The Limitations to Satan’s Power
All Bible texts are in the Basic Bible English version.
By James Peters Sr.
The Limitations to Satan’s Power
James Peters Sr.
Copyright 2011 by James Peters Sr.
Smashwords Edition
Table of Contents
Ch. 1- Who is Satan?
Ch. 2- Creation of Man
Ch. 3- The Fall
Ch. 4- Satan’s Authority
Ch. 5- Redeemer
Ch. 6- Limitations to Satan’s power in a believer’s life
Appendix
Chapter 1
In the beginning of time before the
creation of humanity there was a certain
angel created his name was Lucifer. We
do not know a whole lot about him other
than he was a very mighty angel and led
praise and worship in heaven. Some
assume that he got jealous of God or
maybe even wanted to keep the praise and
worship for himself, but we are really
unsure about what happened. We do
know that over a certain period of time
however long it was that he decided to
rebel against God because he wanted to
be like God or wanted to actually rest on
the throne of God.
At this time pride entered into his
heart. Sin corrupted his heart and he
turned against God. With his rebellion
came a great rebellion of the angels
against God himself that many believe
was led by Lucifer now known as Satan
or the devil.
The sad thing was is that angels
cannot be redeemed. Once they decided to
rebel their fate was sealed and they were
doomed for all eternity. I am not sure why
this is, because it is the saddest thing that
many of God’s creation have no chance at
redemption, but it is a fact.
It is by blood that redemption is
possible. You see without the shedding of
blood there is no redemption. Angels
cannot bleed therefore once they sinned
there is no covering for that sin, but a
fearful looking of the coming judgment.
The fall of angels had to have
happened before the fall of mankind.
Many believe that because the earth was
formless and void before creation that
Satan himself was thrown into the
heavens and resided on the earth. Many
believe in a pre-Adamic race that Satan
himself destroyed. I am unsure because I
cannot find it in the Bible, but it does
make sense that Satan destroyed the earth
and there was Chaos, but God created
mankind to take over the earth and
ultimately destroy Satan forever. Through
the blood line of men Satan would be
overthrown and ultimately cast into the
lake of fire forever.
The Bible is not clear on the
authority of angels before the fall. It is a
wonder what they did or what purpose
they served before mankind was created. I
tend to believe that Angel’s were created
then mankind was created very shortly
thereafter.
Hebrews 1:7 and of the angels he says,
who makes his angels winds, and his
servants flames of fire.
You see from my understanding of
the scriptures angels actually were created
to serve God and human beings. How
they help us is a miracle in and of it-self,
but Angels are definitely active
throughout creation especially guarding
humanity against the wickedness of fallen
angels.
So you see Lucifer was an angel
perfect in his ways. He actually wanted to
take over God’s throne and the moment
he thought it and the idea was conceived
in his heart he fell from Gods grace and
power and immediately was cast from
heaven. He led a third of the angels into
rebellion and from that time on Satan has
wreaked havoc on the earth by deceiving
and destroying mankind.
Chapter 2
Genesis 1:26-27 And God said, Let us
make man in our image, like us; and let
him have rule over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the air and over the cattle
and over all the earth and over every
living thing which goes flat on the earth.
And God made man in his image, in the
image of God he made him; male and
female he made them.
So you see God created humans
after angels were created, he then placed
them on the earth and gave them
dominion over all the earth or absolute
power and authority over everything.
Nothing was above man that was on the
face of the earth. Only God was above
man, but everything else man was over.
Human beings were created perfect
and without sin. They had such a capacity
for intelligence that Adam the first man
actually named every single species on
this planet. Wow how awesome is that. I
think that just shows a little bit about
what we will be like in heaven.
Genesis 2:19-20 And from the earth the
Lord God made every beast of the field
and every bird of the air, and took them to
man to see what names he would give
them; and whatever name he gave to any
living thing, that was its name. And the
man gave names to all cattle and to the
birds of the air and to every beast of the
field; but Adam had no one like himself
to help.
Wow how awesome was man’s
first responsibility? We actually got to
name all of creation that was living. I
don’t know about you, but if that are just
a beginning of authority and piece of
heaven. Who knows what waits for us
once we actually get rid of this sin and
earthly suit?
I think that after man spoke into
existence all the animal’s names he began
to grow weary and started thinking about
how he had no one like him. God knew
his thought’s and created a woman from
the man. You see woman is really a man
but with a womb. God created all
mankind as man and sees all mankind as
man.