The Father said the enemy is a terror (FEAR) and nothing more!

The enemy is the devil. The devil is the evil spirit that roams the earth. So beware, the devil is the god of this natural world.

• But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. (Emphasis added) 2 Corinthians 4:4. 

Thus, despite what some people choose to believe, God the Father in Heaven is not the “god of this world.”

God in heaven does not do evil, but the devil is evil. All evil comes from it. All evil is based on a sentiment that God is not almighty, sovereign, etc., as explained in detail below. 

From God's perspective as the almighty sovereign, evil is a belief that He (God or His will) are in some way insufficient for us. For example, rejecting Jesus or the Word of God is a rejection of God the Father.

Rejecting God makes you His adversary because you side with the god of this world as a friend of it.

• ...know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. James 4:4.
• God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. Nahum 1:2.

The enemy, the devil, knows God will destroy it and all who rise up against Him thinking in their heart that God is insufficient in some way, for they are His enemy who shall receive His wrath. The target of the enemy is mankind but the enemy has no power against God (or the born again).

• Behold, I give unto you power...over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke 10:19.

God calls the devil a thief, among other things.

• The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10.

The devil seeks to devour everyone.

• Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 1 Peter 5:8.

Please note: God is your loving Father if you want Him to be, or He is your adversary if you reject Him. It's up to you. Choose to become born again (saved) and a child of the almighty God.

We were made in the image and likeness of God, and we have the power to become sons of God. The devil is the enemy of God and the enemy of the Father's children, starting with the Jews and Jesus.

The devil knows the pathway to destruction is challenging God's sufficiency. The Word of God is God, and the Word promises salvation for the believer according to the Father's will. The devil challenges the Word of God that promises salvation for the believer, and the enemy tempts humans to do the same. 

Remember, the devil is fear per se (in itself), but the children of the Father are born again by the Holy Spirit of power (the Holy Ghost), love (the Father), and a sound mind (the Word-the mind of Christ).

• For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7.

Recall that the enemy (the devil) can only give that which it has as the god of this world. It is the spirit of fear (error). The devil uses itself, the spirit of error that the Father, His Word, and/or His Spirit of truth (the Holy Ghost) is not almighty and sovereign, and the enemy tempts people to believe the same way. Our flesh is the target. Our will of the flesh is the inroad into us because mankind is corruptible by nature because he is of the flesh and naturally desires the pleasures of his body over the will of God. 

• For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. Romans 8:13.

An unbeliever of the Word (God) or the sufficiency of the Father's ways (will), shall look to the world for satisfaction. In doing so, they rely on the sufficiency of their flesh to decide what is good and befriend the world to get "it". As a friend of the world they become an enemy from God and shall be destroyed.

• ...know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. James 4:4.
• ...Neither give place to the devil. Ephesians 4:27.

The enemy, the devil, uses anyone and/or anything it can to tempt your flesh to fear God's ways (His will) is not the best for you, thereby causing you to separate yourself from complete faith in the sufficiency of God and/or His ways. The devil's approach is only through the flesh (body and mind) because the Spirit gives life.

• For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Romans 8:5.
• For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Galatians 5:17.
• For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. Galatians 6:8.

Anyone who is not born again of the Spirit is easily manipulated by the devil.

• And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 2 Timothy 2:24-26.

Fear of God as almighty is reverence toward God because He is God. The born again (saved) know Him as their Father. Any fear other than a righteous fear of God comprises the enemy's spirit of fear that God is insufficient because the Spirit of God is perfect love and all-sufficient. 

• There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18. 

Our will of man governs the disposition of our soul by choosing eternal life according to the will of God (the Spirit) or eternal death according to the will of our flesh that dies when our body dies. The enemy works through our will of the flesh; it is literally the enemy's "outside-in" inroad into man.

The enemy's spirit of fear (also called the spirit of error) manifests in man through the will of the flesh in literally any way he lets it. Whenever someone thinks God is insufficient for them, the will of their flesh has opened the door for the enemy to come in. This happens when someone leaves the Word and/or abandons the truth of it. Interlineated for clarity with text in [brackets].:

• For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth [the Word], and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2 Thessalonians 2:7-10.

Fear is the only tactic of the enemy, the god of sin and death, because fear is the only spirit it has/is. The enemy was constrained by God the Father to inhabit only that state of existence.

The enemy, the spirit of fear that God is insufficient or not almighty, gains access into us through our mind first when we doubt God is almighty and all-sufficient. Of course, those thoughts are lies. The enemy is a liar and the father of lies.

• Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the  truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44.

A fear God is insufficient is the pathway to hell. Recall that the devil became the devil because of it. 

Anyone who falls victim to the enemy's spirit of fear is blinded and is, by definition, fearful that God is in some way not powerful enough, not loving enough, not sound in mind, not good enough, not fun enough, not strong enough, not satisfying enough, etc., and not the best choice. If they didn't have a bogus fear that God is inadequate, they would choose the ways of God over the enemy in an instant.

• Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 1 John 2:15-19.

The enemy is powerless over the born again, the elect, who live by the Spirit! However, even the very elect may be deceived by false prophets and false Christs if they do not know the truth.  

• For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Matthew 24:24.

God said the pure Word is the way we resist all evil including false prophets and false Christs.

Everyone who is not born again of the Spirit goes to hell. Also, there are seven buckets of evil that get poured into the lake of fire made for the spirit of fear (the devil), and the unsaved (unrepentant). All sin is in one of the buckets. The seven fearful buckets of evil are:

• But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 2:18.

Why not 8, or 10, or 50 buckets? There is no need for more. All forms of evil fit under the header of fear, and more particularly, a fear that God or His ways are insufficient. Thus, all 7 buckets of evil are derived from the spirit of fear, the enemy, even though there may be many names for the many variants of sin.

Please note: Everyone, even the born-again, are fearful at times. It is here where the Comforters (plural), the Word and the Spirit of Truth (the Holy Ghost) together, prove the will of God that we be not fearful. Cling to the Word. Use the scriptures to resist fear because fear IS the enemy.

• And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4.
• Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 1 Peter 5:8-9.
• In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2 Corinthians 4:4.
• Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Timothy 3:7.
• And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2 Thessalonians 2:10.