LIVING BEHIND ENEMY LINES   PART ONE

On that Wednesday afternoon nearly two thousand years ago, when Jesus was judicially murdered, it seemed that Satan had won.

The world at large, of course, was completely unaware of the murder, and those in Jerusalem who did know of it were mostly indifferent to it. But to those who had looked on Him as the Messiah, the death of Jesus had turned their hope to ashes.

Satan’s chosen people, however, those who had procured the murder of Jesus on Satan’s behalf, rejoiced at His death. But their rejoicing was founded on ignorance, because they didn’t know what their master knew.

His purchased human tools didn’t know it, but Satan was in no doubt that the murder of Jesus had finally brought an end to Satan’s own disastrous, malevolent, incompetent rule of planet earth. After the murder, it became just a matter of time until Satan would be evicted from power.

Before His murder, Jesus had explained to His disciples that what would look like an end would in fact be a beginning:

“I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. And you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.” [John 16:20]

Freedom is imminent, but now, not quite two thousand years after the murder of Jesus, Satan is using his few remaining days, and the human tools he has bought and paid for, to inflict as much damage on ordinary people as he can.

This is now Satan’s last fling at achieving his dream of having all people of the world under his complete control.

Satan’s first attempt after the flood was in the time of Noah, when Satan purchased Nimrod and his family and used them in an attempt to establish the first world empire.

Nimrod invented a false danger, the fear of wild animals, to gather people into cities under his rule. But that didn’t suit God’s timing of history, so Satan’s first world empire was quickly brought to an end in farce and comedy when God confused people’s speech. Unintelligible babbling isn’t an effective way to try and run an empire. Then or now.

But in these last few years of Satan’s dominion, it does suit God’s timing of history to allow a malevolent world empire to be established.

So now, once again, Satan and his purchased humans have invented a false danger to frighten all people into his control.  And the false danger will be continually reinvented with new variants, and enlarged until all people willingly accept Satan’s offer of protection from a danger that doesn’t exist.

Through fear, Satan and his bought-and-paid-for humans, his chosen people, are preparing the ordinary people of the world to submit to tyranny.

But this tyranny, even now consolidating its power over the world, could not have been possible until this present time. Satan, through his tools, needed to painstakingly create a world in which he could control all aspects of people’s lives.

And all aspects of people’s lives are brought under Satan’s control by two things. Firstly, Satan needs to control people’s access to knowledge.

Secondly Satan needs to have police powers over people. The power of the gun. That is, he has to ensure that his governments around the world have the power to coerce people into obedience.

Those two things are now in place.

What people know or don’t know is now decided by Satan’s chosen people. Because people’s only sources of knowledge are all controlled by Satan.

TV, movies, newspapers and magazines, books, music - all present only Satan’s point of view. The past - history, and the present – news, present only Satan’s point of view.

And since Satan is by nature a liar, everything Satan tells people is a lie, meant to advance his own agenda. Truth has fallen in the street.

“justice is driven back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has fallen in the street, and honesty cannot enter.” [Isaiah 59:14]

So if Satan’s chosen people tell the ordinary people of the world that there is a great danger threatening, the ordinary people of the world have no way of knowing whether or not they are being told the truth. Because there is no alternative source of information.

Of course, the ordinary people of the world could rely on logic and their own common sense to detect Satan’s lies. Except the ordinary people of the world have been disconnected from logic and common sense.

The disconnection became possible through Satan having complete control of knowledge, as we have seen, and combining that with the complete control of education. And then using that complete control of knowledge and education to launch a deadly attack on the basis of human society, the family.

Because human common sense isn’t natural, it is something learned in the family.

The family teaches respect for others, how to behave towards others, and how to get along with others. It teaches how to love and be loved. It teaches how to belong, and it teaches loyalty. It teaches how authority and rules work for people’s benefit, and it teaches respect for authority. It teaches unselfishness and sharing. It teaches mutual cooperation, help and support. It teaches self respect, self discipline and responsibility. It teaches the necessity of work and how to work, and the necessity of rest and play. It produces humans knowing the difference between good and bad, between right and wrong, between sense and nonsense.

In other words, the family produces humans in the image of God, suitable to become the children of God.

Which is exactly what Satan doesn’t want, and is exactly what Satan hates with burning ferocity. So the family had to be the primary target of Satan and his purchased humans.

There are two intertwined prongs to the attack.

A family, left to itself, produces good humans. It is a process of time of course, and it starts with a new-born infant not knowing anything of good or bad. Assuming that the parents of the family are themselves good humans, the new-born is taught, over time, how to become a good human being. But this is possible only if the parents are the principal teachers in the family.

So Satan’s task, which is now accomplished, was to supplant parents as the teachers in a family.

How did he do it?