THE ARMOR OF GOD

Throughout history, mankind has bled, suffered, and died to preserve peace and goodwill. The night the angels announced the birth of Jesus they said what most people want, Peace on earth and goodwill toward men.   Then what is wrong? Why is war threatened despite the natural desires of peoples?"  Just this past week a Russian analyst said we will be in a world war in the next four weeks.  Is this the message we want to hear?

 It is indeed confusing that while the natural desire of most people is to live in peace, there are others who almost habitually seem to hate and kill one another-and with a brutality beyond comprehension. Consider the cold-blooded excesses in evil cruelty which man has performed upon his fellow man during the last hundred years alone. Mankind has used gas chambers, concentration camps, flame-throwers, nuclear weapons, napalm bombs, viruses and a multitude of other evil means and methods to torture and slaughter one another without mercy.

 I personally do not believe that human beings, who in the majority, long for peace and happiness, are capable in themselves of such gross wickedness. What force drives men to such vile deeds, or maneuvers them into situations, where they feel compelled to commit such brutalities?  Could it be there are spiritual forces influencing this behavior?

I believe I would be correct in saying that many conservative Christians believe there is a spiritual conflict between God and Satan. Those who do not have a spiritual connection to Christianity may think that there is a hidden force of evil spread worldwide. If you feel this is taking place, you are not alone. The Apostle Paul warned us that there was a spiritual conflict taking place all around us.

 

 For we wrestle not 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

 

Many of the world's most outstanding scholars, and philosophers understood the world to be multi-dimensional and co-inhabited by non-physical beings, both good and evil, constantly at war with us and each other.

 

To try and explain this spiritual conflict with language or science is complicated. The natural man cannot understand spiritual things. Again, Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:14 explains that people who do not have God's Spirit do not accept the things that come from his Spirit. They think these things are foolish. They cannot understand them because they can only be understood with the Spirit's help.

 

Would you be surprised then to discover that nowhere does the Bible say that Jesus Christ is the real ruler of this world. On the contrary, the scriptures record Jesus as having said: "The ruler of this world will be cast out." And he added: "The ruler of the world is coming, and he has no hold on me."-John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11.

For Bible believing Christians there is no need to guess who the ruler of this world is,  the Bible clearly tells us that an intelligent, unseen being, has been controlling both men and nations since the very dawn of humanity. It says: "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." And the Bible identifies him, saying: "The one called Devil and Satan is misleading the entire inhabited earth."-1 John 5:19; Revelation 12:9.

 If you recall in the temptation of Jesus when he was told by Satan to bow down and he would give him control of the world, he did not question Satan’s role as the world leader.

"The Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, and he said to him: 'All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me.' Then Jesus said to him: "Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve!"-Matthew 4:1, 8-10.

 Jesus did not deny that all these worldly governments were Satan's, which he would have done if Satan had not had power over them. So, then, Satan/Lucifer/the Devil really is the unseen ruler of the world! The Bible, in fact, calls him  ^“The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." (2 Corinthians 4:4)

So, if Satan is the ruler of the world, how does he influence men to carry out acts of evil?

2 Thess 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall NOT come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Now what temple do you suppose the Lord was speaking of in that verse?

In Old Testament times, God’s temple was in Jerusalem, but this epistle is to the Thessalonian church which began after the Paul preached there.  And where is the temple of God during this Christian Period?

One area of Church doctrine that is often overlooked is that man is made up of soul and Spirit, and the body is to be the temple of God.

 

1 Corinthians 3:16-17

 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are.

 

1 Corinthians 6:15-20 

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "The two shall become one flesh." But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one Spirit with Him.

 

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

 

Ephesians 2:19-22 

So, then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord.

 

1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

 

If God then dwells in redeemed man sitting on the throne of man’s heart, then it is true that Satan sits on the throne of man’s heart of those who are not redeemed.

To sit in the temple of God shows us that the “man of sin” is not a human being, but a spirit! Only a spirit being can take his seat in the human heart.

Our bodies are still the New Testament temple of the Holy Spirit.  Either it is the Holy Spirit on the throne, or it is the Man of Sin.

 

As spiritual and physical beings created by God, we are made aware of this spiritual conflict. God has given us the power to fight against the evil forces of Satan. To be conscious of these forces was to have the ability to reject and defeat them. To remain unconscious of them was to be tossed about, and spiritual development is key to creating a conscious awareness of them.

 

The spiritual conflict has existed before the creation of man. Satan has been at war with God since he led the revolt to make himself god. The spirits of darkness have been among us from the day Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden.  

In order to understand how this evil entity achieved his power over mankind, we need to carefully, and with an open mind, examine the Biblical account.

 We are told in the book of Genesis that the one who became Satan had originally been an angel created by God, but that he became envious and rebelled, challenging God's ascendency over all creation. Genesis then tells us that he used a serpent as a mouthpiece to deceive the first woman, Eve, and was able to get  Adam, to do his bidding rather than obey God. (Genesis 3:1-6; 2 Corinthians 11:3) He also claimed he could turn all of Adam and Eve's yet unborn offspring away from God.

 Satan is not alone in his worldly dominion. He was successful in persuading some of the other angels to join him in rebellion against God. These are the Angels and `Sons of God` mentioned in the below verses:

 "And the great dragon was cast out, that old `serpent,` called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: He was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him." Revelation 12:9

 "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. The Nephilim were upon the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." Gen. 6:1-7.

 The Bible speaks of these `Fallen Angels` when it urges Christians to: "Stand firm against the conspiracies of the Devil; because we are wrestling, not against blood and flesh, but . . . against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places."-Ephesians 6:11, 12.

During Noah's days, evil had gained so much power that God brought judgment on the Earth and destroyed all humanity save the eight people of Noah's family. Jesus warned us that as it was in the days of Noah, it would be the same in the end times. The powers of darkness were so powerful that their influence is still felt today.  

 

According to Enoch, the fallen angels who turned the heart of man away from God were bound in chains of darkness for 70 generations. At the end of the 70 generations, they were to be released to deceive the nations. My math may be off a few years, but the 70 generations would be around 1900, give or take a few years. One writer in the early 1900s wrote, "The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard to realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are present." 

 

There are evil spirits that feed on anger, anxiety, fear, superstition, despair, and lies. Those who have learned the importance of God's armor and the armor of Light have immunity to the influences of these spiritual beings. If we do not have the armor of God, we will fall unconsciously under the influence of these evil spirits. Evil feeds on evil. The works of evil are found in Paul's letter to the Church at Galatia. The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: committing sexual sin, being morally wrong, doing all kinds of shameful things, worshiping false gods, taking part in witchcraft, hating people, causing trouble, being jealous, angry, or selfish, causing people to argue and divide into separate groups, being filled with envy, getting drunk, having wild parties, and doing other things like this. I warn you now as I warned you before: The people who do these things will not have a part in God's kingdom. 

 

Keep this in mind everything that feeds off of evil promotes global fear, anxiety, and panic. We allow ourselves to be controlled by the forces of evil when we accept lies and fear. The feelings that belong to our contemporary culture and materialism estrange people from the spiritual world. It is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby giving power to the evil forces. In the past year, global fear, anxiety, and panic over the present so-called pandemic has exposed the spiritual sicknesses in the world and given consent to the works of darkness to blind the eye to the power God has given us.   

 

In Genesis chapter six, evil forces changed man's DNA creating a race of unredeemable beings. God seals man's DNA and stopped this from happening; however, since the Fallen Angels have been released, they again have taught man how to circumvent God's creation. 

 

Just as the Holy Spirit teaches us, inspires us, and guides us in all ways of Truth, the evil spirits teach, inspire, and guide mankind in all ways of evil.

 

We read the account in the Book of Enoch.

 

6. Thou seest what Azâzêl hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on Earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in heaven, which men were striving to learn: 7. And Semjâzâ, to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates. 8. And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the Earth, have slept with the women, have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. 9. And the women have borne giants, and the whole Earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. 10. And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are wrought on the Earth.  

 

This is what is happening right now in heaven. Rev. 6:9-11

 

9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth? 11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

 

The mercy of God had reached its limit.

 

 11. And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjâzâ and his associates who have united themselves with women to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. 12. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the Earth, till the day of their judgment and their consummation, till the judgment that is forever and ever is consummated.

 

We read of their final judgment in Rev. 19; 20

 

9 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. 19

 

 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. 20

 

Enoch continues to explain what will happen.

 

 13. In those days, they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: 〈and〉 to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined forever. And whosoever shall be condemned and destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end of all generations. 15. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers because they have wronged mankind. Destroy all wrong from the face of the Earth and let every evil work come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear: ⌈and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth⌉ shall be planted in truth and joy forevermore.

 

Satan understands his time is short, and he will do all he can to destroy the creation of God. He will once again try to defeat the LORD and set up his kingdom on Earth. This is the Synagogue of Satan that Jesus spoke about to John in the Book of Revelation.  This is the first time we are told of a group of people who claim to be Jews but are not.  These are people controlled by evil spirits who seek to control you.  The Man of Sin- Satan sit in the temple of their hearts controlling them to do evil.

 

With the fallen angels' release, they are carrying out the will of Satan, teaching men evil and wickedness. For thousands of, years no new technology was discovered; then, in the early 1900s and by the 1940s, there was a boom in technology. Today it is unbelievable what man has accomplished. As many have made a claim, man has become his own God.

 

Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months. But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months.  According to IBM, the build out of  the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours.

 

One area of knowledge that has increased is in DNA.  DNA is the building block of all creation.

 

The discovery of DNA occurred in 1869 by Swiss-born biochemist Fredrich Miescher (Me-sure), and it took more than 80 years for its importance to be fully realized. And even today, more than 150 years after it was first discovered, research and technology continue to mess with God's creation. 

 

January 26, 2017. A DNA sequence code critical to our understanding of how human genes are turned on and off has just been unlocked by a team of scientists. Molecular biologists refer to this code as the "human initiator." Ever since it was first observed back in the 80s, the human initiator was believed to play a significant role in gene activation, given that it commonly occurs at the start sites of genes.

 

Since then, numerous attempts were made to sequence the elusive code—but none were able to do so successfully until today when scientists from the University of California – San Diego could confirm the code responsible for initiating transcription and regulation of more than half of human genes.

 

Satan tried once to pollute the bloodline to prevent Christ from being born. Today, Satan is changing the genetic code of man to destroy the very creation that God loves. Keep this in mind those who control the DNA control the future of humanity.  

 

 Humanity, in general, is asleep because fallen spirits, cast from the spiritual world, have become intensely active on Earth. This manifested mainly in human thinking and perception of the surrounding world.

As I said earlier, Satan's time is short, and he is doing all he can to destroy God's creation and bring humanity into submission.  He has been working in the hearts of those who serve him, the Synagogue of Satan.  These minions of evil are few and want us to believe they have our interest at heart.  For years they have remained hidden, and that is where their strength lies.  They have been masquerading as Jews, but they are not. They have inspired every war, conflict, government collapse and have committed unimaginable atrocities.

They sent men, women, and children to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. They are still with us today, wielding more power than ever before, conducting false flag operations against those who mistakenly consider them as `protectors.` It is they who are behind the slaughter in the Middle East, and behind the manipulated global financial crisis, the so-called pandemic and the overthrow of our government.

 Still, they heap the guilt for their crimes against humanity, upon specific races or nations, by appearing to be Italian or German, Chicom or Japanese, black or white, Russian or American, Muslim or Jew, thereby escaping human justice, but surely not the divine retribution due them. Using their divide and conquer strategy, they set brother against brother, wives against husbands, children against parents, and then when they are ready, they will unleash their final global holocaust. This has been the deadly game they have played against humanity since the beginning of time.

 But now, as their conspiracy concludes, they are ever more forced to raise their heads above the ramparts, and more and more people are beginning to recognize them. It isn't that difficult. Just ask who benefits.  Or follow the money and the clouds of confusion lift quickly enough.  Will we win the battle against these evil forces.  No.  However, with the return of the LORD, the war will be won by the King of kings and the LORD of lords.  The question is, who controls you?

The fall into such destructive slumber is marked by the age of materialism and centralization of power, during which the influences of 'spirits of darkness' inspire humans to devise new technologies and new means of oppression. 

 

Evil spirits of darkness will inspire their human hosts, in whom they will be dwelling, to find a way to blind the eyes of people's souls from the message of salvation. 

Let me end with this- the release of the fallen angels from the valleys of the earth has taken place.  These evil spirits are among us today.  They have served Satan and have inspired, influenced, and manipulated members of Satan's Synagogue who have corrupted the world with evil. Today, we find them holding the positions of power, in Church and State, as the prime movers in matters of war and global finance, controlling the world's monetary systems, determining the policies of world government that govern humanity's actual fate. They exercise excessive control over society by depopulation agendas and genetic engineering, the control of energy and commodities, education and the media, and ideological and psycho-political strategies to divide and rule on all fronts.

 They manipulate the planet's food supply to achieve strategic objectives. Their utter disdain for humanity is becoming ever more apparent with each passing day. They seem to regard us as little more than beasts to do their bidding. Even though we outnumber them by millions, they contain us by the control and regulation of the necessities of life, population control through wars, abortions, and many other means.

 So why do we stand idly by and let them feed their alcohol and drugs to our youth? Why are we allowing them to destroy our economies and our nations before our children ever have the chance to live their lives to the fullest course in what should be a good life? Our pathetic condition of apathy, non-awareness, and non-involvement has allowed them to get away with murder on a gigantic scale for centuries. By our irresponsibility and inaction, they have turned the streets of our cities into `no go` areas, where people fear for their lives and those of their loved ones. We have allowed their creation of a legal system that releases murderers, rapists, and pedophiles back onto the streets to repeat their vile deeds over and over again.

 Yet, we stick our heads in the sand and deny what is happening around us.  We can call those who have their eyes open conspiracy theorists and laugh about their paranoid warnings.  Right now, every day in the news, these minions of Satan are in our face bringing about the destruction of all that God loves.  This is Satan's last chance to take total control of planet earth.  To do this, he must destroy every trance of a Holy and Righteous God.  He must bring about the death of everyone who serves Jesus Christ.  He is doing this right now with those who serve him, and you ask how do we recognize them? Well,  Jesus said: "By their fruits, you will know them."

 So just pick up a `news` paper, turn on the prime-time news, and wherever you see so-called `leaders of nations` justifying wars of aggression, mass slaughter, lies, deception, vice, atrocity, perversion, along with barefaced lies about overpopulation, climate change and a multitude of measures all designed to take away more of your personal liberty, all justified on the baseless grounds of National and or Global Security; That's them!

Again, if you have felt at all like you are in a spiritual war, you are not alone.  The question is who controls you?  Have you put on the armor of God for this conflict?  Whose side are you on?