### Bible Study Outlines

Volume 1, Lesson 12
by C.I. Scofield

## Satan, Part I

### His Personality and History

1. Satan is a person

The words implying and asserting that Satan is a person and not merely an "evil influence personified" are in every passage referring to him.

- Job 1:6-12 - "Satan came... going to and fro in the earth... Satan answered"
- 1Chronicles 21:1 - "And Satan stood up... and provoked David"
- Matthew 4:1-11 - "[The Tempter] said... if thou wilt worship me... Then the devil leaveth Him"
- John 8:44 - "He was a murderer... he is a liar"
- 1Peter 5:8 - "The devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour"

- Satan has ever sought an embodiment in human beings

1. In the serpent in Eden
   - Genesis 3:1-5 - "The serpent was more subtil"
   - Revelation 12:9; 20:2 - "Old serpent"
   - 2Corinthians 11:3 - "The serpent beguiled Eve"
2. In a king of Babylon
   - Isaiah 14:4-19 - "Lucifer, son of the morning." The language goes beyond the mere king in whom Satan had been embodied. Verses 12-19 also look ahead to Satan's last embodiment (Revelation 13:2,4)
3. In a king of Tyre
   - Ezekiel 28:11-15 - "Thou hast been in Eden... Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth... thou wast... created"
4. In the beast out of the sea
   - Revelation 13:1-4 - "The dragon gave him his power"

- His origin and history -- Old Testament

- Ezekiel 28:15 - "Created"
- Ezekiel 28:14 - "Cherub"
- Ezekiel 28:12 - "Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty"
- Isaiah 14:12 - "Fallen from heaven" (See also Luke 10:18)
- Isaiah 14:13,14 - "I will be like the most High"

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