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have not seen today. Thank You, Lord, for what You are going to show
me next week. Thank You for what You will never show me, but is still
true. That is worship. Until you can get away from the subjective – He did
this for me – and just say, “He is wonderful”, objectively, all by Himself,
you will remain a target for Satan’s accusations. I do not know how you
feel about it, but I am glad that I have the New Testament and the
revelation of Jesus as the Advocate of my soul. He is my lawyer when the
enemy accuses me. How could I ever stand if Jesus didn’t stand up for me
and plead my case.

So this is our first conclusion. Who is he? He is the accuser. He accuses
men before God; he accuses God before men.

WHERE IS SATAN?
Okay, where is he? Where is Satan? You say, well, everybody has read
that popular little book by Hal Lindsay. Where is he? “Satan is alive and
well on the planet Earth.” Is that true? Yes, that is true. That is part of the
answer. It is not the whole answer, but it is a part of it. Look at chapter 1,
verse 7, “The LORD said to Satan, ‘From where do you come?’ ”
Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “From roaming about on the
earth and walking around on it.” Chapter 2: verse 2 “Then the LORD
said to Satan, ‘Where have you come from?’ ” “Then Satan
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

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