MYSTERY: The Final State Of Satan FYTube

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1. WHO IS SATAN?
   
   In the Hebrew Scriptures, or Tanakh, the word ‘satan’ is mentioned ten times, never as a proper name or with capitalization of the S. What we get is a word meaning adversary or accuser when it refers to human opponents: les satan. However, when the word refers to angelic beings who carry out Yahweh’s orders, we find the term ha satan with the meanings, the adversary, the accuser or God’s prosecuting Attorney.
   
   For the six usages referring to human adversaries are, 1 Samuel 29:4 speaks of David, when hiding from King Saul among the Philistines, who forced him to leave fearing that he may become an adversary or satan. In 2 Samuel 19:21-23, David’s nephew, Abashai, a member of his court is called a satan. In 1 kings 5:4, King Solomon reigned in peace and there were no more adversaries or satans to fight. The fourth and fifth incidences mentioned in 1 Kings 11:14 and 23 where God sent two military leaders to oppose King Solomon and sixth case, Psalms 109:1-6, the author mentions a slanderous person or satan accusing him of wrong doing.
   
   In Numbers 22:22, we find an angel sent by God to stop or oppose the Prophet Balaam on his journey; ha Satan. Ha Satan, part of the angelic realm, presents himself along with the other angels or sons of God in the heavenly courts in Job 1:6. A large portion of the Book is devoted to Ha Satan asking God’s permission to tempt and punish Job to test his loyalty to Yahweh. In Zechariah 3:1-2, ha Satan accuses God’s High Priest Joshua, who were wearing dirty clothes, in contravention of Yahweh’s dictates, before God as a prosecuting attorney. The final case is where Ha Satan tempts King David to take a census of Israel, 1 Chronicles 21:1.
   
   The Hebrew’s Scriptures’ concept of the Satan is that of an angel, who has no power to act without Yahweh’s permission. Furthermore, angels have no freewill and always carry out God’s orders. It is Satan’s job to be the Accuser of man and God’s prosecuting attorney. He represents temptations to satisfy our evil inclinations, so humans must exercise their free will to make right choices and thus build their character.
   
   Satan is not evil or does he have any power to create evil. Only Yahweh is the universal creative force of both good and evil. Isaiah 45:7 states: “I form light and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the lord do all these things.”
   
   Satan was not the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. The Serpent was an animal! Genesis 3:1 states: “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.” Satan did not invade the serpent’s body. Note that God cursed the ground and humans had to eat by the sweat of their brows; the serpent was cursed: it had to crawl on its belly and lick the dust. There was no punishment of Satan. If Satan possessed the serpent’s body, why would God punish the serpent, a victim of identity theft, and not punish the perpetrator, Satan?
   
   Lucifer is not Satan. Isaiah 14:12 states: “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?” Lucifer was a human ruler that was predicted to be humiliated for his pride. The proof is given by Isaiah 12:16 states: “They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, is this the man that made the earth to tremble; that did shake the kingdoms.”
   
   So where did Christians get the concept that Satan is a being so powerful that, he created evil, opposed his creator , made war in heaven and was eventually cast down to the Earth? Where did they get the concept from that he is the adversary of God and the tormentor of humans? When Israel was enslaved in Babylon by the Persians empire, Israel was exposed to the empire’s belief system, namely the Wise Lord and Creator, Ahura Mazda and his evil counterpart, Lord of Darkness and Chaos, Agra Mainyu. Ahura Mazda is worthy of worship and created spirits to assist him. Agra Mainyu, is inferior to Ahura Maza, but he also created spirits who are destructive.
   
   That system, first preached by the Persian prophet Zoroaster, states that the battle between good and evil will be resolved by a great final cosmic battle resulting in the defeat of Agra Mainyu, who will be confined to a lake of fire. That event is the Day of Judgement! The wicked people will also be destroyed. In the inter-testament, these ideas were adopted with changes; Jewish priests could not countenance the idea that there were two eternal beings. The Satan of Christianity is alien to Hebrew Scriptures!

   The Hebrew Scriptures, and Jewish theology, views Satan radically differently than does much Christian theology.
   
   1) The character Satan or “Ha Satan” translates literally as “the accuser” or, in other contexts, "adversary", and that is what he is: he either tempts humans or brings their sins to God’s attention
   
   2) Satan is not the force of evil; God is the source of all things, including what humans conceive of as good and evil
   
   3) Satan works for, not against, God
   
   4) There are no references to Satan in the earlier books of the Hebrew Scriptures.
   
   5) There are very, very few references to Satan in the later books, and all of these are in just four of the later books: Chronicles, Job, Psalms, and Zechariah, written c. 600-500 BCE (see Ancient Israel and Texts Timeline). Satan only occurs as a specific character once, however: in the book of Job.

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2. Guys rembere no matter how hard ur life gets Do not question god things happen for a reason

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3. Jesus is Lord; satan is defeated. I love Jesus and I am glad to be one of His, receiving forgiveness for my sins, being transformed in His image, and eternally part of His Kingdom

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