… The Devil
As soon
as the Devil opens his mouth, a lie comes out. He may cunningly mix it
with a bit of truth, so that you might believe him, and he comes across
as the defender of the mistreated, the champion of the underdog, trying
to get you to show weakness when you should not, and again, trying to
get you to harden yourself when you should not. One thing you need to
know about the nature of the Enemy is that he never plays fair. He's
the first to scream, 'That's not fair!', and will be the first to break
the rules.
Those
who cling to the old ways of the flesh are going to reap the
destruction of the flesh. He that liveth by the sword shall also die by
the sword. They'll find out that they have been puppets in the hand of
the god of this World, the god of war, of hate, of pride, and of all
that is an abomination to Me.
I want
you to see right through him! He will have no power over those who will
see right through him. Time will expose him for what he really is, and
when he is gone, time shall be no more.
The
devil is the epitome of a politician. And the way he campaigns to gain
'voters' & supporters for his cause is by an ugly smear campaign
against his Opponent: Me. So, he spreads all those lies about Me, about
how unjust I am, how unloving, how unmerciful I am, and oh - what's one
of his favorite words?- Unfair! And subtle & sly as he is, he
manages to convince quite a few with his propaganda. But don't listen
to, much less believe his rap about Me not loving you! You mean
everything to Me! Don't let the old punk tell you anything else! I love
you more than you're able to fathom.
The
Enemy is the author of confusion, of self-righteousness, of
contradictions, saying things but never really meaning them, much less
keeping his word.
The
Devil is an artist of his own kind, and his art is to perfect
selfishness & disguise it in a cloak & veneer of
self-righteously being convinced of the saintlihood & faultlessness
of the selfish person, only able to see the faults in others. THAT'S
the perfection of the art of Lucifer, that's his masterpiece: PRIDE!
He
easily finds entrance into the hearts of those who don't constantly
remind themselves of how frail their foundation is when they base their
lives on their own goodness.
The
Devil has become a master at subtly spreading his message, camouflaging
it in cloaks of 'independence' & 'individuality.'
In this
day & age, the Devil has greater power to exert over the masses the
pressure to conform. His subtle message is: 'Don't dare to be
different, or you're going to be ridiculed, you're going to be cast
out, you'll be one of the losers!'
The
Devil has to offer some kind of superficial option to appear different,
to create the illusion of freedom. But once you get a closer look you
find out that difference is only skin deep.
When I
return, it will be like somebody snipped their finger & the spell
of the hypnotist is broken. His illusion is NOT reality. Even though
there are a lot of hypnotized people out there who are convinced that
what they are seeing right now is real, your magic is much stronger
than the evil magician's, & you can free people from Satan's spell
& wake them up out of their trance! Refuse to let fear - his
greatest trick - have any grip or power over you whatsoever!
The
Enemy likes to operate incognito. If you would always recognize his
voice as being his, you wouldn't fall for it nearly as often... But
often his sneers come camouflaged as the voice of 'reason' or as your
own thoughts. He persuades you very subtly to adopt his opinion &
view of things, like a very smooth & diplomatic talker, who manages
to talk people into his own view by making them think that his opinion
is their own.
Satan's
art & witchcraft consists in making mountains out of molehills, big
monsters out of tiny little bagatelles. Small, tiny seeds of dissention
which grow into ugly big giants & demons of discord, hatred,
disunity and jealousy, and what have you... whatever divides, whatever
drives a wedge between My people, My chosen ones, he knows that that's
all he needs in order to render a potentially powerful threat to his
kingdom useless, or so weakened by comparison, that he won't have to
worry much anymore.
The Devil would like to sneak in & grab the glory for virtually everything that's pleasant under the sun.
What matters is that you give Me the glory! Refuse to give it to him!
The
Devil is always telling mankind that I'm cheating you, just because I
don't tell you everything there is to know all at once, when he's the
biggest cheat & liar of all times - in fact, the father of lies.
He's
going to appear as the great "savior" from all My supposed injustices;
I am the culprit in his version of the story, & you are all My
victims... poor abused guinea pigs, who are never being told the whole
truth by Me.
I'm not
telling you lies, he is. And in order to distract from the fact that
he's such a blatant liar, as usual, he points his crooked finger at Me,
accusing Me of not telling you the whole truth.
No
matter how good you are, you could never be perfect enough for him to
stop accusing you in the ears & minds of others. Look at Me: I was
the most perfect sample there ever was, and yet he was able to turn the
mob against Me.
To look
for details that "aren't so" in My Word is one of the Devil's oldest
tricks. "Hath God said so? Ye shall not surely die!" And they didn't.
Not right away.
So, the
Devil will always find something I said he can point his finger at
& gleefully say, "See? Not true!" to get you to discard the whole
message, so you won't believe & receive it, but rather believe his
version. But you'll be the one suffering the consequences. Whether
you'll die right away or later: you will know one day that your death -
your spiritual death & decline - occurred the moment you chose to
doubt My Word & disobey... you were just buried later.
Ever
since the Garden of Eden the Devil has managed to persuade people to
rather believe in his voice than Mine, because his option is usually
the one which sounds more attractive! There is apparently more in it
for you, if you choose the Devil's option of disobedience. But is it
really so?
You don't have to take every temptation the Devil hands you.
The
Devil is trying to come up with more & more perfect counterfeits
& substitutes & distractions all the time: more & more
perfect entertainment, shows, computer games, movies, System music
& sounds, all available by remote control, so you don't even have
to move or do anything to get instant satisfaction; more & more
perfect tasting food with artificial flavours, made to even "top" My
natural flavours I have put in foods naturally, more & more perfect
drugs & narcotics... He's trying to literally spoil people stupid
so they won't ever want to get off of their fannies to do anything else
but indulge in his "perfections". After all, who needs anything else,
if you can have all these "perfect" pleasures & entertainments? Who
wants to deal with real people, when the faces & bodies on TV are
so much more "perfect"? Who wants to deal with real life when the
thrills & kicks he can give you are so much nicer, easier, better?
Well, there's only one thing about it all & that's that it isn't
real. It's all fake & phoney, & you're enjoying it all on
borrowed time & money, while in reality he's cheating you out of
your lives, your time, your energy and your touch with reality.
He's
even come up with his very own counterfeit love. But in the end, none
of that will ever truly satisfy, & when all this artificial
"perfection" will have left the World high & dry, he will come up
with his ultimate counterfeit: his plastic one-World religion, the
"perfect" System, without any more evil, without any more money,
without anymore crime... "Welcome to Utopia!"
The Enemy hates My predictions & visions of the future & tries to ensure that the opposite is going to happen.
His
attitude is, "Oh, yeah, did God say so? Well we're going to see about
that!" And he tries all he can to foil My plans. The Enemy never
foresees the benefits of the backsliding he causes. He's only concerned
with the temporary defeat & delay he causes. After all, he knows he
can't stop Me; all he can do is try to delay Me & My plans by
throwing a few monkey wrenches into My machinery, frantically trying to
delay & postpone My future, because he knows the future will bring
his doom. He knows the Endtime events will trigger a chain reaction
that is going to wake up & bring back to life many of those he has
successfully lulled to sleep.
There
seemed to be more in it for Adam & Eve to choose to eat of the
forbidden tree: more knowledge, a new taste, and the serpent even said,
"Ye shall be as gods"! Now, THAT sounded interesting! But what was the
reality? Curses, pain, thorns & agony ever since, in trade for
paradise.
That's
the difference between the Enemy and Me: while I gave My blood to be
shed for the World, he only takes. I am the Giver, he's the taker. He
thinks the World is His for the taking, but the truth is that
everything of value has its price, and I have paid the true price. Yes,
he will also leave his place in heaven, not voluntarily, like Me, but
because he will be cast out. But instead of laying down his life, he
will be the greatest taker of lives there will ever have been, like I
said, a murderer from the beginning (Jn.8:44).
So, you
do have a dangerous enemy, which is why life isn't something to be
taken lightly. It's dangerous to underestimate your enemy or pretend
he's not really there, to just avoid thinking about him or the threat
he poses, or to wishfully think that he probably won't care too much
about you, and if you leave him in peace, he'll leave you in peace, too.
He hates
you too much to leave you in peace, and he will either try to lull you
to sleep with all his lures, hypnotism and temptations, and cause you
to let your guard down, or he will ferociously attack you with all he's
got. His goal is the same in either tactic: your destruction. It's up
to you which way you will allow him to combat you. The slow &
subtle poisoning by posing as your "friend", bringing into your life
all the tempting things that will cause you to lower your guard &
defense against him, or the open confrontation.
There is
no peace with the Devil. If there's one enemy it pays to rather fight
openly and not seek a moment of truce with, it's Satan. Otherwise
you'll regret it. Any moment of compromise, any moment you don't openly
declare war on him and fight to the finish, will be a moment that will
weaken you! You've got to be constantly on guard against him, beware of
his presence as the enemy of your soul constantly, and never let down
your guard, never think, "oh, well, he's not really that bad... if I
just close my eyes, he'll go away & perhaps he'll ignore me if I
ignore him!"
You can
ignore him safely by focusing on Me for your protection, that's
alright. But never think that he's not there or that he's not out to
destroy you. That's the mistake that some have made. They
underestimated him. They figured, "oh, well, he's not really as evil or
nearly as dangerous as he's always hyped up to be..."
Or they
figure that maybe the others were too weak, but they're strong enough
to withstand his temptations. They won't give in to him. They're
different... But little by little, one compromise will follow another,
and he'll find your weak spot, and you can always count on him to be a
real Judas & traitor & to stab you in the back when you least
expect it, when you're weakest and let down your guard.
I in you
am so much greater than he is... he's like a tiny little dwarf in
comparison. You shall see it one day, and all the world will wonder,
"What? This little nincompoop has terrorized this world for so long?
That ugly little dwarf? That's the one we worshiped and by whom we were
awed, thinking he was so great?" It will fall like scales from their
eyes, & some will laugh at this atrocity, others will cry.
Satan
has been given certain power to change things in order to influence
your perception of things. You see the truth in a certain way, and he
says, "Oh, yeah, really? Let's see if those things be so!" And he makes
certain changes in order to shake your foundation, that what you
perceive as the basis of your concept of everything.
Hasn't
this been his concept from the beginning? "Hath not God said?..." And
he is very persuasive & powerful in deceiving you & trying to
get you to doubt & "forget what you know" in his own way. It is
good, because like this, anything you built your faith on that was not
the true foundation will be eroded, and all that's left is the solid
rock truth of My Word.
If I had
to go out into the wilderness, in order to resist the temptations of
the Enemy and overcome him, how much more so will you have to do it.
Fighting
and resisting the Devil instead of giving in to his temptations and
nudges is what it's all about; not missing the mark (the essence of
"sin") because you've allowed the Enemy to distract you.
You've
got to deal with the Devil & make it clear between him and you on
whose side you stand, and that he won't have a chance anymore trying to
get you over to his side. Otherwise he'll keep trying and trying.
He
tempted Me, "You don't have to go through all this suffering! You can
stop it all right now! Make an end of all this nonsense! Life is to be
enjoyed..." Life was meant to be enjoyed, but never on his terms!
The
Devil's first appearance in the Garden of Eden was with the intention
to get Eve to doubt My Word. "Hath God said...? Surely NOT! Surely it
is NOT so!" And he has been following that same scheme ever since, and
your test in this is to either stay faithful to My voice, or believe
"intuitions," which are often tainted by popular opinions, which often
come straight from the Devil.
The
Enemy of your soul is very sly and knows how to make his lies extremely
attractive. People tend to think that they would never be as dumb as
Adam and Eve to allow themselves to fall for the Devil's lies, but
that's already the first lie they swallowed right there: "Oh, I'm never
gonna be that dumb!" Well, you might have another surprise coming on
that one, when you'll find out one day how often and how easily you
fell for the Devil's fairy-tales!
