SATAN IS STILL AT WORK
From the beginning, in the Garden,
and before when Lucifer, the “enlightened one” rebelled against God with a
third of the angels, Satan has been busy with his devices and schemes to
dethrone God. Though he is not able to approach Jehovah, God, he is able to
attack God’s image, God’s only begotten, Jesus, and especially those who are
born of God now and through the ages. “Yea, and all that
will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” (2 Timothy 3:12 AV)
To list all the times Satan has tried and
failed to defeat God would be repetitious since these are well known facts of
the Bible’s truths. The works of Satan that are particularly seductive and
prevail today are the works that need to be reviewed and dealt with. Though we
have many warnings from Jesus and His Apostles, we are still in the dark about
much of what is going on today, not just in the churches, but also in the
world.
I am particularly
impressed as I write this to remember what Jesus told the Money Changers when
he cleansed the Temple, “And said unto them that sold doves, Take these
things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.” (John 2:16
AV) The Temple treasury was being filled with money gained in the evil practice
of shortchanging the worshippers as they converted secular money into Temple
currency. In addition, they were charging exorbitant prices for the pilgrims’
sin sacrifices of doves. Also, Jesus was angry at the fact that these
transactions were taking place within the Temple, God’s House of Prayer.
We can see Satan
in the midst of these evil doings. If we consider the fact that Jesus would one
day not long after this, become the only true sacrifice for sin that the world
would ever have from that day forward, we can imagine that He would not want
His body and blood treated in a similar manner to what was taking place in that
Temple on that day. Yet, we do not need to look very far to see it happening
right before our eyes. In many so-called Christian churches the modern worship
of Christ is used as a drawing card to fill the pews and the offering plates
for the on-going work of enhancing today’s “Temples” so that their beauty will
be the motivation for more money changing.
Couple this
abomination with the money raising that goes on in the world and in churches
regarding the flood of new “Bibles” and related teaching materials. What Satan
has done with this situation is mind boggling. The old standards have been cast
away in preference to Christ bashing New Age materials. If Satan could not
destroy Jesus in the flesh, he would destroy His Word. Since Jesus is the
living Word, to destroy the Word is to effectively destroy Him. Satan may be
well pleased with what he is doing, but Jesus in not a loser, He said that His
Word would never pass away, so in these last days of Satan’s efforts for
victory, Satan has destroyed himself by creating a man-written substitute for
God’s Word, revealing clearly the True Word of God.
As Satan has
through the ages caused many souls to be condemned to Hell, he is trying again
by putting Jesus down through lies to deceive many more today. Will you be one
of the losers? Or will you seek the truth that sets men free? Repent of your
old ways of sin; give your life to Him for your rebirth and accept Jesus Christ
today as your personal, victorious savior. His love and truth will keep you
forever in the right way and in life eternal. Don’t let Satan take your life
away from you as he has so many in the past and is so doing today. Jesus came
so that you do not need to die a horrible spiritual death, but to be raised on
the last day to live in God’s Heaven forever with Him.