# Episode 4: Satan - The RULER

## The war is real

***And You defending yourself?***

### Ask these questions:
- Can we defeat an enemy we don't acknowledge - even deny his existence?
- Can we pepare against an attack if we are not discerning the source?
- Can we build our defenses without getting crushed, not knowing and understanding Satan's strateges against us?
- Can we protect ourselves and our loved ones if we do not take charge in the fight against the evil that is looking to overtake us - devour us?

## Previously on God-Waves: Episodes 1, 2 & 3
In our previous three episodes on **spiritual warfare,** we investigated Satan's characteristics as the adversary of God and humanity, his trademark as the **father of lies, as the deceiver,** and his purpose role as the Destroyer. 

We introduced the **defensive and offensive weapons** we as Christians have been given by **God** to not only defend ourselves but operate from a **position of victory** - because Jesus Christ's crucifixion was not a defeat - it was a victory - and we need to understand that we are operating from a position of victory, which has already occurred - *not from a position of defeat,* which is granted to the enemies of God.


## Today on Episode 4: Satan, the RULER
His Target
His Weapon
His Purpose
Our Defense
From the Armor: The Breasplate of Righteousness

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## Legal yet Unlawful
Satan has been given the **legal** right to deceive, destroy, accuse, and to rule over us by whom? 

**By us. By man.** Although acting *unlawfully* by violating God's commands and questioning God's Kingship, man has given the enemy power through permission of rule. Interestingly, the same applies to human government in most cases. 

Yet, we don't have to be dominated and ***ruled over*** by evil. We have choice. 

By accepting *Jesus Christ* as our **Lord and Saviour,** we acknowledging God's Kingship, His government, His rules, *His Kingdom, His protection, and we are granted all resources of Heaven and eternal live.* 

*It's a choice!*

Let's see, being ruled by a deceiver who seeks to **destroy and kill,** or submit ourselves to the rule of God, the Creator of the universe, t*he giver of life, the source of Love.* It is an easy choice for me.

Let us not be deceived, Satan is a highly intelligent, crafty and deceptive *created* being. 

> Genesis 3:1 (KJV 1900)
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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## Our Defenses
### The Armor of God:

> Ephesians 6:10–18 (KJV 1900)
> 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 
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. 
> 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
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