{"product_id":"unmasking-the-devil-what-the-bible-actually-says-9798995379232","title":"Unmasking the Devil: What the Bible Actually Says","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gage Coldwater\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Deliberate Path Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Deliberate Path Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Theology - Angelology \u0026amp; Demonology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClose your eyes and picture the Devil.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost people land on a red figure with horns, hooves, and a pitchfork. Or a smooth, articulate rebel in expensive clothing who offers deals and quotes poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNeither image came from the Bible. Not one feature of either picture is found in Scripture. The first was assembled over centuries from Greek mythology, medieval art, and folk tradition. The second was invented by a seventeenth-century English poet in \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth have been so widely distributed for so long that most people cannot picture the Devil without reaching for one or the other. And both picture something that does not exist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThat is the problem this book takes up.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen you fill the space where a real Adversary belongs with a picture that does not match him, you are not safer. You are more exposed. The person afraid of a cartoon is not afraid of anything real. The person fascinated by a romantic rebel has already been moved by the thing he thought he was only observing. Scripture names this vulnerability in 2 Corinthians 2:11 - \u003ci\u003e\"lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Ignorance of his actual methods is an advantage given to him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnmasking the Devil\u003c\/i\u003e is a thirteen-chapter study of what Scripture actually establishes about the Adversary. His origin in the heavenly realm. His fall. His names. His methods. His limits. His defeat at the cross. And what the believer is given to stand against him with. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach chapter takes one truth and hands it forward to the next: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe heavenly realm before the fall, and why this chapter had to come first\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eSatan's origin in Scripture - and the line between what the text states and what tradition has added\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe names and titles of Satan, and what each one reveals about him\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe Devil we invented - horns, hooves, pitchforks, Dante, and Milton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe cultural Devil of the modern world, and the disguise as his primary mode\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe serpent's strategy - the three moves that have not changed since Eden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe accuser of the brethren, and the closed court of Romans 8\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003ePrincipalities and powers, with a word about modern speculation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eDemons in Scripture, and what Scripture does not teach about them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhat Satan cannot do - the limits the text draws around him\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe defeat already accomplished at the cross\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe armor of God, piece by piece\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cli\u003eVictory in Jesus, and how a believer walks in it\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery factual claim is backed by Scripture or a cited source. All quotations are drawn from the King James Version. Hebrew and Greek terms are given and explained plainly. Each chapter closes with review questions for personal study, Bible class, or small-group use. Three appendices close the volume - a Scripture reference sheet, a glossary of key terms, and a recommended reading list. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is not designed to frighten you.\u003c\/b\u003e It is not written to produce obsession or paranoia about the demonic. It is written because the person who does not understand the Adversary is not safer for the ignorance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is written for high school and college-aged readers who are ready to do adult work with the Bible. It is equally suited to adult Bible classes and to any believer who wants the Adversary treated from the text itself - without the cartoon, without the romance, and without the speculation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKnow the Adversary the way Scripture presents him. Then stand in the armor God has already provided, on ground Christ has already won. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith.\"\u003c\/i\u003e - 1 Peter 5:8-9","brand":"Deliberate Path Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883451138199,"sku":"9798995379232","price":1440.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798995379232.webp?v=1781101955","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/unmasking-the-devil-what-the-bible-actually-says-9798995379232","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}