The Satan and Demons • Understand Evil Spiritual Beings in the Bible (Spiritual Beings Series Ep 4) 

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Humans: *exist* Devil: *and I took that personally*

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“Working through lies to drag humans back into darkness”. This has to be the best definition and description I’ve ever heard 👊🏻👏🏻🔥

This is one of the most chilling animations you guys ever made. The fact that the Satan _“isn’t for anything, rather he’s anti-everything”_ is an important reminder that this entity wants to torment and kill you regardless of what you stand for. It doesn’t matter if you’re for him or against him. If you’re human then you’re an image bearer of God-you’re the Satan’s target to kill and destroy, both in your soul and body.

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We aren’t fighting against people but the thing controlling them. Wow if you look at this in such a spiritual way forgiving, loving and saying sorry become so much more as you know who your battle is against.

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A good reminder to pray for our human enemies, that they may be freed as we have been freed; by, to and for Jesus.

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I am a new Christian, too. Well, I realized that even though I would tell myself that I was Christian but I was a luke warm Christian. I would hear scripture and my first thought was to question it without context and sometimes reject it. The older I get, the more I understand and the more I realize I was completely wrong. I have recently asked for forgiveness and genuinely asked Jesus to come into my life and for his Will to be done even if that means things happen in my life that I don't understand & that I may receive as negative but the I trust God & His plan for me. I asked He guide me so that my actions reflect His Will and to protect me from the adversary. I'm starting to actually read and comprehend Scripture in a way I've never done before & it gives me a peace I have never felt before. I feel physically & mentally lighter.

He's not for anything. He's against everything.

Most people familiar with the story of the Bible know that all of the tragic problems begin with the fateful story of Adam and Eve and the snake in the garden of Eden. But if we want to appreciate the whole biblical portrait of sin and death, we have to consider the entire series of rebellion stories in Genesis 1-11, the first main movement of the biblical story. Here we find a combined human and spiritual rebellion that comes in three waves, each story intensifying the fallout of the previous episode. The humans and the snake of Genesis 3 find their counterparts in Cain and Lamech (Genesis 4) and the rebel spiritual beings (the sons of God) in Genesis 6. Here we find the first human city, permeated with violence and sexual abuse that results in the birth of violent warrior kings who are part human, part spiritual being. These rebels live on in the mutant legacy of the Nephilim and their descendants, called “the Rephaim”: the spirits of these dead warriors who terrorize the living. These rebellions in Genesis 3-6 are then intensified in the story of Babylon, where humans exalt their city into the divine realm in the ultimate power grab, until they’re scattered by God. When Moses later reflects back on this story in Deuteronomy 4 and 32, we learn that Babylon wasn’t just a human initiative but intertwined with a spiritual rebellion among the sons of God. So then, these three waves of rebellion give us three categories of spiritual evil that map precisely onto the storyline of the New Testament. (1) The arch-rebel, who goes by many titles: “the satan” (the adversary; Mark 1:13); “the devil” (the slanderer; the evil one; the ruler of this world). (2) The rebel sons of God, who are called the “principalities and powers” by Jesus and the apostles (see Luke 22:53; Ephesians 3:10 and 6:12). (3) The evil spirits who terrorize humans, animating their vices and exploiting their mortal weakness (Mark 1:23-27, 5:1-13). These three types of spiritual rebels are confronted by Jesus in the Gospel narratives and are overpowered by his death and resurrection (John 12:31-32; Ephesians 1:20-21). And while these beings still hold sway over individuals and societies who are enslaved to their lies and social systems of exploitation (1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 12:9), Jesus is in the business of liberating people from their influence (Romans 8:38-39; 1 Peter 3:15-20). So then, the entire biblical story offers a robust and nuanced portrait of spiritual evil. It invites us to see that we’re all participants in systems of cosmic ruin, and that our only hope is the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, who has opened the way into a liberated creation.

Amazing how this is the most terrifying and frightening depiction of the Satan I’ve ever witnessed in my life

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12

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I love this... "spiritual evil is at work in anything that tries to drags God's good creation back to chaos, darkness and death..." I looooove that! Discernment is 🔑!

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I grew up in church and I’ve never ever heard this explained this way. WOW. This video is everything!

This is Truth spiritual beings are very real. Many don’t believe it and are deceived

What I love about the way you tell those stories is that you start to get that every story humans write or tell has similarities to the Bible. It’s like it is all in us already. It is all told. It is all there. We just need to express our feelings to create as many experiences as possible to bring us back to Eden.

Thank you for the Korean subtitles and I'm very happy to have known God. May God bless you.

We battle not against flesh and blood but principalities. Layer upon layer of deceit from the enemy has misled this world. When our Savior returns, the real truth will be revealed

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"Holy Holy Holy Is the Lord our God, Who is and was and is to come." Revelation 4:9. The Cherubim.

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AMAZING!!! Jesus died not just to save us from eternal death but to set us free as well from the captives or influence of the enemy! I'm in awe!

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This has to be one of the best explanations for the Spiritual War that I've ever heard.

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This is useful to know even though I’m a Sikh. Love to my Christian brothers and sisters out there! 💙

Psalm 91 1Whoever dwells in the shelter of the most high will rest in the shadow of the almighty. 2I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, In whom I trust."

I absolutely love BibleProject animations. Thank you so much for your the hard work in making them for us to watch and learn from.

This series, the spiritual being series, is definitely one of my favorites… and I enjoy all the content you guys create.

I wanted the story to continue! This feels like the ultimate cliff hanger. The animation and narration are incredible. I would love to learn to do things like this. I think I may have found the perfect way to spread God's word. You have inspired me. God bless you for this amazing video.

That last scene. How awesome and terrible the Son of Man's sacrifice is.

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Chilling. Epic. Closes on a cliff hanger! Thanks Tim & John!!

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Man that last vision of death encroaching on Jesus made me tear up. Thank you Jesus for what you did for us!! Halleluyah

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I like how God's animation of wrecking the tower- 4:30 is just one simple "boop"

Excited and it’s not even up yet :) Edit- worth the excitement

I'm so glad this video and your Q&R for it exists. The demons and especially the Devil and who exactly is the devil is the most confusing part of the bible to understand. Thank you guys for clearing things up!

Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the LORD delivers him in times of trouble. 2 The LORD will protect him and preserve his life; he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes. 3 The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed and restore him from his bed of illness.

My mom speaks only Spanish and she always tells me to watch out for "el enemigo" "The enemy"

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What a beautiful story portrayed in such a palatable fashion. Great work.

With all the hate in the world right now, this is definitely spot on. There is a darker power behind the scenes!

"Is to overcome evil and death itself even if it costs everything", such a beautiful end, Jesus’s love is so great 😭 be blessed guys

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I can definitely see that Greek mythology and gods and goddess and stuff like that could’ve stemmed from the nephlem (I forget how to say it)

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Great peek into the esoteric meanings in the Bible. Demons corrupt, they swell bad behaviour, when you lust or want another cupcake, it's spiritual iniquity from beyond the veil, calling you! The greatest battle we'll ever face, and we must find God ON OUR OWN to fight it. And we will likely fail, but strive! Show God you strived to combat wickedness! Love you all, peace and blessings to you and yours!

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Adam and Eve were already made in God's image, they were made in His likeness, but we're not God Himself. When the serpent tempted them, there was some truth in his temptation, in that they would become more "like God," by knowing good and evil. However, because we are not like God, yes, we know the difference between good and evil, but because we are in the flesh, we can only do evil. We can never be like God, Who is holy. Paul wrote in Romans (somewhere there... I think) that we are slaves to our sinful nature, and that the good we know and want to do, we can't do. And ultimately fail to do in our own strength... This is why we have what's called grace. Jesus did the good we cannot do ourselves. He alone was faithful, and obedient to the Father, even to the point of death on a cross. He did all the work, that we would not boast in anything we've done, because, really we can't, knowing how fallible our flesh is, but instead give glory and praise to the Lord. That's grace

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Job 1:6-7 "Now there was a day when the *sons of God* came to present themselves before the LORD, and *Satan* also came among them. The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, *“From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”* Isaiah 14:9-17 "Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations. All of them will answer and say to you: ‘You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!’ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers. “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit. Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’ Ezekiel 28:12-19 “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: “You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared. *You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.* You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you. By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you. All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.” Genesis 6:2, 6:4 "When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the *sons of God* saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. The *Nephilim* were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown." (*Nephilim*; Giants: Numbers 13:33, 2 Samuel 21:16-22, 1 Chronicles 20:4-8. [Deuterocanonical: Book of Enoch]) Deuteronomy 32:8-9 "When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the [number] of the *sons of God.* [Some manuscripts put seventy; 70-72] But the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage." Luke 10:1 & Luke 10:17-20 Jesus Sends Out the [Seventy-Two] "After this the Lord appointed *seventy-two* The Return of the Seventy-Two The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

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4:29 I love that effect. What may take civilizations decades to build a city, it can all be demolished in an instant by God. Remember who is above

I appreciate this Truth!! Please pray for my family, Mother, Brother and Sisters nephew and niece's, and my children

Yes they exist. My family used to dabble in it for years. A cousin (at the time 13-years-old) would tell me how she believed in spirits. So at the age of 14, a “friendly” ghost appeared in my room at night and I began to converse with him. For the next 5 years this spirit tormented me; especially at night. I feared going to bed because the demon would be waiting for me. After suffering abuse at the hands of others, I cried out to God. He delivered me from their attacks immediately. In the following days I asked God that if He would send me someone to teach me the Bible, I would learn. The moment I began to read God’s Word, the spirit-demon left. Never to torment me again. We all need Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior of our lives. All of my immediate family are followers of Jesus Christ now. My cousin still isn’t. I pray she will one day.✝️♥️🙏🏻 Satan is the culprit behind all the evil going on around the world. In every country, every government, every organization, every home, every individual. Unless we all, individually, turn to Jesus Christ, we are doomed to incessant torment and pain in hell for eternity. Please, please, please turn to Jesus Christ today!!!

Satan was not a real snake. They call him that as a metaphor because he's sneaky and like a snake he comes from behind.

The one where the guy who hit someone with the rock was Adam and eve's son and he killed his brother over a jealousy am my correct?

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Why no mention of the name Lucifer while explaining Satan. Explain he was an fallen angel and demons also cursed angelic beings.

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The devil is actually a Cherubim the one who sits closest to God so he thought of himself as God and rebels and was kicked from Heaven. And his followers who he tricked was cast down from Heaven as well. It makes much more since now. The devil and hit hatred deceives the us into being the luxuries of this world so that we cannot get closer to the truth and God.

I love the end of the video with the representation of Jesus… Glory To The Name Of Jesus.

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You know when I think about the Roman and the Greek gods, I remember the nephilims. They are described the same way.

Every 'dislike' on videos like this are from people who are a part of that 'division'. They listen to ego, emotion, pride, arrogance and 'their own understanding' of 'their own truth', instead of listening to what the Holy Spirit clearly shows us in scripture. What TBP does here is 110% biblical. How do I know? Because they are using the original language, and making it easy enough for even a child to understand. As long as people are led by ego and emotion (and not the Holy Spirit), they will be the 'goats' mentioned in Matthew 25:31-46. Until they begin to realize that we are ALL A PART OF THE SAME BODY, and stop with the VAIN and WORTHLESS arguments, then and only then will they let God be true, but all of their 'favorite preachers', 'favorite pastors' and 'favorite youtube prophets', as liars. Thank you TBP for everything that you do. Jesus made it simple for us to understand, as do you :)

Amen great video, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Ephesians 6:12

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This is the first satisfactory explanation of the Nephilim I've heard. Thank you!

U guys r seriously Blessed with gifts from God. To so beautifully visualize, illustrated and narrate the unseen spiritual words that exists around us.

Brilliant I absolutely love it! This confirms everything I have been researching about in my bible study. God bless you guys mightily and keep up the great work!