We've been duped!!!!!

Remember how in the Wizard of Oz, the Great Oz was seen as big, powerful, mysterious, and awesome? There was smoke, and fire and a big floating head.
But when the curtain was pulled away, well, he was just a pitiful little man. He'd fooled so many people with Hollywood type special effects, smoke and mirrors, loud noises, and a booming voice.

Look at how Isaiah discribes Satan when he is cast down into hell:
"Those who see you will gaze at you, They will ponder over you, {saying,} 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms, Who made the world like a wilderness, And overthrew its cities, Who did not allow his prisoners to {go} home?' Chapter 14:15-17

We've been duped! Satan is strying to fool us in thinking he is this big powerful influence over us. But he's only influencial over us if we don't know he's already been defeated.

In the book I'm reading, What Satan Can and Cannot Do, by Larry Reavis, he offers a great illustration:

When the Gulf War ended in 1991 and Operations Desert Storm was considered a sucess, there was a meeting in Southern Iraq to discuss the peace terms. When General Schwartzkopf and his commanders met with the Iraqi general and his commanders, they were not there to discuss anthing Iraq wanted or decided. Iraq had been defeated. Iraq was told to be at the meeting, to hear what they were going to do to comply with U.N. resolutions. They were told in the meeting, "You will do such and such. You will not cross over this parallel. You will allow this group of people to live here. If you fly over this area, you will be shot down. All of your nuclear weaponry and materials will be destroyed and will be inspected at any time" and so on. Iraq did not dictate the terms of the surrender: they were defeated. Defeated foes to not dictate the terms. The Allied Forces dictated to them. You dictate to the conquered foe...Somehow in my mind's eye I see this meeting in heaven. I listen. It's as if Satan is hauled before the general council in Heaven and God says, "Here are the terms and you will abide by them. If they cast you out in the Name of Jesus, you are cast out. If they bind you in the name of Jesus, you are bound. If they lay hands on the sick in the Name of Jesus, the sick will recover"- my partial paraphrase of Mark 16:17-18.

He's already been defeated!(Luke 10:18-19) He can shout all he wants, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" but it's too late.
We've already seen him.
Pitiful little man.