Jesus walked around a corner and a demon almost walked right into Him. The demon was shocked to see Him, and asked Him what He was doing here before His time. Christ silenced the demon so the demon couldn't alert the others. 'Before His time' means the demons know He's coming after them, down here, on earth. They know how this all ends.
Did they not know about the cross? Was that an end around by God and Christ that the demons didn't even see coming? I'd love it if that's how it happened, the best strategic move ever! But I find it a little hard to believe that the demons didn't know the plan.
And:
God told Adam to replenish the earth.
Replenish means to make full or complete again. From the root word plenir - to fill. Adam was to refill the earth.
So what filled it before Adam was told to redo it?
No, Satan didn't know nor did his principalities or rulers know about it, Irish Ram. Satan is indeed the most subtle of all created beings ( Lucifer was first an angel created by God before he fell ) but he is not match for the Spirit of God who is eternal having no beginning nor end.
It is written:
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory, However it is written:
No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those
who love him-
But God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. - 1 Corinthians 2: 6 - 10
And again, it is written:
For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing Spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man's judgment:
For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
-1 Corinthians 11: -16
Both of these are what Paul refers to as the meat of the Word and is not for babies although I have to tell you that I recently met a street preacher who is 3 yrs old in the Lord and the Lord has done such a quick work on this young man if I had not known I would have thought he were 20 yrs old in the Lord for the revelation the Lord has given him in the Word. I believe God is doing a very quick work in new Christians these days because the time is short, Irish.
As to the second question, replenish? I don't know. I never asked the Lord as it never mattered to me.