CHARLO, New Brunswick, March 16, 2024 – The dark energy generated by emotions such as misdirected anger, guilt, unholy fear, and agony is the spiritual life blood of unholy beings. The desire to feed on this form of energy drives Satan’s agents to inspire and actively encourage war, revolutions, torture, murder, pornography, unfettered sexuality (especially deviant and degenerate forms of it), violent entertainment, violent protests, horror fiction and films, and suicide. The energy released during these activities and events strengthens the demons that attend on the participants and expands Satan’s areas of influence.

Jesus stated point-blank that the world is under Satan. God has given Satan administrative authority over the world, but Satan can only do what God permits, and God will only permit what has been earned or what he’s using for testing purposes. Satan’s role, and the role of those who serve him, is to tempt people into acting in ways that are contrary to their spiritual benefit so that they’ll earn worse and worse rewards. He does this mainly by lying, that is, by misrepresenting Truth. In Satan’s economy, what is godly is made to appear “backward”, unfair, unjust, and unattractive, while evil is dressed up and sold to us as progressive, fair, just, and desirable.

It is worth reminding ourselves, lest we get too comfortable in this world, that Satan and his minions are in control. They run all levels of government and royalty, most “global” businesses, public and private education, public and private healthcare, all banking and financial systems, all military and public/private law enforcement and security, all religious institutions, most media, and the lion’s share of the communications and entertainment industries. They also control the drug, prostitution, illegal arms, and human trafficking trades. Official and unofficial mafias fall under their realm of authority as well, including supra-national entities such as the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, and their offshoot charities, think-tanks, initiatives, conventions, and meetings. All regulating and governing authorities in the world operate under Satan, but Satan is strictly limited by God for the time being. Because he’s limited by God, Satan can only do what God permits him to do, and God will only permit the precise amount of evil – to the exact iota – that has been earned or agreed to by those on the receiving end of it or what God sees as a beneficial test. Satan cannot override God’s limitations.

It’s important to understand the extent of Satan’s reach in the world in order to appreciate how deeply the demonic realm infiltrates every aspect of worldly life from conception to grave. For us born-again believers, Satan has no power over us beyond the corporeal. Spiritually, we’re under God’s authority and protection, which Satan and his demons recognize and cannot breach. This protection is the victory won by Jesus’ sacrifice and is inviolable as long as we remain loyal to God. It is for me a profound and humbling comfort to know that Satan has no hold on me anymore.

Those who are of the world, however, have no such comfort. Being spiritually deaf, blind, and dumb, they’re easy prey for Satan. No matter how many times politicians lie to them, they continue to vote for and support them. No matter how many medical errors, incompetencies, corruptions, and outright murders are exposed in the healthcare system, the people of the world (including, unfortunately, most Christians) continue to flock to doctors for treatment. No matter how much corruption is reported about law enforcement, the worldly, for the most part, continue to obey the enforcers. Those who are of the world operate in a state of cognitive dissonance, meaning that even though they are presented with clear evidence of fraud and ill intent, they continue to function as if that evidence doesn’t exist. Their entire being relies on ignoring Truth and embracing lies.

It’s no wonder, then, that human sacrifice has been repackaged as euthanasia and is being marketed as preferential to natural death. This rebranding has Satan’s claw marks all over it, as we only need to ask “Who benefits?” to see who’s behind it. Satan benefits firstly by getting the suicide victim to violate God’s law against killing (suicide literally means “self-killing”) and secondly by having the suicide victim endure horrendous suffering during his or her death throes, which, as mentioned previously, feeds and expands the spiritual energy of dark entities. Satan also benefits from the harvesting of the suicide victim’s flesh and organs during the death throes (most euthanasia victims agree ahead of time to donate their organs and flesh), which are then sold for a tidy profit.

Torture during death throes releases certain chemicals in the tortured body that tenderize the meat and give it a better taste. This is why animals are terrorized during some slaughtering processes and why many animals, both domestic and wild, “play” with (i.e., terrorize) their prey before killing them. It is worth noting that not all of the human flesh and organs harvested by medical teams are destined for transplant recipients, medical schools, or research facilities; some of it ends up on dinner plates.

This is the sad reality of Satan’s world, but none of these horrendous practices are new. In fact, they’re as old as recorded history, which not surprisingly also began around the same time as the fallen angels landed on Earth and started teaching humans their dark ways. Human sacrifice, cannibalism, and sexual depravity quickly became accepted and ritualized in most cultures, including those that gave birth to Judaism. Read the back story on Abraham and how he physically and spiritually escaped his own cultural heritage (you’ll find the story in the apocrypha). If nothing else, it very clearly demonstrates that there are indeed instances when you can never ever go home again.

We need always to keep in mind that Satan’s main mode of operation is deception. God brought him onboard the plan of salvation because Satan’s so good at deceiving. As Jesus said, when Satan lies, he’s speaking his own language. This means that everything and everyone under Satan’s authority likewise needs to be viewed as deceptive, as their orders and directives come straight from the Father of Lies.

That’s not to say that, just because Satan’s issuing the directives behind the scenes, we should actively oppose worldly authorities. Jesus never did. He well understood that everything happening in the world was permitted by God, which meant that actively opposing worldly authorities by, for instance, protesting or engaging in revolutionary activities, would be the same as actively opposing God.

Yet, that’s also not to say that Jesus went along with everything that worldly authorities dished out. Right from get-go, when Herod issued a kill order for all children aged two and under in a certain region, Joseph and Mary didn’t hang around waiting for the soldiers to arrive with swords drawn. No. God warned them about the imminent danger and advised them to grab Jesus and head to Egypt right away, which they did. They didn’t protest Herod’s decree or try to defy it; they simply removed themselves from its reach before it could affect them. This is a picture-perfect example of how we, as followers of Jesus, should deal with the ungodly laws and mandates that are being passed in this world: We simply remove ourselves from their reach.

We see this approach again when Jesus coolly walked through the midst of the mob in Nazareth that was trying to kill him and went on his way. He didn’t resist his frenzied former neighbours or try to reason with them; he simply, with the protection and guidance of God, removed himself from their reach. He did this again and again throughout his ministry until it was his time, at which point he fully submitted to the arresting authorities and to everything that came after his arrest. Peter and Paul and the other apostles likewise did the same, not resisting authorities when they arrested them or beat them, but relying on God for strength and guidance, so that sometimes they had to endure the test of a beating or an imprisonment and sometimes they were whisked away before they could be caught.

Satan isn’t going anywhere for the rest of our time here on Earth. He and/or his demons will be our constant companions, whether we see them hovering next to us or not. Most of the people we know are under their authority and can turn against us at any time, which means they can’t be fully trusted. God we can trust, Jesus we can trust, other born-again believers we can mostly trust, but everyone else we need to keep at arm’s length.

Yes, Satan is running this show, but God is the producer, and what he says goes. I write all this as a reminder of the kind of world we live in (lest we get too comfortable in it) and also as a reminder of how grateful we, as born-again believers, need to be, every day and every night, for God’s unbreachable and loving protection.

We may be in the world, but we’re not of the world: We’re God’s.

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“And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.”

Isaiah 4:5