1. SATAN/THE DEVIL AND THE UNSEEN
THE UNIVERSE

2. INTERACTION THERE IS A BARRIER BETWEEN US AND THE SPIRIT REALM
A ONE WAY BARRIER
WE CAN GIVE ACCESS
SATAN IS
THE RULER OF THE WORLD JOHN 14:30
THE GOD OF THIS AGE 2 CORINTHIANS 4:4
THIS WORLD’S KINGDOMS HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO HIM LUKE 4:6

3. WHAT KIND OF RULER IS HE?
SATAN = ADVERSARY [HE IS OPPOSED TO GOD AND ALL HE STANDS FOR] DEVIL = ONE WHO SLANDERS OR ACCUSES DECEIVER = ONE WHO MISLEADS, CAUSES TO GO ASTRAY REVLEATION 12:9, 2 CORINTHIANS 11:3 EVIL ONE = ONE WHO IS BAD, DESTRUCTIVE MATTHEW 13:19, 1 JOHN 5:18-19 THE TEMPTER = ONE WHO APPLIES PRESSURE MATTHEW 4:3

4. SATAN – WHAT IS HE LIKE?
JOHN 8:44 IT IS NATURAL AND NORNAL FOR HIM TO LIE AND MURDER 1 JOHN 3:8,10 HE IS BEHIND SIN, CAUSING HUMANS TO MISS GOD’S GOAL FOR THEM EPHESIANS 2:2-3 HE ENCOURAGES RESISTANCE TOWARDS GOD; SELF-INTEREST AND SELF-GRATIFICATION 2 CORINTHIANS 4:4 HE KEEPS PEOPLE IN THE DARK, AWAY FROM THE TRUTH

5. WHERE DID HE COME FROM?
SPIRIT BEINGS ARE CREATED THEY ARE PERSONS [SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-DETERMINATION] JUDE 6, 2 PETER 2:4 INDICATE THEY WERE CREATED NEUTRAL AND HAD TO CHOOSE SELF OR GOD ONE LED A REBELLION [HE BECAME SATAN AND HIS FOLLOWERS DEMONS, HIS MESSENGERS/ANGELS]

6. HOW COME THIS WORLD IS HIS?
WAS GIVEN TO HIM LUKE 4:6. BY WHOM?
GENESIS 1:28 HUMANS WERE TOLD TO SUBDUE THE EARTH [MAKE IT SERVE THEM]
THE EARTH/WORLD WOULD ONLY SERVE THEM IF THEY FIRST SERVED GOD
BY THEIR DISOBEDIENCE THEY OPENNED THE DOOR TO SIN AND DEATH ROMANS 5:12
AND ALLOWED SATAN TO TAKE OVER?

7. CONTRASTING RULERS
TWO KINGDOMS [TWO RULERS] WE ENTER BOTH BY BIRTH SATAN’S BY NATURAL BIRTH GOD’S BY SPIRITUAL BIRTH NO CHOICE WITH THE FIRST, CHOICE WITH SECOND SLAVES IN BOTH EXPLOITED IN FIRST, SLAVE-SONS IN SECOND

8. CHRIST AND SATAN
1 JOHN 3:8 THE SON OF GOD WAS MANIFEST IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT UNDO THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL COLOSSIANS 2:15 CHRIST DISARMED [DISROBED] THE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, EXPOSING THEM PUBLICALLY BY MEANS OF THE CROSS

9. COST OF CHANGING GOVERNMENT
REVELATION 12:17 ON A WAR FOOTING EPHESIANS 6:10-18 UNDER ATTACK JOHN 15:18-25 HATED BY THE WORLD 1 PETER 5:8-9 BEING HUNTED REVELATION 1:9 AFFLICTED, PERSECUTED

10. SATAN AND THE WILL OF GOD
IF HE IS SO BAD WHY DOESN’T GOD GET RID OF HIM AND HIS KINGDOM NOW?
GOD HAS USES FOR HIM
MATTHEW 4 GOD USES HIM TO PRESSURE US TO MAKE ESSENTIAL DECISIONS
JOB GOD USES HIM TO TEST HIS WORK

11. HOW CAN WE RESPOND, SURVIVE, OVERCOME?
JOHN 16:33 BE POSITIVE 1 JOHN 5:4-5 FAITH 1 JOHN 4:4 GREATER THE ONE IN US JAMES 4:7 SUBMIT AND RESIST EPHESIANS 6:10, PUT ON THE ARMOR REVELATION 12:11 FORGIVENESS, WITNESS AND DON’T TRY TO SAVE YOUR LIFE

12. SATAN’S DESTINY
WHEN GOD HAS FINISHED PREPARING HIS PEOPLE SATAN WILL BE DISPOSED OF
MATTHEW 25:41 PREPREPARED ETERNAL FIRE
REVELATION 20:10 TO BE THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND SULPHUR AND TORMENTED FOR EVER AND EVER