God has many adversaries, many accusers and many antichrists. First John 4:3 tells us, “and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.” (ESV) The word Satan means just that, an adversary or accuser. That is the same word we find in Job 1:6. Satan is not a name; is a characteristic. We don’t know if the satan in Zechariah 3 and Job 1 is the devil as we know it in a traditional sense and, we don’t know if it is the same deity, we see in Genesis 3. We can speculate and debate this issue further. However, what we do know is that John made it clear that the satan in Genesis 3 is indeed the devil in the traditional sense, Revelation 12:9 tells us,
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Revelation 12:9 (ESV)
Based on what is clearly seen in Scripture and, a basic study of the word Satan, I don’t see any contradictions or controversies. Some Bible critics may be partially right in insinuating that we are talking about different satans in these portions of Scripture; but they also misguided as the lack a basic understanding of the definition of the word satan as an accuser and adversary. There is a main character of evil or leader that John points out in Revelation 12:9, but adversaries or accusers are many.
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An independent thinker with a profound call to see the orthodoxy of the church and passion for Christ manifesting together. Angel was born in Brooklyn, New York in April of 1968, he was raised on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico where he earned his B.S. degree in Sociology with a minor in Education from the Inter American University in San Germán in 1991. That same year he moved to Jacksonville, Florida. After working construction jobs for a year and learning the English language, his first job working with foster-care children in the capacity of youth care worker was with Jacksonville Youth Sanctuary in September of 1992. With JYS he was promoted several times as group home supervisor, legal caseworker, and program director.
While in Jacksonville, Angel studied a couple of martial arts styles. After earning his black belt, he became the founder of Good Fight Ministries as he used martial arts as an instrument to preach the gospel. In 2004 Angel was selected Martial Arts Instructor of the Year for the State of Florida and in 2005 Angel was inducted in the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame where he also received the Christian Spirit Award. In July of 2005 Angel accepted his call to pastor a bilingual church in Winton, NC where he served for a couple of years. Five months later he lost his first wife to cancer in December of that same year. This initiated a deep valley of suffering in his life, a mountain of costly mistakes and the embracing of lifestyles of sin that are well documented through this blog.
In August of 2012 Angel moved to Fairbanks Alaska with his wife Rayette Casiano and six children who are now adults. In Alaska, Angel continued his social work-related career and his ministry of preaching, teaching and writing. Angel is the author of two books, Hope for the divorcee: Forgiving and Moving Forward and 7 Banderas de Esperanza: La Bendición de Yokdzonot.
In January 8th of 2020 Angel and his wife moved to Arizona. On June 8th 2021 Angel started his home church, not as a starting point, but as a closer way to how the church is suppose to look like according to Scripture.
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