We believe that Satan was once ¹holy, and enjoyed heavenly honors; but through pride and ambition to be as the Almighty, fell and ²drew after him a host of angels; that he is now ³the malignant prince of the power of the air, and the unholy god of this world. ⁴We hold him to be man's great tempter, ⁵the enemy of God and His Christ, ⁶the accuser of the saints, ⁷the author of all false religions, the chief power back of the present apostasy, ⁸the lord of the Antichrist, and ⁹the author of all powers of darkness - destined however ¹⁰to final defeat at the hands of God's Son, and ¹¹to the judgment of an eternal justice in hell, a place prepared for him and his angels

¹Isa.14:12-15; Ezek.28:14-17
²Rev.12:9; Jude 6; IIPet.2:4
³Eph.2:2; John 14:30
⁴IPet.5:8; IThess.3:5; Matt.4:1, 3
⁵Zech.1:3; IJn.3:8; Matt.13:25, 37-39; Luke 22:3-4
⁶Rev.12:10
⁷IICor.11:13-15; Mark 13:21-22
⁸IJn.4:3; IIJn.7; IJn.2:22
⁹Rev.13:13-14; IIThess.2:8-11
¹⁰Rev.19:11, 16, 20; Rev.12:7-9; Rev.20:1-3
¹¹Rev.20:10; Matt.25:41