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Introduction If you ask the average person what they think about the devil, you will get a range of opinions from a seedy little creature with horns and a tail who goes around jabbing people with a pitchfork to an omnipresent creature who is everywhere at all times causing even heaven to worry about the future of the world. C. S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and other excellent works, wrote an insightful little book entitled, The Screwtape Letters. Lewis imagined a series of letters that were written from an older demon named Screwtape to his nephew – a younger demon who was recently put in charge of a “patient” – which was the term used for the unbeliever he was to keep from the truth of the gospel. In this fascinating little book, C. S. Lewis made clear his underlying belief that the average person does not take the demonic world seriously enough. In fact, in one particular letter, Uncle Screwtape wrote to his nephew that it would be best to keep the patient ignorant of their existence. Screwtape wrote, “Keep alive the modern imagination that demons are comic figures in red tights.” So the liberal scholars and academic circles view the biblical exposure of the fallen demonic world as a lot of make‑believe. Vance Havner, a famous evangelist from the twentieth century, said, “If the devil came to town in a body, you would not find him in a nightclub or casino; you would most likely find him in some pulpit, drawing a salary while denying his existence.”
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