I said this several months ago in a post and many told me there was no way it was satan that God is Soveriegn and therefore satan could not be the god of this world. and we see:
2 Corinthians 4:2-4King James Version (KJV)
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
Interlinear=If yet and it is having been covered the well message of us in the ones being destroyed it is covered
Thayer/Strongs
Kalypto = to hide, veil, to hinder the knowledge of a thing
Akin to Lepto=to steal, take away i.e. to take away with stealth.
And Akin to krypto=to hide, conceal, to be hid, escape notice, metaph. To conceal (that it may not become known).
4 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.
Calvin on verse 4:
"Whose minds the god of this world He intimates, that no account should be made of their perverse obstinacy. “They do not see,” says he, “the sun at mid-day, because
the devil has blinded their understandings.” No one that judges rightly can have any doubt, that it is of Satan that the Apostle speaks. Hilary, as he had to do with Arians, who abused this passage, so as to make it a pretext for denying Christ’s true divinity, while they at the same time confessed him to be God, twists the text in this way — “God hath blinded the understandings of this world.” In this he was afterwards followed by Chrysostom, with the view of not conceding to the Manicheans their
two first principles. (437) What influenced Ambrose does not appear. Augustine had the same reason as Chrysostom, having to contend with the Manicheans.
We see what the heat of controversy does in carrying on disputes. Had all those men calmly read Paul’s words, it would never have occurred to any one of them to twist them in this way into a forced meaning; but as they were harassed by their opponents, they were more concerned to refute them, than to investigate Paul’s meaning. But what occasion was there for this? For the subterfuge of the Arians was childish — that if the devil is called the
god of this world, the name of God, as applied to Christ, does not express a true, eternal, and exclusive divinity. For Paul says elsewhere,
many are called gods, (
1 Corinthians 8:5
but David, on the other hand, sings forth —
the gods of the nations are demons. (438) (
Psalms 96:5.) When, therefore, the devil is called the
god of the wicked, on the ground of his having dominion over them, and being worshipped by them in the place of God, what tendency has this to detract from the honor of Christ? And as to the Manicheans, this appellation gives no more countenance to the Manicheans, than when he is called the
prince of this world. (
John 14:30.) (439)"
Ephesian 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers
of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
1 Thessalonians 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but
Satan hindered us.
Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of
Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the
devil; for God was with him
