Satan’s Deceptions Revealed by Unvarnished
Truths
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 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 effort 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, and marginalize them as ignorant and unimportant. Look
around you. Fundamental Bible believers
are thought of as something from the dark ages.
They are 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 hate 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 use
people who assist him in the deceptions.
These people don’t 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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