S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries

Satan's attacks against us come in various forms. 1) He uses the ungodly world (which he controls, 1 John 5:19) to stir up fleshly lusts within us that tempt us to sin. 2) He uses the unbelieving w...

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joyce whaley Supporter

The Lord has two wills, a permissive and a sovereign will. So when the Satan does attack there is always a valid reason why the Lord will allow the trial to transpire. We know that Satan means it for our total destruction however the Lord is a Teacher of Good thing and with the test or trial he will immediately use it as a means to perfect us through the various fruits of the spirit. Case and point: I have learned to immediately ask the Lord what fruit of the Spirit he is perfecting in me at the time of a test. One of my faults is being impatience. So I oftentimes find myself being attack where timing is a factor. 

Remember the word of God states count it all joy when we fall into various test and trials knowing that the working of those test brings about patience i.e. a form of temperance which is a fruit of the spirit...

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Singapore Moses Supporter Messenger of God, CEO in IT industry, Astronaut, Scientist

"The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea" (Isa 11:9b)

At the Mount of Olives, the disciples of Jesus asked Him, "What will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?" (Mt 24:3). He listed a number of endtime signs and then concluded, "The Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then, finally, the end will come" (v14).

The Devil is more furious than ever because he knows that he has but a little time (Rev 12:12). He stirs up the powers of hell to work against soulwinners and evangelists. He instigates rulers to persecute missionaries. Persecution has always been there, but it will be intensified towards the end (Mt 24:9,10). The promises of Christ to the Church in Smyrna and the one in Philadelphia are for all missionary-minded Christians to claim: "Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer... I have opened a door for you that no one can shut... Look, I am coming quickly!" (Rev 2:10a; 3:8a, 11a). A missionary evangelistic revival is widespread all over the world. Church growth has never been so rapid in all these twenty centuries. Over 75000 souls are added to the Church worldwide everyday. The Lord of the Harvest is recruiting workers even at five in the evening because the harvest is still plenty (Mt 20:6,7). If Pentecost is compared to former rain, we will have the latter rain now, just before the Return of Christ so that every field becomes a lush pasture (Zech 10:1). The Holy Spirit will manifest His power in an unusual manner at this last hour.

The primary motivating factor in the life of Paul for evangelism was the Return of Christ. He loved souls because he loved the appearing of the Saviour. He desired his spiritual son Timothy to imbibe the same spirit. When he reminded Timothy of the Great Commission, he oftentimes referred to the Second Coming (1 Tim 6:12-15; 2 Tim 4:1,2). Eventhough the Great Tribulation has not yet come, the troubles faced by nations of the world are already great! The future is bleak. Leaders are baffled. The Church of Christ alone has a valid reason to lift up its head in optimism. Nations are boasting emptily of their past glory, but the Church can boast expectantly of its future glory! The main reason is that the earth is going to be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea!

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D W Supporter

Satan breaks through when we open the door to temptation. He is only too happy to convince us that the temptation is "good" and "normal" and "OK." We confront temptation not in our own power but in yielding totally to the Holy Spirit. If we do not yield totally, Satan will break through again. Obviously, for most of us, it is a daily confrontation.

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Salem Markus Purba Supporter

As a believers and followers of God in Jesus Christ, we are given the right to become children of God (John 1:10-13); it means, we have the God's power (the Holy Spirit) dwells in us and we become salt of the earth, and the light of the world. (Mathew 5:13-16; John 8:12; 9:5).

In this world, Satan is not God's business, but ours; it is our job to cast Satan out, as a children of God (Mark 16:17-18).

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Billy P Eldred Supporter

Why?
God could have created us any way he liked. He could have created us as robots that did exactly what they were programmed to do. He could have created us as perfect specimens that looked and acted exactly alike. He could have created us all as male or all as female. He could have created us in a world where nothing ever went wrong. He didn't, why?

He created us for his purpose. He had every right to. He was and is God! And what was His purpose? 

Here is my take on that question:

He created us to choose Him. How could we choose Him when there was only one choice? There had to be another choice. 

The other choice is the world. And therein lies Satan. Satan is a liar and a deceiver who hates God and therefore tries to get us to choose against God. He also wants to be god of this world, so if we chose the world, we chose him.

So the question really becomes "Why does God allow this?"

I look at it kinda like this: "What do you give as a gift to someone who has everything?"

Our choosing God wouldn't mean much if we could see, touch and feel God in the physical. It also wouldn't mean much if there was no allure to the other choice. Kinda like playing chess with a four-year-old. It wouldn't mean much to win.

God loves us and wants to win our love, so He created us as players in the game of life. He wants all of us to choose Him. Will all of us choose Him? No. For many of us, us humans, the allure of the world, of the here and now is too strong. Probably, it would be too strong for all of us if nothing bad ever happened to us. Why would we even think we had to make a choice?

Therefore God allows bad things to happen, including the lies, temptations and schemes of the devil, Satan. So we will look up. So we will wonder if there is a better way. When we do, he allows us the grace to escape this world and gives us a glimpse of Him. Again, if we could see all of Him there would be no choice so he gives us just a glimpse but a glimpse with a promise. The promise that if we choose Him, we will get to see all of Him. Oh, and live forever.

Make the right choice. Choose him!

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greg ormsbee Supporter

For one thing, if satan wasn't allowed to entice us, how would we know sin? Then we would no need of a savior. Jesus tests our love between him and satan. I don't believe we are totally saved until he comes back, for if satan can fool the very elect, as Jesus said we must be able to fall short. And believing is just not all we do to be saved, for satan does that, we must be willing to accept his spirit in us, an his light will shine in us thru his works we do in his name an glory, not our works but his...

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Jack Gutknecht Supporter Arizona Bible College graduate and Dallas Seminary graduate

The Almighty does not want automatons; that's why He created us with a free will. He wants us to choose Him over Satan. Satan comes with all the attractions and allure of this world. He wants us dead. God wants to give us life. Abundant life. He has already given everyone life physically. But since we are all born dead (spiritually, Ephesians 2:1, 5), He could give us spiritual life if we choose Him. We could be made alive by Him. But it is our choice. How about this for a divine promise to those who choose Him? Here's how it would read with Revelation 22:4 "They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads."

If we choose Him, we will get to see all of Him — not just in part, but face to face. Moses saw only part of God at first. "This is described in Exodus 33:18-23. God shielded Moses with His hand until He passed by, then revealed His 'back,' representing a portion of His glory that Moses could behold." -- AI

Wouldn't you like to resist the devil and his subtle (and some not so subtle) attacks on you and choose God? You can today. You can start today by accepting Christ as your Savior. The enemy's attacks won't cease. In fact, they will escalate! But you will have the power, the divine power, that the Almighty will bestow upon you to handle those attacks! Isn't God good?

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Reddit User Supporter Let the corpus of my replies speak for my beliefs

The book of Job and the person of Job are unique, and though we do not reach to Job's level of righteousness there are lessons here to be learned.

When G-d asks ha-Satan, which translates to "the adversary, "Have you considered My servant Job?" what really was G-d asking? Was it an invitation by G-d to royally mess up this mortal man's life? Or, would the testing of Job serve some greater purpose?

I'm putting a lot of questions out, but I intend to reason with you, hopefully through most of them.

Job had many defenses using words, and great rationale to answer his compatriots. Though, at no point was Job's answer: Indeed I have sinned as all of mankind has, and so I am deserving of death.

If, and since, all transgression is worthy of separation from G-d--whose standard is perfection, and also G-d is life and separation from His presence is death, Job, like us, all deserved death. 

At the very end of the book of Job, the man himself is met by G-d Himself, and he has no other recourse than to admit his faults. He covers his mouth and rightly stays quiet before his Maker.

So Job learned a valuable lesson. G-d is sovereign and can call us to account for our faults at any time, and from any time in our lives. We are laid bare before our Creator.

The other aspect to this is the Adversary. Many people equate the devil with death, and being the keeper of hell, death, and destruction.

Death is the natural consequence of sin, but it's also a natural byproduct of eating (plant life dies when we eat), and it's also a byproduct of free will; an example might be:

If we make a mistake and miscalculate falling from an extreme height which kills us, there likely was no sin, but a gross miscalculation. If the laws of physics were the same in the Garden of Eden, then it's plausible that sometimes death may have merely been the consequence of a smaller animal being underfoot of a larger one.

However, we know that through one man sin and death entered the cosmos κόσμος (universe).

The Adversary (satan) has a kingdom, and we know it's a hierarchical one with some order to it. We know this because Yeshua stated that if ha-satan's kingdom were divided against itself, it would not stand. (Matthew 12:25-29 and Mark 3:23-27)

John 10:10 states: The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

So Yeshua is at odds with the adversary, and we see that upon His immersion by John in water, forthwith the Holy Spirit led Him into the wilderness to be tempted...of the adversary.

It was a "divine appointment". Let that sink in.

Just as the adversary had a divine appointment in Heaven before G-d, and was asked, "Where did you come from?" To which the reply was, "Roaming to and fro throughout the earth." G-d then asks, "Have you considered my servant Job?"

Considered him, for what? To test him as Yeshua was tested.

Job did not relent upon testing, but in his discourse he made accusations against G-d. He did not curse G-d to His face as the adversary proposed he would, and he did not curse G-d to die as his wife advised him.

But for all Job's faithfulness he was not the coming Savior.

We are tested so that we can make manifest the works of G-d in our lives through the same power that raised Yeshua from the grave!

Just as the man born blind of whom the disciples asked Yeshua,"On whose account and for what sin was the man punished--being born blind, the man or his parents?" Jesus replied, "Neither, but so that the works of G-d could be made manifest."

We should not think it odd when we come into diverse testing. It is an amazing opportunity to shine forth as a city on a hill, or a candle lit in a dark room. 

Yeshua is our Light, and He overcame the darkness.

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