Comments on: Is Satan An Angel ? – Part 2 https://cocbuffalowy.com/2016/10/is-satan-an-angel-part-2/ Bible Answers to Spiritual Questions Thu, 08 May 2025 13:19:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jim https://cocbuffalowy.com/2016/10/is-satan-an-angel-part-2/#comment-194 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 03:42:24 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=1429#comment-194 In reply to Funkydunc.

Hello sir. I do appreciate your comments and how you rationalize things. I totally agree with your last statement.. Interesting stuff. These views that we have of satan are not something that will cause anyone to lose their souls. But it is very interesting. Here’s how I would answer your questions. In the book of Job, when it says that “the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and satan also came among them” (Job 1:6), it surely wasn’t God having a conflict within Himself. Satan, or the very spirit of evil, presented himself along with the sons of God, or as I think we all agree, among the angels. So the spirit of evil was most likely within one or some of those angels, not within God. “Satan also came among THEM”

When Jesus was tempted, He was most certainly tempted by evil. That’s exactly what satan is. He is evil, he is “the adversary”. The scriptures say that Jesus was “tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin”. Heb 4:15. So Jesus was tempted just like we are tempted. We don’t have a literal “being” standing before us doing the tempting, but we’re told in James 1:14, “but each one is tempted when he is enticed and carried away by his own lust”. Jesus had to be made in the likeness of man, so that He COULD be tempted in all things just as we are. But the difference is that Jesus was tempted, yet without sin. Since Jesus had a fleshly body, He was able to be tempted by the lusts caused by that physical body.

When examined carefully, all the verses of scripture that speak of satan falling from heaven, are using symbolic language to depict how evil always “falls” in the face of righteousness.

As I said, none of this is going to casue either of us to be lost, but it is very interesting, isn’t it? The bible is not very specific regarding exactly what satan is. I have my conclusions based on the whole of bible teaching, and what seems rational to me. And I’m sure that’s how you feel too. Thanks so much for commenting and may God bless you.

]]> By: Funkydunc https://cocbuffalowy.com/2016/10/is-satan-an-angel-part-2/#comment-193 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 02:21:39 +0000 https://cocbuffalowy.com/?p=1429#comment-193 After reading this post, I have a question for yo about Satan. I have also read what you wrote elsewhere.
Who was the Satan that spoke to God in front of the other angels, challenging God’s dealings with Job? The account speaks of two occasions where dialogue took place between God and Satan.
If Satan is just the spirit of disobedience, are we saying that God had a conflict with that spirit within himself about Job? No, for saying that would be blasphemy. God is the epitome of righteousness. No, it was clearly a wicked angel who had deviated from a perfect course and was now challenging man’s integrity and God’s dealings with us.
Who tempted Jesus three times in the wilderness? Jesus was the perfect Son of God. There was no sin in him, no spirit of disobedience, otherwise his death as a ransom would have been in vain. No, Jesus was being tempted by a wicked angel, the Resister, who had clear plans to cause the promised seed from Genesis 3:15 to deviate from fulfilling God’s purpose for him.

Conclusion is clear. Satan is a wicked angel who along with his angels were thrown out of the heavenly realm so that Jesus could start ruling his Kingdom. The wicked ruler of the world needed to be evicted from the place where God’s pure Kingdom would rule from – heaven. Interesting stuff.

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