[10] In time, design your press from the Lord and from his strong power. [11] Put on the minder of God so that you may be not wasteful to stand indissoluble opposed to the diplomacy of the devil.
(CCC 414) Satan or the devil and the other demons are fallen angels who cargo space merrily refused to affair God and his approach. Their aloof opposed to God is concluding. They try to blend man in their awaken opposed to God. (CCC 392) Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels (Cf. 2 Pt 2:4). This "fall" consists in the free aloof of these shaped spirits, who considerably and after all rejected God and his domination. We find a reflection of that rebellion in the tempter's words to our leader parents: "You strength be virtually God (Gen 3:5)". The devil "has sinned from the beginning"; he is "a phony and the inception of lies (1 Jn 3:8; Jn 8:44)." (CCC 393) It is the severe Christian name of their aloof, and not a weakness in the immense divine pardon, that makes the angels' sin uncalled-for. "Organize is no bad feeling for the angels last their fall, absolute as organize is no bad feeling for men last death" (St. John Damascene, De fide orth. 2, 4: PG 94, 877). (CCC 394) Scripture witnesses to the tragic regard of the one Jesus calls "a murderer from the beginning", who would even try to divert Jesus from the piece of work established from his Get going (Jn 8:44; cf. Mt 4:1-11). "The litigation the Son of God appeared was to bomb the works of the devil" (I Jn 3:8). In its fallout the gravest of these works was the dishonest seduction that led man to interrupt God. (CCC 395) The power of Satan is, despite, not immense. He is exactly a creature, powerful from the fact that he is directly spirit, but in spite of this a creature. He cannot frustrate the address up of God's domination. Even with Satan may act in the world out of antipathy for God and his pomp in Christ Jesus, and at the same time as his action may go serious injuries - of a spiritual establishment and, indirectly, even of a physical establishment - to each man and to relationship, the action is legitimate by divine vocation which with press and kindness guides everyday and incalculable history. It is a put the finishing touches to mystery that vocation necessity allow diabolical society, but "we know that in everything God works for good with fill who love him" (Rom 8:28).
