The thing is, we are not our own adversary. God made an adversary that is not the people and placed us all "under" that internal influence. It's another matter I never see in your posts.
What we are left with, with no fulcrum point for adverse situations for the people is only finger pointing to the people, with the adversary never in view. Joseph for example, a blatant one, was put in a prison hold, under Pharaoh, a figure for SATAN. Ezekiel 29:3
When Joseph, the "elder son" of the 2, took his place under Pharaoh, he was blessed, just as his own father was blessed as a type of deceiver. Both of these men were forced to be HONEST about their situation. The first man, the natural, carnal, captive man is blinded to his condition. The 2nd man sees, and is honest. Honesty then we forced upon us as A FRUIT of the Spirit of TRUTH
And that particular form of blindness is indeed and in fact, from God.
Romans 11:32
For
God has
bound everyone over
to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
The disobedience of no one is obedient, blessed, faithful, and is in fact under the wrath of God. Not the person. The person just happens to be stuck in the same house.
Romans 11:
8 as it is written:
“
God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that could not see
and ears that could not hear,
to this very day.”[
c]
9 And David says:
“May
their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for
them.
10 May
their eyes be darkened so
they cannot see,
and
their backs be bent forever.”[
d]
The "they/their/them" above are the spirits of disobedience, the spirit of stupor that is
NOT THE PEOPLE.
“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 (God’s) will.”
Thought is how we oppose ourselves and become captive to the image that Jesus (depicting as serpent on a cross/flesh) by which the enmity between God and man was abolished/only for the process of time) became to us (man of sin/one who was, and is not, and yet is), and it is through thought/our perception (like a woman that prepares a meal) we come to the son we are …
“For to be carnally minded
is death; but to be spiritually minded
is life and peace.” (two cities/gardens, mountains, etc.) “
“… that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;”
“See now that I,
even I,
am he, and
there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither
is there any that can deliver out of my hand.”
“The sting of death
is sin; and the strength of sin
is the law (the law of our/mother Hagar).”
“O death, where
is thy sting? O grave, where
is thy victory? “
“And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark,
and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.”
Flesh (as an image) man/red in the face/Esau/red/ (what he sold his birthright for) a serpent that becomes a red dragon coming out of the double mindedness (a tossing to and fro, like the waves of the sea foaming out their own shame) that the sea is a picture of) … sea of glass) … was the veil that an adversary used to darken the mind of Adam (so to speak), and divide the inheritance of God to us and in us (which was never something that needed to be labored for (but also through the flesh of the second Adam clothed upon, and out of two, one new man).
The two pastures, tables, (what we eat of) etc. are within and without us, and relate to how we enter in to the most holy place found in the midst of us, in the form of relationship, and by this collectively, as in the whole of humanity (a not holding their sin, rather losing them, of which Lazarus takes the form of).
God, when he comes down brings confusion/a deep sleep/a scattering, but it is not God, it is our perception of God. The words this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased drove Jesus to a wilderness just as it did Adam and Abram; just as God causes a deep sleep on Adam and his nakedness is revealed, so to with Abram, which sends a firstborn (who receives a double portion) to Egypt.
The whole book/bible is about the process of the soul … which in (one) picture is like a garden … to say it plainly … our soul is neither good or bad, harlot or virgin … the seed that is sown (and by whom) causes this reflection (who we are in relationship to God) in us … one of measure (found wanting), one without measure, one finite, one infinite … one image (of self) serves the other, much like the ground serves a seed … they first appear to be opposing truths (in us), but the son of man has always been the son of God from before the beginning (even though the beginning and the end is not a place in time), as a truth that God has always been, without ending, without beginning; an absolute.
Joseph, Jacob, his brothers, the priest of On (a city of Egypt) who harkened unto his wife) or Pharaoh were going through a process every bit as much as Joseph was, or the butler and the bread maker. The symbolism abounds as to what something is (In picture form) to each individual, that relates to this process (of one seed) found in them as it is in us, the revealing of one son.
I have agreed with my adversary (which is much like loving your enemy) … is the adversary literal or not? … has no (and I do not give him any), place in me.