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It is tremendously important to know the strategy of the Christian's enemy!!!
The Scriptures present the only reliable information concerning him. We learn that Satan's bitterest hatred is directed against the preaching of the Gospel.

The word "Gospel" means good news, The Good News is that although all men are condemned sinners, are lost, and are on their way to an eternity of torment, God loves them deeply and sincerely. More than that: Through the sacrificial death of His Son on the cross, God has provided a way by which He can pardon sinners and make them members of His family. All this He has done on the basis of His grace, absolutely free.

This is God's answer to the lying, malevolent machinations of the devil. It is easily understood why Satan would oppose this message with all the intensity of his nefarious character:
" But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; in whom the god of this world [Satan] hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image [expression]of God, should shine unto them" (II Cor. 4:3,4).

In this connection, Satan does not oppose religion as such, by which is ment any attempt to approach God by any other way than through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Consider, for a moment, the religiions of the heathen. Scattered across the world are literally hundreds of millions of religious people. Some worship idols of wood and stone; some, a god named Allah, with Mohammed as his prophet. Other religionists emphasize ritual and ceremony to the exclusion of personal faith in a living crucified, and resurrected Saviour. In fact, these religions are already Satan-controlled through his network of demons:

"But I say [this is what I mean], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice [to idols, etc.], they sacrifice to devils [demons] and not to God; and I would not that ye should have fellowship [communion] with devils [demons]" (I Cor. 10:20).

Here the apostle was writing to the church at Corinth, a city given over to the worship of idols and the gods of mount Olympus. Paul pointed out that such worship was not harmless but actually demon worship. As such, no Christian could countenance it. This became a principle by which all religions are to be judged. If the way of approach is not through Christ, then it is by way of demons and directed to the devil! If the truth were known, indeed, almost the entire world is today worshiping the devil.