Agreed.
I do have to say that it was Satan (Lucifer) who sinned first - then he beguiled man. Yes, Adam could have told Satan to go to hell but he gave in to Satan's temptation therefore God cursed Satan, multiplied woman's sorrow in childbirth; cursed the ground to bring up thorns and thistles, man would have to toil the ground and sweat; and death entered.
Satan doesn't rule over us but Satan does have dominion over the earth which Adam relinquished when he sinned. If not, he wouldn't have been able to tempt Jesus with something he doesn't have to give . . . the whole world lies in wickedness. Through what Jesus Christ accomplished we have been promised an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that fades not away reserved in heaven for us, being sealed with the holy Spirit which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory when Christ returns and raises us to eternal life and lifts us up out of this world - until then we don't have to become a part of this world but we do have to live in this world.
Did God create man capable of independent and intellectual judgment or did he create man incapable of choosing anything other than His will? Did God create man to have a relationship with him wherein man could choose to love him or choose to reject him? Did God create man to have the choice to obey him or disobey him? We all still sin.
Besides preparing a place for us, I think maybe Jesus is preparing for war!!!
Yes, the right hand is blessing, the left is cursing.
Yes, we have been made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
But isn't the character of God being called into question when it is said that Satan could not do any evil unless God allowed him to? Turning Him into partnership with darkness directing sinful activity?
I have the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ in me - I sometimes fail in living to do God's will so I don't see Satan shrinking and running!! LOL . . . sometimes I am not always submitting (if I am to be honest) so if anything the battle is worse because my desire has changed to do the will of God but there is another side of me that hasn't changed and that is my flesh. Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Does saying that give Satan glory and more power? No - just stating the truth of the scripture.
Jesus will be King when he is brought to reign in his Kingdom - the 1000 year reign. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
I do apologize for I have probably been a major proponent in this thread going haywire . . . Sorry.