Welcome back to the podcast.

Today's question incorporates a lot of Bible readings from the Navigator's Bible

reading plan that we're working our way through right now.

That's late in November.

And Pastor John, over the next two weeks of our readings, we come across so much detail

about Satan that it's really, it's unreal and concentrated in just 10 readings from November 19th to December 3rd.

So we're right in the middle of this.

Here we're encountering Satan's initial fall in Jude 1,6, his devastating power over one family in Job 1 and 2, and over the whole world in John 1231 and 1st John 519.

We see him at work in his deceptions of this world in 2 John 1 7.

We see that he throws believers into prison in Revelation 210 and enters Judas's heart in

John 1327.

The church is called to resist Satan's hold over an entire city in Revelation 213.

Satan is rebuked by Michael, the Archangel, in Jude 1 1-9 and by Jesus himself in John 1430.

As you scan over this high concentration of references to Satan and his works that we are encountering right now in our Bible readings, what stands out to you in particular?

Well, what stands out, Tony, is Satan exists.

I mean, this is, I mean, we, a biblical worldview is a wildly supernatural worldview.

Yes, yes.

He exists, he exists, period. I mean, that's just shockingly real.

He exists in spite of the fact, this is the second aspect of what stands out. He exists in spite of the

fact that he is totally dependent on God for his existence. There's nothing in Satan himself that has any

claim on God, as if God had to let him exist with his terrible influence. He doesn't, and he won't.

Revelation 2010 says, the devil who had deceived them, the nations, was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur,

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