An excerpt of:
The Beginning
of
The End of All Things
(Part 7)
#186.06
And There Was War In Heaven
(Continued)
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...The devil said to
Him, "All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship
me." Matthew 4:9. Let us note that the devil did not
tempt Jesus to cavort with high-skirted harlots of ill repute, to hang out at a
local bar for a night of unrestrained drinking and revelry, nor to visit one of
Jerusalem’s pornographic bookstores, had there been such a thing. And it is the
same with us. The devil does not tempt us in those ways. When we are tempted, it
is neither by the devil nor by God. We are tempted and drawn away by our own
lusts and enticed (Grk. trapped), as were are told in James
1:14 . So let us not say, "The devil made me do it." For that
is not his department. We don’t need help in that area. We do an excellent,
bang-up job all by ourselves. There is no end to the depth of darkness to which
the fallen carnal mind can descend. It can be evil to the core....
...The devil walking about as a
roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour, came in the form of men.
Both, the devil as a lion and the dragon, seek to devour, for they
are one and the same. They are religious liars. Isaiah 9:15 tells us that
the prophets who teach lies are the tail. Therefore, the
lying prophets (preachers, teachers, etc) are drawing stars from the
heavens, while the entire system of religion devours them. If you want to see the devil, take
a good look at what is happening in the ranks of those who have been caught up
to God and His throne. You will see him swishing his tail of lying prophets
throughout the heavens and entangling those who have been blinded by the god of
this age. By rejecting the living Word of Jesus Christ — the devil, the lion,
the Pharisees, devour those who are cast from heaven and held behind their
gates of religion. They refuse the flesh and blood of Jesus. Not only are the
leaders devouring the people and making them twofold more the children of hell
than themselves, the carnal souls in the church are reduced to spiritual
cannibalism. They are boiling their own sons and eating them — and they thought
it such a hard saying when Jesus said, "Eat My flesh and drink My blood."
O church of the world, what have you come to? |
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