(July 31, 2014)
There
are times when I wonder why Satan doesn’t exercise the powers that he has. For example, we know from the story of Aaron
and the Pharaoh’s magicians that he has the power to perform ‘magic.’ Why would he not call down some force in
response to the priests of Baal (after all, he is ultimately who they
worshiped)? I had similar thoughts on
Satan when I thought about the Book of Mormon and the Gold Plates. Why, if Satan knew where they were buried, did
he not ‘inspire’ a particularly wicked person to come and take them centuries before
Joseph Smith was even born?
Considering
these two things, I think that the answer is that while Satan has great freedom
to rampage across the Earth he is still tightly constrained in certain areas. The Lord still holds dominion over him, and
while Satan may not want to obey he is incapable of resisting. There is great comfort in that fact – that though
Satan may see and understand the work of the Lord, if we cling tightly to the
Lord he will not be permitted to destroy us or the work.
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