Being a former angel, a creature of pure reason, the Devil has had thousands of years to plan his attacks carefully. Yes his planning against man as whole ahs taken thousands of years - the individual attacks take no time at all. For example, the Devil would employ different approaches for say a man who has lived a life of sin, yet wishes to liberate himself from the sinful life, versus a virtuous man who feels he is beyond reproach. For the first he places a multitude of stumbling blocks to continue to keep the man enslaved in sin. Whereas the other requires a more subtle approach, such whispers of superior thinking and self-glorification. Though his goal is the same with all of us (total destruction), his attacks will be vast and varied.

For now we shall focus on only five: (1) those people who remain in the slavery of sin, with no thought of liberation; (2) those sinners who are thinking of liberating themselves from a sinful life, yet do nothing to change it; (3) those who, having received grace from God, overcame their sinful life, received virtues, but then again fall into sin with even greater moral corruption; (4) while still others are unaware of their fall, continue to think they are living a life of perfection; (5) and lastly those once virtuous, who have abandoned the path and are lost in the world of.

We shall examine these in more details over the next five chapters. The purpose of this examination is to illustrate the when, the where and the how each of us can easily become any one of these above mentioned unfortunate victims.