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(“How have the mighty have fallen...”) Both of them became adversaries of the righteous servants
of Yahweh, and both have, or will have, their kingdoms wrested from them and given to another who
is better than themselves.

One of my chief reasons for drawing your attention to the parallels between Satan and Saul is to help
the people of God to understand the authority and anointing that Satan continues to bear among the
creation of God. Even as Yahweh anointed Saul to serve as ruler over His people, so too did He
anoint Satan with great authority and power. The Bible describes Satan as an “anointed cherub,” an
“angelic majesty,” and an “authority.” In the New Testament we find that both the apostle Peter and
Jude, the brother of our Lord, reproved men in the church for reviling Satan and other angelic
majesties.

II Peter 2:10-11
Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties, whereas angels who are
greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.

Peter is referring to Satan and those angelic beings who are in league with him when he speaks of
“angelic majesties.” A thought that needs correcting among Christians today is that Satan and the
fallen angels no longer have any legitimate power or authority. Many Christians think it acceptable
to revile Satan and other fallen angelic majesties. It is no more appropriate for Christians to do so than
it would have been for David to revile King Saul. This is a great error that is as old as Christianity.

Jude 8-10
Yet in the same manner these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile
angelic majesties. But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the
body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke
you." But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know
by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.

I encourage you to pause and carefully consider the argument set forth in the above Scripture. Jude
is reproaching men for rejecting “authority” and “angelic majesties.” He then makes it plain who he
is referring to by citing an occasion when the archangel Michael contended with “the devil.” If you
follow the flow of Jude’s argument, you can plainly see that “the devil” is the “authority” and the
“angelic majesty” that is set forth as an example of someone who should not be reviled. If even the
archangel Michael did not revile the devil/Satan, recognizing that he is an “angelic majesty” of
Yahweh, then the argument follows that men who are inferior in might and power should not revile
those beings they do not understand.