In the Bible the devil is called the “evil one”. I wonder how evil he is? I wonder if there is any limit or end or measure of the extent of his capacity for evil? I wonder how much he can influence mankind to do evil? I wonder how much control he has over people to cause them to do evil? In the Bible in Revelations 12:12 it says, “woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time”. I wonder what an infinitely evil being with great power who has great wrath and a great hatred of God and takes it out on those whom God loves is capable of and what it will look like in the days ahead as his time gets shorter and his wrath becomes more intense? I don’t know the answers to those questions. I can just wonder and wait and see. But I do know the answers to those same questions as they apply to me personally. The answers are expressed as promises in the Bible towards those who are followers of Jesus. Psalms 18:1-3 is a favorite of mine, “I love You, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemy.” And John 17:15 is a prayer of Jesus for us “I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one”. And at the end ” Revelations 20:2, and He laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and satan, and bound him..” And finally in Revelations 20:10, “the devil was thrown into the lake of fire where he will be tormented day and night forever”. And the cool part is We live with God forever with the total and complete absence of any evil.