So continuing off of part 1. I think some of the greatest danger in this life is to believe that the devil and his evil angels (or demons) don't exist. Many accept their suggestions while they think they are following their own wisdom. As we are living in the end times here in 2014 Satan is and will continue to attack with his greatest power to deceive. He spreads everywhere the belief that he does not exist. It is his policy to conceal himself and his way of working. Satan is afraid that we will become acquainted with his deceptions. To disguise his real character, he has influenced people to portray him as something to ridicule or despise. Like the classic devil dressed in red with the red pitch fork in his hand....so many people by into that and think nothing of it. Remember that the devil wants you to accept his lies to the point that you believe in them so much that it becomes second nature to you. Then he can quick deceiving you anymore because you already believe the lies he has told you. Next victim at that point.....and this happens with us not even realizing it. Satan is very pleased to be painted as comical, misshapen, half animal, half human. He is pleased to hear his name used in jokes and mockery because he has masked himself with superb skill. Many people ask "Does such a being really exist?". Because Satan can easily control the minds of those who are unaware of his influence, the Word of God reveals to us his secret forces, and this puts us on guard.
Another good point to keep in mind. Satan on one occasion came along when the angels came into present themselves before the Lord. Satan come to bow to the Lord, but to carry forward his evil plans against the righteous found in Job 1:6. Satan is present when Christians gather for worship working diligently to control the minds of the worshipers. As he sees the messenger of God studying the Bible he notices the subject to be presented. Then Satan uses his subtle skills and shrewdness so that the message may not reach those who he is deceiving on that very point. The one who most needs the warning will be urged into some business transaction, phone call, emergency, ect, ect. Whatever he can cause to happen to prevent you from hearing the message. Satan see's the Lords people burdened because of the darkness that surrounds the people. He hears their prayers for divine grace and power to break the spell of indifference and laziness. Then with renewed zeal Satan tempts people to indulge their appetites or gratify themselves, and by doing this he dulls their perceptions so that they fail to hear the very things they most need to learn. Because Satan knows most of all that all who neglect to pray, study, and read the Bible will be overcome by his attacks. So he invents every possible diversion to occupy the mind. Remember Satan knows the Bible inside and out, backwards and forward....don't think that he doesn't. He used to be second in command to God. Satan's right hand helpers are always active when God is at work. They will describe the most earnest, self-denying servants of Christ as deceived or deceivers. Their work is to misrepresent the motives of every single noble deed, to spread doubts, and arouse suspicion in the minds of the inexperienced. We can always easily see whose children they are, whose example they follow, and whose work they do. "You will know them by their fruits" (Matthew 7:16 and Revelation 12:10).
Satan can produce a counterfeit that so closely resembles the truth that it deceives those who are willing to be deceived, who want to avoid the sacrifice that the truth demands.
The belief that spirits of the dead returning to help the living has prepared the way for modern spiritualism, and it's gotten stronger over the last 5 years. I dated a women in New York City who was into spiritualism and it's such a powerful deceiving lie by the enemy, I prayed for her everyday, but with all things it's up to our freewill to choose to listen to God or not. She closed the door on God. The question is if the dead are entrusting with knowledge far beyond what they had before, then why not return to earth and instruct the living? If spirits of the dead hover around their friends on earth, why not communicate with them? How can those who believe in human consciousness in death reject "divine light" that comes through glorified spirits? Here is a channel that people think is sacred but which Satan uses. Fallen angels appear as messengers from the spirit world. Remember the prince of evil has power to bring before people the appearance of departed friends and loved ones. Evil angels can take form of dead loved ones, and they do this to trick humans living still on the earth. When people see UFO's or other alien life forms, or big foot.....are they real? Yes they are real but they didn't come from God. Those people are being tricked by Satan and his angels into thinking they are real, but they are really evil angels just taking other forms.This counterfeit is perfect, reproduced with amazing exactness. Many take comfort in the assurance that their loved ones are enjoying heaven. Without suspecting danger, they open their lives "to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons" - 1 Timothy 4:1.
While it is true that the results of trickery have often been presented as genuine manifestations, there have also been clear exhibitions of supernatural power, the direct work of evil angels. Many believe that spiritualism is nothing more than human fraud. When they come face to face with happenings that they cannot explain (such as seeing big foot or an alien from space) as anything but supernatural, they will be deceived and will accept them as the great power of God.
Remember a good example found in Exodus 7:10-12......With help from Satan Pharaoh's magicians counterfeited the work of God. Another example, Paul testifies that before the coming of the Lord we will see "the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception" - 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 10. In the book of Revelation, Revelation 13:13, 14 John declares, "He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do."
This is not an issue of predicting mere tricks. People are deceived by the miracles that Satan's agents actually do, that are real....and not that they only pretend to do. Satan temps us with what we know or are into. Satan notes the sins of each individual is inclined to commit and then makes sure that opportunities come along to gratify the tendency. He temps people through intemperance, leading them to weaken their physical, mental, and moral power. Satan is such a bastard and he destroys thousands through indulgence of passion, brutalizing the entire nature. To complete his work, the agents of Satan declare that "true knowledge places a person above all law", that "whatever is, is right," that "God does not condemn," and that "all sins....are innocent." When people believe that desire is the highest law, that liberty is license, that they are accountable only to themselves, who can be surprised that corruption flourishes every where? Great numbers of people eagerly accept the urgings of lust. Satan sweeps into his net thousands who profess to follow Christ.
The beauty is that God has given enough light to us to detect the snare. The very foundation of spiritualism is at war with Bible scripture. The Bible declares that the dead know nothing, that their thoughts have perished. They have no joys or sorrows of those still alive on earth.
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