Satan

Satan
    Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Son of the Morning, the Devil has many names.  The Devil is a powerful and mysterious being.  Who is Satan?  Who believes in him?  Where did he come from?  There are many questions that I had about Satan at the beginning of this report.
    Where did Satan come from?  According to the Christian Bible it is clearly taught that the Devil and the other demons are spiritual or angelic creatures created by God in a state of innocence, and that they became evil by their own act. It is added that man sinned by the suggestion of the Devil, and that in the next world the wicked shall suffer eternal punishment with the Devil.  Satan and the other demons are part of an angelic creation, and their natural powers do not differ from those of the angels who remained faithful. Like the other angels, they are pure spiritual beings without any body.
    What was the fall?  Who was Satan before the fall?  The biblical book Ezekiel says that Satan was the perfect angel.  You (referring to Satan) were the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. You were in the pleasures of the paradise of God; every precious stone was thy covering; the Sardis, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald; gold the work of your beauty: and your pipes were prepared in the day that you were created. You a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set you in the holy mountain of God, you have walked in the midst of the stones of fire. You were perfect in your wave from the day of creation, until iniquity was found in you (Ezekiel 28:12-15).  The prophets, Isaiah, and Ezek ...
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