If you read the Bible closely, you will find many hundreds of people whose names get lost in the credits, who appear to be no more than props in the story, and yet there would ne no story without them. That is almost all of us.

Though Satan is fallen with respect to his will, he is not fallen with respect to his power. He is still an archangel.

It is unfortunate that Churches speak little of the Devil. But he is smart and powerful and we should take him as seriously as Jesus did.