The Triumphant Churchtemptation to Jesus. But the Bible calls it a temptation:
"And Jesus ... was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Being forty days, TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL ..." (Luke
4:1,2). Therefore, Satan did have authority and
dominion on the earth because he could tempt Jesus
with it.
So Satan took Adam's place of dominion and
authority on the earth. But is that the end of it?
Emphatically, no! God sent Jesus to the earth to redeem
mankind and to restore to man his lost dominion and
authority on this earth. And as man exercises the
authority he has been given in Christ, he fulfills God's
plan and will upon the earth.
However, until Adam's lease runs out—that is, until
time as we know it comes to an end and Satan receives
God's final judgment—Satan has authority to be here.
Remember in the New Testament when Jesus would
enter into the synagogue, many times people who were
possessed with demons would cry out, “... What have we
to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come
hither to torment us BEFORE THE TIME?" (Matt.
8:29).
Satan knows his time on this earth is running out,
and he knows his impending torment and doom are
prophesied in the Book of Revelation (Rev. 20:10).
Satan's Dominion After His Fall Also
Encompasses the Heavenlies
Ephesians 6:12 tells us that Satan's kingdom
encompassed not only the realm of this world, but it
also included the regions known in the Bible as the
"high places" or "the heavenlies:"
EPHESIANS 6: