Satan’s Plan and Its Failure

Today's passage deals with how the cherub, the foremost spirit that God made with the greatest care, fell through pride and became Satan. Although he had received the highest glory and wisdom from God, he was not thankful but coveted the throne and rebelled; as a result he was driven out from the mountain of God, and a third of the angels fell with him. To prevent his own judgment, this fallen being made a meticulous plan to overturn God's order of creation and steal human souls.

Satan has continually interfered throughout history with the aim of finding and killing the offspring of the woman. He tempted Adam and Eve and caused them to fall, and before the flood in Noah's day he tried to corrupt human genes to keep the offspring of the woman from coming. And when Jesus came to this earth, he tried to kill the baby through King Herod, tempted him in the wilderness, and used Judas and the priests to have him nailed to the cross. But Satan did not foresee Jesus' resurrection and ascension, and all his schemes ended in failure.

Now Satan is hindering worship, defiling the world, and persecuting believers in the name of human rights, peace, and the prevention of infectious disease. But unless God permits it, Satan cannot stop the faith of believers, and good angels are guarding them. All of Satan's plans have already failed, and the victory belongs to believers. How should we view this age, and how can we live by faith without being shaken?