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I’ll give you a little bit of Satan’s character to explain why he’s doing what he’s doing as explained in revelation.
When he tempted Eve, he twisted the law with an implication to arrogate something that god didn’t say.
When he tempted Jesus, he used the law to instruct Jesus to do something to demonstrate his power.
Satan is a bearer of light, his problem is with recognizing gods authority on account of his pride. At this point his utilization of religion (which is attempting to follow the law is precisely man trying to replace Jesus, they’re antichrists in the sense that they do not accept what God did to save them)
So naturally in revelation believers are beheaded, and the Bible mentions that people in that day will kill you thinking they do God a service. Satan will have you killed for resisting. So it’s heavily implied that the religious people think that the antichrist is God. There’s only one reason why they would make such a critical error and it goes back to the knowledge of good and evil.
The law can’t save, and religious people are married to it because it allows them to boast like a spiritual crackpipe of self worship. It’s one of the reasons why narcissists and psychopaths are drawn to religion. The gospel isn’t advocating for it, so naturally religion will hate the gospel. These people want to worship themselves and they’re being primed to worship someone else that is far better at doing law than they are.
This explains Satan being described as beautiful, intelligent, military genius, etc. so with these people at the top of society being openly cartoonishly evil, and everyone knows they’re bent. These people are all couped up together making it all so easy for the antichrist to take all of them out, because Satan will quote the law to coerce them into taking the mark, when they’re already appealing to the law when it cannot save.