Truly born again Christians don’t think of God or Christ or angels or heaven, for the most part, as some “general” goodness or feeling of goodness.  A true Christian understands the dynamics of what scripture teaches us about Christ, God, the Holy Spirit, & heaven and angels.

Yet the ambigious “general feeling” I think is sometimes applied to the enemy - Satan, and his power in deception is underestimated, to our own fall.

If we do not understand some of the dynamics about the tempter, then we will not be prepared intellectually to battle the ways he attacks us.  So here are some things you may not know, or acknowledge, about Satan:

• He was the perfection of wisdom and beauty (Ezek. 28.12)
• He possesses:
  • Intelligence (2 Cor. 2:11; 11:3)
  • Memory (Matt. 4:6)
  • a Will (2 Tim. 2:26)
  • Desire (22:31)
  • Great organizational ability (1 Tim. 4:1; Rev. 2:9, 24)

Sometimes I think some of the “realness” of Satan is overlooked for some general “concession” of evil.  He attacks us at our weaknesses, not our strengths, and he’s been around for thousands of years perfecting these abilities.  If we underestimate, we might give Him a foothold, and bring about more difficulty in resisting temptation.  Let’s not underestimate the enemy…