When I say Satan is good at what he does, I mean he is without equal. There is none, human or spirit, who can compare with him. He is an expert at deception and the power to spiritually blind. Jesus said, “I will build my church” and Satan began immediately to divide, subdivide and subdivide again that entity until there was not just two or three factions, or bodies of believers, claiming to be God’s “true” church, but dozens and dozens of distinct denominations varying as widely as Mormonism and Catholicism, the Amish and the Anglicans, the Methodists and the Mennonites. And unless you are utterly and completely submitted to the LORDship of Jesus Christ in your daily life and poring over the scriptures daily really and truly proving all things of a spiritual nature, I guarantee you that you are grossly deceived in some of what you think to be true and even in your relationship with Jesus Christ and God the Father.
Satan knows that every human being is a potential replacement for him and his fallen spirit followers, not as enemies of God but as members of the great eternal kingdom of God. And it is his primary objective to rule us out, to block us, to nullify our prospects, to keep us out of the kingdom of God. And, I warn you again, he is an expert at what he does. He took down Adam and Eve, Solomon and Judas, and a host of others. Don’t even think for a moment that he is not capable of taking you out, too. And, of course, yours truly.
Satan knows full well that it is God’s stated will to “change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body” (See Philippians 3:21). It’s not that we are to be merely resurrected, brought back to life, given immortality, but that we shall be full-fledged sons of God just as we have been full-fledged sons of Adam, sharing God’s power and glory!!! He also knows that this must be earned by the followers of Christ, that we are rewarded with such power and glory according to our degree of overcoming sin, self and Satan’s deceptions while in the flesh. So he blinds believers from seeing these great truths in the scriptures, primarily by steering us away from the scriptures through various and sundry other pursuits and interests. He also knows he needs do this but for a very limited time – our life span. We dwell in time. He does not. The rotation of the earth and phases of the moon mean nothing to him. Such delineates our lives, measures our lifespan. Not so with Satan. He dwells in eternity – the same as God. Our time is running out far more quickly than Satan’s. Satan survived Adam’s death, Moses’ death, the apostle Paul’s death, Napoleon’s death – and he will survive you and continue on for a long, long time thereafter. He will shorten your life if possible. (He has done that for many a suicide). If unable to do that, he will make your life inconsequential, counting for little or nothing in God’s service and kingdom. He will stunt your spiritual growth and, where possible, stop it altogether. I warn you again: he is good at his job – an expert without peer. He can cost you more than you ever dreamed possible and the price he can make us pay can be staggering. Some will come forth in the resurrection saved yet so as by fire, counted least in the kingdom of God. Others will come forth blazing like a thousand suns in glory, imbued with God given powers that human mind could never conceive. Know your enemy!
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley