It’s all about government.  The Almighty directs the words, thoughts and actions of His people through His written governmental doctrine–the Holy Scriptures.  His Son declared that every human who has ever lived would be judged by that document (Jn. 12:44-50–emphasis vs 48).  As stated in the previous posting, Part A of Satan’s shadow government strategy is to convince salvation seekers that what they are hearing and reading within the confines of Catholicism/Protestantism is the REAL word of God which only Satan’s false prophets can interpret correctly.  This Catholic “truth” is based on the theory that only Catholic priests have the spiritual acumen to correctly interpret God’s Word, and the right to change “even the precepts of Christ” that do not confirm their theology.  Though they are not so open with their heresy, Protestant church leaders have the same attitude.  The theory is that the general church population is not able to grasp the REAL TRUTH that God was TRYING to convey when dictating His will and testament to His prophets and apostles.  Recall that one of the reasons high-ranking Jews rejected Jesus was because He had not “learned letters” (Jn. 7:15).  Being a lowly carpenter, He had no business speaking about the Law.  That attitude persists to this day.  Many people will not accept a minister who does not have a D.D. (doctor of divinity) attached to his name.  Having dealt with seminary-trained theologians and those they have taught, I have found that the one person a Truth seeker must never listen to is a seminary graduate.  The consequences for doing so can be deadly.  God killed a female friend of mine because she took the word of her pastor instead of God’s word concerning His Sabbath.  After she flatly refused to believe His Word, He told me by way of a vision what He would do, why He would do it and how He would do it.  He repeated the process concerning another female friend whom He killed for the same reason.  Two differences marked the women’s respective deaths.  One, the second woman’s death was preceded by two visions, and two, He did not tell me how He would take her life.  God also told me to tell a male friend that He would kill him if he did not stop drinking.  There was no vision involved.  The second women and the man died within two weeks of God’s speaking to me.  The other woman lived approximately two months before He took her life.  In the case of the women, the doctors could not determine the causes of their deaths.  But I knew.  They died because they refused to believe His Word.

The “angel of light’s” “ministers of righteousness” work hard and continuously to make certain that church people believe that what they are hearing is the true gospel.  They get away with the deception because most of us were taught not to question the words of our church leaders.  We were led to believe that, because they had “surrendered” to God’s “call to the ministry,” their words came straight from the heart of God.  Which is true.  The problem is that they heard the wrong god.  Which brings us to Part B of Satan’s deep state strategy.

In order for his plan to work, church people must not be allowed read or hear God’s Truth with ears to hear and eyes to see.  In the global Truth War being continually waged the devil’s minions are continuously afflicting the thoughts and imaginations of church people by deafening and blinding them to God’s Truth.  Satan is called “the prince of the powers of the air” (Eph. 2:2).  Those powers refer to his fallen angels–his devils/demons–whose job it is to influence people through thoughts, impulses, desires, etc.  Such mental attacks are called “fiery darts” in Ephesians 6:16 because they can be very compelling and hard to resist.  In this passage Paul tells the people to put on the Lord’s “armor” which the darts cannot penetrate.  This armor is God’s Word which, if believe and obeyed, deflects Satan and his demons’ temptation attacks.

Believing that they are serving the Biblical God, Catholic and Protestant ministers relentlessly push the devil’s counterfeit gospel.  This is not a new problem.  Some 25 years after the founding of the New Testament Church, Paul found himself fighting against the purveyers’ of a “perverted” gospel (Gal. 1:6-9), as did the other apostles.  We who do the Lord’s work today face the same problem–counterfeit Christianity.  Paul told the church at Corinth that if someone came preaching another Jesus, they would accept him (2 Cor. 11:4).  He was right.  False prophets continue to proclaim a counterfeit christ, and counterfeit christians continue to bow before him.  Satan’s spiritual and physical workers deafen church people’s ears and blind their eyes to God’s true gospel.  When one is in that deaf and blind condition one can read or hear God’s Truth and totally miss it.  I once asked a woman to read First John chapter 3.  She did.  Then I asked her to tell me the subject of the chapter.  She replied, “love.”  The chapter does compel us to love God and man.  But it speaks much more about God’s condemnation of sin and His command for holiness.  Due to the work of her false prophets and their spiritual counterparts, the woman saw only what they wanted her to see.  Her blindness prevented God’s light from shining into her heart (mind), preventing her from coming out of the church’s darkness and into God’s light.

Because they know only what they have been told by those who taught them, the devil’s shadow agents do not know that they are darkness dwellers and darkness peddlers.  Such people are so thoroughly indoctrinated in their brand of religion that even when the light of God’s Truth breaks through their defenses, they refuse to embrace it.  Instead they “double down” on their dark theology and grow angry not only at the bearer of God’s light, but on the light itself.  Someone said that, spiritually speaking, light is the best disinfectant.  Which is true.  If, that is, the dark will allow it to do its purifying work.  Which is normally not the case.  The church’s resistance to God’s Truth can make light-giving seem like a waste of time.  Jeremiah faced the same uphill climb in his day.  He complained to the Lord that the people wouldn’t listen to his warnings.  The Lord told him the same thing He has told others since,  “Warn them anyway.”

And so it goes in the spiritual war that God’s light bearers wage on the darkness that permeates professing Christendom.  Paul was right: “We do not fight against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph. 6:12).  These agents of Satan’s shadow government live in the air that surrounds us and, unless we take Paul’s advice given in the next verse, we will fall prey to them: “Wherefore, put on the whole armor of God so that you can withstand (their fiery darts) in the evil of the day, and having done all you can do, to stand (in victory over them).”  This applies to everyone–you, me–everyone.  NO ONE IS IMMUNE TO THEIR ATTACKS.  We must overcome them with God’s Word as did Jesus while being tempted by Satan (Mat. 4).  With the words: “It is written” He destroyed the devil’s temptations.  Jesus tells us that only those who defeat him will receive salvation upon His return to earth (Rev. 3:21).  Church people believe Satan’s lie that they are already saved and born again.  Therefore they reject these Biblical Truths to their peril.  Read Born Again and Hope and Salvation.  Key words–“Born” and “Hope” respectively.  L.J.