THE DEVIL OR SATAN

  We believe that Satan as Lucifer was once a holy cherub, God's angelic choir leader, the most beautiful of all angels, and that he enjoyed heavenly honours; but through pride and ambition to be as the Almighty, fell and drew after him a host of angels; that he is now the malignant prince of the power of the air, and the unholy god of this world. We hold him to be man´s great tempter, the enemy of God and His Christ, the accuser of the saints, the author of all false religions, the chief power back of the present apostasy; the lord of the antichrist, and the author of all the powers of darkness - destined, however, to final defeat at the hands of God´s own Son, and to the judgment of an eternal justice in hell, a place prepared for him and his angels.

Isa. 14:12; Ezek. 28:14-17, Rev. 12:9; Jude 6:11; I Pet. 2:4; Eph. 2:2; John 14:30; I Thess. 3:5; Matt. 4:1-3; I Pet. 5:8; I John 3:8; Matt. 13:25; Matt. 13:37-39; Luke 22:3-4; Rev. 12:10; II Cor. 11:13-15; Mark 13:21-33; I John 4:3; II John 7; I John 2:22; Rev. 13:13-14; II Thess. 2:8-11; Rev. 19:11, 16, 20; Rev. 12:7-9; Rev. 20:10; Matt. 25:41