Satan apparently can’t show his face, but I think he does persuade a lot of gullible people to do his work for him.
And it will get worse,for we wrestle not against flesh and blood,but against principalities,against powers,against the rulers of the darkness of this world,against spiritual wickedness in high places.
In times past whenever a kingdom got too cruel,and their ways perverting too much territory,God would allow another kingdom to take them down,which no nation can rule unless God allows it,and He gives the kingdom to whomever He will,which king Nebuchadnezzar learned the hard way at one time,when he bragged,and said,look at Babylon that I have built to be great,and God humbled him until he realized it is God that gives the kingdom to whomever He will.
But the kingdom to come,and leading close up to it,God's hand is not there to keep the beastly ways of people in check,but is allowing all people that do not love Him to follow the beast kingdom,so the devils will have more influence over the wicked people who advance toward that kingdom than in the past kingdoms,and the man of sin will more influenced by the devil than any other person in history.