Satan: His Motive and Methods

“The world has been willing to comply with the wishes and projects of Satan to the extent of ceasing to believe that he really exists.”

“In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficiency and positive rejection of God. The present issue between God and man is one of whether man will accept God’s estimate of him, abandon his hopeless self-struggle, and cast himself only on God who alone is sufficient to accomplish his needed transformation.”

"The subject is vital to any right understanding of the age in which we live, and of the personal conflict which we wage; for the existence, personality, and power of Satan are awful facts and of immense present significance....I know of no other book on Satan in which the dispensational aspects of the subject are so clearly stated, nor any other so severely Biblical." -C. I. Scofield

"Shows great ingenuity in collecting from Scripture innumerable indications about Satan....Mr. Chafer has no question that he has the entire truth regarding Scripture teaching....Dr. C. I. Scofield warmly commends in a brief Foreword." -New York Observer

"Mr. Chafer exhibits his true character, and fastens on him the responsibility of his wickedness. Facts are drawn from the Bible and from history, covering the whole career of Satan from the earliest revelation to his final doom. The book is a wholesome specimen of Biblical expositions, including also sound teaching upon the ages, the omission of the cross in modern preaching, the believer's present position and victory, and other doctrinal and experimental themes that are involved in a study of Satan. The author puts his case clearly; and some things are rather new - as, for instance: 'Satan's ambition is leading him to make this age of his special opportunity as near perfect as his wisdom and power will permit. Satan's ambition was not to become a fiend, but rather to become like the Most High. The Satanic ideal of this age is then an improved social order. The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development' -all, of course, without the atoning work of Christ." -The Institute Tie

"The most sympathetic and illuminating study of the General Manager of Hell that has appeared since the death of the late Emanuel Swedenborg. Mr. Chafer is no campaign biographer, rushing into print with a hurried, scissors-and-paste eulogy of his hero; neither is he a misguided scaramouch, seeking to provoke the willing snicker with cheap ribaldry. His attitude toward Satan is always reverent; like St. Anselm, Gregory the Great, Vincent of Beauvais and other primeval laborers in the same field, he is fascinated by the very villainy of the man. In all its history, he says, the cosmos has never seen another such subtle scoundrel. He is the emperor of chicanery, of hocus-pocus, of false pretenses, of cold-blooded, calculating treachery. To escape his foul machinations one must sleep with an eye open and fit one's conscience with a hair trigger....There is much material in this book that the student will not find in previous biographies of Satan." -The Smart Set

Contents

Foreword, by Dr. C. I. Scofield

Author's Introduction

The Career of Satan

The Ages

The Course of This Age

This Age and the Satanic System

The Satanic Host

Satan's Motive

Satan's Methods

The Man of Sin

The Fatal Omission

Modern Devices

The Believer's Present Position

The Believer's Present Victory