It is the pernicious nature of evil spiritual forces to seed the truth with lies. If the devil came as the proverbial horned creature with a pitchfork and tail, even normal secular people would trample each other, heading for the exits. Satan is about seduction, the honey lips and perfume that's really a whore, the cult leader or apostate preacher, truth out of one side of their mouths, lies out the other side, the sleight of hand that shifts the focus off Jesus Christ alone and things eternal. It's the leaven of sin and evil, mixed in the bread dough. The end result is to get you focused on self, or the cult organization with its rules, the carnal and temporal of the world, the doctrines of bondage, or living focused on this life and the flesh, as opposed to lifting up the name of the Lord Jesus and the kingdom of God, eternal life, living for His kingdom, not the kingdoms of the world. It's anything but to tell the truth of sin that damns and one way only, repentance and the narrow gate of the blood of Jesus Christ, the need to receive Christ as Lord and be baptized in the Holy Spirit that saves. This is what the devil doesn't want discussed in the world at large, in the pulpits or on your TV screen, and, by and large, he has the masses in a spiritual coma. The most crucial warfare is, in its entirety, spiritual.
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Proverbs 5:3-5 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
1 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 stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
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Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.
Romans 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.
Matthew 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Matthew 13:24-30 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
