How successfully is Satan activities on earth?

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2ndTimeIsTheCharm

2ndTimeIsTheCharm

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hastrup said:
So painful that many people who THOUGHT they are obeying the voice of God are the ones missing it.

So pathetic that people like you are the ones that are easily gullible to Satan's temptations. How can you defeat an energy without knowing his antics and mode of operation.

Job suffer for long because he thought it was God who is tempting him. He never knows how the devil operates, probably his suffering would have been over way before he got relieved.

We healed in your name and cast out demons in your name are the lots of those who neglected the devil's devices thinking they are serving God's purpose but was surprised why they were rejected.

Listen to this, you must have obtained some reasonable degree of relationships with God before you can be able to cast out demons and do miraculous works. Their level of relationships with God does not guarantee their free passage into God's kingdom. And they never lied of healing in God's name, after all Jesus never said so

They were ignorance of God's purpose and what God wanted them to do for Him. Who made them ignorant? Who made them fail? Who made them believe they are on the right part? Think deeply before you start believing you stand.
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Job didn't need to focus on Satan and his work at all because that was never the point.

It was important to God that Job keep his focus on God and what God wanted him to learn and overcome in this crisis.

It was important to Job to try to understand why God allowed this in his life when he was so loyal and dedicated to the Lord.

So you see why neither focused on Satan and his work? He's just not important. If anything, he was just a tool to help Job grow in his walk and relationship with Lord.

You can focus on Satan all you want which isn't going to help much, but if people focus on the Lord, they will have a better perspective of Satan's schemes AND THE POWER TO OVERCOME THEM through Jesus Christ.


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hastrup said:
The score card of the devil over his activities on earth is mind blowing. Satan made sure no one could hit the pass mark of obeying God's laws throughout the old testament.

Not Moses who related with God on one on one basis or our most reverend father Abraham through whom we all are called into God's family.

it baffled me when people talk down on Satan as if he is an entity that has no important in our world. I'm not trying to magnify Satan activities but I am seriously concerned about the tremendous successes he had recorded by making sure their is no righteous man found on earth in Revelation 5.

This is a school for thought and I believe it's another strategy of the devil to find a dark hole to hide his activities to we humans.

Jude 1 : 9

Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
I began to wonder why our archangel did not accused the devil when I believe he had all it takes to do such. Is it because he never desire to pick an unneeded fight with an expert in the accuser of the brethren?

Revealation 12 : 12

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Kjv bible.

Wow, Heaven was relieved and rejoiced that Satan was cast out of their midst. That means something but to many Christian, it's nothing to think about. I believe it contributed to the successes Satan is enjoying still date. The more we are less concerned about his activities, the more we are ignorant of his activities in our lives.
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One of Satan's greatest accomplishments was hiding what really happened in the garden of Eden that led to Adam and Eve covering their private parts.
 
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2ndTimeIsTheCharm said:
Job didn't need to focus on Satan and his work at all because that was never the point.

It was important to God that Job keep his focus on God and what God wanted him to learn and overcome in this crisis.

It was important to Job to try to understand why God allowed this in his life when he was so loyal and dedicated to the Lord.

So you see why neither focused on Satan and his work? He's just not important. If anything, he was just a tool to help Job grow in his walk and relationship with Lord.

You can focus on Satan all you want which isn't going to help much, but if people focus on the Lord, they will have a better perspective of Satan's schemes AND THE POWER TO OVERCOME THEM through Jesus Christ.


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2 Corinthians 2 : 11

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

The Apostle said he isn't ignorance of the devil devices he never said they didn't care to know what Satan is doing but focusing on God. They understand all the pranks of the enemy

This isn't an issue for debate, I brought this topic up simply because many are ignorantly missing it but they believe God is directing them. Believe me or not, soo many people are on the wrong part, the bible testify to that when He said narrow is the way to eternal life and wide is the way to destruction.

What really borders me is this; many of these people heading for destruction are in our various churches. It isn't their will to be on this horrible way but lack of adequate knowledge happens to be the cause. How many of such people have you and i succeeded in saving? Let's agreed to it that you have been save genuinely, your main purpose now is to save others to the kingdom but how many were you able to seize out of Satan bondage before you call your self a true believer serving God's purpose. That question is for you.
 
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1 Corinthians 3:6-7 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God Who makes things grow.
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2ndTimeIsTheCharm

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hastrup said:
2 Corinthians 2 : 11

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

The Apostle said he isn't ignorance of the devil devices he never said they didn't care to know what Satan is doing but focusing on God. They understand all the pranks of the enemy

This isn't an issue for debate, I brought this topic up simply because many are ignorantly missing it but they believe God is directing them. Believe me or not, soo many people are on the wrong part, the bible testify to that when He said narrow is the way to eternal life and wide is the way to destruction.

What really borders me is this; many of these people heading for destruction are in our various churches. It isn't their will to be on this horrible way but lack of adequate knowledge happens to be the cause. How many of such people have you and i succeeded in saving? Let's agreed to it that you have been save genuinely, your main purpose now is to save others to the kingdom but how many were you able to seize out of Satan bondage before you call your self a true believer serving God's purpose. That question is for you.
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The reason why a person is misled is simply because they choose to believe the lie and not the truth:

2 Thessalonians 2:9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie

So if you love God's truth, you can avoid Satan's schemes ENTIRELY and not be misled. So the best way is to focus on God and love His truth. God will take care of the rest. If you just focus on Satan's schemes, it doesn't teach you how overcome them in the Lord, but focusing on God will.

This is what I urge people to do to protect themselves from false teaching.


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