He despises preachers, but if he can tempt them to embrace greed or arrogance (or lure them into denominational politics), he can use them like puppets on a string. He hates the Bible (because he must bow to its authority), but he has impressive knowledge of the Scriptures and can twist them to create false doctrines. He detests genuine praise music that exalts God, but he’s fine when he can turn worship into dead formality or manipulate it in a fleshly way to glorify the performer. He’s OK with choir robes, clerical collars and the whole Sunday morning routine.
11:14, NASB) and is an imposter who claims to speak for God. One thing we must understand is that the devil’s primary target is the church-so he snoops around there a lot. The apostle Paul, who wrestled with plenty of demonic powers in his day, told us that we must know our enemy in order to outwit him. Today, many believers act as if the Harry Potter books are hell’s primary tools to infiltrate our families with witchcraft. household-products company was controlled by devil worshipers.
That was only after another group of Christians circulated a warning that a major U.S. But it seems we spend way too much energy looking in the wrong places for his fingerprints.Ī few years ago, for example, some Christians worked overtime to inform parents about the evils of Pokémon, claiming that Satan was plotting to take over the minds of children by using a Japanese cartoon. We Christians are always on the lookout for the devil’s work. Regardless of his real appearance, he is a master of disguise. Kids today might give the “Most Like Satan” award to the dark wizard Saruman from The Lord of the Rings films.īut the issue for us is not whether the devil has pointed ears or carries a pitchfork. He’s like all the things we feared most when we were kids: Dracula, Freddy Krueger or any twisted character played by Vincent Price. Most of us tend to think of the devil as a grotesque creature: a half-man, half-reptile with forked tongue, goatee, black fingernails and creepy, Darth Vaderlike voice (and bad breath of the sulfuric variety).
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