Christians seam to have an incredibly
hard time seeing Satan unless he's in plain view. We don't live in
reality. The Bible tells us the spirit world is more real than, and is
the driving force of, the physical world. It also tells us that you can
serve either God or Satan, and choosing not to serve God is a choice to
serve Satan. Thus the spiritual realm is the driving force that shapes
the physical world.
Human beings are the interface by which the physical
world is shaped. It's why God works through people. He gave us dominion
over the physical universe in the beginning, and not only does He
choose to work through us, this dominion granted to us forces Satan and
his minions to also work through humans to effect their plans.
Furthermore Satan and his minions are not creative beings,
only human's were gifted thus, and as such Satan can only copy, he can
never innovate, and the Bible confirms this by using language such as
"anti-christ" and counterfeit, and constant imagery of light and
darkness to demonstrate that all of Satan's domain is based upon a
perverted and inverted copy of God's ways.
This would dictate, that just as God promises a host of
blessings to His people if they follow His ways, Satan would offer
rewards to those who worship him. Since one cannot serve both, this
leads to only one conclusion: if a human being has come into a position
of influence, power, wealth, etc be it pastor, police officer, mayor,
CEO, dictator, or any other like position, that person arrived there
because of who they serve.
This paints a world view, that while Biblically accurate, is
nonetheless disturbing to Christians. This Biblical world view says that
any one in power who is advancing an agenda that is evil is serving
Satan, and the higher up the ladder they are, the more likely it is they
know they are serving Satan instead of being just a useful crony/idiot. This is logical because, Satan wants to be worshiped, and thus it would make perfect sense for him to reward those directly worshiping him far more than those who are just useful idiots, or corrupt, but oblivious to his reality.