What You May Not Know!
By DON ESPOSITO
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Truly, it’s time for us to sing, and even shout, “GLORY! HALELUYAH! PRAISE OUR GREAT AND WONDERFUL ALMIGHTY EL!” For each day we are just ONE DAY CLOSER to GLORY in the Kingdom of Yahweh with peace, joy and happiness over all the earth!
The 6,000 year DAY OF MAN is just about over! In our TIME, this very living generation, KING of kings Yahshua the Messiah will rule over ALL NATIONS!
THINK OF IT! No more nerve-wracking tensions, uneasy trials to endure. No more suffering anguish and pain. No more crime, violence, war and fear of war. No more fears and worries! None of these things actually brought on, whether we realize it or not, BY A VERY REAL SATAN THE DEVIL!
But, even now, with all the troubles and evils on every side about us, remember Yahweh is on HIS THRONE IN HEAVEN and Yahshua sitting beside HIM, interceding for us. Yahweh’s POWER IS TOTAL, COMPLETE, and far greater than Satan’s!
And, in the meantime (possibly there are just a very few more years, of all these troubles) His ear is OPEN to our cry, and Yahshua is interceding for us.
But now, while in these days that remain, we are going to have to live in a time of TROUBLE. But WHY? What is the cause? Does Satan work only in children of disobedience? We need to realize this TRUTH! Too many in Yahweh’s congregations DON’T!
In Ephesians 2:2 is a very crucial statement. It is one of the most important in the Bible! It says Satan is “ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit which is active in the sons of disobedience.”
Many of Yahweh’s people will read right over the fact that Satan is the RULER of the AUTHORITY of the air, not really UNDERSTANDING it, and since Satan is now working IN the “sons of disobedience,” we suppose that EXCLUDES US, so we need have no concern about it!
Please let me MAKE THIS CLEAR!
I could never have understood that until I began broadcasting over the air. In the hotel room where I am writing right now are MANY VOICES, MANY SOUNDS, some MUSIC, that I DON’T HEAR.
Therefore I am unaware of them. But bring in five or six radio sets and turn on the TV. Just tune to the right wavelengths and suddenly I and any in this room will hear these SOUNDS, voices speaking, sounds of music. I don’t hear them NOW because my ears are not tuned to their particular wavelength.
SATAN BROADCASTS! He broadcasts worldwide, as far as there is air. What he is broadcasting is IN THE SAME ROOM NOW! I don’t HEAR it, I don’t SEE what he is pushing out OVER THE AIR, as RULER of the AUTHORITY of the air, but my spirit with my mind is TUNED to his wavelength.
But even though I AM automatically tuned in on his wavelength (as every human is), I’M NOT LISTENING! Because I’m keeping MY MIND CONCENTRATED ON WHAT I AM WRITING AND ON YAHWEH’S MESSAGE IN HIS WORD, in the Bibles that lie (two different translations) here beside me on the table.
You can tune in on either radio or TV. The SOUNDS come in. THEY WERE ALREADY IN THE ROOM, IN THE AIR, but now you’re tuned in on their wavelengths with your radio or TV set; the sounds and pictures became audible and visible. But I can concentrate my mind on SOMETHING ELSE, like THE BIBLE, and focus my mind on THAT, become oblivious to what’s coming in on radio and TV. So also I can ignore Satan’s impulses.
Once you are converted and become a begotten CHILD OF YAHWEH, once you become a family member into Yahweh’s family, THAT DOES NOT DISCONNECT YOUR BRAIN AND SPIRIT FROM SATAN’S WAVELENGTH. YOU ARE STILL TUNED IN, if you are willing to yield and LISTEN to Satan.
Let me prove that. Let me quote so many scriptures to PROVE IT you will have to BELIEVE IT!
The Power of the Air
First, however, notice that word POWER of the air. Once when we lived in a suburb west of Chicago a tornado ripped through a town about a mile west of us. I saw it! It was a fearful sight! That was too close for comfort. I went to see the havoc and wreckage in its wake after it had passed on by. It was TERRIBLE! Several had been killed. A large, heavy church or school house bell, weighing at least two or three tons, was ripped off and that heavy mass of iron carried almost three blocks by the POWER of that wind before gravity pulled it to the ground!
I’m writing in Tokyo. We landed here at dusk last night after a 13-hour flight THROUGH THE AIR. We flew at 39,000 and 41,000 feet, at a speed up to 600 miles an hour. Slicing through the AIR at that rate of speed, there is SO MUCH POWER in the air that our plane’s wings have to be swept backward instead of straight out or the force of that air POWER would pull them off. Still it’s the POWER of the air that held up our plane and kept it floating along smoothly slicing through air at that same elevation above sea and ground for 13 hours.
Some people are AFRAID TO FLY. I met a man yesterday who is afraid to fly. Such people do not understand the POWER of the air and how an airplane is designed to utilize that air POWER to hold it up in the air at the prescribed elevation and speed steadily and smoothly for HOURS.
Let me tell you that the RULER of the POWER of the air is a POWERFUL BEING! He is the MOST POWERFUL type of being Yahweh has ever created, although short of Yahweh Himself. Thank Yahweh, Yahweh is even MORE POWERFUL! And HE is our protection, our refuge, our ever-present HELP.
HOW Satan works today
The spirit in man is merely spirit essence, not a spirit person or ghost, and it cannot see, hear or think. The BRAIN sees through the physical eye. The human spirit acts as a computer, retaining as MEMORY all the facts and knowledge the eyes have seen and ears heard during your lifetime, and it gives instant recall of that knowledge to the brain. With this instant recall the brain THINKS. Thus this human spirit imparts to the physical BRAIN the power of INTELLECT. Animals have no such spirit, so animals do not THINK as man does or have INTELLECT.
Yahweh made man to need ANOTHER Spirit to join with this human spirit, the HOLY SPIRIT OF YAHWEH. That Spirit imparts the power of SPIRITUAL intellect, of spiritual comprehension and understanding, which the greatest men on earth, without that Holy Spirit, cannot know!
When Yahweh wanted to cause King Cyrus of Persia to send certain Jews under Zerubbabel as governor, and Joshua the high priest, and the prophets Ezra and Nehemiah back to Jerusalem to build the second Temple, “YAHWEH stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he caused a voice to pass in all his kingdom…” (Ezra 1:1)
He got his message through to Cyrus’ mind via Cyrus’ human spirit. That is likewise how Satan broadcasts. YOUR human spirit is automatically IN TUNE WITH SATAN’S wavelength.
He does not broadcast in words or pictures, neither audibly or in video, but in ATTITUDES of Self- centeredness, of vanity, lust and greed, of jealousy and envy, of competition, strife and violence, of hate, resentment, bitterness, of rebellion and resentment against authority. We call it HUMAN NATURE but it is actually Satan nature.
Yahweh’s WAY, His Spirit, His law, is just the opposite, the way of LOVE, of outgoing concern for the GOOD of others.
Now the converted believer with the Holy Spirit of Yahweh can constantly read Yahweh’s Word, pray often, keep his mind in a prayerful attitude, learn Yahweh’s way and therefore reject Satan’s impulses of self-centeredness. That’s WHY we need CONSTANT PRAYER and BIBLE STUDY to keep so CLOSE to Yahweh that Satan’s broadcasting does not sway us, but we ignore or reject it. Satan CANNOT FORCE US AGAINST OUR WILL if we do not voluntarily submit.
Yahweh’s teaching
Now notice some scriptures showing us HOW to prevent Satan from WORKING IN US by his broadcasting.
Speaking of those to whom the Good News was hid from their minds, Paul wrote: “To those whose eyes have been blinded by the god of this world, because they did not believe, lest the light of the glorious good news of the Messiah, who is the image of YAHWEH, should shine on them” (2nd Cor 4:4).
Read that again. Notice, Satan blinded them by injecting into their minds through their human spirit the very OPPOSITE attitude of self-centeredness.
We were not BORN with human nature. Such spiritual traits as SELF-CENTEREDNESS are not transmitted by heredity. But we ACQUIRE this human nature just as the children of Yahweh, when converted, ACQUIRE THE DIVINE NATURE, “partakers of the divine nature” (2nd Pet 1:4).
To the Corinthians, Paul feared lest they would be deceived by the still living Satan, just as was Eve: “lest… as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted… (2nd Cor 11:3). Satan is still working IN BELIEVERS, just as in the Corinthians who were believers! Paul writes to those in Yahweh’s Congregation in Ephesus:
Eph 6:10 For the rest, my brothers, be made powerful in our Master and in the might of His strength.
Eph 6:11 Put on all the armor of YAHWEH, for you to be able to stand against the strategies of the Devil,
Eph 6:12 For our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with principalities, and with those in authority, and with the possessors of this dark world, and with the evil spirits that are beneath heaven.
And in verse 11 Paul wrote, “Put on all the armor of YAHWEH, for you to be able to stand against the strategies of the Devil.”
Rely on Messiah
I have sensed that some of Yahweh’s ministers felt that THEY were SO STRONG that they were BEYOND BEING DECEIVED BY HIM OR THAT
SATAN could actually WORK IN THEM as I have described above. I know Satan is a thousand times stronger than I. I have to rely on Messiah, who is MORE POWERFUL than Satan. Those ministers WENT OUT from us. Satan DID deceive them and WORK IN THEM!
But LISTEN CAREFULLY! A DECEIVED man does not KNOW he is deceived. He THINKS he is RIGHT. If he KNEW he was deceived, he would not be, would he? Satan is MORE POWERFUL, and, in addition, MORE CUNNING, MORE CLEVER, MORE SUBTLE, THAN ALL OUR MINISTERS PUT TOGETHER!
I say to you ministers! You may feel you have grown great in the ministry and so strong you can overpower Satan. THAT’S PRECISELY WHAT SATAN WANTS YOU TO THINK! No, you ministers, directly or indirectly better teach your flocks what I am teaching them here, what MESSIAH teaches them.
For some, they have been tending to try to see HOW CLOSE they can get to Satan’s way, apparently desiring HIS WAY of worldly interests, rather than Yahweh’s, and STILL MAKE IT INTO THE KINGDOM! That’s the best way I know to make it into the LAKE OF FIRE and take others with you! If Satan’s way were better, Yahweh would tell us to live that way!
It takes constant VIGILANCE to keep our minds on MESSIAH, on HIS WORK, ON THE THINGS OF YAHWEH, to avoid LISTENING to Satan’s broadcasting of attitudes of selfishness, of taking interest in material WORLDLY THINGS, of swaying us to REASON humanly that we can get a little closer to interest in worldly and material things, a little more like professing “Christian” churches of this world, and still get into Yahweh’s Kingdom!
Resist Satan’s broadcasts
If we allow ourselves to LET DOWN just a little, in our prayer, Bible study, we begin to let our minds become interested in the things or ways of this world, TV or movies, perhaps, as some have been seen even gambling in casinos. Then we wonder why we find ourselves irritable, mentally on the defensive, suspecting others, getting conceptions of competition or division or sides in the congregation, suspicious of the motives of others, controversial, cynical, and we do not realize WHAT IS CAUSING ALL THAT!
I’LL TELL YOU WHAT CAUSED IT, SATAN WAS BROADCASTING IT, AND BECAUSE YOU WERE NOT VIGILENT IN PRYAER AND KEEPING CLOSE TO YAHWEH AND HAVING YAHWEH FILL YOUR MIND AND HEART WITH THE WARMTH OF HIS LOVE, these negative attitudes of Satan were taking hold of you!
That’s why Yahweh warns us, through Peter, “Be sensible, watch, because the adversary the Devil walks about as a roaring lion seeking someone he may devour” (1st Pet 5:8).
Just think of that sentence, LITERALLY. If you were alone and a savage, roaring lion came running at you, you’d be FRIGHTENED to death, to use a common expression. Yahweh meant for us to realize that we SHOULD BE JUST AS FRIGHTENED AT THE knowledge Satan is seeking to DESTROY the Congregation and everyone in it.
Peter continues, “therefore resist him, being steadfast in the faith” (verse 9). Through Jacob, Messiah teaches us: “Then submit to YAHWEH, Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to Elohim, and He will draw near to you…” (Jac 4:7-8). He meant for us to TAKE THIS SCRIPTURE SERIOUS! You must resist the devil and submit to YHWH daily if you want to be in His Kingdom. Most have no idea how Satan has them hoodwinked into so much worldliness and apathy not even realizing that it is Satan broadcasting these thoughts and attitudes into their minds as the prince of the power of the airwaves.
Yes, it IS possible, maybe Satan is using YOU, and YOU DON’T KNOW IT! You have to be conscious every day of your life of his broadcasting of envy, gossiping, and maligning your leadership and selfish self-serving attitudes that he broadcasts to each one each and every day.
You need to be praying and studying your bible each and every day of your life and to be hearing Yahweh’s broadcasting from His (Ruach) spirit and not Satan’s broadcasting through his power as prince of the worldly New World Order airwaves.
The more time that you are surfing the Internet, watching worldly TV and listening to worldly radio you are a sure prey from the prince of the power of the airwaves.
We need to get closer to Yahweh, back to the original TRUTHS He put in His Congregation. We need to CONFESS our sins and He will be faithful and just to FORGIVE us our sins, and to CLEASE US from all unrighteousness (1st John 1:9).