Just a thought: Division commonly ends in desolation. If we divide from one another, we become easy prey to a common enemy; much more if we bite and devour one another - we will consume each other.
In Matthew 12, the Pharisees declared that Jesus was casting out demons (and healing others) by the work of "Beelzebub." Jesus stated (and proved) that he was the Son of God with his work. At this point in the text, Jesus was so far from being in league with the devil that other were openly hostile and at enmity with him.
The world sits in darkness in the devil's possession. Yet the design of Jesus' coming, the Gospel, was and is to spoil the devil's house, which as a strong man, he kept the world. The devil will not set his sights on destroying himself, but on taking God's children with him to his own coming destruction by Christ's return. He knows he cannot defeat God. Instead, Satan will rule where and what he can. If Satan were to fall in line with Christ, then how could he stand? What would he have to rule? He would lose his control and cease to be in rebellion to the one true God.
Christ, by his grace, has broken Satan's rule, and Christ spoiled the devil's house and will spoil it more and more.
Carry on.
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