Episode 2 => Who the Devil is
Satan the
Devil is real person. He is not merely the evil in all mankind, as some person
may believe. Of course, humans cannot see the Devil, for same reason they
cannot see God. Both God and Devil are spirit persons, humans cannot see the
Devil, for the same reason that they cannot see God. Both God and the Devil are
spirit are spirit persons, forms of life higher than humans and unseen to our
eyes.—John 4:24.
‘But if God is love,’ someone may ask,
‘why did he make the Devil?’ (1 John 4:8) The fact is, God did not create the
Devil. ‘Yet if God created everyone,’ a person may say, ‘he must have created
the Devil. Who else could have? Where did the Devil come from?’
The Bible explains that God created
many, many spirit person similar to himself. In the Bible, these spirits are
called angels. Also they are called “sons of God.” (Job 38:7; Psalm 104:3; Hebrews
1:7, 13, 14) God created them all perfect. Not one of them was a Devil, or a
Satan. The word “devil” means slanderer and the word “Satan” means opposer.
The time came, however, when one of
these spirit sons of God[angels] made himself
Devil, that is, a hateful liar who speaks bad things about another. He also
made himself Satan, that is, an opposer of God. He was not created that way,
but later became that kind of person. To illustrate: a thief is not born a thief. He
may have come from a good family, having honest parents and law-abiding
brothers and sisters. But his own desire for what money can buy is what may
caused him to become a thief, just as Devil was not created a “Devil”.
How, then, did one of God’s spirit sons make himself Satan the Devil?
The angel that became the Devil was
present when God created the earth and later the first human couple, Adam and
Eve. (Job 38:4, 7) so he would have heard God tell them to have children.
(Genesis 1:27, 28) He knew that after a while the whole earth would be filled
with righteous people worshipping God. That was God purpose. However, this
angel thought a great deal of his own beauty and intelligence and wanted to
receive for himself the worship that would be given to God. (Ezekiel 28:13-15;
Matthew 4:10) Instead of putting this wrong desire out of his mind, he kept
thinking about it. This led to his taking action to obtain the honor and
importance he desired. What did he do?—James 1:14, 15.
The rebellious angel used a lowly serpent
to speak to the first woman, Eve. He did this much as a skilled person can make
it seem as if a nearby animal or a dummy figure is talking. But it was really
this rebellious angel, the one called in the “the original serpent,” who was
speaking to Eve. (Revelation 12:9) He said that God was not telling her the
truth, and was holding back from her knowledge that she should have. (Genesis
3:1-5) this was a hateful lie and it made him a Devil. He thus became an oppose
of God, or a Satan. As you can see, it is wrong to think of the Devil as a
creature with horns and a pitchfork who oversees some underground place of
torment. He is really a very powerful, but wicked, angel.
Please,
watch out for the “Final Episode” titled “Source of World Trouble”
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