THEOLOGY LESSON 34

SATAN – HIS STRATEGIES

NO	STUDY	TEXTS	TOPIC BOOK
34	Satan – His Strategies	James 1:26-27 James 4:4 1John 5:4,5	Satan’s strategy Satan’s work

INTRODUCTION

Paul says that we should not be ignorant of Satan's devices. What is the main push by Satan in his strategy as far as Christians are concerned? It is to try and make sure that they remain carnal. Satan can have nothing to do with Christians who are walking in the Spirit. If a person is walking in the Word of God and walking close with the Lord in the power of the Holy Spirit they are in a place of strength. However if the old sin nature is running their life it is the basis of weakness and like the cunning lion he attacks.

SPIRITUAL OR CARNAL?

At the cross we are entered into union with Christ and our lives are hid with Christ in God. We therefore have eternal security and we have spirituality in time. Unfortunately not many people deal with sin effectively and quickly, but rather than affecting the eternal state of the believer, the believer on earth spends most of their time in carnality with unconfessed sin in their life where they are useless in the angelic conflict. They cannot be used by the Lord, but they can be abused by Satan. A person can change from an effective person to a useless, even dangerous Christian.

As you remain Carnal (through unconfessed sin in your life) you start losing your spiritual perception, things that you knew once you no longer know and you will finally accept false doctrine, false practice and you will be involved in Satan's policy. It can happen to great men of God. A carnal believer is a dead sitting duck for going astray.

Most of your major opponents in your ministry are not unbelievers, they are carnal believers who will oppose you and wear you down. Such a person will go off on a false trail of theology. All Satan can do is to bring them under maximum divine discipline and use them to destroy other Christians. He is robbing those believers of eternal rewards and earthly service and joy.

WORLDLINESS

Satan is a spoil sport taken to extremes. His policy in the Scriptures is called worldliness. When ever you have worldliness referred it refers to Satan's policy of evil which is opposed to God's policy of grace and the spirit filled bible instructed believers living with his power.

God has a policy for history. He has a policy for Christians, and it involves all that the Holy Spirit can do within us. Satan also has a policy that is working out in the universe, and his plan is all that man can do, as he ignores God.

The word for world is called kosmos in the Greek, and kosmos thinking is all thinking in accord with Satan's plan, and is rebellion against God and rejection of His plan. Satan's strategy is to side-track the believer into his policy which is referred to as “worldliness”.  Carnality is living in accord with, or in, sin.  When you get into this as a believer you think just like an unbeliever; you have become captured by the thinking system of “worldliness”.

Reference to Satan's world, his “kosmos” thinking occurs 185 times in the Greek New Testament. His viewpoint comes into churches and individual’s lives by means of the false teacher or false book and gives an alternative to God's viewpoint.

Definition - the kosmos world is a system organised by Satan and headed by him and leaves God out but is a rival to it. There are many systems that have plans and dreams of what they want done.

There are two types of belief system; firstly those who are dealing with God's plan and those who are running in opposition to God's plan. As a Christian we should be in harmony with the plan of God.

There is a big battle going on over you. Satan is not able to get your soul because you are already saved, but he can rob you of your happiness, your eternal rewards, and even your sanity. There are hundreds of Christians who crack up and become ineffective in what they are supposed to do. The reason for this is because of their falling under the influence of “cosmos thinking”, or worldliness.

God wants you to think clearly and doctrinally in accordance with the Word of God and with an eternal life perspective. We should recognize our eternal destiny and the fact that we are to be with Him forever. We should see every person through the Cross. Satan wants you to lose your Biblical perspective. It is the Holy Spirit's power which carries you through in the Christian life.

POLLUTED BY THE WORLD

James 1:26-7 - Here we have the concept of the Christian life and belief system as being characterized by being; undefiled, holy, and unspotted by the evil of the world system. In normal dealings with people we need to be on guard. In the ancient world they did not have many flushing toilets, the streets were the sewers with the heavy rain acting as the cleanser and it was quite common for the contents of chamber pots (small toilets) to be emptied from an upper window over people walking adjacent to the building. Their clothes therefore became “spotted with uncleanness”. The rich did not use to walk in the streets; they would ride chariots or horses due to the environment.  

This is why we are told to avoid being covered in Satan's filth; we are to avoid walking in places of spiritual danger.  This is also why people took their sandals off when entering the home and washed their feet. What is in focus here is the contents of the chamber pot which you did not see coming. By analogy, if you are not looking where you walk you can become defiled and stink. You can be tainted by the world unless you walk carefully. However if you are alert you will be able to avoid defilement. As a believer in the devil's world you need to have your wits about you. If you surround yourself with evil and people who are thinking evil it will rub off on to you.

AMBASSADOR

If you are in the devil's world, which you are, you are an Ambassador for Christ here; you are a witness in an alien land. You are there to serve your king but you have to serve him in a way that you are not going to be contaminated. You guard yourself at the point of spirituality and carnality. It is absolutely necessary to feed on God's Word and deal with sin. You saturate yourself in God's Word so that the concepts of the Scriptures keep you from the concepts of evil that you are surrounded with.

As a pastor you should teach the Word four or five times a week so that your flock is prepared. If they do not concentrate on the Word of God they will suck up evil into the vacuum in their souls; that ought to be filled with the Word of Life. If you watch television four or five hours a day you are looking at spiritual garbage. You will have people in the church soaking in the TV programs with their false doctrines and enticement to sinful lives and they are in real danger. These programs are built on sin and often, if a Christian is portrayed at all, it is as a fool or hypocrite.

But do not despair as you see Satan so active for Satan's plan is going to finish. God has the only lasting and victorious plan and He is going to terminate Satan's policy. Worldliness will run it's course but it will be over one day. We are on the winning team. Evil is not defeated yet but that is only because the final act is yet to occur.

It is written that Satan's policy is doomed. He knows it, he does not like it and that is why he wants to lead away the foolish believers.

NO COMPRIMISE

In James 4:4 we see that the Christian must recognize that it is war and that he must not compromise with the enemy or the enemies' tools. We need to recognize policies which oppose God's Word and put it out of your life.  Life is too short to spend it in front of television watching programs based on anti Scriptural principles. We should advance in the Christian life. We should make our days count now. There is not a lot of time and every day counts. We need to recognize Satan's policy and avoid it. We need to recognize God's plan in relation to Satan and give thanks for it.

We are at war and we have to face that concept, the battle between the Christian and the kosmos. Enjoy the world but do not love it. We should respect what the Lord has created, we can enjoy certain things in the world but we should not commit ourselves to it because it is passing away. You car, house, possessions are all to be used and enjoyed, but as we do so remember that they are all passing away, just as we are passing away. Our love must be directed towards the things that last. Have a divine perspective.

DAILY ORDERS OF THE BELIEVER

The daily orders for the believer are as follows:-

[a] 1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober, be vigilant, your adversary the devil walks around as a roaring lion seeing whom he can devour. James 1:26-27

[b] Ephesians 4:27 - Never give place to the Devil

[c] James 4:7 - Submit yourself to God, resist the Devil and he will flee from you.

[d] Ephesians 6:11 - Put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. Stay alert, resist; do not give into temptation or false systems of thinking.

PRINCIPLES

1. Christ defeated Satan on the Cross and with it there is release from the penalty of sin.

2. Satan was strategically defeated but is still active.

3. Satan is now called the adversary of believers. He cannot destroy you but can undermine and destroy your witness if we allow him the chance.

4. When we are carnal we are re under the control of the Old Sin Nature and are therefore weak and are open to Satanic attack.

5. Testing of believers is not allowed to go beyond the dictates of the Lord - 1 Corinthians 10:13

If we do foolish worldly things then he will attack. He is not bound during the Church Age. Satan cannot indwell a believer or possess them but they can be beguiled, and so side tracked and made useless as a soldier in the Lords army. As a believer you have the Holy Spirit within you and greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. If you have a person who is demon possessed you know that he is an unbeliever.

The solution to demon possession is the acceptance of the gospel. In this case you need to pray for protection and get people to pray that the Holy Spirit may convict the person involved. If the demon talks to you, then you should tell him to stop, because He that is in you is greater than he that is in the world. In some cases the only way acceptance of the gospel can be shown is by the demon possessed people throwing themselves at your feet. We have not got the power to cast out demons that the Lord had, but in his name and authority we can give the gospel to the possessed person and the Holy Spirit will release them.

If you remove the demon without conversion then you have gained nothing except opening the opportunity for many more demons to indwell that person. When the Holy Spirit enters the demon must go.   It is the transforming of lives by the Holy Spirit that we want to see, that is the work of the gospel.

Satan is the most attractive being ever created and is seen as an angel of light and not the red skinned person with horns. We however, with the Holy Spirit, are in an invincible position if we stay close to the Lord. His most potent attack is to get false teachers and doctrine in the church which has caused many to fall. There are today sadly very few mainline churches believing the Word of God and teaching it. Satan is the founder of fear as well as sin. He will send people to oppose you, be prepared and stand in the strength and power and knowledge of the Lord.

DOCTRINES

SATAN’S STRATEGY

1. Believers are warned against him and his tactics. (Ephesians 4:27, 6:11-13, James 4:7, 1 Peter 5:8)

2. We must be ready and alert. (2 Corinthians 2:11)

3. Satan is a deceiver and a counterfeiter.  He uses deception - not obviously wrong or sinful - but very subtle changes to the truth (Genesis 3:1).  Remember, a counterfeit looks like the original.

4. Satan is described as an "angel of light" - often seeming attractive and "good".  (2 Corinthians 11:14)

5. His tactics

a) Towards unbelievers.

i) to blind them regarding the gospel. (2 Corinthians 4:3, 4, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 1 0)

b) Towards believers.

i) Satan seeks to hinder our growth and witness. (1 Peter 5:8)

ii) Satan will mislead into false doctrine and legalism. (1 Timothy 5:14-15)

iii) He persuades believers to ignore the will of God through disobedience (Genesis  2:17, James 4:7-8)

iv) Satan often attacks our assurance of salvation so that we doubt God.

v) Worry (1 Peter 5, 7-9)

vi) Fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14-15)

vii) He accuses believers of sin both to God and to the believer (using guilt). (Revelation 12:9-10, Job 1:6-11

viii) He takes our focus off Christ by getting eyes on self (1 Corinthians 1:10-11), on people (1 Corinthians 1:12), on things (Hebrews 13:5-6)

ix) When we don't allow the Holy Spirit to control our lives, we open ourselves up to Satanic attack. (1 Corinthians 7:5, 2 Corinthians 2:11, 1 Timothy 5:14-15)

x) The Lord will allow Satan to attack a believer as discipline for unconfessed sin. (1 Timothy 1:20 cf 2 Corinthians 12:7)

xi) Satan cannot indwell or possess a believer, only beguile them. (Galatians 3:1)

c) Towards the world in general.

i) The World - Satan tries to deceive the nations. (Revelation 20:71 0)

SATAN’S WORK

1. Satan's sphere of operations among mankind. (Psalm 109:6--l3)

a) Satan blinds mankind to the truth of the Word of God by means of religion. (v.7)

b) He has the power to shorten life. (v 8a)

c) He can remove persons from a place of authority (v 8b)

d) Satan can kill (v 9)

e) He can persecute children (v 10)

f) He can remove wealth (v 11)

g) Satan can turn people against each other (v. 12)

h) He can cut off man's posterity to the second generation (v. 13)

2. Satan as a killer

a) He has the power of death (Hebrews 2:14, 15)

b) Killed Job's children (Job I:12, 18,19)

c) Motivated Cain to murder Abel (John 8:44, cf 1 John 3:12)

d) Often administers the sin unto death (1 Corinthians 5:5)

3. Satan as a source of disease

a) Was responsible for Paul's "thorn in the flesh" (2 Corinthians 12:7)

b) Produced illness in Job (Job 2:6-8)

c) Uses his demons to inflict diseases (Matthew 12:22, Luke 13:16, Acts 10:38)

d) Causes certain types of deafness, dumbness, paralysis and crippling effect by means of demon possession (Matthew 4:24, 12:22, Mark 9:17, 18)

e) When demon possession causes the affliction, the removal of the demon or demons produces an instant cure (Matthew 10:1, Mark 1:32-34, 6:13, Acts 8:7, 19:12)

4. Satan as an instrument of discipline

a) Desired to discipline Peter (Luke 22:31, 32)

b) Was authorised to discipline the Corinthian adulterer (1 Corinthians 5:5)

c) Was called upon by the Apostle Paul to administer extreme discipline to Hymenaeus and Alexander (1 Timothy 1:19, 20)

d) May become involved in the discipline of ministers and deacons (1 Timothy 3:6, 7)

e) Attacks through a believer's lack of forgiveness and orientation to grace (2 Corinthians 2:10, 1I

5. Satan as an angel of light

a) Healing was given to the Church as a spiritual gift until that which is perfect arrives (Acts 19:11, 12, Philippians 2:27)

b) God still heals today (Philippians 2:27)

c) Since Satan possesses the power of disease he can also counterfeit healings by the removal of demonic activity within a person’s life.  That is why we are told to test the spirits.  (Matthew 12:24, 24:24, 2 Thessalonians 2:9, Revelation 16:14)

6. Characteristics of Demon Possession

a) Loss of individuality:  the demon-possessed person no longer has control of faculties of the soul (Mark 5:1-13, Luke 8:27, 9:39, 40)

b) Abnormal behaviour:

i) Convulsions (Mark 1:26, 9:20, Luke 4:35)

ii) Violence (Matthew 8:28)

iii) Abnormal strength (Mark 5:4, Luke 8:29, Acts 19:16)

iv) Raving (Mark 5:5)

v) Foaming at the mouth (Mark 9:20)

vi) Nakedness (Luke 8:27)

c) Loss of health:

i) Dumbness (Mark 9:17, Luke 11:14)

ii) Deafness and dumbness (Mark 9:25)

iii) Blindness and dumbness (Matthew 12:22)

iv) Epilepsy (Mark 1:26, 9:20, Luke 4:35)

v) Mental illness (Mark 5:15)

7. Demon possession explains:

a) Certain forms of ‘divine’ healing; that are not carried out in Jesus name.

b) Faked contact with the dead (1 Samuel 28)

c) Success of self styled exorcists

d) Rise of certain world leaders (2 Thessalonians 2.9, Revelation 16:13, 14)

e) Cause of some wars (Revelation 20:8)

f) Reincarnation

g) Fortune telling (Acts 16:16)

THEOLOGY LESSON 33

LESSON 33 – SATAN – HIS WORK AND DESTINY

NO	STUDY	TEXTS	TOPIC BOOK
33	Satan – his Work and Destiny	Revelation 20:1-10 Isaiah 14:12-17 Matthew 4:1-11	Religion The Cross and Satan Satan’s Destiny

INTRODUCTION

Revelation 20 shows the fact that Satan's destiny is certain is a fact that believers should know and be aware of. When you know your enemy and that you are in a physical war you do not know who is going to win, yourself or the enemy but we do know in the angelic war that God will win. In Revelation 20:1-10 the Tribulation is over and the Lord has returned. Satan has been imprisoned and has no influence on the earth. Therefore the evil which came from him is not present during the Millennium. This is a very important passage for theology and prophecy.

The end of Satan is not that he is bound for a thousand years. It is after his release. At the Second Advent Satan is arrested and put under custody and placed in the bottomless pit. He is locked in Tartarus for the thousand years and is only released again to lead the final rebellion of mankind. He loses and finally is arrested and thrown into the Lake of Fire where the Antichrist and the False Prophet already are. We can see from Revelation 20 that Satan is under God's control. He is then in the Lake of Fire forever. He is not of equal power to God. If you are in Christ Jesus you are on the winning side. Satan is on the losing side no matter how powerful he is. Knowing his destiny gives you the concepts of dealing with him in time.

FALSE CONCEPTS ABOUT SATAN

There are false concepts about Satan:

[a] People do not believe that he exists. Some people think that his name is just a personification of evil. He however is a creature created by God.

[b] Others believe that Satan is the cause of all sin. Satan is the author of sin. He is the author of pride, arrogance and rebellion. He is more embarrassed about sin than most people are. Satan's push is not to get Christians and unbelievers to do nasty things. His big push is religion. He does not want people in the gutter. When they are they often realise their need of a Saviour. Satan's biggest push is religion, to encourage people in their self righteousness and so to rob them of the true reality of their sin. Satan seeks all means for people to be deceived into believing that they do not need a Saviour.

DIVINE GOOD - HUMAN GOOD

This policy of evil is Satan's major program, and is running parallel to God's plan of divine good. Satan is a great counterfeiter and is an angel of light but he is evil, and has a theology which he preaches as an alternative to that of God. Satan wants people to be the same as him, to be independent of God. He does not want them in gross sin because then they come to a point in their life when they require help. He wants evil yet respectable people who do not want God in their lives and do not feel desperate enough for help.

Isaiah 14 shows the expressed purpose of Satan, which is to overthrow God, as shown in the five I wills. To this end he will use his huge power and will weaken the nations which made the earth to tremble. He made the earth as a wilderness and destroyed cities. He is absolutely overwhelmed with pride.  He wants people to worship him and follow him instead of God. Satan is the founder of false religion.

CHRISTIANITY AND RELIGION

Christianity is not a religion but a relationship with God through Christ. Religion is man trying to impress God by doing good things, saying good things and being respectable. More people are led to hell by religion than by anything else.

Satan would prefer to have people in churches who do not believe that the Bible is the Word of God, that do not believe you need to have faith in Christ to be saved. He would far sooner have people living in a liberal church thinking that they are far better than the fundamentalists. These people are following modern thinkers but they have pride.

People do not realise what total power Satan has in a religious organisation. The hardest opposition that we will have will come from religious people not the pubs. A lot of the people who wear dog collars are on Satan's team. You have to realise where the enemy is. This is shown by the fact that most of the prophets were resisted by the religious group of their days, the priests who were not doing their job, the false prophets that were organizing the Lord's death.

Satan wants people to be like him, self centered and self sufficient. The liberal calls the Lord Jesus Christ, the man Jesus, and say that they know more than He does, so did their father Satan. He thought he knew more than God and still does. Where is he going - to the Lake of Fire. Where are we going, we are going to heaven. His troops are going to join him. When you are being opposed by the religious crowd look at the Word of God and know where they are going. Do not deviate or be humbled by these people. Power the Word out and let the Holy Spirit loose, get people praying for you. The enemy will then slither away.

Every group from the old, now defunct Communists, the Socialists and the WCC which push the idea that you do not need a Saviour indicate the source of their thoughts. Satan has a strategy. Satan's religion is a humanly acceptable one, no salvation, no hell, no sin, no judgment. Analyze the theology that you come across. If they are not talking about sin, judgment, and say that any Saviour will do, and there is no hell, then they are in the camp of the enemy.

Many pastors in the church are helping Satan in this policy, knowingly or unknowingly. His policy to the unbeliever is to blind the minds of them whilst to believers it is to confuse them.

There are many false issues and sidetracks, the KJV only group is a side track as it gets the focus off Christ and gets them out of churches where God has blessed them and splits believers who would have otherwise walked together in the gospel.

Anything that does that is not from God but from the enemy. Satan promotes pride and legalism, idolatry. He is a counterfeit right the way through leading people on the wide way to destruction and for making things easy. God standard is to take his yoke upon us and learn of Him. Satan's people are generally popular whereas God's people are not. However we know our destiny.

OTHER SATANIC STRATEGIES

Satan has supplementary strategies. He is in power and politics. The temptation of the Lord is indicative of this. Satan's push was to avoid the cross and take the crown without the Cross. Satan said that he would make the Lord the ruler of the world. The temptation of the Lord was to accept the counterfeit and become religious rather than spiritual.

He still wants Christian churches to be religious rather than spiritual, anything as long as they are not walking in the power of the Holy Spirit in holiness and truth. There will be great temptation from the enemy’s people, for you not to teach the Word in the way that you do. They will say not to preach on sin because people are made nervous. Remember, you cannot have one foot in both camps. God will discipline you if you are half and half. Teach the Word and chase the apostate out of the church. Get some prayer warriors for support and preach the word. God will replace those who have left or the Lord will lead you to a place where you are able to teach the Word without opposition within. Do not compromise with the devil or his people; either leave the apostates with their empty building, or preach them out of it.

The Charismatic’s are all too often being used by the liberals, who are being used by Satan. We have known Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, and Uniting church ministers, who do not believe God's Word; to love having Charismatic’s in their church as they add life to what would otherwise be dead. They try to feed them false doctrine and slowly undermine their biblical faith and so spiritually kill them, and all too often succeed. If you stay in a place which has false doctrine for long enough you will go under. You must, as a bible believing pastor rescue the Lord’s sheep from the false teachers and get them to a place where they can grow.

THE CROSS AND SATAN

The Cross deals with Satan's certain final defeat. The Cross is God's grace provision. Teach the Cross and let the spirit destroy the pride in man.  Teach Bible doctrine systematically. This is the only thing that destroys Satan's lies. Cults go out on Sunday’s looking for people who know a little bit about the Bible but not enough to tell it from the counterfeit. Every time you teach the Word you are inoculating them against evil.

You need to teach at Gods Word a number of times a week, maybe an adult Bible study before church, the morning and evening church service and the mid week meeting. All of it should be systematic teaching. Saturate God's people in God's Word.

Satan hates the message of the cross and empty tomb; you teach this every time the doors open! He hates the truth, but your job is to keep on teaching the truth. Teach systematically and often. The sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God is your weapon against Satan. Let the Spirit loose through the Word and Satan will flee from you. If you find someone who loves the Lord teach them the Word. Help them on with their armour. You are going to build them up and they will stand with you. If your church grows you have a whole lot of people standing with you. The fruit of the Spirit is one thing that Satan cannot counterfeit and stand. When meeting people who you are doubtful of always ask, what is their fruit? People may be able to do miracles, raise the dead and do other things that are amazing but may still be using the wrong power.

DOCTRINES

RELIGION

1. Satan's religion is a humanly acceptable one: no sin, no judgment, no Saviour and no Hell. Satan appears as an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:13-19, 26)

2. Many pastors in the churches are servants of Satan's policy, knowingly or unknowingly. (Isaiah 30:12, Jeremiah 2:8, 2 Peter 2:1-10)

3. Satan's strategy towards unbelievers is to keep them blinded to the gospel. (2 Corinthians 4:3-4, Colossians 2:8, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10)

4. Satan's strategy towards believers is:-

a) To confuse by false teaching. (Matthew 7:15, Romans 16:18)

b) To appeal to pride. (2 Corinthians 10:12)

c) To promote idolatry. (Habakkuk 2:18, 19)

d) To promote legalism. (1 Timothy 1:7-8)

5. Satan's policy calls for counterfeit faith:-

a) Counterfeit gospel. (2 Corinthians 11:3-4)

b) Counterfeit pastors. (2 Corinthians 11:13-15)

c) Counterfeit communion. (1 Corinthians 10:19-21)

d) Counterfeit doctrine. (2 Timothy 4:1)

e) Counterfeit righteousness. (Matthew 19:16-28)

f) Counterfeit way of life. (Matthew 23)

g) Counterfeit power. (2 Thessalonians 2:8-10)

h) Counterfeit gods. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4)

THE CROSS AND SATAN

SATAN’S DESTINY

1. Satan is called a "prince" indicating that he had his own power and followers. (John 12:31, 14:30, 16:11, Ephesians 2:2, 2 Corinthians 4:4)

2. Yet he is still a creature, and is still ultimately subject to God (Job 1:12)

3. At the cross, Christ defeated Satan, as his main power was through sin and death. (John 12:27-32, Romans 5:12, 1 Corinthians 15:54-56, Colossians 2:14-15, Hebrews 2:14-15

4. God purpose with the world is not yet complete - therefore the enforcement of Satan's defeat will not take place until the end of the Millennium (Hebrews 1:13, Revelation 20:10)

5. Satan's final judgment is sure:-

a) When he fell he was condemned, this was before (Genesis 1:2).

b) In the garden the certainty of God's judgment was announced. (Genesis 3:15)

c) The Cross was his final defeat. (John 12:31, Colossians 2:14-15)

d) In the midst of the Great Tribulation his access to heaven will be stopped. He will no longer be able to slander believers. (Revelation 12 :7-12)

e) At the Second Advent he is arrested and bound. (Revelation 20:1-3)

f) After the Millennium he is briefly released to lead the last great rebellion against God, and is finally cast into the Lake of Fire. (Revelation 20:10)

g) There are therefore four falls of Satan:-

i) from his place in eternity past to the earth with access to heaven.

ii) then that access is denied causing him to be restricted to the Earth.

iii) he is then contained in Hades for a thousand years.

iv) then his final fall into the Lake of Fire.

6. Satan has six abodes in his journey from the throne room of God to the Lake of Fire.

a) The Throne of God - Ezekiel 28:12

b) The Mineral Garden of Eden - Ezekiel 28:13

c) The Atmospheric Heavens - Ephesians 2:2, 6:12

d) The Earth - Revelation 12:7-12

e) The Abyss - Revelation 20:1-3

f) The Lake of Fire - Revelation 20:7-10