If you are a true believer, Satan hates you, because you bear the image of Christ and because you were snatched out of his power. You deserted him and he wants you back; he wants to sift you like wheat. Joel Beeke begins from that personal framing rather than from an abstract doctrine of evil.

While we should not overestimate Satan's power, we underestimate to our peril an enemy who is living, intelligent, resourceful and cunning. Every Christian is in a battle that is fierce, spiritual and necessary, between the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light, and Beeke works through the enemy's weaknesses, his strategies and his certain defeat. Formerly titled Striving Against Satan.