How smart is the Devil?

[Jack]

Revelation 12
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

 

[Bob Estey]

Revelation 12
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the LORD God had made. Genesis 3:1a RSV

 

[Behold]

Revelation 12
9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

How smart is the Devil?

He was not smart enough to realize that he could not sit on a Throne of Rulership above God, in Heaven, so, he was sent down here.


He is however, so very clever that he was able to deceive Eve into broken fellowship from God.

He is also so clever that he can masquerade as an "angel of light" and fool .."bewitch"...born again Christian right out of their faith in Christ., and have them "fallen from Grace"., believing that they can lose their Salvation.

He is so clever that he can lead an entire world into Christ Rejection, and keep them there, except for the few that find the Light.
(Jesus is the Light of the World).

He has read the Bible and the Greek Texts, and the Latin.... and knows the word of God so well that he has created many "new" bibles that are not really bibles.

He caused the murder of all the Apostles. (The original 11) (not John), just by manipulating other people to kill them.
He Killed Paul the same way.

He has created many Denominations that appear to be Christianity and are not at all.
You'll """"know them by their "water and works" theology."""""

He Led John Calvin into Cross Rejection Theology, and John Calvin has poisoned most of the Body of Christ with his deception.
This is why many of you dont believe that free will exists.....
(Say "thank you John"_....)

If you are called into the ministry, He'll tempt you to teach child psychology to baby believers, or the prosperity gospel as the ONLY THING you teach, or, and he'll bring your weakness to you to try to lead you into a situation where you get caught, which then leads the unbelievers to think that "christianity is junk".. "Its for the weak"...."its man made"..... "Its fake"...

The Devil is so clever, that he controls the world wide MEDIA.

If you try to overcome His methods in your own willpower, he'll teach you a hard hard lesson regarding why all your willpower to try to overcome Him is not God's power at all.

 

[Jack]

How smart is the Devil?

He was not smart enough to realize that he could not sit on a Throne of Rulership above God, in Heaven, so, he was sent down here.


He is however, so very clever that he was able to deceive Eve into broken fellowship from God.

He is also so clever that he can masquerade as an "angel of light" and fool .."bewitch"...born again Christian right out of their faith in Christ., and have them "fallen from Grace"., believing that they can lose their Salvation.

He is so clever that he can lead an entire world into Christ Rejection, and keep them there, except for the few that find the Light.
(Jesus is the Light of the World).

He has read the Bible and the Greek Texts, and the Latin.... and knows the word of God so well that he has created many "new" bibles that are not really bibles.

He caused the murder of all the Apostles. (The original 11) (not John), just by manipulating other people to kill them.
He Killed Paul the same way.

He has created many Denominations that appear to be Christianity and are not at all.
You'll """"know them by their "water and works" theology."""""

He Led John Calvin into Cross Rejection Theology, and John Calvin has poisoned most of the Body of Christ with his deception.
This is why many of you dont believe that free will exists.....
(Say "thank you John"_....)

If you are called into the ministry, He'll tempt you to teach child psychology to baby believers, or the prosperity gospel as the ONLY THING you teach, or, and he'll bring your weakness to you to try to lead you into a situation where you get caught, which then leads the unbelievers to think that "christianity is junk".. "Its for the weak"...."its man made"..... "Its fake"...

The Devil is so clever, that he controls the world wide MEDIA.

If you try to overcome His methods in your own willpower, he'll teach you a hard hard lesson regarding why all your willpower to try to overcome Him is not God's power at all.

Excellent!!!

 

[Bible_Gazer]

I assume he is the best liar

 

[Taken]

How smart is the Devil?​

OP ^

Lucifer WAS Created and
* Made the Bright Star,
* Made with great Beauty,
* Made with great Talent,
* Made with great Power,
* Made with great Wisdom.
* Made and Established and Purposed to Serve man-kind in Righteousness.

He Became Arrogant in his own Heart, believing he could Rise Above his own Creator.

OOPS!

His FAILED his original purpose.
He was cast down out of his former Heavenly Estate maintaining his great Power that he uses to trick, deceive man-Kind, (in mans Earthly Estate), Against Righteousness and Against the Heavenly Lord God Almighty, who created him, made him, and booted him out of Heaven, with the Name; Satan....Title Devil ....and Description; Serpent and Dragon.

He is a Very Smart and Clever Master of Deception.
OOPS!

He CAN out-smart, out-power a man.
He can NOT out-smart, out-power the Lord God Almighty.

Lucifer was NOT all knowing.
Lucifer Didn’t KNOW, his Arrogance would be his downfall.
Lucifer Didn’t KNOW, The Almighty would purpose in Himself, (who IS the Eternal All Knowing Creator and Maker); for HIMSELF to teach men of the Earth, Gods Truth and Righteousness.

Eph. 1
[9] Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

Eph 3
[11] According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Glory to God,
Taken

 

[Pierac]

You have no idea who Satan really is... Satan is NOT God's enemy!!! Satan is God's creation....

Did God create Satan or was he an accident?

​

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.

Gen 3:14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

1Co 15:47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust

1Pe 5:8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Joh 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

1Jo 3:8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

Job 26:13 By his spirit he (GOD) hath garnished the heavens; his (God"s) hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient744 serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

G744 ἀρχαῖος archaios
Thayer Definition:
that has been from the beginning, original


2Co 11:3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent3789 deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

G3789 ὄφις óphis; gen. ópheōs, masc. noun.
A snake, serpent. The Gr. word drákōn (G1404), dragon, was a huge serpent

Rev 20:2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient744 serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,


Mar 4:15 And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.

2Co 4:4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Isa 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith [Satan] that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;


1Ti 1:20 among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to

blaspheme.

1Co 5:5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Eph 6:11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Luk 10:17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons1140 are subject to us in Your name."

G1140δαιμόνιον
daimónion; gen. daimoníou, the neut. of daimónios, from daímōn (G1142), a demon. Generally, a god, deity, spoken of the heathen gods (Act_17:18); used with the Jewish meaning of a demon, an evil spirit, devil, subject to Satan


Col 1:16 For by Him all things were created, (Even Satan) in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.


WHY...
KJV Ecc 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore7451 travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Word Study: H7451 רע ra‛, ָרָעה
rā‛āh: An adjective meaning bad, evil.

Concordant OT Ecc 1:13 “It is an experience of evil Elohin [God] has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.”


Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

There is more than one creature this verse applys too... Read it in context
Paul

 

[quietthinker]

How smart is the Devil?​

A lot smarter than you Jack.

 

[Reggie Belafonte]

He is the Master of Deception !

But if you read what Jesus said to him, then you discover the Devil himself is only a piss worm ?
The Devil had not power over Jesus at all in fact, Non !
For Jesus know who the Devil truly is in fact.
So Jesus had the power to brush the Devil away in fact.

Now one who is truly born again, Saved ! For such are not of this world but are of the Kingdom of God. so such a one knows the working of the Devil and Satanist in fact.

Jesus said that This world is full of deceptions and delusions in fact ! and that one must come to the Kingdom of God and see the list of people who can not enter into the Kingdom of God ? so anyone who rejects anything on the list, is not worthy in fact.

See that Jesus only did the will of the Father and of the Holy Spirit !
So if one does not have the Holy Spirit and Christ Jesus within you, then you don't have the Father as well.
So then one may watch their step, not to step into where Angels fear to tread ? because of the message has been taken in.

 

[Patrick1966]

You have no idea who Satan really is... Satan is NOT God's enemy!!! Satan is God's creation....

Did God create Satan or was he an accident?

​

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.

Gen 3:14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

1Co 15:47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust

1Pe 5:8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Joh 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

1Jo 3:8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

Job 26:13 By his spirit he (GOD) hath garnished the heavens; his (God"s) hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient744 serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

G744 ἀρχαῖος archaios
Thayer Definition:
that has been from the beginning, original


2Co 11:3 But I am afraid that, as the serpent3789 deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

G3789 ὄφις óphis; gen. ópheōs, masc. noun.
A snake, serpent. The Gr. word drákōn (G1404), dragon, was a huge serpent

Rev 20:2 And he seized the dragon, that ancient744 serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,


Mar 4:15 And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.

2Co 4:4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Isa 54:16 Behold, I have created the smith [Satan] that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Heb 5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;


1Ti 1:20 among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to

blaspheme.

1Co 5:5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

Eph 6:11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Luk 10:17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons1140 are subject to us in Your name."

G1140δαιμόνιον
daimónion; gen. daimoníou, the neut. of daimónios, from daímōn (G1142), a demon. Generally, a god, deity, spoken of the heathen gods (Act_17:18); used with the Jewish meaning of a demon, an evil spirit, devil, subject to Satan


Col 1:16 For by Him all things were created, (Even Satan) in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.


WHY...
KJV Ecc 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore7451 travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Word Study: H7451 רע ra‛, ָרָעה
rā‛āh: An adjective meaning bad, evil.

Concordant OT Ecc 1:13 “It is an experience of evil Elohin [God] has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.”


Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

There is more than one creature this verse applys too... Read it in context
Paul

Great post! I love scriptural responses and you shared many!

 

[Patrick1966]

I believe that Satan is a super genius and also has knowledge of things beyond our ability. However, I also believe that it's likely that God has blinded Satan on some things. Satan unwittingly arranged Jesus's murder that fulfilled God's plan while simultaneously destroying his own.

 

[Keturah]

I assume he is the best liar

The very father of lies !