You have heard the saying, " Seeing is believing."
My friends, what you do not see with your eyes,
or hear in the spiritual realm may startle you.
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Picture this..... actors who have rehearsed their part (s) or lines, the stage is set, the director is parked in his chair or spot, camera, lights..... action! Yes, this is what happens in Hollywood or on stage when there is a play or movie of some sort. People all around watching the actors and seeing what the director / producer is doing, how he is responding to each one in his play or production. Making sure that everything goes as he planned, and what was corrected in rehearsal eyeing those or someone that he had to go over parts, or correct, or make sure that all goes as he instructed. This is not in Hollywood, or on the silver screen, or in the movies, but real life! All that people do and are involved in, their thinking capacities, feelings, and whatever goes on in life, is not what man thinks it is. The devil is the one who is the director / producer, practicing all of his techniques on the human family. Just as the director screens his actors and tells them what he wants them to do and when they get on stage he has already " coached them, "so it is with Satan. The ideas of man that are contrary to God, the feelings that men have disguised as pleasures, fun, excitement, enjoyment of one's self or indulgence appear to be the way to go, and seems exciting, but the great mastermind and prince of darkness, Satan, uses these things and more to attract unregenerate man. People think that they are smart and do things to outsmart their peers, lie, cheat, get over, drink, smoke, tell dirty jokes, fornicate, committ adultery, steal, and think that they are getting by..... but.... they are carrying out Satan's plans that he has unleashed on the world. The scripture calls him the " god of this world " ( See 2 Corin. 4:4 KJV ) That means that the ways of the world are governed by him, led by him, tricked by him and outsmarted by him . That's why the word of God says that he, Satan, has blinded the minds of them that believe not. " ..... How can he blind all unbelievers? He will work with their intellect and will make them challenge God, his existance, his word , and will make man look superior, and God inferior. When some one says that the Bible has been tampered with and is not the word of God. That's Satan's views too! When someone has a misconception of scripture, and takes the word of God out of context, and distorts truth.... Satan does that too! When a preacher, or a Bible scholar reads the word and does not agree with it, and says that a Biblical writer was wrong, or confused, or tampered with the scriptures.... Satan feels that way too! When an honest hearted individual wants to come to God, and he gets proseletized by various religious views, opinions, and ideas, and is made to believe that "all religious views are ok ..... Satan believes that too! When a church official tampers with the Bible just a little bit, maybe switch a word or two, and changes it's true meaning..... Satan does that too! When you hear some one say that water baptism does not save you, or is not that important, when it was so important in scripture that even Jesus, who knew no sin had to do it himself, and all given believers did it.... and even some re-did it in the 19th chapter of the book of the Acts of the Apostles...... Satan says it does not matter too! When you are told that the name does not matter as long as you are baptized... and that titles can be substituted for the name of the one that shed his blood for sins, Jesus, Satan believes that too! So, I guess you can see the picture that I am painting, and, make you aware that it does not matter about your religious training, as long as Satan can get you to oppose the word of God in whatever way he can, he, like the director has you, the actor, carrying out his master plan of deception, and he controls you. People think that their educational background supersedes what the word of God teaches... Satan wants you to believe that too! When an actor misses his cue, or messes up and does not do what the director or the producer put in his script, some really particular, directors or producers , will call the actor, stupid, and will rail on him / her because he or she messed up their part , thus throwing the producer / directors scene or movie out of whack. This will anger the director or producer. When tihings are not going his or her way, the director, producer will then tell the actor, that he made a mistake in choosing them for the part to only mess up his / her work or production. So it is when an individual, bucks against Satan's plans and dictates, and they believe the word! Then that old adversary, will do all that he can to degrade that individual, say that they are crazy to believe a book as old as the Bible, and that all of the miracles were an hoax, there was no flood, no Noah's ark, no destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, no resurrection and that we are in hell now, and it is a state of mind..... Satan believes that too! So, you see, my friends, there are a lot of ways that the enemy of mankind, tricks, or beguiles the human family, not just the noticeable ways. When a person goes out on his or her spouse, people talk about how bad that is and , " that is the devil, he had such a good wife, and Satan broke up their happy home! " People also talk about a drug addict, or a convict, " He used to be a nice young man, but the devil got in him, and put him on those drugs! Or he used to go to church, and look at him now, the devil really has taken over him! Or she used to be a nice mannerly young lady, but, look at her now! Standing out there on the streets in the red light district, the devil has really got her! " As you can see, these are extreme cases, and people will admit that Satan did that or the person was allowing him to master them, but....is that all he does? Will he get every body to do those things that even society itself admits is wrong and evil, but, my dear readers, that is only the beginning of what is going on with principalities and powers , and RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, AND SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES! Spiritual wickedness?? What in the world is that? And what does that have to do with me? Someone may ask. It has everything to do with you. Spiritual wickedness is that which is so crafty, and subtil, it starts with a small misrepresentation of truth, it may be a Bible verse misconsrewed, or a misquote of scripture, and when practiced and believed, that individual just fell into a "while" or trick or innocent looking thing that people deem so insignificant. Just like Astrology, a seemingly innocent thing, reading your horoscope every day to see what life has in store for you, or using it to find out about your mate, but, believe it or not is a part of the occult, which is indirectly attached to Satan by some, but, people do not view it as such. Or the palm reader or the tarot card person, or the madame, or the psychic, or the fortune- teller. All of these things are part ( s) of the occult. Sure Satan will disguise himself as a righteous person, but as long as he is using that to deceive the masses. "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works ." 2 Corin 11: 14-15 KJV He does not care if you go to church, just don't get saved! He will go to church with you, sit beside you in one of the pews, sing along side of you in the choir stand, even go to the pulpit and preach a dynamic message.... out of his heart! Some will even twist the Bible and word it so good, and paraphrase it, dress it up and make it sound so convincing, but it is not the word of God! I heard a guy once who was talking about a preacher who could make a sermon out of anything. He preached about "humpty- dumpty " and people, shouted, ran aisles, and did all types of emotional things and got all excited, and he did not even preach anything Biblical ! People tell the minister after service how he preached and they enjoyed the sermon, and he talked about the stock market, shopping, the game, and bowling, or fishing, or something totally unrelated to the truth, and congregations eat it up like food! Some times the preacher will not even open up the Bible and start teaching / preaching and will mesmerize people, not giving you any thing sound from the word of God. Leave philosophy to the philosophers, great orations to the orator, politics to the politicians, sports to the sportscater. The soul of man is entirely too serious and in danger to be taken so lightly, and to have some guy make jokes. God is not concerned about man's sense of humor, while you are laughing, Satan is laughing at you for being so foolish. He will do whatever it takes to keep you away from truly being born again of the water and the spirit, and will come in many forms...... Having a form of Godliness, but denying the power thereof, from such turn away... " See 2 Timothy 3: 5 KJV. So, the camera is on you now, all hell is watching, just as all heaven is too, the heavenly group will try to steer you to the truth outlined by Jesus and given to those holy Apostles and their wonderful heaven- sent truth, that eminated on the day of Pentecost in the upper room, with the outpouring of the holy ghost. ( See Acts chapter 2 ) On the other hand, Satan and his crowd will keep you busy doing whatever, amused, laughing, happy, drunk, high, addicted to sex, or educatedly foolish, and even religious! Just do not obey God's truth of salvation given to the early church. Satan will give you religious substitutes, he will give you the doctrine of your choice about God, or a good imitation truth, packed, dressed up as a mannequin in a suit, that portrayed a well dressed man, but not a real man! Satan will send you off to Bible college so that you can learn the scriptures so you can be smart enough to know how to use scripture to prove you are Biblically literate, or use your intellct to fool people,or get out of obeying the truth due to your knowledge and skill in Biblical studies, or to deceive you that just because you are familiar with the Bible but don't obey and live by it. He will tell you to study Greek or Hebrew so that you can understand the Bible better, he will have you get all types of aids to understand the Bible, and he will, let you earn credit hours and send you to the church of your choice and there he will take truth away from you, dress it up as theology, self- help, prosperity, and religious thinking, but simple plain old obedience to the word of God, he will keep from you. Especially that concerning you repenting of your sins and getting baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins according to the New Testament Church's doctrine with the Apostles. ( See Acts 2:38 KJV ) For that is the only doctrine that can and will defeat him! ( See Acts 2: 42 KJV ) Remember now, all of my dear readers, the camera is on you now, Satan, is next to you as we speak to turn you away from this Biblical truth given here. When you finish reading this he will say, you don't have to get baptized in Jesus' name! People put too much emphasis on water baptism and it's not really important. All you have to believe, Right? Father son and holy ghost is the same thing, right? Jesus and God are all part of the trinity, right? It's three in one, right? Satan appears in many forms and is but one devil, but God on the other hand, who is all wise and powerful, needs two more persons in the Godhead to complete their tasks..... Right?... A name will not save you, right? Baptism is not important, right? You do not need to speak in tongues today, right? Any church is ok right? People are judging you , right? Well, if you answered yes to any or all these last questions, I challenge you to go back to scripture and see if what I am telling you is the truth, or is your church or religious organization telling you the truth? Are those views and ideas your's or are they the director / producer's ? Satan' s ? Remember he is the director / producer, behind the scenes calling the shots and he dictates to man what to believe, and what not to believe.... after all... you are to smart to be deceived by a fictitious person like the devil.... aren't you? Satan certainly does not believe in God's word like you do not.... he' s an Atheist too..... or is he? He's educated too, he's certainly older and wiser than you and I and knows every trick in the book and how to get around doing what God says.......... he's the one behind the scenes..... not far away........ in fact.. he 's not wearing that red suit and does not even have his pitch fork with him................., where is his tail?.... Where did he go.......... Why is ................................................... where is he, in hell all the time... ? Or here on earth?.......Why is he not showing you his face.?................What is he doing ?..... What is he hiding from you ? .......What's going on behind the scenes ????? Remember the scripture given at the beginning, " Be sober, be vigilant: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour, ( he did not tell the Lord that part about devouring people ) the book of Peter gave us that part! Since he is here on Earth he's doing more than pornagraphy, and drugs and killing, he's just fooling people not to believe and obey the word of God, and confusing them about the way of the Word that we have scriptural examples of . I call upon all to search the scriptures and see what the true church of Jesus or the early church practiced, preached, taught and believed, that' the " resisting him stedfast in the faith..... It did not say faiths..... today we have faiths based on Biblical doctrines, or denominationalism...... You get to choose what you want to believe about the Bible........ Does Satan do that too?......... Are those your views about scripture or is someone behind the scenes confusing you... tricking you and are you playing right into his game of deceit giving the world various choices and philosophies about God, and using their understanding to trick them? Think about it! The Bible is how you interpret it.... no one way or belief is right..... Right? Who's idea is that ? .............. " And an highway shall be there and A WAY ( NOT WAYS BUT A WAY ) AND IT SHALL BE CALLED THE WAY OF HOLINESS, the unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those the wayfaring man, though fools shall not err therein." Isaiah 35: 8 KJV ." There is one body and one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM..... " Ephesisans 4: 4 - 5 KJV . St. Luke 13: 24 " Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. " " Enter ye in at the strait gate ; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." St. Matthew 7:14. KJV. Very few people want to be and will be governed totally by the word of God, Satan will give you subtitute religion, a form of Godliness, and will have you think that you are going right and folllowing the word, but, if you are truly entering in at the strait gate, as Jesus said, there are but a few walking this old time Biblical way. " Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. " 2 Timothy 3:5. Satan is too busy deceiving the masses and teasing them with truth, but not giving them it, that's why he invented organized religion. The early church was organized by Jesus, and then handed down to the Apostles, but, today churches are organized by clever, educated, intellectual men, who's being controlled by whom? Who is behind the scenes.... and what is going on behind the scenes? The End Rodney Brooks |
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