Then the angel who talked with me went forth and said unto me, "Lift up now thine eyes and see what is this that goeth forth." And I said, "What is it?" And he said, "This is an ephah that goeth forth." He said moreover, "This is their resemblance through all the earth." And behold, there was lifted up a weighty piece of lead, and this is a woman who sitteth in the midst of the ephah. And he said, "This is wickedness." And he cast it into the midst of the ephah, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
Zechariah 5:5-8
Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what [will be] the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"
And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.
And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these [are] the beginning of sorrows.
"Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. . .
"Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here [is] the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe [it]. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.
"Therefore if they say to you, 'Look, He is in the desert!' do not go out; [or] 'Look, [He is] in the inner rooms!' do not believe [it]. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Matthew 24:3-14, 23-27
And He said: "Take heed that you not be deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am [He],' and, 'The time has drawn near.' Therefore [fn] do not go after them. . . And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
Luke 21:8, 11
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory. . . It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1 Corinthians 15:38-41, 44
For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in times past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Among these also we all had our manner of living in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Ephesians 2:1-3
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints--
Ephesians 6:10-18
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned [them], and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:13-17
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:1-6
When Evil is a 'Strawman'
by Mike S.
If you are reading this I applaud you for you are one of the few, very few on earth today that know the true nature of the deadly supernatural attack pummeling the Earth today or at the very least is considering that "something is rotten in Denmark."
All around us the foundations of Judaeo-Christian thought are under attack and for many people God is "dead......" yet those who hold to a view of reality where the Creator is central are totally unaffected by this great falling away. With their "Forest Gumpesque" personal moral compass, they think that this in itself will be enough to keep the world around them clean. In the movies being an ignorant person pays off, in real life it gets you killed.
If you stay awake the next time you see the Biblical account of Moses confronting Pharoah's court in the film "The Ten Commandments", watch what the magicians of Egypt are capable of doing. When Moses turns his staff into a snake, THEY TURN STICKS INTO SNAKES, too. Take a minute and REALLY THINK ABOUT this......
What this means is EVIL IS CAPABLE OF DOING THINGS, including miracles.
This means evil can make physical objects fly like "flying saucers." Evil can make things animate and appear to be extra terrestrial beings. Evil can report events in the past with accuracy to be like ghosts or "past lives." Evil can do this.
Evil is not a "straw man."
Since most Christians believe evil is an incapable "push-over" defeated just by being a "goody two-shoe" with a moralistic individual lifestyle when they see things like UFOs most are ready to accommodate anti-Christian beliefs into their own because evil is a "straw man" not able to wage war with the saints. Science cannot lie to them. Satan and his demons can't pull off a massive UFO hoax---there must be SOMETHING to the UFO sightings, after all there is PHYSICAL "scientific" evidence backing up these things. Seeing is believing. We are respectable, reasonable people, we are accepted in our communities. Like the hand of doubting Thomases, if evidence can be collected scientfically it must be true apart from Biblical warnings----because evil is a straw man and not able to be the source.
When we see evil as a "straw man" we invoke on Sunday mornings for a round of idle guilt mongering and god-talk, we set ourselves up and are made defenseless when the enemy attacks us-----YES he wages war with the saints, and no---we are not winning. A straw man enemy allows us to live so-called "ordinary" middle class materialistic lives without risk to our comfort and personal peace. The one problem with this is as we play Forest Gump with blinders on, the enemy is waging full scale war on our social institutions and people at risk for exploitation and destruction. Our people get abducted by so-called space aliens and others murdered and abused while our "salt" influence extends no farther than our own personal holiness so we can be self-servingly off the hook if any wrath from God comes our way.
Well, enough of this! NOT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING DIES ON OUR WATCH! NOT ANOTHER!
Evil is not a "straw man." Evil plans full scale psychological operations against humanity and its TIME we go to war and stop it.
1. Evil is capable of manufacturing real miracles to create an illusion that there is truth to the New Age movement.
This means that some of the things associated with the New Age are going to actually work. Even do some good. Evil is willing to throw a "bone" our way if it means they can cash in later with the spiritual death of those impressed by the minor miracles. The hardest thing in life is deciding between whats good and whats BEST not whats obviously bad from good. The whole concept of deception is the originator offers some kind of "bait" to the unwary. Again, evil is not a "straw man", and we should not be ignorant of his devices. Pretending to space aliens is one of his "devices."
2. The ultimate goal of the enemy is the spiritual DEATH of all humans on the earth.
This means a complete rejection of the Gospel and the Judaeo-Christian world-view at time of physical death on earth, to be followed by permanent spiritual death. These are the stakes.
3. Miracles are not solely reserved to the forces of good, evil can do them and this is why the final test of an issue's origin and validity MUST NOT BE THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE MIRACLE, but the WRITTEN WORD OF THE CREATOR WHICH DELINEATES BY LOGIC THE SOUNDNESS OF THE MIRACLE. The Bible is our warning book and its purpose was to differentiate evil from good since man's senses and reasoning unaided would not be able to tell the difference between a good or an evil miracle since we are not supernatural beings with the power to do miracles (acts above the natural forces in effect). Man can only work with nature's God ordained laws to achieve effects, good and evil supernatural beings can get results by suspending the laws of nature.
4. To fight and defeat this evil it is not enough to just be yourself a "good person". We have to get together and actively wage war against the forces of evil. This is not "business as usual" behavior that the establishment in our societies find so unthreatening. Christians are seen as fools who threaten no one or the established order because they are disconnected to the reality raging on around them. This must stop.
The Christian Church--composed by all who are known by the Lord Jesus Christ's name — is to STOP WHAT ITS DOING AND GO TO WAR OR IT WILL BE WIPED OUT IN A SURPRISE ATTACK BY THE ENEMY. The more we yield territory on earth to evil dominion by our blinder created ignorance, the more evil can work and destroy us. As soon as evil can, evil will target and wipe out all potential threats just as it went about killing every newborn baby to try to get Jesus right after he was born. If you think just because YOU pose no threat to the established order by your middle-of-the-road, go to church, pay your taxes and be invisible lifestyle, that the enemy will not wipe you and your family out as soon as polite society allows it, you haven't been studying current events. The first thing after there is a take over, power is consolidated and all those who have the CAPABILITY--not necessarily the intent of resisting are taken out and shot. This is how evil works and can be seen when it works through fellow humans.
5. Thus, we as Christians in 1998 are faced with a New Age movement primarily fueled by man's technological advances and the hope that there is life in other planets that have a "head start" on us and can come here and share with us the solutions to longer life, and even death. The fountain of youth before the altar of technology using the laws of nature...without any repentance or change in the make up of man himself. To defeat this "Trojan Horse" we need to CONFRONT EVIL.
- Form a global network on Christian believers who know UFOs/ETs are demonic and have them report instantly all sightings/events as they take place.
- Form prayer groups in each area where there is a "watcher" that will be name, place and time order evil forces to leave the humans being threatened to go away via the authority the name of the Lord Jesus Christ gives us.
- Form on-scene response teams that will drive/fly to areas like Gulf Breeze, Florida and meet with local Bible-Believing Churches there and get an on-scene Holy Spirit lead presence demanding that the forces of evil go away. These Jonathan Teams will go out and actively confront so called UFOs with King James Bibles and firearms to force these things to "show their hand" whether they are illusions or physical facsimiles.
- Get a Prime time TV news magazine type show refuting the claims of New Age shows like Sightings, X-Files etc with direct confrontation and news segments.
- This force called SkyWatch would demand lawmakers and U.S. military personnel when they investigate so-called UFO phenomena to have on scene a Bible believing Christian person to confront what they see with the power of the Holy Spirit. The entire UFO mess has been characterized by a secular, humanistic approach devoid of consideration that the origination of these events is religious and arbitrary and not a natural "phenomena" that can be studied in a test tube. What we are encountering is not some benign process of nature when its SUPERnatural. For nature to be superceded, it must have an intelligent being over-ruling the laws of nature which requires both a motive and will. The methodology of UFO investigation should be that of a crime scene or preparation of a battlefield against an enemy not a quaint, sterile lab. What we are investigating is an active enemy with a will that cannot be fully anticipated let alone be viewed as some natural process repeatable in a test.
It's time to strap on our guns and meet the bad guys in the town center. There is going to be a battle. Some people are going to die. You can wait for them to knock on your door and drag you out and imprison you and eventually kill you or you can stand up and fight like a Christian MAN and "resist the devil" and he will flee from you. The Earth is ours, given to us by God to watch over and protect.
Don't give me the end times prophecy that we can't win, who says that this is the time? God is able if we ask him. Nothing is over until God says its over. Until then our DUTY is to fight evil as in a war.
What are YOU going to do now, Christian?
1st Lt. Mike S. is a U.S. Army Reserve Airborne veteran, and a former enlisted Non-Commissioned Officer in the USMC. He is a military writer, analyst and equipment inventor. Mike is a co-author of the book Air Mech Strike. He is also a graduate of Liberty University.