Visits from Satan- Series Intro

1 Pet 5:8 January 12, 2017

In a series of brief articles EOE presents personal evidence and testimonies confirming Satan’s strategies, deceptions and accusations against us. We intend the following spiritual vignettes as ways of educating the individual soul against the subtleties and craft of man’s greatest enemy. We do not wish that these ‘chapters’ on this “Voices of Satan – Deceit – page will frighten people, but rather arm them against so great a mortal enemy to their eternal life. We do not want to leave anyone with the impression that it is Satan alone who is responsible for our sin and the crimes against God and His love. We ourselves must take full responsibility. Though the Devil is often responsible for instigating us into a life of moral crimes by whispering fear, accusation, lust and selfishness into our ear.

It is not part of our agenda to frighten anyone either; only to give the believer the proper understanding so they will not fall prey to the Devil’s tricks and devices. Satan is a great and powerful enemy. It is in every person’s interest to engage him properly and wisely in mortal combat according to the advise of God given to us in His Word. …

We begin with a Scripture. God’s Word warns us to “Be sober be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” 1 Peter 5:8 In the world, and sadly in a large part of so-called Christianity, we find that several erroneous stands on Satan have been developed by religious means and have become ingrained upon our minds and souls so that they are accepted truths without ever even being questioned in our heart or mind.

I) The most prominent idea is that Satan does not exist at all, but is a “cartoon figure” something to joke about.
2) Another belief is that he exists in some benign form bland, impotent, and without any effect on man.
3) Then there is a segment of Christianity who becomes so obsessed with his presence that they conveniently charge every sin and evil thing to him. They do this rather than examining themselves to see if they have been lacking in any way, or if they may be the fountain of some evil or misdoing.
4) Others believe in something called “ultimate reconciliation”, the most blasphemous and unscriptural of all. This teaching is that even Satan and all his “fallen angels” or demons will at last repent and ultimately be saved too. This is convenient to a humanistic belief that no one is pure good or pure evil and that everyone is a little of both and therefore will be forgiven for anything they do because, after all, who is perfect? This forgets that Jesus is perfect, did not sin and claims to be able to free us from sin. Don’t ever bite on this humanism that is so popular in today’s Church! Revelation 20:10 makes that very clear. “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the ‘lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

It does not matter which deception one falls prey to; those who do not escape the clutches of Satan shall suffer, along with him, the very same fate of being totally remote from God and outcasts from heaven. The purpose of this article is to share some of the personal encounters I, and others, have had with our enemy over the last four decades so the truth of his reality and how he works can be exposed. I do this that the faithful will not be deceived. These testimonies will instruct us that the Devil does in fact exist. It will demonstrate the kind of tricks he tries to pull, how to pray for discernment, while we are honest enough not blame every unpleasantness or sin on him alone, but to take ownership of our sin so that we may be delivered from doing harm against Christ and Man.

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