say: How happeneth that the oppressor leaveth off? Is the gold tribute come to an end? 5Doubtless the LORD hath broken the staff of the ungodly, and the scepter of the lordly. 6Which when he is wroth, smiteth the people with durable strokes, and in his wonders he persecuteth them, and tameth them continually. 7And therefore the whole world is at rest and quietness, and men sing for joy. 8Yea even the fir trees and Cedars of Libanus rejoice at thy fall, saying: Now that thou art laid down, there come no more up to destroy us. 9Hell also trembleth at thy coming, all mighty men and princes of the earth, step forth before thee. All kings of the earth stand up from their seats, 10that they may all (one after another) sing and speak unto thee. Art thou wounded also as we? art thou become like unto us? 11Thy pomp and thy pride is gone down to hell: Moths shall be laid under thee, and worms shall be thy covering. 12How art thou fallen from heaven, (O Lucifer) thou fair morning child? hast thou gotten a fall even to the ground, thou that (notwithstanding) didst subdue the people? 13And yet thou thoughtest in thine heart: I will climb up into heaven, and make my seat above the stars of God, I will sit upon the glorious mount toward the North, 14I will climb up above the clouds, and will be like the highest of all. 15Yet dare I lay, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell. 16They that see thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying: Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid: 17Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and laid the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home? 18How happeneth it, that the kings of all people lie, every one at home in his own palace, with worship, 19and thou art cast out of thy grave like a wild branch: like as dead men's raiment that are shot thorow with the sword: as they that go down to the stones of the deep: as a dead corpse that is trodden under feet: 20and art not buried with them? Even because that thou hast wasted thy land, and destroyed thy people. For the generation of the wicked shall be without honour, forever. 21There shall a way be sought to destroy their children, for their fathers' wickedness: They shall not rise up again to possess the land, and fill the world full of castles and towns. 22I will stand up against them, (sayeth the LORD of Hosts) and root out the name and generation of Babylon (sayeth the LORD) 23and will give it to the Otters, and will make water puddles of it. and I will sweep them out with the besom of destruction, sayeth the LORD of Hosts. |
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do Lat. alba s. f., primeiro alvor da manh?; {morning's beginning bright light} alvorada; {birds corner at dawn, or military morning sound at the cartels} dil?culo; {aurora} vestimenta talar de pano branco com que o sacerdote cat?lico celebra alguns actos do culto; {white robe that the catholic priest uses to celebrate some cult acts} t?nica dos condenados ? forca; {tunic of the condemned by force} escler?tica; {sclerotic} casta de uva; {a kind of grape} adj. f., branca. {white} estrela de -: o planeta V?nus. {star of -: the planet Venus} |
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Strong: H7837 Transliterated: shachar from 7836; dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial):--day(-spring), early, light, morning, whence riseth. Strong: H7836 Transliterated: shachar a primitive root; properly, to dawn, i.e. (figuratively) be (up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness); by extension, to search for (with painstaking):--(do something) betimes, enquire early, rise (seek) betimes, seek diligently) early, in the morning). הילל Strong: H1966 Transliterated: heylel from 1984 (in the sense of brightness); the morning-star:--lucifer. Strong: H1984 Transliterated: halal a primitive root; to be clear (orig. of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify:--(make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool(- ish, -ly), glory, give (light), be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, (sing, be worthy of) praise, rage, renowned, shine. בן Strong: H1121 Transliterated: ben from 1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.)):--+ afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth. ילל Strong: H3213 Transliterated: yalal a primitive root; to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one):--(make to) howl, be howling. |
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Lucifer
light bringing; morning star, day star, planet Venus; bringer of light; Lucifer, Satan; |
Isaiah 51:9-16 |
9Wake up, wake up, and be strong: O thou arm of the LORD: wake up, like as in times past, ever and since the world began. 10Art not thou he, that hast wounded that proud lucifer, and hewn the dragon in pieces? Art not thou even he, which hast dried up the deep of the sea, which hast made plain the sea ground, that the delivered might go thorow? 11That the redeemed of the LORD, which turned again, might come with joy unto Sion, there to endure for ever? That mirth and gladness might be with them: that sorrow and woe might flee from them? 12Yea I, I am even he, that in all things giveth you consolation. What art thou then, that fearest a mortal man, the child of man, which goeth away as doeth the flour? 13And forgetest the LORD that made thee, that spread out the heavens, and laid the foundation of the earth. But thou art ever afraid for the sight of thine oppressor, which is ready to do harm: Where is the wrath of the oppressor? 14It cometh on fast, it maketh haste to appear: It shall not perish, that it should not be able to destroy, neither shall it fail for fault of nourishing. 15I am the LORD thy God, that make the sea to be still, and to rage: whose name is the LORD of Hosts. 16I shall put my word also in thy mouth, and defend thee with the turning of my hand: that thou mayest plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Sion: Thou art my people. |
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The idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered overly polytheistic?you are setting up the devil to be a god or demigod.The notion of an angel having free will is alien to Judaism. Free will requires the tension created by being a soul dwelling in a body. People can have free will, angels can't. There is a debate over whether they lack the potential for free will, or whether they simply percieve reality to clearly to have any choices to make. But in any case, without the fence-straddling of the human condition, there is no free will. HaSatan acts as a servant of God, not as an opponent or even disobediant child. Angels cannot sin, they cannot fall. (Soc.Culture.Jewish NewsgroupsFrequently Asked Questions and Answers) The idea that there is a God in heaven above who fights against a god of the underworld, or hell, is not monotheism, however, it is the same duality found in other pagan faiths. |
Job 4:18 |
Behold there is no trust to his servants, and in his angels hath he found frowardness. |
1 Corinthians 8:5-6 |
5And though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth (as there be gods many and lords many) 6but unto us is there one God, which is the father, of whom are all things, and we in him: and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. |
Ephesians 6:12 |
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood: but against rule, against power, and against worldly rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly things. |
Matthew 12:32 |
And whosoever speaketh a word against the son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the holy ghost, it shall not be forgiven him: no, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. |
Mark 3:28-30 |
28Verily I say unto you all sins shall be forgiven unto men's children: and blasphemy, wherewith they blaspheme: 29but he that blasphemeth the holy ghost, shall never have forgiveness: but is in danger of eternal damnation. 30For they said, he had an unclean spirit. |
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Second :... He maintains that to believe in the forgiveness of sins and to embrace the mercy offered in the Gospel, is enough for salvation. Third :.... He avers that human traditions cannot bind the conscience, except where their neglect might occasion scandal. Fourth :... He denies the freedom of the will. Fifth :.... He denies that there is any purgatory. Sixth :.... He affirms that neither the virgin nor the saints pray for us in their own person. Seventh :. He asserts that neither the virgin nor the saints should be invoked by us. |
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Ye are of God little children, and have overcome them. For greater is he that is in you, then he that is in the world. (1Jo 4:4)
He that dwelleth in you and worketh in you through faith, is greater then he which dwelleth and worketh in them through unbelief. And in his strength ye abide by your profession, and confess your Lord Jesus, how he came in the flesh and hath purged the sin of all that believe in his flesh. And through that faith ye overcome them - even in the very torments of death. So that neither their deceptions, neither their pleasures, neither their threatenings, or their torments, or the very death wherewith they slay your bodies, can prevail against you. They be of the world, and therefore they speak of the world, and the world attendeth {i.e. listens and heeds} unto them. We bee of God: and hee that knoweth God heareth us. And he that is not of God heareth us not. And hereby we know the spirit of truth and the spirite of errour. There are only two kinds of men in the world: Those who belong to God and those who belong to the devil There be and ever shall be two generations in the world: one of the devil, which naturally hearken unto the false Apostles of the devil because they speak so agreeably unto their natural complexion. And another of God, which harken unto the true Apostles of God, consenting to their doctrine. And this is a sure rule by which to judge all spirits, that we judge them to have the spirit of truth, which harken unto the true doctrine of Christ?s Apostles; and also to judge them to have the spirit of error which hearken unto worldly and devilish doctrine, abhorring the preaching of the Apostles. And see whether the pope?s doctrine be worldly or not, if pride and covetousness be worldly, ye and LECHERY, too. For what else do his doctrines consist of but benefices, promotions, dignities, bishoprics, cardinalships, vicarages, parsonages, prebends, change of bishoprics, resigning of benefices, of unions, pluralities, and that which cometh once into their hands may not leave their hands; yea, and of WHORES and CONCUBINES, and of capturing the consciences of the covetous. All that hearken to that doctrine abhor the doctrine of the Apostles, persecuting it and them that preach it?? ??.Herein appeared the love of God unto us warde, because God sent his only sonne into the world, that we should live through hym. Herein is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent hys sonne, a satisfaction for our synnes. Man?s free will decision for Christ a damnable lie If a man had once felt within his conscience the fierce wrath of God toward sinners, and the terrible and most cruel damnation that the law threatens: and then beheld with the eyes of a strong faith, the merciful favor and gracious taking away of the damnation of the law and the restoring again of life, freely offered us in Christ?s blood, he should perceive love, and so much the more, that it was showed us when we were sinners and enemies of God, Romans 5, and that with all deservings, without our endeavoring, enforcing and preparing ourselves, without all good motions, qualities and properties of our freewill. But [he loved us] when our hearts were as dead unto all good working, as the members of him whose soul is departed. This truth I will prove to stop the blasphemous mouths of our adversaries [who preach man?s freewill love of God]. I will from innumerable texts rehearse but one found in the beginning of the second chapter to the Ephesians, where Paul saith thus, Ye were dead in trespass and sin in which ye walked according to the course of the world and after the governor who ruleth in the air, the spirit that worketh in the children of unbelief, among which we also had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of our flesh and of the mind (so that the flesh and the mind were in agreement to sin, the mind consenting as well as the flesh) and were by nature the children of wrath as well as others. But God being rich in mercy, through the great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sin, hath quickened us with Christ: for by grace are ye saved: and with him hath raised us by and with him made us sit in heavenly things through Jesus Christ, for to show in time to come the exceeding riches of his grace, in kindness to usward in Jesus Christ. For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: for it is the gift of God, and commeth not of works, lest any man should boast himself. But we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, unto which God ordained us before that we should walk in them. The text is plain. We were stone dead and without life or power to do or consent to good. Our whole nature was captive under the devil and led of his will. And we were as wicked as the devil now is (except he now sinneth against the holy ghost) and we consented unto sin with soul and body, and hated the law of God. But God of his grace only quickened us in Christ, and raised us out of that death and made us sit with Christ in heavenly things. That is, he set our hearts at rest and made us sit secure in the life of Christ?s doctrine, immoveable from the love of Christ. And finally, our second birth is God?s workmanship and creation in Christ, so that as he which is yet unmade hath no life nor power to work, neither did we until we were made again in Christ. The preaching of mercy in Christ quickened our hearts through faith, wrought by the spirit of Christ which God placed in our hearts before we were wise??. |
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Through His prophet Isaiah, God profoundly states, "I form light and create darkness, I make peace and CREATE evil; I am God, I do all these things" (Isaiah 45:7) Isa 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.. |
Heman wrote: |
Consider this: If there were such an opponent and foe of God (Satan) as Christianity claims, don't you think God is capable of eliminating His created angel with a mere breath - or thought (anthropomorphically speaking)? If God spoke him (Satan) into existence; God could simply quit speaking and Satan would simply cease to exist. (Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets, Jewish Publication Society, 1962, Philip Birnbaum, Encyclopedia of Jewish Concepts, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1991, Aryeh Kaplan, Jewish Meditation, Schocken Books, 1985.). |
Isaiah 55:8-11 |
8For thus sayeth the LORD: my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways, 9but as far as the heavens are higher than the earth, so far do my ways exceed yours, and my thoughts yours. 10And like as the rain and snow cometh down from heaven, and returneth not thither again, but watereth the earth, maketh it fruitful and green, that it may give corn and bread unto the sower: 11So the word also that cometh out of my mouth shall not turn again void unto me, but shall accomplish my will and prosper in the thing, whereto I sent it. |
Mark 13:31-32 |
31Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass. 32But of the day and the hour, knoweth no man: no not the angels which are in heaven: neither the son himself, save the father only. |
Heman wrote: |
In the first entrance of evil into the world, the temptation is referred only to the serpent who spoke as moved just as Balaam in Nu 22:27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam?s anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. Nu 22:28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? |
Numbers 22:29-33 |
29And Balam said unto the Ass: because thou hast mocked me? I would that I had a sword in mine hand, that I might now kill thee. 30And the ass said unto Balam: am not I thine Ass which thou hast ridden upon since thou wast born unto this day? Was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, nay. 31And the LORD opened the eyes of Balam that he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand. And he bowed himself and fell flat on his face. 32And the angel of the LORD said unto him: Wherefore smitest thou thine ass this three times? behold, I came out to resist thee, for the way is contrary unto me, 33and the ass saw me and avoided me three times: or else (had she not turned from me) I had surely slain thee and saved her alive. |
Jude 1:11-21 |
11Woe be unto them, for they have followed the way of Cain, and are spilt in the error of Balaam for lucre's sake, and are cast away in the treason of Core. 12These are spots which of your kindness feast together, without fear, feeding themselves. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds: Trees rotten in autumn, unfruitfull, twice dead, and plucked up by the roots. 13They are raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. They are wandering stars, to whom is reserved the mist of darkness for ever. 14Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied before of such saying: Behold, the Lord shall come with thousands of saints, 15to give judgement against all men, and to rebuke all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their cruel speakings, which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. 16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts, whose mouth's speak proud things. They have men in great reverence because of advantage. 17But ye beloved remember the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18how that they told you that there should be beguilers in the last time, which should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19These are makers of sects, natural, having no spirit. 20But ye dearly beloved, edify yourselves in your most wholy faith, praying in the wholy ghost, 21and keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal life. |
Heman wrote: |
In the book of Job we find for the first time a distinct mention of "Ha-Satan," the "adversary" of Job. But it is important to remark the emphatic stress laid on the subordinate position, on the absence of all but delegated power, of all terror and all grandeur in it's character. It is especially remarkable that no power of spiritual influence, but only a power over outward circumstances, is attributed to ha-satan. The subordination and inferiority are as strongly marked as ever |
1 Corinthians 1:17-21 |
17For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should have been made of none effect. 18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness: but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. 19For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will cast away the understanding of the prudent. 20Where is the wise man? where is the scribe? where is the searcher of this world? Hath not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness? 21For when the world thorow wisdom knew not God, in the wisdom of God: it pleased God thorow foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. |
2 Corinthians 11:3-7 |
3But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve, thorow his subtlety, even so your wits should be corrupt from the singleness that is in Christ. 4For if he that cometh to you preach another Jesus than him whom we preached: or if ye receive another spirit than that which ye have received: either another gospel than that ye have received, ye might right well have been content. 5I suppose that I was not behind the chief apostles. 6Though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge. How be it among you we are known to the utmost what we are in all things. 7Did I therein sin, because I submitted myself, that ye might be exalted? and because I preached the gospel to you free? |
Heman wrote: |
Of the nature and original state of "Ha-Satan",nothing is revealed in Scripture. As to the time, cause, and manner of his fall Scripture again tells us nothing; but it describes to us distinctly the moral nature of the evil one. The ideal of goodness is made up of the three great moral attributes of God?love, truth, and purity or holiness; combined with that spirit which is the natural temper of the finite and dependent creature, the spirit of faith. We find, accordingly, that the opposites of these qualities are dwelt upon as the characteristics of the Ha-satan. |
Ezekiel 28:11-19 |
11Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 12Thou son of man, make a lamentable complaint over the king of Tyre, and tell him: Thus sayeth the Lord GOD: Thou art a seal of a likeness, full of wisdom and excellent beauty. 13Thou hast been in the pleasure garden of God: thou art decked with all manner of precious stones: with Ruby, Topas, Crystal, Jacinth, Onyx, Jaspis, Sapphire, Smaragde, Carbuncle, and gold. Thy beauty and the holes that be in thee were set forth in the day of thy creation. 14Thou art a fair Cherub, stretched wide out for to cover. I have set thee upon the holy mount of God, there hast thou been, and walked among the fair glistering stones. 15From the time of thy creation thou hast been right excellent, till wickedness was found in thee. 16Because of thy great merchandise, thy heart is full of wickedness, and thou hast offended. Therefore will I cast thee from the mount of God (O thou covering Cherub) and destroy thee among the glistering stones. 17Thy heart was proud in thy fair beauty, and thorow thy beauty thou hast destroyed thy wisdom. I will cast thee down to the ground, and that in the sight of kings. 18Thou hast defiled thy Sanctuary, with the great wickedness of thy unrighteous occupying. I will bring a fire from the middest of thee, to consume thee: and will make thee to ashes, in the sight of all them that look upon thee. 19All they that have been acquainted with thee among the Heathen, shall be abashed at thee: seeing thou art so clean brought to naught, and comest no more up. |
heman wrote: |
The indirect action of ha-satan is best discerned by an examination of the title by which it is designated in Scripture. It is called emphatically in the Hebrew sa?ta?n and is simply an "adversary," . The derivation of the word in itself implies only the endeavor to break the bonds between others and "set them at variance"; but common usage adds to this general sense the special idea of "setting at variance by slander." The subject of a test is illustrated, not only by abstract statements, but also by the record of the temptations (tests) of Adam and of our Lord. It is expressly laid down, as in James 1:13-16, that "temptation," is properly so called, "sin". Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. |
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The 'popular' image of the Devil has no Biblical basis. The belief in huge creatures/monsters inhabiting the deep was widespread throughout the ancient world. The sea serpent is a mythological and legendary marine animal that is traditionally thought to resemble an enormous snake. In the Old Testament there are several allusions to a primordial combat between God and a monstrous adversary variously named Leviathan or Rahab. At one place in the Old Testament, the Leviathan appears as a multi-headed sea serpent that is killed by God and given as food to the Hebrews in the wilderness. Certain Jewish legends consider leviathan as an androgynous dragon that seduced Eve in its male form, and Adam in its female form. In demonology a leviathan is any aquatic demon. They are great liars. Leviathans can also possess persons, being very difficult to exorcise; they try to possess every person, but especially women. Some biblical scholars considered Leviathan to represent the pre-existent forces of chaos. In Psalm 74:13-14 it says "it was You who drove back the sea with Your might, who smashed the heads of the monsters in the waters; it was You who crushed the heads of Leviathan, who left him as food for the creatures of the wilderness. (JPS edition)" God drove back the waters of the pre-existent Earth (Genesis 1:2 "the earth being unformed and void with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water-" [JPS edition]) and destroyed the chaotic marine monster Leviathan in order to shape the unformed and void Earth in his liking. DEMONIACS. This word is frequently used in the New Testament, and applied to persons suffering under the possession of a demon or evil spirit, such possession generally showing itself visibly in bodily disease or mental derangement. It has been maintained by many persons that our Lord and the evangelists, in referring to demonical possession, spoke only in accommodation to the general belief of the Jews. It is concluded that, since the symptoms of the affliction were frequently those of bodily disease (as dumbness, Matt. 9:32; blindness, Matt. 12:22; epilepsy, Mark 9:17-27), or those seen in cases of ordinary insanity (as in Matt. 8:28; Mark 5:1-5), the demoniacs were merely persons suffering under unusual diseases of body and mind. But demoniacs are frequently distinguished from those afflicted with bodily sickness, see Mark 1:32; 16:17, 18; Luke 6:17, 18; the same outward signs are sometimes referred to possession, sometimes merely to disease, comp. Matt. 4:24 with 17:15; Matt. 12:22 with Mark 7:32, etc.; the demons are represented as speaking in their own persons just like Ballam's donkey. Matt. 8:29; Mark 1:24; 5:7; Luke 4:41, etc. All these things speak of a personal power of evil. Twice our Lord distinctly connects demoniacal possession with the adversary. Luke 10:18. Lastly, the single fact recorded of the entrance of the demons at Gadara, Mark 5:10-14, into the herd of swine, and the effect which that entrance caused, is sufficient to overthrow the notion that our Lord and the evangelists do not assert or imply any objective reality of possession. We are led, therefore, to the ordinary and literal interpretation of these passages, that the subjects of the adversary, who, in the days of the Lord himself and his apostles especially, were permitted by God to exercise a direct influence over certain men. |
Joshua 10:12-14 |
12Then spake Josua unto the LORD, the day when the LORD delivered the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of all Israel: Son stand thou still upon Gabaon, and thou Moon, in the valley of Aialon. 13And the sun abode, and the moon stood still, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the righteous, how that the son abode in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down by the space of a whole day. 14And there was no day like that, before it, or after it, that the LORD obeyed the voice of a man: and all because the LORD fought for Israel. |
1 Corinthians 13:12 |
Now we see in a glass even in a dark speaking: but then shall we see face to face. Now I know unperfectly: but then shall I know even as I am known. |
1 John 3:2-3 |
2Dearly beloved, now are we the sons of God, and yet it hath not appear what we shall be. But we know that when it shall appear, we shall be like him. For we shall see him as he is. 3And every man that hath this hope in him, purgeth himself, even as he is pure. |
2 Corinthians 3:6 |
which hath made us able to minister the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. |
Luke 22:41-44 |
41And he gat himself from them, about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, 42saying: Father if thou wilt, withdraw this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will; But thine be fulfilled. 43And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, comforting him. 44And he was in agony, and prayed somewhat longer. And his sweat was like drops of blood, trickling down to the ground. |
1 Corinthians 15:20-28 |
20 Now is Christ risen from death, and is become the first fruits of them that slept. 21For by a man came death, and by a man came resurrection of death. 22For as by Adam all die: even so by Christ, shall all be made alive, 23and every man in his own order: The first is Christ, then they that are Christ's at his coming. 24Then cometh the end, when he hath delivered up the kingdom to God the father, when he hath put down all rule, authority, and power. 25For he must rule till he have put all his enemies under his feet. 26The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 27For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest, that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28When all things are subdued unto him: then shall the son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all things. |
John 8:42-51 |
42Jesus said unto them: if God were your father, then would ye have loved me. For I proceeded forth and come from God. Neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot abide the hearing of my words. 44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father, ye will follow: He was a murderer from the beginning; And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, then speaketh he of his own. For he is a liar, and the father thereof. 45And because I tell you the truth, therefore believe ye not me. 46Which of you can rebuke me of sin? If I say the truth, why do not ye believe me? 47He that is of God, heareth God's words. Ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. 48Then answered the jews and said unto him: Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast the devil? 49Jesus answered: I have not the devil: but I honour my father, and ye have dishonored me. 50I seek not mine own praise: There is one that seeketh it and judgeth. 51Verily, verily I say unto you, if a man keep my sayings, he shall never see death. |
Colossians 1:18 |
And he is the head of the body, that is to wit of the congregation, he is the beginning and first begotten of the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence. |
Revelation 1:18 |
and am alive, and was dead. And behold I am alive for evermore, and have the keys of hell and of death. |
Hosea 13:14 |
had not I defended him from the grave, and delivered him from death. O death, I will be thy death: O hell, I will be thy sting. |
1 Corinthians 15:55-57 |
55Death where is thy sting? Hell where is thy victory? 56The sting of death is sin. The strength of sin is the law: 57But thanks be unto God, which hath given us victory thorow our Lord Jesus Christ. |
Isaiah 25:8 |
As for death he shall utterly consume it. The Lord GOD shall wipe away the tears from all faces, and take away the confusion of his people thorow the whole world. For the LORD himself hath said it. |
heman wrote: |
Notwithstanding: God controls the world;
Isa 13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 19 ? And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees? excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Isa 14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 22 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. 24 ? The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: And using the very same language we read: Eze 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: Eze 26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. Eze 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: Eze 28:12 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. And the PURPOSE for the destruction of Tyre: Eze 28:25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. 26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God. What are we to understand by "the devil" so often mentioned in the Bible, and, spoken of in the "third personal pronoun, singular, masculine gender"? This is the question now demanding an answer, and the demand will be met by facts which will show the impossibility of the existence of the devil of popular superstition. The theology of Christendom places the devil in juxtaposition with God. It is the polytheism of paganism in its smallest form: and the philosophy of the ancients embodied in names and forms supplied by the Bible. The doctrine of the devil has as intimate a bearing upon the truth of Christ as the doctrine of God. First, the orthodox point of view: He is the great nightmare, the great object of terror, the great fowler, with net-snare, exerting his utmost cunning and device--which are something superhuman--to entrap souls. Cruden describes him as "a most wicked angel, the implacable enemy and tempter of the human race... deadly in. his malice, surprisingly subtle possessing strength superior to ours, having a mighty number of principalities and powers under his command . . . He roves, full of rage, like a roaring lion, seeking to tempt, to betray, to destroy us, and to involve us in guilt and wickedness . . . In a word, he is an enemy to God and man, and uses his utmost endeavours to rob God of His glory, and men of their souls." Common belief assigns something like omniscience to the evil being thus described; he is regarded as universally at work. He is also believed to be, in some sense, omnipotent, achieving his behests by a power superior to nature, and certainly more successfully than God in the mutual strife for human souls. From the second point of view: No one acquainted with the teaching of the New Testament will dispute, that it is necessary to understand and believe the truth concerning Christ. James, speaking of himself, and those who were Christ's, says, "Of his own will begat he us with the word o! truth" (James 1:18). Now, this truth is styled "the word of the truth of the gospel" (Col. 1:5), "by which also ye are saved" (I Cor. 15: 2). Therefore, the gospel consists of "the kingdom of God and those things that concern our Lord Jesus Christ" (Acts 28:31), elsewhere styled, "the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ" (Acts 8:12). From this it follows, that for a man to believe the gospel, which is the power of God unto salvation (Rom. 1:16), he must believe the truth concerning Jesus Christ. In view of this, let us ponder the following testimonies :-- "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL" (I John 3:8). "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, (Jesus) also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might DESTROY HIM THAT HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE DEVIL" (Heb.2:14). Is it possible to believe the truth concerning Christ, and be ignorant of the nature of the devil that he was expressly manifested to destroy with his works? It is unnecessary to answer the question. It is necessary to put it for the purpose of shewing that the doctrine of the devil (in whatever form the truth of the matter may be found to exist) is so far from being an unimportant matter, that it is one of the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, ignorance of which argues a fatal want of knowledge in relation to the first of divine principles. The doctrine of the devil is not an "advanced" subject, but bears upon the most elementary aspects of divine truth. Now, we make bold at once to assert that the popular doctrine of a personal devil has no foundation whatever in truth, but is the hideous conception of the heathen mind, inherited by the moderns from the mythologies of the ancients, and incorporated with Christianity by those "men of corrupt minds," who, Paul predicted, would pervert the truth, "giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils" (1 Tim. 4:1). In the first place, there are certain general principles which exclude the possibility of the devil's existence. "The wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6:23). "Sin entered into the world, and DEATH by sin" (Rom. 5:12). This is an eternal principle; death and sin are inseparable. "God ONLY hath immortality" (I Tim. 6:16). Therefore, the angels which kept not their first estate, were cast down to hell (the grave), and reserved under chains of darkness (the bonds of death)--(Jude 6; II Peter 2:2, 4), therefore Adam was sentenced to return to the ground (Gen. 3:19). An immortal rebel is an impossibility. With God is the fountain of life (Psalm 36:9). "In His hand is the life of every living thing" (Job12:10), and He cuts away the life that is lifted against Him; He consigns all disobedience and sin to death. Will it be suggested that God has made an exception in the case of the devil? The Bible devil is a sinner (1 John3:8): therefore the devil cannot be immortal. God is no respecter of persons, whether of men or angels. Therefore the operation of His law, which links death with sin, would destroy the devil if he were a person; "for the devil sinneth from the beginning," and must, therefore, have been mortal from the beginning. The theory of an immortal, supernatural devil, who was once an angel, has an air of plausibility and consistency about it, when not scanned too closely; but the idea of a mortal devil--who never was anything but a sinner himself---entrusted 'with a general jurisdiction over other sinners (for it is said he has the power of death and disease), for the purpose, not of dispensing the divine law, but of antagonising the Deity in His dealings with the human race--doing all he can to afflict and damn those whom Deity is represented as striving to save, is something exceedingly difficult to conceive. If this is the Bible devil, why was it necessary that Jesus should die to compass his destruction? He took part of flesh and blood, that "THROUGH DEATH he might destroy him that hath the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2:14). Why through death? If the devil is a being separate from mankind, what had the immolation of flesh and blood on Calvary to do with the process of his destruction? If he were the strong, personal, active power of evil contended for, it wanted strength, and not weakness, to put him down. It wanted "the nature of angels," and not "the seed of Abraham," to enter into a successful encounter with "the personal power of darkness." But Jesus, to destroy him, was manifested in the flesh, and submitted to death. Victory crowned his efforts, and the devil was destroyed. The doctrine of God's existence; of His creative power; of His relation to His universe, is not only implied in the appellations He appropriates to Himself, but expressly propounded. Isa 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me. The narrative of creation exhibits the natural serpent, "more subtle than any BEAST OF THE FIELD which the Lord God had made" (Gen. 3:1), as the tempter. The creature was endowed with the gift of speech (no doubt, specially with a view to the part it had to perform in putting our first parents to the test). To suggest that the serpent was Satan in reptile form is again to go beyond the record, and enter a region where one guess or one assertion is as good as another. The idea is forbidden by the sentence which condemns the serpent to eat dust all the days of its life. Paul evidently recognised nothing beyond the serpent in the transaction. "I fear," says he, "lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty," etc. (II Cor. 11:3). Some people make a great difficulty about the serpent speaking; but surely there is as much difficulty about a serpent speaking under satanic inspiration as in one speaking by faculty divinely conferred for a purpose. If a "dumb ass, speaking with man's voice, forbad the madness" of a Balaam----(II Pet. 2:16)--why not a serpent be enabled to utter its thoughts when it was necessary to try the faithfulness of Adam and Eve? How otherwise could they be put to trial? It is commonly believed that the devil was once a powerful arch-angel, and that he was driven out of heaven on account of his pride; after which, he applied his angelic energies to oppose God in all His schemes and movements, and do as much evil as he could in the universe, being assisted in this by a host of angelic sympathisers, who were driven down to hell along with him. The case of the fallen angels is largely relied upon:.-- "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" (II Pet. 2:4). .. "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" (Jude 6). This is all the information we have on the subject. It is scanty and obscure, but, such as it is, it points in a very different direction and to a very different occurrence from that indicated in popular tradition. It does not tell of angels being expelled from heaven to engage in marauding expeditions against human interests and divine authority, wherever their caprice might lead them; but of disobedient angels, not necessarily in heaven, being degraded from their position, and confined in the grave against a time of judgment. It speaks of them as in custody, "in chains of darkness "--a metaphor highly expressive of the bondage of death--in which they are held and from which they will emerge, to be judged, at a time when the saints shall sit in judgment (I Cor. 6:3). Superficial believers in the Miltonic antecedents of "the Prince of Darkness," quote Rev. 12:7, in proof of them :-- "And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon, and the Dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven; and the great Dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." The things seen by John in "Revelation" were representative of events future to his time. This is evident from Rev. 4:1: "Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter." Hence, how absurd to quote any of his descriptions as applicable to an event alleged to have occurred before the creation of the world! |
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Notwithstanding: God controls the world; |
1 Peter 3:10-17 |
10For whoso listeth to love life, and to see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips, that they speak not guile: 11Let him eschew evil and do good: let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord beholdeth them that do evil. 13Moreover who is it that will harm you if ye follow that which is good? 14Notwithstanding happy are ye if ye suffer for righteousness' sake. Nevertheless fear not though they seem terrible unto you, neither be troubled: 15but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that ye have, and that with meekness and fear: 16having a good conscience, that when they backbite you as evil doers, they may be ashamed, forasmuch as they have falsely accused your good conversation in Christ. 17It is better (if the will of God be so) that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. |
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Isa 13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 19 ? And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees? excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. Isa 14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 22 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. 24 ? The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: And using the very same language we read: Eze 26:2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: Eze 26:3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. Eze 28:2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: Eze 28:12 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. And the PURPOSE for the destruction of Tyre: Eze 28:25 Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. 26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God. |
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What are we to understand by "the devil" so often mentioned in the Bible, and, spoken of in the "third personal pronoun, singular, masculine gender"? This is the question now demanding an answer, and the demand will be met by facts which will show the impossibility of the existence of the devil of popular superstition. The theology of Christendom places the devil in juxtaposition with God. |
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"juxtaposition" [L. juxta near + positio position:] A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. --Noah Webster's dictionary |
Heman wrote: |
It is the polytheism of paganism in its smallest form: and the philosophy of the ancients embodied in names and forms supplied by the Bible. The doctrine of the devil has as intimate a bearing upon the truth of Christ as the doctrine of God. First, the orthodox point of view: He is the great nightmare, the great object of terror, the great fowler, with net-snare, exerting his utmost cunning and device--which are something superhuman--to entrap souls. Cruden describes him as "a most wicked angel, the implacable enemy and tempter of the human race... deadly in. his malice, surprisingly subtle possessing strength superior to ours, having a mighty number of principalities and powers under his command . . . He roves, full of rage, like a roaring lion, seeking to tempt, to betray, to destroy us, and to involve us in guilt and wickedness . . . In a word, he is an enemy to God and man, and uses his utmost endeavours to rob God of His glory, and men of their souls." Common belief assigns something like omniscience to the evil being thus described; he is regarded as universally at work. He is also believed to be, in some sense, omnipotent, achieving his behests by a power superior to nature, and certainly more successfully than God in the mutual strife for human souls. |
2 Corinthians 3:4-6 |
4Such trust have we thorow Christ to Godward, 5not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as it were of ourselves: but our ableness cometh of God, 6which hath made us able to minister the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. |
Heman wrote: |
From the second point of view: No one acquainted with the teaching of the New Testament will dispute, that it is necessary to understand and believe the truth concerning Christ. James, speaking of himself, and those who were Christ's, says, "Of his own will begat he us with the word o! truth" (James 1:18). Now, this truth is styled "the word of the truth of the gospel" (Col. 1:5), "by which also ye are saved" (I Cor. 15: 2). Therefore, the gospel consists of "the kingdom of God and those things that concern our Lord Jesus Christ" (Acts 28:31), elsewhere styled, "the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ" (Acts 8:12). From this it follows, that for a man to believe the gospel, which is the power of God unto salvation (Rom. 1:16), he must believe the truth concerning Jesus Christ. In view of this, let us ponder the following testimonies :-- "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL" (I John 3:8). "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, (Jesus) also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might DESTROY HIM THAT HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE DEVIL" (Heb.2:14). Is it possible to believe the truth concerning Christ, and be ignorant of the nature of the devil that he was expressly manifested to destroy with his works? It is unnecessary to answer the question. It is necessary to put it for the purpose of shewing that the doctrine of the devil (in whatever form the truth of the matter may be found to exist) is so far from being an unimportant matter, that it is one of the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, ignorance of which argues a fatal want of knowledge in relation to the first of divine principles. The doctrine of the devil is not an "advanced" subject, but bears upon the most elementary aspects of divine truth. Now, we make bold at once to assert that the popular doctrine of a personal devil has no foundation whatever in truth, but is the hideous conception of the heathen mind, inherited by the moderns from the mythologies of the ancients, and incorporated with Christianity by those "men of corrupt minds," who, Paul predicted, would pervert the truth, "giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils" (1 Tim. 4:1). In the first place, there are certain general principles which exclude the possibility of the devil's existence. "The wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6:23). "Sin entered into the world, and DEATH by sin" (Rom. 5:12). This is an eternal principle; death and sin are inseparable. "God ONLY hath immortality" (I Tim. 6:16). Therefore, the angels which kept not their first estate, were cast down to hell (the grave), and reserved under chains of darkness (the bonds of death)--(Jude 6; II Peter 2:2, 4), therefore Adam was sentenced to return to the ground (Gen. 3:19). An immortal rebel is an impossibility. With God is the fountain of life (Psalm 36:9). "In His hand is the life of every living thing" (Job12:10), and He cuts away the life that is lifted against Him; He consigns all disobedience and sin to death. Will it be suggested that God has made an exception in the case of the devil? The Bible devil is a sinner (1 John3:8): therefore the devil cannot be immortal. God is no respecter of persons, whether of men or angels. Therefore the operation of His law, which links death with sin, would destroy the devil if he were a person; "for the devil sinneth from the beginning," and must, therefore, have been mortal from the beginning. The theory of an immortal, supernatural devil, who was once an angel, has an air of plausibility and consistency about it, when not scanned too closely; but the idea of a mortal devil--who never was anything but a sinner himself---entrusted 'with a general jurisdiction over other sinners (for it is said he has the power of death and disease), for the purpose, not of dispensing the divine law, but of antagonising the Deity in His dealings with the human race--doing all he can to afflict and damn those whom Deity is represented as striving to save, is something exceedingly difficult to conceive. If this is the Bible devil, why was it necessary that Jesus should die to compass his destruction? He took part of flesh and blood, that "THROUGH DEATH he might destroy him that hath the power of death, that is, the devil" (Heb. 2:14). Why through death? If the devil is a being separate from mankind, what had the immolation of flesh and blood on Calvary to do with the process of his destruction? If he were the strong, personal, active power of evil contended for, it wanted strength, and not weakness, to put him down. It wanted "the nature of angels," and not "the seed of Abraham," to enter into a successful encounter with "the personal power of darkness." But Jesus, to destroy him, was manifested in the flesh, and submitted to death. Victory crowned his efforts, and the devil was destroyed. |
Revelation 12:12 |
Therefore rejoice heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth, and of the sea: for the devil is come down unto you which hath great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. |
Heman wrote: |
The doctrine of God's existence; of His creative power; of His relation to His universe, is not only implied in the appellations He appropriates to Himself, but expressly propounded. Isa 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Isa 46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me. The narrative of creation exhibits the natural serpent, "more subtle than any BEAST OF THE FIELD which the Lord God had made" (Gen. 3:1), as the tempter. The creature was endowed with the gift of speech (no doubt, specially with a view to the part it had to perform in putting our first parents to the test). To suggest that the serpent was Satan in reptile form is again to go beyond the record, and enter a region where one guess or one assertion is as good as another. The idea is forbidden by the sentence which condemns the serpent to eat dust all the days of its life. Paul evidently recognised nothing beyond the serpent in the transaction. "I fear," says he, "lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty," etc. (II Cor. 11:3). Some people make a great difficulty about the serpent speaking; but surely there is as much difficulty about a serpent speaking under satanic inspiration as in one speaking by faculty divinely conferred for a purpose. If a "dumb ass, speaking with man's voice, forbad the madness" of a Balaam----(II Pet. 2:16)--why not a serpent be enabled to utter its thoughts when it was necessary to try the faithfulness of Adam and Eve? How otherwise could they be put to trial? It is commonly believed that the devil was once a powerful arch-angel, and that he was driven out of heaven on account of his pride; after which, he applied his angelic energies to oppose God in all His schemes and movements, and do as much evil as he could in the universe, being assisted in this by a host of angelic sympathisers, who were driven down to hell along with him. |
2 Corinthians 11:3-6 |
3But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve, thorow his subtlety, even so your wits should be corrupt from the singleness that is in Christ. 4For if he that cometh to you preach another Jesus than him whom we preached: or if ye receive another spirit than that which ye have received: either another gospel than that ye have received, ye might right well have been content. 5I suppose that I was not behind the chief apostles. 6Though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge. How be it among you we are known to the utmost what we are in all things. |
Heman wrote: |
The case of the fallen angels is largely relied upon:.-- "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" (II Pet. 2:4). .. "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" (Jude 6). This is all the information we have on the subject. It is scanty and obscure, but, such as it is, it points in a very different direction and to a very different occurrence from that indicated in popular tradition. It does not tell of angels being expelled from heaven to engage in marauding expeditions against human interests and divine authority, wherever their caprice might lead them; but of disobedient angels, not necessarily in heaven, being degraded from their position, and confined in the grave against a time of judgment. It speaks of them as in custody, "in chains of darkness "--a metaphor highly expressive of the bondage of death--in which they are held and from which they will emerge, to be judged, at a time when the saints shall sit in judgment (I Cor. 6:3). Superficial believers in the Miltonic antecedents of "the Prince of Darkness," quote Rev. 12:7, in proof of them :-- "And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon, and the Dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven; and the great Dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." |
Matthew 8:14-17 |
14And Jesus went to Peter's house, and saw his wife's mother lying sick of a fever, 15and he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them. 16When the even was come they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all that were sick, 17to fulfil that which was spoken by Esay the prophet saying: he took on him our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. |
Luke 10:17-18 |
17 The seventy returned again with joy saying: Lord even the very devils are subdued to us thorow thy name. 18And he said unto them: I saw sathan, as it had been lightning, fall down from heaven. |
Heman wrote: |
The things seen by John in "Revelation" were representative of events future to his time. This is evident from Rev. 4:1: "Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter." Hence, how absurd to quote any of his descriptions as applicable to an event alleged to have occurred before the creation of the world! STAY TUNED....MORE TO COME! |
heman wrote: |
Part II The classes of people who refer to Rev 12 in support of a personal devil, also quote Isaiah 14:12-15, and Ezek. 28:11-15; but these Scriptures have even less to do with the subject than Rev. 12. In both cases, if the reader will read the whole chapter he will find the personage addressed is an earthly potentate--in one case the King of Babylon, and in the other, the Prince of Tyre. No account of the existence of such an influence is exposed in God's extensive communing with His chosen nation. This is one of the strongest evidences that it is a fiction. If there is no such devil, what are we to understand by "the devil" so often mentioned in the Bible, and, spoken of in the "third personal pronoun, singular, masculine gender"? Devil, in the singular number, only occurs in the New Testament; Satan is found in both Old (4 times only) and New. This conclusion is borne out by its uses in the Hebrew Bible. The first place where it occurs is Num. 22;22 :--"And God's anger was kindled because he (Balaam) went; and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary (SATAN) against him." In this case, Satan was a holy angel. Understanding "Satan" to mean adversary in its simple and general sense, we can see how this could be; but, understanding it as the evil being of popular belief, it would be a different matter. In one or two other cases, however, they have not translated the word, but simply transferred it in its Hebrew form, unaltered, to the English version, thus mystifying the idea of the original, and giving countenance to the popular satanic theory. A notable instance of this is found in the narrative of Job's trials. "Satan" here plays a conspicuous part, and of course, the common English reader thinks of the creature variously denominated the Devil, or Lucifer. If you will substitute "the adversary" for "Satan," which is done marginally in recent editions of the Bible, he will read strictly according to the original, and escape popular theory of a devil. But who was the adversary, it may be asked, who proved such a terror to Job, against whom he exerted such power? He was not the arch-fiend, who is represented to be on the alert to catch immortal souls, and drag them into his fiery hold; for he had his eye on Job's estate and effects, and ultimately got his envious malice to take effect on Job's body. The probability is he was a powerful magnate of the time--a professed fellow of the sons of God--but an envious and despiteful malignant, who looked on Job with evil eye, and sought to effect his ruin. But, you say, what about the calamities of tempest and disease that befell Job? Was it in the power of a mortal man to control these? The answer is these were God's doings, and not the adversary's. "Thou movedst ME against him, to destroy him without cause" (chapter 2:3). This is the language in which God describes Satan's transaction in the matter. It was God who inflicted the calamities at the adversary's instigation. This is Job's view of the case: Job 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? "Have pity upon me, O ye my friends," says he, "THE HAND OF GOD hath touched me" (chapter 19:21). And the narrator, in concluding the book, says: "Then came there unto him all his brethren... and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil THAT THE LORD HAD BROUGHT UPON HIM" (chapter 42:11). God can delegate miraculous power even to mortal man. The three other cases in which Satan is untranslated are the following :-- "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel" (I Chron. 21:1). With regard to the first, the adversary seems to have been God; for we read in II Sam. 24:1, "The anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and HE moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah." The angel of God was a Satan to Balaam, as we have seen, and, in this case, God proved a Satan to Israel. Moved, doubtless, by the general perversity of the people, He impelled David to a course which resulted in calamity to the nation. In the second case, "Set thou a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand" (Psa. 109:6). it is evident that Satan (margin, an adversary) is synonymous with "wicked man" in the first half of the verse. The second part of the verse is the first part repeated in another form, as is so frequently the case in Hebrew writing, e.g., "He washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes." "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption." On the same principle, a wicked man standing over the subject of David's imprecations, was the adversary standing at his right hand; of course, not the orthodox Satan. Thirdly, As to the case of Joshua, "And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem," etc. (Zech.3:1, 2). Joshua, the high priest, the transaction in which "Satan" appeared against him was so highly symbolical (as anyone may see by reading the first four chapters of Zechariah), that we cannot suppose Satan, the adversary, stood for an individual, but rather as the representative of the class of antagonists against whom Joshua had to contend. Ezra 4:1 Now when THE ADVERSARIES Of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel, Isa 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and THE ADVERSARIES of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. The individual adversary seen by Zechariah, side by side with Joshua, represented this class-opposition to the work in which Joshua was engaged. |
Zechariah 3:2 |
And the LORD said unto Satan: The LORD reprove thee (thou Satan) yea the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem, reprove thee. Is not this a brand taken out of the fire? |
Ezra 4:1-2 |
1But when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard, that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the LORD God of Israel, 2they came to Zorobabel and to the principal fathers, and said unto them: We will build with you: for we seek the Lord your God like as ye do. And we have done sacrifice unto him, since the time that Asor Hadon the king of Assur brought us up hither. |
Isaiah 11:13-16 |
13The hatred of Ephraim and the enmity of Judah shall be clean rooted out. Ephraim shall bear no evil will to Judah, and Judah shall not hate Ephraim: 14but they both together shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the West: and spoil them together that dwell toward the East. The Idumites and the Moabites shall let their hands fall, and the Ammonites shall be obedient unto them. 15The LORD also shall cleave the tongues of the Egyptian's sea, and with a mighty wind shall he lift up his hand over Nilus, and shall smite his seven streams and make men go over dry shod. 16And thus shall he make a way for his people, that remaineth from the Assirians, like as it happened to the Israelites, what time they departed out of the land of Egypt. |
Heman wrote: |
People think, if they cannot prove the existence of the devil from the Old Testament, they certainly can from the New, most abundantly. A critical consideration of the matter, however, will show that in this, they are entirely mistaken. STAY TUNED....MORE TO COME! |
1 Timothy 1:20 |
Of whose number is Himeneus, and Alexander, which I have delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme. |
1 Corinthians 5:3-5 |
3For I verily as absent in body, even so present in spirit, have determined already (as though I were present) of him that hath done this deed, 4in the name of our Lord Jesu Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, 5to deliver him unto Satan, for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. |
Luke 22:31-32 |
31And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired you, to sift you, as it were wheat: 32But I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not. And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. |
1 Peter 5:8-9 |
8Be sober and watch, for your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9whom resist steadfast in the faith, remembering that ye do but fulfil the same afflictions which are appointed to your brethren that are in the world. |
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2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance. <|and will not that any man should be lost, but that every man should amend himself|> |
1 Corinthians 15:20-28 |
20 Now is Christ risen from death, and is become the first fruits of them that slept. 21For by a man came death, and by a man came resurrection of death. 22For as by Adam all die: even so by Christ, shall all be made alive, 23and every man in his own order: The first is Christ, then they that are Christ's at his coming. 24Then cometh the end, when he hath delivered up the kingdom to God the father, when he hath put down all rule, authority, and power. 25For he must rule till he have put all his enemies under his feet. 26The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 27For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest, that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28When all things are subdued unto him: then shall the son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all things. |
Psalms 8:1-9 |
1To the Chanter upon Githith, a Psalm of David. O LORD our governour: how wonderfull is thy name in all the world? how excellent is thy glory above the heavens. 2Out of the mouth of the very babes and sucklings, thou hast ordained praise, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest destroy the enemy and the avenger. 3For I consider thy heavens, even the work of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast made. 4Oh what is man, that thou art so mindful of him? either the son of man that thou visitest him? 5After thou hadst for a season made him lower than the angels, thou crownest him with honor and glory. 6Thou hast set him above the works of thy hands: and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. 7All sheep and oxen, yea and the beasts of the field. 8The fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever walketh thorow the ways of the sea. 9O LORD our governour, how wonderful is thy name in all the world? |
Hebrews 2:1-18 |
1Wherefore we ought much more to attend unto those things which we have heard, lest we perish. 2For if the word which was spoken by angels was steadfast: and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense to reward: 3how shall we escape if we despise so great health? which at the first began to be preached of the Lord himself, and after ward was confirmed unto us ward, by them that heard it; 4God bearing witness thereto, both with signs and wonders also, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the holy ghost, according to his own will. 5He hath not unto the angels put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak: 6but one in a certain place witnessed, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him: other the son of man, that thou visitest him? 7After thou hadst for a season made him lower than the angels: thou crownedst him with honour and glory, and hast set him above the works of thy hands. 8Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. In that he put all things under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. 9Nevertheless we yet see not all things subdued unto him: but that Jesus which for a season was made less than the angels, we see thorow the punishment of death crowned with glory and honour: that he by the grace of God, should taste of death for all men. 10For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, after that he had brought many sons unto glory, that he should make the Lord of their health perfect thorow afflictions: 11Forasmuch as he which sanctifieth, and they which are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause's sake he is not ashamed to call them brethren 12saying: I will declare thy name unto my brethren, and in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. 13And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: behold here am I and the children which God hath given me. 14Forasmuch then as the children were partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself like wise took part with them, for to put down thorow death him that had lordship over death that is to say the devil. 15And that he might deliver them which thorow fear of death all their life time were in danger of bondage. 16For he in no place taketh on him the angels: but the seed of Abraham taketh he on him. 17Wherefore in all things it became him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be merciful, and a faithful high priest in things concerning God, for to purge the people's sins. 18For in that he himself suffered, and was tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. |
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