First, the blood of Jesus spelt the devil’s defeat. When Jesus was hanging on the cross, Satan thought he had successfully carried out the greatest plan since the dawn of history, and he and his hordes, if I may put it this way, were popping champagne corks and celebrating, shouting, ‘We did it! We did it! Jesus is on the cross. He is going to die!’ Only later did they discover that the blood that Jesus shed was God’s way of saving the world and snatching it from Satan’s grip. So he hates and fears