Paul uses fishing terms to describe conceptually that Satan likes to fish and that he has specific types of lures he uses to try to catch us ("the fish"). As with any fisherman, not all lures work on all fish all the time. If one lure doesn't work, he then switches to another lure and sees if that works. He will use variations of the few basic lures in his tackle box until he finds one that we bite and then he tries to real us in. Once you are on a hook, you'll be bombarded with more and more lures as his goal is to drive you away from following the Holy Spirit. How do we know that Satan is a fisherman (literally fishing for men) and the type of lures he uses? Paul tells us in Eph 6:11 where Paul says "Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.". That word "wiles" that Paul uses originates from a Hebrew word that refers to a hook or something that is barred including any type of trap. Our word fishhook comes from this Gre