Had Adam and Eve reached full maturity and built a four position foundation centering on God, the world of God’s sovereignty would have been established at that time.
While still immature, however, they fell and formed a four position foundation centering on Satan. Consequently, this world has come under Satan’s sovereignty.
Hence, the Bible calls Satan “the ruler of this world” and “the god of this world” (John 12:31); (II Cor. 4:4). Once Satan came to dominate human beings, who were intended to be the lords of creation, he also achieved domination over everything in the universe. Accordingly, it is written, “the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. . . . We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now” (Rom. 8:19-22).
These verses describe the agony of the creation under the domination of Satan as it longs for the appearance of unfallen people who have perfected their original nature; it yearns for the day when they will vanquish Satan and rule it in love.
4.2 Satan’s Activities in Human Society Satan is constantly accusing all people before God, as he did Job, in order to drag them into hell (Job 1:9-11).
However, even Satan cannot perpetrate his evil activity unless he first finds an object partner with whom he can form a common base and engage in give and take action. Satan’s object partners are evil spirits in the spirit world.
The object partners to these evil spirits are the spirit selves of evil people on the earth, and the vehicles through which these evil spirit selves act are their physical selves. Accordingly, the power of Satan is conveyed through evil spirits and is manifested in the activities of earthly people. |