Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Deceptive Spirits•Demons

First Timothy 4 - But His Spirit says explicitly that, in the latter times, some will depart from the faith and will go after deceptive spirits and after the doctrine of demons. These will seduce by a false appearance and will speak a lie and will be seared in the conscience

Jude 1:3 ~ While I take all pains to write to you of our common life, it is needful for me to write to you, encouraging you to maintain a conflict for the faith which was once delivered to the Set Apart believers.

What does that mean, the faith once delivered, and why do we need to fight for it? Keep reading:

Jude 1:4 ~ For some have obtained entrance who, from the beginning, were registered beforehand under this condemnation: wicked men who pervert the grace of Yahweh our God to impurity and deny Him who is the only MarYah (Master Yahweh), and our Master, Yahshua the Anointed One.

Long before the days of Yahshua, wicked men had been infiltrating assemblies of Yah and continue to teach lies to this very day. It is up to us as Set Apart believers to remind folks of the faith that was delivered long before men began to pervert it. All religions have perverted the Word of our Creator to one degree or another.

1 John 4 ~ Do not believe all spirits, but discriminate among spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world...

It seems there is the Spiritual realm in which our Creator and His Host exist and there is the demonic realm where Satan and his minions operate.  We know Satan is the ruler of this world so it should be no surprise that his deceptive spirits are also active in day to day affairs.  Both the heavenly host and the evil spirits exist in the same spiritual realm, beyond our physical limitations.

Some people like to say the closer we get to God the more Satan attacks us and this just doesn't seem to be the case at all.  It is their own weakness and lack of trust in the God they say they believe and are close to that leaves them open to temptations.  It is their lack of faith which causes them to stumble and get caught in those traps and snares Satan has scattered among us.  Satan isn't doing anything different or anything new.  The closer we are to our Creator the further we are from Satan's tactics.



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