The Satanic agenda is to defile, degrade and destroy human beings individually and collectively because we are made in God’s image. We are created “a little lower than the angels” in our bodies of flesh (Psalm 8), but destined to rule over and “judge angels” after our glorification (1 Corinthians 6:3). For this reason Satan seethes with hatred and jealously against us. He wants to hurt us to hurt God, but his ultimate goal is to fully unravel and “void” all the work of God related to human-kind.
We can see that plan at work in the physical realm. Human civilization can be compared to a mature tree whose growth and form reflect the natural laws and rational order of Creation, as described in Genesis. It’s roots and trunk represent the most broad and fundamental legal and social foundations, and its ever more refined and delicate outgrowing branches are representative of humanity’s spiritual maturation over time.
If we can picture this tree as symbolic of humanity’s growth process from the coarse and crude social order of antiquity toward ever greater Christlikeness, then the so-called culture war is like a disease that works in reverse order to kill the tree, starting from the outer tips of the branches and progressing toward the roots, with Christian losses in the “culture war” reflecting a process of steady devolution.
God’s plan and purpose is always redemptive: order from chaos. But in typical Satanic style, truth and falsehood are reversed as the demonic realm brings chaos from order, and his regressive process is called “progress” by his army of “progressives.”
— Scott Lively, Oct. 4 WND column