11 Put on God's whole armor [the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil.
The Truth is that satan was created by our Father, and he was created to be and he is a servant of God. He rebelled against our Father and would have destroyed Him if he could have, but satan just isn’t that strong. Whether people like or not, satan is this way because our Father made him that way, John 8:44. Our Father knew that satan would rebel and just because he did rebel in no way released him from being exactly what our Father made him to be, a servant.
For it was in Him that all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, whether thrones, dominions, rulers, or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him [by His service, intervention] and in and for Him. Colossians 1:16
Through Christ we are one with our Father, so we are one with His armor. The power that doesn’t let satan do anything against our Father, doesn’t allow him to do anything, except what he is directed to do by our Father, against us. We know this to be true because we have been told that our Father sent a messenger of satan to buffet Paul, 2 Corinthians 12:7. The messenger could only do what our Father allowed and directed him to do. Our Father told satan what he could do and what he couldn’t do against Job. Satan and the demons were created to serve our Kingdom and they still serve today. The only power that they have is what our Father allows them to have. Many do not believe this, but if satan was strong on his own and had a free will to do whatever he wanted, then why did he have to ask to attack the apostles?
Simon, Simon (Peter), listen! Satan has asked excessively that [all of] you be given up to him [out of the power and keeping of God], that he might sift [all of] you like grain, Luke 22:31
Satan and demons serve our Father and so they serve us. What did I just write? Did I just say that demons and satan serve us? They sure do, look at what Paul wrote in Corinthians.
You are to deliver this man over to Satan for physical discipline [to destroy carnal lusts which prompted him to incest], that [his] spirit may [yet] be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 1 Corinthians 5:5.
Satan was used by Paul as a tool to actually save a person. Satan is not a threat for us who are one with Jesus. He is just another servant of our Father, just as all things are servants to our Father. If you have been attacked by satan, you have been attacked because our Father sent him to you to do it, just as our Father sent him to buffet Paul. The price of satan’s rebellion is that he still has to do only what our Father tells him to and he must suffer defeat repeatedly as he does. Satan has to come to serve the Kingdom and as he does he will be defeated by our Father’s power that dwells within us. Satan will one day no longer be needed and when that day comes he will be thrown into the Lake of Fire, Revelation 20:10.
Think of what satan actually has to go through. He is sent to attack us by our Father and he knows that in our weakness our Father’s strength will become perfected, 2 Corinthians 12:9. Satan wanted so much to be God and now everyday he is sent to be defeated by our Father’s power working through a creation that has the very thing that he wanted. Satan wants to kill us, but he can’t. He want’s to destroy us, but he can’t. He can only go and do exactly what he is told to do, knowing full well that he will be defeated and there is nothing that he can do about it. If someone is harping on satan and his strength they have no revelation of the Truth of our Father’s power.
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