Your Adversary the Devil
White Horse Inn
Sola Media
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Who is the devil? Where does he come from, and how do modern perceptions of him line up with biblical teaching? On this episode of White Horse Inn, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and special guest Pastor David Cassidy discuss the idea of personified evil and the way caricatures of Satan and his origins have transformed through the ages and are reflected on the pages of Scripture.
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| 0:00.0 | When we talk about Satan as a name, Satan as a name, Satan as a name is actually first a title, not a name. |
| 0:10.0 | So a little bit like the way we use Christ as a name which is really first a title in |
| 0:16.0 | 1st Kings 1114 just to bring this out when Solomon is falling and intermarrying with wives and building temples for their gods. |
| 0:27.0 | The Lord comes to him and says, I'm going to raise up adversaries to you. |
| 0:32.0 | That's the Hebrew term that's used. An adversary is a Satan. |
| 0:37.0 | Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe the masses would gather for |
| 0:46.5 | discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land. |
| 0:51.1 | From one such meeting place a small Cambridge inn called the White Horse the |
| 0:55.5 | reformation came to the English-speaking world. Carrying on the tradition |
| 1:00.2 | welcome to the White Horse Inn. |
| 1:10.0 | Satan is everywhere in popular culture. There's movies, comedies, dramas, just think of a few, bedazzled, Devil's Advocate, Hell Boy, Devil in a Blue Dress. |
| 1:21.1 | The Devil Wears Prada, Fallen. |
| 1:24.0 | There's some famous songs that mention Satan, sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones, |
| 1:28.8 | Friend of the Devil Grateful Dead. |
| 1:31.4 | Devil went down to Georgia, highway to hell, AC D.C. Christmas with the devil, |
| 1:36.2 | Spinal Tap, running with the devil, Van Halen, and shout at the devil, motley crew. |
| 1:42.1 | Or, maybe most famously for those that remember 1986 to 1990 |
| 1:47.4 | there is Dana Carvey the church lady could it be the devil? |
| 1:53.4 | From the opening to the closing pages of scripture, Satan is presented as an enemy of God and subsequently |
| 1:59.9 | an enemy of God's people. |
| 2:02.3 | In each of the synoptic Gospel, |
| 2:04.0 | Satan appears as the tempter |
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