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Catechism Of The Catholic Church Reprinted With Permission.
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But since Satan is truly an evil creature, we still choose to portray him with horns
… plus cleft hoofs, tail, goatee beard, red outfit, pitchfork, etc. What does Satan
really look like? Read 2nd Corinthians 11:14:
And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light.
For a more detailed description of Satan, look at Ezekiel 28: 12-15:
And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou
wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty. Thou wast in the
pleasures of the paradise of God: every
precious stone was thy covering: the sardius,
the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and
the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the
carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of
thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the
day that thou wast created. Thou a cherub
stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in
the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in
the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast
perfect in thy ways from the day of thy
creation, until iniquity was found in thee.
Satan is an angel who was created to protect God’s throne. He was exceedingly
beautiful, shiny and wise (the Hebrew term used for “serpent” (Satan) in the
Garden of Eden means “glittering one”). It is theorized that he made beautiful
music whenever he moved! Everything was fine until he became prideful and tried
to overthrow God. From other Bible texts, we know that 1/3 of the angels sided
with Satan. The battle in the heavens still rages today, but Satan has already lost!
The prophet Isaiah (Chapter 14: 12-19) tells us of his ultimate fate:
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how
art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations? And thou saidst in thy
heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I
will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north. I will ascend
above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High. But yet thou shalt be
brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit. They that shall see thee, shall turn
toward thee, and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook
kingdoms, That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof,
that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own
house. But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and
wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the
bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.
Having said this much about Satan already, we might just as well wrap it up with
some critically important details from St. Paul in Galatians 1:8-12:
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that
which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now
I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have
received, let him be anathema. For do I now persuade men, or God?
Satan before the fall
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