Jesus gives us His eye witness account in Luke 10:18, “And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.”
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The great dragon was hurled down-That ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him Rev 12:9
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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world
and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12
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Satan is a fallen angel. He was of the highest order of angelic beings, an arc angel who was created to cover God’s throne. He was created “to be beautiful.” Ezekiel 28:15– 19 gives us a glimpse from heaven’s court:
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“You were perfect in all your ways when I created you, but I have now found iniquity in you.” Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned.
Ezekiel 28:15
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So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. Ezekiel 28:16
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So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings. By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching. All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.” Ezekiel 28:18
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Satan's stategy in Eden to ruin humanity
The drug induced : “mix” The knowledge of Good and evil
A theory is that the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was in the same order as peyote, mushrooms and the heroin poppy and had the ability, as any drug pusher would say, “to expand the mind” to allow extrasensory perception to see/judge right from wrong. The question is, “How could knowledge of right & wrong make us sinful and separate us from God?”
The nutshell version to this question is that it created what is commonly defined as, “ the mix:” Here is the theory: If I could see faults within my self and others and do not have the maturity or self control over my own spirit, then I learn to judge, criticize, condemn and self justify my actions based off what I think I see, without not necessarily knowing or understanding all the facts. This is why, Jesus gave us the antidote, when He died for our sins and got us on Heaven's recovery program by teaching us to forgive, be merciful, love our enemies and bless instead of curse. Remember, the spiritual war that we are in, is fought in the place of our emotions, and perceptions as the enemy cannot physically harm us, he and his demons live in the spirit world, so his tactic was and is to get us to fight each other so that he can divide, conquer and then enslave human beings to be used in “the end game.”
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Some may wonder why the the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was planted in the Garden of Eden. And the simple answer can be found in the following bible verse.
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. Psalm 66:10
There are many more passages in the bible that also speak of life as a "test." We are also created to do the good works and to learn how to be transformed from the "Wild beast before the Lord" into the "citizen of heaven as well. But for this particular "task at hand" in dealing with "the end game." It is important to know that difficulties are "only a test." And we just have to have the right mental, emotional and spiritual fortitude to be the end time survivor. But more than anything, it is important to know that Jesus won the game for us, we just have to trust Him as savior and our King.....and look forward to the two witnesses, the second coming of Jesus, the millennial kingdom and eternal life in heaven.
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