Ephesians 2:1-3 English Standard Version
1And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
I ended yesterday with the question of why the secrets of 2 Corinthians 12 revealed in the 3rd heaven could not be shared with us in the 1st heaven. The simple answer is that we are very bad at keeping secrets. As soon as we speak those secrets Satan will hear them. The secrets are being kept from Satan.
Satan is that prince of the power of the air. Whatever we say or do is known to him. What is not known to him is the future. If Satan had known God’s plan of salvation by the death of Christ on the Cross, Satan would have done everything in his power to prevent it. Since Satan did not know God’s plan he sought to put Christ to death.
Satan knows he will lose the final battle because we read it aloud from the bible and it is written for all to see. What Satan doesn’t know is the hour of Christ’s coming. Until then Satan will do everything within his power to stay in power as long as possible.
John 10:10 English Standard Version The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
The reason John 10:10 connects Satan’s objectives with Christ objectives is to tell us what Satan is attacking, life with Christ. There is nothing Satan can do to us within the dwelling place of Christ, our hearts, but everything else is fair game for him.