The Devil
Writer Author Sylvia Huffnagle
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Apologetics
- Fiction No
Some people believe the devil knows our thoughts and desires and our past. Some don’t think about it, they just act as if he knows them. I don’t believe the devil knows me at all. He does know how to use the desires of the flesh against us. He does know have to see that temptations are put in people’s paths.
His territory is disobedience to the laws of love. Whether one chooses to disobey deliberately or out of ignorance, he knows that operating outside of the laws of love places the person and often those who are in relationship with the person in a vulnerable position. That’s just where he and his cohorts want you.
1Cor: 10:13: There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Jas: 1:12-17: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 13: Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15: Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16: Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
They entice you, they persuade you, they incite you, they deceive you, and they bully you into making wrong choices that lead to more harm and suffering. Those who fall victim to wicked spirits mess things up for themselves and their loved ones.
The devil and his cohorts are in rebellion against God who is love. Evil spirits are spirits that chose to follow the liar, deceiver, accuser, traducer, serpent, dragon, leviathan. Evil means harm. Wicked means disobedient. All motives, attitudes, and actions not inspired by love--active or passive--are inspired by harmful spirits that have rebelled against love to do their own thing and be their own god and hopefully your god as well.
God is omnipresent--He is everywhere, the devil is not. God is omnificent.--endless power to create. The devil does not have power to create, he has power to pervert. All perversion is a result of a lie. He has to take what God already created and pervert it. He is the author of all perversion. All hate and harm is a perversion of love. All things that are harmful or who do hurt are perverted from their original intent. Mosquitoes were not created by God, they are a perversion of an insect that He created. Everything He created was to do good. Mosquitoes, gnats, fleas, etc. true names and callings will be revealed when Jesus reigns.
Satan is the father of lies. He thought up and believed the first lie and has been using lies to get what he wants ever since.
Devil means traducer. That’s what he did in the garden of Eden to God when he suggested that God’s motives were not pure. That’s what he still does--slander people’s character and motives.
Lucifer was the bright and morning star until he believed the lie he thought up that he could be God. Lucifer means bright and morning star--he was the brightest shining overseer and now he is darkest darkness. He was God’s representative and overseer of the earth and now he is His enemy and is doomed for eternity. Lucifer beamed out love and now he emanates hate. He himself is a perversion of what God created.
He is the prince of the power of the air--he persuades people to do their own thing instead of righteousness as God has said to do.
He is the god of this world. That means that since the world will not or does not hear or listen to God they must necessarily be vulnerable to the lies and perverted truths of the enemy. He has power over the world because they are like their father. The people of the world want to do their own thing and be their own god. They want to believe the lie.
You have probably heard it said that we (mankind) are spirits. That is not true. We are spirit-being which means we have a spirit and are controlled by it just as the wheel within the wheel in Ezekiel. A person will either be greatly influenced by God or by the liar. Whoever you obey is your father. You will obey--listen to--either God or you will listen to the liar.
Never fear, the incorruptible one is the bright and Morningstar and will shine, love, and reign forever--the Lord Jesus Christ. PTL
One last thing, the devil does not have super-natural power all he can do is pervert the powers that be and he does that through man’s tongue. He has to get mankind to speak against or curse God, their fellow man, and the universe in order to pervert the weather, the animals, and humans.
Prov: 15:4: A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Prov: 18:21: Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Prov: 26:28: A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
AND REMEMBER THIS: the devil is not almost as powerful as God. He is no threat to God whatsoever. He is a threat to those who do not worship God. To God he is no more than an annoying flea. Actually, God is in complete control and is using that fool to teach the world who He is.
There, I’ve laid the enemy bare before you. Hide and abide in Jesus and you will be safe.
Ref: Gen: 3, Isa: 14:9-20, Ezek: 28:12-19, Mk: 4:15, 8:33, Lk: 13:16, Jn: 8:44, 10:10, Acts: 13:10, 2 Cor: 2:11, 4:4, Eph: 2:2, 6:10-18, 1Thess:2:18, Heb: 2:14, Jas: 3:15, 1Pet: 5:8, Rev: 2:10
Sylvia Huffnagle
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