Satan's spirit is the mark of the beast in a spiritual sense. It emanates from the beast system which is motivated by hostility toward God and His people. Spirit indicates that which motivates and produces behavior visible on the outside of a person. In a spiritual sense the mark of the beast is Satan's attitude. Satan created the original bad attitude and sustains it in humans when they permit these things entrance into their conduct. Spirit inclines the mind in a hostile anti-God anti-law direction. The course of this world is the spirit of the times. All have walked according to this spirit. All have had the mark of the beast impressed upon them already. Spiritually Satan has been the father of humans. They are already marked and in their lifetime they have shown his characteristics. The carnal mind is hostile to God and to each other. The basic drive of that spirit is overweening pride. Pride reveals itself in hostility animosity hatred malice deceit anger cunning competition resentment bitterness self-pity and intellectual vanity. All of them divide people from each other. The animosity and hostility to God has never been shown more clearly than in the relationship with Jesus Christ. Humans have the same spirit. They have been marked. Hostility and anger are probably the most frequent expressions of the mark of the beast against God and others. Anger hardly ever helps a situation. It divides. It forces the other person to defend himself and then a vicious cycle is generated. Anger is nothing more than a passionate response to some sort of stimuli and almost always with a self-centered response. Satan believes that anger helps because he wants to control he wants to win he wants to compete he wants to devour he wants to get the upper hand.

Satan deceives the whole world through a spirit dimension that makes people virtually unable to resist truth even when it is presented. This occurs because satan has infected mankind by fathering his spirit in people. The result is a powerful impulse to pass over or reject truth about God that is available in creation, in providence, and in human nature. Satan perpetuates this original infection so that people lack any inclination to accept and use the truth. In this way satan has managed to influence people by his spirit when they have no defense against it. The spirit that now works in the children of disobedience is the spirit of the ruler of the kingdom of the air. This spirit creates a mood or attitude inclined to destroy and to fail. It generates a form of mob psychology that pulls groups along with it and motivates conformity to fashions, music, and values alien to God. People therefore walk according to the course of this world and submit to unseen rulers who operate in the spirit realm. Satan's spirit is not holy. It lacks the purity, infinite knowledge, and mature character that belong to the spirit of God. The result is bondage to a mood that prevents true success unless it is replaced.

Satan's spirit permeates this world invisibly influencing evil thoughts in human beings such as covetous thoughts, angry thoughts, getting even thoughts, thoughts of destructive gossip, prideful thoughts elevating the self, murderous thoughts, deceitful thoughts, thoughts of revenge and stealth. Satan is a spirit being that is responsible for tempting Adam and Eve towards sinning. He used words as a major part of his ploy to lure them into sin. His temptations can come on anyone at any time and we must be on guard. The fiery darts of the wicked one are words. They get inside our minds and reside in our hearts and motivate us to do something unfortunately often evil. He is the one responsible for being the driving force behind the organization and continued existence of the world. He and his fellow demons and the system they dominate all work to draw us into his way of life which is anti-God or anti-Christ. Spirit plays the major role in his deception. Words that motivate because they find a home in our minds. Zeitgeist is a German word that means spirit of the times and because it is of the world it is very rarely a good spirit. It indicates the attitude prevalent in a given period of time in history in a city or even in an entire nation a mood that impacts upon the citizens on a large scale. It motivates or moves people's behavior in a given direction. God has permitted Satan to spread knowledge of the pervasive destructive power of the spiritual reality to men of very evil thinking. That evil thinking is generally used to control the masses for the purpose of bending them to the governing will of the dictator. In America large numbers of people conceive that murdering the unborn is good. All it took was a series of lies containing greatly exaggerated statistics virtually endlessly repeated with a certain inflection and carnal logic contained within the repetition that made one feel they were not wise or accepted if they did not go along. We in a sense are in a position of command and we are the ones that are charged with the responsibility by God to say yes to the one and no to the other and follow through allowing ourselves to be motivated to by the invisible influence of one or the other. Satan's spirit is also an invisible influence but it is not holy.