We continue our look at the demonic, evil spirit world. Satan, of course, is the king of those spirits, but he has many demons who follow him and do his bidding. What do they actually do? What is their primary goal? What are they after? As I said yesterday, they primarily are not trying to inhabit bodies. They can do that, at least in the gospels they did that, and we assume they can do that now. That is pretty limited however, what does it matter if you inhabit the body of one individual or two? Satan is after bigger things that that. He wants to deceive, and he wants to deceive the whole world. We want to break down his deceptions to the unbeliever and then his deceptions in relation to the believers.
2 Corinthians 4:4, concerns the unbeliever that Satan wants to blind to God’s truth and His gospel, it says, “in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” Primarily, what Satan is after here with the unbeliever is that he wants to keep them blind to the things of God. So, he has blinded the minds of the unbelievers. Why? So that they cannot see the light of the gospel, the glory of Christ which is the image of God. In other words, because they are spiritually blind, they can never see the glory of Christ. They can never understand the greatness and awesomeness of God. They can never see the real need for the gospel and salvation. Because of this spiritual blindness on their part, they do not turn to the Lord. They don’t see that need. They are totally oblivious to that. That is Satan’s work. That is what he works to accomplish night and day – to keep the unbeliever from understanding the things of God. If they would actually have a glimpse of the glory of Christ and the wonder of the Lord, the Lord would change them and save them, but they do not. Only the Lord can remove those blinders. If we look at 2 Corinthians 3:18, it says, “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” In other words, when we actually see the glory of Christ, then we are transformed. That is what Satan doesn’t want the unbelievers to see . . .
