Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

uses that we will expose with truth so that you may be able to disarm the misunderstandings caused by a lack of knowledge. Bluff 1: He makes people think he is present everywhere (omnipresent). Believers all know that God is a spirit (John 4:24) and that He is omnipresent —meaning that He can be everywhere at once. This divine ability makes God different from all other forms of creation. While angels are also spirit beings, they are only present at one place at a time and must travel from place to place at perhaps the speed of thought. Satan is a created being in the form of an anointed cherub (Ezek. 28:14), thus he is not and cannot be present in all places at once. His global influence is spread through a host of spirit rebels called “principalities . . . powers . . . the rulers of the darkness of this age . . . [and] spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12). One reason some have a concept of Satan being all present is the conversation among believers when they are under a spiritual attack. A believer in Texas may comment, “The enemy is fighting me.” At the same time a believer in Tennessee may say, “Satan is really hindering me.” At that same moment another believer in Michigan may say to a friend, “The devil is on a rampage in my house.” These are three different believers in three different states who are separated by hundreds of miles, yet all three are fighting Satan . These comments would imply that Satan seems to be everywhere at once.