A Gem From The May Study WT "Know Your Enemy"

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In fact, only three books of the Hebrew Scriptures, 1 Chronicles, Job, and Zechariah, mention Satan, which means “Resister.” Why was little said about our enemy prior to the arrival of the Messiah?
3 Apparently, Jehovah did not want to give Satan undue prominence by devoting large portions of the Hebrew Scriptures to discussing him and his activity. Jehovah’s primary purpose for inspiring that section of the Scriptures was to identify the Messiah and lead God’s people to him.

Or it could be that Satan wasn't an important part of Jewish beliefs at the time. Perhaps the bible isn't this coherent book with a singular theme at all. Instead of just making up an explanation that fits the doctrine, more research should be done. Are these simplistic explanations supposed to help people with doubts? I'm not sure why they would even want to point this out?

ttdtt

Well, really all that needed to be said about Satan was said by the great Jehober himself in Genesis.

Jehovah God then said: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad. Now in order that he may not put his hand out and take fruit also from the tree of life and eat and live forever,

Here the great Jehober lets us all know that Satan did NOT lie to Eve, and the plan the creator of all things needed a Plan-B asap cuz he F-ed up. :)

DATA-DOG

Apparently, evidently... 😂

DD

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OMG. Can I unread this? The level of stupidity is staggering.

Diogenesister

"Apparently"some random in Watchtower publishing Corp. writing dept. pulled this idea out of his ass.

From wiki "Satan"definition: In Judaism, Satan is typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination", or as an agent subservient to God.

A figure known as "the satan" first appears in the Tanakh as a heavenly prosecutor, a member of the sons of God subordinate to Yahweh, who prosecutes the nation of Judahin the heavenly court and tests the loyalty of Yahweh's followers by forcing them to suffer. During the intertestamental period, possibly due to influence from the Zoroastrian figure of Angra Mainyu, the satan developed into a malevolent entity with abhorrent qualities in dualistic opposition to God. In the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, Yahweh grants the satan (referred to as Mastema) authority over a group of fallen angels to tempt humans to sin and punish them.

ttdtt

Oh, by the way, it's not like as if Satan is mentioned like 1000 times every meeting.

No god didn't want to give him any prominence:)

truth_b_known

Imagine for a moment that a foreign power declared open war on your home nation. Now imagine the military leaders of your home nation saying "I only want the troops to know who we are fighting. I don't want them to know too much about our enemy as it would detract from our briefings."

JW_Rogue

The weird part is the rest of the article is about not being naive about Satan's tactics. It's so odd that they would even add this part. Why bring up a point that you can't readily explain? A point that goes against the theme of the article.

JW_Rogue

Jehovah God then said: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad. Now in order that he may not put his hand out and take fruit also from the tree of life and eat and live forever,

Here the great Jehober lets us all know that Satan did NOT lie to Eve, and the plan the creator of all things needed a Plan-B asap cuz he F-ed up.

Yeah, that part never made sense so then in effect humankind could have had freedom and eternal life but God wanted us to die instead.

steve2

Jehovah did not want to give Satan undue prominence by devoting large portions of the Hebrew Scriptures to discussing him and his activity

That's a quote from the Watchtower. So, if that is correct about the infrequency of Satan being mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures,, why does JW organization give so much prominence to him by devoting large portions of its literature to warnings about him?

A Gem From The May Study WT "Know Your Enemy"

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