There are tremendous numbers of instances where the devil works through people to influence people, hurts people brutally, and torments people.  The devil intervenes by working through people to upset other people’s hearts, take offensive actions, and offend people’s hearts and ears by saying slanderous words, ignorant words, and wicked words.  If you live with your eyes closed, ears plugged, and doors of your hearts shut, then you will live without being influenced by them.

In this way, the devil makes people do things by controlling a person directly but also works through other people.  If the people being used by the devil don’t repent, they will receive the mark of the beast and go to hell along with the devil.