Satan

By

Lewis Sperry Chafer

1909

Contents

Foreword, by Dr. C. I. Scofield

Author's Introduction

1. The Career of Satan
2. The Ages
3. The Course of This Age
4. This Age and the Satanic System
5. The Satanic Host
6. Satan's Motive
7. Satan's Methods
8. The Man of Sin
9. The Fatal Omission
10. Modern Devices
11. The Believer's Present Position
12. The Believer's Present Victory

Foreword.

If any word of mine shall add to the number of the readers of this bookI shall be glad to have written it; and I sincerely wish that allbelievers, and especially all ministers and Christian workers, might insome way be led to read it.

The subject is vital to any right understanding of the age in which welive, and of the personal conflict which we wage; for the existence,personality, and power of Satan are awful facts and of immense presentsignificance.

We walk in the midst of his snares, hear on every hand his doctrinesproclaimed by men of blameless lives "transformed as the ministers ofrighteousness," and are allured by the pleasure, place and power of hisperfectly organized world-system.

I know of no other book on Satan in which the dispensational aspects ofthe subject are so clearly stated, nor any other so severely Biblical.

C. I. Scofield.

Introduction.

The world has been willing to comply with the wishes and projects ofSatan to the extent of ceasing to believe that he really exists; thisunbelief being most advantageous to his present undertakings. Yet theopinions of men have never changed the facts of revelation, and,according to Scripture, Satan exists; still possessed with great powerand influence over the affairs of men—a power and influence to beincreasingly dreaded as this present age advances.

The teachings of Scripture on this important subject are but littleunderstood by Christians and seem to be entirely outside the thought ofthe world. It is, therefore, to be expected that any attempt to presentthis truth will seem, to many, mere folly and fiction.

The name Satan has by no means been lost. It has, however, beenassociated with a most unscriptural fancy. Without reference torevelation, the world has imagined a grotesque being, fitted withstrange trappings, who has been made the central character in theatricalperformances; and by this relation to the unreality of the theatre, thereal character of Satan has come to be only one of the myths of a bygoneage.

Scripture reveals a detailed description of the person and career ofSatan; beginning with his creation; his original condition; his fall,and on to his kingdom with all its developments, and his final defeat