Please cite passage about satan being light to fool us. Thank-you.
I think it refers to him still being able to pass himself off as an angel of light.
“Please cite passage about satan being light to fool us. Thanks”
Not “being” Light as that is not possible. I think I used the word “imitating” the Light.
The entirety of 1 John is teaching us how to sort the imitators from the real thing.
That is satan imitating the Light. There are more and I thank you for the question. My time is tight today, but I will pray on providing a better response.
This is the reason for 1 John 4
4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
1 John 5
7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we[a] have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them. 11 Anyone who welcomes them shares in their wicked work.
Several months before I read 1 John 4 for the first time I had two spirits approach me as the grandparents of the woman I was working with. They had gray hair and blue eyes, thus everything appeared ok.
However, I had this big knot in my stomach, a warning that the Holy Spirit is saying “Beware.”
Suddenly the words, “Do you believe that Jesus was born in the flesh?” Came out of my mouth.
They replied, “We know Jesus.”
The words from my mouth responded, “That was not the question” and repeated the first question.
Their eyes turned from blue to black and then to red as their true nature came out.
At which time I prayed for them and they screamed in response to the Light.
This is only one of many such situations. The Bible is the truth and it has saved my sorry butt many times.
Logic does not protect us from evil as satan is quite the trickster. That intuitive feeling that women get is better at recognizing evil. But nothing beats the Holy Spirit in you doing the work.
2 Corinthians 11:12But I will keep on doing what I am doing, in order to undercut those who want an opportunity to be regarded as our equals in the things of which they boast. 13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their actions.
2 Corinthians 11
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness.