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Satan, Demons, Hell, & Evil
All that is counterfeit to God's Design
We're called on to "hate the sin, but love the sinner." Satan does the opposite, hating the sinner but loving the sin. --Why We Need to Talk About Satan - By John Zmirak
Jesus said of Satan: "The thief comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10) And of Hell: "Where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched." Mark 9:46-47
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. (Genesis 3:1)
Be sober and watchful, because your adversary the devil walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5:8)
Upfront: Pastor Greg Laurie talks about the Afterlife: (~3m)
Heaven, hell and what its like in those places.
Which destination are you headed towards?
Contents
Demons, Witchcraft, etc.
Hell
The question of Evil
When God hides His face
Natural disasters
See Also: Unveiling the Angelic Hierarchy: Understanding the Ranks of Heaven
2 Thessalonians 2:7 - For the mystery of lawlessness is already working. Only He [Holy Spirit] who is now restraining him will do so until He is taken out of the way.
Revelation 12:9 - And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Satan: God's Word refers to Satan as the "god of this world, Devil, accuser, adversary, old serpent, ruler of darkness..."
How
art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut
down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I
will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet
thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. --Isaiah 14:12-15
Satan knows the Word of God as he proved in tempting Jesus (Matthew 4:1-11) where he quotes Deuteronomy 8:3 and Psalm 91:11-12.
It gives Satan such PRIDE and pleasure (Isaiah 14:12-15) to see his depraved PRIDEFUL adults of "reprobate minds" (Romans 1:16-32) sacrificing children into his counterfeit delusions of darkness in order to mock God's design and laws of nature and the Light of Jesus which "shines out of the darkness" (John 1:4-5, 3:19-21). For such are false apostles and deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:13-14)
Depraved "fools" and "reprobate minds" fall foolishly into Satan's entrapment and become opposed to God's design of nature's boundaries He decrees for a wholesome and just civil society, thus revealing that Satan, who is seeking anyone he can devour, with all that is counterfeit to God's creation and Laws of Nature. "Reprobate minds" such as LGBTQA, are making an abomination of God's design of marriage, family, with Satan's counterfeits of same-sex marriage, transgenders, gender delusion, sex with children, and any other depravity that undermines God's Word. Their Marxist "Utopia" resembling Sodom and Gomorrah is already producing a despicable devastation. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools..."
Jesus called Satan the prince or ruler of this world. (John 12:31) Paul called him the prince or the power of the air. (Ephesians 2:2)
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. (2 Corinthians 4:4) Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. (2 Corinthians 2:11) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour: (1 Peter 5:8)
Satan's goal is to hide the truth of the gospel in order to keep unbelievers in his grasp. How does he accomplish this? The Greek word tuphloo, translated "blinded" in this verse, means, "to dull the intellect."
Ephesians 2:1-5 - And you has He quickened (John 6:63), who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
2 Corinthians 4:1-6 - Therefore, since we have this ministry through the mercy we have received, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced the secret things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by expressing the truth and commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost. The god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Acts 26:17-18 - I now send you, to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.
1 John 5:19 - We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Matthew 4:8-9 - Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their grandeur, and said to Him, "All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me." Then Jesus said to him, "Get away from here, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'" [Deuteronomy 6:13] Then the devil left Him, and immediately angels came and ministered to Him.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. (1 John 4:4)
Why We Need to Talk About Satan - By John Zmirak ...Those who surrender timeless, apostolic, biblical moral teachings in order to "get along" with the Zeitgeist aren't acting like Jesus at all. Not in any way. We might call their behavior "biblical," insofar as they are imitating Caiaphas, and affirming along with him and the other Sadducees (collaborators with Pilate): "We have no king but Caesar!"
...Don't cave in, shut up, or back down. Stay calm, and keep asking, "Why?" Press the person you're arguing with hard enough, and eventually he'll admit that he believes same-sex intercourse, sex change operations, and hormonal sterilization for temporarily confused kids, aren't wrong. At least, not wrong in the icky, tacky, ugly and universally condemned way that racist actions are. Keep pressing to find out in what way these new, fashionable sex sins are wrong, and eventually your "affirming" friend will admit that he doesn't really condemn them. The actions, I mean. But if he's clever, he'll switch gears and start muttering proof texts such as "Judge not, lest you be judged." You should respond, "Does that apply to racists, too? To Nazis?"
...The One We Are Called to Hate: ...We're called on to "hate the sin, but love the sinner." Satan does the opposite, hating the sinner but loving the sin. And that's why we must talk about the Devil. That's why I keep writing about the demonic intelligences behind the abortion industry, the transgender frenzy, the Woke cult and its new gospel of the antichrist. We must rage against such evils, and their real authors. We must not, and dare not, demonize the victims of these evils. Our Enemy is not the woman aborting her baby, and not even (finally) the profiteer who scrapes out her child. It's not the confused "transgender" person who's poisoning and mutilating his body, or even finally the big Pharma executive getting rich from it.
[W]e are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12)
Who is the "thief" Jesus typified in John 10:10? Jesus in addressing the scribes and Pharisees said: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." (John 8:44) - - The "thief" is an offspring of Satan (Genesis 3), false teachers and prophets, who in the same manner wish to cause evil.
He (Jesus) answered and said unto them,
He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good
seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the
wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of
the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered
and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man
shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things
that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of
fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear,
let him hear.
--Matthew 13:37-42
And they went up upon the breadth of the
earth and they surrounded the army of the saints and the beloved city, and fire
descended from the sky and consumed them. (2 Kings 1:10, Ezekeil 38:22; 39:6)
Then the devil, the one who was deceiving them, was thrown violently into the
lake of fire and brimstone (Isaiah 30:33,
The Judgment at the Great White Throne: Then I saw a great white throne and the One Who sits upon it, from Whose
presence the earth (Psalms 114:3, 7) and the sky fled and a place was not found for
them.
Then I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the
throne. And scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is of
life, (Exodus 32:32, 33, Psalms 69:29, Daniel 12:1) and the dead were judged according
to their deeds, (Isaiah 59:18, Jeremiah 17:10, Psalms 28:4; 62:13, Proverbs 24:12, Romans 2:6,
1 Corinthians 3:8) by what had been written in the scrolls. (Daniel 7:9, 10)
Then the
sea gave up the dead that were in it and Death and Hades gave up the dead, those
in them, and each was judged according to his works.
Then Death and Hades
were thrown violently into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake
of fire. And if someone was not found written in the Book of Life, he was
cast into the lake of fire. (Isaiah 30:33)
"Whenever and where ever the devil can get you to doubt the Word of God the
result is always the same: an ultimate shipwreck of your faith and heart
oppressed by doubts and fears." --
Charles S. Price ("And Signs Followed")
1 Peter 5:8-9 - You must now be sober, you must now be watchful. Your adversary,
the devil, walks like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour: whom you must
immediately resist, strong in faith, since you know that the same sufferings are
laid upon the brotherhood throughout the world.
John 10:10 - The thief does not come except that he
would steal and he would kill and he would destroy...
Ephesians 6:10-17 - From now on, you must right away
become strong in the Lord and in the power of His
strength. You must continually be clothed with the full
armor of God to enable you to stand against the
strategies of the devil: because the wrestling for us is
not with blood and flesh, but with the rulers, with the
powers, with the world rulers of this darkness, with the
spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies.
Because of this you must immediately take up the full
armor of God, so that you would be able to resist in the
evil day and when you have completely achieved all
things, to stand. Therefore you should stand, after you
have girded around your waist the belt of truth and have
put on the breastplate of righteousness (Isaiah 11:5; 59:17)
and have put sandals on your feet in preparation
for the gospel of peace, (Isaiah 11:6-10; 52:7) in all
things having taken up the long shield of faith, with
which you have been enabled to extinguish all the
burning arrows of the evil one: (Psalms 7:13) and you
must immediately take up the helmet of salvation (Isaiah 59:17)
and the sword4 of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. (Isaiah 11:4; 49:2, Hosa 6:5)
Satan is a rebellious fallen angel driven by envy and pride, he
existence is dedicated to undermining God's creation. He is the "father of
lies," a murderer, deceiver, tempter, and uses "fools" to create counterfeit
designs of God's creation, with the most disturbing being that of marriage and
family, as they are the basis and foundation that God provided in establishing
civil societies.
Demons, Witchcraft,
etc. - Satan's "angels"
Demons are under Satan (Matthew 12:24-30), powerful (Luke 8:29), numerous (Mark
5:8-9), unclean (Matthew 10:1), can possess humans (Matthew 8:29), overcome men
(Acts 19:13-16), instigate error (1 Timothy 4:1), and know their destiny
(Matthew 8:29).
...Modern-day fascination with pagan mysticism has been around for
several decades, spurred by Hollywood, the Harry Potter franchise, the Twilight
vampire series, Buffy, Charmed, and other popular portrayals.
...Linda Harvey, who wrote the book "Not my child: Contemporary
Paganism & the New Spirituality," has warned parents that teens' growing
obsession with magic and witchcraft is not kids' stuff. It can lead to
estrangement, depression, sexual experimentation, drug abuse and exploitation.
...Romans 1:25: �They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and
worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator.�
Prepared for Satan, his demons and all who do not "know" Jesus "which do
iniquity."
John 3:3 - Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life;
whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains
on him.
The
"everlasting fire is prepared for the
devil (Satan) and his angels (demons)."
(Matthew 25:41, Revelation 19:20, 20:10).
Satan does not reside in hell (2 Corinthians 4:4). Hell
is where he will be cast. (Revelation 20:7-15)
Are There Actually 2 Hells?- By Bill Wiese - The
current hell is called Hades in the Greek, and Sheol in
the Hebrew. According to 49 verses in the Bible, it is
located down deep in the earth.The lake of fire is the
future hell, which Jesus called Gehenna. Jesus used the
word Gehenna 11 times in reference to the lake of fire,
and James used it once. Currently, no one resides there.
At Judgment Day, the current hell (Hades) will be
delivered up and all the people in it.
Revelation 20:11-15 states, "Then I saw a great white throne and
Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there
was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing
before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the
Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the thing,
which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and
Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged,
each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life
was cast into the lake of fire."
The books will be opened and those in the current hell, or hades,
will stand before God at the Great White Throne
Judgment. They will all be judged by the works they have
done. Their actions, their thoughts and even their
motives will be judged.
(Gehenna is the Greek spelling of the Hebrew term, Ge Hinnom, for valley of
Hinnom, the place outside Jerusalem where garbage, trash, dead animals, and even
executed criminals were disposed of. Fires burned continuously to get rid of the
trash and also the bodies. Worms lived in whatever had not been consumed by the
fires. The smoke, fires, and worms were a constant reminder to the residents and
visitors to Jerusalem of the description of Sheol, so Gehenna was used as a
synonym for Sheol. From early in the history of Israel this valley was used for
human sacrifices, offerings of babies to the heathen god, Moloch. Joshua 15:8 is
the earliest reference, then Joshua 18:16, Jeremiah 7:32; 19:2, 6; 32:35, and
2 Chronicles 28:3, and 2 Kings 23:10 uses the full name of the valley, Valley of
the Sons of Hinnom. Hinnom means wailing, lamentation.--
One New Man Bible: Revealing Jewish Root and Power)
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and
their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure:
and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices,
shall descend into it. (Isaiah 5:13-14)
Matthew 13:41-43 -
Matthew 25:41 - Then he will say to
those on his left, "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared
for the devil and his angels."
Jesus also depicts hell in Luke 12:4-4, Luke 16:19-31, and Mark 9:41-50.
Ephesians 6:10-17 - Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the
power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you
the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with
truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with
the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith,
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take
the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Revelation 19:20 - And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who
in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received
the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown
alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
Revelation 21:5-8 - And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all
things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life
freely. He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and
he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall
have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the
second death.
Recommended Book: A Devine Revelation of Hell
Baxter, Mary)
To answer the question "How could God let this
happen?," we could go to Einstein's rebuke of a professor using
temperature. Cold does not exist; it is a lack of heat. We do not
measure how cold something is; we measure how hot something is. It is
not that God allowed it to happen; God has been uninvited from our
schools, trains, and public places. The basic laws of society have been
banned. God has not allowed anything to happen. We as a world have
ignored our Creator's guidelines and are playing God. --Eric Miller Genesis 3:1-5 - Now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said
to the woman, "Has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the
garden'?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the
fruit from the trees of the garden; but from the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You will not eat
of it, nor will you touch it, or else you will die.'" Then the
serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die! For God knows
that on the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will
be like God, knowing good and evil." Man did not know evil before he chose to disobey his
Creator. It is only between the fall of man and the coming of the new
earth that evil exists. We have life and are created in God's Image to
have a free and loving relationship, for His pleasure and His glory, as
He is worthy to receive praise and honor, as our Creator. Revelation 4:11 - You are worthy, O Lord, to receive
glory and honor and power: for You have created all things, and for Your
pleasure they are and were created. Isaiah 43:7 - Even every one that is called by My
Name: for I have created him for My glory, I have formed him; yea, I
have made him. Job 10:11-12 - You have clothed me with skin and
flesh and have knit me with bones and sinews. You have granted me life
and favor and Your visitation has preserved my spirit. Ezekiel 18:23, 32 - Have I any pleasure at all that
the wicked should die? Says Adonai, the LORD*, and not that he should
return from his ways and live?! ...For I have no pleasure in the death
of the one who dies, says Adonai, the LORD*. Therefore turn back
yourselves, and live. Being created with free will allows for mistakes, errors, choices and disobedience, with results
being either good or evil. God is a God of Love and Mercy, but He is
also a God of Justice. Yet in His Mercy He provided reconciliation
thorough His Son, Who took our judgment, the justice required for
redemption. Paul provides God's wisdom on His mercy and reconciliation
in Romans 9:1-33.
"Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also
the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth
having." --C.S. Lewis Revelation 21:1-4 - And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and
there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they
shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their
God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain: for the former things are passed away. Our iniquities prevent God from hearing our prayers
and "hides His face" from us. Psalms 34:16 - The face of the LORD is against them
that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. Psalms 66:18 - If I regard iniquity in my heart, the
Lord will not hear me: 1 Peter 3:12-22 - Finally, be ye all of one mind,
having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be
courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but
contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye
should inherit a blessing. For he that will love life, and see good
days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak
no guile: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and
ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears
are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them
that do evil. And who is he that will
harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? But and if ye suffer
for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their
terror, neither be troubled; But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:
and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a
reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good
conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they
may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. For it is better, if the
will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the
spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the
longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The
like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the
putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good
conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone
into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and
powers being made subject unto him. 2 Chronicles 7:13-14 - If I shut up heaven so there
is no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send
pestilence among My people: if My people, who are called by My name will
humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked
ways, then I shall hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will
heal their land. Isaiah 59:2 - But your iniquities have separated
between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that
he will not hear. See both Apostle Paul's description (1 Corinthians
10:1-33) of the Jewish people "overthrown in the wilderness" in
Deuteronomy 31:16-18, where God "hid His face." See these parables from Jesus in Luke 13: 1-10 as
well. Isaiah 45:5-10 - I AM the LORD*, and there is no one
else, there is no God besides Me. I girded you, though you have not
known Me. So they will know from the rising of the sun and from the
west, that there is no one besides Me. I AM the LORD*, and there is no
other. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create
chaos. I AM the LORD* Who does all these things. Drop down, you heavens,
from above and the skies will pour down righteousness: the earth will
open and bear the fruit of salvation and acts of loving kindness will
spring up as one. I AM the LORD* Who created it. Woe to him who strives
with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth.
Will the clay say to him who fashions it, What are you making? Has your
work no hands? Woe to him who says to his father, What are you
begetting? Or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
Deuteronomy 28 outlines God's blessings in obedience and the curses
of disobedience. Deuteronomy 29:24-29 - Even all nations shall say,
Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what means the heat of
this great anger? Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the
covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when
he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: For they went and served
other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he
had not given unto them: And the anger of the LORD was kindled against
this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this
book: And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this
day. The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things
which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we
may do all the words of this law. Genesis 45:1-8 - Then Joseph could not refrain
himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man
to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made
himself known unto his brethren. And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians
and the house of Pharaoh heard. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am
Joseph; does my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him;
for they were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said unto his
brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said,
I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not
grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did
send me before you to preserve life. For these two years has the famine
been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall
neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve
you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great
deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he
has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler
throughout all the land of Egypt. Proverbs 19:23 - The fear of the LORD tends to life:
and he that has it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with
evil. Ecclesiastes 2:26 - For God gives to a man that is
good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he
gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is
good before. Ecclesiastes 12:12-14 - And further, by these, my
son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study
is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty
of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Why and when God hides His face that causes unprotected evil to
befall Deuteronomy 31:16-18 - And the LORD said unto Moses,
Behold, thou shall sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up,
and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither
they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant
which I have made with them. Then my anger shall be kindled against them
in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them,
and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall
them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon
us, because our God is not among us? And I will surely hide my face in
that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they
are turned unto other gods. 1 Kings 9:1-9 - And it came to pass, when Solomon
had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's
house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, That the
LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at
Gibeon. And the LORD said unto him, I have heard your prayer and your
supplication, that you have made before me: I have hallowed this house,
which you have built, to put My Name there for ever; and My eyes and My
heart shall be there perpetually. And if you will walk before me, as
David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to
do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes
and My judgments: Then I will establish the throne of your kingdom upon
Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall
not fail a man upon the throne of Israel. But if you shall at all turn
from following me, you or your children, and will not keep my
commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and
serve other gods, and worship them: Then will I cut off Israel out of the
land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for
My Name, will I cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and
a byword among all people: And at this house, which is high, every one
that passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall
say, Why has the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? And
they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought
forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon
other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore has the
LORD brought upon them all this evil. Jeremiah 32:23 - ...but they obeyed not Your voice,
neither walked in Your law; they have done nothing of all that You
commanded them to do: therefore You have caused all this evil to come
upon them: Jeremiah 44:22-23 - So that the LORD could no longer
bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the
abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a
desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as
at this day. Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned
against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked
in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this
evil is happened unto you, as at this day. Romans 1:18-19 - For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold
the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of
God is manifest in them; for God has showed it unto them. Romans 3:10-27 - As it is written, There is none
righteous, no, not one: There is none that understands, there is none
that seeks after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are
together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, no, not one.
Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used
deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of
cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction
and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known:
There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things
so ever the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there
shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the
knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is
manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the
righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon
all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth
to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the
forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in
Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith.
Of all the judgments which
the righteous God inflicts on sinners here, the most dreadful and
destructive is an earthquake. This he has lately brought on our part of
the earth, and thereby alarmed our fears, and bid us "prepare to meet
our God!" The shocks which have been felt in divers places, since that
which made this city tremble, may convince us that the danger is not
over, and ought to keep us still in awe; seeing "his anger is not turned
away, but his band is stretched out still." (Isa. 10:4.) That I may fall
in with the design of Providence at this awful crisis, I shall take
occasion from the words of my text... I am to show you that
earthquakes are the works of the Lord, and He only bringeth this
destruction upon the earth. Now, that God is himself the Author, and sin
the moral cause, of earthquakes, (whatever the natural cause may be,)
cannot be denied by any who believe the Scriptures; for these are they
which testify of Him, that it is God" which removeth the mountains, and
overturneth them in his anger; which shaketh the earth out of her place,
and the pillars thereof tremble." (Job 9:5, 6.) "He looketh on the earth, and it
trembleth he toucheth the hills, and they smoke." (Ps. 104:32.) "The hills melted like wax
at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole
earth." (Ps. 97:5.) "The mountains quake at
him, and the hills melt. Who can stand before his indignation, and who
can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like
fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him." (Nahum 1:5, 6.) Earthquakes are set forth
by the inspired writers as God's proper judicial act, or the punishment
of sin: Sin is the cause, earthquakes the effect, of his anger. So the
Psalmist: "The earth trembled and quaked; the very foundations also of
the hills shook, and were removed, because he was wroth" (Ps. 18:7.) So
the Prophet Isaiah: "I will punish the world for their evil, -- and will
lay low the haughtiness of the terrible: -- Therefore I will shake the
heavens, and the earth shalt remove out of her place, in the wrath of
the Lord of host, and in the day of his fierce anger." (Isa. 13:11, 13.)
And again. "Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty; and maketh it
waste, and turneth it upside down," (in the original, perverteth the
face thereof,) "and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. For the
windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do
shake. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved,
the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a
drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression
thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall and not rise again."
(Isa. 24:1, 18-20.) "Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the God of
Jacob." (Ps. 114:7.) "thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with
thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise." (Isa. 29:6.) As the Book of Job teaches Christians, sometimes
even those as blameless as Job, who was described by God as having "none
like him in all the earth" are made to suffer. At times like these, the
evil one, the accuser, wants us to curse God and lose faith, but we
learn from the Book of Job that we must never lose faith or stop loving
and praising Him, even when we think we have lost everything. --Personhood
Alliance
Prayer Proclamations
Let
Us Cleanse Ourselves with the Blood of Jesus
Father, we cleanse our hands
Revelation 20:7-15 -
The Defeat of Satan
- Then when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be loosed from his
prison and he
will come out to deceive the heathens who are in the four corners of the earth,
(Ezekiel 7:2) Gog and Magog, (Ezekiel 38:2-39:10) to gather them for the war, whose
number is as the sand of the sea.
Genesis 19:24, Ezekiel 38:22, Psalms 11:6) in
which place also the beast and the false prophet had been cast, and they will be
tormented day and night forever and ever.
How
witchcraft is targeting the young & credulous - By Robert Knight - A
burgeoning market in witchcraft aimed mostly at teen-aged girls and young women
is operating under the radar. ..."Witchtok," a part of TikTok, features
self-professed "witches" who are paid to cast spells on people, such as romantic
rivals, uncooperative boyfriends or annoying teachers or bosses.
..."Witch kits are sold by large companies and in stores �
something unheard of when I began my research in 1986," wrote Helen A. Berger,
an expert in contemporary witchcraft with a doctorate in sociology from New York
University, in an article for the AP in 2023. "Witches, Wiccans and other
contemporary Pagans see divinity in trees, streams, plants and animals," she
explained. "Most Pagans view the Earth as the Goddess, with a body that humans
must care for, and from which they gain emotional, spiritual and physical
sustenance."
Luke 12:4-7 - "But I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill
the body but after these things they do not have anything more they can do. But
I shall show you something you should fear: you must now fear the One Who after
He kills has authority to throw you into Gehenna. Indeed I say to you, you must
now fear Him! Are not five sparrows sold for two assarions? And not one of them
is forgotten in the sight of God. But even the hairs of your head have all been
counted. You must not be afraid: you are worth more than many sparrows." 
Revelation 21:6-8 - And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of
the water of life freely. He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will
be his God, and he shall be my son.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall
have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the
second death.
2 Peter 2:4-9 - For if God spared not the
angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains
of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but
saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood
upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into
ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that
after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in
seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful
deeds;) The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Excerpts from The Cause And Cure Of Earthquakes
(Sermon One Hudred Twenty-Nine) by Charles Wesley (First published in
the year 1750.)
By This I Overcome the Devil
- By Derek Prince
I testify to Satan personally as to what the word says
That the blood does for me.
Through the blood of Jesus,
I am redeemed out of the hand of the devil
Through the blood of Jesus, all my sins are forgiven
The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son,
Continually cleanses me from all sin
Through the blood of Jesus I am sanctified,
Made holy, set apart to God
My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit,
Redeemed, cleansed, by the blood of Jesus Christ
Satan has no place in me, no power over me
Through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
With the blood of Jesus.
We apply the blood of Jesus to our eyes, Lord,
So that we might see into the Spirit realm
Clearly and with clarity.
We apply the blood of Jesus to our ears,
To cleanse our ears out of any defilement,
Wickedness, garbage, gossip or slander
That has been poured into our ears,
So that we might hear clearly
What You are speaking to us.
We apply the blood of Jesus
To our lips and to our tongue,
So that You would be able to cleanse us
Of those things that we have spoken
That really haven't been of You at all.
Father, we apply the blood of Jesus
To our hearts and our minds -
The heart being the production center of the soul
That produces all the emotions and thoughts.
So Father, we ask You to put the blood of Jesus
On our hearts, our thoughts, and our emotions
And to cleanse our minds from the dead works
So that we might serve the living God.
Father, we apply the blood of Jesus to our feet.
Cleanse us from the corruption in this world
And from the dust of the world.
Father, cleanse us of those places
In which we have walked
That really haven't been ordered of You.
Lord, we receive the words of the Bible that say,
The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord.
We will have holy steps
Walking on that highway of holiness.
