Would satan knowingly do anything to glorify God or is it always a surprise to him when God does something good with his dirty deeds?

Ive heard He makes lemonade out of lemons....

Would satan have offered GOD the world if he would have known the answer?

Satan can not know the future.

Surely he has enough past experience to predict what would glorify God?

From 1 Corinthians chapter 2:


'rulers of this age' presumably applies to political and religeous leaders of the day. But 2 Corintians 4:4 refers to satan as the 'god of this world'. I do wonder to what extent it applies to him too?

Wow, thats deep. How would anyone possibly know?

On a side note; it's interesting that many people incorrectly give Lucifer God-like qualities.
Lucifer is not; all-knowing, nor ominipresent.

I think.... what God would consider evil........ initially......often leads to good.

I thought it was pretty well known that he knows only what he observes.

I think it's interesting that people think Lucifer is another name for Satan.

To answer your question, Hobbie I believe the answer to be no. The Bible describes Satan as a liar and enemy of God. Therefore, he wouldn't knowing glorify God. Satan goes all out to try and make humans not glorify God. The Bible also says that Satan keeps disguising himself as an angel of light. Meaning that he pretends to be good in order to fool people into following his teachings rather than God's.

Always a surprise. Satan can't outwit his Creator.

he just has to out wit us and that bar is pretty low. lol

Satan is what he is, or his character, Lucifer is his name.
Sort of like "God", that is who He is, not His name. His name is Jehovah (or the various forms thereof).

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Waggler, I'm familiar with God's personal name but Lucifer is not Satan's name. The Hebrew word that in some Bibles is translated “Lucifer” means shining one. The context shows that this term refers to the line of kings, of Babylon, which God would humiliate for its arrogance. The expression shining on was used to mock the Babylonian dynasty after it was overthrown.

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My understanding after studying it a bit is they both are the same entity, satan primarily being the old Hebrew term, and Lucifer the more recent new testement term (or maybe I have this flipped around).
The older understanding of the nature of this fallen angel was a little different from one period to another, but the names/terms all apply to the same entity.