No one said the apposing spirit which is not a creation created from the rudiments of this world (clay) the father of lies. . . is Sovereign.
When the mysteries of faith gives us the unseen understanding hid in parables then we have followed the prescriptions for rightly diving the parables the poetic signified tongue of God's prophecy . If we were to literalize the parables then the gospel remains hid .
Matthew 13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in
parables; and
without a
parable spake
he not unto them:
Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto
them that are
without, all these things are done in
parables:
Below is the 20/20 prescription needed to rightly divide the parables and therefore seek His approval .
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which
are seen are
temporal; but the things which are
not seen are
eternal.