Peter warns that Satan is a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). What does that mean?
Judah is the lion tribe, and the Davidic king is a roaring lion (cf. Proverbs 19:12). The devil is a Davidic pretender, a counterfeit David.
Yahweh Himself roars like a lion (Hosea 11:10; Amos 3:4, 8), so the devil also tries to mimic the voice of Yahweh Himself.
But there is nothing to fear from the lion’s roar. Jesus too was surrounding by gaping, ravening, roaring lions, yet overcame them in His death and resurrection (Psalm 22:13). Clothed by the Spirit, Jesus and all who are in Him are Samsons/suns equipped to kill the lions and to eat the sweetness from his carcass.
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