Satan’s Rebellion Against God: How could Satan hope to win?

[Alfred Persson]

God vs Devil is no contest. God is infinite Almighty in power, Satan finite limited in power.

So how could he hope to successfully rebel against God? If he couldn't depend on his strength, then he must have depended on his "wiles", his "craftiness." What was his strategy? His plan?

The answer to that is found in Job 1:6-11. God’s heavenly court convenes and Satan appears among them. He claims God is wrong about Job, that he serves God for a selfish motive:

6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
7 And the LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.”
8 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?”
9 So Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
10 “Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
11 “But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” (Job 1:6-11 NKJ)

If Satan was right about Job, then God was wrong. If God was wrong, then He is not God (Ex. 15:11. 1 Sam. 2:2. Dt. 32:4. Is. 57:15). If God is NOT God, He must disqualify Himself as God and permit everyone be “their own god” and decide right and wrong for themselves.

Satan counted on God’s impeccable character. If God failed to meet His own standard for being God, He would be consistent and disqualify Himself. Then Satan and his angels could do anything anywhere they wanted in the universe.