> Guide 3 - Introduction > > Lesson 3 - Where Did the Devil Come From? > Who Are the Angels? > > When we see a model airplane flying around in the sky, we look around to > see > where the person is who is controlling it. Today man can control model > cars, > trains, sailboats and planes electronically. Man does not need to be in > the > object he wishes to control. He can use a "remote control" thousands of > miles > away. Yes, men can even guide and control space ships around the earth, to > the moon, and even to other planets millions of miles away, without being > in > those machines themselves. > > One bright spring day in 1999, two teen-aged boys armed with guns, knives > and explosives walked in the hallways of Columbine High School near > Denver, > Colorado, > shooting everyone in sight. They left behind a bloody scene with bodies of > nine students and a coach before they killed themselves. Witnesses said > that > one of the shooters shot a Christian student at gunpoint after asking her > if > she believed in God. After she said, "Yes", she was killed at the young > age > of 17. The killers were known to dress up as Goths, an old English group, > who wore black clothes and worshipped Satan. For several years before the > killings, > they spent a lot of time playing violent video games. > > After each tragic incident such as the high school shootings and > especially > the shocking terrorist attacks on America during September 11, 2001, we > often > wonder why those things happen. Sometimes people do things in a way that > makes us wonder, "What, or who, makes them do it?" According to God's > Word, > there > is an unseen evil master mind that causes people to hate, quarrel, steal, > fight, and even go to war and do all the evils in the world that we call > sin. > This mastermind, the Bible says, is none other than the devil or Satan. > > Some people believe that there is no devil or Satan, and no sin. Ask > yourself this question. If there is no devil, then who makes the evil in > the > world? > When we set a trap to catch an animal, we hide the trap. Satan wants us to > believe there is no devil. This idea of no devil is one of Satan's traps. > It > leads people to sin. It turns them away from God. > > >
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