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    Satan: What Every Christian Must Know
    Satan: What Every Christian Must Know
    Satan: What Every Christian Must Know
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    Satan: What Every Christian Must Know

    By Dave Cotner

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    Who is Satan and why should we care Where is he and what is he doing What can I do to avoid him These and many more questions concerning Satan are answered in this comprehensive study on the person, power and plan of this mightiest of angels.
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    Release dateApr 7, 2011
    ISBN9781257444823
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      Satan - Dave Cotner

      SATAN:

      WHAT EVERY

      CHRISTIAN MUST

      KNOW

      Dave Cotner

      SATAN:

      WHAT EVERY

      CHRISTIAN MUST

      KNOW

      9781257444823_0005_002

      Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

      2 Corinthians 2:11

      SATAN: What Every Christian Must Know

      By Dave Cotner

      Copyright © 2007 by Dave Cotner

      All rights reserved under international copyright laws.

      No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the author.

      Third Updated Edition

      Reformatted and corrected minor errors in punctuation, spelling, and etc.

      Scripture quotations are from the HOLY

      BIBLE, KING JAMES VERSION.

      For permission to quote, write to:

      Rev. David P. Cotner II

      davecotner@aol.com

      www.davidcotner.com

      eISBN: 978-1-25744-482-3

      Printed in the United States of America

      To

      Teddie

      my dear wife

      and

      best friend

      INTRODUCTION

      The Scriptures are abundantly clear that human beings are not alone in the universe. The stars are inhabited by an innumerable company of angels and demons (Ephesians T 1:21; 3:10; 6:12). The earth as well serves not only as home to the people of every nation and language, but it is also the sphere in which Satan and his angels (Revelation 12:9) seek to imitate God, oppose His purposes, and corrupt the children of men as much as their depraved powers are able to do.

      The study of the person, power and plan of Satan should be undertaken with the utmost seriousness by every child of God. He is our enemy and constantly seeks to thwart the plan of God in our lives and cause us to live and die defeated in our service to God and in the process of sanctification. There is a sin unto death (1 John 5:16b) and Satan would have every Christian commit it. What is this most evil of sins? Romans 8:13 tells us that if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. Living after the dictates of our own hearts, living to fulfill our own wants and desires, rather than living for and loving our Creator and submissively following Him is the great temptation of the child of God. May we not be ignorant concerning Satan and may he never get an advantage over us.

      [This] subject is vital to any right understanding of the age in which we live, and of the personal conflict which we wage; for the existence, personality, and power of Satan are awful facts and of immense present significance. We walk in the midst of his snares, hear on every hand his doctrines proclaimed by men of blameless lives transformed as the ministers of righteousness, and are allured by the pleasure, place and power of his perfectly organized world-system. (C. I. Scofield in the Forward of Satan, by Lewis Sperry Chafer)

      In light of the prophesied onslaught of deceiving spirits against the Church in the last days (1 Timothy 4:1-3), so apparent in its incipient fulfillment now, the unbelief of Christian people is all the more tragic as many believers suffer demonic deception and despoliation [damage] because of sheer ignorance of Satan and his devices. Even many spiritual believers are unable to wage a successful war against this army of wicked spirits, through lack of knowledge of what is involved. Many shrink from the subject altogether, insisting that so long as Christ is preached, occupation with Satan and demons is unnecessary and spiritually unhealthy. All the while, however, Satan is continuously gaining advantage because of the believer’s ignorance. (Merrill F. Unger, Biblical Demonology, pp. 201-202)

      In undertaking to outline the Biblical teaching on Satan, there are three general conditions which will serve as ground rules. They are:

      The authority of the Scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments will be accepted without question.

      Evidence will be drawn from the Word of God alone, since no final light can be found on this subject other than it has pleased God to reveal it in the Bible.

      There will be no discussion as to the actual existence of Satan; this being both assumed and taught from Genesis to Revelation.

      CHAPTER ONE

      SATAN’S CREATION

      AND CAREER

      His Creation

      Satan is a created being and as such he is not all-powerful and all-knowing like God is. God, the Creator, is the only completely independent and autonomous Being. He needs no one and nothing. Everything that is, including Satan, derives its life from Him. As a result, no creature can ever truly live independently from its Creator or it would cease to exist (a notion foreign to the wisdom of God; He never uncreates; He never annihilates).

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