Blake Robert Templeton explains Satan as a created being cast down for pride, now a pawn on God's chessboard whose job is to tempt humans. When you take the bait, you don't gain power, you gain only destruction for yourself and everyone around you.
Satan is nothing but a mere creation who fell from righteousness because he lusted after his own beauty. See, he tried to destroy God and take his throne. Remember Isaiah 28? Therefore the King of Kings threw him down like lightning. Luke 10:19 says Jesus says, and we saw Satan fall like lightning. God is the self-existent life source of all that is in the known and the unknown universe. Now, Satan, now a pawn used to sift out evil from righteous. Satan is a pawn on the chessboard. So when one falls into temptation, his entire means is to destroy you. It's bait. So if you take upon the slave lord's persuasion, you possess only one power. Not to create, but to destroy. To destroy yourself and the people around you.
