Job_2:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
1Pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
So much for that hypothesis --
Not a hypothesis, it is the heart of the Revelation.
When he is finally cast out, that begins the “70th week.”