The Lord of Flies

    Jesus is the given name of God manifested. The invisible "Jesus" who speaks is called "the Word", and the invisible Jesus who comforts is "the Holy Ghost". Jesus is also "the Angel of God" and many believe Melchizedek. 

    Just as Jesus, Lucifer - the angel of  light - has many names: Satan, the Devil, Beelzebub, Prince of the Air, Lord of the Flies and many more. As Jesus is the manifestation of the invisible God, Satan is the manifestation of supernatural Lucifer. Let's now focus on his name "Lord of the Flyers", most often shortened to Lord of the Flies: The Devil can fly. That is one of his assets. On the other hand Satan's limitation is at best flying.

    Jesus doesn't fly. Since he is God in the flesh, as God, he is omnipresent, or as his "name" infers - Existence. However, since God is manifested in something we can comprehend - the flesh - Jesus, although omnipotent God Himself, is material. There is a relationship between time and matter. Einstein captured it well (${\textstyle E=mc^{2}}$; Existence is material with little regard for time). Without material Existence, God is not confined by time. Because he has flesh (matter) he is somewhat confined by his flesh in that Jesus was always at one place at any given time. We do find, though, that time was not a constraint to his location:

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. (John 20:19)

     This passage doesn't relate how Jesus got in the locked room, but another does: "Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat" (Mark 16:14). The point I'm making is that Jesus can defy time although he is material! He is one place in the flesh but travels instantaneously. How does he do that? He is God! Time does not constrain God at all. Just as each event of the Creation was done instantaneously each day, Jesus traveled, after he was glorified, instantaneously. He did not fly but did travel from place to place.
     God was seemingly confined by His material Existence. After God died on the cross, the physical laws of nature ceased to apply. His essence was still glorified flesh, but his power was the Holy Ghost. For Jesus to be in everyone, it was always by the Spirit of God whose presence is not limited by nature.
     As I've written many times before, the Holy Spirit (pneuma) and the Holy Ghost (pneuma) are the same aspect of God but with different experiences. King David had the Holy Spirit. The Jews at Jerusalem had the Holy Ghost (King James Version). What changed? Jesus died, and the Holy Spirit experienced death with him. Only the flesh died but the Holy Ghost was unscathed:

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. (Luke 23:46)

     A spirit is a supernatural essence; a ghost is a disembodied soul (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The Holy Spirit was transfigured at the crucifixion - from the Spirit of God to the Ghost of Jesus. Why did that transformation occur? So that Jesus could live within Christians.
     Paul said it well: " I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Gal 2:20). As Jesus ascended into Heaven his Holy Ghost descended (Acts 1 &2). Jesus flesh was preserved at one location - on the throne of God, but his soul was shared to all Christians who has faith in him.
     The abilities of Jesus are shared so that the reader understands his "nature". Jesus was natural and supernatural. After he was resurrected, Jesus had incorruptible flesh and is only supernatural. Indeed he is supra-man!
     Satan manifested himself in the flesh just as Jesus did. Satan is the adversary. God allowed Satan to come in the flesh for His purpose. Where is that in scripture?

There was given to me (Paul) a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure (Cor 12:7)

     Jesus was the Angel or Messenger of God since the identity of an angel is messenger. Satan had a messenger as well: therein Paul called him "the messenger of Satan". Copying Jesus, Satan took on flesh. Where is Satan's Messenger identified in the Bible? I believe it was Simon Magus:

But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. (Acts 8:9-10)

     I contend not only that Simon the sorcerer was the messenger of Satan but Satan in the flesh. This man became Paul's adversary (Satan) preaching a false Christ all over Asia and Europe. I believe Paul rightfully identified Simon. He knew it was Satan in the flesh with whom he battled. If you haven't read secular history about Simon Magus, you may not understand why Paul so vehemently preached against false prophets and teachers. Gnosticism is false Christianity, sort of like it but entirely against it. Gnosticism is Antichristianity, and Simon was the Antichrist as I believe.
     Many believe that the Antichrist won't come until the last days. I submit that as Satan has lived from the beginning, so has the Antichrist. Many are antichrists, supporting the one Antichrist, but I believe that Simon was Satan incarnated. Simon Magus is summarized as follows:

Surviving traditions about Simon appear in orthodox texts, such as those of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius, where he is often regarded as the founder of Gnosticism,which has been accepted by some modern scholars.

Justin, who was himself a 2nd-century native of Samaria, wrote that nearly all the Samaritans in his time were adherents of a certain Simon of Gitta, a village not far from Flavia Neapolis. According to Josephus, Gitta (also spelled Getta)was settled by the tribe of Dan. Irenaeus held him as being the founder of the sect of the Simonians.Hippolytus quotes from a work he attributes to Simon or his followers the Simonians, Apophasis Megale, or Great Declaration. According to the early church heresiologists, Simon is also supposed to have written several lost treatises, two of which bear the titles The Four Quarters of the World and The Sermons of the Refuter. In apocryphal works including the Acts of Peter, Pseudo-Clementines, and the Epistle of the Apostles, Simon also appears as a formidable sorcerer with the ability to levitate and fly at will. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bad Samaritan" due to his malevolent character. The Apostolic Constitutions also accuses him of "lawlessness" (antinomianism).

     I believe that Simon could fly and indeed did! Why? Satan is the "Lord of the Flyers", and he can surely fly.  Not only does that fit the description of Satan, but his title "Refuter" does as well. As "the adversary" Satan refutes Christianity - not all of it, but twists it for his purposes. Gnosticism does just that. The apostles accused Simon by name of lawlessness. Paul seemed to specifically:

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? (2 Thes 2:3-5)

     Paul was referring to the Antichrist. "the son of perdition", who I believe is the incarnation of Satan, or "the messenger of Satan". Paul knew the Antichrist personally. I believe the Antichrist in the body of Simon Magus was Satan in the flesh!
     Simon could fly. He was "Lord of the Flies". Writers say that "he could fly at will". Simon was Beelzebub, and flying is Satan's mode of travel from place to place. He answered God thusly: "The Lord said unto Satan, 'Whence comest thou?' Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, 'From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it'" (Job 1:7). Satan had not only been walking but also flying! He indeed is Lord of the Flies and is limited by that method of travel; the same method he used as Simon Magus.
     Not by chance, the sorcerers name was Simon. Names mean things in the Bible. Simon means "listen". What did Simon do? Created a false gospel to deceive. Of course he desired that his discourse be listened.
     The Lord of the Flies had his listeners in the Garden of Eden and throughout history. He took on the form of the Serpent in the Garden, and as a man in the New Testament. He will come again as a man in the form of the Antichrist. Just as Jesus died and his Holy Ghost protects Christians, Satan is still around and his "ghost' - the ghost of Simon still haunts us! The Word of God is still with us in Holy Scripture, and since 1945 the answer to God's Word has been revealed again in the Gnostic Gospels - the unholy word of Simon!