CHAPTER X m SATAN AND HIS KINGDOM* BY MRS. JESSIE PENN-LEWIS, LEICESTER, ENGLAND I. SATAN 'S ORIGIN AND HOME
The Scriptures give but veiled glimpses of his origin and home, for their purpose is more expressly to reveal God in His character; and Christ as the Redeemer of men; with the history of the redeemed from the fall of Adam, their salva tion through the Cross, and their eternal destiny, when Christ shall have “abolished all rule and all authority and power” (1 Cor. 15:24), contrary to the reign of God, and God Himself shall be All in all. Our Lord says of Satan, “he was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8: 44) and John says of him that he “sinneth from the beginning” (1 John 3 :8 ) . II. SATAN’S POSITION AND .CHARACTER In regard to the position and character of Satan we know that he is the very embodiment of a lie, for “There is no truth in him . . . he is a liar, and the father of it,” said the Lord. The various names by which he is described in the Scriptures reveal his power. Fallen though he be, he is called by the Lord Jesus no less than three times the “prince of this world” (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11), thus plainly rec ognizing his rule over the earth. That he is a personage of rank and power we learn from Jude: “Michael, the arch angel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the ♦Condensed from “ The Warfare with Satan and the Way of Victory." Published by Marshall Brothers, 10 Paternoster Row, London, E. C., England. 183
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