Happily Ever After

Introduction

It has been said through the ages, and in many ways, but the gist always stays the same. Know your enemy, watch your enemy, study your enemy. This lesson is learned in games, such as chess, and in life, such as war. It has been proved over and over again that in life when you don’t play by the rule, you are doomed to failure.

Governments spend billions of dollars in technology, information and various field experts in order to gain military intelligence. Sportsmen learn every detail they can to get that sharper edge. For various reasons, spouses hire private detectives to spy on their mate.

It is not a small county, but the religion of Christianity, that is being victimized. A significant amount of the population has chosen to bury their heads in the sand instead of being knowledgeable about a dangerous, imposing enemy that is making war on them.

The entirety of mankind is like pawns on a checkerboard, with the opponents being God and Satan. Each making their moves in hopes that they will have the largest number gained at the finish. The difference between the opponent’s trophy is that God takes only the best. Even as a loser in comparison to numbers, God is the winner of the best harvest, the most pure souls.

This war started from a difference in opinion. The root that grew the difference of opinion in the angel Lucifer, is the same root that grows the faults of man.

This is a sad coincidence that mankind and angels share, but the chance for redemption is still open for humans. There is no redemption left to be given to Satan and every other fallen angel. For spite, for revenge, for any of a hundred reasons, Satan detours mankind away from God and their inheritance. He knows that God loves mankind. So he wants to hurt God by tempting the people to betray him, just as Satan did with the angels in Heaven.

The Harvest

This spiritual war will conclude with the harvesting of souls. On that day, God will divide the chafe from the righteous, and will know each by the image it bears. This is figuratively similar to Jesus’ words when asked about the paying of taxes. Mark 12: 15-17 Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it. And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Cae`-sar’s. And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Cae`sar the things that are Cae`sar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marveled at him.

In Malachi, the subject of tithes and offerings that is due to God is discussed. The subject of tithes is well known and well taught by church officials. However, the subject of offerings is smudged more now then ever before in history. In the times of the Old Testament, the offerings were understood to be sacrifices. The standard system of giving the best animal to be burnt for God at the temple has evolved into a superficial system. Paying extra money to God’s work is a nice deed. However, a person is not really paying it as an offering if the ‘offering’ doesn’t equal ‘sacrifice’. Commanding an activist convention is not an offering unless there is sacrifice involved. Neither is doing a good deed, if it is a tool of vanity or pride.

The meaning behind the words offering or sacrifice has seemed to have gotten lost in today’s material world. A small amount of meditation on this topic is most beneficial when considering Malachi 3: 8-11 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes to the storehouse, that there may be meat in thine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.

Views of Satanist Theology

This is only one more example of the short-sightedness of man. Once again man has fallen into the material trap and fallen out of the understanding of God. Many in the church does not see that the Christian theology is being slowly changed as Satan’s values are being more and more accepted.

The title of Satanist has been claimed by more than one religious group. The Satanist group that is of most concern however is that of the sect of the Joy of Satan.

A thorough discussion of the differences between Christian and Satanist theology will help Christians to understand the spiritual war, and hopefully to understand the role that they must play in it. A Christian will have a better understanding of the ‘lost soul’ definition after seeing the real definition of a Satanist.

One thing that a Christian will notice immediately is the name of God is always referenced as Jehovah. Another thing is the way that the two theologies twist and wind around each other before eventually merging into a complex machine of gears, pulleys and levers.

The first step in combating Satan is to understand the theology. While the enemy’s army is well-versed in the cultural difference and teachings of both groups, the Christian group grasps hardly more than an inkling of their enemy. Knowledge of your enemy is always important. In the time of God’s judgment, our souls will be harvested for the heavenly feast or voided from him. While there is diversity in details and trails of scholarly thought, knowledge of the soul’s journey to a Heaven or Hell and knowledge of how to reach either is given in the Bible time and time again.

The Bible is recognized and invalidated due to the author’s slant. According to the Bible, the father of lies is what Jehova is, and the father of love is what Satan is. Satanists however, has made out that the Bible and God is the true enemy of the human race. Things such as the belief in alien life and human evolution theories unwittingly gives Satan circumstantial evidence to support the Satanist theology. The reason why the alien myths are so important to Satanism is- that Satan and Jehovah supposedly are of an alien race.

Satanic philosophy dictates that Jehovah doesn’t care for us. That he didn’t create man out of kindness, but for selfish reasons. Also, that mankind was created from a genetic process that combined a more animal-like being with another genetic code.

The reason for concocting a creature, such as man, was to create a work force that could mine out the humongous rock fields of gold, and yet still be intelligent enough to be trainable.

When the time came that mankind was no longer needed for work slaves, and so the guinea pig experiment of mankind could be terminated, Satan protected mankind from his ’business’ partner. He had grown to love mankind, and he couldn’t stand to kill mankind. Satan took on the task of raising mankind like a father to child. That is why God is allegedly the enemy of mankind, and all who follow him.

Satan’s rules of how mankind should live is different from Jehovah’s rules. The more aggressive tone and emotional quality, as in harm no children and protection of family at all costs, along with the natural laws of life, death and everything in-between, appeals to the animalistic side of human beings. This in conjunction with circumstantial evidence and popular alien culture beliefs creates a strong religious net that is not easily broken.

Satan has made a close connection to his army through excessive daily meditations and rituals. This same reasoning is also applied to the demons, working with them daily sets up a personal dependant relationship, almost like how a child is lured to gangs. That is not however, to say that the feeling of belonging is the only reason for a person to follow Satan.

There is several points to the answer of the question, ‘Why would anyone choose to worship and fight for Satan? ’ Of course, the answers that Satanists give is authored by Satan. Each answer is personal and unique, but the template for the answers never change. Each one is a story of how Satan duped them by throwing shadows on the truth. Satan has set himself up to look like a loving, protective and understanding ‘God-like’ being. He accepts mankind as-is, and tells humans "well done, my child."

He has tricked many into believing that Jehovah’s angels are coming and attacking them, trying to kill them because they are followers of Satan. Satanists sacrifice the carnal energy of the body to Satan and his demons, so that they may keep up the good fight against all that may hurt them.

Satan’s Trickery

Satan is playing another one of his old tricks with a new twist here. This trick’s A-bomb was originally delivered by Jesus Christ to the Pharisees. Mathew 12:24-32 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I be Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.

But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathered not with me scattered abroad.

It is the mirrors that keep his magic touch working. Remove the mirror and the magician will be showed to be the scam that magic acts are. He could not stumble Jesus. Jesus Christ was too strong for him to defeat. So now his new trick is to defeat God by way of convincing the individual to commit an unpardonable sin, or at least the perception thereof. To a person that feels that God will never forgive their sin, there is little motive to worship God. Mathew 12: 31-32 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Many times that a person perceives that they have committed the sin and feels discouraged, the sin is simply not present in God’s eyes. The Pharisees did not suffer from a mere comprehension problem. They was knowledgeable yet, they could not see the Divinity of Jesus. The sin of blasphemy is the essence of not only voicing a miscalculated opinion against the Holy Ghost, but the reality of not caring to see the truth of the Divinity.

The stereotype of a Satanist wearing black, that sacrifices children, having a lust for blades, and owning a gruesome collection of human skulls is not a true baseline representation of those that are of Satan, but it is what many Christians imagine finding since it is not taught as it should be.

A more accurate description of a Satanist person is of a more socially balanced nature. The philosophy of a Satanist, revenge, lust and greed, is almost the same personality that is rampant in human civilizations.

The Satan Worshipper

The short end explanation of the why and how would anyone want to worship Satan is- the Satanists treat their ’God’ as a God, while we on the other hand treat God as an ‘idealistic being’. We hold up a template of a honest, caring, law abiding pacifist that we think God wants and try to measure up, and we feel guilty when we don‘t. Daily, we linger on our shortcomings instead of focusing on the eternal glory of God.

They hold themselves up to their Father with pride and thank him for loving them. They treat their Demons with respect, devotion and love, while we only mention our Angels in passing or in regards to our safety or our dead loved ones.

To understand more clearly how the Satanists battle for Satan, the acknowledgement of the following must first occur. Satanists are not followers of their God, but is in fact worshippers, in the strictest definition of the word, of Satan.. Nor is Satan an exact mirror image to that of the Christian’s Devil, but rather like a butterfly that has newly busted out of a cocoon. II Corinthians 11: 13-15 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 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.

When someone has given their selves to Satan, they become a soldier against Christianity. Unlike their Christian counterparts, they have marching orders. Hate toward Jehovah and his followers spurs Satanists to commit evil or violent crimes for the glory of Satan.

While Christian Sunday Schools tell stories of rainbows and teach charity to children, Satanists teach the rules of war, and the guidelines of life. Instead of a prayer fest, Satanists throw celebrations to worship Satan and network.

The God Follower

To all Christians, God has commanded to be watchful of the Devil, since he can and will take as many souls as he can. I Peter 5: 8-9 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Christians know the enemy is Satan, and they know what he stands for- evil. Christians know the Satanists are his workers, his posse. They are of Satan and therefore they are also the enemy. Exodus 22: 18-20 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. He that sacrificeth unto any God, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

Unfortunately, a narrow-sighted perspective that some Christian leaders have about Satan, is allowing Christians to fall prey because of the arrogant assumption that they know all that they need to know. The end situation is ironic, reminiscent of Looney Tunes’s Bugs Bunny with the Monster, with Satanists being Bug‘s Bunny and Christians the Monster (no pun intended). Many Christians have been fooled into thinking that the war is over, and that there is no army of Satan, other than the misguided souls of the world. Maybe to the point that many think Satan is nothing more than a list of evil principalities.

Jesus states that those who speaks of God and fights for God, will be persecuted. He has also told of why in John 15: 19- 22 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

When a person gives their soul to God, they become a soldier against Satan. Generally, Christians are not fighting the war against Satanists, despite God giving Christians the power to win this war. Luke 10: 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

The Battle

Study a moment Ephesians 6: 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.

While it is true the Bible says Christians are ‘wrestling’ not against flesh and blood, it is not implying that the enemy (Satan) cannot work in the form of flesh and blood.

Many Christians try to do their best as a Christian warrior when it comes to pro-life activism and other ’in the news’ situations. The belief that signing petitions against the various forms of Satan’s work, showing charity to the brethren, and dutiful paying of tithes is what God has asked of mankind. Yet, this chore is not enough to overcome the Satanist’s work, if the work is in vice. Jesus speaks against the mere profession of his name as the ticket to getting through Heaven’s gate. Mathew 7 : 21-23 Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Each person is charged by God to do the job that he has had determined for them. For example, Jesus asked more of one individual than the average follower. Mathew 8: 21-22 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said into him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

To the teachers of his word, God gave the commandment to take the full responsibility of their station. The elder is so much more than a teacher of written word or the wise peacekeeper of the group. The elder is the vessel that God speaks to, and which God speaks through. It is upon them to wisely lead and to be watchful of the snares the devil is putting down. Their heart should be joyful in the Lord’s work, and not chastised by fear or ignorance.

I Peter 5: 1-3 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

A Godly light is able to force the shadows to dissipate. Jesus’ words to Saul still rings true today to those that are called upon by God. Acts 26: 17-18 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

God described the armour and resources of his warriors in Ephesians 6: 10- 20 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. 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. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with the truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

A soldier of God can do great things to help others. They can march in God’s name to protect unborn children. They can gather up support to protect the conservative views of family life. They can spread the word of God by bringing missionaries to the distant third-world countries where medical care and food supplies are desperately needed.

Yet, this chore is not enough to overcome the Satanist’s work, if the work is in vice. Jesus speaks against the mere profession of his name as the ticket to getting through Heaven’s gate. Mathew 7 : 21-23 Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

The Hard Fight

The second step the Christian Church needs to do, if they want to be victorious, is to face the fact that there is a flesh and blood enemy that wishes to physically and mentally harm Christians. Although not all Satanists wish to harm all Christians, the threat is caroled by enough that the situation is dangerous for the common Christian. Some merely feel that the religious leaders and Christian politicians should be targeted along with anything that respectively is Jehovah approved.

Satanists are working feverishly to bring an anti-Jehovah thought pattern into existence. Promotion of sex, violence, revenge and hatred actions is in the glory of Satan. In all ways that they can, glorification of Satan and the destruction of Christianity is their one true physical goal. When God’s army is attacked, God’s army needs to use the armour we have been given, with the body God has given us.

It is important that Christians as a group start defending against physical and mental attacks from Satanists. The best defense is offence as military organizations well know.

Instead of bugging office walls, Christians should be as a fly on the wall in the internet chat rooms and email groups that conspire against Christians. Blindly net surf, gathering knowledge of Satanist sites here and there.

Threats and voiced hatred should be reported to the appropriate federal authorities. These nests need to be shut down. Information of threats or threatening persons should be shared within the Christian culture. This action kills two birds with one stone. First, the perpetrators are known and can be turned in. Secondly, there is the opportunity to reach out to others that needs a hand. Not everyone that claims to be a Satanist is. Just like everyone that wears Nascar Racing jackets and hats is not racecar drivers.

All types of bodily threats should be considered dangerous, even if black magic is going to be the weapon used. Whether or not a demon can gain entry to the life of a Christian is not at debate. The impulse, to ‘kill all the Christians’ as many Satanists say ,is a real intent. It is not only a few crackpots that carol this plan, but hundreds and possibly thousands of Jehovah haters within U.S. borders.

Ignoring threats that seem trivial, can and will lead to destruction somewhere. If a person wants to get something done bad enough, there is no limit to the ways that can be tried. There is also the multiplication factor to consider. For instance, Crystal Meth cookers teach an average of ten people annually to cook Meth. Then each of ten repeats the process, bringing the total to 110 cookers.

Get the idea?

Summary

God has led many armies into war against evil, and God’s armies are the victors. This could still be true today, if the Christians Warriors would open their eyes and decide to fight the war on Satan’s evil and his passionate worshippers, instead of only praying that God will take care of them and deliver them from evil.

After all, Jesus communed with sinners. He did not feel or act that he was superior to anyone. Instead, his words were comforting to the sinners that needed him, and the implication of his words also carried a big stick against anyone that would speak ill of his misguided flock. Another close examination of this moment, might bring forth another insight to the signs of what God considers to be those persons past the redeemable boundaries. Mathew 9: 11- 13 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what thou meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.