God has given the Ten Commandments so that those who seek the way back to the kingdom may have a roadmap and guidance. But look, Lucifer has been corrupting the Ten-C. He has been contaminating, distorting and messing up our knowledge and understanding of God’s instructions. The motive was to frustrate obedience, to spite God.
Lucifer is the ruler of the evil empire in the spiritual realm. He is dedicated to frustrate God’s plans and make them fail.
Scripture refers to him as the enormous red dragon (Revelation 12:3), the ancient serpent who tempted Eve (verse 9), the devil meaning slanderer (verse 9), the prince of this world (John 14:30), and the ruler of the kingdom of the air (Ephesians 2:2). The descriptive nouns adversary, opposition, tempter and enemy of God’s people are an allusion to him.
The world popularly calls him Satan but it’s not his real name; his fellow demons call him “Chitanam.” Here is an occult secret: Lucifer does not really feel alluded to when called Satan. The evil empire has seven levels. Its fourth level (the astral kingdom) is governed by “Lord Naga” and his assistant “King Elam” whose other name is “Sat An.” Whenever the name Satan is invoked, Lucifer is not the demonic spirit who appears or manifests but Elam. (Occult Grand Master Now In Christ)
For the sake of truth and to clear the air of disinformation, we shall call him Lucifer whenever reference is made of the devil or the biblical Satan.
He used to be the chief archangel, vice regent to God, second highest authority in all creation in pre-Adamic times.
12 You were a model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. 14 You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. 15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. EZEKIEL 28
Lucifer was not contented to be with God. He wanted to supplant God and be worshiped as God.
13 I will ascend to heaven. I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the Mount of Assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High. ISAIAH 14
Five times Lucifer said “I will!” in his heart. The time came when he led a rebellion to dethrone God and usurp His sovereignty.
3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky [He enjoined a third of God’s angels, cherubims, seraphims, etc. to his cause]… 7 And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels [later called demons] fought back. 8 But as he was not strong enough, they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Lucifer—who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. REVELATION 12
12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! ISAIAH 14
Lucifer has been “cast down to the earth”. Man (who chose to be with Lucifer) was banished to be with him.
Now, Lucifer knows about the great hope of God in man. He is opposed to restoration. He has stolen man away from God. He will not allow man to be reconciled with God.
8 As no man is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it. ECCLESIASTES 8
Tier No. 1: Stop the man from learning God’s Instructions.
Stop him physically: this is the first satanic methodology. Exhaust him. Make him sleepy. Make him lazy. Make him feel lethargic or sick. Bar his movements. Make him surf the internet or watch TV. Bombard him with fact-knowledge and propaganda. Make him engrossed in reading tons of “untold secrets.” Give him a job promotion to keep him busy. Give him an out-of-town assignment. Invite him to an irresistible money-making opportunity or to a party or romantic date. Send someone to beg for his immediate attention. Prevent him from having fare money or available ride to get to Bible class. Cause the teacher to be absent. Let there be no light.
Disturb the man mentally or emotionally: this is the second methodology. Wake him up on the wrong side of the bed. Feed him with bad news. Make him impatient and short-tempered. Upset him. Anger him. Haunt him with remorse. Make him feel unworthy of being a child of God. Make him find fault in the Bible teacher or the study venue or his classmates. Give him a book or white paper that says the Ten-C are passé (no longer relevant and fashionable) and that no one has to study or obey them anymore. Put him in a difficult and lonely situation where he would wallow in self-pity and doubt his relationship with God.
Tier No. 2: Distort knowledge & understanding.
If the man cannot be stopped from learning God’s instructions, sow disinformation. Send him westward if the road to heaven goes east. Teach half-truths. Do not let him see the whole picture. This way he gets to obey some and disobey some. Introduce false teachings and practices. Use the people he trusts (his family, pastor, close friend, lover, school teacher, work supervisor) to do it. Make him taste sinful meals and keep him busy with being addicted to them. Make him believe that it doesn’t hurt to disobey God’s instructions.
So many churches are sowing disinformation. Lucifer loves it!
His evil empire is all over the place conditioning our minds. Pick up a newspaper and prove this to yourself. What’s in the news? Not the exception but the rule. That it pays to be corrupt, right? That lawlessness is a shortcut to success. That only a few lawbreakers (usually only the careless and the small pry) are jailed. What’s the editorial? Paid hacks turning the table on the righteous and the law-abiding, softening our resistance to wicked enterprises, diverting our attention away from the evil their clients do. What’s in the society page? That it pays to be rich and famous. What’s in fashion? What’s the ad? Sex and getting sexy… self-worship, vanity, worldly attachments… One ad says it all: “Stop being conservative. Indulge! Be sinful! Everybody else is doing it.”
Listen to music and you will be fed with subliminal messages. Read a paperback, watch TV, take a stroll, sit at the park, go to work or school or church—and the evil empire is there.
Look at the signs of the times:
We now have home theaters that allow us to watch horror films (to sow fear of Lucifer and his demons), violent films (to show easy ways to kill and maim a fellowman), and sex films (to arouse impure desires) at home comfort and leisure. Cocaine, shabu, marijuana and other mind-altering substances are now peddled openly. Its users find it harder and harder to get up and keep going in the direction they need to go. And they become susceptible to demon-possession and committing a crime (eg. rape, child abuse, wife-beating, homicide, suicide).
Rebecca Brown said, “Ancient demon gods are being dug up, carefully restored, and placed in positions of honor. Governments even put up museums for them. Cute figurines of Buddha, dragon gods, fertility gods and other gods are being displayed in homes and offices, and sold along with t-shirts, rugs, wall decors and paintings (even coffee mugs) that have demonic designs in them.” (Unbroken Curses, p. 13)
Though the United States claims to be a Christian nation, isn’t it really the sex idols of the magazines and movies, the sports heroes and music stars, and the industries promoting the consumption of alcohol, cigarettes, and food in gluttonous proportion that rule as gods over its society? (Truth That Matters, p. 3)
Charles Colson added, “School prayer is being banned. Cases have been sought to banish the Ten-C from children’s classrooms, crèches from town greens, and Bible studies from public schools and private homes. Values hostile to Christianity are perpetuated with impunity in a so-called “value-neutral” environment… High-school students in Decatur, Georgia, were informed that they could not wear their Fellowship of Christian Athletes t-shirts to school (although satanic t-shirts were ok).” (The God of Stones and Spiders, pp. xi-xii, 55)
And what has become of us? We have been so used to Lucifer blowing cigar-smoke at our faces that we think something is wrong whenever the smoke is not there.
Tier No. 3: Teach disobedience.
This strategy of Lucifer is three-pronged:
Prong No. 1: Teach that the Ten-C are passé and obeying them is empty legalism.
What can happen if the Ten-C are removed from us?
Where there is no moral law, there is no law of decency to break. People are free to function without restraints. (The Ten Commandments Twice Removed, p. 15)
The most notorious example occurred in the eighteenth-century French Revolution. France, by action of her legislature, rejected God’s existence, thereby rejecting His Law. With no moral law to govern them by saying, “You shall not murder”, the people soon turned on each other. The end result was “The Reign of Terror” in which thousands of France’s sons and daughters, including the king himself, spilled their blood on the guillotine. And all this was due to the senseless decision of men and women to throw off the supposed binding restraints of God’s moral code. (Truth That Matters, p. 2)
Prong No. 2: Make the man believe that 100% obedience is not doable.
So many people, even among the clergy, subscribe to this belief. They commit sin and justify their action by saying, “Man is inherently weak in the flesh.” That is actually a confession that the demons dominate their spirits and they are not Spirit-capable to resist the demonic promptings. St. Paul observed this in him:
18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For what I do is not the good that I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. ROMANS 7
14 The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 CORINTHIANS 2
5 For those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires… 7 The sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s Law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. ROMANS 8
Doability?
6 With man this is impossible. But with God all things are possible. MATTHEW 19
For the undoable to become doable, the man must desire to do the undoable, which in this instance is to obey God’s instructions 100%. He must submit to water baptism and receive its two gifts: Spirit-indwelling and empowerment.
11 [Come] to the Messiah [and] He [will] set you free from your evil desires, not by a bodily operation of circumcision but by a spiritual operation, the baptism of your souls. COLOSSIANS 2
7 Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. JAMES 4
10 Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. EPHESIANS 6
Prong No. 3: Teach the man to obey Nine or less.
In the Scripture Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:1-21 are marked “Ten Commandments” and yet only nine are listed. Lucifer loves it!
Anyone who does not know any better would likely accept the toned-down version as Gospel truth and live by it. He would believe he is obeying Ten when in fact he is obeying Nine. For all his strive, he is likely to dishonor an instruction of God that he is unaware of and stay barred from heaven.
5 For of this you can be sure: No impure person… has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God. EPHESIANS 5
The churches spoon-feeding their members with different versions of the Ten-C or teaching that there is no more need to obey the Ten-C means Lucifer is succeeding in his disinformation campaign. Now isn’t it a tragic irony when the very people we trust for life are the very ones leading us to the Second Death?
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