Volume II, Issue 1 Spring 1994 Overcoming By The Word Dr. E. Lee Bez O Theophilus is the Quarterly Journal of The Center For Biblical Literacy Overcoming By The Word And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.” Rev 12:9-10, NAS Be of sober [spirit], be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. I Pet 5:8, NAS But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity [of devotion] to Christ. II Cor 11:3, NAS A Biblical worldview acknowledges a fallen world and a fallen humanity. The origin of this fall involves a real Devil with real ... Read more