Satanic Cults

People sometimes act like I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to modern cults in America. They don't want to believe you even when you can back it up with undisputed historical fact. Here is a letter I've received from a Christian club I belong to and I hope this sheads some light on the subject.

Most people, I think, don't want to hear about cultic practices because they want a New World Order. The New orld Order is NO DIFFERENT than any other form of idolatry. Anything you put before God is and Idol! You might just as well worship a statue of Diana. Just like an idol, the New World Order will pierce your hand like a great sliver. That is what God says about idols in the bible. ~matt~
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             from Freedom in Christ Ministries
May 30

WAKE UP!

There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or
his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one
who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a
sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist,
or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is
detestable to the LORD (Deuteronomy 18:10-12).

The dark side of Satan's version of spiritual knowledge and power
mentioned by Moses--ritual sacrifice, witchcraft, sorcery--is
also thriving in our culture, though not as openly as some of the
more socially acceptable New Age practices.

Our police
departments are trying to tell parents today, "Wake up! Your kids
are not just into drugs and illicit sex. They're into Satanism.
We've seen the blood and the mutilated animals." It's getting so
bad that one of the animal control agencies in our area will no
longer release a black dog or cat at Halloween for fear that it
will become the victim of satanic ritual abuse.

The man who heads up our campus security belongs to a group of
security officers from campuses across Southern California which
meets once a month. When it was our school's turn to host the
meeting, he asked me to speak to the group about spiritual
phenomena in our culture. "There aren't many Christians in the
group," he said, "but they'll be on our campus, so I want you to
speak to them." I agreed to do so.

It was a veteran crowd of former military men and police
officers. When I started talking about the rise of Satanism and
ritual abuse in our community, there wasn't a doubter or a
scoffer in the bunch. Every one of them had a story to share
about finding grisly evidence of Satanism being active on their
respective campuses.

Every aberration of spiritual knowledge and power that Moses
warned the Israelites to avoid in Canaan--from "harmless"
horoscopes to unthinkable atrocities of animal and human
sacrifice--is in place and operating in our culture today. We
must wake up to the reality that "our struggle is not against
flesh and blood, but against . . . spiritual forces of
wickedness" (Ephesians 6:12).

Mighty Lord, equip me today not just to stand my ground against
the enemy but to actively reclaim in Jesus' name territory he has
stolen.