8 things you should know about Satan

We're being told that the devil controls the world and that he orchestrates the events of history but here is the truth about him from the Bible.

1. He is defeated, disarmed (Bound), and spoiled (Col. 2:15; Rev. 12:7�17; Mark 3:27)
2. He is "Fallen" (Luke 10:18), and "thrown down" (Rev. 12:9).
3. He was "crushed" under the feet of the early Christians (Rom. 16:20)
4. He has lost "authority" over Christians (Col. 1:13, Mat 16:18)
5. He has been "judged" (John 16:11). He cannot "touch" a Christian (1 John 5:18).
6. His works have been "destroyed" (1 John 3:8).
7. He has "nothing" (John 14:30)
8. He "flees" when "resisted" (James 4:7) and is "bound" (Luke 11:20; Rev. 20:2).

Christian believers understood the place of the devil and the sovereignty of God. Our forefathers worked in terms of God as the Ruler of the kings of the earth, not in terms of Satan as the "ruler of this world," because "the ruler of this world" has been "cast out" (John 12:31).

"And Thou hast made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth" (Rev. 5:10; compare 1 Peter 2:9�10).

Any nation that rejects God as its sovereign will be broken "with a rod of iron" and will certainly "perish in the way" (Psalm 2:9, 12). Libraries are filled with the history of men and nations which sought to overrule the "King of kings and Lord of lords" (Rev. 19:15). There is no hope for those who "take counsel together against the LORD and against His Anointed" (Psalm 2:2).