Satan or the Devil

We believe he was created perfect, as a Cherub called Lucifer, in the original creation, and because of pride, rebelled against God and became the author of sin. After the recreation of heaven and earth, he appeared as an angel of light to Eve in the Garden of Eden and tempted her to willfully disobey God's command, resulting in the fall of man. We believe he was then cursed, to be henceforth referred to as a serpent, of the dragon. Now as a great red dragon he abides in the great deep and as the devil he appears on earth and in heaven as the god of this world to fulfill the ultimate will of God in judging, killing, deceiving, hindering, tempting and accusing. During the fulfillment of Daniel' s 70th Week, of the Great Tribulation, he will come down to earth to indwell the anti-christ. After the antichrist is destroyed, he will be chained in the bottomless pit for 1000 years, at the end of which he will be loosed to assemble an army of sinners for his last attempt to overthrow God. He and his army will be destroyed and he will be cast into a lake of fire forever. Ezekiel 28:12-19; Isaiah 14:12-15; II Peter 3:3-7; Genesis 1:1-3,28; II Corinthians 4:3,4; 11:14; Genesis 3:1-6, 14-19; Romans 5:12; Revelation 12:3,9; Job 41:31-34; Job 1:6-12; 2:1-7; Jeremiah 51:20-25; John 8:44; I Thessalonians 2:18; II Thessalonians 2:3-9; Revelation 19:11-20; 20:1-10.