What is Satan actively trying to do to believers and to the lost?
Satan, operating through principalities and powers, actively works to frustrate the life of every believer and to keep lost humanity in darkness. He uses his authority to oppose God’s people, and he holds lost humanity in darkness until God breaks that power and opens hearts by the Holy Spirit.
Les explains that Paul’s Ephesians statement shows believers do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers whose authority is Satan. Satan is doing everything he can to frustrate the life of believers and to keep lost humanity in darkness, and he has that power until God breaks it. That is why God must open hearts and, through the Holy Spirit, give understanding. Les also points to Romans 8: neither principalities, powers, things present, things to come, height, depth, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. The word “creature” refers to all creation, whether demonic or righteous angelic; nothing created can take us out of God’s love.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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What is Satan trying to do to believers and to unbelievers?
Satan is doing everything he can both to frustrate the life of believers and to keep lost humanity in darkness.