You paint a picture of Satan doing whatever he likes. How weak your God is. My God reigns. Yet He has given dominion over to man. So man, being deceived by the devil, will totally mess it up where God will have to intervene. Satan and his cohorts are just tools to overcome. Why do you think they flee from the Holy Spirit. Sheesh...
I'm saying that Satan wanted to stop the Christ from coming. Before the flood, he tried altering the gene pool of humanity via the nephilim, and nearly succeeded, making mankind so evil that "the thoughts and intents of their heart was only evil all the time".
The Bible explicitly states that in the flood everything on earth that had the breath of life died. This means everyone except Noah and his family died. This would include the giants.
Gen 6:
4) There were giants in the earth in those days;
and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
children to them, the same
became mighty men which
were of old, men of renown.
If every living (breathing) thing on earth died in the flood (which according to the Bible is exactly what happened), and the Bible says there were giants after the flood, then how do you propose they got here?
I believe that the devil tried the same thing after the flood that he did before the flood. After all, it came very close to succeeding.
Yet He has given dominion over to man.
Yes, God originally gave dominion of this world to man:
Gen 1:
26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
When Adam sinned, that dominion was transferred to the devil:
Luke 4:
5) And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him
all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6) And the devil said unto him,
All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
1 John 5: (NIV)
19) We know that we are children of God, and that
the whole world is under the control of the evil one.
Satan and his cohorts are just tools to overcome.
Satan and his cohorts are currently in control of this world, or age. cp 2 Cor 4:4.