Personal experience: Far into the night a few weeks before God burdened and later inspired me to start writing the commentary (Who is Satan, the Devil), my wife was asleep in our bedroom, I was studying in the living room, nature called, I went down the hall to the guest bedroom and used the bathroom there. I came out of the bathroom, crossed the bedroom and was ready to step into the hall that leads back to the living room and I was suddenly assailed by a most horrible sense of pure, dark, oily, powerful, malignant, unadulterated evil right there beside me. I was instantly terrified and I was nearly overcome with a strange weakness, helplessness and fear.

I have never felt such dark, powerful, vitriolic, straining, eager, evil hatred directed toward me and I knew it was Satan as he truly is. Humanity with all its evil, lust, murder, torture, butchery and hatred does not know the meaning of the endlessness of eternal, pure, unbelievably cruel, evil hatred unless they have individually felt what I felt surround me that night.

The mixture of Satan’s dark, unbelievable evil and his eager hatred of me was straining to unleash itself upon me and destroy me in some more than awful fashion; not to just kill me and leave me a corpse in my own home but to torture, mangle, strangle and tear at my body and my soul, ME, to tortured shreds with an awful ferocity that would last forever.

He didn’t want to just kill me and be done with it. He wanted to, and was determined to, make me suffer endlessly. In combat I have endured the dread of incoming projectiles that would tear bloody holes through me or blow me apart but this terror went infinitely further than that. I was so scared I was frozen motionless in the timelessness of the absolute horror of total terror.

I am so sorry I have not the words to cause you to feel the threat, horror and terror I experienced that night. My skin crawled and my hair stood on end because I was so close to Satan and he terrified me beyond measure. I, a man grown, was helpless as a tiny bird, a sparrow, serpent charmed! The unimaginable reality of the engulfing essence of Satan’s living, darkening, overwhelming magnitude of total malice, total hatred and total evil almost engulfed me in the horrifying quicksand of his dreadful personality. Satan is the Devil.

It was instant, I was there, I was trapped, there was no way out and I instinctively started screaming over and over; “Jesus, Jesus, oh God help me!” It was endless as I stiffly, cringing, clumsily, so painfully, slowly tried to get away from that awful darkness by struggling to escape up the hall toward the living room. If I could have run I would have but I was so afraid my body felt almost paralyzed and I could only drag myself along; “Jesus, Jesus, oh God help me!” I finally made it to the couch and huddled there like a wounded animal shivering in horror and begging for help.

At first I thought God had told Satan he could have me because of some fabricated sin (Heb. 6:4-6) I had committed that had caused me to lose my salvation so I would be introduced to the subject I would be writing about. BUT that would have been a lie (Heb. 6:18) and God does not lie! So I abandoned that thought immediately and I realized that maybe God had given Satan the opportunity to frighten me so badly I would be afraid to write about him. If that was the reason it sure backfired on Satan because it had driven me closer to God than I had ever been.

The presence of pure evil abated as Jesus drove Satan away but it was weeks before I felt comfortable going back down that hall in the night because I dreaded the possibility the experience would repeat itself. Since then I’ve never gone down that hall day or night, not even once, without thinking about what happened.

With my whole heart I wish all the lukewarm Christians, backslid Christians, idolaters, atheists, devil worshippers and sinners in the whole world would be exposed to the reality of Satan, the Devil, I felt that night. When they realized who is truly waiting for them, I know there would be a worldwide boom of church construction and they would flee in droves to Jesus and the salvation He offers.

NOTE: It is now about 2 months since I finished the commentary (Who is Satan, the Devil) and a certain thought has been nagging me about the above. My wife was asleep in our main bedroom with its open door just a few feet away. We have 2 dogs in the house and they too were just around the corner in the utility room with its door open. I did not rouse any of them during this episode so I have concluded when I was screaming; “Jesus, Jesus, oh God help me!” they were soundless screams due to my absolute terror because none of them were awakened! END OF NOTE.

(2Cor. 11:13-15) Satan is a chameleon because he cleverly portrays himself as an angel of light and he will verify your religion and its teachers are just fine (John 3:5-21 esp. V.14-19 & 1John 4:1-14) as long as it doesn’t involve Jesus’ mission as the Saviour. **Satan doesn’t care if your religion claims Jesus as a prophet; but not as the Son of God!** Satan, the devil, will not voluntarily expose his true nature because it would drive people away from him. Satan is a deceiver. Believe me, Satan is not the little, innocent, powerless, red imp the cartoon characters Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd so easily defeat in their cartoon battles.

Satan is not the comedic caricature portrayed by comedians to get a laugh; “The devil made me do it!“ Nor is he some magnificent, shrouded in mystery god who is worthy of human worship. (John 8:44) Plain and simple; Satan, the devil, is a murderer and a liar, (2Cor. 4:4) he is the god of this world and he blinds people with his (Rev. 12:9) deception (1Pet. 5:8 keywords: adversary, roaring lion) that Satan is, in reality, all of humanity’s greatest adversary (enemy) and he is like a roaring lion (a strong, fear inducing, active predator) seeking whom he may devour (to consume fully)!

There is a hidden spiritual side to (1Pet. 5:8). “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary (enemy) the devil, as a roaring lion (an active predator), walketh about, seeking whom he may devour (to consume fully):” When a lion consumes his prey, partial or all, the prey is dead and the prey’s body becomes part of the lion’s strength shown spiritually in a person’s family and friends and worst of all if a person has children they are the first victims as they lead them into Satan’s ways.

AND: (1Cor. 1:10-12 esp. V.10 & V.12) (V.10) “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” (V.12) tells us the church at Corinth had split into four separate groups. NOW THERE ARE ABOUT 200 DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS AND EACH OF THEM SAY THEIR CHURCH IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO HEAVEN! SATAN, THE DEVIL, AND HIS FALLEN ANGELS HAVE BEEN BUSY!! Please, please read the commentary Apostate Churches on this website; you will be shocked!!! 

If I live until this year, September 19, 2026, I will have been a Christian fifty years and I have never heard a sermon or a teaching or a Sunday School lesson devoted to learning about Satan the devil. (2Cor. 4:4, 2Cor. 11:13-15, Eph. 6:10-13, and 1Pet. 5:8) Has the Church and its pastors and teachers forgotten our greatest enemy? Please see the website Jesus Me And Why.com, at the top click on the commentary The Holy Spirit & You, then scroll the menu to the three-article series Satan: A Study Guide and Teaching Manual and read those articles for an eye-opening revelation into the dark heart of the unholy spirit! You will probably even see how Satan has made sin seem OK in your own life.

GOD BLESS YOU.