Visits from Satan: The Great Deceiver

2 John January 12, 2017

Satan – A Deceiver and Always a Liar
I still remember the first time I knew in my heart, he was real. Shortly after being born again I watched Faust with Richard Burton, and the Lord gave me the revelation that the devil was truly a real being. Not long after that I had a group of teenagers in my house overnight. They had gathered there to hear about my new experience with the Lord. I had been asleep a short time when I awakened with a start to find a grayish/white substance slithering across the floor of my bedroom. Of course my first thought was that my house was on fire and the young people had probably done it by smoking. But very quickly God’s own Spirit assured me it was only a ridiculous stunt by the enemy just to frighten me in hopes that I would give up sharing with these hungry young adults. I at once took authority over it in Jesus’ name and the strange aberration immediately dissolved. I believe God allowed this supernatural incident to start my education in the ways of Lucifer.

Later, after reading a book called The Challenging Counterfeit, I realized the phenomenon I had seen was probably a form of ectoplasm, (often used in spiritualism) to manifest things.

Old Scratch Proves to Be A Liar
My next encounter was a little longer and more dramatic. In 1974 my new husband and I had been taking every opportunity to bring his elderly mother to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. The three of us were on our way from Boston to visit my mother, who had been born-again a few years before at age 70, in Missouri. As we traveled I would attempt to read Scripture and Roy and I would discuss what it meant. Edith would rattle paper bags or rearrange her luggage, anything to keep from hearing the Word. We were discouraged and frustrated.

We laid over in a motel in Illinois and while the other two were asleep and I was just dropping off I was startled by a wicked and eerie cackling sound. It sounded like the Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz. I opened my eyes and there on the wall beside me was Old Scratch himself His FACE ONLY appeared. He looked like the most ugly, traditional satanic face you could image. He had a black goatee; a dark evil sheen covered his wrinkly skin while his creepy laugh worked its way through a mouth full of missing teeth. He cackled again and then spoke: “You will NEVER get her!”

I knew at once he meant my mother-in-Law. I rebuked him in the name of Jesus, as I had to the ectoplasm before, and he disappeared. As soon as we were alone the next morning I told Roy about it. As usual the Devil proved to be a liar because at 77 my mother-in-law invited Jesus Christ into her life and lived three more years in the Lord until her 80th birthday. Those last few years of her life she was a woman delivered from many fears. She went home to be with the Lord having great peace. Satan tried to discourage me into giving up on her but the Lord allowed me to have a big part in her coming to salvation.

The Enemy Ever Lurking About
Sometime in the 1980’s my daughter-In-law had grown a beautiful row of zinnias. I took a large number of pictures. I was going through them; very happy with how the photos came out. Then suddenly I discovered a strange whitish transparent mask in the midst of those lovely, brilliant colors. It was a very ugly, glum looking face, even trying to cover one side of a brilliant pink blossom. Rather quickly I realized our PERENNIAL ENEMY had somehow left one of his signatures to remind us he is always spying, lurking about. He will be until he is … “Cast into the bottomless pit, and shut up and a seal set upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled.” Rev. 20:3

But the apostle John reminded the elect lady and her children that love will win out if we do not concede to falsehood, if we are not overcome by the deceiver.

“And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.” 2 John 6-9

Christ is the Truth!

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