The Rise of the False Gods is what I
initially thought of when in my meditation the other day. We are in a time
where we are seeing more and more “supernatural” things manifesting itself
before our very eyes and people are not noticing it. It is no coincidence that we are seeing more
and more “super human” hero style movies where someone or something is coming
from somewhere above coming down to earth to “save” mankind from some evil. The
premise is always the same; focusing on people with inhuman abilities coming
from afar or people being genetically modified and gifted with inhuman
abilities. We have “robots in disguise” looking to help us while making this
planet their “new home.” I just saw that Fox is coming out with a new
television series titled of all things “Lucifer.” The kicker is that Lucifer now
wants to do good and is tired of his evil ways, so he uses his powers to
actually help man. Who would have ever seen a show about Satan helping people
coming? Shows like Supernatural, The Messengers, Vampire Diaries, True Blood
and the lists goes on and on, are fed to us consistently with so much false
information that it is baffling yet people are tuned in religiously watching
these shows so enchanted by the show, not realizing that it is a glorification
of the demonic. I am not saying that you can’t watch these shows at all. You
can watch whatever you want to watch, but make sure you know the truth about
what you are watching. Make sure that you can see through the misguiding and
misleading message.
Look at the movies coming out and look at
the posters. A picture does “say a thousand words.” Is it a coincidence that they all have some
semblance? Look at the plots for these
movies and tell me what it sounds like to you. There is war in the heavens or
their home, which is a place above the earth. This war causes them much grief
and either destroys their home, takes them from their home in exile, or they
have to go between two realms never able to fully stay in one place for too
long. In Isa 14:12 we are given the
depiction of Lucifer being “cut down”
from heaven. In 2 Pet 2:4 “for God spared not the angels that sinned but cast them
down.” In the book of Jude 6 there
were angels that refused “their first
estate and left their own habitation.” The “war in heaven” was spoke of in Rev 12:7-13. In Ezekiel 28:13-19
although the King of Tyre is being given the message of judgement to come
because of his pride, The Holy Spirit opened my eyes to see not only was
imagery being used to tell the king, but that God was also using the prophet to
again tell Satan (the king of Tyre’s king) of his sentence and punishment. He
would be “cast down and destroyed.” There
are a few Hebrew words out of the many for cast
that I will share with you from the Strong’s Complete Dictionary of Bible
Words; gahar: prostrate
oneself––stretch oneself, duwach: cleanse––purge;
wash, dachah: to push down; totter
(shake or tremble) & zarah: to toss––diffuse. Because
Lucifer refused to cast (gahar) or prostrate/stretch
himself before Yahweh (God), he was
made to prostrate/stretch. God had to then cast (duwach) or clean house/evict him. Lucifer tried to rise up and God
cast (dachah) or pushed/shook him
down, casting (zarah) or tossing and
diffusing him.
The next glaring similarity to look at is
the fact that they always come under the guise of wanting to help us and save
us. That sounds a lot like Satan to me! 2
Corinthians 11:14 tells us that we shouldn’t be surprised because “Satan himself is transformed into an angel
of light.” They always are revealed to one person or a very small group of
people because it is safer if the multitude is not aware of them because of the
fear and panic it would cause. They usually disguise themselves among us just
wanting to blend in. If they are
here for our safety, why would they need to hide among us? Last time I checked,
it is Jesus (Yeshua) who saves! The Lord came down here putting on flesh,
living amongst us, teaching us, feeding us, healing us; etc. and not once did
He try to disguise Himself. He let it be known who He is and what His mission
was even as a 12 year old child (Luke
2:49). Jesus didn’t need to blend in because He had no reason to hide. Jesus
sole purpose for coming here was to save us, unlike the super heroes from other
places who had to “leave their own
habitations” (Jude 6). The losers are always the ones who are evicted,
exiled, kicked out from their habitation. Always remember that we are dealing
with losers literally when dealing with the demonic. Jesus chose to come, they
were made to come. With all of their abilities they are constantly having to
save/free people and their abilities are not even enough to where they have to
join up to fight and save/free the world. Jesus (God by himself) only had to save/free the world one time with his
redemptive work on The Cross “for whom the Son
sets free is free indeed” (John 8:36). We are saved from eternal
destruction through salvation.
This initiative has been implemented
years, centuries, and millennium ago. Satan started it by getting into not just
the Garden of Eden, but also the garden of Eve’s mind planting a seed of doubt
and false enlightenment that grew into disobedience that culminated the sin,
that once those doubt weeds grew around & strangled the roots that Elohim
(God) had planted in Adam’s mind. Adam lost control in the two gardens that God
gave him, Eden and Eve because he didn’t cultivate
them. It was not enough for him to name things and marvel as well as enjoy
the work that God had done, he was tasked with having dominion over what God
gave him. Instead he was too caught up in the work that God had done that he didn’t
take the time to do the work God had given him (cultivate). We must remember that God is God and He is doing
divine miraculous works, but he has given to us all cultivating tasks. The
enemy doesn’t mind us marveling at what God does and enjoying it if it keeps us
from doing what we are supposed to do which is the work that God gave us. That
seed of disobedience was Satan’s entrance in because it grew forth sin. What is
that saying? The number one demonic initiative is entrance through
disobedience. They can’t enter without a right and what gives them that rite of
passage is disobedience. When something is opened or done in a realm that you
have authority over, that means that you have authority over that thing. The
demonic are given authority in disobedience because that is the realm that they
function in and they prove it to us time and time again.
If the first initiative was to plant
disobedience to get sin in, then the next initiative would be to keep it strong
and healthy in us. Satan knew that all he had to do was get it in us and that
it would be there for life, but if something isn’t cultivated, it will weaken and die or in this case be dormant,
sleep mode; etc. How does this get cultivated you might ask? Through demonic
possession. Now when we usually think of possession we picture someone who has
no control and is vomiting, eyes hollowed out, 360 degree head spins climbing
walls; etc. Not all possessions are like that. Unclean spirits show possession
in different ways like mental disorder
(John 10:20), violent action (Luke 8:26-29),
bodily disease (Luke 13:11, 16) and rebellion
against God (throughout the Bible).
Let us look at Strong’s again to look at the word possession. Two Hebrew words
that I will use are achaz: to seize,
to hold back, and to handle and nachalah:
occupancy, heritage, inheritance. Unclean spirits take hold of us through entertainment (i.e. music, games,
television programming), trauma
(i.e. molestation, rape, death, abuse) and pride
(i.e. power, knowledge, goods) and occupy us because of our sin heritage
and inheritance passed down from Adam & Eve and through generational
curses. We inherited the poverty of sin and needed Jesus to provide an
inheritance that won’t rust or be stolen (Matt
6:19-20).
Entertainment has been used greatly
especially in these last days more and more as a tool for the demonic
initiative. The definition of entertainment means: agreeable occupation for the
mind; diversion; hospitable provision for the needs and wants of guests; obsolete
maintenance in service. When we partake in entertainment we are agreeing with
how it occupies our mind, causing a diversion from what is happening in real
life; allowing ourselves to host guests (spirits) thus rendering one completely
open because of worn down and imperfectly developed mental maintenance. I am
not saying that all entertainment is wrong, but we must really take inventory
of what/who’s we are hosting as guests in us. We must look at the various
things and see what it is diverting us from and whether we should let it occupy
our mind. We have to check and see if it is undermining and wearing down our
mental maintenance. Many of these things that are for entertainment fall in
line with the second demonic initiative which was to strengthen and keep the
unclean spirit fed and healthy in our lives. It’s just like a baby, we get on
schedule (program) to feed that spirit, the way a mother feeds her baby milk
based on what she consumes. Demons feed from their host as the host consumes
foolishness that the demon needs. The second initiative is to make it a
symbiotic relationship because the unclean spirits need you, which is why they
seize and are unwilling to let someone go. As long as someone stays in a sinful
lifestyle, relationship or behavior they cannot break free! Music is laden with
so much demonic presence that it is of epidemic proportions. We always look at
how music has tangled up our youths today but it has also affected us who are
older. Satan has stopped using all subtlety and has really come out with
letting it be known of his demonic presence within today’s music. They aren’t
talking about anything of substance that will help in music today. It is about
power, possessions and promiscuity with violence sprinkled in for added flavor.
I enjoy playing video games and I was actually shocked initially with many
things within these games that had nothing really to do with the game based on
“face value.” I literally saw how demons are able to attach themselves and
inhabit those unaware of what was happening through games, which many people
will buy for their children without knowing what they are inviting into their
child’s life. There are many video games with excessive demonic manifestations.
I’ve thrown away games that I never suspected would have blatantly incorporated
spiritual rituals and divinations in the games. Television programs speak for
itself. You are being programmed by whatever show is made for you. We need to
realize that these programs are made and formulated just for us, and why is
that? Who is trying to program you and for what end? God surely is not doing
this nor is He ordaining that for us, so again who is behind this and why?
Christians are not immune to the programming. Satan doesn’t just want who he
has, he also wants who he doesn’t have. There is a “Christian” version of
American Idol, there are “Christian reality shows” under the guise of showing
people Christianity that they can touch, but really showing foolishness that
brings about more confusion than light. Just because someone is a Christian
doesn’t mean that they cannot be a “host” to unclean spirits, especially in a
house of worship. In Luke 4:33-37, there was a man in
service with an unclean spirit/devil. The unclean spirits became afraid and
spoke out because they knew what was in store for them, and rightly so because
Jesus told them to be quiet and “come out.” We need to stop giving the demonic
initiative what it wants by unplugging the entertainment and plugging into God.
Plugging into Jesus helps us to evict guests that decided to stay and take
over.
