Accuser, but Advocate!

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. (I John 2:1-2) Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. (Revelations 12:10)

An advocate is a person who pleads for or in behalf of another, an intercessor; a person who pleads the cause of another in a court of law.  An accuser charges others with some fault, offence, crime; they impute guilt or blame.  Until Satan is destroyed once and for all (Revelations 20), he has access to God and he is constantly speaking against mankind (Job 1:6-7). Rememeber Satan is a fallen angel, who desired to become like God (Isaiah 14:12-15), but God has given man a knowledge of Truth the angels don't have: Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you...  To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into. (I Peter 1:10-12)

Satan has no real power, but he and all angels can observe us and hear what we hear.  This is why he was able to deceive Eve in the garden of Eden, because he heard the word God commanded her, and was able to restate it in a way that made Eve doubt if she really understand what God told her (Genesis 3:1-7).  His bark is bigger than his bite, so he will do all he can to scare us and cause all kind of trouble, in the hopes of causing us to doubt God and not accept God's free gift of salvation, trying to make us feel that we don't deserve it, because we're too bad (I Peter 5:5-11).  We can not allow ourselves to be deceived by him - the cost of doing so is too high.

...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,... (Romans 3:23) God knows better than Satan that we're not perfect.  That's why He sent His Son, Jesus the Christ, to meet God's perfect requirements for the forgiveness of sins: But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8) Satan can accuse us for as long as he can, but we have an advocate in Christ: For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. (John 3:17) Don't let the lies of Satan, or any person he uses, stop us from believing the Word of God! "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, ..."!