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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 23, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 24.

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SATAN.

HIS ORIGIN AND NATURE.

1. By what names is the adversary of souls represented? "The dragon, that old serpent, which is the devil, and Satan." Rev. 20:2.
2. What exalted position did he once occupy in Heaven? "Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire." Eze. 28:14.
3. What especial favors had God bestowed upon him? "Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty." Verse 12, last clause.
4. What trait of character did he at length manifest? "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness." Verse 17.
5. What blasphemous design did he conceive? "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High." Isa. 14:13, 14.
6. How does God regard the proud? "Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord; though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished." Prov. 16:5.
7. What took place through Satan's apostasy?—There was war in Heaven.
8. How is this event described by the revelator? "Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in Heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." Rev. 12:7-9.
9. In what work is Satan engaged on earth? "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." 1 Peter 5:8.
10. What are his especial characteristics? "He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44.
11. What was his first great deception on earth? "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die; for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Gen. 3:4, 5.
12. What was Satan's object in deceiving our first parents?—To gain dominion over the earth.
13. To what extent did he succeed?—Our Saviour calls him the "prince of this world." John 14:30.
14. What was the consequence of Adam's sin? "And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken." Gen. 3:22, 23.
15. What curse was pronounced upon him? "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Verse 19, last clause.
16. Was Adam's sinful nature transmitted to his posterity? "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Rom. 5:12.
17. How was the serpent cursed? "And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field." Gen. 3:14.
18. What is the only ray of hope for fallen man, presented in this dark picture? "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Verse 15.
19. Who is the seed that is to bruise the serpent's head?—The Lord Jesus Christ.