You cannot appropriate something you don’t understand and you cannot fully experience something unless you understand it. The enemy of the Kingdom is ignorance! Satan gets the blame for must destruction that takes place on the earth. Hosea 4:6 say’s: “My people are destroyed/perish for a lack of knowledge” The root cause of destruction is not Satan but rather ignorance.
Listen to what Jesus said in Matthew 13:15-17 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
When you read on to the parable of the sower starting in verse 18 you’ll notice in verse 19 Jesus reveals the whole thing hinges on understanding. V.19 When any one heareth the word of the KINGDOM, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart….
Please notice the emphases is upon understanding. Lord give us eyes to perceive and hearts to receive so ignorance doesn’t serve as a source of destruction in our lives.