I see Satan as the epitome of contradiction; Beautiful, scintillating, charismatic, genius, yet evil, corrupt, dishonorable,
unscrupulous and arrogant.
An odd mixture, is it not? Yes, and ironically, it frames the very essence of reality in our world, for things in this
dark place are not what they seem, just as the ruler of this kosmos is far from what he seems, and this statement works
in two opposing directions. Let me explain.
To those who know Satan well, the angelic creation, he is awesome in countenace and accomplishment. His power was, at one
time, second to none. Now there are several elect angels that exceed his prestige, but there was a time when he was the
supreme angel, a cherub, "The Covering Angel", Guardian of the Throne of God. He is the most beautiful creature ever to
come from the hand of God....and yet he has become the lowest of the low, the arch enemy of his Creator, and a creature
bent upon destroying God and all He stands for. Swept away in a tidal wave of arrogance, Satan has initiated the first ever
rebellion to unseat God as the Supreme Being, and we are very much a part of this conflagration.
He will take billions of angels to Gehenna with him for their foolish choice of serving him over their Sovereign, not to
mention billions of homosapiens.
Then there is the human perception of Satan, and the contrast...what he really is.
To those who even believe he exists, he is the legendary devil with the red epidermis and forked tail, a grotesque gargoyle
who commits only foul deeds in this kingdom. All manner of fiendish activities are attributed to him, and indeed, he is
responsible for violence, evil and malfeasance, but this is far from the true nature of the devil.
Satan encourages this fantasy, for it beguiles human beings into believeing he is the Super Demon, a miscalculation which
renders them vulnerable, receptive to the true Satan and his base designs.
In a nutshell; Satan is in the business of imitating God, and he's very good at it, at least from the standpoint of the
lowly creature, man. That is to say, most men, believer and unbeliever alike, are immersed in one Satanic scheme or another,
yet completely unaware that they serve the devil.
Lets examine a few of Satan's more effective ploys;
Counterfeit Good:
What if I told you that the United Way and the environmentalist movement were evil to the core? Would this raise your
hackles? Defy your view of these entities? Perhaps offend your tender feelings? You may be taken aback because you have
supported one or both of these Satanic institutions in spirit if not in deed.
What am I driving at? What insane gesture am I making here? Well, before you succum to rage or indignation, hear me out!
Even a stupid homosapien can grasp the principle of warfare, or determined opposition, that states the most effective means
of defeating an enemy is to stage a brilliant diversion, get his attention focused on a bogus point, and then attack at the
point of his most threatening strength.
This is one of Satan's tactics....get people thinking he is a dastard, while in reality he is sponsoring every do-gooder
cause on the planet. Take guns away from citizens, stop every unhealthy practice, banish bigotry, save the trees, save the
whales, stop abortion, ban capital punishment, ad naseum.
These causes appear to be noble and above suspicion, do they not? Ofcourse they do, they are designed by a muti-faceted
super genius to appear that way. But what really lies beneath the surface?
There is one answer....destruction of freedom!
Such is the brillaint strategy of the devil, to have you think he's a stinker, while he massages your good will with syrupy
good intent. But all of these, and countless other ploys of the devil, lead to the usurpation and destruction of human freedom.
It is this environment from God, liberty, which guarantees the evangelization of the lost, and the free worship of our God.
As such, freedom is as essential to the plan of God as oxygen to our life here, or food. Thus, Satan attacks freedom in many
diverse and ingenious ways.
Look for a moment at just one of the aforementioned causes; environmentalism.
It seems virtuous enough, and plain sense, that we protect the animals and natural resources on our planet, does it not?
Ofcourse it does, and so far as that concept goes, it IS a desirable objective. But Satan's intentions exceed moderation,
and produce tyranny rather than the desired effect. Satan garnishes an issue with truth and humanitarianism to hide evil.
Ask any midwestern rancher, logger, miner, wildcatter, or a score of other Americans who have fallen prey to the juggernaut
called "environmentalism". They have lost their jobs, had their private property siezed, or the value of their property
cut in half by impossible restrictions that become necessary when the millieu of an "endangered species" is near at hand.
Let's take another, a charitable organization. Here again, on the face of it, what could possibly be evil about an organization
that helps others?
Well, it isn't necessarily their charitable function that is Satan's thrust, but the subtle politics of intimidation.
Did you "give at the office" this year? Is the annual charity drive at your office like the one at mine? I'll bet a million
bucks it is, because it is orchestrated by the same evil policy.
Does this sound familiar?
Your company designates some poor slob to oversee the money collecting campaign. They are usually highly motivated, or at
best, of the opinion that is a worthy enough cause. So each department is assigned a quota. Emails or memoranda go throughout
the business informing us of the drive and some rah-rah-rah nonsense about exceeding their donations from last year.
In effect, every person is put on the spot by the insinuation that if you don't give you are a low life, stingy bastard. Some
departments have supervisors that also get involved, encourage department employees to shell out the dough, and make the
issue of 100% compliance a big deal.
The fact is, people become accoustomed to slavery by subtle and indirect means, being forced into a small compromises,
which makes the objective of slavery more easily attained; the ultimate banishment of self-determination. Bit by bit, they
submit to intimidation until they are cowed by tyranny, and it's just a matter of time until the powerful expand the
regions of bondage to include higher taxes, mandatory this and that, surrendering our firearms, yada, yada, yada.
20 years ago if you'de told me that there would be a day when we would have to wear seat belt, by law, and insurance would
be mandatory for my car, I'd have laughed in your face. These, and many other issues, are rightly left to my own good
judgement, not the elitist in political office who supposes that we are too damned stupid to make sound decisions for
ourselves. That, or to pay off a political debt.
How much does car insurance cost you? How many times have you caused an accident? In all the years I've been driving I can't
recall one single person of my aquaintance who was shafted by an uninsured driver. Oh sure, a few were hit by someone, but they
paid to have the car repaired.
Think about it....all the thousands of dollars you have paid, we've all paid, to insure our cars, and most of us haven't been
in a major accident all of our lives. Can you see how subtle tyranny is in this issue? If we aren't good boys and girls our
insurance gets bumped. Run a red light, get a speeding ticket, and now use a cell phone....You see, once they have their
foot in the door, it's too late to demand rights.
As for me, I'll take my chances! If I do smack someone, ok, I'll shell out the dough, but give me freedom to make that choice
for myself.
Religion:
Shocker!
This is Satan's "ace trump". What better phalanx to attack God than in His own stronghold? While His worshippers are
preoccupied with the illusion of propriety, sew the seeds of tryanny.
Perhaps the biggest Christian organization on earth is a many-faceted example;
Commit a sin, and you must utter it before a man, albeit within a private enclosure. He is a designated agent of God, and
therefore priviledged to hear your confession. Once you spill the beans, he prescribes various antidotes to your transgression,
to make things right with God, and usually closes with an admonition to pitch some moolah into the plate on sunday.
This procedure ignores the Royal Priesthood of every believer. We are all entitled to represent ourselves before God, and this
is a very personal matter, and not anyone else's damned business.
This same outfit claims that they can ban you from their chruch, which results in comdemning you to hell fire.
Oh really? How quaint! This is man's most arrogant and blasphemous contention, that a mere man, any man, has the power
to send another human being to hell...for any reason! God has not extended this prerogative to any human being, period.
The matter of salvation rests squarely upon the work of Christ, and we appropriate that saving grace by faith in Him, not
obeying the inane demands of a black-robed holy joe!
Christ says that "...I give to them eternal life and none shall pluck them out of my hand".
Where does it say, even indirectly, in this verse, that some bunch of pious morons have the fiat to deny us salvation? Seems
clear enough to me that our Lord is clarifying the very claim made by this organization.
So many are the illustrations in this legalistic regime that I hardly know where to jump next; so I'll just rattle off a slew
of offenses to God;
1. Praying to a human being, even if she is the mother of Christ's humanity.
2. You can get out of hell if someone lights candles for you.
3. There is a fat old man with the power to alter the Word of God, if he so desires.
4. Preists cannot marry, or women dedicated to God's service must be dowdy old maids all their lives.
5. You must be splashed with water to be saved.
I could go on, but I tire of so fertile a subject.
But there is more evidence that Satan is the High Prefect of reigion....Who was instrumental in crucifying Christ?
The most holy bunch of malpractors in Isreal, the San Hedron.
In prophecy, the chruch of Rome will be the "scarlet whore" that allies with The Beast, the Anti-Christ.
Christ called the pharasees "White washed tombstones, filled with dead men's bones". They looked great in their drab
habits, and talked a good fight, but they were petty maligners who haunted the Lord every time He spoke in public,
criticized His every act and word, yet most of them were going to hell.
Such are just two major areas of Satan's most effetive penetration of the human race.
The most difficult understanding I had to grapple with as a "baby beliver" was the concept that the good of this world
is part of Satan's realm, steeped in self-righteous motives, and aimed at diminishing God's influence amoung men. At
best, Satan is out to disorient believers, for they are the forces that can send him to his dubious end. He fears and
hates us, and uses his brilliance to intimidate, mislead, propagandize, and enslave us.
It is interesting that the basis for man's fall from grace was "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil". Did it ever
occur to you that those two terms, "good and evil", are used as synomyms? Adam and Eve already knew good! So what is the
name for this tree all about?
Simple enough....man in a state of sin would learn another form of "good", both human good and Satan's counterfeit good.
Don't buy it? What was the first thing Adam and the woman did after they fell? The covered their nakedness with assorted
foliage...an act of GOOD!
To be most effective in this objective, his primary and mosty effective tactic is to raise the banner of good and truth,
and once the faithful draw near, infiltrate their thinking with legalism and bias.
Another very destructive strategy, and prevalent in our time, is christian activism. This is the flagship of Satan's
policy which evokes such emotional response from Christians that many are compelled to commit crime, even murder, in
the name of their cause. Abortion comes to mind.
In the name of this bogus issue people burn legitimate businesses, parade around with signs and assault the privacy and
freedom of individuals, threaten medical professionals, even murder. In their intransigent arrogance they usurp the power
of God, supposing that He agrees with their evil campaign.
Well, sorry to burst your bubble, pro-lifer, but there is no life in the womb!
How do I know?
Because God told me, that's how! And He's has told you, too, but you are too damned bent on Satanic policy to hear
Him!
A human isn't a human until they receive a soul, and that doesn't happen until they leave the womb. Literally every
verse in the Bible that alludes to birth uses one of two articles; the Hebrew "mi betten", or the Greek "ek koilia",
both mean the same thing; "removed from", "apart from", "out from", "separated from". God doesn't impute "neshemah" (the
spark of life) until a fetus is removed from the womb. The activity in the womb is no more than biological life,
the exact equivalent of a plant.
Movement in the womb is the inevitable process of a growing organism, reflex motility, a developing nervous system. But
the fetus is dead until it is given life, and therefore it cannot be murdered. Ofcourse it moves! DUH!!! This is a
complex and highly developed organism, not a prize out of a cereal box! But even a morning glory, or a jimsen weed
moves as it grows, but I don't see anyone killing farmers who mow down thistles, or weed their gardens!
Certainly, we are moved by the fact that the fetus is a format human being, and this illicits emotional reaction, but it
doesn't alter reality, and God is the ultimate source of reality. We can ill afford to be distracted by this, or any Satanic
strategy to disarm and neutralize us.
The act of tyranizing a doctor, or a woman seeking an abortion, is just as damned silly as attacking a farmer, but it
becomes so much more when it serves Satan. Once again....the mark of the devil; Intimidate, tyrannize, enslave, and if
all else fails, resort to violence. The destruction of freedom is his highest priority!
Those who commit acts of good, apart from the filling of The Holy Spirit, are either minions of Satan, or guilty of
human good, which amounts to self-reighteous, and will be the "wood, hay and stubble" that is burned at the
Judgement Seat of Christ.
Our stay in this place is one of great peril so long as we remain divorced from God's Word, for humanity is no match
for Lucifer, Son of the Morning, "The Covering Angel". On our best day even the most astute and intelligent amoung
us is putty in Satan's hands. Only God can reveal his brilliant tactics to us, and thus protect us from his wiles.
Remember, this is kosmos diabolicus, the realm of Satan, and all that is in it is tainted by his policies, save one, the
local church under the authority of a perpared Pastor-Teacher. God has "fenced off" this one safe zone for the teaching
of His Word to the elect. It is possible to escape Satan's all encompassing influence, but only by means of the truth as
it resides in our souls.