This is something I figured out a while back, several months ago, and have been wanting to share it with the world, especially the American world, ever since then. But I was initially hesitant. I knew people were often content with believing lies, with lying down in their own waste. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I needed to rip those blinders off and warn them about the truth of the matter; if they didn't want to believe it after I told them, then fine, it would only be at their own expense.
WARNING: Some of you may be directly offended by the things I'm about to tell you. I do not intend to deliberately insult ANYONE, but my purpose is to unveil the truth of the matter. Read at your own risk of being offended. BUT I am telling you this, as I have relayed everything else to you, out of love, because I can't stand to see my blinded fellow man being manipulated. Spiritually killing himself. Physically killing others. And, worse of all, openly rebelling against God.
Most of my articles on here, or even just blogging in general, are about God's love for us and His goodness to us, and how we can improve this world for both His glory and to aid others. While that's perfectly fine on a regular basis, this article isn't really so much about that (unless you count the latter part) as it is about exposing Satan and his sneaky little way of deceiving the world.
"Why is that so important?" some of you might be wondering. Well, here's a little something from Ahsoka Tano, from "Star Wars: Rebels" that might help to put it all in perspective: "To defeat your enemy, you have to understand them." ("Rebels: Season 2 trailer". Web.) Or at least, understand their strategy enough so we can counter it properly. If we want to defeat Satan, we need to use discernment and God's help in unmasking his little lies. As the Good Book encourages us, "Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults." (1 Cor. 14:20, NIV.) In regard to infants, Paul is saying we ourselves need to be innocent when it comes to knowing about and committing evil, but another Biblical author, the author of the letter to the Hebrews, says in Hebrews 5:14 (NIV): "But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil."
The bottom line is, we are dead-center in a spiritual war ground -- and it would do none of us good to charge blindly at the enemy having no idea how to counter. Or, worse yet, joining the enemy/ laying down in on the ground and letting him trample you. Manipulate you to his own selfish gain. And this, dear friends, is why I've had enough of seeing people getting trampled and manipulated like that. It's time I at least warned you of the enemy's deadly, spiritually fatal tactics. You yourself then can decide whether or not to believe me and join God in the battle against him.
I'll start off by doing a bit of backstory on Satan's character, aka the ultimate deceiver, the father of lies (I refuse to give him any credit/acknowledgement whatsoever by capitalizing either of those terrible titles). As his titles state, while he is a busy fallen angel, running around causing chaos and doing whatever he can to disrupt God's wonderful plans for us, he is also simultaneously lazy. Yes, you read right. (There's a reason "sloth" is considered one of the most deadly sins.) Now, that may sound like a contradiction, so allow me to explain a bit. He is lazy in the fact that, while he'd love a complete and total "take-over-the-world" bit like many stereotypical villains do (yawn!), he'd rather not do the whole workload himself. He'd rather simply set a little spark to the firework and kick back and watch the whole thing set itself ablaze.
That's how he works, you see-- it all starts with a lie. The lie may be outright bogus, but sometimes it's slipped in between two layers of truth, like the way you'd feed a dog a pill that's hidden inside a hot dog. Satan's strategy is essentially the same thing; after all, that's how he fooled Eve. That's how this whole mess got started to begin with. He feeds us lies, and we gulp them down. And, more often than not, we believe them. We set out to war against one another, instead of standing united with one another and with God and against Satan; we are literally doing Satan's dirty work for him in hurting and killing each other off. In rebelling against God. Some of you might be a bit skeptical. "We aren't actually working FOR Satan," you might say, "it's just people don't always agree, or don't have the same beliefs as you, or have something wrong with them." Satan is a manipulatively shrewd enemy, friends. He works from the shadows, from the background, so you'll almost never see it coming. Which is why I'm going to relate to you now how I saw it coming, why it's so dangerous, and what we can do to fight back.
The Superiority/Inferiority Complexes. This is one of the MAJOR lies with which Satan chooses to soak our heads in. I realized this with a sudden jolt while watching "The Butler," one evening. In one scene, the notoriously sinister KKK was burning a bus filled with innocent people, and in that EXACT moment I saw what our enemy was doing, is doing. He was whispering to the hearts of the KKK, "These people aren't like you; you're better than them. Who knows, they might not even be human. Why should they get the same rights as you, then?" They were literally killing people because Satan wanted them to, people who approached such hate and conflict with love and peaceful protests-- the exact opposite of Satan's own strategy. Tears filled my eyes as I now knew the truth, and it took everything within me not to scream at the screen, "STOP IT, STOP IT! Can't you see what he's doing to you?! How he's manipulating you?! He's turned you against your own kind, against your own flesh and blood, and turned you into assassins and murderers for him-- all because of your stupid feelings of superiority, hate, and believing his lies!" But sadly, the people couldn't have heard me because it happened way back then, and so many innocent people were lost for it. I felt sick and infuriated.
Then I uncovered an even bigger, lie-originated conspiracy of his:
Macroevolution. Aka, in basic secular Bio textbooks, simply known as plain, "evolution".
"Now, wait a minute," some shocked people might argue, "people have the right to believe what they want. That doesn't mean all beliefs different from yours are harmful. There is in no way evidence to suggest that it's harmful, that that automatically makes us Satan's playthings to use. And besides, you were homeschooled, weren't you? It's only natural you were raised to believe differently than some of us were."
First, allow me to make a few corrections: Yes, I was homeschooled most of my high school career. BUT, grades Pre-K through 7th I went to public school. I got PLENTY of exposure from the "other side of the fence"; I knew enough about both Creation and evolution to make up my own mind about what to believe. I was far from being "brainwashed," as many may come to believe. And Macroevolution very openly contradicts God's Word, which is the Ultimate Truth. Jesus condones all of God's Word, so it's basically His Word versus the world's. And trust me, Satan for the most part pretty much has the world wrapped up tight around his little finger.
As for the THEORY of Macroevolution being considered harmful, well, I'm getting to that right now. Besides the obviously spiritually harmful fact that it does not in any way coincide with God's Word, it is overall a religion of pure selfishness. (Cue more undoubtedly shocked gasps. Yes, it is a religion. But that's another rant for another day.) It is selfishness incarnate namely because of one reason, one mantra:
Survival of the Fittest.
No, you don't need a new reading glasses prescription.
The S.O.T.F. mantra, in unscientific but very realistic terms, is bluntly summed up like this: "The stronger ones rise above the weaker ones at any cost. Who cares about the weaker ones? The weak are destroyed; they get trampled underfoot and cease to exist. The strong adapt and get stronger yet, at any cost necessary, and, as such, are able to produce an even stronger generation, all thanks to genetics, blah, blah, blah." Key words: At ANY cost necessary.
Beginning to remind you of the KKK yet? (It sure does for ME.)
It reminds me of a scene in "Naruto," actually. A former good guy-turned-evil-dude ninja was on a regular mission with some teammates of his. One of the teammates falls and has an injured leg. The other teammate, concerned, runs back to their village for help, while the good-turned-bad ninja volunteers to stay, although having been put off at being unable to finish their mission because of his teammate. Suddenly, he leans over and whispers to his teammate that, since he has become a liability, a weak spot in their team, a hindrance to their mission, he should no longer exist-- and suffocates the horrified man. Later, the good-turned-bad ninja unintentionally meets with the infamous, nearly Satanic "rogue ninja," Orochimaru, who, after watching the whole incident, is actually IMPRESSED with his actions, branding him with a special mark that he claims will make him stronger. And, for a time, it does-- if only at the expense of being temporary strength, turning the man into a tiger-like monster, and bringing the man extremely close to death.
Survival of the Fittest.
Satan's decided to target younger and younger generations of humankind, both as potential tools and as actual assassination attempts. Here's what I mean: If we thoroughly buy the whole "survival of the fittest" crap, and also that we ourselves are not even human, but "highly evolved" animals, then how would those beliefs translate into action? Think about it. EVERY belief teaches something, some kind of action. If you preach and believe in love, peace, joy, and, most importantly, Christ, people will see that in your actions. If you teach that survival of the fittest is the law of the land, to get stronger no matter what the cost may be to others, and that all of you are "mere animals" anyways, guess what? You'll start treating each other as animals.
It's happening already, believe it or not.
Putting down people is becoming almost as popular as putting down a genuinely suffering pet, in almost all corners of the world. Orochimaru even states that much to a perfectly healthy Sakura, again in "Naruto," mocking her for her "weak" ninja skills, and asking his right-hand man to "put her out of her misery."
Survival of the Fittest.
Then there's abortion. Many don't realize the value of life until it is gone. I speak from personal experience, in a way: though I have not had an abortion myself, I have had a vanishing twin, who made it long enough to have a heartbeat just like mine. He or she died before we could be born together, and it breaks my heart that I never even got to know them, even if their death was accidental and unintentional. It crushes me all the more to know that people would DELIBERATELY murder their children for the sake of their lives being "convenient" again, for the sake of (in Planned Murderhood's and other abortion clinics' cases, anyways) money (1 Tim. 6:10, NIV: "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." Many young abortionist nurses quit their jobs after seeing abortion first hand, and are now more outspoken against it.), or because they see the babies as nothing more than animals ripe for the butcher's blade, or worse, "blobs of tissue" (who, ironically, have organs and everything else a human being should and does have, that they later harvest.). They don't know that they are Satan's tools for actual assassination attempts.
This whole scenario literally practically mirrors how Satan used the one Pharaoh in the Old Testament, in fact: "Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country." So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Ramses as store cities for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly. They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.The king of Egypt said to Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, "When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live." The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. [....] Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live." Of course, we know why Satan was targeting boys specifically: Moses. As we know, his plans were thwarted thoroughly by God's hand; Moses survived, as did God's people. But many, many young lives were assassinated in those days because of one decree, one villain who was persuasive enough to convince a world that the Hebrews were both not worth being let to live in peace, and a threat to his regime.
Survival of the Fittest.
(Beginning to see a pattern, here?)
Lacey Sturm, the former lead singer of Christian band "FlyLeaf," now solo performer still going all-out for God, came to our school to put out more than a performance. She told us that she'd been nearly aborted before she was even born; Satan saw her as a huge threat and wanted her gone before she was even out-out in this fallen world, to tell others about Christ. He continued to try manipulating her even as a teen, putting suicidal lies in her mind, so she could kill herself for him without even realizing that's how it was. However, God intervened, and got her to a Church before anything like that could happen, and she's been telling everyone her story ever since, using it as a invaluable tool to reach out to others for God, to both tell them and show them His love, grace, and mercy towards them. To tell them they are human, and that their lives matter. That not one of them is so-called, "weak".
.... Now that his strategy and at least one of his plan's laid out wide open in the view of the whole world (many who are still yet deceived will probably not be too happy with me, but so be it. I am willing to risk being insulted, not being hired, picked on, disowned, for the truth of how exactly Satan's pulling the strings, and how we, together with God, can bring him DOWN, for GOOD. I'm willing to risk my life on the line if it means reaching even ONE person with the Truth!), it is time to think of our OWN plans of how we can counteract such murderous, sinister schemes. We can start by letting children know the truth, that we are not "evolved," that we belong to our heavenly, loving, perfect Creator. We can take a firm stand against abortion, aka, all the assassination attempts going on inside those clinics, by talking to young women who are possibly considering it, and not just by telling them why it's wrong, either -- by telling them that both they and their babies are living, breathing human beings and both deserve a shot at life, that it's all worth it, and offering them whatever help we can give them. Same goes for those who aren't in the "Critical Care" unit and yet are still contemplating euthanasia. Let them know that life is worth living, that Christ gave His Life for theirs, and it's too precious just to throw it all away.
Above all, when it comes to "strong," and "weak,"-- we are always "weak" when we are without Christ, but that does not mean that your life does not matter. In fact, sometimes when Christians falter in their walk, they too can become "weak," but they are always loved, always lifted up, always made "strong," by God Himself when they turn to Him. (2Cor. 12:9-10.) You too, can be made strong in Christ. We are never, ever "weak" unless we falter in sin or are without Him entirely-- and even then, Christ never, ever advocates that we take advantage of others' weakness to climb to the top.
So know all this. "Remember who the real enemy is," to quote "The Hunger Games," and take up arms against him. Remember to fight for God, and also let Him fight for you, especially since the battle is usually a lot bigger than it may seem. So stand your ground, soldier. Fight Satan, love others and love God.