{"id":646,"date":"2009-11-23T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T15:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=646"},"modified":"2009-11-23T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T15:08:16","slug":"the-devil-and-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/646\/the-devil-and-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"the devil and Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I had some thoughts on the devil sinning from the beginning (1Jn. 3:8) and Satan being perfect from the day he was created until iniquity was found in him (Ezek. 28).\u00a0\u00a0 Looks like two different beings.\u00a0\u00a0 When I was looking up some Scriptures, I did notice that the devil isn&#8217;t mentioned until the New Testament like you said.\u00a0\u00a0 Just wonder when his beginning was.\u00a0\u00a0 And he was never perfect in his ways if he sinned from the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Sarah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">ps.\u00a0\u00a0 one thought sure does lead to another..<br \/>\n============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Yes, it surely does.\u00a0 But this thought is not where the gold is.<br \/>\nI have met people who teach that the devil is a separate being from Satan, but that is not the case.\u00a0 John tells us plainly that the devil is Satan in Revelation 12:9.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">But keep thinking on these things!\u00a0 Every gold prospector in history has dug where the gold was not before he discovered where it was.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">jdc<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; John, I had some thoughts on the devil sinning from the beginning (1Jn. 3:8) and Satan being perfect from the day he was created until iniquity was found in him (Ezek. 28).\u00a0\u00a0 Looks like two different beings.\u00a0\u00a0 When I was looking up some Scriptures, I did notice that the devil isn&#8217;t mentioned until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}