Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

However, the truth is that there is one chief fallen angel identified as “that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan” (Rev. 12:9). He is only present at one location at one time. He came in the Garden of Eden in the form of a serpent (Gen. 3:1–6) and was later seen in the Book of Job attempting to penetrate Job’s protective hedge (Job 1:10). Satan is the agent who stood up to provoke David to number Israel (1 Chron. 21:1) and is identified as the angel standing at the altar in Jerusalem attempting to resist the high priest (Zech. 3:1–2). If Satan is one fallen angel, why do believers continually speak of Satan attacking them? It may be because the Hebrew name of Satan is satan and means “an adversary”; this is not just Satan himself but anyone who works adversely against the righteous. When Solomon disobeyed the Lord, the Bible reveals that “God raised up an adversary against Solomon . . . ” (1 Kings 11:14, 23, 25). These adversaries were men who rose up against King Solomon during his reign. The Hebrew word for “adversary” is also satan . Thus the Hebrew word for Satan is used two ways—indicating both the person of Satan and someone who is an adversary to a specific person. Satan and the ungodly are both opponents of righteousness and therefore are adversaries to godliness and righteousness. The contexts of the various passages clearly determine if the satan is the fallen angel (as in Job) or an opposing person (as with Solomon). Therefore believers will often assign their warfare and extreme difficulty to the adversary , which can be both the