Power To Deceive...

There is a God that is working daily to deliver His favor and blessing to us. But there is another spirit that is focused upon us with quite opposite intentions. Many people hold the notion of the devil as folklore. This isn’t the first time humanity has down-played this present evil. Only 100 years after Christ, the Christians that formed in Greece began to refer to the Christianity of Christ’s miracle days as ‘primitive Palestine’. We too look down on some spiritual things as primitive. But if we go too far with that, we’ll make a serious mistake. Whether we grasp it or not, the works of the devil are real...
“The magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their incantations; each man threw down his staff and they all turned into snakes.” ~Ex. 7:11
Moses threw down his rod before Pharaoh, and it became a snake. He did this to prove God had sent him. But within the hour numerous Egyptian magicians were called in that did the same thing. Soon there were many snakes crawling around on Pharaoh’s floor. Now its true that Moses’ snake ate up all the other’s before turning back into a rod, which was God’s way of showing He was the superior power, but the fact remains those other men were actually able to utter incantations that caused their rods to become snakes too. And it caused Pharaoh’s eyes to become unimpressed by God. And that is Satan’s goal, to cause man to be unimpressed by Christ. Lets not be ignorant to the fact that this present enemy does possess the POWER TO DECEIVE. This fact bids us to be alert & discerning as we walk on this earth. ~verlon