2 Corinthians 2:11
King James Version
11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us:
for we are not ignorant of his devices.
These are EXTREMELY perilous times.
We are being hit on ALL fronts.
A constant bombardment upon our mind, body, and spirit.
If your heart is not right with JESUS, you are truly at peril.
These are the devil's devices:
DEBT.
DEVICE.
DISEASE.
DIMINISHMENT.
DISTANCING.
DISTORTION.
DILUTION.
DISTRACTION.
DISCRIMINATION.
DEPENDENCY.
DEPRESSION.
DECEPTION.
DIVORCE.
DISTURBANCE.
DEATH.
DIVISION.
DECADENCE.
DEPRIVATION.
DEPRAVATION.
DEVIATION.
DOMINATION.
Here's a brief explanation of these devices:
DEBT.
Debilitating debt.
The kind that destroys lives, enslaving people.
The kind that takes out the light from people's eyes.
DEVICE.
The devil's latest device, is the latest device.
Check your cellphones, gadgets, or electronic stuff.
The devil moves with the times.
DISEASE.
A dream from ages ago told me something was cookin' in the labs.
Three very worried, elderly molecular biologists were deeply huddled in conversation in church.
Then the covid thing happened.
DIMINISHMENT.
The enemy doesn't want us to love GOD.
He wants total power, in place of GOD.
He does all he can, that GOD's power is diminished in us.
DISTANCING.
Something very eerie has really happened.
Where before, we had the freedom to be with family and friends, any time we chose, well, now, things are different.
Someone obviously wants us not to gather, and share the WORD.
DISTORTION.
What is God's TRUTH?
Are churches in sync with the original teachings of CHRIST?
If you are confused, then you know the devil's hand is in it.
DILUTION.
What does the Bible say?
How have churches taught GOD's WORD?
Are they still in sync with what JESUS had taught?
DISTRACTION.
Too many things, too little time?
Have we got time for GOD?
I sure hope so.
DISCRIMINATION.
It has been an old strategy, to make the rich, richer; the poor, poorer.
To enslave people, keep them ignorant, and thus, controllable.
Or to make other races superior to others.
DEPENDENCY.
What are you addicted to?
Many devices get us addicted -- lust, power, idolatry, vanity, fame, fortune -- all the things GOD abhors.
It is with our participation, and lust for things of the world, that we will be destroyed.
DEPRESSION.
The world has gotten so weird, people get confused, depressed, and maybe even suicidal.
People get sad.
But there's hope -- if only you'd know where to look.
DECEPTION.
What are we to believe anymore?
Who are we to believe?
I believe in JESUS.
DIVORCE.
The devil knows where to hit.
Home.
A real home run.
DISTURBANCE.
Where the devil is, there's violence.
There's lawlessness.
A sure sign that the LORD will return for His people.
DEATH.
In sin, is death.
In JESUS, is LIFE.
The LORD died on the cross, was buried, and rose on the third day.
After that, death, and the devil, were conquered.
DIVISION.
Oh yes, the devil loves wars.
He loves creating confusion, pitting one against the other.
Divide, and conquer -- that's always been his strategy.
DECADENCE.
We are definitely not in cadence with God.
There is no discipline, only indulgence.
A love for the world, and not for God.
DEPRIVATION.
People are deprived of their right to freedom.
They have been deprived of the right to live peacefully, to praise God, to even breathe.
You know who's behind it.
DEPRAVATION.
How are people being corrupted?
How is the enemy corrupting our bodies?
How is the enemy corrupting our minds, and souls?
DEVIATION.
How have we deviated from the natural gender GOD gave us?
How have we deviated from such normal relationships?
How have we deviated from normal practices?
DOMINATION.
The race to dominate others is futile.
The devil, authority on earth, dominates them all.
But he forgot, or at least tries to forget, JESUS was given POWER over ALL heaven and earth by GOD Himself.
All these are to be expected.
For this is the nature of the battle.
Are you a soldier of CHRIST?
I hope you are, for this is the nature of CHRIST's enemy:
Ephesians 6:12
King James Version
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities,
against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.
1 Peter 5:8-9
King James Version
8 Be sober,
be vigilant;
because your adversary the devil,
as a roaring lion, walketh about,
seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith,
knowing that the same afflictions
are accomplished in your brethren
that are in the world.
Where can we find hope?
Only in JESUS, the SON of GOD, the REDEEMER, the MESSIAH, the PRINCE of PEACE, the MIGHTY GOD, and soon, a man of war, who will have His faithful meet Him up in the air, and eventually make war on the devil, and all those who follow the latter.
Revelation 19:11-16
King James Version
11 And I saw heaven opened,
and behold a white horse;
and he that sat upon him
was called Faithful and True,
and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns;
and he had a name written,
that no man knew,
but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture
dipped in blood:
and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven
followed him upon white horses,
clothed in fine linen,
white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword,
that with it he should smite the nations:
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron:
and he treadeth the winepress
of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture
and on his thigh a name written,
King Of Kings,
And Lord Of Lords.
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