Your Adversary the Devil – Part 2

1. Adversary: opponent, an enemy

1 Peter 5:8 KJV

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

2. The Devil: false accuser, slanderer

3. As a roaring lion

4. Thief: an embezzler

John 10:10 KJV

10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

5. Murderer: manslayer

John 8:44 KJV

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…

6. Liar

John 8:44 KJV

44 …When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a LIAR, and the father of it.

7. The Great Dragon

Revelation 12:9 KJV

9 And THE GREAT DRAGON was cast out, that OLD SERPENT, called THE DEVIL, and SATAN, which DECEIVETH the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

8. Old Serpent

9. Satan

10. The Deceiver

11. Accuser of the Brethren: someone who makes an accusation

Revelation 12:10 KJV

10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

12. The god of this world

2 Corinthians 4:3-4 KJV

3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4 In whom THE GOD OF THIS WORLD hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

13. Lucifer: Day Star

Isaiah 14:12 KJV

12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O LUCIFER, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

14. An Angel of light

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 KJV

13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into AN ANGEL OF LIGHT.

15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

15. The Tempter: to try or test one’s faith, virtue, character, by enticement to sin

Matthew 4:3 KJV

3 And when THE TEMPTER came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

TEMPTER: to try or test one’s faith, virtue, character, by enticement to sin.

16. The Prince of this world

John 14:30 KJV

30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD cometh, and hath nothing in me.

17. The Prince of the Power of the Air

Ephesians 2:2 KJV

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

PRINCE: ruler

18. Anointed Cherub

Ezekiel 28:14-15 KJV

14 Thou art THE ANOINTED CHERUB that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

19. Beelzebub: lord of the house, a name of Satan, prince of evil spirits.

Luke 11:14-15 KJV

14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.

15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through BEELZEBUB the chief of the devils.

Chief: a ruler, a commander, leader