Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning's with the Masters, where we

devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Good morning, indeed.

We're picking up with a new devotional in the Bible. I've titled Our Modern Warfare. Now,

this is part one. There is a part two that we look forward to doing later. It depends on how much

we like it, but we are expecting it's going to be good. There's a link to this in the description.

If you guys want to follow along with us, and as always, I'm going to read the scripture,

and then Tor is going to pick up the divot. Let's do it. The scripture is John, chapter 10, verse 10,

and it says this, the thief's purpose is to steal and to kill and to destroy. My purpose is to give

them a rich and satisfying life. The devotional is titled Our Enemy and the beginning of the war,

and it says this, it would be impossible to win a battle against an enemy you had zero intel on.

Our military would never want to be caught off guard by an enemy they were not prepared for.

We must look at spiritual warfare the same way. We need to know who we are fighting against

in order to be successful defensively and offensively. Since Genesis 3, Satan has been

repeating many of the same assaults. The Bible provides all the information we need to know about

our enemy. Nothing more, nothing less. We urge you not to stray from the Bible should you study

spiritual warfare further. Ezekiel 28 gives us a glimpse of who Satan was before his opening

scene in Genesis 3. Our enemy Lucifer was a guardian cherub, and he was God's personal protector.

He used his wings to cover God on his throne. He was the pinnacle of God's created beings.

No angel could hold a candle to Lucifer. He outranked them in every aspect. Lucifer used his

wisdom to be influential and very manipulative. How else could he have convinced one third

of the angelic army, millions to billions of angels, to rebel against the God of heaven's armies,

and worship him instead? It is very possible that up until this rebellion, heaven had never seen

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