All things—whether favored by the righteous or the wicked—come from God. Without God, even evil deeds would be impossible. Satan merely borrows what belongs to God, leading humans to take pleasure in wrongdoing. The Chinese meaning of "evil" (恶) implies a divided heart, not a single-minded focus.
In other words, good things are borrowed and twisted by Satan into dual purposes: one remains the original good, the other becomes evil.
These are very important points sxp.....everything in existence comes from God.
In creation we see equal opposites everywhere so that there is perfect balance in what God created... “up/down”...”in/out”...”with/without”...”positive/negative”...for/against...and many more. We take them for granted every day....but the only opposites that God originally withheld knowledge about, was “good and evil”, which existed only as equal opposites.
It was never God’s intention for humans to know or to experience the equal opposite of his goodness. It would not be beneficial, and a wonderful life would have resulted if that knowledge had never been revealed by a rebel spirit, who denied that the withholding of this knowledge was beneficial for the humans....he suggested that God had a sinister motive and even called him a liar.
This would have repercussions in both realms because the first rebel was not human, but he involved the humans in his rebellion, and forced God to defend himself. He had been slandered! Millions of angels were observing and millions of humans would be affected by how he handled this situation.
By his power God could have just eliminated the rebels from existence, but the accusations made by satan would not have been addressed. God’s power was not called into question....it was his Sovereignty that was challenged...his right to set the limits of the free will that he gave to all his children.
So once that ‘genie was out of the bottle’ there was no putting it back....the Creator would now allow the full consequences of their abuse of free will to teach all of his children a valuable lesson on the benefits of obedience, verses the results of disobedience. We have been living with them since the fall in Eden.
What have we learned?
Everything Satan possesses is borrowed from God.
Yes...satan is a mimic...he copies the things God has put in place to claim them as his own and to influence fallen humanity to give him and his dupes the credit for what God has made. Through his human minions, who have copied the things in creation to invent products and processes used in science and commerce, he has given the credit to the copiers along with accolades for their inventions, that have come to be used by all of us....but with no mention of the real inventor...the genius and power behind all creation.
As the one to whom God delivered the world that he wanted to rule, (Luke 4:5-7) satan then set about setting up human rulership...all over the world, governmental establishments were set up to govern the now flawed human race...with the result that history attests to in one failed form after another....mankind’s history of conflict, conquest and bloodshed is nothing to boast about, but it has the devil’s stamp on all of it.
It just screams abject failure! Mankind was not designed to rule himself...he is designed to be ruled by an incorruptible God.
God’s Kingdom will put an end to the failed rulership of the devil....so....that will all soon change....
The rightful Sovereignty of the Creator will be vindicated.
