Knowing your enemy, or When was Satan a murderer?

Virtually all of the Christians of this age can easily accept that Satan is a murderer, defacto, and readily blame him for all murders. The amazing thing is, I have not been able to find a story written in the Bible we now have that names him as a murderer. I cannot find it written anywhere that Satan himself ever once "pulled the trigger". All murders contributed to him are instead shown to be actually done by his children.(both the physical "children" and the spiritual ones). There is no doubt that Satan represents in the mind of most the absolute epitome of all evil, and with that I agree completely. There is however, more to the story. The recorded statement of Yahshua in Jn 8:44 no doubt is one of the prime sources to which we attribute the fact that Satan (himself) is indeed a murderer. It is not written, however, except in man's tradition, that he himself actually pulled the trigger, as of YET.

What I am about to state can be easily misunderstood unless you follow through with the thinking. Yashua's statement in Jn 8:44 is of course true. The question naturally arises as to the second witness in the Word. As it turns out it IS there, but not in the books from Genesis to Jude. It is in Rev 11, where the two individuals (witnesses) are slain by him.

There is for some, a third witness as well. Yashua says "he was a murderer from the

beginning". Now the beginning I feel was the first age, about which we have only glimpses as the Spirit allows. We find a written glimpse of this first earth age in Jer 4. At Satan's first rebellion he was then apparently a murderer defacto. In His conversation with the "pharisees", Yashua pointed out for us the fact that they (the pharisees) were of Cain, the first murderer of record in THIS earth age. We all know Cain as Satan's firstborn. Hence, Satan is apparently hiding behind the letter of Fathers Word as in Eze 18: "the sons are not responsible for the deeds of their father, nor a father the sons. Each man shall answer for his own sins" (paraphrased)

God knows the hearts of all His children. Satan's heart (mind) is full of murder, rebellion to God, and deceit to and for all of God's children.

The mistake which the world makes, however, is in not understanding the deceptive nature of Satan. They picture him as evil and sinister, with horns and etc. We chuckle at that, but just perhaps, it is smugness to know him as a "pretty boy" and know also he is coming first as false jesus to deceive the world. In this it is written, that the very elect will not be deceived. I use the word smugness, above, for there are denominations which also have the "pretty boy first" knowledge. Among them are the 7th day Adventists, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, and the Missouri Synod of Lutherans. "Pretty boy first" knowledge is not therefore sufficient in itself to keep from being deceived.

Murder is the most heinous of sins. It is writt

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