Donald Grey Barnhouse once said, “Satan sails a sinking ship.” We must remember, present tense, Satan is the ruler of this age, or you could say, he is the captain of the ship he sails (this present world system.)
Jesus said in John 12:31 – “Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.”