The New Watch
"There are Earthly Apex Predators of the Animal Kingdom and there are
Spiritual Apex Predators"
The Roaring Lion of DECEPTION
Time & Chance is Given to All - How Your Ignorance is No Excuse
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! For thou hast said in thine heart; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit (Isa 14:12-15). And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (Rev 12:9). And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light (2 Cor 11:14). As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment (Heb 9:17) . Judgment, because the prince of this world is judged (John 16:11). For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth (Luk 21:35).
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Rom 5:12). But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom 5:8). For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (Jon 3:16). He that believeth on Christ, the works that Christ does shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because Christ goes unto his Father (God) (Rom 14:12).
The Spiritual Battle of "Good & Evil" Fully Explained
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon;and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him (Rev 12:7-9). And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day (Jud 1:7).
Lucifer (or "Light-bearer"), also known as "Satan" and/or the "Devil" is a Fallen Angel who was originally placed on the right throne of God as an anointed Cherub (Ezekiel 28:12-15). Because of prideful disobedience (believed in some scriptures, to have been the act of not worshipping Adam, the first human being (who was God's finest creation (2 Enoch 31:5-6) was kicked out of Heaven with 200 other rebellious angels, and together they are bound roaming the earth as dis-embodied Spirits until the coming of the great judgment. As you're about to read in the following scripture because the Devil and his accompanying spirits have no way of atoning for their sin, they now desire to take as many souls as they can to their appointed place of eternal punishment and torment (Hell, or Sheol).
This led to the fall of mankind with the Serpent fooling Adam and Eve into committing the first ever sin resulting in the curse of death for our fleshly bodies (Genesis 3). Those on this earth who choose to forsake God and his righteous Laws through ignorance of sin will endure the second death by having their soul thrown into Hell for doing the will of Satan by wilfully Sinning (Revelation 21:8). From this point onwards, mankind became accursed with the infirmities of the flesh, but through the saving grace of Gods only begotten son (Christ), we have the "free gift" of the eternal salvation God originally promised Adam (John 3:16).
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children (Hosea 4:6). My people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled (Isaiah 5:13-15). Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it (Matt 7:13-14).