A cosmic battle has been raging between Satan and God from the beginning of time and will continue to the end of time. He has opposed the kingdom purposes of God since the first sin in the cosmos committed by Satan himself (Ezek. 28:12–17; cf. 2 Peter 2:4; 1 John 3:8). Since his temptation of Adam and Eve to sin against God in the garden (Gen. 3:1–6), Satan, along with his demon hordes, has conducted a guerilla warfare campaign to deceive and enslave men and women in his kingdom of darkness. Mankind’s only hope is therefore in God’s redeeming grace, “For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins” (Col. 1:13–14); causing us to turn “from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God” (Acts 26:18).
The anti-God world system God allows Satan to temporarily control consists of human beings who are willing subjects of his rule that is mediated in his kingdom by “rulers … world forces of this darkness [and] the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12). History is replete with examples
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