Have you ever wondered why there has been such extreme hatred towards the Jewish people through evil men like Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin-Laden just recently and countless others throughout history? And why has there been so much focus on Israel, Jerusalem, and all of Jesus' homeland? Perhaps Satan knows that the Jewish people are God's chosen people and he tries his hardest to destroy them. Jesus makes it clear throughout the Bible that Satan is real and his demons are real and they are fighting to win souls. .
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short! Revelation 12:9-12.
Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 .
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. John 10:10.
Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave to sin. John 8:34.
And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. And behold, they cried out, "What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" Now a herd of many swine was feeding at some distance from them.
In the short story,"" The Demon Lover-, by Elizabeth Bowen, Mrs. ... The meaning of the pact made in "The Demon Lover- can be interpreted in many different ways. ... The young girl has never completely seen his face. ... In conclusion, once the time allotted in the contract has expired the Devil returns to his former fiancé to collect his share of the deal{conclusion}. ... Unfortunately, Satan out smarted Mrs. ...
Lewis, one observes the letters written from a demon named Screwtape to his young, inexperienced nephew named Wormwood. ... The idea behind Lewis' unique setting for the work is to illustrate his belief in the eventual demise of Satan and his followers, and that God will be victorious in the end. ... One method that Lewis uses to make the setting for this battle so striking is that, since the novel is written from the point of view of a demon, Satan is referred to as "Our Father Below- and God is affectionately referred to as "the Enemy- (12). ... This shows the fact that, even though Sat...
.: adoration, veneration, evocation) of that entity indicated in the Bible by the name of demon, devil, or Satan. ... There are those who see in Satan a more or less symbolic entity, an expression at the same time of transgression and of rationalism, and in its rites they see a sort of brutal psychological drama, which has the goal of liberating the believer from his religious, moral, cultural conditioning, which derives from his heritage. ... The reality of Satan and his snares against men 3. ... Although he is defeated, Satan does not stop putting the sons of God in difficulty, so that the ...
Larry Rubin agrees when he says that "the omniscient capabilities that Arnold shows are just more justifications of his being a demon or even the devil" (Rubin 57). ... It is clear that Arnold Friend is either Satan himself or a demon. ... Saying he will not enter the house without permission also points to his being Satan. ... His boots could have been supporting his cloven hoof, as some traditions say a demon would have. ... The reader should see the clear interpretation of evil in Arnold Friend, and how he as Satan himself, or as a demon, pulled Connie into his world of sex and emotion. ...
Imagine a world full of monsters, demons, and danger, as well as a world of friends, fairies, and adventure. ... The culture and the time period in which he writes influences his pieces, but most importantly his faith does. ... Tolkien applies the same idea to his work. ... The evil, antagonist of this epic is Sauron who has a direct relationship with Satan. ... Both Satan and Sauron want more power. ...
Satan and his followers in Paradise Lost are presented as being more evil that God and his disciples are good. ... Milton definitely portrays Satan's evil in Book four by asserting that Satan is hell and that evil is his good because good has been lost to him. ... Satan recognizes his descent into bestiality after once being in contention with the gods to sit on top of the hierarchy of angels. ... Satan is described at length in an epic simile that compares his great size to that of mythical figures. ... The devils build a palace for themselves called Pandemonium, which means all-demo...
His outward display of gentility but inner puritanical intolerance is a force of persecution to characters in the novel. ... On her first appearance, she pleads with Hester to come with her to the forest and sign her name in the Black Man's book; on her second, she peers from her window into the darkness where the minister stands alone on the scaffold and Rothe 2 cries out in anguish; on her third, she hauls the minister as a fellow-communicant of Satan after he has met Hester in the forest and agreed to run off. ... At one point in the novel the elders of th...
The main characters are Jordan Fletchers daughter- Jillian, Jillian's friend- Brittany, a guy named Ian, a guy named Rob, and the demons- Foulgrin and Ishbane. ... Ian turns his back on the Brittany, his girlfriend, the woman he impregnated until a terrible tragedy opens his eyes. ... Through these letters between Prince Ishbane and Lord Foulgrin (two demons appointed to take the kids down into their temptations), the book gives an idea of how Satan works to get a hold of children, teens, and parents alike through everything imaginable and unimaginable. ... Also, reading the letters...
In fact, the practices mentioned above are not only (as we will show) unnecessary, but they are manifestations of superstition and fear " not the permissible, wholesome and highly desirable fear of the Lord, but the fear of Satan, fear of demons, fear of the unseen and the unknown. ... We are certainly presented with the inescapable fact that Satan goes to and fro on the earth (Job.1:7; 2:2). ... But because Satan and his demonic followers have been legally ousted from their usurpation of rule over the earth by the victory of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, the old serpent's day...