who do you think is the strong man mentioned below?
Mark 3
20 Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21 But when His own people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, “He is out of His mind.”
22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebub,” and, “By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons.”
23 So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. 27 No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.
I believe Jesus bound Satan when He defeated him in the desert. Satan was bound but he still had strongholds in the mind of people and still had demons loose to deceive people. Satan is NOT the only one named as a deceiver and the Bible says the SPIRITS of AntiChrists.
Satan is NOT God and can NOT be everywhere at once and his demons are not completely under his control because they do not all worship him but obey out of fear, like a bully that coerces or bribes others into doing his will.