3/12/2023 0 Comments Omnipresence in the bible![]() What to think, then, of "your enemy, the devil" (1 Peter 5:8)? "Devil" means slanderer, through malice and misrepresentation "Satan" means adversary. ![]() Strictly speaking, God has no spatial location at all, for space belongs to the created order and exists in him rather than he in it. This is not simply a matter of transcending spatial confines. The Bible describes the event as God’s descending to. But when they saw the fire and heard the trumpet and experienced the earthquake, they were in the manifest presence of God. When Israel camped at Sinai, God had been there all along, of course. ![]() We are never out of his sight (Psalm 139), and we cannot get away from him (John 1). God’s manifest presence is the result of His overt and unmistakable interaction with us. God is here, there, and everywhere, and his mind and hand are on everything. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. How, biblically, should we think of God's omnipresence? The word means that God knows exhaustively, and upholds and touches continually, every single item in the universe he has made, from the tiniest genes and electrons to the most massive stars in the expanding universe to the most complex mind-body interactions in the psyche of over 6 billion people. The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands Colossians 1:17. We need biblical clarity, and we must start with getting our minds straight about God himself. Man is thought of as no more than a sort of ape, Satan is seen as no more than a medieval bugaboo (i.e., a sick fancy), and temptation is reduced to conflict between our higher and lower natures (Freud's ego and id). Today's Western world, having lost the knowledge of God, is currently in process of losing the knowledge of man and of Satan. That is because Satan is God's creature, and creatures must be understood in relation to their Creator. The first principle of sound demonology is that you cannot have a more adequate idea of Satan than you have of God. Is Satan omnipresent? If not, how does he tempt many people at one time?
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