Thank you for keeping an open mind and watching the video.
That said, (and despite his "credentials", like you need a credential in fairy stories) he makes a very valid point.
If Satan was so important to the Cosmology of the universe, why is he not mentioned in the bible until the later parts of the Old Testament?
I don't think Satan is that important because the Bible represents Satan as a created being and a cherub (Ezekiel 28:14) which is an angel. The book of Job is arguably the oldest book in the Old Testament for those who can do higher criticism so he is revealed from the beginning and this book may be older than Genesis. I also feel guilty studying Satan because Jesus is much more important but that may be why Satan isn't the whole focus of the Bible.
No mention in the Torah, the books of Samuel, the books of Kings. Few mentions by the prophets. Satan doesn't show up until the writings of the "Second Temple" Period, which was after the Jews returned from Babylon and were no doubt exposed to Zoroasterism and other religions with a dualistic view of divinity.
Satan's name was Lucifer. If you look at names like Adam or Eve, some people think they are titles and not names because the word "name" in Genesis 3:16 can mean "reputation" and so on so when you look at the meaning of "Eve" it means "mother of all living" which could be a description instead of a name. The problem with language was all lost in the flood except for what came off the ark and stones that survived (the Rosetta stone) and inscriptions in caves and so forth. Satan can actually mean "advesary" and be a description just like his name could probably mean "slanderer" and so forth. My name is Chuck but then some people wanted to call me by other descriptions as I got older.
Satan's most notable appearence in the OT is in the horrible Book of Job, where God lets Satan murder Job's family and torture Job in horrible ways on what pretty much was the cosmic equivlent of a bar bet.
This is not a fallen angel subverting God's will.
If you read the book of Job, God gave everything back to Job that He lost and increased what Job had.
The video's premise is that the problem is that people think Satan exists and the title is "the evolution of Satan in the Bible" so the video basically asserts a different time line where Satan first appears to where his name changes instead of the time line where angels existed, Lucifer was lifted up with pride and his name or title gets changed based on Lucifer's behavior..
There really is no evolution except from their turn from good to evil. God created angels and Lucifer was filled by pride that he wanted God's position and as a result the angels rebelled and left their first estate.
God does use angels or fallen angels to accomplish His will and that may prove problematic for people:
1 Kings 22:19 And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
1 Kings 22:20 And
the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.
1 Kings 22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
1 Kings 22:22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and
I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
1 Kings 22:23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
And then there is the problem of lieing. Is it ever right to lie? There were Christians who hid some of the Jewish people and the question arises if it is ever okay to lie. Is it okay for a Christian to lie in order to save life as in the life of some of the Jews to save them from the Nazis??
I believe the answer is "yes" because God approved of Rahab hiding the spies in the Bible.
Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
God cannot lie. He might let others accomplish His will but He did not force them to sin so if I send my wife to the grocery market, am I responsible for her if she decides to speed? No.
The problem is that Lucifer decided that He wanted to be like God and I would like to build a timeline and you have to place Satan falling like lightning and getting kicked out of heaven somewhere in the timeline so it is either sometime in Genesis or Job depending on when people want to date the books.
My conclusion of the video is the author of the video tries to do some gerrymandering and place the facts in an order that tries to prove what he wants to prove without looking at all of the facts so he basically builds a false timeline or construct. I want to look at the whole timeline and I basically conclude that these are angels that will always be angels and that their changing and appearing to people can be part deception on their own part but they were always there from the beginning after their creation. The angels were to keep or "guard" their first estate (keep means guard) and they basically left heaven for another which I assume is this earth and that was one of their sins other than following Lucifer.
These are some of the verses which I would use to support this article and any further article that I would write defending the Biblical position on what I would use. My Christian brothers and sisters can have these as reference.
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References:
Genesis 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Job 1:6 ¶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job 1:7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
1 Chronicles 21:1 ¶ And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
1 Samuel 28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
Luke 10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Jude 1:6 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.
Ezekiel 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Ezekiel 28:13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Colossians 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils (h8163 שָׂעִיר sa`iyr), after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Isaiah 14:12 ¶ 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!
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