1. Foundational Principles:
a.
Satan is motivated by jealous, narcissistic, power lust - Isa.
14:12-14; Ezek. 28:17 and compare 1 Pt. 5:8.
b. Satan is the ruler of this world - Jn. 14:30; Mt. 4:8-9; 1 Jn. 5:19.
c.
Satan is active in the world today - Job 1:7; Eph. 2:2, 6:11-12; 1
Tim. 5:15 and 2 Tim. 2:26.
2. Revelation chapters
12-13 state Satan's fulfilled plan: control leading
to
worship:
Rev.
12:9 - world deception.
Rev.
12:13-17 - anti-Hebrew.
Rev.
13:2, 7 - power, throne, authority.
Rev.
13:3-4 - worship of the beast and dragon; cf. v. 8, 12, 15;
Mt. 4:8-9; Rev. 9:19-21, 1 Cor. 10:18-22; Psl. 106:34-39;
Ezek. 16:20-21.
Rev.
13:5-6 - blasphemy of God; cf. Dan. 11:36-39, 7:23-25.
Rev.
13:15 - religious persecution.
Rev.
13:16-17 - economic dependence and control.