*I strongly encourage you to read each part in its entirety in order to come up with your own conclusions.

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GOD’S WAYS ARE NOT OUR WAYS

Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
“ For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

James 1:2-5 “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,  knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.  But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”

Philippians 4:4-7 “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;  and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

These emphasize several truths we need to know and be reminded of:

1. He is infinite and we are finite.
2. He knows the end from the beginning while we see just a short part of the now.
3. He knows the whys, while we grasp for wisdom.
4. Examples through Scripture and experience clearly illustrate that His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts.

In spite of our difficulty in understanding God’s ways and thoughts, He in His mercy and promise provides. He offers us wisdom instead of confusion, peace instead of anxiety, and all we ask in faith believing.

The author cites Moses at the burning bush, the parting of the Red Sea, Jesus walking on the water, and other miracles to show how God moves us to a new paradigm of thinking;  and to show us that His ways and thoughts are not ours.

Whenever we try to predict that God will act in a certain way, He changes the paradigm to keep us from becoming our own little gods.

The above statement is hugely important for the Christian to understand. Peter, James, and John see Jesus huddled with Moses and Elijah. So Peter comes up with the idea of building tabernacles on the Mount of Transfiguration. This is what Christians in ministry sometimes do.

We preach a good sermon or sing a song that brings goose bumps and tingles; then at the next meeting we try to duplicate exactly what we did before hoping to get the same results. But God won’t allow that to happen because we then become petrified in methods, rote and tradition instead of focusing on Him. This unfortunately is the state of some churches and ministries these days.

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT SATAN?

In God’s Word, we discover that Satan is God’s enemy and is against all for which God stands. He is the archenemy of good.

God had created Lucifer a perfect spirit being, but He also gave him free moral agency, that is, the ability to choose to follow good or evil. Lucifer chose to become Satan the Devil, the Adversary, by allowing sin to mold his character.

Isaiah 14:12-15 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
For you have said in your heart:

‘ I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit.”

Before his fall, Satan was also associated with music in heaven. Ezekiel 28:13 says of Satan before his fall, the workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created. Apparently, the musical career of Satan did not end with his fall, because the sound of his stringed instruments is only brought down when he is imprisoned in hell.

Is it any wonder then that pastors have the most problems with the praise and worship team than any other single group in the church? Satan most likely detests even more those that are now doing his job. Could it be that the third of the angels that Satan took with him was the praise and worship team in heaven? Are the praise and worship members in your church being lifted up daily in prayer?

Lucifer was the first created being to exercise his will against God. Since that time, others have followed. Satan caused a third of heaven to fall with him by influencing other angelic beings to make war against God (Revelation 12:4).

They too were cast out of heaven. They have since become evil spirits due to their choice. They now roam the earth, with Satan as their leader and master. These invisible supernatural beings still have power, but it is directed toward evil works of darkness.

Ephesians 6:12 “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.”

Here is where your thinking may get stretched a bit. However, if one can believe in little green creatures flying around in space ships, how much harder is it to believe in interdimensional beings of malevolent intent?

I’m going to assume that if you’re here and reading this it’s because you’re pretty astute as a student of prophecy. Case in point, I’m also going to assume that most of you hold the same perspective when it comes to the Alien and UFO phenomenon - that they are not “little green men” or “space ships from outer space” as the mainstream thinking believes, but that they have a spiritual and sinister origin as the fallen angels (Satan’s demons) that the Bible talks about, and that they will play a significant role in the “Great Deception” of the end times scenario.

This is absolutely critical.

Next up Part II