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Should we "Stone" the Devil?"
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Prophet Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege - Cameroon
Friend:
Year in and year out we hear reports of people dying in their numbers, mayhem of sorts, as a religious organization (Islam) leads out its members for a macabre and make-belief exercise called "Stoning the devil."
The Islamists do not actually stone the devil:
They pebble the devil.
Christians BIND the devil every day!
Meaning that he was bound yesterday, the creature somehow got loose and we have to look for him and bind him again today and tomorrow!
This surely is madness!
How did the creepy fellow escape when we bound him the first time?
The other questions then arise:
What do you make of these make-belief (hence fake and false) religious rituals wherein members of some religions actually go out and "STONE" the devil?
Is there any gain (spiritual or otherwise) to be made from the physical act of stoning the devil or is this, again, a mere act of washing the outside of the cup?
Matthew 23:
The Lord Jesus speaking.
Mt 23: 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity
What does the Bible, the Word of God himself, say about our attitude when it comes to Lucifer and his demons?
Is it advisable for every Christ-ian to engage demons and Lucifer himself in physical and spiritual battle?
Well, let us look for answers to these questions from the Bible itself
Come with me to Jude, this one Chapter book of the Bible, from verse 6:
Jude 1: 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Let us expound on this for a minute, will you?
As short as Epistle unto Jude is it is packed with revelations.
From the above we learn this. That some of the fallen angels, i.e. those who joined Lucifer in rebelling against the Lord God, are so powerful that they can only be restrained in everlasting chains in the abyss until the final judgement. These can in no way come close to the Children of God.
Verse 7 to 11 has the essential warning to those the Word of God calls, "filthy dreamers" who "defile the flesh (of), despise the dominion of and speak evil of dignities." That is those who "stone the devil" as they pretend.
Believe it or not, they are under a curse!
They open themselves to being victims.
They open themselves to death!
The Word of God makes that very clear.
Verse 11: these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
They perish.
Pay attention.
Arch-angel Michael is the Captain of the Heavenly hosts.
That means that none of the angels and archangels, principalities, dominion, etc. can be like unto him for power and might and splendor and glory.
Yet.
Yet.
Arch-angel Michael showed a lot of deference to Lucifer when he confronted the devil at the funeral of Moses.
The Lord rebukes thee, is all Arch-angel Michael could muster before the one, who, Arch-angel Michael knew, has been his boss.
Why?
Why then do the puny men in Islam and the same puny men in Christ-ian churches create and indulge in these dangerous rituals thereby putting themselves in harm's way?
Ignorance, as stated by the passage above.
Our Authority and Our Hedge
Friend:
There are several verses of the Bible (Job, the Gadarene Madman) that shows us that Lucifer and his demons are not permitted to approach us (especially the born-again, regenerated Children of God), without permission.
The Book of Job teaches us that Satan is often unaware of the issues of our lives and depends on the Lord God to reveal some of those things to him.
And that Satan cannot touch us until the Lord God gives him permission for the Lord God has built a HEDGE around us and we are protected by the hedge and the angels on a daily bases.
See the Book of Job.
Job 1: 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. 12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
The Devil, Satan by name, is very much aware that the Lord God has built a hedge around and about every one of his children.
Reason why he cannot touch them.
He would know that, wouldn't he?
He has tried to get it many times and he has failed.
He has tried to touch us many times and failed.
Woefully.
The Bible account of the Mad Gadarene teaches us that the Devil and his demons even need authorization to enter swine.
Mt 8:31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
Mt 8:32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
Mr 5:11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
Unfortunately, oftentimes, we break our own hedge.
We say and do stupid things that put us at the mercy of Satan.
Casting out devils is an art, practiced and learned and following spiritual laws.
Read the bible.
The Lord Jesus taught us how to cast out devils by example.
Friend:
I am saying something:
If you break your hedge, a serpent or the devil will bite you.
This is a natural and divine law.
Ec 10:8 He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Ps 91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
The Lord God has indeed put angels to keep guard over us. That does not mean that we must do stupid things like falling from the top of high buildings just to prove to ourselves and the Tempter that we can.
That does not mean we should indulge in stoning demons and devils because we thing we can.
The Lord Jesus masterfully taught us in the Temptation that it is not because the Lord God has given angels to watch over us that we should go falling off tall buildings. This is putting the Lord God to the test which test he is not interested in. So it is that the devil himself deceives many to indulge in such things so that the victims can transgress the word of God and open themselves to danger and death.
Mt 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Lu 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: (KJV)
By the way, who told members of a religion that is either totally ignorant of or repudiates the very existence of the Holy Spirit and the dunamiv (dynamic power to cause changes) inherent in the Holy Spirit that they were equipped to take on the devil?
The things of God are given to the children of God, not unto the gods and the hogs.
These are the Last Days or the End Times of Eschatology.
Times when religion, organized religion, churchianity will be misconstrued for godliness.
Read Matthew 23 and 24.
The Bible admonishes believers to FLEE religion (rituals) and its activities that seem to be godly but have no power and are completely powerless before the Lord God.
2Ti 3: 1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Friend:
The battle against Lucifer is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
He is committed to make the devil and his demons our footstool.
If only we would sit still.
Heb 1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?
It is ordained for the Lord God to bruise Satan under our feet…shortly.
Ro 16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Until that happens, prudence demands that we bask in the powerful seal and strength of the Lord God over our lives than indulge in gainsaying rituals that add nada value to our spirituality and instead puts us in danger.
Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Christ appears in your life right here, right now: one nanosecond after you believe and confess that Jesus is Lord.
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