7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do
what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
Don’t you enjoy watching a magician or illusionist? Even a ventriloquist is fascinating! If they are good at applying the craft that has taken them many years of practice, we will be amazed! The effort that goes into seeing what works-what doesn’t, tweak the trick or illusion, try it again…and again…and again! Slight of hand, while the trickster talks is what keeps us engaged in the chatter, and miss the trick. Ever try the shell game in NYC street performers? Again, their quick chatter keeps your mind occupied with talk, they are plying their craft!
Well, there is one who is the trickster of all tricksters. He is the master of illusion, and still gets people to believe his tricks, even after we have seen the bad outcomes of the tricks for hundreds of years. He is the magician extraordinaire, the Master of the Masters. He is the one who puts all others to shame. His name…Lucifer! Formerly known as an Angel in God’s court, he traded a perfect job sitting around the throne in Heaven waiting for God’s command. Because he wanted to be THE Commander, he traded his place of high honor, to the lowest of the low, the slimiest slime, the worst of the worst. I can’t even think as low as this dreg of hell goes with his tricks and illusions to entice us into his den of sin. Think of the worst person you can imagine in the world-then go even lower! Unfortunately, many follow after him believing his lies. They are lead right to the pit of hell with him and his demons.
How does this happen? Even some of smartest Christians among us fall for his tricks. I believe one way is because we as believers are trusting. We trust that most people are going to be like us and be honest and truthful and have our best interest at heart. WRONG! That only happens in children’s stories. We must become aware of the enemies ‘world view’. He wants to destroy people and keep them from Heaven. If we could think in a devious way for a minute. What would be a great way to keep people from getting to Heaven? You really cannot tempt them directly, that preacher and the Bible will only direct them to the right path. Do you think if there was a way to frighten them it might work? Even though we know that we are told not to fear in scripture. Maybe if an illness became so virulent that it caused many to die. Would that scare people enough? Wait, we are told NOT to hold on to our lives. Our reward is Heaven. Shouldn’t we prefer to do that? Yes, of course. We are promised Heaven when we leave this earth. Still, many hold so tightly to this world that they loose sight of the eternity promised to us. So, our enemy continues to use the same old tricks to get us off the ‘faith’ course and into the weeds of fear!
What if we were told that our rights as individuals do not extend to CDC mandates? They have the ‘science ‘so we must believe them? But think about it, they tell us our rights as individuals do extend to killing a baby, or mutilating our body so even God might not recognize you as the person He created? How does that work? Oh, Lucifer uses ‘double standard’ as a trick too!
Maybe one way would be to eliminate people, or at least reduce their number. Well, both abortion and gender change will do that. Not to mention socialism, communism, and even immigration and plagues! We have seen over 60 million people murdered through legal abortion since 1973. Mutilating the body through ‘gender reassignment’ causes reproduction to stop (I have heard there are even weird and unnatural ways to get around that).
I am not a genius, but even I can see that the political climate we are in is on a slippery slope to socialism/communism. When you have a president that uses executive orders to get ‘his own way’ immediately upon taking office. There was no thought or research on the validity of these orders being beneficial to the country. When you see a self-proclaimed ‘good Roman Catholic’ approve of abortion even to the last minute, and even sends American money to other nations to support abortion, you are looking evil right in the eye! He has been playing ‘shell game’ since January 20, 2021, and not very well I might add! His conversations are entertaining as he fumbles through the most familiar of his words, and we listen and laugh, missing the evil he represents! We know one of the tricks of our arch enemy is to blame others. We still hear #46 blaming #45 for the virus, border crisis, vaccines not quick enough, economy, unemployment, and of course, racism! The blame game. We know this trick and should not become a victim of it.
All of these ‘tricks’ have been used before by the Master of Illusion. Don’t be fooled.
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