SATAN In Hebrew, the word Satan means'adversary', and indeed the myth built up by the Christian belief of Satan, the Evil One, is that inthe beginning he was an angel who resided in Heaven with God, one of his more favoured ones. But attempting to seize the throne of Heaven for himself, Satan was defeated and he and his followers thrown out of Paradise, down into a specially-prepared domain where Satanruled. The demense was called Hell, and here the Adversary plotted and schemed how he mightpay God back for the insult and the ignominy he had suffered.