Satan wants to be his own god but cannot. The demons under him also want to be their own gods and they cannot.
Satan did not even create himself. He was originally not even Satan but the archangel Lucifer.
He, along with all the other angels, was created by God to serve Him. As he, Lucifer was originally perfect in all his ways, he may have been a faithful servant to God for a time. How long he was faithful and obedient to God, even worshipping Him as His God willfully and not grudgingly as he does now – is not documented in the Scriptures.
Moreover, in the cases of Job and Simon Peter, the former Lucifer and now Satan along with his demons grudgingly worship God, including Christ Jesus. He cannot defy God head on. Nor can his follower demons, the other fallen angels, defy God (including Christ Jesus) head on. He has to beforehand obtain consent from God before moving against anyone serving God. Sometimes, as in the case of Job, he obtains a limited amount of consent. Other times, as in the case of Simon Peter, consent is denied.
In the case of the demon-possessed man, a legion of demons demonstrated enormous distress upon being confronted by Jesus. They were a legion, many in number, and yet they could not prevent the demon possessed man to fall and worship Jesus.
They couldn‘t. Jesus was and is omnipotent, almighty. He‘s the one who turned what was a large number of beautiful angels into repulsive demons. They couldn‘t stop him.
Upon facing Jesus who had come to exorcize them out of the man, they asked Him to his face what they had to do with him. They feared He had shown up early to cast them into the Lake of Fire ahead of schedule and this terrified them all. Obviously, in this account of a confrontation between Jesus and the demons, the demons themselves revealed how impotent, how weak, powerless they were against Him.
Moreover, when the man fell to worship Jesus at His feet, all the demons were still inside him. This tells me that they recognized Jesus‘s authority as God over them all. You can tell how powerful someone is, how much authority Jesus actually had in Himself by how fearful and how reverent the demons were upon coming face to face with Him.
Moreover, in the book of acts, a number of men who were false believers confronted a demon-possessed man themselves. The demons in that man saw through their charade that they were not acting on God‘s behalf for the demons recognized the spiritual authority of both Jesus and Paul, a bonafide apostle of Jesus.
The demons didn‘t see or detect any of the blood of Jesus on any of them. The demons did the false believers some injury and drove them out naked.
Moreover, Jesus Christ also said that in Satan there is no truth. Jesus, being God, said this and having all authority over all spirit beings most likely said it for it had to have been Him who stripped the devil of the capacity to say any truth.
When Lucifer was still an archangel, he was required to speak truth for he was an anointed cherub. After God cast him out and turned him into a devil, the ability to say the truth was taken away from him. That‘s what I‘m thinking.
It also is written in the book of Revelations, that Satan and the other fallen angels will be cast into the Lake of Fire that God prepared for them all.
With good reason, the legion of demons in that demon-possessed man was paranoid when Jesus appeared before them to cast them out of him.
Thus, if the former archangel Lucifer and all of the angels who joined him in the revolt against God were powerless to prevent God to convert them from beautiful angels into repulsive beings, to take away their capacity to tell the truth, to paralyze them whenever Jesus appeared before any of them, to compel them to ask permission before making a move against a servant of God or any apostle of His, it‘s obvious that the Devil, Satan, and all of the demons with him – are subject to worshipping God and that they learned this the hard way, through defeat at His hands.
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1The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
This is not an earthly king, as the word “cherub” is only used in references to angels.
“The Origin Of Satan Lucifer Devil Bible Genesis Why Did God Made Make Satan Devil Lucifer”. 2018. Angelfire.Com. Accessed December 3, 2018. http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/lucifer.html
15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Ezekiel 28:1-19
Lucifer was the Anointed Cherub. Anointed means to be set apart for Gods Divine purpose. It also means “bestowal of Gods divine favor”, and “appointment to a special place or function.”
God had given Satan a certain amount of power and authority. But he perverted that power. Lucifer wanted to exalt himself above God… rather than “just” being the Angel of God.
Like man, the angels were created perfect, and with a free will.
Satan was lifted up because of his beauty, he corrupted the wisdom by reason of his brightness (This is in Ezekiel 28:17)
“The Origin Of Satan Lucifer Devil Bible Genesis Why Did God Made Make Satan Devil Lucifer”. 2018. Angelfire.Com. Accessed December 3, 2018. http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/lucifer.html
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“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isaiah 14:12-13
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Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7
And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 9
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. 12
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
Job: 1:6-12
5 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
“Bible Gateway Passage: Mark 5:1-20, Luke 8:26-39 – King James Version”. 2018. Bible Gateway. Accessed December 3, 2018. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+5%3A1-20%2CLuke+8%3A26-39&version=KJV.
13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
“Bible Gateway Passage: Acts 19:11-17 – King James Version”. 2018. Bible Gateway. Accessed December 3 2018. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+19%3A11-17&version=KJV.
31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
“Bible Gateway Passage: Luke 22:31-34 – King James Version”. 2018. Bible Gateway. Accessed December 3 2018. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+22%3A31-34&version=KJV.
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