Satan’s Deceptions Revealed
Barbara Henderson
Have you ever been deceived? Well of course you have. And I bet you were not too thrilled when you
found out about the deception either. A deception
is really a lie. A big deception may have
a lot of little lies all bound up together.
And the father of lies is Satan who is called by many names. He isn’t omnipresent, omnipotent, or omniscient,
but he is very powerful. And he has
help. He has lots of help considering
that one third of the angels followed him in his rebellion against God. Many people of earth are aiders and abettors
of Satan right now. There is a day of judgment coming for Satan and his
followers. Satan knows his eternal
destination. Some of his followers are
currently delusional about their eternal destination. They think they are going somewhere other
than hell. When they stand at the
judgment they will realize they have been deceived. But it will be too late.
Then there are true Christians,
individuals who have gone to God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son. They have gone with a truly repentant heart
and with full willingness to change how they do things. They want to be more like Christ. Some of these people are being deceived as
well.
Satan has the world divided into two
groups for the purpose of deceptions.
Group
number one consists
of people who are lost, not saved, separated from God by their sins. He handles this group in a huge variety of
ways, but the common thread in everything is a lie. Three common lies are:
All roads lead to heaven.
Everyone can be/already is god.
Good or mighty acts by an individual
gain or even guarantee entrance into ‘heaven’.
Group
number two consists
of people who are truly saved. Satan handles
this group more with things like small lies, small variants on the truth,
feelings, mystical experiences, materialism, and other things that aren’t so
apparently evil in the beginning.
Satan’s deceptions are revealed by the
truth. That means it is VERY important
that individual believers make a strong point to know the truth. Most of the garbage passing for evangelism on
television and even in many pulpits around the world can be filtered out as
lies and partial truths by even a beginner Bible student. When in doubt about anything it is important
to go the Bible for the truth. You want
the unvarnished truth no matter how harsh it may seem at the moment.
Unvarnished
truths include:
The Bible is inerrant – it has no
errors – it has the final say on every subject.
The Bible is complete – there are no ‘new
revelations’ – and no traditions of man supersede Biblical authority.
The Bible is sufficient – it gives
mankind the necessary information to restore fellowship with God through Jesus
Christ.
The Bible is relevant to every person
in every generation – it never goes out of date.
These are the concrete and unchangeable
parameters or boundaries from which everything else is evaluated. That is how it works. You can’t stay a step ahead of the devil on
his latest scheme, trickery, deception, religion, social do-good, scientific
terror, mother-earth’s hurt feelings, or anything else. Instead of spending time trying to figure out
what Satan’s latest deception is spend time learning what the Bible teaches as
truth. What eventually happens is you
wind up spotting error simply because it doesn’t align with the truth according
to God Almighty.
The
Bible is a book of truth
revealing the love of God, God’s mercy, the plan of salvation, the history of
creation, and all things necessary for the individual to come to a saving
knowledge of Jesus Christ.
The
Bible is also a book of ‘unvarnished truth’ or ‘dark sayings of old’.
This means it just tells the truth.
It doesn’t sugar coat it. It
doesn’t spin the truth to make it more acceptable to the general
population. It doesn’t do anything
except tell the truth. Something much
harder than a ‘hard truth’ is finding out about a lie when it is too late to do
anything about it. Remember that if the
Bible makes a clear statement regarding something, that is exactly what it
means regardless of social or political ideas of a specific people or
generation. Deep and true compassion for
others will not allow you to accept or ignore a lie that will cause you to fail
to warn someone of the danger of hell in his/her future.
False teachers are in
every religion and ideology.
You can spot these
false teachers through their:
Lack
of sincerity. They preach or teach one thing but they do
something else. They may expect/coerce followers
to make sacrifices and do things in a particular way, but they don’t actually
follow their own teachings. You see this
in religion and politics. Leaders don’t
live the truth they preach. A secular example of this is in the global warming
community. A noted global warming fear
monger is Al Gore, former VP of the USA.
And what does this man do about global warming? He makes a fortune peddling his ideology. He
applies political pressure to crush people under changes he claims necessary to
‘save the planet’. He has no regard for the individual. In spite of his stated concern for the
wastefulness of mankind and the danger of the destroying the planet, Al Gore lives
in a giant house that uses massive amounts of energy. He justifies this by saying his ‘carbon
footprint’ is ok. That is supposed to
mean he is putting more good stuff back into the environment than he is taking
out. In truth it means he is a very rich
man. In my opinion he is also a hypocrite.
Emotional
adoration. They place emotions and feelings above scripture
or sound knowledge. It is easier to go
with feelings instead of written truth.
You just have to ‘feel’ it. You don’t
actually have to spend the time studying to learn.
Attacks
on the authority of the Bible. The unvarnished truths of the Bible are
attacked viciously. The pre-existence of
Jesus Christ is denied. The Genesis
account of creation is denied. Christ’s
bodily resurrection is denied. Things called
sin by God are accepted. These arrogant
teachers give to themselves authority to change the message of God Almighty in
order to say what the itching ears of some people want to hear. They have no authority to do this. To those who know the truth of the Bible such
teachers reveal themselves as Satan’s mouth piece when they speak such heresy. They are revealed as deceivers when measured
by the truth of the Bible. Any so-called
preacher of the gospel who teaches anything that goes against the unvarnished
truth of the Bible is an apostate and a worker of evil.
Hatred
and/or trivialization of Jesus Christ. Jesus is not given His rightful place as King
of kings and Lord of lords. They may
speak of Him as someone who is noteworthy, but NOT as the ONLY way to heaven.
Persecution
and hatred of the truth. As you make a consistent effort to know more
of the truth of the Bible, to know more about Jesus Christ and His teachings,
you will notice a growing global hatred of the truth. This is fast becoming one of the easiest ways
to spot deceivers. They hate anything to
do with Biblical truth. They hate those
and belittle those who speak the truth of the Bible. They marginalize those who believe the truth
as ignorant and unimportant. Look around you.
Fundamental Bible believers are thought of as something from the dark
ages. They always portrayed as ignorant
people who just don’t know any better. Yet a fundamentalist simply believes simple
fundamentals clearly taught in the Bible.
Haters of the truth Bible fundamentals.
It really doesn’t seem
to matter where a person begins.
Those who reject the
truth of the Bible reject Jesus Christ.
Without the transforming power of Christ they have no God given help to
transform their lives. It is much harder
for them to sincerely follow any ideology or teaching. They are insincere meaning they are hypocrites. They don’t adhere to their own teachings or
ideas, but they firmly expect their followers to adhere to their teachings.
They are more prone to
emotionalism than to sound teaching of any sort. They love to stir up emotions in their
followers instead of teaching solid truth.
Actually they don’t have solid truths, so they can’t teach truth.
They grow to hate the Bible
because it condemns certain behaviors and actions.
They grow to hate the
truth.
They eventually
persecute followers of the truth. We are
seeing that now in Islam which persecutes Christians.
Satan’s deceptions uses
people who assist him in the deceptions.
They don’t wear have horns, carry a pitchfork, and wear a red cape. In order to spot these deceivers you have to
be personally aware and cautious. It isn’t
that you want to go around paranoid and expect the worst from everyone, but
neither do you want to be fooled by wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Satan’s deceptions
will be revealed by the actions of the deceivers themselves. If you are looking
for actions and teachings that signal deceptions a recap is:
Insincerity or hypocrisy
of the teacher
Trivialization of the
truth
Hatred of the truth
Persecution of the
truth
If you would be one to
whom Satan’s deceptions are revealed you must be one who accepts all the truth
and rejects all of the lies. You cannot
keep parts of a false belief system and simply mix Christian theology in with
the lies. If you find yourself in a
religious system that puts emotionalism, the traditions of man, or so-called
newly revealed prophecy above the Bible itself you are being deceived. If you are in a religious system that teaches
you can be a god, you are already a god, or that good works have power to get
you into heaven you are being deceived.
Satan’s deceptions are revealed by the truth. The truth is in the Bible, and it is
available.
Barbara Henderson
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