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answered the LORD and said, ‘From roaming about on the earth
and walking around on it.’ ”

You do not really get the impact in the English of this Hebrew word,
“walking around, roaming around”. In the Hebrew, it literally means
“violent action”. One translation actually translates the word Satan as
“the busy one”. That is his name, the busy one. It means rushing madly
back and forth. That is what Satan is doing. That is the opposite of what
many people think about him. They say, where is Satan? Many people
have this idea that registers in their heads. Why, he is in hell with a
pitchfork, and he is the monarch of hell presiding over everyone else in
hell. That is not what the Bible says.
Where is Satan? He is on the planet Earth not in hell. Now, there will be a
day when he will be in hell. Not on a throne ruling over others in hell. In
hell, he will be hell’s worse sufferer. He will be in hell someday. But why
is Satan rushing back and forth madly, wildly, violently, on the earth?
Well, I think the simple answer is this. He is not omnipresent. God is
omnipresent. That just means present everywhere. Since God is infinite,
His presence knows no boundaries. There is no place beyond Him for
anything else to be, because He is everywhere. God surrounds and fills
His whole creation.
Here is how the theologian describes God’s omnipresence. Now I am
quoting: “God is over all things, under all things, outside all things. He is
within, but He is not enclosed. He is without, but He is not excluded. He
is above, but He is not raised up. He is below, but He is not depressed.
He is wholly above, presiding, wholly beneath, sustaining, and wholly
within, filling. That is where God is. He is everywhere.”
But not Satan. Satan cannot occupy two places at the same time. Now I
gather from Ezekiel chapter 1, and verse 14, which describes the
cherubim, it says: “The living beings ran to and fro like bolts of
lightning.” I have an idea, though Satan is not omnipresent, he has
motion quicker than a fox. And like a bolt of lightning, since he was a
cherub. He is an angelic being, a fallen angel. He can go faster than
lightning, faster than the speed of light, any place he wants to be on the
earth. Can you imagine yourself in another part of the world. As fast as
you can think of being elsewhere Satan can be there.

Now watch. Just as fast as I thought of Connecticut, I went there in my
mind. Satan can go to Connecticut in his body, in his spirit. He just goes
back and forth. That is where he is. On the planet Earth darting back and
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