We learn from Job 1:6 and Zechariah 3:1 that the name “Satan” actually means “accuser”. Shame comes from “the father of lies...who was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44). Jesus reminds us that “there is no truth in [Satan]” and that he “comes only to steal, kill, and destroy” (John 10:10). The accuser of our souls achieves his murderous purposes for us when we accept his condemnation of us before God as our own. But Jesus sits in the place of honor at the right hand of God and defends us before the Almighty! Jesus repels the accusations of Satan, and we are vindicated in Christ before God!
