Satan’s greatest desire is to be worshipped. Satan wants to be God so bad he can taste it. Satan isn’t an original thinker so the best he can do is try to imitate what God does. What Satan is good at is lies, trickery and deception and he uses those skills on earth to create doctrines that are the opposite of what God commands. Satan has sway over the earth and the secular world has implemented many of these doctrines of the devil due to his influence. One of the spiritual laws of God’s kingdom is a creature will produce after its kind. A good tree will produce only good fruit and a bad tree will produce only bad fruit. One of the proofs of Satan’s existence is to look at all the bad fruit he has produced. There are many doctrines in our world today that are the fruit produced by Satan. Satan’s fingerprints are everywhere for those who are spiritually aware. Many are fooled into believing the following doctrines of the devil are a good thing when the reality is they lead to the wrath of God and the damnation of the soul in the lake of fire for all of eternity:
1. Casual sex – Fornication is universally accepted and so is living together without being married. For many years I thought it was okay too. It wasn’t until I started studying what God has to say about it that I realized God hates fornicators. God says fornicators will not enter heaven (unless their sins are forgiven). Fornication is mentioned the most in the New Testament books of 1 Corinthians and Revelation. The dictionary defines fornication as having sexual intercourse with someone you’re not married to. God established marriage as a union between a man and a woman and sex is for the marriage bed only. The Bible is very clear about this:
1 Corinthians 9-10 – Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
2. Adultery – Adultery is commonplace around the world and God hates adultery even more that he hates fornication. What shocked me is the sheer volume of what God has to say on this subject. You can usually gauge how important something is to God by how often it’s discussed in the Bible. There are 69 verses in the Bible that address adultery in one way or another. I personally wouldn’t want to stand before God on the day of judgment as an unforgiven adulterer.
3. Abortion of demand – God creates life and only God can take a life. One of the ten commandments is, “Thou shalt not kill.” At the moment of conception, God says life has begun because at that point he adds a part of himself, an eternal spirit, to the new life just beginning. Killing an innocent baby in the womb is an abomination to God and those who are responsible will face the wrath of God on the last day. Nations who condone this grievous sin will also be judged. All those aborted babies go to heaven and we’ll one day see them as the adults they would have become had they lived.
4. Homosexuality – Homosexuality has become accepted in society and legalized in most places. It’s no longer politically correct to oppose it. In fact, if we don’t accept the gay and homosexual lifestyle in all areas of our lives we’re the ones who are persecuted. God calls homosexuality an abomination and believing Christians should look at it that way. We may have to accept homosexuality as the law of the land but we don’t have to accept it or get comfortable with it on a personal basis.
Leviticus 18:22 – (God speaking) – You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.
5. Evolution – Satan’s influence on the secular world has led to our educational system espousing the theory of evolution as the reason for our existence. Evolution has been drilled into us from childhood in our schools to the point where everyone believes the lie. When you look for the actual proof of evolution there isn’t any. Evolution is only a baseless theory and nothing more. In fact, the evidence against evolution is overwhelming. Once again Satan has pulled the wool over the eyes of an unsuspecting world. Satan doesn’t want you to know God made you because if you did you’d seek him out and accept the free gift of eternal life that God offers. If you believe there’s a God who made you then Satan’s cover is blown. If God is real then so is Satan. Satan is exposed for all the world to see and he doesn’t want that. Satan desires most of all to remain anonymous and fly under the radar because human beings are defenseless against an enemy they aren’t even aware they have.
6. Salvation by good works – Satan has convinced the entire world that if there’s a heaven you can get there by good works. So many people relax in their search for the truth of God because they’re counting on their good works to get them into heaven. Good works avail us nothing. God commands us to do good works after we are saved unto eternal life. Nowhere in the Bible will you find doing good works mentioned as a precondition for going to heaven. All religions on earth, except Christianity, require good works to enter heaven and it’s a false hope. That was Satan’s plan all along since he sponsored all world religions except Judaism and Christianity. Only Christianity is the true path to God. Only Christianity says heaven is a free gift of God just for the asking. Satan has even convinced a majority of Christians that good works are still necessary to get to heaven. The Catholic church, for instance, still wrongly teaches that good works are necessary for entry into heaven. Even Mother Teresa, who spent a lifetime in India ministering to the poor in Calcutta, can’t get into heaven based on her good works. Mother Teresa only got into heaven because she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. That’s all it takes! For those who have ears, let them hear and be saved!
Ephesians 2:8-9 – For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Isaiah 45:22 – Turn to Me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
It’s important for us to realize that many of the norms of today’s society have been created by Satan’s influence. The Bible said these things would occur in the end times so don’t be surprised. When you know your Bible you can recognize the signs of the end times which we are now in. God tells us not worry too much because we’re the children of God and no matter what happens to us our ultimate destination is to be in heaven with the Lord. We’ll either go to heaven when we die or before if Jesus comes in the clouds to rapture the saints. Get to know the book of Revelation like the back of your hand. Revelation has a lot of symbolism and it’s hard to understand at first but keep at it and the Holy Spirit will reveal spiritual truth when you need it. Revelation is the only book in the Bible where God says he’ll bless you every time you read it. God wants you to understand what’s coming soon and how to prepare for it. Good luck on your personal journey of faith. I’ll see you in heaven one day.