CHAPTER 9
OUR DECEPTIONS
The “Amen” on the previous page should indicate the end of the book, hence, chapter 8 was supposed to be the last chapter of this book. Yet, after some time, I am led to add this chapter 9 solely on the basis of what the Lord brought to my hands and attention very recently. I have to admit that some of those things that came to my hands I was not aware of at all. I also have to admit that they were not just “things”, but rather “extremely shocking news” that were truly hard to believe.
It may well be the Will of Our Father in Heaven that He decided to unveil before the End of this world even the most outrageous deceptions that Satan managed to carry out undetected till this very day. He used Christian religion as his cover for his evil plottings, that’s why his cover was so successful for such a long time.
LIES and TRUTH are the two most important FACTS of our earthly existence and eternal destiny. They determine our ETERNAL DEATH or ETERNAL LIFE! SATAN is LIES and DEATH (Jn. 8:44// Heb. 2:14). CHRIST is TRUTH and LIFE (Jn. 14:6) – and we choose (Deut. 30:19)!
When you, therefore, read this book, and particularly this chapter, with the two facts framed above anchored in your conscience, you will find out the following…
Our eternal life or death hangs literally on what we BELIEVE – and on NOTHING ELSE! And that depends entirely on whether what we believe is truth or lies. And that depends entirely on whether we are deceived or not. And that depends entirely on whether we want to know the truth or not. And if we truly want to know truth, we ask questions, we seek and verify. And if we don’t want to know truth or our future, then we do nothing! Is that clear and true? I leave this judgment to you.
When a believer cannot recognize Christ from Satan, it is a true tragedy, is it not? Well, we are going to speak exactly about this tragedy of believers.
Today, having followed the Lord for over 45 years, I can recognize various servants of Satan in the churches, Satan’s lies, deceptions and evil plotting against believers and the naivety of believers with ensuing spiritual damages and tragedies. It seems that the corruption which Satan achieved in the churches was not such a “hard work” for him owing to the totally depraved character of the natural man and the infamous unwillingness of believers to seek truth, fight, press, strive and overcome. The infamous unwillingness to run the race Our Father had set before us (Heb. 12:1) and outrun at least the snails and worms.
But what Satan achieved in the world and among pagans is phenomenal! If I were a pagan, I would have to congratulate Satan for such a phenomenal success. I will briefly describe TWO CASES of the GRAND DECEPTION by which Satan deceived literally billions of people, chiefly believers, around the entire globe for the past centuries.
A) Almost since its inception and Constitution, the United States of America has been considered a “Bastion of Christianity” in this world boldly “exporting Christianity” to the whole world especially in the last 70 years, or so. Every believer, especially in the communist countries of the world, or wherever Christianity was suppressed or persecuted, had his eyes and hopes on the United States.
Little did the billions of people know that this “Bastion of Christianity” was ANYTHING BUT that! That it was actually built on satanic foundations with the help of Satan and demons who were called upon to “bless and use” those foundations and fulfill the dreams and lusts of power hungry and totally deceived men. And these deceived men are called “forefathers” since they were the Presidents and Governors and other Chief men “building” the United States of America with its “temporary” freedoms and prosperity.
One of the best books I had an opportunity to read vividly describing these unbelievable facts based on painstaking research is called “Zenith 2016[15]” by Thomas Horn, published in 2013 in the United States of America. The facts described in the book are even today standing as monuments and buildings in Washington, DC and as other quiet witnesses of these demonic deceptions, for example, the one dollar bank note, the Seal of the United States and other historical facts, which are well documented or were undusted from old archives.
Satan used a form of Christianity acceptable to him to serve as an effective COVER for his long-term corruption work. What form of Christianity would be “acceptable to him”? Any type of carnal church! It never posed any danger to his kingdoms in this world since every such church is always dead despite a lot of “works” and a “name that it is living”; yet, in the eyes of the Lord, it has always been dead (Rev. 3:1). Already two thousand years ago, the Lord counseled such a church to be watchful and strengthen the things that remain and are also ready to die (Rev. 3:2).
This is precisely what happened to the carnal church in the United States, which from the very beginnings must have been infiltrated with demons and kept carnal though engaged in many “wonderful works”. Even the evangelists, whom this carnal church sent to the world, were all carnal! That’s why they achieved nothing living and acceptable to Christ in the peoples of the world. In the very United States, the church was never living; it has had a form of religion, which all the time remained dead because the nation was built on satanic foundations and not on Christ.
Even today, few people realize that the misery of the church in the Unites States is the prime cause of the current misery of the whole country and its nation and its slow slide into hell. In fact, its misery affects the whole world.
B) Here, I might repeat almost word for word the first paragraph from section A) above, changing only the name of the “United States” into “Vatican”!… plus add few minor corresponding changes.
Every man in this civilization, including pagans, might probably know what Vatican has been since its inception. It has been a “Bastion of Christianity” even more and much earlier than the United States, having tens of millions of members around the world and possessing not only a religious, but also political power and influence, chiefly in Europe. But here, again, Vatican is ANYTHING BUT what its world reputation, portrait and messages to the world indicate. Very few people may see and know the truth about this organization, which was also built on the same satanic foundations, on purposeful lies and deceptions, which have nothing to do with true Christianity.
Again, the best book that came to my hands describing the true facts about Vatican, its popes, its history and destiny, is called “Petrus Romanus[16]” by Thomas Horn and Chris Putnam, published in 2012 in the United States of America. The history of Vatican and its popes from its beginnings was painstakingly researched and explained in details from the documents still available in archives or elsewhere. The depth of deception and corruption in that organization is unfathomable. Of course, we do not talk about sincere, honest though naïve believers or even many from the clergy, who were also honest and doing good works. We are, again, talking about the leadership! Popes, cardinals, prelates and many priests were not really servants of Christ, but a good number of them were and are servants of Satan. Most of the doctrines coming out of Vatican are totally contrary to the Word of God! These are doctrines of men and devils (see also the book “Roman Catholicism” by Loraine Boettner, published in 1962 in the United States).
I cannot even begin to write things that are absolutely appalling since anything more than few pages would be beyond the scope of this book! I only mention few examples, which should suffice for any honest and sincere man which has common sense and at least a cursory knowledge of the Scriptures. The following examples are loosely gathered from the book “Petrus Romanus[16]” quoted above and some sentences are quoted verbatim (with ref. page numbers).
b1) Pope Benedict IX (1012-1056) was elected when he was eleven years old. The catholic encyclopedia admits that he was a “disgrace” to the Chair of Peter, which appears to be a colossal understatement as he was reported to have indulged in sorcery and demonolatry as well as being a practicing homosexual who indulged in an occasional fling of bestiality. Various murderous intrigues resulted in his leaving and reclaiming the pontificate three times. Eventually, he tired of papal orgies and decided to marry. He sold his papacy for a couple thousand pounds of gold! Now how about that for the doctrine of apostolic succession (p. 211-212)?
b2) Martin Luther was quickly excommunicated by the papal bull Excurge Domine of June 15, 1520 for simply trying to keep the Church honest, but there is no such document for Mussolini or Hitler, who were murderous dictators. It is a well known fact that during World War II, the Vatican was backing Hitler and Mussolini, the puppets of Satan and their Nazi regimes (p.238). After World War II, the Vatican helped scores of chief SS criminals and murderers to escape from Germany to South America, Argentine, Uruguay, Paraguay, etc., and thus evade justice. Thus the Vatican had become a co-participant in their crimes against humanity!
b3) In 2001, Cardinal Ratzinger issued a secret Vatican edict Crimen Sollicitationis to Catholic bishops instructing them to put the Church’s interests ahead of the multitudes of children which were sexually abused by the Catholic clergy. After he became Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2012), he devised the greatest “pedophile priest cover-up” lying about the very existence of the problem. Instead of investigating and prosecuting the guilty, he moved the priests from one place to another to evade justice (p.238)! In 2011, over eight hundred catholic clergy sexually abused tens of thousands of children in Dutch churches alone. William H. Kennedy, in his book Lucifer’s Lodge, provides a well-documented case that these are not simply sex crimes, rather they are also reflective of cults of ritualistic Satanism within the Church driving the pedophilia (p.239). We know that the rule of lifetime celibacy is the root of all these devilish problems. The Scripture condemns those that “forbid to marry” and calls this practice “doctrines of devils” (1Tim. 4:1-3).
b4) Popes, especially in these modern days, are usually judged by their “humanism” and a “new humility” in not being carried on sedan-chairs on the shoulders of their servants and with the golden tiara on their head. The first such pope was apparently John Paul II (1978-2005) who was even called “people’s pope” by many faithful. But humanism with its deeds is very sinful as it is contrary to the Spirit of God and the Word of God. This same pope proclaimed: “The Pope is considered the man on earth who represents the Son of God, who ‘takes the place’ of the Second Person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity”. This is an unbelievable blasphemy when a sinful man is elevating himself to the level of Omnipotent God! In 2002, Pope John Paul II had a “prayer meeting” with Muslim clerics, Jewish rabbis, Buddhists, Sikhs, Bahais, Hindus, Zoroastrians, voodoo priests and witch doctors (p. 378)! This must have been the most idiotic idea any pope could have ever conceived. Excluding Jewish rabbis, it is like Christ Jesus having a “prayer meeting” with Satan and some of his demons! And if this is not enough, on February 14, 2000, this same pope met Arafat (the chief terrorist in the Middle East) in Rome and signed an agreement with him to encourage relations between the Palestinian Authority and Romanist institutions in Jerusalem thus using PLO to press Israel (p. 383-384).
b5) German bishops own the largest and most profitable publishing houses in Germany called “Weltbuild”. It sells books promoting Satanism, the occult, esoterism, anti-Christian propaganda and its 2,500 pornographic titles include perverse sexual fantasy of every type! It is clear that Rome is making huge profits from sex, Satanist and atheist books (p.307).
b6) Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) was apparently responsible for the death of more Christians than all Roman Caesars combined (p.436)!
Do we need more examples? Perhaps the fact, that the cupola of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the obelisk in the colonnade in front of the Basilica are of the same geometry and construction as that of the Dome of Congress and the obelisk in Washington designed by Freemasons and devoted to Satan and demons. In fact, Washington’s design came from the Vatican, which was built, and “dedicated” to Satan and his demons first. These facts are also described in the above quoted book “Petrus Romanus[16]” (pages 416-424) and in much more detail in the book “Zenith 2016[15]” authored by Thomas Horn.
Nobody in this world would have believed that some of the popes, cardinals, prelates or others in Catholic clergy were Freemasons and Satan worshippers and that offerings of the honest faithful were misused as hush money to cover-up and pay off thousands of pedophile priests. One incident I have to mention. When John Paul I was elected the Pope of Rome in August 26, 1978, he was appalled enough to start an investigation of Freemasons and Satan worshippers in the Vatican as well as the rampant financial corruption. He became too dangerous and thus did not last long. He was poisoned in September 1978. I saw him from 5 feet lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica as I happened to be visiting there. He was totally green – poisoned.
Now, we know that Satan can transform himself into “an angel of light” and, therefore, his ministers can also be transformed into ministers of righteousness, false prophets and apostles of Christ… as well as popes, cardinals and many other clergymen and ministers (2Cor, 11:13-15). But can we guess how many thousands of other ministers, pastors, preachers, teachers, priests and also rabbis can be Satan’s servants just as easily as popes and cardinals? If the Spirit of God is not in us guiding us into all truth (Jn. 16:13) and if the Lord will not open our eyes and show us how terribly deeply we may be deceived, than what will happen to us in our future? How can we know?
How can we know who is talking to us? Who are we going to believe and what? If we believe lies, we are deceived; and if we remain deceived until we die, we are damned for eternity!
DO WE BELIEVERS UNDERSTAND ENGLISH? DO WE BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE UNSEEN FORCES IN US AND OUTSIDE OF US THAT ARE ABLE TO DESTROY US IF WE REMAIN NAÏVE FOOLS?
“Be SOBER, be VIGILANT (do not sleep); because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” (1Pet. 5:8). The devil does NOT walk about pagans whom he already turned into idiots and devoured. He is walking about those believers whom he lost and has not gotten back!
My greatest enemies in this world are BELIEVERS, not pagans! Believers, whether they might call themselves Christians or Messianic Jews or by any other denominational names! And why is this so? Satan had already managed to turn millions of them into “bewitched fools” (Gal. 3:1) with no common sense. When I speak to them about the basic truths of the Scriptures, they look at me as lunatics unable to talk intelligently or receive anything! If this is not a tragedy of believers, than I don’t know what is.
Furthermore, they are unwilling to face and deal with the specific facts in the Scriptures and compare them with their funny beliefs. It is clear that they do not want to know the truth! And THAT is the end of it!
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I will conclude this final chapter of this book by stating facts which may be obvious to those Christians, who are open and seek, who have eyes to see and a heart to understand. But these facts are not seen, not registered, not understood and not considered by all those others, deceived Christians. Peradventure, the Lord might give eyes to see also to some of these deceived souls.
WE ALL KNOW THAT OUR SAVIOUR AND LORD JESUS CHRIST HAD DEFEATED SATAN COMPLETELY AND ETERNALLY. TRUE? ABSOLUTELY!
The question I desire to ask you is this: How did He do it?
“Of course”, you will say, “on the Cross”. TRUE. But I repeat my question: How on the Cross?
“He was made sin for us and died for our sins”, you will say, “and when we believe it, we are redeemed and we do not belong to the devil any more”. TRUE. But may I ask you this question: How can Satan be defeated when there are yet billions of people that belong to him?
“They did not believe”, you will say. TRUE. But I have to ask you another question: Why did they not believe?
“We do not know the reason” you will say. TRUE. So, may I ask you yet another question: Why did you believe?
You will say: “Well…” and you will give your reasons whatever they may be, and they may all be truthful and also Scriptural.
I might ask further questions and fill yet another page or two with questions and answers, and you might give me truthful answers, yet we might still not see and understand HOW THE LORD TRULY DEFEATED SATAN. Moreover, how the true answers to this important question will also involve us! Let us first make the following statement:
BEFORE THE LORD DEFEATED SATAN BY HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS, HE DEFEATED SATAN BY HIS LIFE ON EARTH!
IN HIS LIFE, HE DEFEATED SATAN FIRST FOR HIMSELF. IN HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS, HE DEFEATED SATAN FIRST FOR US! IN BOTH CASES, OUR LORD GAVE US AN EXAMPLE HOW WE MUST DEFEAT SATAN ALSO IN OUR LIFE AND IN OUR DEATH – THROUGH CHRIST (Phil. 4:13).
I am asking the Lord to grant us the spiritual eye to see and understand the true implications of this statement upon our own earthly life and our own narrow way. Here, the “Lord” is to be understood as the “Son of man”, which means – a human being – not as the “Son of God”. The Son of God, Who gave Himself up as the Saviour of man before the foundation of the world (Jn. 3:16// Rev. 13:8), became the “Son of man” while He was still in Heaven and before He came down to Bethlehem (Jn. 3:13)! After His incarnation and during His earthly life and ministry, He had done things that no man had ever done, yet, He gave us examples of what every believer should be doing and could be doing through Christ (Phil. 4:13). I will show some of the most important deeds that He performed and how He defeated Satan.
1) By His love He defeated the hate of Satan (Jn. 3:16). He loved the world already as the “Son of man” in Heaven (Jn. 3:13).
2) By His lowliness He defeated the pride of Satan (Mt. 11:29).
3) By His obedience (unto death), He defeated the rebellion of Satan (Phil. 2:8).
4) By His selflessness and self-denial, He defeated the selfishness and possessiveness of Satan (Lk. 9:23).
5) By His light He defeated the darkness of Satan (Jn. 8:12// Mt. 5:14).
6) By becoming weak and defenseless, He defeated the power and might of Satan (Mt. 10:28b// 2Cor. 12:10).
7) By His truth He defeated the lies of Satan (Jn. 14:6// Jn. 8:44).
8) By His wisdom He defeated the stupidity of Satan (1Cor. 2:7,8).
9) By His meekness He defeated the stubbornness of Satan (Mt. 11:29).
10) By His transparency and holiness He defeated the hypocrisy and filthiness of Satan (Mt. 23:13,14,33-35).
11) By His goodness He defeated the evil of Satan (Rom. 12:21).
12) By His death He not only defeated, but destroyed Satan, who had the power of death, which is our last enemy (1Cor. 15:26// Heb. 2:14).
We may take the above points for granted and may not marvel about them at all until the Lord gives us the light that He, a man as we are, whenever tempted COULD HAVE FALLEN AND COULD HAVE SINNED – JUST AS WE DO! He was tempted at all points as we are, yet remained without sin (Heb. 4:15). He had to OVERCOME all temptations preserving His holiness and not allow Satan to get into Him even “one atom” of his evil and filth (Jn. 14:30). He overcame as a Son of man – human being – through the same Spirit of God that lived in Him and now lives in us, and NOT as the Son of God. And He overcame because… “though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered” (Heb. 5:8). Had He not learned obedience by the things that He suffered, He would have never been made a perfect Author and Finisher of our Salvation!
The Son of God has been eternally perfect. But the Son of Man, Jesus, was not perfect before He learned obedience through things that He had to suffer! NOR CAN ANY CHRISTIAN BECOME PERFECT WITHOUT LEARNING OBEDIENCE BY THE THINGS THAT HE HAS TO SUFFER! This includes the vast multitudes of Christians, which REFUSE TO LEARN ANY OBEDIENCE OF ANY KIND TO ANYBODY!
When the Lord told us “be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (Jn. 16:33), He did not mean that now we can sit down into our sofa, relax, read pleasant Christian literature and not move our finger. He meant that we can rejoice because now we can also overcome the world by following in His footsteps! How? I tell you how, by doing exactly the opposite of what we are presently doing, or trying to do, in our earthly Christian life.
I do not know your personal faith, doctrines or convictions, but my very important question for you is this: If you will not follow the Lord, do you have any clue where you will end up in your earthly existence or in your “post-mortem” existence? I believe that no man has any clue.
Now, IF you will follow the Lord, you will have to do exactly the opposite of what you have been doing up till now. You will have to stop defending yourself and start denying yourself. And you will have to stop evading, bypassing or staying away from your cross (problems, conflicts, pain, suffering) and start taking it up daily (Mt. 16:24 // Lk. 9:23)! Is this a WORD OF GOD? Well, if it is, then why do you ignore it? Do they think that Our Perfected Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ said these words just for fun? Don’t we all believe that all His words apply to every one of us? You are not obliged to follow Him since He said: “IF any believer …”
WHAT SHOULD BE THE CONCLUSION TO THIS CHAPTER AND TO THIS BOOK? LET US PUT IT INTO A FRAME AND JUDGE WHETHER IT IS ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD OR NOT.
We also must defeat Satan in our own life by our own will and decisions and cooperation with the God of Heaven – in following the 12 points above.
As long as we are defending ourselves, we are defeating ourselves. When we start denying ourselves, we will start defeating Satan.
As long as we evade our cross, we evade the chastening and scourging of the Lord (learning obedience), and are preserving Satan in our soul and spirit. When we start taking up our cross, we will start defeating, destroying and evicting Satan from our soul and spirit. We will also stop being spiritually naïve and dreaming in colors. The Lord will start dealing with us as with His sons and not as with bastards. The God of Heaven will start being our Father (Heb. 12:4-8) and we will start to live for Him and will stop living for and satisfying only ourselves (2Cor. 5:15).
Finally, we will stop asking the Lord for power, rather, we will ask Him to help us to humble ourselves (Mt. 23:12) and become weak and defenseless as lambs (2Cor. 12:9,10). When we become lambs, we will defeat Satan, when we remain proud and powerful lions, we will preserve Satan.
When one of the Elders said to Apostle John: “Behold the LION of the tribe of Judah”, then John beheld and he saw a LAMB – not a lion (Rev. 5:5,6)! He, who has a heart to understand, let him understand.
Amen.
There is much more that could be written and that is important for us to know at this End of times. However, FOR GOD, IT IS NOT IMPORTANT WHAT WE KNOW, BUT WHAT WE ARE.
Therefore, I feel very strongly that, at this place, we should rather turn to Our Lord and to Our Father in Heaven in a “Prayer of an Open Heart” and present our beings to Him as openly, honestly, sincerely and definitely as we are able in our fragile, imperfect being.
THE LORD DESIRES to hear from the readers, who have been touched at least by some parts of this book, who see their need before their Creator and Savior to seek His help, to change their lives or the course of their lives. If they so choose, they may tell Him their own prayer from their own heart or they may just read to Him aloud the “Prayer of an Open Heart” as recorded on the next pages. In either case, He will hear that soul; consider its prayer as a confession, repentance and consent of its free will. The Lord will answer the prayer and grant that soul all the necessary Grace and Power to make that prayer a reality in the life of each such individual believer. This is the PROMISE of the Lord for every such believer, who will solemnly declare this Prayer to His ears from an open heart. To each such heart and soul the Lord promises that HE shall be with him, and keep him safe from all the coming evil from now on until the END and until the NEW BEGINNING.
Note that this page as well as the following “Prayer of an Open Heart” has been reproduced from our book “The Tragedy and Glory of Believers” since the Lord placed it again on my heart to do so. It does not matter how many new facts or spiritual realities we read and learn about. As I pointed out before that an increase in our knowledge is NOT an increase of our salvation, we need a change in our spirit. We need His Life in our spirit and soul and this we can only receive from Him when we approach Our Lord with an open heart (Jn. 5:39,40) and give Him the access to it so that He may do His spiritual work therein.
May the Lord bless you all.
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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