What Kind of Being Is the Devil?

Satan is not a human creature with a physical body. The Bible does not describe any physical appearance, contrary to the artist-drawn pictures of him in a red suit with horns, a tail, and a pitchfork. There is no Biblical description of him because he is a spirit-being. Ephesians 2:2 says he is "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit."
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Satan has the ability to be omnipresent (to be present everywhere simultaneously). Just as I can possess the Holy Spirit in America and other saints can at the same time possess Him in other parts of the world, the Holy Spirit can indwell, influence, and direct me while simultaneously doing the same for other saints of God. Likewise, so can Satan. If he were not omnipresent, then he could only work on one person at a time, and that is plainly not so. 

Consider, while Satan was working on Job, was the rest of the world being ignored? Or while Christ was being tempted in Matthew, Chapter 4, was the rest of the world enjoying a reprieve? Certainly not! As a spirit-being, Satan does not have the confinement of a human form or nature. Job 1:7 reveals Satan's sphere of operation when it says, "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." This indicates a certain amount of supernatural ability.

Earl R. Borders

From the October 2022 issue of The Gospel Trumpeter