Once God in his sovereignty allowed Satan to receive from Adam and Eve legal authority over the earth and mankind, Satan was allowed access up to the heavenly courts to accuse anyone who sins and also bring accusations that turn out to be false. God who is a holy and righteous judge has to pronounce judgment if the accusations are proven to be true.
Scripture speaks about this in the book of Revelation:
"...for the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night..." Rev 12:10
and in the book of Zechariah:
"Then he showed me Joshua, the High Priest, standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him." Zechariah 3:1
In Greek, the word accuser can also mean prosecutor.
Satan, the one who scripture calls "the father of lies", his strategy is to tempt humans into sin by deception and then accuse them in the courts of heaven. Then they know in their spirit that they have sinned.
He is also called "the tempter" in scripture in Matthew 4:3 and 1 Thessalonians 3:5. The word to tempt can mean to entice or solicit to sin. We see this in 1 Chr 21:1:
"Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel"
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