Satan is an agent of God who tests the children of God to see if they are faithful to God. Jesus is so tested in the wilderness to give up his mission and go for the crowns and the glittering cities he would rule over. Jesus passes GOD’S TEST and says;
“Get behind me!”
Millions of self-proclaimed evangelicals and Christians love to listen to Rush Limbaugh. He has become their inner voice that tells them they are right on target, doing the Lord’s work by hating the folks “Rusty Slater” tells them to hate. Red is the unholy spirit for millions of Christians who eat up his hatred like corn cereal.
At forty years of age I read all of Luke through the night and was in the light. In the next day or two I am reading the hateful divisive words of Paul – and rebuked him! Here is Satan putting me – a new Christian – to the test! Here is a serial killer who opposed and murdered the saints of the first church, claims he is reformed, then tells Jews to forsake the laws of Moses. Surely the Jews who made up the original church knew the defination of Satan.
“The original Hebrew term, satan, is a noun from a verb meaning primarily to, “obstruct, oppose,”
“Get behind me Satan!”
“In Kabbalistic literature and its derivative, Hasidic literature, the Satan is seen as an agent of God whose job is to tempt one into sin, and then turn around and accuse the sinner on high. An additional understanding of Satan is from a parable to a prostitute who is hired by the King (God) to tempt his son (a Jew). The prostitute has to do the best she can to tempt the son; but deep down she hopes the son will pass the test. Similarly, Kabbalistic/Hasidic thought sees the Satan in the same situation. His job is to tempt us as best he can, and then turn around and accuse us; deep down, however, he hopes we will resist his blandishments”
As far as I can tell no evangelical or Christian leader or minister, or Rabbi, has stepped forth and condemned Rush Limbaugh for acting like Satan when he called Fluke a slut and whore, then bid her to post sex acts of herself on the internet. As a Nazarite consecrated to God, I hereby condemn this monster-mouth that spew out vile, and cast him back to hell! Bon Voyage! Don’t forget you Viagra!
Red Slutter has sired no children, avoided the draft, and does not go to church, yet he is the SPIRITUAL HEAD AND VOICE OF TENS OF MIILONS OF CHRISTIANS whom have gotten in line for their tax refunds, because God hired Big Red to be the prostitute on THE WAY to waylay all those pretenders out there. HE knows who you are.
I warned you to repent. Now it is too late. Judgement Day has arrived! Bring out God’s Witness, the Childless Red Prostitute who is the Advocate, the voice of the Evil Ones! Big Red Slut is the soul of the false evangelical church!
So be it!
Jon the Nazarite
This article is about the concept of Satan. For the concept of “devil”, see Devil. For other uses, see Satan (disambiguation).
Gustave Doré, Depiction of Satan, the antagonist of John Milton’s Paradise Lost c.1866.Satan (Hebrew: הַשָּׂטָן ha-Satan), “the opposer”,[1] is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible.[2] In Christianity the title became a personal name, and “Satan” changed from an accuser appointed by God to test men’s faith to the chief of the rebellious fallen angels (“the devil” in Christianity, “Shaitan” in Arabic, the term used by Arab Christians and Muslims).[3] In Islam, a shayṭān is any evil creature, whether human, animal or spirit. With the definite article, the Shayṭān is Iblis, the Devil.
JudaismHebrew BibleThe original Hebrew term, satan, is a noun from a verb meaning primarily to, “obstruct, oppose,” as it is found in Numbers 22:22, 1 Samuel 29:4, Psalms 109:6.[4] Ha-Satan is traditionally translated as “the accuser,” or “the adversary.” The definite article “ha-”, English “the”, is used to show that this is a title bestowed on a being, versus the name of a being. Thus this being would be referred to as “the Satan.”[5]
Ha-Satan with the definite article occurs 13 times in the Masoretic Text, in two books of the Hebrew Bible:
Job ch.1–2 (10x),[6]
Zechariah 3:1–2 (3x).[7]
Satan without the definite article is used in 10 instances, of which two are translated diabolos in the Septuagint and “Satan” in the King James Version:
1 Chronicles 21:1, “Satan stood up against Israel” (KJV) or “And there standeth up an adversary against Israel” (Young’s Literal Translation)[8]
Psalm 109:6b “and let Satan stand at his right hand” (KJV)[9] or “let an accuser stand at his right hand.” (ESV, etc.)
The other eight instances of satan without the definite article are traditionally translated (in Greek, Latin and English) as “an adversary”, etc., and taken to be humans or obedient angels:
Numbers 22:22,23 “and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him.”
23 “behold, I went out to withstand thee,”
1 Samuel 29:4 The Philistines say: “lest he [David] be an adversary against us”
2 Samuel 19:22 David says: “[you sons of Zeruaiah] should this day be adversaries (plural) unto me?”
1 Kings 5:4 Solomon writes to Hiram: “there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.
1 Kings 11:14 “And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite”[10]
1 Kings 11:23 “And God stirred him up an adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah”
25 “And he [Rezon] was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon”
Job’s SatanIn the Book of Job, ha-Satan is a member of the divine council, “the sons of God” who are subservient to God. Ha-Satan, in this capacity, is many times translated as “the prosecutor”, and is charged by God to tempt humans and to report back to God all who go against His decrees. At the beginning of the book, Job is a good person “who feared God and turned away from evil” (Job 1:1), and has therefore been rewarded by God. When the divine council meets, God informs ha-Satan about Job’s blameless, morally upright character. Between Job 1:9–10 and 2:4–5, ha-Satan merely points out that God has given Job everything that a man could want, so of course Job would be loyal to God; if all Job has been given, even his health, were to be taken away from him, however, his faith would collapse. God therefore grants ha-Satan the chance to test Job.[11] Due to this, it has been interpreted that ha-Satan is under God’s control and cannot act without God’s permission. This is further shown in the epilogue of Job in which God is speaking to Job, ha-Satan is absent from these dialogues. “For Job, for [Job’s] friends, and for the narrator, it is ultimately Yahweh himself who is responsible for Job’s suffering; as Yahweh says to the ‘satan’, ‘You have incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.’” (Job 2:3) [7]
SeptuagintIn the Septuagint the Hebrew ha-Satan in Job and Zechariah is translated by the Greek word diabolos (slanderer), the same word in the Greek New Testament from which the English word devil is derived. Where satan is used of human enemies in the Hebrew Bible, such as Hadad the Edomite and Rezon the Syrian, the word is left untranslated but transliterated in the Greek as satan, a neologism in Greek.[12] In Zechariah 3 this changes the vision of the conflict over Joshua the High Priest in the Septuagint into a conflict between “Jesus and the devil”, identical with the Greek text of Matthew.
Jewish apocryphaJewish apocrypha includes texts written in the Jewish religious tradition either in the Intertestamental period or in the early Christian era, but outside the Christian tradition. It does not include books in the canonical Hebrew Bible, nor those accepted into the canon of some or all Christian faiths. To reconcile the late appearance of the texts with their claims to primitive antiquity, alleged authors are represented as “shutting up and sealing” (Dan. XII. 4:9) the works until the time of their fulfillment had arrived; as the texts were not meant for their own generations but for far-distant ages (also cited in Assumption of Moses I. 16:17). In the Book of Wisdom, the devil is represented as the being who brought death into the world.[13]
The Second Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references to a Watcher (Grigori) called Satanael.[14] It is a pseudepigraphic text of an uncertain date and unknown authorship. The text describes Satanael as being the prince of the Grigori who was cast out of heaven[15] and an evil spirit who knew the difference between what was “righteous” and “sinful”.[16] A similar story is found in the book of 1 Enoch; however, in that book, the leader of the Grigori is called Semjâzâ.
In the apocryphal literature, Satan rules over a host of angels.[17] Mastema, who induced God to test Abraham through the sacrifice of Isaac, is identical with Satan in both name and nature.[18]
For the Chasidic Jews of the 18th century, ha-Satan was Baal Davar.[19] The Book of Enoch contains references to Satariel, thought also to be Sataniel and Satan’el (etymology dating back to Babylonian origins). The similar spellings mirror that of his angelic brethren Michael, Raphael, Uriel and Gabriel, previous to the fall from Heaven.
Talmud and other rabbinic sourcesThe Talmud mentions the Satan in many places. In all of these places, the Satan is an agent of God, and has no independent existence. Sometimes the Satan is conflated with various demons, such as Asmodai. At times there is even some sympathy for him. Commenting on the Book of Job, the rabbis express sympathy that his job was to “break the barrel but not spill any wine.”[20]
In Kabbalistic literature and its derivative, Hasidic literature, the Satan is seen as an agent of God whose job is to tempt one into sin, and then turn around and accuse the sinner on high. An additional understanding of Satan is from a parable to a prostitute who is hired by the King (God) to tempt his son (a Jew). The prostitute has to do the best she can to tempt the son; but deep down she hopes the son will pass the test. Similarly, Kabbalistic/Hasidic thought sees the Satan in the same situation. His job is to tempt us as best he can, and then turn around and accuse us; deep down, however, he hopes we will resist his blandishments.
Christianity
The coat of arms of Arkhangelsk (Russia) depicts archangel Michael fighting against Satan.Main article: Christian teaching about the Devil
See also: War in Heaven
In Christianity, terms that are synonymous with “Satan” include:
The most common English synonym for “Satan” is “Devil”, which descends from Middle English devel, from Old English dēofol, that in turn represents an early Germanic borrowing of Latin diabolus (also the source of “diabolical”). This in turn was borrowed from Greek diabolos “slanderer”, from diaballein “to slander”: dia- “across, through” + ballein “to hurl”.[21] In the New Testament, “Satan” occurs more than 30 times in passages alongside Diabolos (Greek for “the devil”), referring to the same person or thing as Satan.[22]
Beelzebub, meaning “Lord of Flies”, is the contemptuous name given in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to a Philistine god whose original name has been reconstructed as most probably “Ba’al Zabul”, meaning “Baal the Prince”.[23]
Satan is traditionally identified as the serpent who convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit; thus, Satan has often been depicted as a serpent.
The Book of Revelation twice refers to “the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan,” (12:9, 20:2). The Book of Revelation also refers to “the deceiver,” from which is derived the common epithet “the great deceiver.”[24]
Other terms identified with Satan include “the prince of this world” in the Book of John 12:31, 14:30; “the prince of the power of the air” also called Meririm, and “the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” in the Book of Ephesians 2:2; and “the god of this world” in 2 Corinthians 4:4.[25]
From the fourth Century Lucifer is sometimes used in Christian theology to refer to Satan, as a result of identifying the fallen “son of the dawn” of Isaiah 14:12 with the “accuser” of other passages in the Old Testament.
Satan as depicted in the Ninth Circle of Hell in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, illustrated by Gustave Doré.In traditional Christian understanding of the holy Hebrew scriptures, the Torah, Satan is a synonym for the Devil. For most Christians, he is believed to be an angel who rebelled against God—and also the one who spoke through the serpent and seduced Eve into disobeying God’s command. His ultimate goal is to lead people away from the love of God—to lead them to fallacies which God opposes. Satan is also identified as the accuser of Job, the tempter in the Gospels, the secret power of lawlessness in 2 Thessalonians 2:7, and the dragon in the Book of Revelation. Before his insurrection, Satan was among the highest of all angels and the “brightest in the sky”. His pride is considered a reason why he would not bow to God as all other angels did, but sought to rule heaven himself. The popularly held beliefs that Satan was once a prideful angel who eventually rebels against God, however, are not portrayed explicitly in the Bible and are mostly based on inference (e.g., Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14:12–17). In mainstream Christianity he is called “the ruler of the demons” (Matt. 12:24), “the ruler of the world” and “the god of this world”. (2 Cor. 4:4). The Book of Revelation describes how Satan will be cast out of Heaven, down to the earth, having “great anger” and waging war against “those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus”. Ultimately, Satan is thrown into the “Lake of fire”, not as ruler, but as one among many, being tormented day and night forever and ever.[26]
In other Christian beliefs (e.g. the beliefs of the Christadelphians) the word “satan” in the Bible is not regarded as referring to a supernatural, personal being but to any “adversary” and figuratively refers to human sin and temptation.[27]
In June 2006, Limbaugh had further drug problems when a bottle of Viagra was found in his luggage at the Palm Beach Airport. The prescription was not in Limbaugh’s name, but no charges were filed against Limbaugh, who was returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic with four male companions.
Limbaugh is a derivative of “Limbach” from Germany from the Limbach village, located between Stuttgard and Frankfurt, 20 miles east of Mannheim. Rush Limbaugh is as German as a Mercedes and a S-class at that…. with a turbo-charged twin horn harmonic horn….
Limbaugh came to manhood in an era when the nation had a military draft for the Vietnam war. He avoided service by having his physician certify his medical unfitness due to an “inoperable pilonidal cyst” and “a football knee from high school.” He played one year of varsity football in high school, and his coach, Ryland Meyr, said later he remembered no injuries to Limbaugh. Those who loathe Limbaugh sometimes describe his pilonidal cyst as “a boil on his butt”, but that is an oversimplification. A pilonidal cyst is a chronic collection of pus or an abnormal draining passage leading to an abscess, located in the opening between the buttocks muscles. It is susceptible to infection, which can be dangerous on a war front, so severe pilonidal cysts have long been (and still are) legitimate grounds for exemption from military service. The peculiar thing is that Limbaugh denies he ever had a pilonidal cyst, dismissing it as “internet bull”, though the record is plain.
In his book The Way Things Ought To Be, Limbaugh wrote, “I believe that strong, wholesome family values are at the very core of a productive, prosperous, and peaceful society.” So what are Limbaugh’s family values? His first wife, Roxy Maxine McNeely, was a sales secretary at a Kansas City radio station. She was granted divorce under grounds of incompatibility after almost three years of marriage. His second wife, Michelle Sixta, was an usher at the Royals’ ball park. They divorced after about five years. He met his third wife, aerobics instructor Marta Fitzgerald, through CompuServe’s dating service, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas performed their wedding ceremony. According to the Palm Beach Post, Limbaugh and Fitzgerald maintained separate houses during their marriage. She divorced Limbaugh at his request after ten years of marriage, at about the time Limbaugh began dating then-CNN anchor Daryn Kagan.
Rush Limbaugh unleashed his ire when a caller on his Tuesday show asked him about his 2006 Viagra scandal.
In June of that year, Limbaugh was detained in a Florida airport after returning from a trip to the Dominican Republican with Viagra that he did not have a prescription for. On Tuesday, after he had talked about the Anthony Weiner scandal for some time, a caller asked him, “how is this different from you going to the sexual tourist destination of Dominican Republic with a bottle of Viagra?”
Limbaugh proceeded to tear into the caller for the next few minutes.
“What you describe about me isn’t true,” he said. “You are repeating Internet rumors based in hatred and misinformation.”
He told the caller that he was a “glittering jewel of colossal ignorance” and that he was trying to excuse “depravity” and get his “jolling” by believing “bs.” He also told the man that it was people like him who were “responsible for the precarious position this great nation finds itself in.”
Satan (Hebrew: הַשָּׂטָן ha-Satan), “the opposer”,[1] is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible.[2] In Christianity the title became a personal name, and “Satan” changed from an accuser appointed by God to test men’s faith to the chief of the rebellious fallen angels (“the devil” in Christianity, “Shaitan” in Arabic, the term used by Arab Christians and Muslims).[3] In Islam, a shayṭān is any evil creature, whether human, animal or spirit. With the definite article, the Shayṭān is Iblis, the Devil.
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