In the beginning, God created the world.  In the beginning, Satan had a Plan to wreck that world.  In the beginning, God had a Plan to counter Satan's Plan.  That counter Plan was Jesus.  But Satan also had his counter Plan to Jesus.  He laid out that Plan in the three temptations of Christ.  Jesus flatly rejected those temptations, but Satan didn't take that loss lying down.  He withdrew until a more opportune time.  From the beginning of the Church Satan's had a Plan.  That Plan was to prostitute the Church to his form of power.  Through its history the Church has struggled to resist that temptation.  The result has been a Church divided between God's Plan, and Satan's.  But it's time to come out of that and back to the original Plan of God.