tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81019263844835477442024-03-27T17:20:35.152-07:00The Throne of SatanThis Article is Part I of III.
(The introduction to this three part series is located at http://pearl-anillustration.blogspot.com )
This Part I highlights the hidden power Satan is asserting against the only real threat to his Rule...the sealing of the last Chosen Ones.
Part II will highlight the timing of the "signs" of the end.
Part III will highlight the spiritual interpretation of those "signs".Pearl Doxseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281232149590681155noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101926384483547744.post-5693395513466515122012-05-19T06:25:00.106-07:002023-03-10T05:36:00.203-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<u style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Please prepare for this article, by reading:</span></b></u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Who of us need to be told that Satan's greatest desire is to be worshiped? The worship he salivates most for, is the worship of Yhvh's Nation (1Pet. 2:9,10; Luke 22:31; 1Pet. 5:8; 2Cor. 2:11; 11:3,14; Rev.12:17). Satan's vicious appetite craves them, especially (Eph.6:12; 2Cor. 10:3,4,5; Rev.12:15; 16:13,14,15; 17:14; 19:11,14,8; 6:9,11; 12:10,11). </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">How might the King of Deception strategize to accomplish his goal of stealing the worship due Yhvh, and sifting / sorting (tribulating) the Chosen Ones? The following illustration may help. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">In order to control the beliefs and actions of the Chosen, Satan would need to use all his worldly authority and power (1John 5:19; Luke 4:5-6) to </span><i style="color: #6aa84f;">deceive</i><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> these ones into worshiping him. These would not do so intentionally, so they must be deceived into believing that they were worshiping God himself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">This would require Satan to fabricate a counterfeit kingdom, with counterfeit representatives of that kingdom (Matt.7:15; 24:24-25). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">In order to be convincing, that counterfeit kingdom would need to appear to have all it's structure and followers seeming to be worshiping God according to the requirement of "spirit and truth" (John 4:24). It would need to appear that Christ were heading it (Eph.5:23,26; 1:21-23; 1Cor. 12:27,28; Col.1:18). For, those anointed with holy spirit, would accept nothing less. Yet, it can happen (Col.2:19; John 15:4,6; 2Cor. 11:3-4,12-13,20; Rev.2:20,5).</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Satan would need to set up a fresh religion...."new and improved" in comparison to his legacy of brutality and persecution. That past spirit of dominance would need convincing </span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">camouflage</span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">. In order to be convincing, he would not only need a convincing counterfeit...he would also need to establish a sort of "whipping boy", to fulfill the prophecies about the Bible's foretold counterfeits, so that familiarity with those prophesies, would already seem fulfilled in some other way. Yes, a counterfeit to fulfill the foretold counterfeits. Otherwise the counterfeit of the genuine would remain suspect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Yes, Satan would need to create a religion which is set apart from previous inferior "Christianities", in order to present it as fulfilling the prophecies which genuinely pertain to the genuine arrival of God's Kingdom. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Confused?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Please consider this illustration...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Imagine that Satan wishes to steer the obedience and worship of the Chosen, to him. After gaining their trust and a degree of control, he wants to drown the Chosen in deep waters far from shore (Heb.2:1). First he must convince them to get on to a "ship" of faith, which he will later sink in a sea of lies (1Tim. 1:19). The ship must appear solid, safe, and unsinkable. History contains the reality of such an illustration.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">The massive crowd of people claiming to be genuine worshipers of Yhvh around the world, can be compared to the Titanic. Deceived into boarding this ship, the majority of Chosen ones today are found within that Organization. It is a huge ship, which takes time to turn or hault. In order to change it's heading, it must make turns gradually. It must have a captain and crew under Satanic influence. Satan knows that turning the worship of God's people away from God, and toward him, will need to be done gradually in order not to provoke awareness of the changed direction, or to cause alarm. This stealthy tactic will aid in a smooth transition which few can discern. Once the gradual turn is made and the heading changed, such a huge momentum would be difficult and timely to halt.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Very gradually over the years; The Watchtower has been gradually turning the worship of "Jehovah's Witnesses", away from Yhvh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"> -for explanation, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"> see <a href="https://pearl-666.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://pearl-666.blogspot.com/</a> )</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">How? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">By <i>gradually</i> turning the Flock's obedience toward it's leaders and congregational representatives, and away from scripture. Should God's named people obey the doctrine's and directions of men, as equal to inspired scripture...or as greater than the authority of God's Word? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Should they trust without testing and, if necessary, defend scriptural directives?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">If they do that, then Satan will have accomplished the prize he seeks. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">This occurs when people stop testing what they are being offered (1John 4:1; 1Thess. 5:21), because they make assumptions about the source (Matt.24:4,5,24,25; 7:15; Luke 12:42). Jesus told us to test out the source of what we are offered (Matt.7:20). If we don't, we <i>will</i> be mislead.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Constant comparison to scripture, is what guides the genuine Christian. This testing must never end, nor can one afford to grow complacent...sleepy...assuming......letting down his guard in this matter (Luke 21:36,34-35; Matt.24:43; John 10:10).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">God's Word of light, life and truth, must be what guides the genuine Christian.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">If people obey <i>any</i> men, even those "taking the lead", before obeying scripture; this constitutes idolatry and spiritual captivity to slavery. Whoever we obey, we are their slave (Rom.6:16). Only God is to be served and obeyed (Matt.4:10; Acts 5:29; 4:19; Rom.3:4; Col.3:24).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">If such men and their decrees are followed without question, the scriptures become impotent to direct God's people. Satan could then smoothly divert obedience toward him and his representatives, and away from what the scriptures actually say.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">What do the scriptures actually say?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">"Do not put your trust in Nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs." Psalm 146:3</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">"There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man Christ Jesus" 1Tim. 2:5</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">"There is no salvation in anyone else, for there is not another name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must get saved." Acts 4:12</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">"Do you not know that if you keep presenting yourselves to anyone as slaves to obey him, your are slaves of him because you obey him" Romans 6:16</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">"You were bought with a price. Stop becoming slaves of men" 1Cor. 7:23</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">"Slave for the Master, Christ" Col.3:24</span><div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Clearly, if we obey men in place of obeying Christ, we are serving the will of Satan, who wishes to turn us away from obedience due the Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">We cannot afford to assume which prophets are faithful. We must keep testing by God's Word. We must not be intimidated by a showy display of power or authority (1Cor. 4:7-8; Rev.9:3,10), into subjecting ourselves to men...no matter what silent threat they brandish (John 9:22; 12:42; 16:2; Luke 21:12-13-14,15; Rev.6:9; 11:7; Matt.10:26; 2Pet. 3:10).</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">"But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent seduced Eve by it's cunning, your minds might be corrupted away from the sincerity and the chastity that are due the Christ." 2Cor. 11:3</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Brandishing power and authority, is not the way, nor the appearance, of the genuine faithful and discreet slave.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(2Cor. 4:1-3,4-6,7-9,10-12; 1Cor. 4:9-10,11-12,13)<br /><br />Watchtower study articles, contain such cunning. Open your eyes wide for it, and do not be "corrupted away" toward the slaving and obedience to men rather than purity for Christ, the Father, and His Word.<br /><br />Was a premature arrival of God's kingdom prophesied?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Keep in mind 2Thess. 2:1-4....</span><br />"Now, brethren, <b>concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him</b>, <b>we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind</b> or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter,<b> <u>as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.</u> </b>3 <b><u>Let no one deceive you</u></b> by any means; for <b>that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first</b>, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">"the man of lawlessness...son of destruction...He lifts himself up over everyone who is a god**...an object of reverence </span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"> [Chosen Ones </span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">(Psalm 82:1,6; John 10:34-35; </span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"> Ex.7:1; 4:16,15; Matt.10:20)]</span></span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">,...he sits down in the temple </span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"> of <i>The</i> God (Yhvh's temple priests - 1Cor. 3:16)...</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"> showing himself to be a god." (Eze.28:2,9)</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"> (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/07/seven-spiritsscrollsdistinction.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/07/seven-spiritsscrollsdistinction.html</a>)</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"> (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/01/who-are-gods.html)" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/01/who-are-gods.html)</a>**</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">By being named the "son of destruction" as Judas was </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"> (an apostle used to betray Christ </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"> over to the religious leaders </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"> and into his death (John 17:12), </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">this one would be an "inside man", </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">used by Satan to dominate and trample the chosen ones </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">in the time of the end (Acts 20:30; 1Tim. 4:1; Rev.16:14,13,15). </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">In Rev. chapters 8&9, it speaks of an anointed one, "a <b><u>star</u></b> <i>shining</i> as a <i>great</i> lamp" (Rev.1:20,16; Phil.2:15; Dan.12:3-4; Rev.1:20; Zech.4:2; Matt.5:14; Rev.1:12; 2:1), who is given the key to Satan's abyss of deception (Rev.9:1; 13:15; 19:20). </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/08/who-has-key-to-abyss.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/08/who-has-key-to-abyss.html</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">That false prophet is a <i>fallen</i> "star" (Rev.8:10-11; 2Pet. 3:17; Rev.2:5; 1Cor. 10:12; Mark 13:25; Isa.34:4; Matt.24:29; Rev.6:13) (Rev.13:11,14-15; 19:20 - John 20:22; Mark 13:14).</span></div><div><a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/06/i-have-found-typing-mistakes-below-and.html" target="_blank">"Who is the Fallen Star?"</a></div><div><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">What does that fallen star empower and release against the Called Ones who are not yet sealed?</span></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">From that abyss, creatures crowned with authority come forth, possessing the sting of death to the unsealed chosen ones (Rev.9:1-3,5,10; 11:7; 13:1,7-8).</span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;">For a time, these agents under Satan will have success in preventing these invited from becoming sealed, just as the crew of the Titanic, lead the company under their charge, to their deaths. The final chosen will be prisoners of the abyss of deception and death, by means of it's agents...the fallen star (false prophet) and it's Gentile Beast that arises from that abyss. Those deceived by these agents of Satan's abyss, will also fall, and be trampled by those agents and their demonic expressions (Luke 21:24; Rev.13:10,8; 11:2)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">For more info. on this, please see </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://pearl-judas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://pearl-judas.blogspot.com/</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://pearl-revelation9.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-revelation9.blogspot.com</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Likely we have read Genesis 3:15 many times. Within our own minds; we have repeatedly been taught what the meaning of many Bible verses are. I hope today, to point out factual information which God gives us, by means of those verses.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Through His Word, the grace of God provides us with vital facts. We must <u>not let go</u> of <i>any</i> of them, while His spirit helps us to construct a clear image of Truth. Those facts are our touchstones, which guide us through the darkness (2Pet. 1:19)...until Satan's veil is removed from our eyes (1Pet. 2:9).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">That veil is a constraint of thought. Satan knows how the human mind works. When we hear the same verses over and over, in association with the same interpretation; our minds grow numb and take for granted the meaning of those verses. We compartmentalize each interpretation, so that we are unable to construct the whole picture, which is only arrived at when truthful interpretations are assembled together. No solid fact should be omitted, and no proven lie should be included. If we strive to be guided by this reasoning, we will make progress in our understanding and accurate perception. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">I am going to ask you to think "outside the box", because that box of thought constraint, is by Satan's design. Please shake off the drowsy assumptions, for a fresh look at what God is actually telling us in the verses of His Word, and how those words apply to our own present day realities.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Gen.3:15</span></b></div>
<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><span class="text Gen-3-15" id="en-NKJV-71" style="position: relative; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And I will put enmity</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span class="text Gen-3-15" style="position: relative; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Between you and the woman,</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span class="text Gen-3-15" style="position: relative; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And between your seed and her Seed;</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span class="text Gen-3-15" style="position: relative; text-align: -webkit-auto;">He shall bruise your head,</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><i>Satan is at war with the "woman" and with her seed. Period.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><i>Satan is not passive in his enmity...he actively seeks to bruise the seed.</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-24" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: black;">Then <i>comes</i> the end, when He delivers the ki</span><span style="background-color: black;">ngdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. </span></span><span style="background-color: black; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"></span></span><span class="text 1Cor-15-25" id="en-NKJV-28744" style="background-color: black; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><sup class="versenum" style="vertical-align: top;">25 </sup>For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Would you agree that Satan has the entire host of world powers at his disposal; which includes all authority and power within them? Can you see that all things of this world not under the headship of Christ, is under the power of Satan? I hope so. According to that fact, from which Country does he assert his rule? Does he not sit above every Nation and principality of this world? "The <b><i>whole </i></b>world is lying in the power of the wicked one."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Does Satan know this? He is the greatest tactician of the world scene and the humanity within it. Of course he does.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Any conflict, upheaval, or tumult we see within Satan's world, is a ruse. He will not "divide" his power to cause himself to fall. <i>Satan is not at war with himself, seeking to divide up his power so that he "cannot stand"</i>. His only enemy are the woman's seed, remember? If we observe such divisions and tumult on the stage of the world scene, <u>it is according to Satan's purpose and design.</u> For what purpose? Do you remember fact #1 & 2?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Eph.6:12 made crystal clear, that he is using his world powers against the seed.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Fact #5.</u></b> <i>Satan is using all the nations under his worldly power, to "bruise" the woman's seed.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">How is Satan using his dominion over the Nations to harm the anointed today? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">History has shown Satan, that outright physical persecution has <b><i>not</i></b> thwarted the faith and faithfulness of God's faithful slaves. Remember, he needs a stealth deception to ensnare them (Rev.2:14,20; 17:2; Num.31:16; 2Pet. 2:15; Jude 1:11-12,10). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">How else can he use the worldly powers under his control?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">He is maneuvering current events and developments to fabricate a counterfeit fulfillment of prophecy (physical signs of war, famine, pestilence, and earthquakes, etc.). Why? So that the "Woman's seed" does not perceive the <i>spiritual</i> interpretation of prophetic signs, which will equip them to contend with the real threats they now face.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><b>Rev. 17:8 (CLICK on to read entire verse) tells us, that when this Beast of persecution re-emerges, it's new disguise causes it to go unrecognized.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><b>It seems to not exist anymore against the Chosen, Yet, it does.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Satan's deceptive power goes beyond the physical. This means he can do more than cause the physical distractions which deceive and kill. At Eph.6:12, it also called the woman's foes, "rulers of the darkness of this age". This is not a physical darkness, but a spiritual one. Yes...<i>Satan also rules the spiritual climate of this world.</i> He has spiritual power and influence. This too he uses against the woman's seed. <u>He can bruise the seed with spiritual assault as well</u> (Rev.12:15; 8:11). He rules the "darkness". Darkness is the opposite of the light. Light is truth. <i>Darkness is deception.</i> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(John 3:21; 14:6; 8:12; 1:5; Psalm 43:3; 1John 1:6) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">It is Satan's goal to cause irreversible spiritual damage to prospective members of the woman's seed. Physical damage is of no use (Rom.14:8; Mark 8:35; Matt.10:28). As long as the Chosen belong to God and hold fast to their testimony; they contribute to Satan's fall (Rev.12:10-11; Rev.2:25; 3:11; 12:17).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Satan can only succeed in subjecting the Chosen Seed to him, if he does it through religious deception, baited with a few truths (Jer.16:14-15,16-17,18; Hosea 9:7-8; 5:1; Ps.124:7; 25:15; Ec.9:12; Matt.13:47; Eze.13:21; Jer.31:11-12; Isa.48:20; Rev.18:4) </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Satan is "the angel of light" (2Cor. 11:14). Those who in the end, do prove themselves to be the "woman's seed", will have triumphed over Satan's deceptive darkness (although having been bruised/trampled/thrown down -Rev.12:4; Zech.13:9). Only God can redeem them from this Great Tribulation at Satan's hand (Matt.19:25-26; 24:22; Rev.7:10; Jer.31:11; Ps.18:17).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/search?q=what+is+the+great+tribulation%3F" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/search?q=what+is+the+great+tribulation%3F</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(<a href="https://pearl-revelation9.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-revelation9.blogspot.com</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-greatest-tribulation-why.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-greatest-tribulation-why.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">For each one Satan is able to deceive with his final stealth attack, he can throw down from their heavenly position </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Eph.2:6; Heb.12:23;</span> Phil.2:15;<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Rev.12:4; 2Pet. 3:17; Rev.2:5), </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">swallow, and destroy. For every Chosen One who falls, and fails to remain standing before the throne of God; Satan has bought time for his worldly dominion to continue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">The most significant and relevant location of Satan's throne, is where his power sits <u><i><b>over Yhvh's anointed ones</b></i></u>. This is <i>not</i> a <i>political</i> or geographical place, but a religious "city" </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">This is where Satan rules above the "kings of the earth", who <b><i>should</i></b> belong to <u>Jesus</u> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(<b>Rev.1:5; 5:10</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(<a href="https://pearl-kingsofearth.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Who are "The Kings of the Earth"?</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Fact #7.</u></b> <i>Satan is<u> not using all his power</u> over all the nations, <u>to provide the seed with an understanding of Truth.</u></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Everything that occurs within Satan's realm is a deception aimed at misleading the seed into darkness and death (John 8:44; 10:10). Jesus said that the truth is not in Satan. Neither is Truth to be found within the manifestations of Satan's power, nor in the unfolding activities of Satan's minions. Simply put, we will not find truth within the things over which Satan controls....least of all, truthful interpretation of Scripture and prophecy (2Cor. 6:14; 1John 1:6; 1Tim. 6:20). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Only Holy Spirit combined with the Word of God, will shed light on the hidden things. (John 16:13; Gen.40:8; John 17:17; Heb.4:12; Luke 10:21; 1Cor. 2:6-8,10-12,13-14,15-16; Matt.13:11; 1Cor. 4:1; John 7:16-18; 12:49-50)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;">...<i>not</i> events in Satan's World!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Satan is distracting, diverting, and misleading the seed away from the channel of true understanding. His tactics are powerful and effective (Rev.12:9,15,17; 13:7; Matt.24:5,24-25). He is sharing that power with human agents (Rev.13:2,5,8,11,14; 9:1,11). Why? Remember who his target is! It is not in order to undermine his own agents of worldly power...it is "to deceive if possible, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">How might events taking place in Satan's arena deceive the Chosen who have been granted insight by spirit? (1John 2:20,27)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Does Satan have the power and intelligence to fabricate a decoy...a counterfeit fulfillment of prophecy, in order to distract the seed away from a more hidden spiritual truth?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">We must not underestimate our adversary. He will use all his power and authority to mislead the seed. This includes current world events, as well as religious doctrine and messengers...all of which are under his command. (2Thess. 2:9-10; 1Tim. 4:1; Rev.16:13; 2Cor. 11:14)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">When Jesus gave his slaves the Revelation of end time events (Rev.5:2,5,7; John 15:15; 16:15; Rev.1:1; 10:7-8), was it so that they could make wise stock investments?...or perhaps know which Nation to hide out in?...or simply to impress his kingdom partners with his worldly prediction savvy? No. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Blessed how? Life, understanding, power, honor, vindication, and kingdom (Rev.2:7,11,17,26-27; 3:5,9,12,21). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Would an understanding and interpretation <i>of Satan's world</i> lead to these things? No, but rather a faithfulness and endurance through all the deceptive tests about to befall all the chosen </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(Rev.2:2-3,9,19,24; 3:8,10-11; Luke 21:36). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Does Jesus come to assist his brothers, by pointing to events in Satan's world, over which they have no control or accountability? No. He comes to show what will shortly take place, so that they are not <u>deceived</u> into <u>idolatry</u> and <u>spiritual fornication</u>, nor <u>lulled into inactivity</u> though a false declaration of peace. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;"><i><b><u>These</u></b></i> are the precise threats mentioned above, which Satan's deceptions are bringing to bear. Jesus equips his faithful servants to identify Satan's tactics <i><u>against them</u> <u>personally</u></i>, so that they will not be deceived, and found naked and asleep. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Jesus points to the source of this powerful end-time machination of Satan <i><u>aimed at the Holy Ones</u></i>. (Rev.2:2,9-10,13-15,20-22,24; 3:2-3,9,16-17,19). In order to keep the Chosen from recognizing Jesus' council, Satan has done his best to emulate a physical image of that council,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">No, it is not a lack of recognition about current events in Satan's world which threatens the chosen....it is a powerful deception which has over taken them through Satan's agents (Rev.2:16). Remember, those agents include the World of Nations as well as the religious climate<i><u> which surrounds the chosen.</u> </i>This pervasive delusion has threatened their standing with Christ (Rev.2:4-5,14-15,20,22; 3:1-3,16,19). According to Jesus' counsel; the threat to the remnant is idolatry, spiritual fornication, and inactivity...not political unrest or financial collapse (Rev.2:4-5,14,16,21, etc.). Jesus also speaks of the source of this deception, as being present among them (Rev.2:2,9-10,13-15,20,22-23; 3:1,9) </span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Jesus referred to those RELIGIOUS agents under Satan, </span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(Rev.2:2,9,13,20,23; 3:9; 9:11; 19:20; 13:15,7,10; 2:10).<u> It is from these<i><b> religious</b></i> agents, that Satan rules over <b>the Chosen Ones</b>.</u> No single worldly Nation has dominion over the anointed. The only "Gentiles" who have come to dominate the Chosen Ones, are religious in nature and power. Remember that the Chosen are politically and nationally neutral.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Satan does not rule them through the political powers of this world.</span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">After Jesus gives this introduction to Revelation in Chapters 1-3, he begins in Chapter 4 to illustrate how these things will take place. His reasoning is not chaotic, in that he jumps to an unrelated subject. Rather, he then explains in symbolic detail, how and why the counsel given to the 7 Congregations becomes necessary. He paints a detailed scenario of the end, as it touches all his servants...good and bad...faithful and unfaithful; so that the 7 Congregation will have fair warning as to their impending judgment (Rev.1:3,11,19,20; 2:7,11,17,29; 3:1,5-6,8,12-13,20-22). Clearly, that judgment is not based upon Satan's world economy or political drama...but upon things which the Chosen can choose or reject...and prove what their own work is (1Cor. 3:13-14,18-19,20-21,23).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">The rest of the book of Revelation gives fine detail as to the identities of these false "Jews" (Rev.2:2,9; 13:11) and fornicators (Rev.2:14,20-22; Rev.17:1-2; 18:3,9) among which the Chosen are dwelling (Rev.9:5-6,14; 11:7).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Satan's throne is given to the Wild Beast (Rev.13:2), and it is through IT that <i><u>spiritual</u></i> threats face the Chosen (Rev.13:7-8,9-10,14,16,17; Psalm 94:20-21; Jer.43:10-11; Rev.13:10).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">In a very real <i><b>spiritual</b></i> sense, there will be signs in the "heavens" (Luke 21:25). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Jesus, the face of Truth, is compared to the sun (Matt.17:2; Rev.1:16; 1Thess. 5:5; 2Cor. 4:6). He is the light of day (John 8:12; 11:9; 1Pet. 2:9; 2Pet. 1:19)...the morning star of dawn (Rev.22:16).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">The moon is responsible to illuminate the night before the day arrives. We are told it turns to blood, just as the two witnesses are also killed (Rev.18:24; Joel 2:31; Acts 2:20; Rev.6:12; 11:7; 17:6). The stars are individual lamps which shine their own light as well...good as well as bad..."wheat" and "weeds"... (Matt.5:14; Rev.1:20; 8:10; 9:1; Dan.8:10; 12:3; Phil.2:15; Jer.31:31,35; Joel 2:10,31; 3:14-15; Matt.24:29; Heb.11:12,16; Jude 1:13; Rev.6:13; 12:4). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">The "heavenly bodies", are symbolic. Christ is the sun (Mal.4:2; Luke 1:78; Isa.60:1; Rev.22:16; Matt.17:2). The faithful of his Bride, who reflect his "light" (John 8:12; Matt.5:14) during the "night" (Rom.13:12; Mark 13:24; Isa.60:2), are the moon (Ps.89:37), who are in subjection to the mother covenant (Rev.12:1; Gal.4:24,26) and who are slain (moon to blood (Rev.6:9-11). The "stars" are individual prophets/messengers/angels (Rev.1:20; Dan.12:3; Phil.2:15) or the 12 apostles (Rev.12:1). All "stars" (apostles and prophets) are the foundational lights, of God's "Temple"/Congregations </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(Eph.2:20; 1Cor. 3:16; Rev.1:20).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Of these anointed stars, Satan will drag a symbolic third into a fallen condition (Rev.12:4) before they are refined through discipline, and rescued (Zech.13:9; Mal.3:3,2; Isa.10:22). The earth depends upon those sources of light, for life. We are seeing a spiritual fulfillment of the signs Jesus foretold...all due </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">to the <i><b>RELIGIOUS</b></i> throne of Satan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">The central point of this article is to declare that </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Satan is using all his power and authority over this world, to mislead the Chosen Ones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">His tools are <i>all </i>his authority... religious, political, and commercial. His objective is to deceive the Chosen into believing that the fulfillment of prophecy lies in<i><b><u> his </u></b></i>Secular world; and that the fulfillment of the Kingdom prophecies about the <i>FAITHFUL</i> Chosen, are fulfilled within the Organization over which Satan has gained control (Isa.5:7; Jer.2:21; Rev.14:18-19).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Any Chosen that come to believe these lies, will not see past these physical things over which Satan has complete control and power. These Chosen will be mislead into thinking that there is no further spiritual interpretation. These will not discern the real message from their Master, which means their lives. They will be deceived into thinking that submission to the "Organization" is all the requirement Jesus expects of them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">These are fatal mistakes! Why?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Because<b> <u>the real life-saving message Jesus has given to the Chosen,</u></b> as well as all those who are guided by them,<u><b> is not the DECOY interpretation they find in SATAN'S world!</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Jesus' life-saving warnings have nothing to do with the secular nations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">The danger to the Chosen is not in the World of Politics or Business. Neither is the path to faithfulness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">If the Chosen also believe that submission to the "Organization" ("Watchtower Organization") is the same as submission to Christ, they will be guided by a deceptive wicked steward (Rev.8:10-11; Matt.24:48) who is backed by Satan (Rev.9:1), ....instead of their Leader and Head (Matt.23:10; Eph.1:22-23; Col.1:18).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">They will be marked as slaves of the "Watchtower" / Wild Beast/Organization, and found guilty of idolatry and spiritual adultery (Rev.13:16,8),</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">by their returning Master and King (Rev.16:15).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">My next two articles will describe the <i><u>true</u></i> fulfillment of Jesus' message to the Chosen Ones, as well as the <i>real </i>"sign of his presence, and of the conclusion of the system of things" Matt.24:3 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">(<u>which signs are <i>NOT</i> being fulfilled in Satan's World of politics and commercialism</u>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">That <b><u><i>spiritual</i></u></b> interpretation is in harmony with all Jesus' kingdom and end-time illustrations, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">as well as in harmony with the book of Revelation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">If Satan were permitted to prevent the spiritually significant fulfillment of prophecy, he surely would. But these things stand decreed by the Word of God and the authority of His Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Satan's only recourse, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">is to use the power which he <i>does</i> have, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">to emulate a counterfeit decoy fulfillment, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">in the hopes that it will deceive the Chosen </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">away from the <i>true</i> message from Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">This article ("Satan's Throne") is PART I</span></div>
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