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jiggyfly

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Satan does not always lie........he tells the truth when it is in his favor to do so. But what he does in the vast majority of times is mix the truth with lies. Jesus never refuted Satan when he said the kingdoms of this world was given to him and that he could give it to whomever he chose. The point is that Satan knew that Jesus was destined to take it from him, but Jesus would have to go through a painful death in order to do it. So Satan was hoping that he could entice Jesus to take a short cut to get it, but in doing so it would still leave Satan as the head of it and Jesus would have sinned, and nothing would have changed.

Jesus said that the truth was not in satan.
 

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I voted No.

Satan is NOT a fallen angel that goes around causing people to sin.
Man is the one responsible for his own actions,not some supernatural fallen angel.

A classic case of ''the devil made me do it'' is in Genesis 3.

The man blamed the woman(Genesis 3:12)
The woman blamed the serpent(Genesis 3:13)
The serpent had no one to blame.

But the punishments were given to Adam,Eve and the serpent.

Man is the one who sins,he causes himself to sin etc etc

James 1:14-15:[sup]14[/sup]But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
[sup]15[/sup]Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Sin comes from within a man.(Matthew 15:17-20,Mark 7:18-23)


The Temptation of Eve and Jesus

It is assumed that just because the words "Satan" and "Devil" are incorporated into the Masoretic text, that proves the existence of a literal supernatural being. However, if we probe a little deeper into Scripture to see who or what is the principle of temptation in the case of both Jesus and Eve, we will discover something that cannot be easily dismissed or passed off as mere coincidence. To understand what tempts man, we must search scripture for an answer (to see whether it is a personification of evil called "Satan" or something else). I believe the answer is found in I John 2:16 which says, "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." The "Satan" or "Devil" is not mentioned as having anything to do with "All that is in the world." What this tells us is that all temptations of evil are of this terrestrial world.

How does this relate to the three accounts of the Temptation of Christ? It must have been an important lesson to be included in the three gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. In each book, Jesus is tempted in three situations which (ironically) correspond to the three elements of 'all that is in the world'.

1. "And when the tempter came to Him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command these stones be made bread" Mt. 4:3. This corresponds to the lust of the flesh.

2. "Again the devil [small 'd', thus a noun] taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them" Mt. 4:8. This corresponds to the lust of the eyes. If we are to understand this exceedingly high mountain to be literal, then we are stuck with the impossibility of literally seeing all the kingdoms of the world by virtue of a limited horizon. Even if one were on top of Mt. Everest, one would not be able to see all the kingdoms of the world. This indicates that the narrative is engaged in figures of speech.

3. "If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down" Mt. 4:6. This corresponds to the pride of life.

These three elements are the only things that tempted Christ. The devil in this case, as it was with Eve and ourselves today, is the adversarial mentality to go against God. We can overcome adverse thinking as did Jesus Christ. Let's look at who or what tempted Eve.

If Adam and Eve had remained obedient to God's command, death would not have entered the world. There's some pretty heavy symbolism going on in the Garden of Eden. Adam was formed exclusively by God and had no flesh mother; and because of that, God's spirit dominated his flesh so that he wasn't carnally minded. Eve on the other hand was made by God out of Adam's flesh and thus the weaker vessel. Adam was made from the dust of the ground. Dust cannot be tempted and neither can God's Spirit (James 1:13). This may explain why there had to be a weak link for Eve to be tempted. If this wasn't God's purpose, He would have created Eve out of the dust also. As such, neither could have been tempted in the flesh.

The three temptations of 'all that is in the world' (I John 2:16) were also laid upon Jesus' flesh (Luke 4:1-13). Christ had a heavenly Father (creator) and also a flesh mother (Mary). The difference between these two temptations (Jesus' and Eve's) is that Christ overcame the flesh. We know God's Spirit cannot be tempted without the introduction of the flesh. After 40 days of fasting in the wilderness, it was Jesus' own hunger, visualization and potential ambition that entered His mental state or condition.

The "tree of knowledge" represents God's Law in spiritual form (Romans 7:14). Partaking of its fruit, as Adam and Eve were warned and found out brings on death. It wasn't the actual fruit that inflicted death, but rather their disobedience to what the Lord had commanded. So, in the symbolism of a tree, embodied three manifestations of all that is in the world. That is: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life (I John 2:16). "Satan" is not included in "all that is in the world". When we investigate Eve's infatuation by way of a stimulant i.e the serpent, we find that all three parts of our worldly enticements were presented in the temptation.

1. The lust of the flesh was accomplished in that "The tree was good for food."

2. The lust of the eyes was fulfilled in that "It was pleasant to the eyes."

3. And the pride of life was achieved in Eve's belief that it was "A tree to be desired to make one wise" (Gen. 3:6).

Perhaps, conceptually, the word satan has been so misinterpreted to align itself with pagan mythology rather than with the Word of God, that it is incomprehensible to those who have been inculcated with years of superstitious teachings and 'doctrines of devils' to believe in the simplicity of Christ. Let me give you a comparative example of how the Bible says the same thing in two different ways. "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil" I John 3:8. And then we read the same premise just three verses prior, "He was manifested to take away our sins." It shouldn't be too hard to comprehend that it is our sin nature, which the Bible says is the only thing in the world (that should be of concern) and it is: the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. It is these three things that tempted both Eve and Jesus, not a vicarious supernatural agent in lieu of God. We are further told in James 1:14 that "every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed." Again, no mention of any supernatural being. That should give any casual reader pause for reflection.


THE "SATAN" CONTROVERSY

The following was in the May ‘78
Newsletter:
— The “satan” controversy —
We have had a few criticize my sermons
on satan and Eve in the garden of
Eden, and we have had many misunderstand
them.
For that I am sorry, but I am currently
preaching a series of 8 sermons which; I
pray, will answer almost all questions or
objections.
This series is titled, Give The Devil
His Due, and will cover almost everything
in the Bible about satan, the devil
and the serpent.
Here are some items of information,
which I pray, will move many of you to get
this series and study it. This may be
the most important series of sermons
I have preached which is directed to
expose falsehoods as taught by the
false churches!
Consider this:
A. Jesus warned that as this age ended
many would come in His Name and would
deceive many, i.e. teach lies which would
be believed.
B. The New Testament Epistles warn
that false "ministers" would deceive God's
People in the end of the age.
C. If the above are true warnings, the following
statement should be true:
"In the end of the age, if any large number
of ministers teach a certain doctrine and
that doctrine is believed by a large number
of people, that doctrine is probably
false!”
Therefore, consider the following:
Most ministers teach, and most
churchgoers believe:
1. That man remains conscious after
death. We examined that common doctrine
and found it to be false.
2. That most men go, after death, to a
region of fire and brimstone where they
spend eternity in conscious pain. We
found God's Bible teaches no such thing.
3. That a tiny percentage of men go, after
death, in a conscious state to "heaven to
be with Jesus." We found that is not
taught in the Bible.
4. That the people who call themselves
"Jews" are the Israelites, God's Chosen
People. That is, also, false.
5. That Christians are going to be takenfrom
the earth in a "rapture" just before a
great "Antichrist" comes and brings seven
years of "tribulation" on the earth. That
doctrine is false.
6. That there exists a mighty, angelic
being called "Satan," who is the "devil,
who is omnipresent, being in all parts of
the world at once, and in "hell" at the
same time. That this supernatural being
is long lived, that he has power to frus-
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THE "SATAN" CONTROVERSY
Excerpted from the May & December issues of
America’s Promise Newsletters. by Sheldon Emry
trate most of God's plans, and many of
man’s, that he is the cause of all. corruption
and evil in the world and that he will
continue to do all such evil work until
sometime in the future, when he will be
destroyed.
We are, now, examining that doctrine"
to see if it has any more foundation in
Bible Truth than do the first five!
In the first few of the 8 sermons we
have found some "interesting" pieces of
information.
The Chaldean word "sawtawn," from
which we get the English word "satan," is
in the original Hebrew manuscripts 30
times. Nineteen times it was translated
by the King James translators, as "satan"
and 11 times as the word "adversary." In
all it is in 9 passages.
Of the 9 passages, once the "sawtawn"
is God Himself, once it is God's angel, once
David is the "sawtawn," once it is David’s
officers, once Solomon says he has no “saw
tawn.” Three times the “sawtawns” are
men whose names are given, and only in
the Book of Job — one passage of the nine
in the Old Testament where “sawtawn” is
found — is the “sawtawn” possibly-similar
to the “satan” of the churches.
So, we examined the Book of Job further,
and were startled to find that all
except one of the acts we thought “satan”
did, were admitted to have been done by
God Himself!
The one act “satan” might have done,
himself, is in Job 2:7 where he “may” have
given Job boils! Not quite the kind of
momentous act we had expected of
“Satan!”
When we went to “serpent,” we were
similarily treated.
“Serpent” is in the Old Testament 19
times, and in all except Gen. 3, where a
“serpent” spoke to Eve, it is easy to prove
that “serpent” stood for a real snake, a
symbol of a real snake or the star constellation
which stands for a snake.
The conclusion is obvious, even though
it defies tradition: If God used the Word
“serpent” 18 times to mean a literal snake
or a symbol of one, what authority do we
have to come along in the 19th case and
identify that “serpent” as anything other
than a real snake? (This is especially-true
since in the Book of Revelation, where
both “satan” and “serpent” are used for
the same thing, that “serpent” is a “beast”
with seven heads and ten horns; which is
later identified as a great world empire,
not some individual angelic creature!)
Three more things will be mentioned
here; then the rest will be on the tapes:
1. The title “Lucifer” appears only once in
the Bible and it is a mistranslation!
Even then, the passage is plainly
addressed to a mortal man who is identified
and told he is going to die soon! Yet
that passage has been used for centuries
by “the clergy” to expound about an oldarchangel
called “Lucifer!”
2. “Devil” is not in the Old Testament at
all.
3. “Devils” (plural) is used 4 times and
only in reference to idols of wood and
stone. It does not refer to any “living”
thing.
And that is enough said. I repeat what
I said at the first: “This may be the most
important series of sermons I have
preached.”
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The following was in the December ‘78
Newsletter:
SATAN
Ministers quote Rev. 12 about the "war
in heaven” and “the great dragon was cast
out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan.......” and insist that “satan” is a
“fallen angel.”
But, in verse 3 that “satan” has “seven
heads and ten horns, and seven crowns
upon his heads.” That is the SAME seven
headed “beast” upon which Mystery
Babylon rides in Rev. 17 and there it is
quite plain — it is a conglomeration of
nations!
They say the “war” in Rev. 12 was
fought in God's “heaven,” but, in verse 1,
we find the “woman clothed with the sun,”
was, also, in “heaven.” The woman is
Israel, and Israel is (and was) on the
earth, so the “heaven” of Rev. 12 is on the
earth, also!
These 2 facts: (1) The “satan” of Rev.
12 is identical to the "kings" (nations) of
Rev. 17, and (2) the "heaven" of Rev. 12 is
where Israel is, absolutely rules out Rev.
12 as being about any supernatural,
omnipresent, fallen angel. The "satan" of
the Churches cannot be found in Rev. 12.
The truth about "satan" is nothing
short of ASTOUNDING. The satan of the
churches is as real as the hell of the
churches!
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Note: To further enhance your study of
this subject, you should listen to the following
recorded sermons by Pastor Emry:
Tapes, 7722a, 7722b & 7723a, 7723b,
titled: “Eve And The Serpent In The
Garden Of Eden, What Actually
Happened,”
and the series: “Give The Devil His
Due,” 7810a, 7810b — 7811a, 7811b —
7812a, 7812b — 7813a, 7813b.
All the above sermons may be listened
to by going to the Cassette Tape Sermons
section of the Sheldon Emry Memorial
Library.
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Satan is like a lion....seeking somthing to devour.


1 Peter 5:8 (GW)
[sup]8 [/sup]Keep your mind clear, and be alert. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion as he looks for someone to devour.



Satan is the god of this world.

2 Corinthians 4:4 (ASV)
[sup]4 [/sup]in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.



He is the deceiver of the whole world.

Revelation 12:9 (Darby)
[sup]9 [/sup]And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.



But Satan only have power over you if you allow him to.

James 4:7 (ASV)
[sup]7 [/sup]Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
 

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I did not say the truth was in Satan. I said he tells the truth at times when it is in his favor. Are you aware that the Jesus said that Satan's thrown is on the Earth?

You are quite correct.
The throne of Satan is located in the city of Pergamum (or Pergamon), Turkey (Rev 2:12-13)


and to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword:I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth.
Rev 2:12-13

This is why interpretations of Rome as the seat of the anti-Christ will fail. This is why they are wrong. Those who believe such things do not read the Bible.

According to this passage, Turkey NOT ROME will play a major role in end times events.

Also refer to history. In 465AD, the city of Rome fell. It was not, however, the end of the Roman Empire. Nearly a century prior to that Emperor Constantine moved the capital to the city of Byzantium renaming it Constantinople in the process. The empire was thus divided in half mostly because of economic and military issues. The west had become too difficult to maintain and all the prosperous trade routes were in the east. Rome fell, but Constantinople and the eastern Roman Empire continued until it was consumed by the Muslim horde under the Ottomans during the Crusades. The Roman/Byzantine Empire thus became the Ottoman Empire, which continued until 1927. At that time the modern nation of Turkey was born on the same ground. The city of Constantinople by then had been renamed Istanbul.

To this day, there are many Islamic factions wishing, praying and working for a renewed Ottoman Empire, a new caliphate. Referred to as the twelfth caliphate, those who work for it and wish for it are called Twelvers. Among those who do so are the leadership of IRAN and certain active groups in Turkey. A year ago, an attempted coup d'etat was attempted in Turkey by a group of journalists and generals of the Turkish army.

The Bible seems to indicate that a revived Roman Empire will be front and center in end time scenarios against the land of Israel. The center of that empire is not ancient Rome, but ancient Pergamum THE SEAT OF THE EVIL ONE and its agent on earth called the anti-Christ.

Read the Bible

and WATCH TURKEY

Current news is full of western attempts to execute economic sanctions against Iran because of their nuclear development. All nations have been pressured to NOT buy Iranian oil, EXCEPT TURKEY!

Prior to WWII, Adolph Hitler caused a facsimile of the Temple of Pergamon to be built in Berlin. It still stands today. Guess which nation has been providing the major assistance to Iran for their nuclear development?
If you guess Germany, you guess right.

In addition to reading the Bible, I suggest the studious reader should set up links to English versions of Turkish news and German news directly. Do not rely on censored American news sources.
If you do this, you will glean much of interest about political activities there which are not revealed from NBC, CNN or FOX news.

WATCH TURKEY
 

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What does that have to do with telling the truth?

The question has bearing on where Satan lives and if the kingdoms of this world was given to him or not.

You are quite correct.
The throne of Satan is located in the city of Pergamum (or Pergamon), Turkey (Rev 2:12-13)


and to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: These things saith he that hath the sharp two-edged sword:I know where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s throne is; and thou holdest fast my name, and didst not deny my faith, even in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwelleth.
Rev 2:12-13

This is why interpretations of Rome as the seat of the anti-Christ will fail. This is why they are wrong. Those who believe such things do not read the Bible.

According to this passage, Turkey NOT ROME will play a major role in end times events.

Also refer to history. In 465AD, the city of Rome fell. It was not, however, the end of the Roman Empire. Nearly a century prior to that Emperor Constantine moved the capital to the city of Byzantium renaming it Constantinople in the process. The empire was thus divided in half mostly because of economic and military issues. The west had become too difficult to maintain and all the prosperous trade routes were in the east. Rome fell, but Constantinople and the eastern Roman Empire continued until it was consumed by the Muslim horde under the Ottomans during the Crusades. The Roman/Byzantine Empire thus became the Ottoman Empire, which continued until 1927. At that time the modern nation of Turkey was born on the same ground. The city of Constantinople by then had been renamed Istanbul.

To this day, there are many Islamic factions wishing, praying and working for a renewed Ottoman Empire, a new caliphate. Referred to as the twelfth caliphate, those who work for it and wish for it are called Twelvers. Among those who do so are the leadership of IRAN and certain active groups in Turkey. A year ago, an attempted coup d'etat was attempted in Turkey by a group of journalists and generals of the Turkish army.

The Bible seems to indicate that a revived Roman Empire will be front and center in end time scenarios against the land of Israel. The center of that empire is not ancient Rome, but ancient Pergamum THE SEAT OF THE EVIL ONE and its agent on earth called the anti-Christ.

Read the Bible

and WATCH TURKEY

Current news is full of western attempts to execute economic sanctions against Iran because of their nuclear development. All nations have been pressured to NOT buy Iranian oil, EXCEPT TURKEY!

Prior to WWII, Adolph Hitler caused a facsimile of the Temple of Pergamon to be built in Berlin. It still stands today. Guess which nation has been providing the major assistance to Iran for their nuclear development?
If you guess Germany, you guess right.

In addition to reading the Bible, I suggest the studious reader should set up links to English versions of Turkish news and German news directly. Do not rely on censored American news sources.
If you do this, you will glean much of interest about political activities there which are not revealed from NBC, CNN or FOX news.

WATCH TURKEY

Correct.....it says in the Bible its deadly wound will be healed and the world will marvel......they will be so surprised to see the revival of the Roman Empire. It’s the only Empire that will get another chance to rule and dominate the world but it will be by far a worse Empire than it was when it first came one the world stage.
 

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I didn't ask you a question. You said,"Satan does not always lie........he tells the truth when it is in his favor to do so".

I answered with Jesus said the truth was not in satan.

 

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I didn't ask you a question. You said,"Satan does not always lie........he tells the truth when it is in his favor to do so".

I answered with Jesus said the truth was not in satan.

Ok! So when Satan said this in reference to Job was he telling the truth or not?

Job 1:10 (ESV)
[sup]10 [/sup]Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
 

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Ok! So when Satan said this in reference to Job was he telling the truth or not?

Job 1:10 (ESV)
[sup]10 [/sup]Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

OK! Lets look at the whole context of what satan said.
8 Then the Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”9 Satan replied to the Lord, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God.10 You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is!11 But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
Job 1:8-11 (NLT)

Did Job curse God to His face? If it's not true then it must be a lie, right?
 

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The only power the devil has is what God allows him to have. In cases of deception, we must first allow it upon ourselves for it to happen. And I speak of a follower of Christ Jesus in that. To be in Christ Jesus is to have power over the enemy.

There is a law called the law of suggestion. It's the same law that causes hypnosis, triggers epilepsy, etc. We can suggest ideas to ourselves that in every way we may come to believe it. The mind is a tricky thing, and that's why we always need to stay focused on Christ Jesus. The devil knows about that law of suggestion, and constantly tries to use it against us. Staying apart from the world while living in it is one way to combat that effect. One staying in Christ today does battle against Satan and his minions daily. It happens every time you turn on your TV.

My goodness, this is the truth!

So many dear people sit on their laurels and forget about applying the very first command of this verse:


1 Peter 5:8 (NLT)


[sup]8[/sup] Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
 

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OK! Lets look at the whole context of what satan said.
8 Then the Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”9 Satan replied to the Lord, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God.10 You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is!11 But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
Job 1:8-11 (NLT)

Did Job curse God to His face? If it's not true then it must be a lie, right?

I post a scripture that quoted Satan and I asked you if it was true or not but you turn around and ask me a question. So here's my response.... when you answer my question then I will answer to yours.
 

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I post a scripture that quoted Satan and I asked you if it was true or not but you turn around and ask me a question. So here's my response.... when you answer my question then I will answer to yours.

Your quote was inaccurate, I just posted all of what was said by satan which shows that he was lying. It's always a good Idea to avoid taking things out of their context to prevent any misunderstanding.

Actually my question has already been answered. The answer to your question is no it is not all that satan said, you only quoted part of the conversation trying to justify your opinion that satan sometimes tells the truth.
 

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Your quote was inaccurate, I just posted all of what was said by satan which shows that he was lying. It's always a good Idea to avoid taking things out of their context to prevent any misunderstanding.

Actually my question has already been answered. The answer to your question is no it is not all that satan said, you only quoted part of the conversation trying to justify your opinion that satan sometimes tells the truth.

I said that Satan does tell the truth but only when it was to his advantage and I showed you something that Satan said to God that was true. I never said that everything that he says is the truth......but Satan does say some things that are true and Job 1:10 is the truth. God did protect Job and put a hedge around him. But you want to deny that that statement Satan made is true. So I guess what these are also a lies?


Was Satan lying in this verse?


Job 1:7 (ASV)
[sup]7 [/sup]And Jehovah said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.



Were the demons lying here as well?


Mark 1:23-24 (ASV)
[sup]23 [/sup]And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
[sup]24 [/sup]saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
 

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What Satan?

This is taken from Sheldon Emry memorial library
http://www.sheldonemrylibrary.com/


That Old Serpent Called the Devil and Satan

There is a passage in the 12th chapter of
Revelation, which has for centuries been used as
the foundation stone for what one might call
Devil Theology. I will begin by reading part of
it, and then we will look at more of it later, and
study the entire passage. The most often quoted
verses are:
“And there was war in heaven: 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.”
Revelation 12:7-9
Most of you are familiar with the common
doctrine on the origin and the place of ‘satan’ as
taught by the churches. They sometimes call him
the ‘devil’ and so on; but I’ll condense church
teaching on ‘satan’ and the ‘devil’ rather briefly
here:
There, in about four paragraphs, I have
preached almost every sermon being preached in
Baptist churches this week. Some of you have
been in Baptist churches, and you know that
about half of the sermons in Baptist churches are
about “the devil will get you if you don’t watch
out, so do what the minister says.”
Such sermons are not totally confined to
what is called ‘Mainstream Protestantism,’ nor
to ‘Catholicism.’ I have here the January 1980
PLAIN TRUTH magazine printed by Herbert W.
THAT OLD SERPENT
CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN
of Revelation 12
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The devil is a spirit creature with awesome
power on the earth to do evil, or
cause men to do evil. He was once the
chief angel in God's heaven, but rebelled
against God and actually warred against
God; and had one-third of the angels on
his side. So, in the war they eventually
lost, or at least lost after a fashion. God,
with the help of Michael and his angels,
cast the devil and his angels down to the
earth where they now roam about, doing
their nefarious works.
Common teaching is that the 'devil' is so
evil he is almost indescribable. However,
the Catholic priests and the Christian
ministers are continually resisting him,
and preaching against him, and fighting
against him. And apparently, if it were
not for them, the 'devil' would have taken
over and perhaps destroyed the earth
already.
Some teach that this powerful 'spirit
creature' will eventually be destroyed,
and they quote Revelation 20: 10 for
that. Some teach, as do the Catholics,
that this wicked 'spirit-being' and his
angels, whom they call 'devils' or
'demons,' will live forever in a burning
hell, poking redhot irons and pitch-forks
into those who did not do what the
priests or the ministers said they should.
The Catholics generally say that all
protestants are going to be down there
with the devil. Baptists think that all
non-Baptists are going to be there; and
many individual churches or denominations
teach that everyone but their own
group is going to be down there, in that
'hell,' with the 'devil' at his pleasure for
ages upon end.
Armstrong. Most of you know about the World
Wide Church of God. This is from the article
entitled “Personal from H.W.A.” The article purports
to answer this question:
Needless to say, Armstrong’s final conclusion
is that, it is because all the churches except
Armstrong’s are preaching false doctrine. But I
want to quote from the article as he explains part
of the reason, for what he calls “the error of the
churches,” and he says it is caused by the ‘devil.’
So I will quote just those parts where he talks
about the ‘devil.’ He says:
That is from Revelation 20. Armstrong goes on:
There is a whole column about this same
‘devil,’ deceiving the churches in the world, and
he asks how it could have all started. At the bottom
of the page he says:
“It all started with Adam in the garden of
Eden.”
A little further on:
And still further on:
“Satan tempted Adam through his wife, Eve;
Adam took of the forbidden tree.”
I quoted all of that to show that although
Armstrong does not teach there is a burning hell
— where people are tortured for years — he
does teach the same doctrine on the origin of,
and work of ‘satan,’ that the mainstream churches
do. I have read Armstrong’s articles, and I
agree with his teachings on ‘hell.’ However, I did
not know until about two years ago (1978) that
Armstrong is a little schizophrenic when it
comes to his people being in fire.
He teaches publicly that people do not go to
‘hell’ to be tortured when they die, but once you
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“What is the most universal erroneous
and false belief and teaching that has
caused the world's evils, troubles, sufferings
and sorrows?”
“Perhaps many people do not believe in
the existence of a devil anymore. Yet
your Bible says the whole world, including
it’s religions, has been deceived by
Satan the Devil.” (then he quotes
Revelation 12:9), ‘The inhabitants of the
earth have been deceived by him through
deceived religion.’ (Revelation 17:2).
But your Bible also says, ‘The time is
coming when God Almighty shall send
an angel from heaven and lay hold on the
dragon, that old serpent, which is the
Devil and Satan. And bind him a thousand
years and cast him into the bottomless
pit and shut him up and set a seal
upon him that he should deceive the
nations no more till the thousand years
shall be fulfilled.’”
“Just who is this Satan, where did he
come from? Did God create a devil to
deceive us? He is aformer archangel who
was perfect in all his ways, as God created
him, (Ezekiel 28:15). But he had a
mind and free moral agency with the
right of free choice forming his own
decisions. Just as God has given you and
me and all humans that same free moral
agency. Otherwise, we could have no
character. This great arch-angel was
named Lucifer, and God set him on the
throne of the whole world, to administer
the government of God over angels
which inhabited the earth prior to the
creation of man. But this powerful
Lucifer turned his angels into rebelling
against God.”
“Satan was just around the corner, so to
speak, waiting for a chance to tempt
Adam into rejecting God, even as he
himself had rejected God, God’s Law,
God’s way and God’s government when
he was the arch-angel Lucifer.”
join his church, you are taught, over and over
again, that if you reject Armstrong’s teachings
and leave, or are kicked out of the Armstrong
church, then you will be sent to the ‘lake of fire’
for ‘eternity.’ So it seems he has a ‘special hell’
for people who do not obey him. Just as the
Catholic church has a ‘hell’ for the people who
do not obey their priests.
So, in spite of his public announcements, he
frightens people into obeying him by his own
private ‘hell.’ And I do know, as I have had ex-
Armstrong members, especially women, tell me
that they were in Armstrong’s church, and literally
lived in fear for years; afraid they might do
something to offend Armstrong or one of the
ministers, and be kicked out of the church and
then be cast into the ‘lake of fire.’ They were
afraid of it, and he built on that fear.
That’s about it for the general teaching about
‘satan.’ As you can see, the different denominations
have some variances, but they all agree on
one thing: ‘the devil never deceives me, but he
certainly has deceived a lot of you people out
there!’ The doctrine they all agree on, and generally
speaking they are almost all in agreement, is
that the ‘devil’ was God’s chief angel - a powerful
‘spirit-creature.’ He rebelled against God,
and God cast him down to the earth. Most of
their doctrine is based on the three verses we
looked at earlier.
In the last few months (1980) some sermons
have been preached by ministers who generally
teach what we call the Identity Message. These
sermons, both in printed form and on tape, have
rebuked me (Pastor Emry) for my teaching about
‘satan’ and Eve in the garden of Eden. I do not
agree that ‘satan’ or any creature seduced Eve in
the garden of Eden and produced children. They
teach that ‘satan’ seduced Eve and produced
Cain. We call it the “Seed-line Doctrine.” I
OPPOSE that teaching! The Mormon Church
and the Jewish Talmud also teaches it. And their
description of ‘satan’ is identical to Armstrong’s,
and to the churches’.
Bear with me if this seems a little tedious and
a little long. I’m going to quote one verse from
Revelation 1, and this one verse alone, if it is
true (and if we believe the Word of God, and that
God is not a liar), is enough to prove the following:
1. The war in heaven of Revelation 12
already took place, not milleniums ago, but after
John saw the vision.
2. The casting out, of whatever this creature
was, from heaven to earth, therefore took place
after 96 AD, sometime after the vision was seen.
If the ‘devil’ or ‘satan’ of Revelation 12 is all
that the Catholic church, and the Protestant
denominations, and Armstrong, and some
Identity preachers say he is, he would not have
fallen to the earth prior to Adam and Eve being
in the Garden of Eden.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God
gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass; and he signified
it by his angel unto his servant John.”
Revelation 1: 1
Did you read that phrase? “Things which
must shortly come to pass.” It didn’t say, “I’m
going to show you things which have already
happened.” These are things yet future according
to what the angel said to John. Another witness
is verse 3:
“Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear
the words of this prophecy, and keep those
things which are written therein: for the time is
at hand.”
Revelation 1 :3
Same general theory, it’s in the future! The
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“He was a great fallen angel, he was cast
down to the earth, he deceived Adam
and Eve in the garden of Eden, “ and so
on.
things you will read about are future. The signs
or the visions which the angel showed John, and
which were then written down by John, were of
things which were yet future events in 96AD. Do
you understand that? Do you read these verses
the same way I do? Because this is a very, very
important point when you study the book of
Revelation. If you want a third witness, read
Revelation 4, where after he has given the message
to the churches we read this in verse 1:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was
opened in heaven: and the first voice which I
heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
me which said, Come up hither, and I will shew
thee things which must be hereafter.”
Revelation 4: 1
I know I’m repeating this, but every time you
hear a minister preaching out of the book of
Revelation, and he tells you that these things
happened way back in milleniums past, like
some creature falling out of heaven to the earth,
you can call him a liar, and you can prove it with
Revelation chapters 1 and 4.
The visions in Revelation were to take place,
or be fulfilled, after they were shown to John,
according to these three witnesses. What does
that do to the churches, and even Identity ministers
who insist that the ‘devil’ or ‘satan’ of
Revelation 12 is a ‘fallen angel’ who was cast
out of heaven milleniums before John saw the
vision? It makes them either fools or liars. Read
the vision in Revelation 12 in more detail.
“And there appeared a great wonder (and the
margin in most Bibles will tell you the word
‘wonder’ could have been translated ‘sign’) in
heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars.”
Revelation 12: 1
Were these actual events taking place in
God’s heaven, or were they visions that John
saw which were symbolic of things that would
happen? I really don’t think you could believe
that John would be teaching this is a literal
woman clothed with the sun, standing on the
moon and wearing 12 stars on her head. It has to
be symbolic of something else. He is not seeing
the actual thing, he is seeing it in symbolism.
John was on the isle of Patmos, and in
Revelation 4:2, he said he was ‘in the spirit’
when he saw these things. My understanding of
this, is that when John says “I saw something in
heaven,” he was looking up in the sky and he
saw these events taking place. When he said,
“there appeared a wonder in heaven,” it doesn’t
necessarily mean that the woman was up in
God’s heaven. John saw her up in the sky, and
wrote it down as he saw it.
“And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered. And there
appeared another wonder (sign) in heaven; and
behold a great red dragon, having seven heads
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third part of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
And the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered, for to devour her
child as soon as it was born. And she brought
forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations
with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up
unto God and to his throne. And the woman
fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her
there a thousand two hundred and three-score
days.”
Revelation 12:2-6
Then come the verses that say there was
‘war’ in ‘heaven.’ This is all part of a continuing
vision, and John is writing it down as he sees it.
Let us try to identify the participants here as best
we can. The symbolism in the first verse, the
“sun, moon and stars” leads us, of course, back
to where Joseph dreamed a dream in Genesis,
“And he dreamed yet another dream, and told
it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have
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dreamed a dream more; and, behold the sun
and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance
to me. And he told it to his father, and to
his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and
said unto him, What is this dream that thou
hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy
brethren indeed come to bow ourselves down to
thee to the earth?”
Genesis 37:9
You can see in Joseph’s dream, as in John’s
vision the “sun, moon and stars” signify the
whole house of Israel. Therefore, this woman is
also symbolic of the house of Israel, the identifying
marks being the sun, moon and stars.
There are events in Scripture where the sun and
the moon will be darkened, and so on. I have
identified them, in previous sermons, as being
symbolic of the destruction of Israel, and the
reducing of her power at the end of the age. It
has nothing to do with the heavenly bodies of the
sun, moon and stars. These are symbolic and, of
course, 12 is always a symbol for Israel and for
the twelve tribes.
If this vision is actually in heaven, then in
order to fulfil the vision, Israel would have to be
in God’s heaven, would she not? But we know
Israel is not in heaven. Israel is on the earth, has
always been on the earth, and will remain on the
earth. The heaven mentioned here is where John
saw the vision, not where the woman was or will
be. The war in heaven also does not have to be
in God’s heaven.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and
his angels fought against the dragon; and the
dragon fought and his angels, (he was looking
up at this vision in the skies) and prevailed not;
neither was their place found any more in
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out...”
Revelation 12:7-9a
Here is the identification used by the churches
to say that this was ‘satan’:
“...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.”
Revelation 12:9b
We passed over something already, which
the Catholic priests always pass over, and the
protestant ministers always pass over, and at
least those Identity ministers who opposed me in
my arguments about ‘satan’ also pass over, so
let’s go back and read it,
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven;
and behold a great red dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns
upon his heads.”
Revelation 12:3
The Mother Eve of Judaism, of the Mormon
church, and of the Seed line people - who teach
that this ‘satan’ seduced her - must have been
some sort of a pervert. Can you imagine her
falling for some creature with seven heads and
ten horns? This does NOT mean some creature,
or man, or person literally. It obviously has some
other meaning. This creature figuratively has
seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns.
Since we’ve already seen that the woman is
not a woman, but is a great mass of people called
Israel, then maybe the dragon isn’t a dragon, nor
a devil, nor a satan, nor even a serpent, but
something else! The Bible, of course, has the
answer for us, and there are several other places
in the Bible where there is a creature described
very similarly to this creature, here called the
Devil and Satan.
“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw
a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven
heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns; and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like unto
a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear
and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the
dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and
great authority. And I saw one of his heads as
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it were wounded to death: and his deadly
wound was healed: and all the world wondered
after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon
which gave power unto the beast: and they
worshipped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like unto
the beast? Who is able to make war with him?’”
Revelation 13: 1-4
In this passage of Revelation 13, this beast is
not identified. But it is identified in the book of
Daniel, and we may look at that later. But we’ll
stay in Revelation for now. The ‘satan’ theorists,
or those who teach these devil doctrines, never
call the creature of Revelation 13, a ‘great fallen
angel,’ even though that creature has seven
heads and ten horns, just like the Devil and’
satan’ of Revelation 12. Of course, as I mentioned
earlier, they never even read Revelation
12:3, when they tell you the ‘devil’ of this chapter
is a ‘fallen angel.’
If you heard this devil had seven heads, you
might question their interpretation. You certainly
would question the devil or serpent of
Revelation 12 having sexual intercourse with
Eve, and fathering Cain; if at the same time they
pointed out that this serpent had seven heads and
ten horns. The next place we have the same kind
of beast is in Revelation 17.
“And there came one of the seven angels which
had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying
unto me, Come hither: I will shew unto thee the
judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon
many waters: (remember this is still John writing
the descriptions of visions he saw, shown to
him by an angel. In some cases the angel
explained them as he did this one) with whom
the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth have been
made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
So he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet
coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns.”
Revelation 17:1-3
Here is that same identical description as in
Revelation 12 called that “old serpent, the devil
and satan.” Let’s read on with this description,
because if we were again to take this literally, as
being what it is visually, then we would have to
expect sometime in the future a scarlet woman
here on the earth, riding some sort of scarlet co
loured beast with seven heads and ten horns.
Obviously it symbolizes something else; it’s not
a literal beast. Just as the creature back in
Revelation 12 does not have to be a literal
‘satan’ or a literal devil. John writes a little more
about the woman and then continues,
“And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst
thou marvel? I will tell thee of the woman, and
of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the
seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou
sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of
the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and
they that dwell on the earth shall wonder,
whose names were not written in the book of
Life from the foundation of the world, when
they behold the beast that was, and is not, and
yet is.”
Revelation 17:7-8
Remember those first verses in Revelation 1.
These are still the visions John was shown by
angels of things “which must shortly come to
pass.” They were to happen sometime after John
saw the vision.
“And here is the mind that hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the
woman sitteth.”
Revelation 17:9
All students of Bible prophecy should know
symbolism well enough, to know that the word
‘mountains’ in prophecy means nations or conglomerates
of people. They are not physical
mountains. The angel identifies who the woman
is,
“the woman which thou sawest is that great
city, which reigneth over the kings of the
earth.”
Revelation 17:18
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The woman is riding a beast with seven
heads. The woman rules over the kings of the
earth. Therefore what is the symbolism? The
symbolism is some sort of a mystery power, here
called MYSTERY BABYLON which rides, or
gains its power through a conglomeration of
nations. It is NOT ‘satan,’ it is NOT the ‘devil,’
it is NOT some spiritual angel thrown down
from heaven in past milleniums. It is a conglomeration
of nations.
“And there are seven kings: (in other words,
each one of these nations has a king) five are
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet
come,”
Revelation 17: l0a
John is seeing this at a time when something
had already happened, one is ruling, another is
coming, and,
“... when he cometh, he must continue a short
space. And the beast that was and is not, even
he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth
into perdition (destruction). And the ten horns
which thou sawest are ten kings. which have
received no kingdom as yet.”
Revelation 17: 10b-12a
These ten kings did not rule at the time that
John saw the vision. They had received no kingdom
as yet.
“But receive power as kings one hour with the
beast.”
Revelation 17:12b
Whatever this is, it will take place over a relatively
short time. One hour in Bible prophecy
would be quite short, because there are prophecies
of 100 years and 1260 years, and so on.
“These have one mind. and shall give their
power and strength unto the beast. These shall
make war with the Lamb. and the Lamb shall
overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and
King of kings: and they that are with him are
called, and chosen, and faithful.”
Revelation 17: 13-14
So it shows here that there is going to be a
war involving ten kings. Revelation 17 is the
most simple explanation of what the beast with
seven heads and ten horns is. The ten horns are
ten kings. These kings give their power and
strength unto the beast. They make war with the
Lamb, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
“And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the
beast, these shall hate the whore, (hate this ruling
entity that rules over the whole world) and
shall make her desolate and naked, and shall
eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.”
Revelation 17:16
The same ten kings, or ten nations, that give
their power to the beast, shall destroy her,
“For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his
will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto
the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.”
Revelation 17:17
I went into this in detail a few years ago, that
the USA has given more of its wealth and its
power to build up the red beast of communism
than any other nation.
Russia as a military power today would not
even exist, except for technical things given and
sent to the Soviet Union over the last 50 years
from the USA (Documented in NATIONAL
SUICIDE by Anthony Sutton).
In other words, all of their weaponry, all of
their science, all of their computers, all of their
factories were literally built by American technicians
and productivity. So, if America is the
nation that has given the power to the beast, the
red beast of communism, where do the ten
nations fit in?
How many of you know that America was
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divided into ten nations? It was divided into ten
regions in about 1970. We now have ten governments
ruling over ten seperate nations. All the
government control and aid and money comes
out of a central point, Washington D.C., and is
distributed to each region.
America is no longer fifty states, it is ten
regions. I am not going to be dogmatic about
this, but it was the United States being divided
into ten regions, through which our enemies
gained control of our government, have used our
wealth, stolen our taxes, taken our grain and productivity
and built up the red beast. America
could be these ten kings, which receive power as
kings one hour with the beast. One hour is a very
short space of time. And remember, then those
kings,
“...shall hate the whore, and make her desolate,
and naked and shall eat her flesh, and burn her
with fire.”
Revelation 1 7: 16b
If I am correct in my theory that those ten
horns are ten nations which are collectively the
USA, then it will be the US which will destroy
the power of the red beast of world communism
that now rules the world. The prophet Obadiah
saw visions concerning the destruction of Edom.
“The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord
God concerning Edom. (Edom means RED.
Edom is world communism.) We have heard a
rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is
sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us
rise up against her in battle.”
Obadiah 1: 1
This prophecy describes the destruction of
Esau/Edom, which we can identify as this worldcontrolling
power that now reigns over all the
earth. And look who destroys Edom,
“But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance...”
Obadiah 1 :17a
We’ve identified the USA as Zion in other sermons.
“...and there shall be holiness; and the house of
Jacob shall possess their possessions. And the
house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of
Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble...”
Obadiah 1: 1 7b-18a
And of course, Esau is Edom; Genesis 36
repeats that four times.
“And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to
judge the mount of Esau;”
Obadiah 1 :21 a
In other words, saviors shall come upon the
nation of Zion to judge the nation of Esau, or
Edom, the Reds!
“And the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.”
Obadiah 1:21 b
This is the description of the last battle to be
fought upon the earth, when Jacobi Israel have
been deceived into giving their power to this
great red beast and this scarlet woman. Then
we’ll turn on the woman and destroy her. This
makes the only sense of this entire prophecy.
The beast with seven heads and ten horns is
something which gives power to the scarlet
woman, and then it will turn back against her
and destroy her.
I’ll repeat the point I made earlier: if you
take Revelation 12 as the Catholic church does,
and as the Protestants do, and say: “Oh, this is
that great arch-angel, and he fought in heaven
and was brought down to the earth, and so on,”
you then destroy all of this actual prophecy
which is being given here. It is no wonder then
that our people are blind to what is happening in
the earth today, because prophecy in the Bible
has been misrepresented to them.
That doctrine of course, is so universally
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taught, and has been taught over such a long
period of time, that there are few who question
it. I must admit, for the greater part of my life, I
never questioned it either. I accepted all of these
stories and descriptions of this ‘devil,’ since my
parents and everyone else that I knew, believed
it. I assumed it was the truth.
Back in those days, everyone that I knew
thought that the Jews were Israel, so I believed
that too. Everyone I knew thought that non-
Christians went to ‘hell-fire’ and were tortured
for ever and ever by this same ‘devil,’ so I
believed that also. Almost everyone that I knew
thought Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the savior
of America, and the only reason I didn’t
believe that, was because my parents did not
believe it. My father said that Franklin Roosevelt
was a crook. So that is still a good example. We
tend to believe what our parents believe, whether
or not it is true.
But believing it doesn’t make it true! We
read Revelation 12:3, which is the verse the
‘devil’ preachers do not read, since it describes a
strange ‘creature’ with seven heads. Whoever
heard of a devil with seven heads? Well, that
then took us to Revelation 17. The beast upon
which the scarlet woman, MYSTERY BABYLON,
rides has seven heads. These seven heads
are identified as seven mountains or nations.
And the ten horns as ten kings, or kingdoms. So
the description in Revelation l2, and the symbolism
in Revelation 12, is identical to that of
Revelation 17.
That old serpent called the ‘devil’ and ‘satan’
is not a spirit creature, but a comglomerate of
nations opposed to Christians and Christendom.
I showed in my sermon series entitled Give The
Devil His Due (7810, 7811, 7812, 7813), that the
Hebrew word translated ‘satan’ in the Old
Testament means simply ‘adversary’ or ‘enemy.’
In fact it is translated ‘enemy’ in the Old
Testament more times than it is transliterated
into the word ‘satan.’
So the scarlet woman and the red beast of
Revelation 17 are certainly the ‘adversaries’ of
Christianity because the woman is said to be
“drunken with the blood of saints, and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus. “ We’ll find that
this Revelation 12 ‘satan’ is also the enemy of
Christendom.
Some may think I have boxed myself into a
corner with my emphatic statement that the
events of Revelation 12 were to come to pass
after John saw the vision in AD96; because of
what I read in Revelation 1 and 4. The woman
gave birth to a man-child, and most people teach
that the man-child is Jesus, who was born some
90 odd years before John saw the vision.
“And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered. And there
appeared another wonder in heaven; and
behold a great red dragon, having seven heads
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third part of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
and the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered, for to devour her
child as soon as it was born. And she brought
forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations
with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up
to God and to his throne.”
Revelation 12:2-5
At first reading, it may seem to be the baby
born to Mary. In other words, the baby Jesus.
However, as we have seen, the symbols in this
vision are not what they actually represent. The
woman is not a woman, the woman is Israel. The
sun, moon and stars are not actually sun, moon
and stars. The red dragon is not a literal dragon.
The heads are not heads, the horns are not horns;
so perhaps the child is not a child, but symbolizes
something else.
Consider everything we can here, since this
man-child is to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
That takes us, first of all, to Revelation 19, and
after the destruction of MYSTERY BABYLON,
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there is another vision,
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
horse, and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he
dothjudge and make war.”
Revelation 19: 11
This, I believe, is a reference to Jesus Christ.
This is not the Christ taught by most of the clergy;
they teach that this Christ is going to come
and snatch the Christians from the earth, and
take them off to heaven. This Christ in
Revelation 19 is going to judge and make war,
“And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
that with it he should smite the nations: and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth
the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God. And he hath on his vestures and
on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS,
AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Revelation 19: 15-16
In Psalm 2 we read of the references to
someone ruling the earth with “a rod of iron.”
“I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said
unto me, Thou art my Son; This day have I
begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee
the heathen for thine inheritance, and the
uttermost parts of the earthfor thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou
shalt dash them in pieces like a potters vessel.”
Psalm 2:7-9
This seems to be Jesus again who will rule
with a rod of iron. But is it possible that verse 8,
is not God speaking, but the Son. In other words
He is saying in verse 7, God said, “Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee.”
Then if we take the next verse as Jesus
speaking, then He is saying, “Ask of me and I
shall give thee, (you), the heathen for your inheritance,
and the uttermost parts of the earth for
thine possession.” Thou, you believers, you
Christians, shall break them with a rod of iron;
and shall dash them in pieces as a potters vessel!
We are told in Revelations that it is the
Christian believers who will rule the world with
a rod of iron. Jesus is speaking to the churches:
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my
works to the end, to him will I give power over
the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod
of iron, as the vessels of a potter shall they be
broken to shivers: even as I received of my
Father.”
Revelation 2:26-27
We have a two-fold revelation here that it is
Jesus who will rule the nations with a rod of
iron, but it is also true that Jesus’ followers, the
overcomers, will rule the nations of the world
with a rod of iron.
There are other verses in Revelation 12
which also reveal that the man-child here is not
Jesus Christ. We’ve already seen that the Bible
says the overcomers will rule the nations with a
rod of iron. Revelation 12:2 says;
“and she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered.”
Earlier I identified the woman as Israel. The
sun, moon and stars are symbols of the nation of
Israel according to Josephs’s dream. But the
question is, Did Israel travail when Jesus was
born? The answer is, No! Most of Israel didn’t
even know what was happening. And another
point in fact, the word ‘travail’ is never used in
Scripture in relation to Jesus’ birth.
However, there is a birth in Scripture which
is supposed to produce a man-child, and is supposed
to produce it with pain and travail. The
Bible itself can identify what this man-child is in
the last chapter of the prophet Isaiah.
The last half of the book of Isaiah is almost
completely about the Zion of Bible prophecy, as
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are some of the other prophecy books in the Old
Testament, yet we seldom hear an explanation of
what the Zion of Bible prophecy is. Generally
speaking, Zion is related to Jerusalem and to a
redeemed Israel ruling over the earth in the kingdom.
In other words, the word’ Zion’ fits the
kingdom of Jesus Christ upon the earth.
“Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at
his word (this is addressed to believers, people
who tremble at God’s word) Your brethren that
hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake,
said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified:’ but he shall
appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.”
Isaiah 66:5
He is referring to someone who is cast out by
their brethren, but God will appear to the cast out
ones.
“A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the
temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence
to his enemies. Before she travailed,
she brought forth, before her pain came she
was delivered of a man-child. Who hath heard
such things? Who hath seen such a thing?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one
day? Or shall a nation be born at once?”
Isaiah 66:6-8a
What was born? What is the man-child? The
man-child is a nation, a nation born at once.
“For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought
forth her children. ‘Shall I bring to birth, and
not cause to bring forth?’ saith the Lord: ‘Shall
I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb?’
saith thy God.”
Isaiah 66:8b-9
God is going to bring something out of this
thing called Zion. And the thing born, called a
‘man-child’ in prophecy, is a nation. Another
chapter, Micah 4, is obviously a prophecy of the
Kingdom of Jesus Christ upon the earth. The
first part of it literally repeats word for word
Isaiah 2: 1.
“But in the last days it shall come to pass, that
the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be
established in the top of the mountains and it
shall be exalted above the hills: and people
shall flow unto it.”
Micah 4: 1
As we saw earlier, the word ‘mountain’ symbolizes
‘nation’ in Bible prophecy. The nation of
the Lord is going to be established as the chief
among the nations, on top of the nations:
“And people shall flow unto it. And many
nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us
go up to the mountain (nation) of the Lord, and
to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will
teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for the law shall go forth from Zion, and
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
Micah 4:2
There is a cassette message (7105) on that
subject explaining the difference between the
law going from Zion and the word from
Jerusalem.
“And he shall judge among many people, and
rebuke strong nations afar off: and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks: and nation shall not
lift up a sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war anymore.”
Micah 4:3
This has to refer to that great prophesied time
of peace, the Kingdom upon the earth!
“But they shall sit every man under his vine
and under his fig tree: and none shall make
them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts
hath spoken it. For all people will walk everyone
in the name of his god, and we will walk in
the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her
that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven
out, and her that I have afflicted.”
Micah 4:4-6
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Her that halteth, her that was driven out, and
her that was afflicted, is the nation of Israel,
driven out of old Palestine 700 years before
Christ.
“And I will make her that halted a remnant,”
Micah 4:7a
The Hebrew word translated ‘remnant’
means literally ‘the turned ones.’ It’s too bad that
the word ‘remnant’ means ‘a small number’
nowadays. Back then it did not mean that, it
meant ‘the turned ones,’ so this would mean, the
ones turned to God.
“and her that was cast far off a strong nation:”
Micah 4:7b
Here is a prophecy that God, who had cast
off Israel, would regather Israel and make her a
strong nation.
“And the Lord shall reign over them in mount
Zion from henceforth, even forever.”
Micah 4:7c
What is that nation, that is made up of reconstituted
Israel? In Bible prophecy, it is called
Zion. And it is out of Zion that the man-child is
born.
“And thou, O tower of the flock, the stronghold
of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come,
even the first dominion; the kingdom shall
come to the daughter of Jerusalem.”
Micah 4:8
Not the old mother, not that filthy little old
city back in Palestine, but the New Jerusalem,
the new nation called Zion, and Jerusalem, that
was born in a day, and which the dragon in
Revelation 12 was attempting to destroy.
“The kingdom shall come to the daughter of
Jerusalem. Now why dost thou cry aloud? Is
there no king in thee? Is thy counsellor perished?
For pangs have taken thee as a woman
in travail.”
Micah 4:8b-9
Something is coming to birth in this nation
of reconstituted Israel.
“Be in pain and labour to bring forth, O
daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for
now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou
shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even
to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered, there
the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of
thine enemies.”
Micah 4: 10
We’ve shown this in other sermons on
prophecy, that this nation — this great reconstituted
nation of Israel was to be born in a day —
was to become the chief among nations of all the
world, and then was to go into captivity under an
entity called Babylon. Remember Revelation 17,
it is MYSTERY BABYLON that rules over all
the nations of the world, and fights against
Christendom. This is the same Babylon that we
read here. Then God says, at that time;
“There shalt thou be delivered. There the Lord
shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Now also many nations are gathered
against thee, that say. Let her be defiled, and let
our eye look upon Zion.”
Micah 4: l0b-11
What did we read in Revelation 12 in the last
part of verse 4?
“the dragon stood before the woman which was
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as
soon as it was born.”
Revelation 12:4b
So what do we have? We have a nation born
out of reconstituted Israel and this confederation
of nations in Revelation 12 wants to destroy it.
Where has that ever happened in history? Well,
most of you (Americans) are living in that
nation, that was born in a day on July 4th, 1776.
The nation of reconstituted Israel which the
dragon, the enemy, the anti-Christ, has been trying
to destroy for centuries. This is not a recent
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battle. This battle has been going on for years.
So you can see, as we read this, that we find
the manchild is really the nation of regathered
Israel. It is not Jesus Christ as we showed earlier.
All of the visions in the book of Revelation
have to take place after John saw the vision. That
is made very plain in the first verses of
Revelation 1, and in the first verse of Revelation
4. These are not things that happened before. So
this birth was not Jesus Christ. This birth was of
the great Zion nation of Bible prophecy, the
United States of America.
“Now also many nations are gathered against
thee that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye
look upon Zion.”
Micah 4: 11
I would guess that there are more spies and
subversives per capita in America than in any
nation on earth. This cannot fit the little old land
of Palesine. I would suspect we have more
enemy spies and agents in America than they
have people in Palestine!
“But they know not the thoughts of the Lord,
neither understand they his counsel: for he
shall gather them as sheaves into the floor.
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will
make thine horn iron, and I will make thy
hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many
people and I will consecrate their gain unto the
Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the
whole earth.”
Micah 4:12-13
This is that great end-time battle in which all
the nations of the world will be gathered against
the Zion of Bible prophecy. Anyone who lives in
America, who can’t see the nations of the world
gathered against this great nation; — with the
military arms in, and subversive parties in control
of even a good share of South America, and
Cuba, and Nicaragua and even now (1980) taken
control to some extent in Mexico, with the
Russian submarines and ships patrolling both of
our seas with missiles by the thousands aimed at
this nation; — if you still think the Zion of Bible
prophecy is over in Palestine (Israeli), you simply
don’t know what is going on in the earth
today.
We are the target of the great anti-Christ conspiracy.
We are the nation born in a day, of
reconstituted Israel, the people who follow Jesus
Christ. Let’s go back to Revelation 12 and see if
this vision does rather fit with this idea, that the
man-child is not Jesus but was reconstituted
Israel born in a day.
“And she brought forth a man-child, who was
to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her
child was caught up unto God, and to his
throne.”
Revelation 12:5
Again, it does not mean a literal removal
from the earth to heaven. It is simply symbolic
language for God’s protection of that man-child.
God led and guided that man-child. If you can
name a nation upon the earth that has had more
leading and guidance and protection from God
Almighty than the USA, you tell me about it,
because I simply don’t know one.
“And the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she hath a place prepared of God, that
they should feed her there a thousand two hundred
and threescore days.”
Revelation 12:6
I’ve not yet figured out the time on this, and
as I don’t believe in computing times for Jesus’
return at the end of the age, I’ll let others work
on that. But I do know Israel was regathered here
in this North American continent, this wilderness.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and
his angels fought against the dragon; and the
dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed
not, neither was their place found anymore in
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that
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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.”
Revelation 12:7-9
This, of course, is not some spiritual being
that walks about the earth tempting Christians.
Again, this old dragon is this conglomeration of
nations, and they are literally going to be
brought low and destroyed by God. The terminology
here, of course, is ‘Michael.’
“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
Now is come salvation, and strength, and the
Kingdom of our God,”
Revelation 12:10a
Here is that Kingdom again, that we read
about in Isaiah and Micah,
“and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of
our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night.”
Revelation 12: 10b
That is another thing that our enemies do,
which at least is one thing that does make our
patriotic Americans angry. We are accused of
causing all the trouble on the earth. In other
nations in the third world, and among the communist
propagandists, America is the great and
terrible power. Khomeiny and Bin Laden call us
‘Devils’ and everything else.
America literally receives the blame for
everything that is going on the earth. And yet, in
times of calamity and earthquakes and famines
and trouble, what one nation, of all the earth
sends its food, its help, its doctors, and its people
to it? The United States, of course! The great
Zion Nation of Bible prophecy.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and
they loved not their lives unto death.”
Revelation 12: 11
This great anti-Christ world power is not going
to be overcome by force of arms perse, but by
the Word of God and the power of Jesus Christ.
“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the
earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down
unto you, having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
Revelation 12: 12
It is also true that the rest of the earth is suffering
under this anti-Christ power which is
attempting to destroy America. If you’ve ever
read the writings of Marx and Lenin and Stalin
and some of the other so-called theoriticians of
communism, they make it very plain that the
nation they want to destroy is the USA.
However, they recognize they will have to take
the rest of the world first, then destroy us. So, as
it says here, the devil is come down unto the rest
of the inhabiters of the earth and the sea. All the
other nations are suffering from this warfare
which is directed against us.
“And when the dragon saw that he was cast
unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which
brought forth the man-child. And to the woman
were given two wings of a great eagle, that she
might fly into the Wilderness, into her place,
where she is nourished for a time, and times,
and half a time, from the face of the serpent.”
Revelation 12: 13-14
There is a cassette tape series dealing with
the Great Seal of the United States (7825 -
7829), and many people I discovered, as I did
that series on the radio, wrote that they had
always assumed that the eagle was the symbol
for the USA, and they did not know, until I read
it from the Bible, that the Eagle is the symbol of
God. God carried Israel, the olive nation, in His
talons, and protected them with the arrows of
His Words. That seal, of course, has a lot more
symbolism than most people know about. That is
why it took me 20 radio broadcasts to explain it.
So, God Almighty carried Israel into the
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Wilderness, where she is nourished for a time,
times and half a time from the face of the serpent.
“And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as
a flood after the woman, that he might cause
her to be carried away of the flood.”
Revelation 12:15
This great flood of hatred and propaganda
and enmity to attempt to destroy the nation of
Zion.
“And the earth helped the woman, and the
earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the
flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.”
Revelation 12: 16
Again, referring to the other nations, this is
possibly fulfilled by the fact that much of the
power and might of the anti-Christ is absorbed
by the other nations. This great flood which they
cast out against Christian Israel, is absorbed by
the other nations. If it were not, if their attack
had only been on our nation, we would have
been destroyed long ago (humanly speaking);
but the other nations of the world serve to some
extent to soak up that power and enmity and evil.
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman,
and went to make war with the remnant of
her seed,”
Revelation 12: 17a
The war has to be against the physical, literal,
racial descendants of this woman whom
we’ve identified as Israel, and here they are:
“which keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Revelation 12: 17b
What can it be but Christianized Israel? The
people of our race, reconstituted in this North
American Continent as the Israel of God in the
great Zion of Bible prophecy. The dragon of
Revelation 12, which was seen in vision by John
is, of course, the same beast creature of
Revelation 17, which wars against God’s people.
“These shall make war with the Lamb, and the
Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of
lords, and King of kings: and they that are with
him are called, and chosen and faithful.”
Revelation 17:14
Who could they be but the Christians of the
earth, the Christians of America. This nonsense
that the Jews, who are the most anti-Christ people
in all of the world, over in Palestine-Israeli,
are the people against which world communism
is fighting, is literally that, not only nonsense,
but DANGEROUS NONSENSE! The people
they are fighting are the Christians of America
and Western Europe.
We are the target, we are the ones they wish
to destroy. If those who are fought against in
Revelation 17 are identical to those fought
against in Revelation 12, why is it so far fetched
to say that the entity which fights against them is
the same in both chapters. In other words, not a
great spirit being but a conglomerate of nations
and people gathered together to fight and
attempt to destroy the Zion of Bible prophecy.
My identification earlier on the ten horns of
Revelation 17 as possibly our own government
which has been divided into ten regions, does
not change my identification of this, since our
government is not run by our people.
How many of you know it is certainly not
run by Christian people? In fact, the present
President claims to be a born-again Christian
(Jimmy Carter), and as far as we can tell from
the entire list of hundreds, and perhaps by now
thousands, of people he has appointed to office
in the Federal Government, he has never
appointed one Christian to office, which of
course doesn’t speak very well for his profession
of Christianity.
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This government of ours is actually combined
with the enemies of Christianity, making
war on Christians. Thank God a lot of ministers
are beginning to see that when the government is
trying to take away their tax-exempt status and
close their schools, and has already stopped
prayer in the public schools and prevented the
Bible from being read there. There is at least a
stirring among our people and a recognition that
there is a great almost sacred hidden power
which is warring against Christendom and
against our people.
In summing up, we have an accurate prophecy
in Revelation 12, that people and nations,
constituted as earthly powers, would make war
on the regathered house of Israel in the
Wilderness, in their attempt to destroy Zion; to
destroy God’s government over the nations. The
interpretation of that vision as someone portraying
a fallen angelic creature, who is nebulous
and invisible, prevents us from grasping the truth
of the existence of this conglomeration of people
and nations; that war is being carried on against
us by flesh and blood people, and NOT by some
angelic supernatural creature.
There is a great difference in fact by identifying
this serpent or this satan of Revelation 12
as a great spirit creature. The ministers and the
clergy have educated the people to sit in church
and listen to the minister while he fights an
unseen and unseeable enemy. He has become
their surrogate soldier and they never enter into
the war, and never realize that they can. In fact,
they just watch this vapour called the ‘devil,’ and
the war goes on around them on the earth, and its
one-sided, because the enemy is fighting us and
we’re not fighting back. We are told that everything
is caused by this ‘devil.’
Some ministers take this ‘devil’ and this
‘satan’ and make a great thing out of it to make
themselves heroes and martyrs. Every time their
ministry starts to grow and they have success,
they say, “Oh we overcame the devil.” When the
contributions start to fall off and the people leave
the church, they say, “Oh the devil is trying to
destroy the ministry.” The devil has become a
scapegoat for their own failings. The individuals
who are destroying our nation encourage our
people to hate the ‘devil.’ But you’re never,
NEVER supposed to hate the individuals who
are doing the work of destroying this nation, and
our people. The ministers rail against pornography,
but who is at fault? Oh, the devil is. They
rail against prostitution, abortion, drug promotion,
blasphemy against Christ, treason in government,
and world communism, but who is at
fault? Oh, its that devil out there doing that. NO,
it is not my friends! It is millions, upon millions
of anti-Christ flesh and blood people who are
destroying your nation and your people.
The devil, as I said, becomes just a scapegoat.
Since you can’t hurt this spirit creature,
you never attempt to stop any of the things that
these people are doing. The minister may even
make a great crusading hero out of himself by
speaking against these nation destroying activities.
Then when someone comes along and says,
“What we must do is execute, exile, imprison or
punish the criminals and traitors in some way,”
they say, “We must hate the sin and love the sinner.
We must not judge lest we be judged, after
all, its the devil doing all of these things.”
If you point out that you have investigated
these anti-Christ and anti-Christian activities and
you have been convinced that they are primarily
promoted by anti-Christ Jews who are followers
of the religion of the Pharisees, which Jesus condemned;
and that they are behind everything
from communism to pornography, to drug promotion
and distribution, for the purpose of
destroying Christianity, then they say, “The Jews
are God’s chosen people. God will curse you if
you do anything against the Jews. We must love
the Jews.” Then they go back to fighting shadows
and the wind again with the devil and the
great anti-Christ.
They don’t mind if you oppose pornography,
just don’t jail the pornographer. They don’t mind
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if you oppose abortion, just don’t execute the
baby-killer! They don’t even mind if you hate
communism, just don’t imprison or deport the
Jewish communists. In actuality so many
churchgoers are so conditioned to think of their
enemy as a spirit creature called the devil, they
can hardly think in terms of flesh and blood enemies.
The ‘devil doctrine’ is powerful protection
for the enemies of Zion and Israel.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils.”
I Timothy 4: 1
I have read that verse for years and I always
assumed it meant that some would give heed to
doctrines promulgated by devils, but Paul
instead could have been warning that those who
would not preach the true faith would preach
doctrines ABOUT devils.
It’s interesting that the greatest so-called
church in Christendom which has departed from
the faith is the Roman Catholic Church; and a
great part of its teaching is always about that
‘devil.’ The devil will get you if you don’t follow
the teaching of the priests, and so on.
In Romans 1 we’ll see who has the power
here. This chapter is about people who refuse to
follow God.
“Because that when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, neither were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened:”
Romans 1 :21
It then describes people who are opposed to
knowing anything about God.
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,
through the lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”
Romans 1 :22
Did they get caught up in the web or deception
of some nebulous spirit creature called the
‘devil?’ NO! God gave them up to those things.
“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blest for ever. Amen. For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did change the natural
use into that which is against nature:”
Romans 1 :23
Who Is the power? Not the devil! But God
Almighty! 2 Thessalonians 2 is that great chapter
on the man of sin, which we’ve explained in
some detail previously (7702, 7103).
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish: because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”
2 Thessalonians 2: 10
Jews. We must love the Jews.” Then they go
back to fighting shadows and the wind again
with the devil and the great anti-Christ.
They don’t mind if you oppose pornography,
just don’t jail the pornographer. They don’t mind
if you oppose abortion, just don’t execute the
baby-killer! They don’t even mind if you hate
communism, just don’t imprison or deport the
Jewish communists. In actuality so many
churchgoers are so conditioned to think of their
enemy as a spirit creature called the devil, they
can hardly think in terms of flesh and blood enemies.
The ‘devil doctrine’ is powerful protection
for the enemies of Zion and Israel.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils.”
I Timothy 4: 1
I have read that verse for years and I always
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assumed it meant that some would give heed to
doctrines promulgated by devils, but Paul
instead could have been warning that those who
would not preach the true faith would preach
doctrines ABOUT devils.
It’s interesting that the greatest so-called
church in Christendom which has departed from
the faith is the Roman Catholic Church; and a
great part of its teaching is always about that
‘devil.’ The devil will get you if you don’t follow
the teaching of the priests, and so on.
In Romans 1 we’ll see who has the power
here. This chapter is about people who refuse to
follow God.
“Because that when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, neither were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened:”
Romans 1 :21
It then describes people who are opposed to
knowing anything about God.
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,
through the lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”
Romans 1 :22
Did they get caught up in the web or deception
of some nebulous spirit creature called the
‘devil?’ NO! God gave them up to those things.
“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blest for ever. Amen. For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did change the natural
use into that which is against nature:”
Romans 1 :23
Who Is the power? Not the devil! But God
Almighty! 2 Thessalonians 2 is that great chapter
on the man of sin, which we’ve explained in
some detail previously (7702, 7103).
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish: because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”
2 Thessalonians 2: 10
For this cause, that is because they did not
want the truth. When people believe lies and
believe not the truth of this Holy Word, who has
led them into that false belief? God Almighty!
Let’s be careful about what credit we give the
‘devil’ for doing great things. God Almighty
sends them strong delusions that they should
believe a lie.
Thank God for the other side of that same
coin. If you love the truth, God will open your
eyes and God will give you the truth. He will not
deceive you, and you will find out the things in
His Word which are truth. When Israel repents,
when our nation repents and turns to God and
seeks the truth; God will open their eyes and
give them the truth that will set them free.
The truth that will destroy all of the antichrist
powers of these people and nations, which
almost seem to have us in their grasp, and the
power is here, the power is not some mythical
‘satan’ of the churches. The power is in God
Almighty and His Word. We are the ones who
must repent and then the old adversary, this devil
and this satan, which are the people of the earth
that oppose Christendom, will be destroyed, and
God will bring upon this earth the cleansed land
of Bible Prophecy, the Kingdom of God upon
the earth. May God speed the day.
Pastor Sheldon Emry
Transcribed and edited from cassette tape 8001a
and 8001b
http://www.sheldonemrylibrary.com
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I said that Satan does tell the truth but only when it was to his advantage and I showed you something that Satan said to God that was true. I never said that everything that he says is the truth......but Satan does say some things that are true and Job 1:10 is the truth. God did protect Job and put a hedge around him. But you want to deny that that statement Satan made is true. So I guess what these are also a lies?


Was Satan lying in this verse?


Job 1:7 (ASV)
[sup]7 [/sup]And Jehovah said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.



Were the demons lying here as well?


Mark 1:23-24 (ASV)
[sup]23 [/sup]And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
[sup]24 [/sup]saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

This is taken from the sheldon Emry memorial library...

http://www.sheldonemrylibrary.com/devildue.htm

Give The Devil His Due Chapter 2

Common Beliefs
About The Devil
At the beginning of this study we read
about the thief on the cross. Let's read
that again because I want you to keep it in
mind as we study other Scriptures about
the devil, Satan, and the serpent:
And one of the malefactors which
were hanged railed on him, saying, If
thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
But the other answering rebuked him,
saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing
thou art in the same condemnation?
And we indeed justly; for we receive
the due reward of our deeds: but this
man hath done nothing amiss.
Luke 23:39-41
So the thief said that his own wickedness
had caused his problem. He did not
say that the devil caused it. He was
receiving the “due” reward of his deeds. In
other words, death was justly due him.
The thief didn't give any “due” to the
devil, but claimed it all for himself.
Most professing Christian churches
say the devil, or Satan, is a living creature
who has thoughts and power of his own.
They teach that he influences many
human beings to do wicked deeds or to
have wicked thoughts.
The following is a quote from Cruden
(of Cruden's Concordance) describing
what he calls “the Devil or Satan”:
“A most wicked angel, the implacable enemy and
tempter of the human race, deadly in his malice,
surprisingly subtle, possessing strength superior
to ours, having a mighty number of principalities
and powers under his command, he roves, full of
rage, like a roaring lion, seeking to tempt, to
betray, to destroy us, to involve us in guilt and
wickedness. In a word, he is an enemy to God and
man, and uses his utmost endeavors to rob God of
His glory and men of their souls.”
In a few short words, this sums up
what most of the “fundamentalist”
preachers would say of the devil. Cruden
comments further:
“Common belief assigns something like omniscience
to the evil being thus described. He is
regarded as universally at work, alike active in
England and America, and all other parts of the
globe at the same time, and exerting his seductive
arts in millions of hearts at once. He is also
believed to be, in some sense, omnipotent, achieving
his behest by a power superior to nature, and
certainly more successful than God in the mutual
strife for human souls, since hell, according to tradition,
receives a far larger proportion of the
earth's inhabitants than find their ways to the
celestial city.”
I think you would agree that the above
is a general statement of the belief of the
fundamentalist churches. They believe
that, in this contest between the devil and
God, the devil has been in the past, and is
currently, the victor: the successful one,
because he has claimed more human
beings or more souls than God has.
There is another teaching about the
devil, which denies that any such creature
exists. Most who believe this teaching,
also, deny that God Almighty exists. Some
call themselves, Atheists or Evolutionists
and they claim that the natural world,
which we see, is all that exists. They say
it came into being somehow; we know not
quite how, but that it has evolved into
what we see today without any outside
force acting upon it.
Give The Devil His Due
Chapter 2
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On the other hand, some believe in a
supernatural Devil to whom they've
attributed ALL power. They praise him
and become Devil or Satan Worshippers.
These people claim that they receive benefits,
or receive their desires, from the
devil. They, actually, came up with a religion
(which we would call “devil worship”),
where they give praise to “the Devil” to
the exclusion of God.
Christians are instructed not to give
place to the devil. They are to put on the
whole armor of God to stand against the
devil. Christians are warned that they can
sometimes be captives of the devil. The
devil has the power of death, but Jesus
destroyed that power. The devil will flee if
you resist him. He is likened to a lion,
devouring people. John wrote: “All who
have sinned are of the devil” Jesus was
made manifest to destroy the works of the
devil.
In Revelation, we found that the devil
can put Christians in prison. Reading the
references to the devil in order, from the
New Testament, we came across a beast
who was called a “dragon,” a “serpent,”
and also “the Devil” (capitalized). This
beast turned out to be, what could only be
described, as great world powers, nations
and kingdoms because the beast, Who is,
also, called the Devil, had seven heads
and ten horns and those heads and horns
were described as nations and. kingdoms.
In reading through the New
Testament, our devil first was something
that acted upon individual Christians and
then, Lo and behold, by the time we
reached the Book of Revelation, he had
become nations, kingdoms, and earthly
powers. Reading about the devil in the
last part of the New Testament, we found
the description did not fit anything else
we had read at the first. There seemed to
be a tremendous contradiction. Also, there
is somewhat of a contradiction between
what the Bible teaches and what the
churches teach, according to what I just
quoted from Mr. Cruden.
We cannot use the descriptions in
Revelation, chapters 12, 13 and 17, for
what is commonly considered “the devil.”
Here, he is being described as nations,
kingdoms and world powers. That doesn't
mean that these powers have nothing to
do with the devil but they are not the devil
itself. Nations and kingdoms are made up
of many people and earthly powers. They
cannot be described as an angelic or
supernatural being.
The Word “Diabolos”
Let's read Revelation 20 to try and find
“the Devil” of the churches.
And I saw an angel come down from
heaven, having the key of the bottomless
pit and a great chain in his
hand. And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent, which is the Devil,
and Satan, and bound him a thousand
years, And cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set
a seal upon him, that he should
deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little
season.
Revelation 20:1-3
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The term “devil” is used in verse two,
and, again, in verse ten of Revelation 20.
The Greek word is “diabolos.” According to
Strong's Concordance, it means “traducer”
(not seducer but traducer), “false accuser,
slanderer or devil.” In the Book of Acts, in
all of the epistles, and in Revelation, every
time you read the word, “devil,” it comes
from the Greek word “diabolos.” In 2
Timothy, the word “diabolos” is used but it
is not translated “devil.”
This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. For men
shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy, Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are
good,
2 Timothy 3:1-3
The two words “false accusers” are
translated from the word, “diabolos.” If
the translators had been consistent, “false
accusers” would have read, “devils.” Then
verse two would have read that men shall
be devils (diabolos).
But the devil, or devils, were not supposed
to be human! Yet, Paul says in the
last days mortal men shall be “diabolos.”
This is the same word that is used in
Revelation, chapters 2 and 20, and in all
of the epistles. Just so we don't leave the
women out, let's read what it says in chapter
two of Titus:
But speak thou the things which
become sound doctrine. That the aged
men be sober, grave, temperate, sound
in faith, in charity, in patience. The
aged women likewise, that they be in
behaviour as becometh holiness, not
false accusers (diabolos), not given to
much wine, teachers of good things, ...
Titus 2:1-3
Paul is saying that women have to be
exhorted not to be devils. It appears, then,
that Paul thought that men and women
could be “diabolos” or “devils,” The word
“serpent,” in Revelation 20, comes from
this same Greek word: “diabolos,” which
does not give any meaning of immortality
or long-living, or any angelic or spirit
nature to the serpent, as such. It simplymeans
“false accuser” or “slanderer.” The
serpent isn't an angelic being, when
defined by the word, “devil,” because both
men and women can be devils.
“Sawtawn:” Adversary —
Not Fallen Angel
What about the word “Satan?” The serpent
in Revelation 20 is called by the title
“Satan.” That is a little simpler to understand
because in every case where the
word “Satan” appears in the New
Testament, it comes from a Greek word
pronounced “satanas.” In the Old
Testament, it comes, every time, from the
same Hebrew word which is pronounced,
“sawtawn.” Here is what Strong's
Concordance says of the Greek word
“satanas:”
— Of Chaldean origin, the accuser, or the
“devil.”
Strong's says this of the Hebrew word
“sawtawn:”
— Opponent, adversary, Satan. From a
slightly different root “sawtan, “ meaning
to attack, accuse, to be an adversary, or to
resist.
So, the word “Satan” in the original
Greek and Hebrew, both in the Old
Testament and the New, comes from the
same word. It is a word of Chaldean origin
which was transliterated by the Hebrews
and picked up by the Greeks unchanged.
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It means “accuser,” “adversary,” “opponent,”
or it means “to do what an accuser,
adversary or an opponent does.”
Let me demonstrate this from the use
of “Satan” in the Old Testament. In
Numbers 22, Balak has hired Balaam to
prophesy against Israel.
Here, the word “sawtawn” is used and
it is translated “adversary:”
And God came unto Balaam at night,
and said unto him, If the men come to
call thee, rise up, and go with them;
but yet the word which I shall say
unto thee, that shalt thou do. And
Balaam rose up in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and went with the
princes of Moab. And God's anger was
kindled because he went: and the
angel of the Lord stood in the way for
an adversary (satan)
Numbers 22:20-22
Here we have an angel of the Lord who
is a “satan” or an “adversary” against this
man. The Hebrew text says the angel of
the Lord was, literally, “a satan.”
In chapter 19 of 2 Samuel, David is in
an argument with his own men. A man
who had previously maligned David came
and begged his forgiveness. David's men
said that David should kill the man
because he had cursed the Lord's anointed.
David replied:
And David said, What have I to do
with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye
should this day be adversaries
(Satans) unto me? shall there any
man be put to death this day in
Israel?
2 Samuel 19:22
David spoke to the officers in his own
army and asked them why they were
being “sawtawns” or “satans” to him.
Here is another passage that uses the
term “adversary”:
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants
unto Solomon; for he had heard
that they had anointed him king in
the room of his father: for Hiram was
ever a lover of David. And Solomon
sent to Hiram, saying, Thou knowest
how that David my father could not
build an house unto the name of the
Lord his God for the wars which were
about him on every side, until the
Lord put them under the soles of his
feet. But now the Lord my God hath
given me rest on every side, so that
there is neither adversary (satan) nor
evil occurrent.
Kings 5:1-4
The word “adversary” is from
“sawtawn.” Solomon was saying to Hiram
“God hath given me rest on every side, so
that there is neither SATAN nor evil
occurrent.” Solomon says there was no
satan at that time. There was no “satan”
because the word “satan” in the Chaldean,
Hebrew and Greek means “opponent” or
“adversary.” Solomon was saying he had
no opponent; he was at peace. This word
“sawtawn” is translated “Satan” 19 times
in the Old Testament. It is found once in I
Chronicles, 14 times in Job, once in
Psalms and three times in Zechariah. The
other 13 times that the word “sawtawn”
appears, it is translated “adversary.” So it
is transliterated to “Satan” 19 times and it
is translated “adversary” 12 times.
Adversary is the literal meaning of the
word in all three languages - Chaldean,
Hebrew, and Greek.
I think we should read a few more passages
where “sawtawn” is translated
“adversary.” In 1 Kings 11, near the end of
his reign, we read that Solomon has
sinned against God:
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And the Lord was angry with
Solomon, because his heart was
turned from the Lord God of Israel,
which had appeared unto him twice.
And had commanded him concerning
this thing, that he should not go after
other gods: but he kept not that which
the Lord commanded. Wherefore the
Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch
as this is done of thee, and thou hast
not kept my covenant and my statutes,
which I have commanded thee, I will
surely rend the kingdom from thee,
and will give it to thy servant. Not
withstanding in thy days I will not do
it for David thy father's sake: but I
will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Howbeit I will not rend away all the
kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy
son for David my servant's sake, and
for Jerusalem's sake which I have
chosen.
1 Kings 11:9-13
God is telling Solomon what He is
going to do because of Solomon's sin.
And the Lord stirred up an adversary
(a Satan) unto Solomon, Hadad the
Edomite: he was of the king's seed in
Edom.
1 Kings 11:14
The Lord stirred up a satan. Who was
this satan? He was not only a man, but his
name is given: “Hadad.” He was a mortal
man of Edom.
And God stirred him up another
adversary (satan), Rezon the son of
Eliadah, which fled from his lord
Hadadezer king of Zobah:
1 Kings 11:23
So, here is another satan, who is a
mortal, and his name is in the Bible.
And he was an adversary (satan) to
Israel all the days of Solomon, beside
the mischief that Hadad did: and he
abhorred Israel, and reigned over
Syria.
1 Kings 11:25
David also used the word “sawtawn” in
Psalm 38:
But mine enemies are lively, and they
are strong: and they that hate me
wrongfully are multiplied. They also
that render evil for good are mine adversaries
(satans); because I follow
the thing that good is.
Psalm 38:19-20
“Adversaries” is made plural here by
the translators. In the original text the
word is “sawtawn,” it can be used as both
singular and plural. The translators made
it plural because of David's use of the plural
“they.” He had more than one adversary
and they were “satans:” If the
translators had been consistent, they
would have transliterated “sawtawn” into
“Satan.”
Two other places where “sawtawn” was
translated, “adversaries,” are in Psalm 71
and Psalm 109:
O God, be not far from me: O my God,
make haste for my help. Let them be
confounded and consumed that are
adversaries (satans) to my soul; let
them be covered with reproach and
dishonour that seek my hurt.
Psalm 71:12-13
Hold not thy peace, O God of my
praise; For the mouth of the wicked
and the mouth of the deceitful are
opened against me: they have spoken
against me with a lying tongue. They
compassed me about also with words
of hatred; and fought against me
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without a cause. For my love they are
my adversaries (satans): but I give
myself unto prayer.
Psalm 109:1-4
David's adversaries were not supernatural,
angelic beings. But, they were
“satans.”
And they have rewarded me evil for
good, and hatred for my love. Set thou
a wicked man over him: and let Satan
(or an adversary) stand at his right
hand.
Psalm 109:5-6
“Satan,” in verse five, is the same word
translated “adversaries” in verse four.
Here it is transliterated into the word
“Satan”: “let Satan stand at his right
hand.” If you will, think about that for a
moment. David is not praying that God
will put “Satan,” the devil of the churches,
at the right hand of his enemy, but that
God would place one of their own
adversaries there. This is confusing
because of the translation of the same
word two different ways in the same text.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries
(satans) from the Lord, and of
them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalm 109:20
Let mine adversaries (satans) be
clothed with shame, and let them cover
themselves with their own confusion,
as with a mantle.
Psalm 109:29
Again, David used “adversaries” or
“satans” as a word that meant “human
enemies.” You cannot make this
“sawtawn,” or “satan” into an everliving,
angelic, supernatural creature in any of
the passages that we have read so far. In
fact, in some places, he is a specific human
being and he is named.
In every case where the original word
“sawtawn” has been used, so far, we cannot
use it for anything other than mortal
human beings.
“Sawtawn” In Job
As I stated earlier, of the 19 times that
the word “sawtawn” is transliterated as
“Satan,” 14 occur in Job. We will have to
read those 14 passages in order to understand
who or what caused all of Job's trouble.
In the modern churches, it is common
teaching that this fallen angel, this supernatural,
angelic being, called “Satan,” was
responsible.
There was a man in the land of Uz,
whose name was Job; and that man
was perfect and upright, and one that
feared God, and eschewed evil. And
there were born unto him seven sons
and three daughters. His substance
also was seven thousand sheep, and
three thousand camels, and five hundred
yoke of oxen, and five hundred
she asses, and a very great household;
so that this man was the greatest of
all the men of the east. And his sons
went and feasted in their houses,
every one his day; and sent and called
for their three sisters to eat and to
drink with them. And it was so, when
the days of their feasting were gone
about, that Job sent and sanctified
them, and rose up early in the morning,
and offered burnt offerings
according to the number of them all:
for Job said, It may be that my sons
have sinned, and cursed God in their
hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Job 1:1-5
We have established at the very beginning
that Job is very wealthy, he has
many sons and daughters, and he is a
God-fearing man who praised God for all
of his substance and all of his children.
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Now there was a day when the sons of
God came to present themselves before
the Lord, and Satan came also among
them.
Job 1:6
The margin in my Bible, and in many
Bibles, actually has the words “the 'adversary'
came, also, among them,” because it
is the same word “sawtawn.” Only here, it
is capitalized and written as “Satan.”
And the Lord said unto Satan,
Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered
the Lord, and said, From
going to and fro in the earth, and
from walking up and down in it. And
the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou
considered my servant Job, that there
is none like him in the earth, a perfect
and an upright man, one that feareth
God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan
answered the Lord, and said, Doth
Job fear God for nought? Hast not
thou made an hedge about him, and
about his house, and about all that he
hath on every side? thou hast blessed
the work of his hands, and his substance
is increased in the land.
Job 1:7-10
This creature, whoever and whatever
he is, says that Job fears God and gives
honor to Him because God has blessed
him. God has given him all these things
and protects him.
But put forth thine hand now, and
touch all that he hath, and he will
curse thee to thy face. And the Lord
said unto Satan, Behold, all that he
hath is in thy power; only upon himself
put not forth thine hand. So
Satan went forth from the presence of
the Lord.
Job 1:11-12
As you read on you find that Job lost
his oxen, asses, sheep, servants, camels,
and even his sons and daughters. The
churches say this was done by a great,
angelic, malevolent, evil, wicked being
who tempts and brings evil to all the other
people of the earth.
After Job lost everything we read:
In all this Job sinned not, nor
charged God foolishly.
Job 1:22
Again there was a day when the sons
of God came to present themselves
before the Lord, and Satan (sawtawn)
came also among them to present himself
before the Lord. And the Lord said
unto Satan, From whence comest
thou? And Satan answered the Lord,
and said, From going to and fro in the
earth, and from walking up and down
in it. And the Lord said unto Satan,
Hast thou considered my servant Job,
that there is none like him in the
earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God, and escheweth
evil? and still he holdeth fast his
integrity, although thou movedst me
against him, to destroy him without
cause.
Job 2:1-3
So, even after his calamity, Job was
still faithful to God. Now, God tells Satan:
“See, in spite of everything that happens,
Job still fears Me and eschews evil.”
And Satan answered the Lord, and
said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man
hath will he give for his life. But put
forth thine hand now, and touch his
bone and his flesh, and he will curse
thee to thy face. And the Lord said
unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine
hand; but save his life. So went Satan
forth from the presence of the Lord,
and smote Job with sore boils from the
sale of his foot unto his crown. And he
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took him a potsherd to scrape himself
withal; and he sat down among the
ashes.
Job 2:4-8
Job was so ill at this point that his wife
said:
Dost thou still retain thine integrity?
curse God, and die.
Job 2:9
Job's wife gave up. Job had lost everything
that he had. He now was in illness
and pain and possibly in fear of his own
life. At this point almost all fundamentalists
without exception have credited some
wicked, angelic being called “Satan”
(“sawtawn” in the original Chaldean language)
with having done all this to Job.
But, perhaps you missed verse three of
chapter two where God is speaking and
He said of Job: “and still he holdeth fast
his integrity, although thou movedst me
against him, to destroy him without
cause.” Who did the destroying? God said
that HE did it.
After these additional calamities
occurred and, apparently, after days of
conversation with friends who came supposedly
to comfort him but who were of no
great comfort, Job tells his friends:
How long will ye vex my soul, and
break me in pieces with words? These
ten times have ye reproached me: ye
are not ashamed that ye make yourselves
strange to me. And be it indeed
that I have erred, mine error
remaineth with myself. If indeed ye
will magnify yourselves against me,
and plead against me my reproach:
Job 19:2-5
If you know the Book of Job, you know
that these men had been telling Job that
he must have sinned. They told Job that
something he did was wrong, and that's
why he had suffered all these calamities.
So Job rebuked them:
Know now that God hath overthrown
me, and hath compassed me with his
net. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I
am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is
no judgment. He hath fenced up my
way that I cannot pass, and he hath
set darkness in my paths. He hath
stripped me of my glory, and taken the
crown from my head. He hath
destroyed me on every side, and I am
gone: and mine hope hath he removed
like a tree. He hath also kindled his
wrath against me, and he counteth
me unto him as one of his enemies. His
troops come together, and raise up
their way against me, and encamp
round about my tabernacle. He hath
put my brethren far from me, and
mine acquaintance are verily
estranged from me.
Job 19:6-13
Who is Job saying caused all of these
calamities? Job says that God did it. He is
trying to point out to these men that it
wasn't necessarily any sin of his own but,
they should understand that God did it.
Job says:
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me,
O ye my friends; for the hand of God
hath touched me.
Job 19:21
In the last chapter of Job, after God
has spoken to him, Job answers:
I know that thou canst do every thing,
and that no thought can be withholden
from thee. Who is he that
hideth counsel without knowledge?
therefore have I uttered that I understood
not: things too wonderful for
me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech
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thee, and I will speak: I will demand
of thee, and declare thou unto me. I
have heard of thee by the hearing of
the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent
in dust and ashes.
Job 42:2-6
Even though Job had rebuked his
friends and told them he had not sinned,
he said: God, I realize what I am, I realize
what You are, You can do all things, therefore,
I repent. Then God speaks to the
other men:
And it was so, that after the Lord had
spoken these words unto Job, the Lord
said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My
wrath is kindled against thee, and
against thy two friends: for ye have
not spoken of me the thing that is
right, as my servant Job hath.
Therefore take unto you now seven
bullocks and seven rams, and go to my
servant Job, and offer up for yourselves
a burnt offering; and my servant
Job shall pray for you: for him
will I accept: lest I deal with you after
your folly, in that ye have not spoken
of me the thing which is right, like my
servant Job.
Job 42:7-8
God says that Job spoke right. He then
tells Job's friends to offer a burnt offering
because, as He says in verse eight: “ye
have not spoken of me the thing which is
right, like my servant Job.” These men did
make an offering because God had told
them to, as we see in the next passage:
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad
the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite
went, and did according as
the Lord commanded them: the Lord
also accepted Job. And the Lord
turned the captivity of Job, when he
prayed for his friends: also the Lord
gave Job twice as much as he had
before. Then came there unto him all
his brethren, and all his sisters, and
all they that had been of his acquaintance
before, and did eat bread with
him in his house: and they bemoaned
him, and comforted him over all the
evil that the Lord had brought upon
him: every man also gave him a piece
of money, and every one an earring of
gold. So the Lord blessed the latter
end of Job more than his beginning:
for he had fourteen thousand sheep,
and six thousand camels, and a thousand
yoke of oxen, and a thousand she
asses. He had also seven sons and
three daughters.
Job 42:9-13
Why did God give Job all of these
blessings? They were given in order to
replace that which God Almighty had
taken from Job. The Book of Job is very
specific. The people who in the end came
to comfort Job realized that everything
that had happened to Job had been done
by God Almighty.
I haven't quoted all of Job but I quoted
every place where the word “Satan”
appears in Job. I defy you to use any part
of those references to conclude that
“satan” is some sort of an everliving creature
who has power almost equal to God.
If we take the original meaning of the
word we come up with the word “adversary.”
This adversary could easily have
been nothing more than another son of
God, a man of the Adamic race, who came
before God with the rest of the men and
provoked God to test Job. It was God who
brought the calamities. There is no indication
that the Satan of Job had any supernatural
powers, whatsoever. It was God
who did the things which were beyond
nature.
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We are going to have to believe what
Isaiah wrote:
I am the Lord, and there is none else,
there is no God beside me: I girded
thee, though thou hast not known me:
That they may know from the rising of
the sun, and from the west, that there
is none beside me. I am the Lord, and
there is none else. I form the light, and
create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the Lord do all these
things.
Isaiah 45:5-7
“Sawtawn” Is Not The Satan
of Today’s Churches
Let's look at the other five times in the
Old Testament that “sawtawn” is transliterated
into “Satan.”
And Satan stood up against Israel,
and provoked David to number Israel.
And David said to Joab and to the
rulers of the people, Go, number Israel
from Beersheba even to Dan; and
bring the number of them to me, that I
may know it.
1 Chronicles 21:1-2
David did number the children of
Israel. This was God's reaction:
And God was displeased with this
thing; therefore he smote Israel. And
David said unto God, I have sinned
greatly, because I have done this
thing: but now, I beseech thee, do
away the iniquity of thy servant; for I
have done very foolishly.
1 Chronicles 21:7-8
Who did David blame for having done
this thing? Did he give “Satan” his due?
No, David said: “I have sinned.”
The word “Satan” is only used in verse
one of this passage. If it had been translated
to the meaning of the word it would
have said: “an ADVERSARY stood up
against Israel, and provoked David to
number Israel” There is nothing in the
context here that can make this “satan”
into a fallen angel.
The word “Satan” is also found in
Psalm 109:
Set thou a wicked man over him: and
let Satan stand at his right hand
(referring to his enemy).
Psalm 109:6
David was saying, “Let an enemy of my
enemy stand at his right hand.” That is
all. David would not have prayed for the
“Satan” of the churches to be his enemy's
advisor! It hardly makes sense that David
would want a wise and powerful
archangel to be the advisor to his own
enemy. No, David was really praying that
his enemy would have an adversary or an
enemy of his own to advise him. This
would bring calamity upon the enemy's
designs. David desired his enemies to
have satans of their own in their camp.
The last three places in the Old
Testament where the word “Satan” is
found are in Zechariah:
And he shewed me Joshua the high
priest standing before the angel of the
Lord, and Satan standing at his right
hand to resist him. And the Lord said
unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, a
Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a
brand plucked out of the fire?
Zechariah 3:1-2
There is no indication that the Satan
here is anything like the one taught by the
churches. He doesn't do anything except
stand there as if he is to resist and, then,
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he is rebuked and we hear no more about
him.
The margin says that the last part of
verse one could read “an adversary” for
the word “Satan.” The last three words “to
resist him” should have read “to be his
adversary” (satan). The word “resist” is
translated from the same Chaldean word:
“sawtawn.” It means “to resist or be an
adversary.”
So here in Zechariah, as in Job and I
Chronicles 21, there is absolutely no evidence
that this “sawtawn” or “Satan” is
anything resembling the Satan preached
by the churches. He is mentioned as if he
is just standing there, it does not say he
does anything. He is rebuked, and we
hear no more about him.
We've read every passage in the Old
Testament where the Chaldean word
“sawtawn” is used. It is either translated
“adversary” or is transliterated into the
word, “Satan.” Not once can it really be
used to teach some sort of a wicked, powerful,
omnipotent angel or some great
enemy of God who, literally, can overpower
mankind and (almost) God, Himself. In
each and every case, the word names or
describes someone who is opposed to
someone else. In most cases the
“sawtawn” or “Satan” is obviously a mortal
man. In fact, he is sometimes named.
In no case is there any indication of longlife
or supernatural powers. It kind of
takes the wind out of Satan's sails, wouldn't
you think? Or, perhaps, we're just taking
the wind out of the mouths of the false
prophets.
Look Who Is “A Satan”
Before we go on, let's look at 2 Samuel,
chapter 24 which is a repetition of the
same story we read earlier about David
numbering Israel:
And again the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Israel, and he (Satan)
moved David against them to say, Go,
number Israel and Judah.
2 Samuel 24:1
The balance of the chapter is identical
to 1 Chronicles 21, where it says Satan
provoked David to number Israel. The
“Satan” of 1 Chronicles 21:1 is none other
than God Himself being “an adversary.”
That is the way the word is used.
So far, the only place we could give the
devil any due at all is in Job, where we
read:
So went Satan forth from the presence
of the Lord, and smote Job with sore
boils from the sole of his foot unto his
crown.
Job 2:7
So, if we want to give the Satan of Job
anything, according to the strict interpretation
of what we just read, we could only
admit one thing: that he might have given
Job boils. Some people could probably testify
that quite a few of us could get boils
by taking some sort of toxins into our
body. Doctors give people boils all the time
by giving them injections that are bad for
their body. Boils are nothing more than
the body's attempt to eject something
through the skin that is a poison to the
body. This great Satan couldn't have done
very much, he couldn't have much power,
if all he could do was give Job boils.
In Psalm 109:6 we saw that “satan”
obviously-means “adversary.” We just
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read three times in Zechariah where
“sawtawn” or “Satan” was going to resist
either the angel of the Lord or Joshua.
The Lord rebuked him and then there is
no further comment about him. So
“Satan” has done nothing that would
make him a great, powerful archangel,
who does terrible wicked things to all the
people of the earth. It is possible that the
only act he ever completed was to give Job
boils.
In 11 cases, “sawtawn” is translated
“adversary.” From the context in each case
“sawtawn” simply means “an adversary”
or “an opponent.” In two cases, the
“sawtawn” is named as mortal men, in one
case, he is an angel of God, and once, he is
God himself. So “sawtawn,” as it is used in
the Old Testament, does not and cannot be
used to teach that there exists a great and
powerful archangel; who goes about tearing
souls out of the hand of God, taking
them down to his abode in the “nether
world” and punishing them for ever and
ever. The word “sawtawn,” from which we
get “Satan,” is simply not used that way.
Yet we find, if we think for a moment,
that this horrible creature who is the subject
of so much fearsome preaching from
the churches, is identical to another creature
called “the devil”, “Lucifer” and
“Satan” who is depicted in the movies, in
stories and on television. It should make
you think, for a moment, why the Satan of
the churches is identical to the Satan
depicted by movie makers, who do not
believe in Christ. These antiChristian
movie makers have come out in recent
times with stories about how a supernatural
being, called the devil or Satan, cohabits
with a woman and produces a halfdevil
child.
Summary Of The Word
“Sawtawn”
Let me sum up the use of the word
“sawtawn” in the original text. It is very
important that you understand what we
are discovering in this study. We must see
what the Bible does or does not teach;
since we are living in a time when the
churches, and many secular people, are
building up a great “anti-Christ,” who is
supposed to be a certain being, who will
rule the world. At the same time, these
churches preach that this anti-Christ also
rules an underworld, where billions of
dead reside.
We have found that 19 times in the Old
Testament, “sawtawn” is transliterated
“Satan.” All 19 are contained within only
four passages. In I Chronicles 21:1 we see,
from reading the other account, that the
“sawtawn” here is obviously God, Himself.
The second passage is in Job, where the
word “Satan” is used 14 times. In Job,
Satan is an adversary — there is no argument
about that. The only certain thing
he did directly was to give Job boils. In
Psalm 109:6, the word “Satan” plainly
means “enemy” or “adversary” - it is definitely
not the devil of the churches. In
Zechariah 4, whoever or whatever he is,
he just stood there, he was rebuked, and
that appears to be the end of him. There is
no act accredited to him at all.
“Sawtawn” is translated “adversary”
seven times in the Old Testament.
Sawtawn comes from the primary root
word “sawtan;” which also has been translated
in the Old Testament, as “adversary”
five times. The first time we find
“sawtawn” translated “adversary” is in
Numbers 22, where the “sawtawn” was
the angel of the Lord. In I Samuel 29:4,
the “sawtawn” was David, himself, as an
adversary to the Philistines. In 2 Samuel
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19:22, the “sawtawns” are David's own
men. In 1 Kings 5:4, Solomon said he had
peace and there was no “sawtawn.”
Solomon meant that there was no enemy,
or enemy nation, against him. In 1 Kings
11, after Solomon had turned and sinned
against God, the word “sawtawn” (translated
adversary) is used three times. God
raised up “sawtawns” against Solomon.
These “sawtawns” are named, they are
mortal men, kings or generals of other
nations. In Psalm 109, the word “adversaries”
is used three times. Each time the
word comes from the Chaldean, “sawtan”
which has the same meaning as
“sawtawn.” “Satan” is found only once in
that same passage as a transliteration of
“sawtawn” and it means “enemy.” David
calls his wicked enemies, “my sawtawns”
or “enemies” (plural). In that case it cannot
possibly mean one great, wicked
archangel. So, the amazing truth is that
the Chaldean word “sawtawn” (and its
root word “sawtan”) is used 31 times in
only 11 passages in the Old Testament.
Out of 11 passages and 31 usages of
the words “sawtawn” and “sawtan”, there
is only one passage where there is even an
inkling that this “sawtawn” has any
supernatural power. That supernatural
power could have been, simply, giving a
man boils. Think of what the churches tell
us Satan is, compared to what the Bible
does NOT say about Satan. In 10 out of 11
times, the “sawtawn” is an angel. Six
times it is men. One time it is something,
or someone, who gave Job boils. It is possible
that Job had a doctor who was an
adversary of his and who gave him boils, I
don't know. That is speculation on my part
But, that is no more speculation than the
teaching we hear about this great, wicked,
supernatural, omniscient, omnipresent
angel; who is all over the earth, all at the
same time, stealing billions of souls and
taking them down to his kingdom in the
earth.
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This is taken from Sheldon Emry memorial library
http://www.sheldonemrylibrary.com/


That Old Serpent Called the Devil and Satan

There is a passage in the 12th chapter of
Revelation, which has for centuries been used as
the foundation stone for what one might call
Devil Theology. I will begin by reading part of
it, and then we will look at more of it later, and
study the entire passage. The most often quoted
verses are:
“And there was war in heaven: 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.”
Revelation 12:7-9
Most of you are familiar with the common
doctrine on the origin and the place of ‘satan’ as
taught by the churches. They sometimes call him
the ‘devil’ and so on; but I’ll condense church
teaching on ‘satan’ and the ‘devil’ rather briefly
here:
There, in about four paragraphs, I have
preached almost every sermon being preached in
Baptist churches this week. Some of you have
been in Baptist churches, and you know that
about half of the sermons in Baptist churches are
about “the devil will get you if you don’t watch
out, so do what the minister says.”
Such sermons are not totally confined to
what is called ‘Mainstream Protestantism,’ nor
to ‘Catholicism.’ I have here the January 1980
PLAIN TRUTH magazine printed by Herbert W.
THAT OLD SERPENT
CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN
of Revelation 12
1
The devil is a spirit creature with awesome
power on the earth to do evil, or
cause men to do evil. He was once the
chief angel in God's heaven, but rebelled
against God and actually warred against
God; and had one-third of the angels on
his side. So, in the war they eventually
lost, or at least lost after a fashion. God,
with the help of Michael and his angels,
cast the devil and his angels down to the
earth where they now roam about, doing
their nefarious works.
Common teaching is that the 'devil' is so
evil he is almost indescribable. However,
the Catholic priests and the Christian
ministers are continually resisting him,
and preaching against him, and fighting
against him. And apparently, if it were
not for them, the 'devil' would have taken
over and perhaps destroyed the earth
already.
Some teach that this powerful 'spirit
creature' will eventually be destroyed,
and they quote Revelation 20: 10 for
that. Some teach, as do the Catholics,
that this wicked 'spirit-being' and his
angels, whom they call 'devils' or
'demons,' will live forever in a burning
hell, poking redhot irons and pitch-forks
into those who did not do what the
priests or the ministers said they should.
The Catholics generally say that all
protestants are going to be down there
with the devil. Baptists think that all
non-Baptists are going to be there; and
many individual churches or denominations
teach that everyone but their own
group is going to be down there, in that
'hell,' with the 'devil' at his pleasure for
ages upon end.
Armstrong. Most of you know about the World
Wide Church of God. This is from the article
entitled “Personal from H.W.A.” The article purports
to answer this question:
Needless to say, Armstrong’s final conclusion
is that, it is because all the churches except
Armstrong’s are preaching false doctrine. But I
want to quote from the article as he explains part
of the reason, for what he calls “the error of the
churches,” and he says it is caused by the ‘devil.’
So I will quote just those parts where he talks
about the ‘devil.’ He says:
That is from Revelation 20. Armstrong goes on:
There is a whole column about this same
‘devil,’ deceiving the churches in the world, and
he asks how it could have all started. At the bottom
of the page he says:
“It all started with Adam in the garden of
Eden.”
A little further on:
And still further on:
“Satan tempted Adam through his wife, Eve;
Adam took of the forbidden tree.”
I quoted all of that to show that although
Armstrong does not teach there is a burning hell
— where people are tortured for years — he
does teach the same doctrine on the origin of,
and work of ‘satan,’ that the mainstream churches
do. I have read Armstrong’s articles, and I
agree with his teachings on ‘hell.’ However, I did
not know until about two years ago (1978) that
Armstrong is a little schizophrenic when it
comes to his people being in fire.
He teaches publicly that people do not go to
‘hell’ to be tortured when they die, but once you
2
“What is the most universal erroneous
and false belief and teaching that has
caused the world's evils, troubles, sufferings
and sorrows?”
“Perhaps many people do not believe in
the existence of a devil anymore. Yet
your Bible says the whole world, including
it’s religions, has been deceived by
Satan the Devil.” (then he quotes
Revelation 12:9), ‘The inhabitants of the
earth have been deceived by him through
deceived religion.’ (Revelation 17:2).
But your Bible also says, ‘The time is
coming when God Almighty shall send
an angel from heaven and lay hold on the
dragon, that old serpent, which is the
Devil and Satan. And bind him a thousand
years and cast him into the bottomless
pit and shut him up and set a seal
upon him that he should deceive the
nations no more till the thousand years
shall be fulfilled.’”
“Just who is this Satan, where did he
come from? Did God create a devil to
deceive us? He is aformer archangel who
was perfect in all his ways, as God created
him, (Ezekiel 28:15). But he had a
mind and free moral agency with the
right of free choice forming his own
decisions. Just as God has given you and
me and all humans that same free moral
agency. Otherwise, we could have no
character. This great arch-angel was
named Lucifer, and God set him on the
throne of the whole world, to administer
the government of God over angels
which inhabited the earth prior to the
creation of man. But this powerful
Lucifer turned his angels into rebelling
against God.”
“Satan was just around the corner, so to
speak, waiting for a chance to tempt
Adam into rejecting God, even as he
himself had rejected God, God’s Law,
God’s way and God’s government when
he was the arch-angel Lucifer.”
join his church, you are taught, over and over
again, that if you reject Armstrong’s teachings
and leave, or are kicked out of the Armstrong
church, then you will be sent to the ‘lake of fire’
for ‘eternity.’ So it seems he has a ‘special hell’
for people who do not obey him. Just as the
Catholic church has a ‘hell’ for the people who
do not obey their priests.
So, in spite of his public announcements, he
frightens people into obeying him by his own
private ‘hell.’ And I do know, as I have had ex-
Armstrong members, especially women, tell me
that they were in Armstrong’s church, and literally
lived in fear for years; afraid they might do
something to offend Armstrong or one of the
ministers, and be kicked out of the church and
then be cast into the ‘lake of fire.’ They were
afraid of it, and he built on that fear.
That’s about it for the general teaching about
‘satan.’ As you can see, the different denominations
have some variances, but they all agree on
one thing: ‘the devil never deceives me, but he
certainly has deceived a lot of you people out
there!’ The doctrine they all agree on, and generally
speaking they are almost all in agreement, is
that the ‘devil’ was God’s chief angel - a powerful
‘spirit-creature.’ He rebelled against God,
and God cast him down to the earth. Most of
their doctrine is based on the three verses we
looked at earlier.
In the last few months (1980) some sermons
have been preached by ministers who generally
teach what we call the Identity Message. These
sermons, both in printed form and on tape, have
rebuked me (Pastor Emry) for my teaching about
‘satan’ and Eve in the garden of Eden. I do not
agree that ‘satan’ or any creature seduced Eve in
the garden of Eden and produced children. They
teach that ‘satan’ seduced Eve and produced
Cain. We call it the “Seed-line Doctrine.” I
OPPOSE that teaching! The Mormon Church
and the Jewish Talmud also teaches it. And their
description of ‘satan’ is identical to Armstrong’s,
and to the churches’.
Bear with me if this seems a little tedious and
a little long. I’m going to quote one verse from
Revelation 1, and this one verse alone, if it is
true (and if we believe the Word of God, and that
God is not a liar), is enough to prove the following:
1. The war in heaven of Revelation 12
already took place, not milleniums ago, but after
John saw the vision.
2. The casting out, of whatever this creature
was, from heaven to earth, therefore took place
after 96 AD, sometime after the vision was seen.
If the ‘devil’ or ‘satan’ of Revelation 12 is all
that the Catholic church, and the Protestant
denominations, and Armstrong, and some
Identity preachers say he is, he would not have
fallen to the earth prior to Adam and Eve being
in the Garden of Eden.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God
gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass; and he signified
it by his angel unto his servant John.”
Revelation 1: 1
Did you read that phrase? “Things which
must shortly come to pass.” It didn’t say, “I’m
going to show you things which have already
happened.” These are things yet future according
to what the angel said to John. Another witness
is verse 3:
“Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear
the words of this prophecy, and keep those
things which are written therein: for the time is
at hand.”
Revelation 1 :3
Same general theory, it’s in the future! The
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“He was a great fallen angel, he was cast
down to the earth, he deceived Adam
and Eve in the garden of Eden, “ and so
on.
things you will read about are future. The signs
or the visions which the angel showed John, and
which were then written down by John, were of
things which were yet future events in 96AD. Do
you understand that? Do you read these verses
the same way I do? Because this is a very, very
important point when you study the book of
Revelation. If you want a third witness, read
Revelation 4, where after he has given the message
to the churches we read this in verse 1:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was
opened in heaven: and the first voice which I
heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
me which said, Come up hither, and I will shew
thee things which must be hereafter.”
Revelation 4: 1
I know I’m repeating this, but every time you
hear a minister preaching out of the book of
Revelation, and he tells you that these things
happened way back in milleniums past, like
some creature falling out of heaven to the earth,
you can call him a liar, and you can prove it with
Revelation chapters 1 and 4.
The visions in Revelation were to take place,
or be fulfilled, after they were shown to John,
according to these three witnesses. What does
that do to the churches, and even Identity ministers
who insist that the ‘devil’ or ‘satan’ of
Revelation 12 is a ‘fallen angel’ who was cast
out of heaven milleniums before John saw the
vision? It makes them either fools or liars. Read
the vision in Revelation 12 in more detail.
“And there appeared a great wonder (and the
margin in most Bibles will tell you the word
‘wonder’ could have been translated ‘sign’) in
heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars.”
Revelation 12: 1
Were these actual events taking place in
God’s heaven, or were they visions that John
saw which were symbolic of things that would
happen? I really don’t think you could believe
that John would be teaching this is a literal
woman clothed with the sun, standing on the
moon and wearing 12 stars on her head. It has to
be symbolic of something else. He is not seeing
the actual thing, he is seeing it in symbolism.
John was on the isle of Patmos, and in
Revelation 4:2, he said he was ‘in the spirit’
when he saw these things. My understanding of
this, is that when John says “I saw something in
heaven,” he was looking up in the sky and he
saw these events taking place. When he said,
“there appeared a wonder in heaven,” it doesn’t
necessarily mean that the woman was up in
God’s heaven. John saw her up in the sky, and
wrote it down as he saw it.
“And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered. And there
appeared another wonder (sign) in heaven; and
behold a great red dragon, having seven heads
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third part of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
And the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered, for to devour her
child as soon as it was born. And she brought
forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations
with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up
unto God and to his throne. And the woman
fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her
there a thousand two hundred and three-score
days.”
Revelation 12:2-6
Then come the verses that say there was
‘war’ in ‘heaven.’ This is all part of a continuing
vision, and John is writing it down as he sees it.
Let us try to identify the participants here as best
we can. The symbolism in the first verse, the
“sun, moon and stars” leads us, of course, back
to where Joseph dreamed a dream in Genesis,
“And he dreamed yet another dream, and told
it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have
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dreamed a dream more; and, behold the sun
and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance
to me. And he told it to his father, and to
his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and
said unto him, What is this dream that thou
hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy
brethren indeed come to bow ourselves down to
thee to the earth?”
Genesis 37:9
You can see in Joseph’s dream, as in John’s
vision the “sun, moon and stars” signify the
whole house of Israel. Therefore, this woman is
also symbolic of the house of Israel, the identifying
marks being the sun, moon and stars.
There are events in Scripture where the sun and
the moon will be darkened, and so on. I have
identified them, in previous sermons, as being
symbolic of the destruction of Israel, and the
reducing of her power at the end of the age. It
has nothing to do with the heavenly bodies of the
sun, moon and stars. These are symbolic and, of
course, 12 is always a symbol for Israel and for
the twelve tribes.
If this vision is actually in heaven, then in
order to fulfil the vision, Israel would have to be
in God’s heaven, would she not? But we know
Israel is not in heaven. Israel is on the earth, has
always been on the earth, and will remain on the
earth. The heaven mentioned here is where John
saw the vision, not where the woman was or will
be. The war in heaven also does not have to be
in God’s heaven.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and
his angels fought against the dragon; and the
dragon fought and his angels, (he was looking
up at this vision in the skies) and prevailed not;
neither was their place found any more in
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out...”
Revelation 12:7-9a
Here is the identification used by the churches
to say that this was ‘satan’:
“...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.”
Revelation 12:9b
We passed over something already, which
the Catholic priests always pass over, and the
protestant ministers always pass over, and at
least those Identity ministers who opposed me in
my arguments about ‘satan’ also pass over, so
let’s go back and read it,
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven;
and behold a great red dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns
upon his heads.”
Revelation 12:3
The Mother Eve of Judaism, of the Mormon
church, and of the Seed line people - who teach
that this ‘satan’ seduced her - must have been
some sort of a pervert. Can you imagine her
falling for some creature with seven heads and
ten horns? This does NOT mean some creature,
or man, or person literally. It obviously has some
other meaning. This creature figuratively has
seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns.
Since we’ve already seen that the woman is
not a woman, but is a great mass of people called
Israel, then maybe the dragon isn’t a dragon, nor
a devil, nor a satan, nor even a serpent, but
something else! The Bible, of course, has the
answer for us, and there are several other places
in the Bible where there is a creature described
very similarly to this creature, here called the
Devil and Satan.
“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw
a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven
heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns; and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like unto
a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear
and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the
dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and
great authority. And I saw one of his heads as
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it were wounded to death: and his deadly
wound was healed: and all the world wondered
after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon
which gave power unto the beast: and they
worshipped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like unto
the beast? Who is able to make war with him?’”
Revelation 13: 1-4
In this passage of Revelation 13, this beast is
not identified. But it is identified in the book of
Daniel, and we may look at that later. But we’ll
stay in Revelation for now. The ‘satan’ theorists,
or those who teach these devil doctrines, never
call the creature of Revelation 13, a ‘great fallen
angel,’ even though that creature has seven
heads and ten horns, just like the Devil and’
satan’ of Revelation 12. Of course, as I mentioned
earlier, they never even read Revelation
12:3, when they tell you the ‘devil’ of this chapter
is a ‘fallen angel.’
If you heard this devil had seven heads, you
might question their interpretation. You certainly
would question the devil or serpent of
Revelation 12 having sexual intercourse with
Eve, and fathering Cain; if at the same time they
pointed out that this serpent had seven heads and
ten horns. The next place we have the same kind
of beast is in Revelation 17.
“And there came one of the seven angels which
had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying
unto me, Come hither: I will shew unto thee the
judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon
many waters: (remember this is still John writing
the descriptions of visions he saw, shown to
him by an angel. In some cases the angel
explained them as he did this one) with whom
the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth have been
made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
So he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet
coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns.”
Revelation 17:1-3
Here is that same identical description as in
Revelation 12 called that “old serpent, the devil
and satan.” Let’s read on with this description,
because if we were again to take this literally, as
being what it is visually, then we would have to
expect sometime in the future a scarlet woman
here on the earth, riding some sort of scarlet co
loured beast with seven heads and ten horns.
Obviously it symbolizes something else; it’s not
a literal beast. Just as the creature back in
Revelation 12 does not have to be a literal
‘satan’ or a literal devil. John writes a little more
about the woman and then continues,
“And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst
thou marvel? I will tell thee of the woman, and
of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the
seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou
sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of
the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and
they that dwell on the earth shall wonder,
whose names were not written in the book of
Life from the foundation of the world, when
they behold the beast that was, and is not, and
yet is.”
Revelation 17:7-8
Remember those first verses in Revelation 1.
These are still the visions John was shown by
angels of things “which must shortly come to
pass.” They were to happen sometime after John
saw the vision.
“And here is the mind that hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the
woman sitteth.”
Revelation 17:9
All students of Bible prophecy should know
symbolism well enough, to know that the word
‘mountains’ in prophecy means nations or conglomerates
of people. They are not physical
mountains. The angel identifies who the woman
is,
“the woman which thou sawest is that great
city, which reigneth over the kings of the
earth.”
Revelation 17:18
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The woman is riding a beast with seven
heads. The woman rules over the kings of the
earth. Therefore what is the symbolism? The
symbolism is some sort of a mystery power, here
called MYSTERY BABYLON which rides, or
gains its power through a conglomeration of
nations. It is NOT ‘satan,’ it is NOT the ‘devil,’
it is NOT some spiritual angel thrown down
from heaven in past milleniums. It is a conglomeration
of nations.
“And there are seven kings: (in other words,
each one of these nations has a king) five are
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet
come,”
Revelation 17: l0a
John is seeing this at a time when something
had already happened, one is ruling, another is
coming, and,
“... when he cometh, he must continue a short
space. And the beast that was and is not, even
he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth
into perdition (destruction). And the ten horns
which thou sawest are ten kings. which have
received no kingdom as yet.”
Revelation 17: 10b-12a
These ten kings did not rule at the time that
John saw the vision. They had received no kingdom
as yet.
“But receive power as kings one hour with the
beast.”
Revelation 17:12b
Whatever this is, it will take place over a relatively
short time. One hour in Bible prophecy
would be quite short, because there are prophecies
of 100 years and 1260 years, and so on.
“These have one mind. and shall give their
power and strength unto the beast. These shall
make war with the Lamb. and the Lamb shall
overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and
King of kings: and they that are with him are
called, and chosen, and faithful.”
Revelation 17: 13-14
So it shows here that there is going to be a
war involving ten kings. Revelation 17 is the
most simple explanation of what the beast with
seven heads and ten horns is. The ten horns are
ten kings. These kings give their power and
strength unto the beast. They make war with the
Lamb, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
“And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the
beast, these shall hate the whore, (hate this ruling
entity that rules over the whole world) and
shall make her desolate and naked, and shall
eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.”
Revelation 17:16
The same ten kings, or ten nations, that give
their power to the beast, shall destroy her,
“For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his
will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto
the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.”
Revelation 17:17
I went into this in detail a few years ago, that
the USA has given more of its wealth and its
power to build up the red beast of communism
than any other nation.
Russia as a military power today would not
even exist, except for technical things given and
sent to the Soviet Union over the last 50 years
from the USA (Documented in NATIONAL
SUICIDE by Anthony Sutton).
In other words, all of their weaponry, all of
their science, all of their computers, all of their
factories were literally built by American technicians
and productivity. So, if America is the
nation that has given the power to the beast, the
red beast of communism, where do the ten
nations fit in?
How many of you know that America was
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divided into ten nations? It was divided into ten
regions in about 1970. We now have ten governments
ruling over ten seperate nations. All the
government control and aid and money comes
out of a central point, Washington D.C., and is
distributed to each region.
America is no longer fifty states, it is ten
regions. I am not going to be dogmatic about
this, but it was the United States being divided
into ten regions, through which our enemies
gained control of our government, have used our
wealth, stolen our taxes, taken our grain and productivity
and built up the red beast. America
could be these ten kings, which receive power as
kings one hour with the beast. One hour is a very
short space of time. And remember, then those
kings,
“...shall hate the whore, and make her desolate,
and naked and shall eat her flesh, and burn her
with fire.”
Revelation 1 7: 16b
If I am correct in my theory that those ten
horns are ten nations which are collectively the
USA, then it will be the US which will destroy
the power of the red beast of world communism
that now rules the world. The prophet Obadiah
saw visions concerning the destruction of Edom.
“The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord
God concerning Edom. (Edom means RED.
Edom is world communism.) We have heard a
rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is
sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us
rise up against her in battle.”
Obadiah 1: 1
This prophecy describes the destruction of
Esau/Edom, which we can identify as this worldcontrolling
power that now reigns over all the
earth. And look who destroys Edom,
“But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance...”
Obadiah 1 :17a
We’ve identified the USA as Zion in other sermons.
“...and there shall be holiness; and the house of
Jacob shall possess their possessions. And the
house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of
Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble...”
Obadiah 1: 1 7b-18a
And of course, Esau is Edom; Genesis 36
repeats that four times.
“And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to
judge the mount of Esau;”
Obadiah 1 :21 a
In other words, saviors shall come upon the
nation of Zion to judge the nation of Esau, or
Edom, the Reds!
“And the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.”
Obadiah 1:21 b
This is the description of the last battle to be
fought upon the earth, when Jacobi Israel have
been deceived into giving their power to this
great red beast and this scarlet woman. Then
we’ll turn on the woman and destroy her. This
makes the only sense of this entire prophecy.
The beast with seven heads and ten horns is
something which gives power to the scarlet
woman, and then it will turn back against her
and destroy her.
I’ll repeat the point I made earlier: if you
take Revelation 12 as the Catholic church does,
and as the Protestants do, and say: “Oh, this is
that great arch-angel, and he fought in heaven
and was brought down to the earth, and so on,”
you then destroy all of this actual prophecy
which is being given here. It is no wonder then
that our people are blind to what is happening in
the earth today, because prophecy in the Bible
has been misrepresented to them.
That doctrine of course, is so universally
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taught, and has been taught over such a long
period of time, that there are few who question
it. I must admit, for the greater part of my life, I
never questioned it either. I accepted all of these
stories and descriptions of this ‘devil,’ since my
parents and everyone else that I knew, believed
it. I assumed it was the truth.
Back in those days, everyone that I knew
thought that the Jews were Israel, so I believed
that too. Everyone I knew thought that non-
Christians went to ‘hell-fire’ and were tortured
for ever and ever by this same ‘devil,’ so I
believed that also. Almost everyone that I knew
thought Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the savior
of America, and the only reason I didn’t
believe that, was because my parents did not
believe it. My father said that Franklin Roosevelt
was a crook. So that is still a good example. We
tend to believe what our parents believe, whether
or not it is true.
But believing it doesn’t make it true! We
read Revelation 12:3, which is the verse the
‘devil’ preachers do not read, since it describes a
strange ‘creature’ with seven heads. Whoever
heard of a devil with seven heads? Well, that
then took us to Revelation 17. The beast upon
which the scarlet woman, MYSTERY BABYLON,
rides has seven heads. These seven heads
are identified as seven mountains or nations.
And the ten horns as ten kings, or kingdoms. So
the description in Revelation l2, and the symbolism
in Revelation 12, is identical to that of
Revelation 17.
That old serpent called the ‘devil’ and ‘satan’
is not a spirit creature, but a comglomerate of
nations opposed to Christians and Christendom.
I showed in my sermon series entitled Give The
Devil His Due (7810, 7811, 7812, 7813), that the
Hebrew word translated ‘satan’ in the Old
Testament means simply ‘adversary’ or ‘enemy.’
In fact it is translated ‘enemy’ in the Old
Testament more times than it is transliterated
into the word ‘satan.’
So the scarlet woman and the red beast of
Revelation 17 are certainly the ‘adversaries’ of
Christianity because the woman is said to be
“drunken with the blood of saints, and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus. “ We’ll find that
this Revelation 12 ‘satan’ is also the enemy of
Christendom.
Some may think I have boxed myself into a
corner with my emphatic statement that the
events of Revelation 12 were to come to pass
after John saw the vision in AD96; because of
what I read in Revelation 1 and 4. The woman
gave birth to a man-child, and most people teach
that the man-child is Jesus, who was born some
90 odd years before John saw the vision.
“And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered. And there
appeared another wonder in heaven; and
behold a great red dragon, having seven heads
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third part of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
and the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered, for to devour her
child as soon as it was born. And she brought
forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations
with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up
to God and to his throne.”
Revelation 12:2-5
At first reading, it may seem to be the baby
born to Mary. In other words, the baby Jesus.
However, as we have seen, the symbols in this
vision are not what they actually represent. The
woman is not a woman, the woman is Israel. The
sun, moon and stars are not actually sun, moon
and stars. The red dragon is not a literal dragon.
The heads are not heads, the horns are not horns;
so perhaps the child is not a child, but symbolizes
something else.
Consider everything we can here, since this
man-child is to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
That takes us, first of all, to Revelation 19, and
after the destruction of MYSTERY BABYLON,
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there is another vision,
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
horse, and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he
dothjudge and make war.”
Revelation 19: 11
This, I believe, is a reference to Jesus Christ.
This is not the Christ taught by most of the clergy;
they teach that this Christ is going to come
and snatch the Christians from the earth, and
take them off to heaven. This Christ in
Revelation 19 is going to judge and make war,
“And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
that with it he should smite the nations: and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth
the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God. And he hath on his vestures and
on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS,
AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Revelation 19: 15-16
In Psalm 2 we read of the references to
someone ruling the earth with “a rod of iron.”
“I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said
unto me, Thou art my Son; This day have I
begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee
the heathen for thine inheritance, and the
uttermost parts of the earthfor thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou
shalt dash them in pieces like a potters vessel.”
Psalm 2:7-9
This seems to be Jesus again who will rule
with a rod of iron. But is it possible that verse 8,
is not God speaking, but the Son. In other words
He is saying in verse 7, God said, “Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee.”
Then if we take the next verse as Jesus
speaking, then He is saying, “Ask of me and I
shall give thee, (you), the heathen for your inheritance,
and the uttermost parts of the earth for
thine possession.” Thou, you believers, you
Christians, shall break them with a rod of iron;
and shall dash them in pieces as a potters vessel!
We are told in Revelations that it is the
Christian believers who will rule the world with
a rod of iron. Jesus is speaking to the churches:
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my
works to the end, to him will I give power over
the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod
of iron, as the vessels of a potter shall they be
broken to shivers: even as I received of my
Father.”
Revelation 2:26-27
We have a two-fold revelation here that it is
Jesus who will rule the nations with a rod of
iron, but it is also true that Jesus’ followers, the
overcomers, will rule the nations of the world
with a rod of iron.
There are other verses in Revelation 12
which also reveal that the man-child here is not
Jesus Christ. We’ve already seen that the Bible
says the overcomers will rule the nations with a
rod of iron. Revelation 12:2 says;
“and she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered.”
Earlier I identified the woman as Israel. The
sun, moon and stars are symbols of the nation of
Israel according to Josephs’s dream. But the
question is, Did Israel travail when Jesus was
born? The answer is, No! Most of Israel didn’t
even know what was happening. And another
point in fact, the word ‘travail’ is never used in
Scripture in relation to Jesus’ birth.
However, there is a birth in Scripture which
is supposed to produce a man-child, and is supposed
to produce it with pain and travail. The
Bible itself can identify what this man-child is in
the last chapter of the prophet Isaiah.
The last half of the book of Isaiah is almost
completely about the Zion of Bible prophecy, as
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are some of the other prophecy books in the Old
Testament, yet we seldom hear an explanation of
what the Zion of Bible prophecy is. Generally
speaking, Zion is related to Jerusalem and to a
redeemed Israel ruling over the earth in the kingdom.
In other words, the word’ Zion’ fits the
kingdom of Jesus Christ upon the earth.
“Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at
his word (this is addressed to believers, people
who tremble at God’s word) Your brethren that
hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake,
said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified:’ but he shall
appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.”
Isaiah 66:5
He is referring to someone who is cast out by
their brethren, but God will appear to the cast out
ones.
“A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the
temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence
to his enemies. Before she travailed,
she brought forth, before her pain came she
was delivered of a man-child. Who hath heard
such things? Who hath seen such a thing?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one
day? Or shall a nation be born at once?”
Isaiah 66:6-8a
What was born? What is the man-child? The
man-child is a nation, a nation born at once.
“For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought
forth her children. ‘Shall I bring to birth, and
not cause to bring forth?’ saith the Lord: ‘Shall
I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb?’
saith thy God.”
Isaiah 66:8b-9
God is going to bring something out of this
thing called Zion. And the thing born, called a
‘man-child’ in prophecy, is a nation. Another
chapter, Micah 4, is obviously a prophecy of the
Kingdom of Jesus Christ upon the earth. The
first part of it literally repeats word for word
Isaiah 2: 1.
“But in the last days it shall come to pass, that
the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be
established in the top of the mountains and it
shall be exalted above the hills: and people
shall flow unto it.”
Micah 4: 1
As we saw earlier, the word ‘mountain’ symbolizes
‘nation’ in Bible prophecy. The nation of
the Lord is going to be established as the chief
among the nations, on top of the nations:
“And people shall flow unto it. And many
nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us
go up to the mountain (nation) of the Lord, and
to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will
teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for the law shall go forth from Zion, and
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
Micah 4:2
There is a cassette message (7105) on that
subject explaining the difference between the
law going from Zion and the word from
Jerusalem.
“And he shall judge among many people, and
rebuke strong nations afar off: and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks: and nation shall not
lift up a sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war anymore.”
Micah 4:3
This has to refer to that great prophesied time
of peace, the Kingdom upon the earth!
“But they shall sit every man under his vine
and under his fig tree: and none shall make
them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts
hath spoken it. For all people will walk everyone
in the name of his god, and we will walk in
the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her
that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven
out, and her that I have afflicted.”
Micah 4:4-6
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Her that halteth, her that was driven out, and
her that was afflicted, is the nation of Israel,
driven out of old Palestine 700 years before
Christ.
“And I will make her that halted a remnant,”
Micah 4:7a
The Hebrew word translated ‘remnant’
means literally ‘the turned ones.’ It’s too bad that
the word ‘remnant’ means ‘a small number’
nowadays. Back then it did not mean that, it
meant ‘the turned ones,’ so this would mean, the
ones turned to God.
“and her that was cast far off a strong nation:”
Micah 4:7b
Here is a prophecy that God, who had cast
off Israel, would regather Israel and make her a
strong nation.
“And the Lord shall reign over them in mount
Zion from henceforth, even forever.”
Micah 4:7c
What is that nation, that is made up of reconstituted
Israel? In Bible prophecy, it is called
Zion. And it is out of Zion that the man-child is
born.
“And thou, O tower of the flock, the stronghold
of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come,
even the first dominion; the kingdom shall
come to the daughter of Jerusalem.”
Micah 4:8
Not the old mother, not that filthy little old
city back in Palestine, but the New Jerusalem,
the new nation called Zion, and Jerusalem, that
was born in a day, and which the dragon in
Revelation 12 was attempting to destroy.
“The kingdom shall come to the daughter of
Jerusalem. Now why dost thou cry aloud? Is
there no king in thee? Is thy counsellor perished?
For pangs have taken thee as a woman
in travail.”
Micah 4:8b-9
Something is coming to birth in this nation
of reconstituted Israel.
“Be in pain and labour to bring forth, O
daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for
now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou
shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even
to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered, there
the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of
thine enemies.”
Micah 4: 10
We’ve shown this in other sermons on
prophecy, that this nation — this great reconstituted
nation of Israel was to be born in a day —
was to become the chief among nations of all the
world, and then was to go into captivity under an
entity called Babylon. Remember Revelation 17,
it is MYSTERY BABYLON that rules over all
the nations of the world, and fights against
Christendom. This is the same Babylon that we
read here. Then God says, at that time;
“There shalt thou be delivered. There the Lord
shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Now also many nations are gathered
against thee, that say. Let her be defiled, and let
our eye look upon Zion.”
Micah 4: l0b-11
What did we read in Revelation 12 in the last
part of verse 4?
“the dragon stood before the woman which was
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as
soon as it was born.”
Revelation 12:4b
So what do we have? We have a nation born
out of reconstituted Israel and this confederation
of nations in Revelation 12 wants to destroy it.
Where has that ever happened in history? Well,
most of you (Americans) are living in that
nation, that was born in a day on July 4th, 1776.
The nation of reconstituted Israel which the
dragon, the enemy, the anti-Christ, has been trying
to destroy for centuries. This is not a recent
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battle. This battle has been going on for years.
So you can see, as we read this, that we find
the manchild is really the nation of regathered
Israel. It is not Jesus Christ as we showed earlier.
All of the visions in the book of Revelation
have to take place after John saw the vision. That
is made very plain in the first verses of
Revelation 1, and in the first verse of Revelation
4. These are not things that happened before. So
this birth was not Jesus Christ. This birth was of
the great Zion nation of Bible prophecy, the
United States of America.
“Now also many nations are gathered against
thee that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye
look upon Zion.”
Micah 4: 11
I would guess that there are more spies and
subversives per capita in America than in any
nation on earth. This cannot fit the little old land
of Palesine. I would suspect we have more
enemy spies and agents in America than they
have people in Palestine!
“But they know not the thoughts of the Lord,
neither understand they his counsel: for he
shall gather them as sheaves into the floor.
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will
make thine horn iron, and I will make thy
hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many
people and I will consecrate their gain unto the
Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the
whole earth.”
Micah 4:12-13
This is that great end-time battle in which all
the nations of the world will be gathered against
the Zion of Bible prophecy. Anyone who lives in
America, who can’t see the nations of the world
gathered against this great nation; — with the
military arms in, and subversive parties in control
of even a good share of South America, and
Cuba, and Nicaragua and even now (1980) taken
control to some extent in Mexico, with the
Russian submarines and ships patrolling both of
our seas with missiles by the thousands aimed at
this nation; — if you still think the Zion of Bible
prophecy is over in Palestine (Israeli), you simply
don’t know what is going on in the earth
today.
We are the target of the great anti-Christ conspiracy.
We are the nation born in a day, of
reconstituted Israel, the people who follow Jesus
Christ. Let’s go back to Revelation 12 and see if
this vision does rather fit with this idea, that the
man-child is not Jesus but was reconstituted
Israel born in a day.
“And she brought forth a man-child, who was
to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her
child was caught up unto God, and to his
throne.”
Revelation 12:5
Again, it does not mean a literal removal
from the earth to heaven. It is simply symbolic
language for God’s protection of that man-child.
God led and guided that man-child. If you can
name a nation upon the earth that has had more
leading and guidance and protection from God
Almighty than the USA, you tell me about it,
because I simply don’t know one.
“And the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she hath a place prepared of God, that
they should feed her there a thousand two hundred
and threescore days.”
Revelation 12:6
I’ve not yet figured out the time on this, and
as I don’t believe in computing times for Jesus’
return at the end of the age, I’ll let others work
on that. But I do know Israel was regathered here
in this North American continent, this wilderness.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and
his angels fought against the dragon; and the
dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed
not, neither was their place found anymore in
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that
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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.”
Revelation 12:7-9
This, of course, is not some spiritual being
that walks about the earth tempting Christians.
Again, this old dragon is this conglomeration of
nations, and they are literally going to be
brought low and destroyed by God. The terminology
here, of course, is ‘Michael.’
“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
Now is come salvation, and strength, and the
Kingdom of our God,”
Revelation 12:10a
Here is that Kingdom again, that we read
about in Isaiah and Micah,
“and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of
our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night.”
Revelation 12: 10b
That is another thing that our enemies do,
which at least is one thing that does make our
patriotic Americans angry. We are accused of
causing all the trouble on the earth. In other
nations in the third world, and among the communist
propagandists, America is the great and
terrible power. Khomeiny and Bin Laden call us
‘Devils’ and everything else.
America literally receives the blame for
everything that is going on the earth. And yet, in
times of calamity and earthquakes and famines
and trouble, what one nation, of all the earth
sends its food, its help, its doctors, and its people
to it? The United States, of course! The great
Zion Nation of Bible prophecy.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and
they loved not their lives unto death.”
Revelation 12: 11
This great anti-Christ world power is not going
to be overcome by force of arms perse, but by
the Word of God and the power of Jesus Christ.
“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the
earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down
unto you, having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
Revelation 12: 12
It is also true that the rest of the earth is suffering
under this anti-Christ power which is
attempting to destroy America. If you’ve ever
read the writings of Marx and Lenin and Stalin
and some of the other so-called theoriticians of
communism, they make it very plain that the
nation they want to destroy is the USA.
However, they recognize they will have to take
the rest of the world first, then destroy us. So, as
it says here, the devil is come down unto the rest
of the inhabiters of the earth and the sea. All the
other nations are suffering from this warfare
which is directed against us.
“And when the dragon saw that he was cast
unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which
brought forth the man-child. And to the woman
were given two wings of a great eagle, that she
might fly into the Wilderness, into her place,
where she is nourished for a time, and times,
and half a time, from the face of the serpent.”
Revelation 12: 13-14
There is a cassette tape series dealing with
the Great Seal of the United States (7825 -
7829), and many people I discovered, as I did
that series on the radio, wrote that they had
always assumed that the eagle was the symbol
for the USA, and they did not know, until I read
it from the Bible, that the Eagle is the symbol of
God. God carried Israel, the olive nation, in His
talons, and protected them with the arrows of
His Words. That seal, of course, has a lot more
symbolism than most people know about. That is
why it took me 20 radio broadcasts to explain it.
So, God Almighty carried Israel into the
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Wilderness, where she is nourished for a time,
times and half a time from the face of the serpent.
“And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as
a flood after the woman, that he might cause
her to be carried away of the flood.”
Revelation 12:15
This great flood of hatred and propaganda
and enmity to attempt to destroy the nation of
Zion.
“And the earth helped the woman, and the
earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the
flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.”
Revelation 12: 16
Again, referring to the other nations, this is
possibly fulfilled by the fact that much of the
power and might of the anti-Christ is absorbed
by the other nations. This great flood which they
cast out against Christian Israel, is absorbed by
the other nations. If it were not, if their attack
had only been on our nation, we would have
been destroyed long ago (humanly speaking);
but the other nations of the world serve to some
extent to soak up that power and enmity and evil.
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman,
and went to make war with the remnant of
her seed,”
Revelation 12: 17a
The war has to be against the physical, literal,
racial descendants of this woman whom
we’ve identified as Israel, and here they are:
“which keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Revelation 12: 17b
What can it be but Christianized Israel? The
people of our race, reconstituted in this North
American Continent as the Israel of God in the
great Zion of Bible prophecy. The dragon of
Revelation 12, which was seen in vision by John
is, of course, the same beast creature of
Revelation 17, which wars against God’s people.
“These shall make war with the Lamb, and the
Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of
lords, and King of kings: and they that are with
him are called, and chosen and faithful.”
Revelation 17:14
Who could they be but the Christians of the
earth, the Christians of America. This nonsense
that the Jews, who are the most anti-Christ people
in all of the world, over in Palestine-Israeli,
are the people against which world communism
is fighting, is literally that, not only nonsense,
but DANGEROUS NONSENSE! The people
they are fighting are the Christians of America
and Western Europe.
We are the target, we are the ones they wish
to destroy. If those who are fought against in
Revelation 17 are identical to those fought
against in Revelation 12, why is it so far fetched
to say that the entity which fights against them is
the same in both chapters. In other words, not a
great spirit being but a conglomerate of nations
and people gathered together to fight and
attempt to destroy the Zion of Bible prophecy.
My identification earlier on the ten horns of
Revelation 17 as possibly our own government
which has been divided into ten regions, does
not change my identification of this, since our
government is not run by our people.
How many of you know it is certainly not
run by Christian people? In fact, the present
President claims to be a born-again Christian
(Jimmy Carter), and as far as we can tell from
the entire list of hundreds, and perhaps by now
thousands, of people he has appointed to office
in the Federal Government, he has never
appointed one Christian to office, which of
course doesn’t speak very well for his profession
of Christianity.
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This government of ours is actually combined
with the enemies of Christianity, making
war on Christians. Thank God a lot of ministers
are beginning to see that when the government is
trying to take away their tax-exempt status and
close their schools, and has already stopped
prayer in the public schools and prevented the
Bible from being read there. There is at least a
stirring among our people and a recognition that
there is a great almost sacred hidden power
which is warring against Christendom and
against our people.
In summing up, we have an accurate prophecy
in Revelation 12, that people and nations,
constituted as earthly powers, would make war
on the regathered house of Israel in the
Wilderness, in their attempt to destroy Zion; to
destroy God’s government over the nations. The
interpretation of that vision as someone portraying
a fallen angelic creature, who is nebulous
and invisible, prevents us from grasping the truth
of the existence of this conglomeration of people
and nations; that war is being carried on against
us by flesh and blood people, and NOT by some
angelic supernatural creature.
There is a great difference in fact by identifying
this serpent or this satan of Revelation 12
as a great spirit creature. The ministers and the
clergy have educated the people to sit in church
and listen to the minister while he fights an
unseen and unseeable enemy. He has become
their surrogate soldier and they never enter into
the war, and never realize that they can. In fact,
they just watch this vapour called the ‘devil,’ and
the war goes on around them on the earth, and its
one-sided, because the enemy is fighting us and
we’re not fighting back. We are told that everything
is caused by this ‘devil.’
Some ministers take this ‘devil’ and this
‘satan’ and make a great thing out of it to make
themselves heroes and martyrs. Every time their
ministry starts to grow and they have success,
they say, “Oh we overcame the devil.” When the
contributions start to fall off and the people leave
the church, they say, “Oh the devil is trying to
destroy the ministry.” The devil has become a
scapegoat for their own failings. The individuals
who are destroying our nation encourage our
people to hate the ‘devil.’ But you’re never,
NEVER supposed to hate the individuals who
are doing the work of destroying this nation, and
our people. The ministers rail against pornography,
but who is at fault? Oh, the devil is. They
rail against prostitution, abortion, drug promotion,
blasphemy against Christ, treason in government,
and world communism, but who is at
fault? Oh, its that devil out there doing that. NO,
it is not my friends! It is millions, upon millions
of anti-Christ flesh and blood people who are
destroying your nation and your people.
The devil, as I said, becomes just a scapegoat.
Since you can’t hurt this spirit creature,
you never attempt to stop any of the things that
these people are doing. The minister may even
make a great crusading hero out of himself by
speaking against these nation destroying activities.
Then when someone comes along and says,
“What we must do is execute, exile, imprison or
punish the criminals and traitors in some way,”
they say, “We must hate the sin and love the sinner.
We must not judge lest we be judged, after
all, its the devil doing all of these things.”
If you point out that you have investigated
these anti-Christ and anti-Christian activities and
you have been convinced that they are primarily
promoted by anti-Christ Jews who are followers
of the religion of the Pharisees, which Jesus condemned;
and that they are behind everything
from communism to pornography, to drug promotion
and distribution, for the purpose of
destroying Christianity, then they say, “The Jews
are God’s chosen people. God will curse you if
you do anything against the Jews. We must love
the Jews.” Then they go back to fighting shadows
and the wind again with the devil and the
great anti-Christ.
They don’t mind if you oppose pornography,
just don’t jail the pornographer. They don’t mind
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if you oppose abortion, just don’t execute the
baby-killer! They don’t even mind if you hate
communism, just don’t imprison or deport the
Jewish communists. In actuality so many
churchgoers are so conditioned to think of their
enemy as a spirit creature called the devil, they
can hardly think in terms of flesh and blood enemies.
The ‘devil doctrine’ is powerful protection
for the enemies of Zion and Israel.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils.”
I Timothy 4: 1
I have read that verse for years and I always
assumed it meant that some would give heed to
doctrines promulgated by devils, but Paul
instead could have been warning that those who
would not preach the true faith would preach
doctrines ABOUT devils.
It’s interesting that the greatest so-called
church in Christendom which has departed from
the faith is the Roman Catholic Church; and a
great part of its teaching is always about that
‘devil.’ The devil will get you if you don’t follow
the teaching of the priests, and so on.
In Romans 1 we’ll see who has the power
here. This chapter is about people who refuse to
follow God.
“Because that when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, neither were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened:”
Romans 1 :21
It then describes people who are opposed to
knowing anything about God.
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,
through the lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”
Romans 1 :22
Did they get caught up in the web or deception
of some nebulous spirit creature called the
‘devil?’ NO! God gave them up to those things.
“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blest for ever. Amen. For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did change the natural
use into that which is against nature:”
Romans 1 :23
Who Is the power? Not the devil! But God
Almighty! 2 Thessalonians 2 is that great chapter
on the man of sin, which we’ve explained in
some detail previously (7702, 7103).
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish: because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”
2 Thessalonians 2: 10
Jews. We must love the Jews.” Then they go
back to fighting shadows and the wind again
with the devil and the great anti-Christ.
They don’t mind if you oppose pornography,
just don’t jail the pornographer. They don’t mind
if you oppose abortion, just don’t execute the
baby-killer! They don’t even mind if you hate
communism, just don’t imprison or deport the
Jewish communists. In actuality so many
churchgoers are so conditioned to think of their
enemy as a spirit creature called the devil, they
can hardly think in terms of flesh and blood enemies.
The ‘devil doctrine’ is powerful protection
for the enemies of Zion and Israel.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils.”
I Timothy 4: 1
I have read that verse for years and I always
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assumed it meant that some would give heed to
doctrines promulgated by devils, but Paul
instead could have been warning that those who
would not preach the true faith would preach
doctrines ABOUT devils.
It’s interesting that the greatest so-called
church in Christendom which has departed from
the faith is the Roman Catholic Church; and a
great part of its teaching is always about that
‘devil.’ The devil will get you if you don’t follow
the teaching of the priests, and so on.
In Romans 1 we’ll see who has the power
here. This chapter is about people who refuse to
follow God.
“Because that when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, neither were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened:”
Romans 1 :21
It then describes people who are opposed to
knowing anything about God.
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,
through the lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”
Romans 1 :22
Did they get caught up in the web or deception
of some nebulous spirit creature called the
‘devil?’ NO! God gave them up to those things.
“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blest for ever. Amen. For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did change the natural
use into that which is against nature:”
Romans 1 :23
Who Is the power? Not the devil! But God
Almighty! 2 Thessalonians 2 is that great chapter
on the man of sin, which we’ve explained in
some detail previously (7702, 7103).
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish: because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”
2 Thessalonians 2: 10
For this cause, that is because they did not
want the truth. When people believe lies and
believe not the truth of this Holy Word, who has
led them into that false belief? God Almighty!
Let’s be careful about what credit we give the
‘devil’ for doing great things. God Almighty
sends them strong delusions that they should
believe a lie.
Thank God for the other side of that same
coin. If you love the truth, God will open your
eyes and God will give you the truth. He will not
deceive you, and you will find out the things in
His Word which are truth. When Israel repents,
when our nation repents and turns to God and
seeks the truth; God will open their eyes and
give them the truth that will set them free.
The truth that will destroy all of the antichrist
powers of these people and nations, which
almost seem to have us in their grasp, and the
power is here, the power is not some mythical
‘satan’ of the churches. The power is in God
Almighty and His Word. We are the ones who
must repent and then the old adversary, this devil
and this satan, which are the people of the earth
that oppose Christendom, will be destroyed, and
God will bring upon this earth the cleansed land
of Bible Prophecy, the Kingdom of God upon
the earth. May God speed the day.
Pastor Sheldon Emry
Transcribed and edited from cassette tape 8001a
and 8001b
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Give The Devil His Due Chapter 2

Common Beliefs
About The Devil
At the beginning of this study we read
about the thief on the cross. Let's read
that again because I want you to keep it in
mind as we study other Scriptures about
the devil, Satan, and the serpent:
And one of the malefactors which
were hanged railed on him, saying, If
thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
But the other answering rebuked him,
saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing
thou art in the same condemnation?
And we indeed justly; for we receive
the due reward of our deeds: but this
man hath done nothing amiss.
Luke 23:39-41
So the thief said that his own wickedness
had caused his problem. He did not
say that the devil caused it. He was
receiving the “due” reward of his deeds. In
other words, death was justly due him.
The thief didn't give any “due” to the
devil, but claimed it all for himself.
Most professing Christian churches
say the devil, or Satan, is a living creature
who has thoughts and power of his own.
They teach that he influences many
human beings to do wicked deeds or to
have wicked thoughts.
The following is a quote from Cruden
(of Cruden's Concordance) describing
what he calls “the Devil or Satan”:
“A most wicked angel, the implacable enemy and
tempter of the human race, deadly in his malice,
surprisingly subtle, possessing strength superior
to ours, having a mighty number of principalities
and powers under his command, he roves, full of
rage, like a roaring lion, seeking to tempt, to
betray, to destroy us, to involve us in guilt and
wickedness. In a word, he is an enemy to God and
man, and uses his utmost endeavors to rob God of
His glory and men of their souls.”
In a few short words, this sums up
what most of the “fundamentalist”
preachers would say of the devil. Cruden
comments further:
“Common belief assigns something like omniscience
to the evil being thus described. He is
regarded as universally at work, alike active in
England and America, and all other parts of the
globe at the same time, and exerting his seductive
arts in millions of hearts at once. He is also
believed to be, in some sense, omnipotent, achieving
his behest by a power superior to nature, and
certainly more successful than God in the mutual
strife for human souls, since hell, according to tradition,
receives a far larger proportion of the
earth's inhabitants than find their ways to the
celestial city.”
I think you would agree that the above
is a general statement of the belief of the
fundamentalist churches. They believe
that, in this contest between the devil and
God, the devil has been in the past, and is
currently, the victor: the successful one,
because he has claimed more human
beings or more souls than God has.
There is another teaching about the
devil, which denies that any such creature
exists. Most who believe this teaching,
also, deny that God Almighty exists. Some
call themselves, Atheists or Evolutionists
and they claim that the natural world,
which we see, is all that exists. They say
it came into being somehow; we know not
quite how, but that it has evolved into
what we see today without any outside
force acting upon it.
Give The Devil His Due
Chapter 2
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On the other hand, some believe in a
supernatural Devil to whom they've
attributed ALL power. They praise him
and become Devil or Satan Worshippers.
These people claim that they receive benefits,
or receive their desires, from the
devil. They, actually, came up with a religion
(which we would call “devil worship”),
where they give praise to “the Devil” to
the exclusion of God.
Christians are instructed not to give
place to the devil. They are to put on the
whole armor of God to stand against the
devil. Christians are warned that they can
sometimes be captives of the devil. The
devil has the power of death, but Jesus
destroyed that power. The devil will flee if
you resist him. He is likened to a lion,
devouring people. John wrote: “All who
have sinned are of the devil” Jesus was
made manifest to destroy the works of the
devil.
In Revelation, we found that the devil
can put Christians in prison. Reading the
references to the devil in order, from the
New Testament, we came across a beast
who was called a “dragon,” a “serpent,”
and also “the Devil” (capitalized). This
beast turned out to be, what could only be
described, as great world powers, nations
and kingdoms because the beast, Who is,
also, called the Devil, had seven heads
and ten horns and those heads and horns
were described as nations and. kingdoms.
In reading through the New
Testament, our devil first was something
that acted upon individual Christians and
then, Lo and behold, by the time we
reached the Book of Revelation, he had
become nations, kingdoms, and earthly
powers. Reading about the devil in the
last part of the New Testament, we found
the description did not fit anything else
we had read at the first. There seemed to
be a tremendous contradiction. Also, there
is somewhat of a contradiction between
what the Bible teaches and what the
churches teach, according to what I just
quoted from Mr. Cruden.
We cannot use the descriptions in
Revelation, chapters 12, 13 and 17, for
what is commonly considered “the devil.”
Here, he is being described as nations,
kingdoms and world powers. That doesn't
mean that these powers have nothing to
do with the devil but they are not the devil
itself. Nations and kingdoms are made up
of many people and earthly powers. They
cannot be described as an angelic or
supernatural being.
The Word “Diabolos”
Let's read Revelation 20 to try and find
“the Devil” of the churches.
And I saw an angel come down from
heaven, having the key of the bottomless
pit and a great chain in his
hand. And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent, which is the Devil,
and Satan, and bound him a thousand
years, And cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set
a seal upon him, that he should
deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little
season.
Revelation 20:1-3
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The term “devil” is used in verse two,
and, again, in verse ten of Revelation 20.
The Greek word is “diabolos.” According to
Strong's Concordance, it means “traducer”
(not seducer but traducer), “false accuser,
slanderer or devil.” In the Book of Acts, in
all of the epistles, and in Revelation, every
time you read the word, “devil,” it comes
from the Greek word “diabolos.” In 2
Timothy, the word “diabolos” is used but it
is not translated “devil.”
This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. For men
shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy, Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are
good,
2 Timothy 3:1-3
The two words “false accusers” are
translated from the word, “diabolos.” If
the translators had been consistent, “false
accusers” would have read, “devils.” Then
verse two would have read that men shall
be devils (diabolos).
But the devil, or devils, were not supposed
to be human! Yet, Paul says in the
last days mortal men shall be “diabolos.”
This is the same word that is used in
Revelation, chapters 2 and 20, and in all
of the epistles. Just so we don't leave the
women out, let's read what it says in chapter
two of Titus:
But speak thou the things which
become sound doctrine. That the aged
men be sober, grave, temperate, sound
in faith, in charity, in patience. The
aged women likewise, that they be in
behaviour as becometh holiness, not
false accusers (diabolos), not given to
much wine, teachers of good things, ...
Titus 2:1-3
Paul is saying that women have to be
exhorted not to be devils. It appears, then,
that Paul thought that men and women
could be “diabolos” or “devils,” The word
“serpent,” in Revelation 20, comes from
this same Greek word: “diabolos,” which
does not give any meaning of immortality
or long-living, or any angelic or spirit
nature to the serpent, as such. It simplymeans
“false accuser” or “slanderer.” The
serpent isn't an angelic being, when
defined by the word, “devil,” because both
men and women can be devils.
“Sawtawn:” Adversary —
Not Fallen Angel
What about the word “Satan?” The serpent
in Revelation 20 is called by the title
“Satan.” That is a little simpler to understand
because in every case where the
word “Satan” appears in the New
Testament, it comes from a Greek word
pronounced “satanas.” In the Old
Testament, it comes, every time, from the
same Hebrew word which is pronounced,
“sawtawn.” Here is what Strong's
Concordance says of the Greek word
“satanas:”
— Of Chaldean origin, the accuser, or the
“devil.”
Strong's says this of the Hebrew word
“sawtawn:”
— Opponent, adversary, Satan. From a
slightly different root “sawtan, “ meaning
to attack, accuse, to be an adversary, or to
resist.
So, the word “Satan” in the original
Greek and Hebrew, both in the Old
Testament and the New, comes from the
same word. It is a word of Chaldean origin
which was transliterated by the Hebrews
and picked up by the Greeks unchanged.
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It means “accuser,” “adversary,” “opponent,”
or it means “to do what an accuser,
adversary or an opponent does.”
Let me demonstrate this from the use
of “Satan” in the Old Testament. In
Numbers 22, Balak has hired Balaam to
prophesy against Israel.
Here, the word “sawtawn” is used and
it is translated “adversary:”
And God came unto Balaam at night,
and said unto him, If the men come to
call thee, rise up, and go with them;
but yet the word which I shall say
unto thee, that shalt thou do. And
Balaam rose up in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and went with the
princes of Moab. And God's anger was
kindled because he went: and the
angel of the Lord stood in the way for
an adversary (satan)
Numbers 22:20-22
Here we have an angel of the Lord who
is a “satan” or an “adversary” against this
man. The Hebrew text says the angel of
the Lord was, literally, “a satan.”
In chapter 19 of 2 Samuel, David is in
an argument with his own men. A man
who had previously maligned David came
and begged his forgiveness. David's men
said that David should kill the man
because he had cursed the Lord's anointed.
David replied:
And David said, What have I to do
with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye
should this day be adversaries
(Satans) unto me? shall there any
man be put to death this day in
Israel?
2 Samuel 19:22
David spoke to the officers in his own
army and asked them why they were
being “sawtawns” or “satans” to him.
Here is another passage that uses the
term “adversary”:
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants
unto Solomon; for he had heard
that they had anointed him king in
the room of his father: for Hiram was
ever a lover of David. And Solomon
sent to Hiram, saying, Thou knowest
how that David my father could not
build an house unto the name of the
Lord his God for the wars which were
about him on every side, until the
Lord put them under the soles of his
feet. But now the Lord my God hath
given me rest on every side, so that
there is neither adversary (satan) nor
evil occurrent.
Kings 5:1-4
The word “adversary” is from
“sawtawn.” Solomon was saying to Hiram
“God hath given me rest on every side, so
that there is neither SATAN nor evil
occurrent.” Solomon says there was no
satan at that time. There was no “satan”
because the word “satan” in the Chaldean,
Hebrew and Greek means “opponent” or
“adversary.” Solomon was saying he had
no opponent; he was at peace. This word
“sawtawn” is translated “Satan” 19 times
in the Old Testament. It is found once in I
Chronicles, 14 times in Job, once in
Psalms and three times in Zechariah. The
other 13 times that the word “sawtawn”
appears, it is translated “adversary.” So it
is transliterated to “Satan” 19 times and it
is translated “adversary” 12 times.
Adversary is the literal meaning of the
word in all three languages - Chaldean,
Hebrew, and Greek.
I think we should read a few more passages
where “sawtawn” is translated
“adversary.” In 1 Kings 11, near the end of
his reign, we read that Solomon has
sinned against God:
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And the Lord was angry with
Solomon, because his heart was
turned from the Lord God of Israel,
which had appeared unto him twice.
And had commanded him concerning
this thing, that he should not go after
other gods: but he kept not that which
the Lord commanded. Wherefore the
Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch
as this is done of thee, and thou hast
not kept my covenant and my statutes,
which I have commanded thee, I will
surely rend the kingdom from thee,
and will give it to thy servant. Not
withstanding in thy days I will not do
it for David thy father's sake: but I
will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Howbeit I will not rend away all the
kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy
son for David my servant's sake, and
for Jerusalem's sake which I have
chosen.
1 Kings 11:9-13
God is telling Solomon what He is
going to do because of Solomon's sin.
And the Lord stirred up an adversary
(a Satan) unto Solomon, Hadad the
Edomite: he was of the king's seed in
Edom.
1 Kings 11:14
The Lord stirred up a satan. Who was
this satan? He was not only a man, but his
name is given: “Hadad.” He was a mortal
man of Edom.
And God stirred him up another
adversary (satan), Rezon the son of
Eliadah, which fled from his lord
Hadadezer king of Zobah:
1 Kings 11:23
So, here is another satan, who is a
mortal, and his name is in the Bible.
And he was an adversary (satan) to
Israel all the days of Solomon, beside
the mischief that Hadad did: and he
abhorred Israel, and reigned over
Syria.
1 Kings 11:25
David also used the word “sawtawn” in
Psalm 38:
But mine enemies are lively, and they
are strong: and they that hate me
wrongfully are multiplied. They also
that render evil for good are mine adversaries
(satans); because I follow
the thing that good is.
Psalm 38:19-20
“Adversaries” is made plural here by
the translators. In the original text the
word is “sawtawn,” it can be used as both
singular and plural. The translators made
it plural because of David's use of the plural
“they.” He had more than one adversary
and they were “satans:” If the
translators had been consistent, they
would have transliterated “sawtawn” into
“Satan.”
Two other places where “sawtawn” was
translated, “adversaries,” are in Psalm 71
and Psalm 109:
O God, be not far from me: O my God,
make haste for my help. Let them be
confounded and consumed that are
adversaries (satans) to my soul; let
them be covered with reproach and
dishonour that seek my hurt.
Psalm 71:12-13
Hold not thy peace, O God of my
praise; For the mouth of the wicked
and the mouth of the deceitful are
opened against me: they have spoken
against me with a lying tongue. They
compassed me about also with words
of hatred; and fought against me
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without a cause. For my love they are
my adversaries (satans): but I give
myself unto prayer.
Psalm 109:1-4
David's adversaries were not supernatural,
angelic beings. But, they were
“satans.”
And they have rewarded me evil for
good, and hatred for my love. Set thou
a wicked man over him: and let Satan
(or an adversary) stand at his right
hand.
Psalm 109:5-6
“Satan,” in verse five, is the same word
translated “adversaries” in verse four.
Here it is transliterated into the word
“Satan”: “let Satan stand at his right
hand.” If you will, think about that for a
moment. David is not praying that God
will put “Satan,” the devil of the churches,
at the right hand of his enemy, but that
God would place one of their own
adversaries there. This is confusing
because of the translation of the same
word two different ways in the same text.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries
(satans) from the Lord, and of
them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalm 109:20
Let mine adversaries (satans) be
clothed with shame, and let them cover
themselves with their own confusion,
as with a mantle.
Psalm 109:29
Again, David used “adversaries” or
“satans” as a word that meant “human
enemies.” You cannot make this
“sawtawn,” or “satan” into an everliving,
angelic, supernatural creature in any of
the passages that we have read so far. In
fact, in some places, he is a specific human
being and he is named.
In every case where the original word
“sawtawn” has been used, so far, we cannot
use it for anything other than mortal
human beings.
“Sawtawn” In Job
As I stated earlier, of the 19 times that
the word “sawtawn” is transliterated as
“Satan,” 14 occur in Job. We will have to
read those 14 passages in order to understand
who or what caused all of Job's trouble.
In the modern churches, it is common
teaching that this fallen angel, this supernatural,
angelic being, called “Satan,” was
responsible.
There was a man in the land of Uz,
whose name was Job; and that man
was perfect and upright, and one that
feared God, and eschewed evil. And
there were born unto him seven sons
and three daughters. His substance
also was seven thousand sheep, and
three thousand camels, and five hundred
yoke of oxen, and five hundred
she asses, and a very great household;
so that this man was the greatest of
all the men of the east. And his sons
went and feasted in their houses,
every one his day; and sent and called
for their three sisters to eat and to
drink with them. And it was so, when
the days of their feasting were gone
about, that Job sent and sanctified
them, and rose up early in the morning,
and offered burnt offerings
according to the number of them all:
for Job said, It may be that my sons
have sinned, and cursed God in their
hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Job 1:1-5
We have established at the very beginning
that Job is very wealthy, he has
many sons and daughters, and he is a
God-fearing man who praised God for all
of his substance and all of his children.
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Now there was a day when the sons of
God came to present themselves before
the Lord, and Satan came also among
them.
Job 1:6
The margin in my Bible, and in many
Bibles, actually has the words “the 'adversary'
came, also, among them,” because it
is the same word “sawtawn.” Only here, it
is capitalized and written as “Satan.”
And the Lord said unto Satan,
Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered
the Lord, and said, From
going to and fro in the earth, and
from walking up and down in it. And
the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou
considered my servant Job, that there
is none like him in the earth, a perfect
and an upright man, one that feareth
God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan
answered the Lord, and said, Doth
Job fear God for nought? Hast not
thou made an hedge about him, and
about his house, and about all that he
hath on every side? thou hast blessed
the work of his hands, and his substance
is increased in the land.
Job 1:7-10
This creature, whoever and whatever
he is, says that Job fears God and gives
honor to Him because God has blessed
him. God has given him all these things
and protects him.
But put forth thine hand now, and
touch all that he hath, and he will
curse thee to thy face. And the Lord
said unto Satan, Behold, all that he
hath is in thy power; only upon himself
put not forth thine hand. So
Satan went forth from the presence of
the Lord.
Job 1:11-12
As you read on you find that Job lost
his oxen, asses, sheep, servants, camels,
and even his sons and daughters. The
churches say this was done by a great,
angelic, malevolent, evil, wicked being
who tempts and brings evil to all the other
people of the earth.
After Job lost everything we read:
In all this Job sinned not, nor
charged God foolishly.
Job 1:22
Again there was a day when the sons
of God came to present themselves
before the Lord, and Satan (sawtawn)
came also among them to present himself
before the Lord. And the Lord said
unto Satan, From whence comest
thou? And Satan answered the Lord,
and said, From going to and fro in the
earth, and from walking up and down
in it. And the Lord said unto Satan,
Hast thou considered my servant Job,
that there is none like him in the
earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God, and escheweth
evil? and still he holdeth fast his
integrity, although thou movedst me
against him, to destroy him without
cause.
Job 2:1-3
So, even after his calamity, Job was
still faithful to God. Now, God tells Satan:
“See, in spite of everything that happens,
Job still fears Me and eschews evil.”
And Satan answered the Lord, and
said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man
hath will he give for his life. But put
forth thine hand now, and touch his
bone and his flesh, and he will curse
thee to thy face. And the Lord said
unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine
hand; but save his life. So went Satan
forth from the presence of the Lord,
and smote Job with sore boils from the
sale of his foot unto his crown. And he
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took him a potsherd to scrape himself
withal; and he sat down among the
ashes.
Job 2:4-8
Job was so ill at this point that his wife
said:
Dost thou still retain thine integrity?
curse God, and die.
Job 2:9
Job's wife gave up. Job had lost everything
that he had. He now was in illness
and pain and possibly in fear of his own
life. At this point almost all fundamentalists
without exception have credited some
wicked, angelic being called “Satan”
(“sawtawn” in the original Chaldean language)
with having done all this to Job.
But, perhaps you missed verse three of
chapter two where God is speaking and
He said of Job: “and still he holdeth fast
his integrity, although thou movedst me
against him, to destroy him without
cause.” Who did the destroying? God said
that HE did it.
After these additional calamities
occurred and, apparently, after days of
conversation with friends who came supposedly
to comfort him but who were of no
great comfort, Job tells his friends:
How long will ye vex my soul, and
break me in pieces with words? These
ten times have ye reproached me: ye
are not ashamed that ye make yourselves
strange to me. And be it indeed
that I have erred, mine error
remaineth with myself. If indeed ye
will magnify yourselves against me,
and plead against me my reproach:
Job 19:2-5
If you know the Book of Job, you know
that these men had been telling Job that
he must have sinned. They told Job that
something he did was wrong, and that's
why he had suffered all these calamities.
So Job rebuked them:
Know now that God hath overthrown
me, and hath compassed me with his
net. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I
am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is
no judgment. He hath fenced up my
way that I cannot pass, and he hath
set darkness in my paths. He hath
stripped me of my glory, and taken the
crown from my head. He hath
destroyed me on every side, and I am
gone: and mine hope hath he removed
like a tree. He hath also kindled his
wrath against me, and he counteth
me unto him as one of his enemies. His
troops come together, and raise up
their way against me, and encamp
round about my tabernacle. He hath
put my brethren far from me, and
mine acquaintance are verily
estranged from me.
Job 19:6-13
Who is Job saying caused all of these
calamities? Job says that God did it. He is
trying to point out to these men that it
wasn't necessarily any sin of his own but,
they should understand that God did it.
Job says:
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me,
O ye my friends; for the hand of God
hath touched me.
Job 19:21
In the last chapter of Job, after God
has spoken to him, Job answers:
I know that thou canst do every thing,
and that no thought can be withholden
from thee. Who is he that
hideth counsel without knowledge?
therefore have I uttered that I understood
not: things too wonderful for
me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech
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thee, and I will speak: I will demand
of thee, and declare thou unto me. I
have heard of thee by the hearing of
the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent
in dust and ashes.
Job 42:2-6
Even though Job had rebuked his
friends and told them he had not sinned,
he said: God, I realize what I am, I realize
what You are, You can do all things, therefore,
I repent. Then God speaks to the
other men:
And it was so, that after the Lord had
spoken these words unto Job, the Lord
said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My
wrath is kindled against thee, and
against thy two friends: for ye have
not spoken of me the thing that is
right, as my servant Job hath.
Therefore take unto you now seven
bullocks and seven rams, and go to my
servant Job, and offer up for yourselves
a burnt offering; and my servant
Job shall pray for you: for him
will I accept: lest I deal with you after
your folly, in that ye have not spoken
of me the thing which is right, like my
servant Job.
Job 42:7-8
God says that Job spoke right. He then
tells Job's friends to offer a burnt offering
because, as He says in verse eight: “ye
have not spoken of me the thing which is
right, like my servant Job.” These men did
make an offering because God had told
them to, as we see in the next passage:
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad
the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite
went, and did according as
the Lord commanded them: the Lord
also accepted Job. And the Lord
turned the captivity of Job, when he
prayed for his friends: also the Lord
gave Job twice as much as he had
before. Then came there unto him all
his brethren, and all his sisters, and
all they that had been of his acquaintance
before, and did eat bread with
him in his house: and they bemoaned
him, and comforted him over all the
evil that the Lord had brought upon
him: every man also gave him a piece
of money, and every one an earring of
gold. So the Lord blessed the latter
end of Job more than his beginning:
for he had fourteen thousand sheep,
and six thousand camels, and a thousand
yoke of oxen, and a thousand she
asses. He had also seven sons and
three daughters.
Job 42:9-13
Why did God give Job all of these
blessings? They were given in order to
replace that which God Almighty had
taken from Job. The Book of Job is very
specific. The people who in the end came
to comfort Job realized that everything
that had happened to Job had been done
by God Almighty.
I haven't quoted all of Job but I quoted
every place where the word “Satan”
appears in Job. I defy you to use any part
of those references to conclude that
“satan” is some sort of an everliving creature
who has power almost equal to God.
If we take the original meaning of the
word we come up with the word “adversary.”
This adversary could easily have
been nothing more than another son of
God, a man of the Adamic race, who came
before God with the rest of the men and
provoked God to test Job. It was God who
brought the calamities. There is no indication
that the Satan of Job had any supernatural
powers, whatsoever. It was God
who did the things which were beyond
nature.
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We are going to have to believe what
Isaiah wrote:
I am the Lord, and there is none else,
there is no God beside me: I girded
thee, though thou hast not known me:
That they may know from the rising of
the sun, and from the west, that there
is none beside me. I am the Lord, and
there is none else. I form the light, and
create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the Lord do all these
things.
Isaiah 45:5-7
“Sawtawn” Is Not The Satan
of Today’s Churches
Let's look at the other five times in the
Old Testament that “sawtawn” is transliterated
into “Satan.”
And Satan stood up against Israel,
and provoked David to number Israel.
And David said to Joab and to the
rulers of the people, Go, number Israel
from Beersheba even to Dan; and
bring the number of them to me, that I
may know it.
1 Chronicles 21:1-2
David did number the children of
Israel. This was God's reaction:
And God was displeased with this
thing; therefore he smote Israel. And
David said unto God, I have sinned
greatly, because I have done this
thing: but now, I beseech thee, do
away the iniquity of thy servant; for I
have done very foolishly.
1 Chronicles 21:7-8
Who did David blame for having done
this thing? Did he give “Satan” his due?
No, David said: “I have sinned.”
The word “Satan” is only used in verse
one of this passage. If it had been translated
to the meaning of the word it would
have said: “an ADVERSARY stood up
against Israel, and provoked David to
number Israel” There is nothing in the
context here that can make this “satan”
into a fallen angel.
The word “Satan” is also found in
Psalm 109:
Set thou a wicked man over him: and
let Satan stand at his right hand
(referring to his enemy).
Psalm 109:6
David was saying, “Let an enemy of my
enemy stand at his right hand.” That is
all. David would not have prayed for the
“Satan” of the churches to be his enemy's
advisor! It hardly makes sense that David
would want a wise and powerful
archangel to be the advisor to his own
enemy. No, David was really praying that
his enemy would have an adversary or an
enemy of his own to advise him. This
would bring calamity upon the enemy's
designs. David desired his enemies to
have satans of their own in their camp.
The last three places in the Old
Testament where the word “Satan” is
found are in Zechariah:
And he shewed me Joshua the high
priest standing before the angel of the
Lord, and Satan standing at his right
hand to resist him. And the Lord said
unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, a
Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a
brand plucked out of the fire?
Zechariah 3:1-2
There is no indication that the Satan
here is anything like the one taught by the
churches. He doesn't do anything except
stand there as if he is to resist and, then,
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he is rebuked and we hear no more about
him.
The margin says that the last part of
verse one could read “an adversary” for
the word “Satan.” The last three words “to
resist him” should have read “to be his
adversary” (satan). The word “resist” is
translated from the same Chaldean word:
“sawtawn.” It means “to resist or be an
adversary.”
So here in Zechariah, as in Job and I
Chronicles 21, there is absolutely no evidence
that this “sawtawn” or “Satan” is
anything resembling the Satan preached
by the churches. He is mentioned as if he
is just standing there, it does not say he
does anything. He is rebuked, and we
hear no more about him.
We've read every passage in the Old
Testament where the Chaldean word
“sawtawn” is used. It is either translated
“adversary” or is transliterated into the
word, “Satan.” Not once can it really be
used to teach some sort of a wicked, powerful,
omnipotent angel or some great
enemy of God who, literally, can overpower
mankind and (almost) God, Himself. In
each and every case, the word names or
describes someone who is opposed to
someone else. In most cases the
“sawtawn” or “Satan” is obviously a mortal
man. In fact, he is sometimes named.
In no case is there any indication of longlife
or supernatural powers. It kind of
takes the wind out of Satan's sails, wouldn't
you think? Or, perhaps, we're just taking
the wind out of the mouths of the false
prophets.
Look Who Is “A Satan”
Before we go on, let's look at 2 Samuel,
chapter 24 which is a repetition of the
same story we read earlier about David
numbering Israel:
And again the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Israel, and he (Satan)
moved David against them to say, Go,
number Israel and Judah.
2 Samuel 24:1
The balance of the chapter is identical
to 1 Chronicles 21, where it says Satan
provoked David to number Israel. The
“Satan” of 1 Chronicles 21:1 is none other
than God Himself being “an adversary.”
That is the way the word is used.
So far, the only place we could give the
devil any due at all is in Job, where we
read:
So went Satan forth from the presence
of the Lord, and smote Job with sore
boils from the sole of his foot unto his
crown.
Job 2:7
So, if we want to give the Satan of Job
anything, according to the strict interpretation
of what we just read, we could only
admit one thing: that he might have given
Job boils. Some people could probably testify
that quite a few of us could get boils
by taking some sort of toxins into our
body. Doctors give people boils all the time
by giving them injections that are bad for
their body. Boils are nothing more than
the body's attempt to eject something
through the skin that is a poison to the
body. This great Satan couldn't have done
very much, he couldn't have much power,
if all he could do was give Job boils.
In Psalm 109:6 we saw that “satan”
obviously-means “adversary.” We just
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read three times in Zechariah where
“sawtawn” or “Satan” was going to resist
either the angel of the Lord or Joshua.
The Lord rebuked him and then there is
no further comment about him. So
“Satan” has done nothing that would
make him a great, powerful archangel,
who does terrible wicked things to all the
people of the earth. It is possible that the
only act he ever completed was to give Job
boils.
In 11 cases, “sawtawn” is translated
“adversary.” From the context in each case
“sawtawn” simply means “an adversary”
or “an opponent.” In two cases, the
“sawtawn” is named as mortal men, in one
case, he is an angel of God, and once, he is
God himself. So “sawtawn,” as it is used in
the Old Testament, does not and cannot be
used to teach that there exists a great and
powerful archangel; who goes about tearing
souls out of the hand of God, taking
them down to his abode in the “nether
world” and punishing them for ever and
ever. The word “sawtawn,” from which we
get “Satan,” is simply not used that way.
Yet we find, if we think for a moment,
that this horrible creature who is the subject
of so much fearsome preaching from
the churches, is identical to another creature
called “the devil”, “Lucifer” and
“Satan” who is depicted in the movies, in
stories and on television. It should make
you think, for a moment, why the Satan of
the churches is identical to the Satan
depicted by movie makers, who do not
believe in Christ. These antiChristian
movie makers have come out in recent
times with stories about how a supernatural
being, called the devil or Satan, cohabits
with a woman and produces a halfdevil
child.
Summary Of The Word
“Sawtawn”
Let me sum up the use of the word
“sawtawn” in the original text. It is very
important that you understand what we
are discovering in this study. We must see
what the Bible does or does not teach;
since we are living in a time when the
churches, and many secular people, are
building up a great “anti-Christ,” who is
supposed to be a certain being, who will
rule the world. At the same time, these
churches preach that this anti-Christ also
rules an underworld, where billions of
dead reside.
We have found that 19 times in the Old
Testament, “sawtawn” is transliterated
“Satan.” All 19 are contained within only
four passages. In I Chronicles 21:1 we see,
from reading the other account, that the
“sawtawn” here is obviously God, Himself.
The second passage is in Job, where the
word “Satan” is used 14 times. In Job,
Satan is an adversary — there is no argument
about that. The only certain thing
he did directly was to give Job boils. In
Psalm 109:6, the word “Satan” plainly
means “enemy” or “adversary” - it is definitely
not the devil of the churches. In
Zechariah 4, whoever or whatever he is,
he just stood there, he was rebuked, and
that appears to be the end of him. There is
no act accredited to him at all.
“Sawtawn” is translated “adversary”
seven times in the Old Testament.
Sawtawn comes from the primary root
word “sawtan;” which also has been translated
in the Old Testament, as “adversary”
five times. The first time we find
“sawtawn” translated “adversary” is in
Numbers 22, where the “sawtawn” was
the angel of the Lord. In I Samuel 29:4,
the “sawtawn” was David, himself, as an
adversary to the Philistines. In 2 Samuel
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19:22, the “sawtawns” are David's own
men. In 1 Kings 5:4, Solomon said he had
peace and there was no “sawtawn.”
Solomon meant that there was no enemy,
or enemy nation, against him. In 1 Kings
11, after Solomon had turned and sinned
against God, the word “sawtawn” (translated
adversary) is used three times. God
raised up “sawtawns” against Solomon.
These “sawtawns” are named, they are
mortal men, kings or generals of other
nations. In Psalm 109, the word “adversaries”
is used three times. Each time the
word comes from the Chaldean, “sawtan”
which has the same meaning as
“sawtawn.” “Satan” is found only once in
that same passage as a transliteration of
“sawtawn” and it means “enemy.” David
calls his wicked enemies, “my sawtawns”
or “enemies” (plural). In that case it cannot
possibly mean one great, wicked
archangel. So, the amazing truth is that
the Chaldean word “sawtawn” (and its
root word “sawtan”) is used 31 times in
only 11 passages in the Old Testament.
Out of 11 passages and 31 usages of
the words “sawtawn” and “sawtan”, there
is only one passage where there is even an
inkling that this “sawtawn” has any
supernatural power. That supernatural
power could have been, simply, giving a
man boils. Think of what the churches tell
us Satan is, compared to what the Bible
does NOT say about Satan. In 10 out of 11
times, the “sawtawn” is an angel. Six
times it is men. One time it is something,
or someone, who gave Job boils. It is possible
that Job had a doctor who was an
adversary of his and who gave him boils, I
don't know. That is speculation on my part
But, that is no more speculation than the
teaching we hear about this great, wicked,
supernatural, omniscient, omnipresent
angel; who is all over the earth, all at the
same time, stealing billions of souls and
taking them down to his kingdom in the
earth.
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I have better things to do than to sit and read all that.

What Satan?

This is taken from Sheldon Emry memorial library
http://www.sheldonemrylibrary.com/


That Old Serpent Called the Devil and Satan

There is a passage in the 12th chapter of
Revelation, which has for centuries been used as
the foundation stone for what one might call
Devil Theology. I will begin by reading part of
it, and then we will look at more of it later, and
study the entire passage. The most often quoted
verses are:
“And there was war in heaven: 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.”
Revelation 12:7-9
Most of you are familiar with the common
doctrine on the origin and the place of ‘satan’ as
taught by the churches. They sometimes call him
the ‘devil’ and so on; but I’ll condense church
teaching on ‘satan’ and the ‘devil’ rather briefly
here:
There, in about four paragraphs, I have
preached almost every sermon being preached in
Baptist churches this week. Some of you have
been in Baptist churches, and you know that
about half of the sermons in Baptist churches are
about “the devil will get you if you don’t watch
out, so do what the minister says.”
Such sermons are not totally confined to
what is called ‘Mainstream Protestantism,’ nor
to ‘Catholicism.’ I have here the January 1980
PLAIN TRUTH magazine printed by Herbert W.
THAT OLD SERPENT
CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN
of Revelation 12
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The devil is a spirit creature with awesome
power on the earth to do evil, or
cause men to do evil. He was once the
chief angel in God's heaven, but rebelled
against God and actually warred against
God; and had one-third of the angels on
his side. So, in the war they eventually
lost, or at least lost after a fashion. God,
with the help of Michael and his angels,
cast the devil and his angels down to the
earth where they now roam about, doing
their nefarious works.
Common teaching is that the 'devil' is so
evil he is almost indescribable. However,
the Catholic priests and the Christian
ministers are continually resisting him,
and preaching against him, and fighting
against him. And apparently, if it were
not for them, the 'devil' would have taken
over and perhaps destroyed the earth
already.
Some teach that this powerful 'spirit
creature' will eventually be destroyed,
and they quote Revelation 20: 10 for
that. Some teach, as do the Catholics,
that this wicked 'spirit-being' and his
angels, whom they call 'devils' or
'demons,' will live forever in a burning
hell, poking redhot irons and pitch-forks
into those who did not do what the
priests or the ministers said they should.
The Catholics generally say that all
protestants are going to be down there
with the devil. Baptists think that all
non-Baptists are going to be there; and
many individual churches or denominations
teach that everyone but their own
group is going to be down there, in that
'hell,' with the 'devil' at his pleasure for
ages upon end.
Armstrong. Most of you know about the World
Wide Church of God. This is from the article
entitled “Personal from H.W.A.” The article purports
to answer this question:
Needless to say, Armstrong’s final conclusion
is that, it is because all the churches except
Armstrong’s are preaching false doctrine. But I
want to quote from the article as he explains part
of the reason, for what he calls “the error of the
churches,” and he says it is caused by the ‘devil.’
So I will quote just those parts where he talks
about the ‘devil.’ He says:
That is from Revelation 20. Armstrong goes on:
There is a whole column about this same
‘devil,’ deceiving the churches in the world, and
he asks how it could have all started. At the bottom
of the page he says:
“It all started with Adam in the garden of
Eden.”
A little further on:
And still further on:
“Satan tempted Adam through his wife, Eve;
Adam took of the forbidden tree.”
I quoted all of that to show that although
Armstrong does not teach there is a burning hell
— where people are tortured for years — he
does teach the same doctrine on the origin of,
and work of ‘satan,’ that the mainstream churches
do. I have read Armstrong’s articles, and I
agree with his teachings on ‘hell.’ However, I did
not know until about two years ago (1978) that
Armstrong is a little schizophrenic when it
comes to his people being in fire.
He teaches publicly that people do not go to
‘hell’ to be tortured when they die, but once you
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“What is the most universal erroneous
and false belief and teaching that has
caused the world's evils, troubles, sufferings
and sorrows?”
“Perhaps many people do not believe in
the existence of a devil anymore. Yet
your Bible says the whole world, including
it’s religions, has been deceived by
Satan the Devil.” (then he quotes
Revelation 12:9), ‘The inhabitants of the
earth have been deceived by him through
deceived religion.’ (Revelation 17:2).
But your Bible also says, ‘The time is
coming when God Almighty shall send
an angel from heaven and lay hold on the
dragon, that old serpent, which is the
Devil and Satan. And bind him a thousand
years and cast him into the bottomless
pit and shut him up and set a seal
upon him that he should deceive the
nations no more till the thousand years
shall be fulfilled.’”
“Just who is this Satan, where did he
come from? Did God create a devil to
deceive us? He is aformer archangel who
was perfect in all his ways, as God created
him, (Ezekiel 28:15). But he had a
mind and free moral agency with the
right of free choice forming his own
decisions. Just as God has given you and
me and all humans that same free moral
agency. Otherwise, we could have no
character. This great arch-angel was
named Lucifer, and God set him on the
throne of the whole world, to administer
the government of God over angels
which inhabited the earth prior to the
creation of man. But this powerful
Lucifer turned his angels into rebelling
against God.”
“Satan was just around the corner, so to
speak, waiting for a chance to tempt
Adam into rejecting God, even as he
himself had rejected God, God’s Law,
God’s way and God’s government when
he was the arch-angel Lucifer.”
join his church, you are taught, over and over
again, that if you reject Armstrong’s teachings
and leave, or are kicked out of the Armstrong
church, then you will be sent to the ‘lake of fire’
for ‘eternity.’ So it seems he has a ‘special hell’
for people who do not obey him. Just as the
Catholic church has a ‘hell’ for the people who
do not obey their priests.
So, in spite of his public announcements, he
frightens people into obeying him by his own
private ‘hell.’ And I do know, as I have had ex-
Armstrong members, especially women, tell me
that they were in Armstrong’s church, and literally
lived in fear for years; afraid they might do
something to offend Armstrong or one of the
ministers, and be kicked out of the church and
then be cast into the ‘lake of fire.’ They were
afraid of it, and he built on that fear.
That’s about it for the general teaching about
‘satan.’ As you can see, the different denominations
have some variances, but they all agree on
one thing: ‘the devil never deceives me, but he
certainly has deceived a lot of you people out
there!’ The doctrine they all agree on, and generally
speaking they are almost all in agreement, is
that the ‘devil’ was God’s chief angel - a powerful
‘spirit-creature.’ He rebelled against God,
and God cast him down to the earth. Most of
their doctrine is based on the three verses we
looked at earlier.
In the last few months (1980) some sermons
have been preached by ministers who generally
teach what we call the Identity Message. These
sermons, both in printed form and on tape, have
rebuked me (Pastor Emry) for my teaching about
‘satan’ and Eve in the garden of Eden. I do not
agree that ‘satan’ or any creature seduced Eve in
the garden of Eden and produced children. They
teach that ‘satan’ seduced Eve and produced
Cain. We call it the “Seed-line Doctrine.” I
OPPOSE that teaching! The Mormon Church
and the Jewish Talmud also teaches it. And their
description of ‘satan’ is identical to Armstrong’s,
and to the churches’.
Bear with me if this seems a little tedious and
a little long. I’m going to quote one verse from
Revelation 1, and this one verse alone, if it is
true (and if we believe the Word of God, and that
God is not a liar), is enough to prove the following:
1. The war in heaven of Revelation 12
already took place, not milleniums ago, but after
John saw the vision.
2. The casting out, of whatever this creature
was, from heaven to earth, therefore took place
after 96 AD, sometime after the vision was seen.
If the ‘devil’ or ‘satan’ of Revelation 12 is all
that the Catholic church, and the Protestant
denominations, and Armstrong, and some
Identity preachers say he is, he would not have
fallen to the earth prior to Adam and Eve being
in the Garden of Eden.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God
gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass; and he signified
it by his angel unto his servant John.”
Revelation 1: 1
Did you read that phrase? “Things which
must shortly come to pass.” It didn’t say, “I’m
going to show you things which have already
happened.” These are things yet future according
to what the angel said to John. Another witness
is verse 3:
“Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear
the words of this prophecy, and keep those
things which are written therein: for the time is
at hand.”
Revelation 1 :3
Same general theory, it’s in the future! The
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“He was a great fallen angel, he was cast
down to the earth, he deceived Adam
and Eve in the garden of Eden, “ and so
on.
things you will read about are future. The signs
or the visions which the angel showed John, and
which were then written down by John, were of
things which were yet future events in 96AD. Do
you understand that? Do you read these verses
the same way I do? Because this is a very, very
important point when you study the book of
Revelation. If you want a third witness, read
Revelation 4, where after he has given the message
to the churches we read this in verse 1:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was
opened in heaven: and the first voice which I
heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with
me which said, Come up hither, and I will shew
thee things which must be hereafter.”
Revelation 4: 1
I know I’m repeating this, but every time you
hear a minister preaching out of the book of
Revelation, and he tells you that these things
happened way back in milleniums past, like
some creature falling out of heaven to the earth,
you can call him a liar, and you can prove it with
Revelation chapters 1 and 4.
The visions in Revelation were to take place,
or be fulfilled, after they were shown to John,
according to these three witnesses. What does
that do to the churches, and even Identity ministers
who insist that the ‘devil’ or ‘satan’ of
Revelation 12 is a ‘fallen angel’ who was cast
out of heaven milleniums before John saw the
vision? It makes them either fools or liars. Read
the vision in Revelation 12 in more detail.
“And there appeared a great wonder (and the
margin in most Bibles will tell you the word
‘wonder’ could have been translated ‘sign’) in
heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head a
crown of twelve stars.”
Revelation 12: 1
Were these actual events taking place in
God’s heaven, or were they visions that John
saw which were symbolic of things that would
happen? I really don’t think you could believe
that John would be teaching this is a literal
woman clothed with the sun, standing on the
moon and wearing 12 stars on her head. It has to
be symbolic of something else. He is not seeing
the actual thing, he is seeing it in symbolism.
John was on the isle of Patmos, and in
Revelation 4:2, he said he was ‘in the spirit’
when he saw these things. My understanding of
this, is that when John says “I saw something in
heaven,” he was looking up in the sky and he
saw these events taking place. When he said,
“there appeared a wonder in heaven,” it doesn’t
necessarily mean that the woman was up in
God’s heaven. John saw her up in the sky, and
wrote it down as he saw it.
“And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered. And there
appeared another wonder (sign) in heaven; and
behold a great red dragon, having seven heads
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third part of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
And the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered, for to devour her
child as soon as it was born. And she brought
forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations
with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up
unto God and to his throne. And the woman
fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place
prepared of God, that they should feed her
there a thousand two hundred and three-score
days.”
Revelation 12:2-6
Then come the verses that say there was
‘war’ in ‘heaven.’ This is all part of a continuing
vision, and John is writing it down as he sees it.
Let us try to identify the participants here as best
we can. The symbolism in the first verse, the
“sun, moon and stars” leads us, of course, back
to where Joseph dreamed a dream in Genesis,
“And he dreamed yet another dream, and told
it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have
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dreamed a dream more; and, behold the sun
and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance
to me. And he told it to his father, and to
his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and
said unto him, What is this dream that thou
hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy
brethren indeed come to bow ourselves down to
thee to the earth?”
Genesis 37:9
You can see in Joseph’s dream, as in John’s
vision the “sun, moon and stars” signify the
whole house of Israel. Therefore, this woman is
also symbolic of the house of Israel, the identifying
marks being the sun, moon and stars.
There are events in Scripture where the sun and
the moon will be darkened, and so on. I have
identified them, in previous sermons, as being
symbolic of the destruction of Israel, and the
reducing of her power at the end of the age. It
has nothing to do with the heavenly bodies of the
sun, moon and stars. These are symbolic and, of
course, 12 is always a symbol for Israel and for
the twelve tribes.
If this vision is actually in heaven, then in
order to fulfil the vision, Israel would have to be
in God’s heaven, would she not? But we know
Israel is not in heaven. Israel is on the earth, has
always been on the earth, and will remain on the
earth. The heaven mentioned here is where John
saw the vision, not where the woman was or will
be. The war in heaven also does not have to be
in God’s heaven.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and
his angels fought against the dragon; and the
dragon fought and his angels, (he was looking
up at this vision in the skies) and prevailed not;
neither was their place found any more in
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out...”
Revelation 12:7-9a
Here is the identification used by the churches
to say that this was ‘satan’:
“...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.”
Revelation 12:9b
We passed over something already, which
the Catholic priests always pass over, and the
protestant ministers always pass over, and at
least those Identity ministers who opposed me in
my arguments about ‘satan’ also pass over, so
let’s go back and read it,
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven;
and behold a great red dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns
upon his heads.”
Revelation 12:3
The Mother Eve of Judaism, of the Mormon
church, and of the Seed line people - who teach
that this ‘satan’ seduced her - must have been
some sort of a pervert. Can you imagine her
falling for some creature with seven heads and
ten horns? This does NOT mean some creature,
or man, or person literally. It obviously has some
other meaning. This creature figuratively has
seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns.
Since we’ve already seen that the woman is
not a woman, but is a great mass of people called
Israel, then maybe the dragon isn’t a dragon, nor
a devil, nor a satan, nor even a serpent, but
something else! The Bible, of course, has the
answer for us, and there are several other places
in the Bible where there is a creature described
very similarly to this creature, here called the
Devil and Satan.
“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw
a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven
heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten
crowns; and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And the beast which I saw was like unto
a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear
and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the
dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and
great authority. And I saw one of his heads as
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it were wounded to death: and his deadly
wound was healed: and all the world wondered
after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon
which gave power unto the beast: and they
worshipped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like unto
the beast? Who is able to make war with him?’”
Revelation 13: 1-4
In this passage of Revelation 13, this beast is
not identified. But it is identified in the book of
Daniel, and we may look at that later. But we’ll
stay in Revelation for now. The ‘satan’ theorists,
or those who teach these devil doctrines, never
call the creature of Revelation 13, a ‘great fallen
angel,’ even though that creature has seven
heads and ten horns, just like the Devil and’
satan’ of Revelation 12. Of course, as I mentioned
earlier, they never even read Revelation
12:3, when they tell you the ‘devil’ of this chapter
is a ‘fallen angel.’
If you heard this devil had seven heads, you
might question their interpretation. You certainly
would question the devil or serpent of
Revelation 12 having sexual intercourse with
Eve, and fathering Cain; if at the same time they
pointed out that this serpent had seven heads and
ten horns. The next place we have the same kind
of beast is in Revelation 17.
“And there came one of the seven angels which
had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying
unto me, Come hither: I will shew unto thee the
judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon
many waters: (remember this is still John writing
the descriptions of visions he saw, shown to
him by an angel. In some cases the angel
explained them as he did this one) with whom
the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth have been
made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
So he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet
coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy,
having seven heads and ten horns.”
Revelation 17:1-3
Here is that same identical description as in
Revelation 12 called that “old serpent, the devil
and satan.” Let’s read on with this description,
because if we were again to take this literally, as
being what it is visually, then we would have to
expect sometime in the future a scarlet woman
here on the earth, riding some sort of scarlet co
loured beast with seven heads and ten horns.
Obviously it symbolizes something else; it’s not
a literal beast. Just as the creature back in
Revelation 12 does not have to be a literal
‘satan’ or a literal devil. John writes a little more
about the woman and then continues,
“And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst
thou marvel? I will tell thee of the woman, and
of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the
seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou
sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of
the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and
they that dwell on the earth shall wonder,
whose names were not written in the book of
Life from the foundation of the world, when
they behold the beast that was, and is not, and
yet is.”
Revelation 17:7-8
Remember those first verses in Revelation 1.
These are still the visions John was shown by
angels of things “which must shortly come to
pass.” They were to happen sometime after John
saw the vision.
“And here is the mind that hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the
woman sitteth.”
Revelation 17:9
All students of Bible prophecy should know
symbolism well enough, to know that the word
‘mountains’ in prophecy means nations or conglomerates
of people. They are not physical
mountains. The angel identifies who the woman
is,
“the woman which thou sawest is that great
city, which reigneth over the kings of the
earth.”
Revelation 17:18
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The woman is riding a beast with seven
heads. The woman rules over the kings of the
earth. Therefore what is the symbolism? The
symbolism is some sort of a mystery power, here
called MYSTERY BABYLON which rides, or
gains its power through a conglomeration of
nations. It is NOT ‘satan,’ it is NOT the ‘devil,’
it is NOT some spiritual angel thrown down
from heaven in past milleniums. It is a conglomeration
of nations.
“And there are seven kings: (in other words,
each one of these nations has a king) five are
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet
come,”
Revelation 17: l0a
John is seeing this at a time when something
had already happened, one is ruling, another is
coming, and,
“... when he cometh, he must continue a short
space. And the beast that was and is not, even
he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth
into perdition (destruction). And the ten horns
which thou sawest are ten kings. which have
received no kingdom as yet.”
Revelation 17: 10b-12a
These ten kings did not rule at the time that
John saw the vision. They had received no kingdom
as yet.
“But receive power as kings one hour with the
beast.”
Revelation 17:12b
Whatever this is, it will take place over a relatively
short time. One hour in Bible prophecy
would be quite short, because there are prophecies
of 100 years and 1260 years, and so on.
“These have one mind. and shall give their
power and strength unto the beast. These shall
make war with the Lamb. and the Lamb shall
overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and
King of kings: and they that are with him are
called, and chosen, and faithful.”
Revelation 17: 13-14
So it shows here that there is going to be a
war involving ten kings. Revelation 17 is the
most simple explanation of what the beast with
seven heads and ten horns is. The ten horns are
ten kings. These kings give their power and
strength unto the beast. They make war with the
Lamb, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
“And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the
beast, these shall hate the whore, (hate this ruling
entity that rules over the whole world) and
shall make her desolate and naked, and shall
eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.”
Revelation 17:16
The same ten kings, or ten nations, that give
their power to the beast, shall destroy her,
“For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his
will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto
the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.”
Revelation 17:17
I went into this in detail a few years ago, that
the USA has given more of its wealth and its
power to build up the red beast of communism
than any other nation.
Russia as a military power today would not
even exist, except for technical things given and
sent to the Soviet Union over the last 50 years
from the USA (Documented in NATIONAL
SUICIDE by Anthony Sutton).
In other words, all of their weaponry, all of
their science, all of their computers, all of their
factories were literally built by American technicians
and productivity. So, if America is the
nation that has given the power to the beast, the
red beast of communism, where do the ten
nations fit in?
How many of you know that America was
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divided into ten nations? It was divided into ten
regions in about 1970. We now have ten governments
ruling over ten seperate nations. All the
government control and aid and money comes
out of a central point, Washington D.C., and is
distributed to each region.
America is no longer fifty states, it is ten
regions. I am not going to be dogmatic about
this, but it was the United States being divided
into ten regions, through which our enemies
gained control of our government, have used our
wealth, stolen our taxes, taken our grain and productivity
and built up the red beast. America
could be these ten kings, which receive power as
kings one hour with the beast. One hour is a very
short space of time. And remember, then those
kings,
“...shall hate the whore, and make her desolate,
and naked and shall eat her flesh, and burn her
with fire.”
Revelation 1 7: 16b
If I am correct in my theory that those ten
horns are ten nations which are collectively the
USA, then it will be the US which will destroy
the power of the red beast of world communism
that now rules the world. The prophet Obadiah
saw visions concerning the destruction of Edom.
“The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord
God concerning Edom. (Edom means RED.
Edom is world communism.) We have heard a
rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is
sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us
rise up against her in battle.”
Obadiah 1: 1
This prophecy describes the destruction of
Esau/Edom, which we can identify as this worldcontrolling
power that now reigns over all the
earth. And look who destroys Edom,
“But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance...”
Obadiah 1 :17a
We’ve identified the USA as Zion in other sermons.
“...and there shall be holiness; and the house of
Jacob shall possess their possessions. And the
house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of
Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble...”
Obadiah 1: 1 7b-18a
And of course, Esau is Edom; Genesis 36
repeats that four times.
“And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to
judge the mount of Esau;”
Obadiah 1 :21 a
In other words, saviors shall come upon the
nation of Zion to judge the nation of Esau, or
Edom, the Reds!
“And the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.”
Obadiah 1:21 b
This is the description of the last battle to be
fought upon the earth, when Jacobi Israel have
been deceived into giving their power to this
great red beast and this scarlet woman. Then
we’ll turn on the woman and destroy her. This
makes the only sense of this entire prophecy.
The beast with seven heads and ten horns is
something which gives power to the scarlet
woman, and then it will turn back against her
and destroy her.
I’ll repeat the point I made earlier: if you
take Revelation 12 as the Catholic church does,
and as the Protestants do, and say: “Oh, this is
that great arch-angel, and he fought in heaven
and was brought down to the earth, and so on,”
you then destroy all of this actual prophecy
which is being given here. It is no wonder then
that our people are blind to what is happening in
the earth today, because prophecy in the Bible
has been misrepresented to them.
That doctrine of course, is so universally
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taught, and has been taught over such a long
period of time, that there are few who question
it. I must admit, for the greater part of my life, I
never questioned it either. I accepted all of these
stories and descriptions of this ‘devil,’ since my
parents and everyone else that I knew, believed
it. I assumed it was the truth.
Back in those days, everyone that I knew
thought that the Jews were Israel, so I believed
that too. Everyone I knew thought that non-
Christians went to ‘hell-fire’ and were tortured
for ever and ever by this same ‘devil,’ so I
believed that also. Almost everyone that I knew
thought Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the savior
of America, and the only reason I didn’t
believe that, was because my parents did not
believe it. My father said that Franklin Roosevelt
was a crook. So that is still a good example. We
tend to believe what our parents believe, whether
or not it is true.
But believing it doesn’t make it true! We
read Revelation 12:3, which is the verse the
‘devil’ preachers do not read, since it describes a
strange ‘creature’ with seven heads. Whoever
heard of a devil with seven heads? Well, that
then took us to Revelation 17. The beast upon
which the scarlet woman, MYSTERY BABYLON,
rides has seven heads. These seven heads
are identified as seven mountains or nations.
And the ten horns as ten kings, or kingdoms. So
the description in Revelation l2, and the symbolism
in Revelation 12, is identical to that of
Revelation 17.
That old serpent called the ‘devil’ and ‘satan’
is not a spirit creature, but a comglomerate of
nations opposed to Christians and Christendom.
I showed in my sermon series entitled Give The
Devil His Due (7810, 7811, 7812, 7813), that the
Hebrew word translated ‘satan’ in the Old
Testament means simply ‘adversary’ or ‘enemy.’
In fact it is translated ‘enemy’ in the Old
Testament more times than it is transliterated
into the word ‘satan.’
So the scarlet woman and the red beast of
Revelation 17 are certainly the ‘adversaries’ of
Christianity because the woman is said to be
“drunken with the blood of saints, and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus. “ We’ll find that
this Revelation 12 ‘satan’ is also the enemy of
Christendom.
Some may think I have boxed myself into a
corner with my emphatic statement that the
events of Revelation 12 were to come to pass
after John saw the vision in AD96; because of
what I read in Revelation 1 and 4. The woman
gave birth to a man-child, and most people teach
that the man-child is Jesus, who was born some
90 odd years before John saw the vision.
“And she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered. And there
appeared another wonder in heaven; and
behold a great red dragon, having seven heads
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his
heads. And his tail drew the third part of the
stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
and the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered, for to devour her
child as soon as it was born. And she brought
forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations
with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up
to God and to his throne.”
Revelation 12:2-5
At first reading, it may seem to be the baby
born to Mary. In other words, the baby Jesus.
However, as we have seen, the symbols in this
vision are not what they actually represent. The
woman is not a woman, the woman is Israel. The
sun, moon and stars are not actually sun, moon
and stars. The red dragon is not a literal dragon.
The heads are not heads, the horns are not horns;
so perhaps the child is not a child, but symbolizes
something else.
Consider everything we can here, since this
man-child is to rule all nations with a rod of iron.
That takes us, first of all, to Revelation 19, and
after the destruction of MYSTERY BABYLON,
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there is another vision,
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
horse, and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he
dothjudge and make war.”
Revelation 19: 11
This, I believe, is a reference to Jesus Christ.
This is not the Christ taught by most of the clergy;
they teach that this Christ is going to come
and snatch the Christians from the earth, and
take them off to heaven. This Christ in
Revelation 19 is going to judge and make war,
“And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
that with it he should smite the nations: and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth
the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God. And he hath on his vestures and
on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS,
AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Revelation 19: 15-16
In Psalm 2 we read of the references to
someone ruling the earth with “a rod of iron.”
“I will declare the decree: The Lord hath said
unto me, Thou art my Son; This day have I
begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee
the heathen for thine inheritance, and the
uttermost parts of the earthfor thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, thou
shalt dash them in pieces like a potters vessel.”
Psalm 2:7-9
This seems to be Jesus again who will rule
with a rod of iron. But is it possible that verse 8,
is not God speaking, but the Son. In other words
He is saying in verse 7, God said, “Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee.”
Then if we take the next verse as Jesus
speaking, then He is saying, “Ask of me and I
shall give thee, (you), the heathen for your inheritance,
and the uttermost parts of the earth for
thine possession.” Thou, you believers, you
Christians, shall break them with a rod of iron;
and shall dash them in pieces as a potters vessel!
We are told in Revelations that it is the
Christian believers who will rule the world with
a rod of iron. Jesus is speaking to the churches:
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my
works to the end, to him will I give power over
the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod
of iron, as the vessels of a potter shall they be
broken to shivers: even as I received of my
Father.”
Revelation 2:26-27
We have a two-fold revelation here that it is
Jesus who will rule the nations with a rod of
iron, but it is also true that Jesus’ followers, the
overcomers, will rule the nations of the world
with a rod of iron.
There are other verses in Revelation 12
which also reveal that the man-child here is not
Jesus Christ. We’ve already seen that the Bible
says the overcomers will rule the nations with a
rod of iron. Revelation 12:2 says;
“and she being with child cried, travailing in
birth, and pained to be delivered.”
Earlier I identified the woman as Israel. The
sun, moon and stars are symbols of the nation of
Israel according to Josephs’s dream. But the
question is, Did Israel travail when Jesus was
born? The answer is, No! Most of Israel didn’t
even know what was happening. And another
point in fact, the word ‘travail’ is never used in
Scripture in relation to Jesus’ birth.
However, there is a birth in Scripture which
is supposed to produce a man-child, and is supposed
to produce it with pain and travail. The
Bible itself can identify what this man-child is in
the last chapter of the prophet Isaiah.
The last half of the book of Isaiah is almost
completely about the Zion of Bible prophecy, as
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are some of the other prophecy books in the Old
Testament, yet we seldom hear an explanation of
what the Zion of Bible prophecy is. Generally
speaking, Zion is related to Jerusalem and to a
redeemed Israel ruling over the earth in the kingdom.
In other words, the word’ Zion’ fits the
kingdom of Jesus Christ upon the earth.
“Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at
his word (this is addressed to believers, people
who tremble at God’s word) Your brethren that
hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake,
said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified:’ but he shall
appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.”
Isaiah 66:5
He is referring to someone who is cast out by
their brethren, but God will appear to the cast out
ones.
“A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the
temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence
to his enemies. Before she travailed,
she brought forth, before her pain came she
was delivered of a man-child. Who hath heard
such things? Who hath seen such a thing?
Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one
day? Or shall a nation be born at once?”
Isaiah 66:6-8a
What was born? What is the man-child? The
man-child is a nation, a nation born at once.
“For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought
forth her children. ‘Shall I bring to birth, and
not cause to bring forth?’ saith the Lord: ‘Shall
I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb?’
saith thy God.”
Isaiah 66:8b-9
God is going to bring something out of this
thing called Zion. And the thing born, called a
‘man-child’ in prophecy, is a nation. Another
chapter, Micah 4, is obviously a prophecy of the
Kingdom of Jesus Christ upon the earth. The
first part of it literally repeats word for word
Isaiah 2: 1.
“But in the last days it shall come to pass, that
the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be
established in the top of the mountains and it
shall be exalted above the hills: and people
shall flow unto it.”
Micah 4: 1
As we saw earlier, the word ‘mountain’ symbolizes
‘nation’ in Bible prophecy. The nation of
the Lord is going to be established as the chief
among the nations, on top of the nations:
“And people shall flow unto it. And many
nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us
go up to the mountain (nation) of the Lord, and
to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will
teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for the law shall go forth from Zion, and
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”
Micah 4:2
There is a cassette message (7105) on that
subject explaining the difference between the
law going from Zion and the word from
Jerusalem.
“And he shall judge among many people, and
rebuke strong nations afar off: and they shall
beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruning hooks: and nation shall not
lift up a sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war anymore.”
Micah 4:3
This has to refer to that great prophesied time
of peace, the Kingdom upon the earth!
“But they shall sit every man under his vine
and under his fig tree: and none shall make
them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts
hath spoken it. For all people will walk everyone
in the name of his god, and we will walk in
the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her
that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven
out, and her that I have afflicted.”
Micah 4:4-6
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Her that halteth, her that was driven out, and
her that was afflicted, is the nation of Israel,
driven out of old Palestine 700 years before
Christ.
“And I will make her that halted a remnant,”
Micah 4:7a
The Hebrew word translated ‘remnant’
means literally ‘the turned ones.’ It’s too bad that
the word ‘remnant’ means ‘a small number’
nowadays. Back then it did not mean that, it
meant ‘the turned ones,’ so this would mean, the
ones turned to God.
“and her that was cast far off a strong nation:”
Micah 4:7b
Here is a prophecy that God, who had cast
off Israel, would regather Israel and make her a
strong nation.
“And the Lord shall reign over them in mount
Zion from henceforth, even forever.”
Micah 4:7c
What is that nation, that is made up of reconstituted
Israel? In Bible prophecy, it is called
Zion. And it is out of Zion that the man-child is
born.
“And thou, O tower of the flock, the stronghold
of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come,
even the first dominion; the kingdom shall
come to the daughter of Jerusalem.”
Micah 4:8
Not the old mother, not that filthy little old
city back in Palestine, but the New Jerusalem,
the new nation called Zion, and Jerusalem, that
was born in a day, and which the dragon in
Revelation 12 was attempting to destroy.
“The kingdom shall come to the daughter of
Jerusalem. Now why dost thou cry aloud? Is
there no king in thee? Is thy counsellor perished?
For pangs have taken thee as a woman
in travail.”
Micah 4:8b-9
Something is coming to birth in this nation
of reconstituted Israel.
“Be in pain and labour to bring forth, O
daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for
now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou
shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even
to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered, there
the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of
thine enemies.”
Micah 4: 10
We’ve shown this in other sermons on
prophecy, that this nation — this great reconstituted
nation of Israel was to be born in a day —
was to become the chief among nations of all the
world, and then was to go into captivity under an
entity called Babylon. Remember Revelation 17,
it is MYSTERY BABYLON that rules over all
the nations of the world, and fights against
Christendom. This is the same Babylon that we
read here. Then God says, at that time;
“There shalt thou be delivered. There the Lord
shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
Now also many nations are gathered
against thee, that say. Let her be defiled, and let
our eye look upon Zion.”
Micah 4: l0b-11
What did we read in Revelation 12 in the last
part of verse 4?
“the dragon stood before the woman which was
ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as
soon as it was born.”
Revelation 12:4b
So what do we have? We have a nation born
out of reconstituted Israel and this confederation
of nations in Revelation 12 wants to destroy it.
Where has that ever happened in history? Well,
most of you (Americans) are living in that
nation, that was born in a day on July 4th, 1776.
The nation of reconstituted Israel which the
dragon, the enemy, the anti-Christ, has been trying
to destroy for centuries. This is not a recent
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battle. This battle has been going on for years.
So you can see, as we read this, that we find
the manchild is really the nation of regathered
Israel. It is not Jesus Christ as we showed earlier.
All of the visions in the book of Revelation
have to take place after John saw the vision. That
is made very plain in the first verses of
Revelation 1, and in the first verse of Revelation
4. These are not things that happened before. So
this birth was not Jesus Christ. This birth was of
the great Zion nation of Bible prophecy, the
United States of America.
“Now also many nations are gathered against
thee that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye
look upon Zion.”
Micah 4: 11
I would guess that there are more spies and
subversives per capita in America than in any
nation on earth. This cannot fit the little old land
of Palesine. I would suspect we have more
enemy spies and agents in America than they
have people in Palestine!
“But they know not the thoughts of the Lord,
neither understand they his counsel: for he
shall gather them as sheaves into the floor.
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will
make thine horn iron, and I will make thy
hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many
people and I will consecrate their gain unto the
Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the
whole earth.”
Micah 4:12-13
This is that great end-time battle in which all
the nations of the world will be gathered against
the Zion of Bible prophecy. Anyone who lives in
America, who can’t see the nations of the world
gathered against this great nation; — with the
military arms in, and subversive parties in control
of even a good share of South America, and
Cuba, and Nicaragua and even now (1980) taken
control to some extent in Mexico, with the
Russian submarines and ships patrolling both of
our seas with missiles by the thousands aimed at
this nation; — if you still think the Zion of Bible
prophecy is over in Palestine (Israeli), you simply
don’t know what is going on in the earth
today.
We are the target of the great anti-Christ conspiracy.
We are the nation born in a day, of
reconstituted Israel, the people who follow Jesus
Christ. Let’s go back to Revelation 12 and see if
this vision does rather fit with this idea, that the
man-child is not Jesus but was reconstituted
Israel born in a day.
“And she brought forth a man-child, who was
to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her
child was caught up unto God, and to his
throne.”
Revelation 12:5
Again, it does not mean a literal removal
from the earth to heaven. It is simply symbolic
language for God’s protection of that man-child.
God led and guided that man-child. If you can
name a nation upon the earth that has had more
leading and guidance and protection from God
Almighty than the USA, you tell me about it,
because I simply don’t know one.
“And the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she hath a place prepared of God, that
they should feed her there a thousand two hundred
and threescore days.”
Revelation 12:6
I’ve not yet figured out the time on this, and
as I don’t believe in computing times for Jesus’
return at the end of the age, I’ll let others work
on that. But I do know Israel was regathered here
in this North American continent, this wilderness.
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and
his angels fought against the dragon; and the
dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed
not, neither was their place found anymore in
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that
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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.”
Revelation 12:7-9
This, of course, is not some spiritual being
that walks about the earth tempting Christians.
Again, this old dragon is this conglomeration of
nations, and they are literally going to be
brought low and destroyed by God. The terminology
here, of course, is ‘Michael.’
“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
Now is come salvation, and strength, and the
Kingdom of our God,”
Revelation 12:10a
Here is that Kingdom again, that we read
about in Isaiah and Micah,
“and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of
our brethren is cast down, which accused them
before our God day and night.”
Revelation 12: 10b
That is another thing that our enemies do,
which at least is one thing that does make our
patriotic Americans angry. We are accused of
causing all the trouble on the earth. In other
nations in the third world, and among the communist
propagandists, America is the great and
terrible power. Khomeiny and Bin Laden call us
‘Devils’ and everything else.
America literally receives the blame for
everything that is going on the earth. And yet, in
times of calamity and earthquakes and famines
and trouble, what one nation, of all the earth
sends its food, its help, its doctors, and its people
to it? The United States, of course! The great
Zion Nation of Bible prophecy.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and
they loved not their lives unto death.”
Revelation 12: 11
This great anti-Christ world power is not going
to be overcome by force of arms perse, but by
the Word of God and the power of Jesus Christ.
“Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the
earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down
unto you, having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
Revelation 12: 12
It is also true that the rest of the earth is suffering
under this anti-Christ power which is
attempting to destroy America. If you’ve ever
read the writings of Marx and Lenin and Stalin
and some of the other so-called theoriticians of
communism, they make it very plain that the
nation they want to destroy is the USA.
However, they recognize they will have to take
the rest of the world first, then destroy us. So, as
it says here, the devil is come down unto the rest
of the inhabiters of the earth and the sea. All the
other nations are suffering from this warfare
which is directed against us.
“And when the dragon saw that he was cast
unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which
brought forth the man-child. And to the woman
were given two wings of a great eagle, that she
might fly into the Wilderness, into her place,
where she is nourished for a time, and times,
and half a time, from the face of the serpent.”
Revelation 12: 13-14
There is a cassette tape series dealing with
the Great Seal of the United States (7825 -
7829), and many people I discovered, as I did
that series on the radio, wrote that they had
always assumed that the eagle was the symbol
for the USA, and they did not know, until I read
it from the Bible, that the Eagle is the symbol of
God. God carried Israel, the olive nation, in His
talons, and protected them with the arrows of
His Words. That seal, of course, has a lot more
symbolism than most people know about. That is
why it took me 20 radio broadcasts to explain it.
So, God Almighty carried Israel into the
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Wilderness, where she is nourished for a time,
times and half a time from the face of the serpent.
“And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as
a flood after the woman, that he might cause
her to be carried away of the flood.”
Revelation 12:15
This great flood of hatred and propaganda
and enmity to attempt to destroy the nation of
Zion.
“And the earth helped the woman, and the
earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the
flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.”
Revelation 12: 16
Again, referring to the other nations, this is
possibly fulfilled by the fact that much of the
power and might of the anti-Christ is absorbed
by the other nations. This great flood which they
cast out against Christian Israel, is absorbed by
the other nations. If it were not, if their attack
had only been on our nation, we would have
been destroyed long ago (humanly speaking);
but the other nations of the world serve to some
extent to soak up that power and enmity and evil.
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman,
and went to make war with the remnant of
her seed,”
Revelation 12: 17a
The war has to be against the physical, literal,
racial descendants of this woman whom
we’ve identified as Israel, and here they are:
“which keep the commandments of God, and
have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Revelation 12: 17b
What can it be but Christianized Israel? The
people of our race, reconstituted in this North
American Continent as the Israel of God in the
great Zion of Bible prophecy. The dragon of
Revelation 12, which was seen in vision by John
is, of course, the same beast creature of
Revelation 17, which wars against God’s people.
“These shall make war with the Lamb, and the
Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of
lords, and King of kings: and they that are with
him are called, and chosen and faithful.”
Revelation 17:14
Who could they be but the Christians of the
earth, the Christians of America. This nonsense
that the Jews, who are the most anti-Christ people
in all of the world, over in Palestine-Israeli,
are the people against which world communism
is fighting, is literally that, not only nonsense,
but DANGEROUS NONSENSE! The people
they are fighting are the Christians of America
and Western Europe.
We are the target, we are the ones they wish
to destroy. If those who are fought against in
Revelation 17 are identical to those fought
against in Revelation 12, why is it so far fetched
to say that the entity which fights against them is
the same in both chapters. In other words, not a
great spirit being but a conglomerate of nations
and people gathered together to fight and
attempt to destroy the Zion of Bible prophecy.
My identification earlier on the ten horns of
Revelation 17 as possibly our own government
which has been divided into ten regions, does
not change my identification of this, since our
government is not run by our people.
How many of you know it is certainly not
run by Christian people? In fact, the present
President claims to be a born-again Christian
(Jimmy Carter), and as far as we can tell from
the entire list of hundreds, and perhaps by now
thousands, of people he has appointed to office
in the Federal Government, he has never
appointed one Christian to office, which of
course doesn’t speak very well for his profession
of Christianity.
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This government of ours is actually combined
with the enemies of Christianity, making
war on Christians. Thank God a lot of ministers
are beginning to see that when the government is
trying to take away their tax-exempt status and
close their schools, and has already stopped
prayer in the public schools and prevented the
Bible from being read there. There is at least a
stirring among our people and a recognition that
there is a great almost sacred hidden power
which is warring against Christendom and
against our people.
In summing up, we have an accurate prophecy
in Revelation 12, that people and nations,
constituted as earthly powers, would make war
on the regathered house of Israel in the
Wilderness, in their attempt to destroy Zion; to
destroy God’s government over the nations. The
interpretation of that vision as someone portraying
a fallen angelic creature, who is nebulous
and invisible, prevents us from grasping the truth
of the existence of this conglomeration of people
and nations; that war is being carried on against
us by flesh and blood people, and NOT by some
angelic supernatural creature.
There is a great difference in fact by identifying
this serpent or this satan of Revelation 12
as a great spirit creature. The ministers and the
clergy have educated the people to sit in church
and listen to the minister while he fights an
unseen and unseeable enemy. He has become
their surrogate soldier and they never enter into
the war, and never realize that they can. In fact,
they just watch this vapour called the ‘devil,’ and
the war goes on around them on the earth, and its
one-sided, because the enemy is fighting us and
we’re not fighting back. We are told that everything
is caused by this ‘devil.’
Some ministers take this ‘devil’ and this
‘satan’ and make a great thing out of it to make
themselves heroes and martyrs. Every time their
ministry starts to grow and they have success,
they say, “Oh we overcame the devil.” When the
contributions start to fall off and the people leave
the church, they say, “Oh the devil is trying to
destroy the ministry.” The devil has become a
scapegoat for their own failings. The individuals
who are destroying our nation encourage our
people to hate the ‘devil.’ But you’re never,
NEVER supposed to hate the individuals who
are doing the work of destroying this nation, and
our people. The ministers rail against pornography,
but who is at fault? Oh, the devil is. They
rail against prostitution, abortion, drug promotion,
blasphemy against Christ, treason in government,
and world communism, but who is at
fault? Oh, its that devil out there doing that. NO,
it is not my friends! It is millions, upon millions
of anti-Christ flesh and blood people who are
destroying your nation and your people.
The devil, as I said, becomes just a scapegoat.
Since you can’t hurt this spirit creature,
you never attempt to stop any of the things that
these people are doing. The minister may even
make a great crusading hero out of himself by
speaking against these nation destroying activities.
Then when someone comes along and says,
“What we must do is execute, exile, imprison or
punish the criminals and traitors in some way,”
they say, “We must hate the sin and love the sinner.
We must not judge lest we be judged, after
all, its the devil doing all of these things.”
If you point out that you have investigated
these anti-Christ and anti-Christian activities and
you have been convinced that they are primarily
promoted by anti-Christ Jews who are followers
of the religion of the Pharisees, which Jesus condemned;
and that they are behind everything
from communism to pornography, to drug promotion
and distribution, for the purpose of
destroying Christianity, then they say, “The Jews
are God’s chosen people. God will curse you if
you do anything against the Jews. We must love
the Jews.” Then they go back to fighting shadows
and the wind again with the devil and the
great anti-Christ.
They don’t mind if you oppose pornography,
just don’t jail the pornographer. They don’t mind
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if you oppose abortion, just don’t execute the
baby-killer! They don’t even mind if you hate
communism, just don’t imprison or deport the
Jewish communists. In actuality so many
churchgoers are so conditioned to think of their
enemy as a spirit creature called the devil, they
can hardly think in terms of flesh and blood enemies.
The ‘devil doctrine’ is powerful protection
for the enemies of Zion and Israel.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils.”
I Timothy 4: 1
I have read that verse for years and I always
assumed it meant that some would give heed to
doctrines promulgated by devils, but Paul
instead could have been warning that those who
would not preach the true faith would preach
doctrines ABOUT devils.
It’s interesting that the greatest so-called
church in Christendom which has departed from
the faith is the Roman Catholic Church; and a
great part of its teaching is always about that
‘devil.’ The devil will get you if you don’t follow
the teaching of the priests, and so on.
In Romans 1 we’ll see who has the power
here. This chapter is about people who refuse to
follow God.
“Because that when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, neither were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened:”
Romans 1 :21
It then describes people who are opposed to
knowing anything about God.
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,
through the lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”
Romans 1 :22
Did they get caught up in the web or deception
of some nebulous spirit creature called the
‘devil?’ NO! God gave them up to those things.
“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blest for ever. Amen. For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did change the natural
use into that which is against nature:”
Romans 1 :23
Who Is the power? Not the devil! But God
Almighty! 2 Thessalonians 2 is that great chapter
on the man of sin, which we’ve explained in
some detail previously (7702, 7103).
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish: because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”
2 Thessalonians 2: 10
Jews. We must love the Jews.” Then they go
back to fighting shadows and the wind again
with the devil and the great anti-Christ.
They don’t mind if you oppose pornography,
just don’t jail the pornographer. They don’t mind
if you oppose abortion, just don’t execute the
baby-killer! They don’t even mind if you hate
communism, just don’t imprison or deport the
Jewish communists. In actuality so many
churchgoers are so conditioned to think of their
enemy as a spirit creature called the devil, they
can hardly think in terms of flesh and blood enemies.
The ‘devil doctrine’ is powerful protection
for the enemies of Zion and Israel.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils.”
I Timothy 4: 1
I have read that verse for years and I always
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assumed it meant that some would give heed to
doctrines promulgated by devils, but Paul
instead could have been warning that those who
would not preach the true faith would preach
doctrines ABOUT devils.
It’s interesting that the greatest so-called
church in Christendom which has departed from
the faith is the Roman Catholic Church; and a
great part of its teaching is always about that
‘devil.’ The devil will get you if you don’t follow
the teaching of the priests, and so on.
In Romans 1 we’ll see who has the power
here. This chapter is about people who refuse to
follow God.
“Because that when they knew God, they glorified
him not as God, neither were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened:”
Romans 1 :21
It then describes people who are opposed to
knowing anything about God.
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,
through the lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonour their own bodies between themselves:”
Romans 1 :22
Did they get caught up in the web or deception
of some nebulous spirit creature called the
‘devil?’ NO! God gave them up to those things.
“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
worshipped and served the creature more than
the Creator, who is blest for ever. Amen. For
this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:
for even their women did change the natural
use into that which is against nature:”
Romans 1 :23
Who Is the power? Not the devil! But God
Almighty! 2 Thessalonians 2 is that great chapter
on the man of sin, which we’ve explained in
some detail previously (7702, 7103).
“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish: because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.”
2 Thessalonians 2: 10
For this cause, that is because they did not
want the truth. When people believe lies and
believe not the truth of this Holy Word, who has
led them into that false belief? God Almighty!
Let’s be careful about what credit we give the
‘devil’ for doing great things. God Almighty
sends them strong delusions that they should
believe a lie.
Thank God for the other side of that same
coin. If you love the truth, God will open your
eyes and God will give you the truth. He will not
deceive you, and you will find out the things in
His Word which are truth. When Israel repents,
when our nation repents and turns to God and
seeks the truth; God will open their eyes and
give them the truth that will set them free.
The truth that will destroy all of the antichrist
powers of these people and nations, which
almost seem to have us in their grasp, and the
power is here, the power is not some mythical
‘satan’ of the churches. The power is in God
Almighty and His Word. We are the ones who
must repent and then the old adversary, this devil
and this satan, which are the people of the earth
that oppose Christendom, will be destroyed, and
God will bring upon this earth the cleansed land
of Bible Prophecy, the Kingdom of God upon
the earth. May God speed the day.
Pastor Sheldon Emry
Transcribed and edited from cassette tape 8001a
and 8001b
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Give The Devil His Due Chapter 2

Common Beliefs
About The Devil
At the beginning of this study we read
about the thief on the cross. Let's read
that again because I want you to keep it in
mind as we study other Scriptures about
the devil, Satan, and the serpent:
And one of the malefactors which
were hanged railed on him, saying, If
thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
But the other answering rebuked him,
saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing
thou art in the same condemnation?
And we indeed justly; for we receive
the due reward of our deeds: but this
man hath done nothing amiss.
Luke 23:39-41
So the thief said that his own wickedness
had caused his problem. He did not
say that the devil caused it. He was
receiving the “due” reward of his deeds. In
other words, death was justly due him.
The thief didn't give any “due” to the
devil, but claimed it all for himself.
Most professing Christian churches
say the devil, or Satan, is a living creature
who has thoughts and power of his own.
They teach that he influences many
human beings to do wicked deeds or to
have wicked thoughts.
The following is a quote from Cruden
(of Cruden's Concordance) describing
what he calls “the Devil or Satan”:
“A most wicked angel, the implacable enemy and
tempter of the human race, deadly in his malice,
surprisingly subtle, possessing strength superior
to ours, having a mighty number of principalities
and powers under his command, he roves, full of
rage, like a roaring lion, seeking to tempt, to
betray, to destroy us, to involve us in guilt and
wickedness. In a word, he is an enemy to God and
man, and uses his utmost endeavors to rob God of
His glory and men of their souls.”
In a few short words, this sums up
what most of the “fundamentalist”
preachers would say of the devil. Cruden
comments further:
“Common belief assigns something like omniscience
to the evil being thus described. He is
regarded as universally at work, alike active in
England and America, and all other parts of the
globe at the same time, and exerting his seductive
arts in millions of hearts at once. He is also
believed to be, in some sense, omnipotent, achieving
his behest by a power superior to nature, and
certainly more successful than God in the mutual
strife for human souls, since hell, according to tradition,
receives a far larger proportion of the
earth's inhabitants than find their ways to the
celestial city.”
I think you would agree that the above
is a general statement of the belief of the
fundamentalist churches. They believe
that, in this contest between the devil and
God, the devil has been in the past, and is
currently, the victor: the successful one,
because he has claimed more human
beings or more souls than God has.
There is another teaching about the
devil, which denies that any such creature
exists. Most who believe this teaching,
also, deny that God Almighty exists. Some
call themselves, Atheists or Evolutionists
and they claim that the natural world,
which we see, is all that exists. They say
it came into being somehow; we know not
quite how, but that it has evolved into
what we see today without any outside
force acting upon it.
Give The Devil His Due
Chapter 2
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On the other hand, some believe in a
supernatural Devil to whom they've
attributed ALL power. They praise him
and become Devil or Satan Worshippers.
These people claim that they receive benefits,
or receive their desires, from the
devil. They, actually, came up with a religion
(which we would call “devil worship”),
where they give praise to “the Devil” to
the exclusion of God.
Christians are instructed not to give
place to the devil. They are to put on the
whole armor of God to stand against the
devil. Christians are warned that they can
sometimes be captives of the devil. The
devil has the power of death, but Jesus
destroyed that power. The devil will flee if
you resist him. He is likened to a lion,
devouring people. John wrote: “All who
have sinned are of the devil” Jesus was
made manifest to destroy the works of the
devil.
In Revelation, we found that the devil
can put Christians in prison. Reading the
references to the devil in order, from the
New Testament, we came across a beast
who was called a “dragon,” a “serpent,”
and also “the Devil” (capitalized). This
beast turned out to be, what could only be
described, as great world powers, nations
and kingdoms because the beast, Who is,
also, called the Devil, had seven heads
and ten horns and those heads and horns
were described as nations and. kingdoms.
In reading through the New
Testament, our devil first was something
that acted upon individual Christians and
then, Lo and behold, by the time we
reached the Book of Revelation, he had
become nations, kingdoms, and earthly
powers. Reading about the devil in the
last part of the New Testament, we found
the description did not fit anything else
we had read at the first. There seemed to
be a tremendous contradiction. Also, there
is somewhat of a contradiction between
what the Bible teaches and what the
churches teach, according to what I just
quoted from Mr. Cruden.
We cannot use the descriptions in
Revelation, chapters 12, 13 and 17, for
what is commonly considered “the devil.”
Here, he is being described as nations,
kingdoms and world powers. That doesn't
mean that these powers have nothing to
do with the devil but they are not the devil
itself. Nations and kingdoms are made up
of many people and earthly powers. They
cannot be described as an angelic or
supernatural being.
The Word “Diabolos”
Let's read Revelation 20 to try and find
“the Devil” of the churches.
And I saw an angel come down from
heaven, having the key of the bottomless
pit and a great chain in his
hand. And he laid hold on the dragon,
that old serpent, which is the Devil,
and Satan, and bound him a thousand
years, And cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set
a seal upon him, that he should
deceive the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little
season.
Revelation 20:1-3
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The term “devil” is used in verse two,
and, again, in verse ten of Revelation 20.
The Greek word is “diabolos.” According to
Strong's Concordance, it means “traducer”
(not seducer but traducer), “false accuser,
slanderer or devil.” In the Book of Acts, in
all of the epistles, and in Revelation, every
time you read the word, “devil,” it comes
from the Greek word “diabolos.” In 2
Timothy, the word “diabolos” is used but it
is not translated “devil.”
This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come. For men
shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy, Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are
good,
2 Timothy 3:1-3
The two words “false accusers” are
translated from the word, “diabolos.” If
the translators had been consistent, “false
accusers” would have read, “devils.” Then
verse two would have read that men shall
be devils (diabolos).
But the devil, or devils, were not supposed
to be human! Yet, Paul says in the
last days mortal men shall be “diabolos.”
This is the same word that is used in
Revelation, chapters 2 and 20, and in all
of the epistles. Just so we don't leave the
women out, let's read what it says in chapter
two of Titus:
But speak thou the things which
become sound doctrine. That the aged
men be sober, grave, temperate, sound
in faith, in charity, in patience. The
aged women likewise, that they be in
behaviour as becometh holiness, not
false accusers (diabolos), not given to
much wine, teachers of good things, ...
Titus 2:1-3
Paul is saying that women have to be
exhorted not to be devils. It appears, then,
that Paul thought that men and women
could be “diabolos” or “devils,” The word
“serpent,” in Revelation 20, comes from
this same Greek word: “diabolos,” which
does not give any meaning of immortality
or long-living, or any angelic or spirit
nature to the serpent, as such. It simplymeans
“false accuser” or “slanderer.” The
serpent isn't an angelic being, when
defined by the word, “devil,” because both
men and women can be devils.
“Sawtawn:” Adversary —
Not Fallen Angel
What about the word “Satan?” The serpent
in Revelation 20 is called by the title
“Satan.” That is a little simpler to understand
because in every case where the
word “Satan” appears in the New
Testament, it comes from a Greek word
pronounced “satanas.” In the Old
Testament, it comes, every time, from the
same Hebrew word which is pronounced,
“sawtawn.” Here is what Strong's
Concordance says of the Greek word
“satanas:”
— Of Chaldean origin, the accuser, or the
“devil.”
Strong's says this of the Hebrew word
“sawtawn:”
— Opponent, adversary, Satan. From a
slightly different root “sawtan, “ meaning
to attack, accuse, to be an adversary, or to
resist.
So, the word “Satan” in the original
Greek and Hebrew, both in the Old
Testament and the New, comes from the
same word. It is a word of Chaldean origin
which was transliterated by the Hebrews
and picked up by the Greeks unchanged.
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It means “accuser,” “adversary,” “opponent,”
or it means “to do what an accuser,
adversary or an opponent does.”
Let me demonstrate this from the use
of “Satan” in the Old Testament. In
Numbers 22, Balak has hired Balaam to
prophesy against Israel.
Here, the word “sawtawn” is used and
it is translated “adversary:”
And God came unto Balaam at night,
and said unto him, If the men come to
call thee, rise up, and go with them;
but yet the word which I shall say
unto thee, that shalt thou do. And
Balaam rose up in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and went with the
princes of Moab. And God's anger was
kindled because he went: and the
angel of the Lord stood in the way for
an adversary (satan)
Numbers 22:20-22
Here we have an angel of the Lord who
is a “satan” or an “adversary” against this
man. The Hebrew text says the angel of
the Lord was, literally, “a satan.”
In chapter 19 of 2 Samuel, David is in
an argument with his own men. A man
who had previously maligned David came
and begged his forgiveness. David's men
said that David should kill the man
because he had cursed the Lord's anointed.
David replied:
And David said, What have I to do
with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye
should this day be adversaries
(Satans) unto me? shall there any
man be put to death this day in
Israel?
2 Samuel 19:22
David spoke to the officers in his own
army and asked them why they were
being “sawtawns” or “satans” to him.
Here is another passage that uses the
term “adversary”:
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants
unto Solomon; for he had heard
that they had anointed him king in
the room of his father: for Hiram was
ever a lover of David. And Solomon
sent to Hiram, saying, Thou knowest
how that David my father could not
build an house unto the name of the
Lord his God for the wars which were
about him on every side, until the
Lord put them under the soles of his
feet. But now the Lord my God hath
given me rest on every side, so that
there is neither adversary (satan) nor
evil occurrent.
Kings 5:1-4
The word “adversary” is from
“sawtawn.” Solomon was saying to Hiram
“God hath given me rest on every side, so
that there is neither SATAN nor evil
occurrent.” Solomon says there was no
satan at that time. There was no “satan”
because the word “satan” in the Chaldean,
Hebrew and Greek means “opponent” or
“adversary.” Solomon was saying he had
no opponent; he was at peace. This word
“sawtawn” is translated “Satan” 19 times
in the Old Testament. It is found once in I
Chronicles, 14 times in Job, once in
Psalms and three times in Zechariah. The
other 13 times that the word “sawtawn”
appears, it is translated “adversary.” So it
is transliterated to “Satan” 19 times and it
is translated “adversary” 12 times.
Adversary is the literal meaning of the
word in all three languages - Chaldean,
Hebrew, and Greek.
I think we should read a few more passages
where “sawtawn” is translated
“adversary.” In 1 Kings 11, near the end of
his reign, we read that Solomon has
sinned against God:
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And the Lord was angry with
Solomon, because his heart was
turned from the Lord God of Israel,
which had appeared unto him twice.
And had commanded him concerning
this thing, that he should not go after
other gods: but he kept not that which
the Lord commanded. Wherefore the
Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch
as this is done of thee, and thou hast
not kept my covenant and my statutes,
which I have commanded thee, I will
surely rend the kingdom from thee,
and will give it to thy servant. Not
withstanding in thy days I will not do
it for David thy father's sake: but I
will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Howbeit I will not rend away all the
kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy
son for David my servant's sake, and
for Jerusalem's sake which I have
chosen.
1 Kings 11:9-13
God is telling Solomon what He is
going to do because of Solomon's sin.
And the Lord stirred up an adversary
(a Satan) unto Solomon, Hadad the
Edomite: he was of the king's seed in
Edom.
1 Kings 11:14
The Lord stirred up a satan. Who was
this satan? He was not only a man, but his
name is given: “Hadad.” He was a mortal
man of Edom.
And God stirred him up another
adversary (satan), Rezon the son of
Eliadah, which fled from his lord
Hadadezer king of Zobah:
1 Kings 11:23
So, here is another satan, who is a
mortal, and his name is in the Bible.
And he was an adversary (satan) to
Israel all the days of Solomon, beside
the mischief that Hadad did: and he
abhorred Israel, and reigned over
Syria.
1 Kings 11:25
David also used the word “sawtawn” in
Psalm 38:
But mine enemies are lively, and they
are strong: and they that hate me
wrongfully are multiplied. They also
that render evil for good are mine adversaries
(satans); because I follow
the thing that good is.
Psalm 38:19-20
“Adversaries” is made plural here by
the translators. In the original text the
word is “sawtawn,” it can be used as both
singular and plural. The translators made
it plural because of David's use of the plural
“they.” He had more than one adversary
and they were “satans:” If the
translators had been consistent, they
would have transliterated “sawtawn” into
“Satan.”
Two other places where “sawtawn” was
translated, “adversaries,” are in Psalm 71
and Psalm 109:
O God, be not far from me: O my God,
make haste for my help. Let them be
confounded and consumed that are
adversaries (satans) to my soul; let
them be covered with reproach and
dishonour that seek my hurt.
Psalm 71:12-13
Hold not thy peace, O God of my
praise; For the mouth of the wicked
and the mouth of the deceitful are
opened against me: they have spoken
against me with a lying tongue. They
compassed me about also with words
of hatred; and fought against me
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without a cause. For my love they are
my adversaries (satans): but I give
myself unto prayer.
Psalm 109:1-4
David's adversaries were not supernatural,
angelic beings. But, they were
“satans.”
And they have rewarded me evil for
good, and hatred for my love. Set thou
a wicked man over him: and let Satan
(or an adversary) stand at his right
hand.
Psalm 109:5-6
“Satan,” in verse five, is the same word
translated “adversaries” in verse four.
Here it is transliterated into the word
“Satan”: “let Satan stand at his right
hand.” If you will, think about that for a
moment. David is not praying that God
will put “Satan,” the devil of the churches,
at the right hand of his enemy, but that
God would place one of their own
adversaries there. This is confusing
because of the translation of the same
word two different ways in the same text.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries
(satans) from the Lord, and of
them that speak evil against my soul.
Psalm 109:20
Let mine adversaries (satans) be
clothed with shame, and let them cover
themselves with their own confusion,
as with a mantle.
Psalm 109:29
Again, David used “adversaries” or
“satans” as a word that meant “human
enemies.” You cannot make this
“sawtawn,” or “satan” into an everliving,
angelic, supernatural creature in any of
the passages that we have read so far. In
fact, in some places, he is a specific human
being and he is named.
In every case where the original word
“sawtawn” has been used, so far, we cannot
use it for anything other than mortal
human beings.
“Sawtawn” In Job
As I stated earlier, of the 19 times that
the word “sawtawn” is transliterated as
“Satan,” 14 occur in Job. We will have to
read those 14 passages in order to understand
who or what caused all of Job's trouble.
In the modern churches, it is common
teaching that this fallen angel, this supernatural,
angelic being, called “Satan,” was
responsible.
There was a man in the land of Uz,
whose name was Job; and that man
was perfect and upright, and one that
feared God, and eschewed evil. And
there were born unto him seven sons
and three daughters. His substance
also was seven thousand sheep, and
three thousand camels, and five hundred
yoke of oxen, and five hundred
she asses, and a very great household;
so that this man was the greatest of
all the men of the east. And his sons
went and feasted in their houses,
every one his day; and sent and called
for their three sisters to eat and to
drink with them. And it was so, when
the days of their feasting were gone
about, that Job sent and sanctified
them, and rose up early in the morning,
and offered burnt offerings
according to the number of them all:
for Job said, It may be that my sons
have sinned, and cursed God in their
hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Job 1:1-5
We have established at the very beginning
that Job is very wealthy, he has
many sons and daughters, and he is a
God-fearing man who praised God for all
of his substance and all of his children.
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Now there was a day when the sons of
God came to present themselves before
the Lord, and Satan came also among
them.
Job 1:6
The margin in my Bible, and in many
Bibles, actually has the words “the 'adversary'
came, also, among them,” because it
is the same word “sawtawn.” Only here, it
is capitalized and written as “Satan.”
And the Lord said unto Satan,
Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered
the Lord, and said, From
going to and fro in the earth, and
from walking up and down in it. And
the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou
considered my servant Job, that there
is none like him in the earth, a perfect
and an upright man, one that feareth
God, and escheweth evil? Then Satan
answered the Lord, and said, Doth
Job fear God for nought? Hast not
thou made an hedge about him, and
about his house, and about all that he
hath on every side? thou hast blessed
the work of his hands, and his substance
is increased in the land.
Job 1:7-10
This creature, whoever and whatever
he is, says that Job fears God and gives
honor to Him because God has blessed
him. God has given him all these things
and protects him.
But put forth thine hand now, and
touch all that he hath, and he will
curse thee to thy face. And the Lord
said unto Satan, Behold, all that he
hath is in thy power; only upon himself
put not forth thine hand. So
Satan went forth from the presence of
the Lord.
Job 1:11-12
As you read on you find that Job lost
his oxen, asses, sheep, servants, camels,
and even his sons and daughters. The
churches say this was done by a great,
angelic, malevolent, evil, wicked being
who tempts and brings evil to all the other
people of the earth.
After Job lost everything we read:
In all this Job sinned not, nor
charged God foolishly.
Job 1:22
Again there was a day when the sons
of God came to present themselves
before the Lord, and Satan (sawtawn)
came also among them to present himself
before the Lord. And the Lord said
unto Satan, From whence comest
thou? And Satan answered the Lord,
and said, From going to and fro in the
earth, and from walking up and down
in it. And the Lord said unto Satan,
Hast thou considered my servant Job,
that there is none like him in the
earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God, and escheweth
evil? and still he holdeth fast his
integrity, although thou movedst me
against him, to destroy him without
cause.
Job 2:1-3
So, even after his calamity, Job was
still faithful to God. Now, God tells Satan:
“See, in spite of everything that happens,
Job still fears Me and eschews evil.”
And Satan answered the Lord, and
said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man
hath will he give for his life. But put
forth thine hand now, and touch his
bone and his flesh, and he will curse
thee to thy face. And the Lord said
unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine
hand; but save his life. So went Satan
forth from the presence of the Lord,
and smote Job with sore boils from the
sale of his foot unto his crown. And he
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took him a potsherd to scrape himself
withal; and he sat down among the
ashes.
Job 2:4-8
Job was so ill at this point that his wife
said:
Dost thou still retain thine integrity?
curse God, and die.
Job 2:9
Job's wife gave up. Job had lost everything
that he had. He now was in illness
and pain and possibly in fear of his own
life. At this point almost all fundamentalists
without exception have credited some
wicked, angelic being called “Satan”
(“sawtawn” in the original Chaldean language)
with having done all this to Job.
But, perhaps you missed verse three of
chapter two where God is speaking and
He said of Job: “and still he holdeth fast
his integrity, although thou movedst me
against him, to destroy him without
cause.” Who did the destroying? God said
that HE did it.
After these additional calamities
occurred and, apparently, after days of
conversation with friends who came supposedly
to comfort him but who were of no
great comfort, Job tells his friends:
How long will ye vex my soul, and
break me in pieces with words? These
ten times have ye reproached me: ye
are not ashamed that ye make yourselves
strange to me. And be it indeed
that I have erred, mine error
remaineth with myself. If indeed ye
will magnify yourselves against me,
and plead against me my reproach:
Job 19:2-5
If you know the Book of Job, you know
that these men had been telling Job that
he must have sinned. They told Job that
something he did was wrong, and that's
why he had suffered all these calamities.
So Job rebuked them:
Know now that God hath overthrown
me, and hath compassed me with his
net. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I
am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is
no judgment. He hath fenced up my
way that I cannot pass, and he hath
set darkness in my paths. He hath
stripped me of my glory, and taken the
crown from my head. He hath
destroyed me on every side, and I am
gone: and mine hope hath he removed
like a tree. He hath also kindled his
wrath against me, and he counteth
me unto him as one of his enemies. His
troops come together, and raise up
their way against me, and encamp
round about my tabernacle. He hath
put my brethren far from me, and
mine acquaintance are verily
estranged from me.
Job 19:6-13
Who is Job saying caused all of these
calamities? Job says that God did it. He is
trying to point out to these men that it
wasn't necessarily any sin of his own but,
they should understand that God did it.
Job says:
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me,
O ye my friends; for the hand of God
hath touched me.
Job 19:21
In the last chapter of Job, after God
has spoken to him, Job answers:
I know that thou canst do every thing,
and that no thought can be withholden
from thee. Who is he that
hideth counsel without knowledge?
therefore have I uttered that I understood
not: things too wonderful for
me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech
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thee, and I will speak: I will demand
of thee, and declare thou unto me. I
have heard of thee by the hearing of
the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent
in dust and ashes.
Job 42:2-6
Even though Job had rebuked his
friends and told them he had not sinned,
he said: God, I realize what I am, I realize
what You are, You can do all things, therefore,
I repent. Then God speaks to the
other men:
And it was so, that after the Lord had
spoken these words unto Job, the Lord
said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My
wrath is kindled against thee, and
against thy two friends: for ye have
not spoken of me the thing that is
right, as my servant Job hath.
Therefore take unto you now seven
bullocks and seven rams, and go to my
servant Job, and offer up for yourselves
a burnt offering; and my servant
Job shall pray for you: for him
will I accept: lest I deal with you after
your folly, in that ye have not spoken
of me the thing which is right, like my
servant Job.
Job 42:7-8
God says that Job spoke right. He then
tells Job's friends to offer a burnt offering
because, as He says in verse eight: “ye
have not spoken of me the thing which is
right, like my servant Job.” These men did
make an offering because God had told
them to, as we see in the next passage:
So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad
the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite
went, and did according as
the Lord commanded them: the Lord
also accepted Job. And the Lord
turned the captivity of Job, when he
prayed for his friends: also the Lord
gave Job twice as much as he had
before. Then came there unto him all
his brethren, and all his sisters, and
all they that had been of his acquaintance
before, and did eat bread with
him in his house: and they bemoaned
him, and comforted him over all the
evil that the Lord had brought upon
him: every man also gave him a piece
of money, and every one an earring of
gold. So the Lord blessed the latter
end of Job more than his beginning:
for he had fourteen thousand sheep,
and six thousand camels, and a thousand
yoke of oxen, and a thousand she
asses. He had also seven sons and
three daughters.
Job 42:9-13
Why did God give Job all of these
blessings? They were given in order to
replace that which God Almighty had
taken from Job. The Book of Job is very
specific. The people who in the end came
to comfort Job realized that everything
that had happened to Job had been done
by God Almighty.
I haven't quoted all of Job but I quoted
every place where the word “Satan”
appears in Job. I defy you to use any part
of those references to conclude that
“satan” is some sort of an everliving creature
who has power almost equal to God.
If we take the original meaning of the
word we come up with the word “adversary.”
This adversary could easily have
been nothing more than another son of
God, a man of the Adamic race, who came
before God with the rest of the men and
provoked God to test Job. It was God who
brought the calamities. There is no indication
that the Satan of Job had any supernatural
powers, whatsoever. It was God
who did the things which were beyond
nature.
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We are going to have to believe what
Isaiah wrote:
I am the Lord, and there is none else,
there is no God beside me: I girded
thee, though thou hast not known me:
That they may know from the rising of
the sun, and from the west, that there
is none beside me. I am the Lord, and
there is none else. I form the light, and
create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the Lord do all these
things.
Isaiah 45:5-7
“Sawtawn” Is Not The Satan
of Today’s Churches
Let's look at the other five times in the
Old Testament that “sawtawn” is transliterated
into “Satan.”
And Satan stood up against Israel,
and provoked David to number Israel.
And David said to Joab and to the
rulers of the people, Go, number Israel
from Beersheba even to Dan; and
bring the number of them to me, that I
may know it.
1 Chronicles 21:1-2
David did number the children of
Israel. This was God's reaction:
And God was displeased with this
thing; therefore he smote Israel. And
David said unto God, I have sinned
greatly, because I have done this
thing: but now, I beseech thee, do
away the iniquity of thy servant; for I
have done very foolishly.
1 Chronicles 21:7-8
Who did David blame for having done
this thing? Did he give “Satan” his due?
No, David said: “I have sinned.”
The word “Satan” is only used in verse
one of this passage. If it had been translated
to the meaning of the word it would
have said: “an ADVERSARY stood up
against Israel, and provoked David to
number Israel” There is nothing in the
context here that can make this “satan”
into a fallen angel.
The word “Satan” is also found in
Psalm 109:
Set thou a wicked man over him: and
let Satan stand at his right hand
(referring to his enemy).
Psalm 109:6
David was saying, “Let an enemy of my
enemy stand at his right hand.” That is
all. David would not have prayed for the
“Satan” of the churches to be his enemy's
advisor! It hardly makes sense that David
would want a wise and powerful
archangel to be the advisor to his own
enemy. No, David was really praying that
his enemy would have an adversary or an
enemy of his own to advise him. This
would bring calamity upon the enemy's
designs. David desired his enemies to
have satans of their own in their camp.
The last three places in the Old
Testament where the word “Satan” is
found are in Zechariah:
And he shewed me Joshua the high
priest standing before the angel of the
Lord, and Satan standing at his right
hand to resist him. And the Lord said
unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, a
Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a
brand plucked out of the fire?
Zechariah 3:1-2
There is no indication that the Satan
here is anything like the one taught by the
churches. He doesn't do anything except
stand there as if he is to resist and, then,
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he is rebuked and we hear no more about
him.
The margin says that the last part of
verse one could read “an adversary” for
the word “Satan.” The last three words “to
resist him” should have read “to be his
adversary” (satan). The word “resist” is
translated from the same Chaldean word:
“sawtawn.” It means “to resist or be an
adversary.”
So here in Zechariah, as in Job and I
Chronicles 21, there is absolutely no evidence
that this “sawtawn” or “Satan” is
anything resembling the Satan preached
by the churches. He is mentioned as if he
is just standing there, it does not say he
does anything. He is rebuked, and we
hear no more about him.
We've read every passage in the Old
Testament where the Chaldean word
“sawtawn” is used. It is either translated
“adversary” or is transliterated into the
word, “Satan.” Not once can it really be
used to teach some sort of a wicked, powerful,
omnipotent angel or some great
enemy of God who, literally, can overpower
mankind and (almost) God, Himself. In
each and every case, the word names or
describes someone who is opposed to
someone else. In most cases the
“sawtawn” or “Satan” is obviously a mortal
man. In fact, he is sometimes named.
In no case is there any indication of longlife
or supernatural powers. It kind of
takes the wind out of Satan's sails, wouldn't
you think? Or, perhaps, we're just taking
the wind out of the mouths of the false
prophets.
Look Who Is “A Satan”
Before we go on, let's look at 2 Samuel,
chapter 24 which is a repetition of the
same story we read earlier about David
numbering Israel:
And again the anger of the Lord was
kindled against Israel, and he (Satan)
moved David against them to say, Go,
number Israel and Judah.
2 Samuel 24:1
The balance of the chapter is identical
to 1 Chronicles 21, where it says Satan
provoked David to number Israel. The
“Satan” of 1 Chronicles 21:1 is none other
than God Himself being “an adversary.”
That is the way the word is used.
So far, the only place we could give the
devil any due at all is in Job, where we
read:
So went Satan forth from the presence
of the Lord, and smote Job with sore
boils from the sole of his foot unto his
crown.
Job 2:7
So, if we want to give the Satan of Job
anything, according to the strict interpretation
of what we just read, we could only
admit one thing: that he might have given
Job boils. Some people could probably testify
that quite a few of us could get boils
by taking some sort of toxins into our
body. Doctors give people boils all the time
by giving them injections that are bad for
their body. Boils are nothing more than
the body's attempt to eject something
through the skin that is a poison to the
body. This great Satan couldn't have done
very much, he couldn't have much power,
if all he could do was give Job boils.
In Psalm 109:6 we saw that “satan”
obviously-means “adversary.” We just
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read three times in Zechariah where
“sawtawn” or “Satan” was going to resist
either the angel of the Lord or Joshua.
The Lord rebuked him and then there is
no further comment about him. So
“Satan” has done nothing that would
make him a great, powerful archangel,
who does terrible wicked things to all the
people of the earth. It is possible that the
only act he ever completed was to give Job
boils.
In 11 cases, “sawtawn” is translated
“adversary.” From the context in each case
“sawtawn” simply means “an adversary”
or “an opponent.” In two cases, the
“sawtawn” is named as mortal men, in one
case, he is an angel of God, and once, he is
God himself. So “sawtawn,” as it is used in
the Old Testament, does not and cannot be
used to teach that there exists a great and
powerful archangel; who goes about tearing
souls out of the hand of God, taking
them down to his abode in the “nether
world” and punishing them for ever and
ever. The word “sawtawn,” from which we
get “Satan,” is simply not used that way.
Yet we find, if we think for a moment,
that this horrible creature who is the subject
of so much fearsome preaching from
the churches, is identical to another creature
called “the devil”, “Lucifer” and
“Satan” who is depicted in the movies, in
stories and on television. It should make
you think, for a moment, why the Satan of
the churches is identical to the Satan
depicted by movie makers, who do not
believe in Christ. These antiChristian
movie makers have come out in recent
times with stories about how a supernatural
being, called the devil or Satan, cohabits
with a woman and produces a halfdevil
child.
Summary Of The Word
“Sawtawn”
Let me sum up the use of the word
“sawtawn” in the original text. It is very
important that you understand what we
are discovering in this study. We must see
what the Bible does or does not teach;
since we are living in a time when the
churches, and many secular people, are
building up a great “anti-Christ,” who is
supposed to be a certain being, who will
rule the world. At the same time, these
churches preach that this anti-Christ also
rules an underworld, where billions of
dead reside.
We have found that 19 times in the Old
Testament, “sawtawn” is transliterated
“Satan.” All 19 are contained within only
four passages. In I Chronicles 21:1 we see,
from reading the other account, that the
“sawtawn” here is obviously God, Himself.
The second passage is in Job, where the
word “Satan” is used 14 times. In Job,
Satan is an adversary — there is no argument
about that. The only certain thing
he did directly was to give Job boils. In
Psalm 109:6, the word “Satan” plainly
means “enemy” or “adversary” - it is definitely
not the devil of the churches. In
Zechariah 4, whoever or whatever he is,
he just stood there, he was rebuked, and
that appears to be the end of him. There is
no act accredited to him at all.
“Sawtawn” is translated “adversary”
seven times in the Old Testament.
Sawtawn comes from the primary root
word “sawtan;” which also has been translated
in the Old Testament, as “adversary”
five times. The first time we find
“sawtawn” translated “adversary” is in
Numbers 22, where the “sawtawn” was
the angel of the Lord. In I Samuel 29:4,
the “sawtawn” was David, himself, as an
adversary to the Philistines. In 2 Samuel
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19:22, the “sawtawns” are David's own
men. In 1 Kings 5:4, Solomon said he had
peace and there was no “sawtawn.”
Solomon meant that there was no enemy,
or enemy nation, against him. In 1 Kings
11, after Solomon had turned and sinned
against God, the word “sawtawn” (translated
adversary) is used three times. God
raised up “sawtawns” against Solomon.
These “sawtawns” are named, they are
mortal men, kings or generals of other
nations. In Psalm 109, the word “adversaries”
is used three times. Each time the
word comes from the Chaldean, “sawtan”
which has the same meaning as
“sawtawn.” “Satan” is found only once in
that same passage as a transliteration of
“sawtawn” and it means “enemy.” David
calls his wicked enemies, “my sawtawns”
or “enemies” (plural). In that case it cannot
possibly mean one great, wicked
archangel. So, the amazing truth is that
the Chaldean word “sawtawn” (and its
root word “sawtan”) is used 31 times in
only 11 passages in the Old Testament.
Out of 11 passages and 31 usages of
the words “sawtawn” and “sawtan”, there
is only one passage where there is even an
inkling that this “sawtawn” has any
supernatural power. That supernatural
power could have been, simply, giving a
man boils. Think of what the churches tell
us Satan is, compared to what the Bible
does NOT say about Satan. In 10 out of 11
times, the “sawtawn” is an angel. Six
times it is men. One time it is something,
or someone, who gave Job boils. It is possible
that Job had a doctor who was an
adversary of his and who gave him boils, I
don't know. That is speculation on my part
But, that is no more speculation than the
teaching we hear about this great, wicked,
supernatural, omniscient, omnipresent
angel; who is all over the earth, all at the
same time, stealing billions of souls and
taking them down to his kingdom in the
earth.
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I have better things to do than to read all that.
 

Phillip

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satan doesn't exist, unless you mean my own lusts of the flesh, lusts of my eye and pride of life coming from within that old carnal mind of "me". There is no other "satan" but our own carnal/mortal adversity of wicked thoughts and actions against God.

For me, the battle of armeggedon, the 'great war in Heaven' between Michael and His angels and the devil and his angels, is simply the tribulation we all go through as we preach the gospel to those who would crucify Christ in us whom we witness, and to overcome the desires of sin and evil that well up from within our old man that we buried in baptism.
Christ, as my Conquering King, is conquering sin and death in me now today, just as He has been within His believers down through time in the Kingdom of God for the last 2000 years.

That's what it means :)
 

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"Satan's seat" aka "the synagogue of satan" is always the murderers of Christ, the non-believing Jews. Wherever the non-believing Jews sit is "satan's seat". (not some place in turkey lol!)

Look...

Here is who Jesus is speaking of;

(Rev 2:9) I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.


(Rev 2:13)
I know thy works, and where thou dwellest,
where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was

my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.