SUBJECT:  Satan

QUESTION:  Where does one get the idea that Satan was the murderer from the beginning?  I do not read of him murdering anyone.

ANSWER:

Here are the scriptures in question:

John 8:39-44

39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye

would do the works of Abraham.

40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Note:  Clearly, Jesus is saying that Satan was a murderer from the beginning.  Therefore it must be so.  You need only understand when it was that he (Satan) committed his first murder.

At the moment that Satan influenced Adam to sin, he was committing murder; the murder of Jesus Christ who would have to come to earth in human form and die for those sins.

Clearly, Satan's aim and goal was to destroy both mankind and the Plan of God.  Satan then and now wants all of mankind dead.  He is willing to murder them when God allows it.  Read the opening chapter of Job where Satan was allowed to kill all Job's children and his servants.  Satan is a murderer.

Now notice some scriptures that prove that Satan was both a murderer from the beginning and a murder in general:

Genesis 3:3-7

3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be

desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Note:  God said the fruit of the tree would kill Adam and Eve.  Satan told them they would not die.  They ate it and died.  Imagine someone giving you a bottle of poison.  They tell you that you should not drink of it lest you die.  I come along and tell you, "Hey, you can drink that stuff.  You won't die."  You drink it and die.  Am I a murderer?  Ask any lawyer or law enforcement individual.

1 Chronicles 21:1

And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

Note:  Remember this story?  David numbered Israel and many people died as a result of going against God's wishes to not number Israel.  Start reading in verse 11 of that chapter. 70,000 people died (verse 14).

James 4:1-7

1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask

not.3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Note:  These verses speak of murder, lusts, wars, fightings and enmity with God.  Who is behind all that?  Read verse

7 and you see that it is Satan.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Note:  What does "devour" mean?  It means to: devour, drown, swallow (up). He is looking to see whom he can keep from eternal life which makes him a murderer again.

Revelation 13:6-8

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Note:  See that?  Again, the word of God states that Satan was the murderer from the beginning.  Jesus was "slain from

the foundation of the world."

Revelation 20:7-9

7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Note: This takes place in a 100 year period after the 1000 year reign of Christ and after the Second Resurrection.  Again, Satan will murder people.

 
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