Satan deceives the whole world. John 10:10 Revelation 12:9 Notice the word "deceives" and if he is a snake, a serpent and the god of this world even tempting the true son of God he is able to deceive most people. Matthew 16:23 Revelation 12:9 He doesn't do it with impunity because he will give an account and he will pay himself with eternal damnation including those fallen angels. Revelation 12:12 2 Peter 2:4 But it works God 's will. He deceives the entire world and he wouldn't be here if God didn't decree it. God not only created a physical place that has death and life but he gave people their god because they listened/obey/follow/worship him Satin and people still listen to him and still follow him today. People give the true God lip service and they follow all the ways God says do not go this way because this is the broadway and they refuse correction. You know when contending for the faith it's not easy because sometimes we are called to be bold. 2 Timothy 4:2 God was going to puke out ; vomit out of his mouth the lukewarm congregation, the lukewarm body of believers under one building of people that attended that assembly. He threatened to take away their candlestick. Revelation 2:5 He threatened to do it quickly. One took the persecution being a body of believers and they stayed strong in faith not to follow nimrod baal. I'm making the point also not to follow the doctrine of the Nickelodeon. God hates this. Many are destroyed as God tells us for lack of understanding. It is given for some to understand and others it is not perhaps. So you see the Jehovah Witnesses and some of these groups they have a very clear understanding even though certain groups are deceived themselves in other ways. I've seen the podcast on their JW understanding of revelation 17 and the false and fatal gospel associated with this system where they JW try to make a light of it which it is perverted regardless. God makes it crystal clear that the gospel is without works and John 3:16 Ephesians 2:8-9 completely backs that up. Even there, the devil deceives people. When we proclaim workers of iniquity we're not saying you have to go do a bunch of work to earn your salvation but being in Christ it comes by faith. Hebrews 11:1 God gave you a new heart and he also wrote it in your heart and you don't need a bunch of laws written in front of you to know what's the difference between right and wrong. The faith of the Apostles as God meant this is a way of life not just a church service for 1 hour. A lot of these groups that were trying to follow the way God really meant it to be were persecuted such as the anti-baptist . Some people actually live the life of how God actually meant it to be. Now I know about the shortcomings of the Jehovah Witnesses or others but yet they're not totally clueless. I'm not given support for their shortcomings. I'm just saying it's astonishing that they have a great understanding of Revelations 17 and perhaps even 18. It's going to unfold one day massively and we may be here or we may not be here or it might happen in some other generation. It looks close to our generation by the way things are looking though. If you look at the characteristics of how the son of man or we can call him the son of God dealt with things it gives great clarity. His own people denied even hated and despised him and it's the same nation that was sent to exile twice. The same Nation was restored just as the prophecy foretold when it became a nation again being Israel and that's the nation of the almighty God. So if the demonic things exist and they do (UFOS, etc) just as the true God exists and he Satin depth does what is before us is extremely serious. When you come to believe and know the truth you realize how wicked people really are. You are much better off knowing God and obeying him then bringing children into this world to follow lies and end up losing their soul. But how do you know God when the devil deceives the whole world so to speak. First of all you have to know how deception works and you have to see what the true God says about it and then you have to pray for God to open your eyes. Then you have to put your faith in the true God being the almighty God of Israel. Put your faith in Christ. You have to make a choice and I would recommend living a holy life. A life where you study scripture and you fellowship with other true believers. And live a  life submitted to the God of the Bible. The Bible tells us to cleave to that which is good and hate what is evil. It also tells us not to repay evil with evil. Loving your neighbor doesn't just mean where you live. Those you come across that are detrimental to your life. People are going to be in two different situations. For example somebody in the totalitarian Nation might be a Christian and being persecuted and the conditions are not the conditions of somebody that's in a free Democratic Nation. How do I sum this up well if God is a God of love and for example while you were sleeping last night probably a whole bunch of people were shot dead or murdered in the war such as the Ukraine but you get up to go to that disco or that club tonight and drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, take drugs, and fornicate. You live a life of sin but you don't love God nor do you know him. You don't know the God who gave you your soul. You don't know that God who gave you the breath of Life but you know deception and you snort it like there's no tomorrow maybe even calling yourself or thinking yourself as a believer. You know I came across a fella twice and he told me something about them giving away some sort of thing that resembled some sort of drug and he likened it to food and I told him I'm a Christian. The second time I met him he told me he's a Christian too but I don't think so. I believe he's a counterfeit Christian probably will be at the clubs tonight drinking smoking and committing fornication. You cannot serve two masters

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