Didaché Didaché - Satan Appears To Bobby Conner (And Why That Is A Big Problem For Bobby Conner)
Bobby Conner says he has seen Satan twice in 49 years of preaching — and that when the devil showed up, he came "winsome and handsome," a brilliant, stunningly beautiful figure who looked like a chiseled Spanish prince, offering all the kingdoms of the world if Conner would abandon his message of sonship.
Justin Peters brings on his friend Jim Osman, author of Truth or Territory: A Biblical Approach to Spiritual Warfare, to work through the clip line by line. Together they ask the question the charismatic movement never asks: does Scripture anywhere lead a believer to expect a personal appearance from Satan? Osman shows that the New Testament gives no example, no instruction and no warning about such an encounter — and that the arrogance of claiming to be tempted exactly as Christ was in Matthew 4 is itself a mark of a false teacher.
They handle 2 Corinthians 11:14 and the angel of light, Michael the archangel refusing to pronounce a railing accusation against Satan in Jude, and Peter's description of men with seared consciences who revile angelic authorities. Peters recounts Conner's other claims — speaking a squirrel into existence, fishing with Jesus, time-travelling to the crucifixion, God telling him to suck a hickey on a man's neck — and notes Bethel Church's embrace of him.
The practical takeaway is blunt: Christians have no business talking to Satan at all.