4.2 Satan's Activities in Human Society

Satan is constantly accusing all people before God, as he did Job, in order to drag them into hell.^{51(Job 1:9-11)CEV|KJ|NI} However, even Satan cannot perpetrate his evil activity unless he first finds an object partner with whom he can form a common base and engage in give and take action. Satan's object partners are evil spirits in the spirit world. The object partners to these evil spirits are the spirit selves of evil people on the earth, and the vehicles through which these evil spirit selves act are their physical selves. Accordingly, the power of Satan is conveyed through evil spirits and is manifested in the activities of earthly people. For example, Satan entered into Judas Iscariot,^{52(Luke 22:3)CEV|KJ|NI} and Jesus once called Peter "Satan."^{53(Matt. 16:33)CEV|KJ|NI} In the Bible, the spirits of evil earthly men are called "angels" of the devil.^{54(Matt. 25:41)CEV|KJ|NI}
The Kingdom of Heaven on earth^{55(cf.Eschatology 2)}is a restored world in which Satan can no longer instigate any activity. To realize this world, it is necessary for all humanity to eliminate their common base with Satan, restore their common base with God, and engage in give and take action with Him. The prophecy that in the Last Days God will confine Satan in a bottomless pit^{56(Rev. 20:1-3)CEV|KJ|NI} signifies that Satan will be utterly incapable of any activity, since there will no longer be any counterpart with whom Satan can relate. In order to eliminate our common base with Satan and be capable of judging him, ^{57(I Cor. 6:3)CEV|KJ|NI}we must understand the identity and crime of Satan and accuse him before God.
However, God endowed human beings and angels with freedom; therefore, He cannot restore them by force. Of their own free will, human beings are to bring Satan to voluntary submission by upholding the Word of God through fulfilling their responsibility. Only in this way can we be restored to the original ideal purposed by God at the creation. Because God works His providence based on this principle, the history of the providence of restoration has been repeatedly prolonged.^{58(cf. Predestination 2)}