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Understood How The Spiritual Realm Functioned?
Understood How The Spiritual Realm Functioned?
Coach Dave Daubenmire, Guest Writer, Western Journalism —Do you believe in God? I suppose that is a good place to start. Most Americans do. Nearly 93% of Americans believe in some type of “higher power.” The United States has the highest population of self-identified Christians in the world, nearly 250 million. That is 78% of Americans who identify themselves as believers in the Christian God.
“Believe in” is a nebulous term. “Believing in God” does not make one a Christian. But that is a whole other debate…
But the point is, there is a vast majority of Americans who have been raised with some form of “religious” indoctrination. That is a good thing. The “seeds of faith” are still at work in America.
But if 78% of Americans believe in the Christian God, why do so few believe in the Devil?
What if Satan is real? Not “was” real, but is…currently…right now…presently? What if Satan is real?
Some Barna research from a few years ago unearthed some enlightening results.
• Only 40% of Americans believe in a literal hell.
• 76% believe in a literal heaven, and 62% believe they are going there.
• While over 90% believe in God, only 40% believe the Devil is real.
• 80% of Christians believe in angels, but only 42% believe in demons.
• Only 58% believe the Holy Spirit is alive and active.
What was it doubting Thomas said? ”Unless I see, I cannot believe.” I guess he was a forerunner to modern Christianity…if I can’t see it, then it ain’t real.
What if Satan is real?
Is it just me, or does it seem that Christians like to pick and choose what parts of the Bible they will believe? No wonder we are in such a mess.
Before I continue, in the interest of full disclosure, I never went to cemetery, and I am not a learned theologian. Most of my education was in the School of the Wilderness. But I can think, and I can read. Most of my sense is “horse sense,” as they used to call it. Common sense ain’t so common anymore.
But I do believe that the Holy Spirit is alive and active in the life of a true believer. The Bible tells us that it is the Holy Spirit that guides us unto all truth. I’d rather trust Him than Rick Warren…or some pastor…or a Doctor…or peer reviewed scientist…or Bill O’Reilly.
Did you know that :
• The Bible mentions the Devil or Satan by name over 100 times?
• The word “demon” is mentioned over 70 times?
• Demons are identified as “fallen angels,” a third of which were cast out of heaven with Satan?
If you believe in a literal God, then there is a literal Devil. If angels are real, then so are demons.
At least 1/3 of the original angels work for Satan. What do demons do?
• They take control of bodies.
• They are described as unclean spirits, evil spirits, and lying spirits.
• They do Satan’s bidding to destroy the works of God and hinder His people.
• They are identified as evil spirits in high places, principalities, and powers, rulers of darkness.
• They deceive the world, promote false doctrine, and combat the holy angels.
What if Satan is Real?
Jesus encountered demons in the world.
• He drove them out of people who were under their influence.
• He demonstrated His power over them by commanding they obey Him.
• The demons recognized Him and feared Him.
• He gave His followers the power to tread on them and all of the power of the enemy.
• The demons are defeated. Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil. Demons do his work.
Spirits influence human beings.
• They enter through the physical senses, especially the eye and ear, that open “gates.”
• They have a voice. “My sheep hear my voice and another voice they will not hear.”
• The Bible blames them for causing people to engage in violence, lying, seizures, eating disorders, sexual sins, and madness. Sin opens gates to the influence of demons.
• Once “driven out,” they can return even stronger if one returns to old behaviors.
• Demonic influences can be generational. The sins of the father pass to the children.
• Jesus died to give us victory over demonic influences.
• Their power is through deception…making things appear good that ultimately enslave.
What if much of the behavior we see in America is the result of demonic influences? What if our young children are being given “medication” in schools to combat the demonic spirits? What if pornography was “opening the gate” to sexual sins, including child molestations, and gender confusions? What if the leaders of our government were controlled by demonic spirits for power and manipulation? What if the answers to ALL of the problems facing this nation were not political but were spiritual? What if no one ever told you about the demonic?
The first lie mentioned in the Bible was a statement uttered by the Father of Lies. “Did God really say? You will not die. The greatest lie Satan could ever convince us of is that he didn’t exist.
I know…I know…fantasy and make believe. The Devil isn’t dressed in red, and he doesn’t carry a pitchfork. The Devil is nothing more than a make-believe foe for the religiously deceived.
There is no God. There is no right and wrong. There is no absolute truth. There is no Judgment Day. There is a separation between morality and state. All scientists can be trusted. Government is honest. Judges are always right. Religion and politics don’t mix. If it feels good, do it. Everyone goes to heaven. There is no hell. Obama is a Christian. We all serve the same God. Coach Dave is full of crap…
Is the Bible really true? What if there really is a spiritual battle for control of the natural world? What if the spiritual world really does control the earth? Would you act differently if you truly understood how the spiritual realm functioned?
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By Richard Viguerie, WND, THIS LAND WAS YOUR LAND — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has, at least temporarily, deescalated its armed standoff with Cliven Bundy and his family at their Nevada ranch – though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ominously pledged: “It’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over.”
So you can be sure the feds will be back.
In fact, a Bundy Ranch standoff repeat is now brewing on the Oklahoma-Texas border. The Bureau of Land Management (the rogue federal agency that precipitated the Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada) is considering seizing 90,000 acres of private land along the Red River that forms part of the border between Texas and Oklahoma.
The BLM is now contemplating the same strategy it used some 30 years ago to deprive Texas rancher Tommy Henderson of 140 acres of his property without paying him 1 cent to gain control of more land in the Red River area.
You would think Harry Reid, who represents Nevada in the U.S. Senate, would come to the defense of his Nevada constituents. But he doesn’t – because Harry Reid represents the Ruling Establishment in Washington. He wants nothing to do with the regular folks in Nevada, unless he’s running for re-election.
Harry Reid says, “We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it.”
But President Obama has violated (unilaterally changed) his own Obamacare law at least 37 times.
So it’s OK for President Obama and the Washington Ruling Class to violate the law, just not average folks.
It’s easy to dismiss Cliven Bundy, because Harry Reid and his crony Neil Kornz, who runs the BLM, would like you to believe that Mr. Bundy is just a guy who won’t pay his bills.
They won’t tell you that there used to be dozens of ranches in the area where the Bundys run their cattle. Now there’s just one – the Bundy Ranch. BLM succeeded in pushing all the other ranchers out of the region.
The BLM claims the Bundys owe the feds more than $1 million in fees and penalties.
Bundy notes that these fees were never authorized by Congress or passed into law. The BLM just started charging them on its own, without congressional statute. According to the U.S. Constitution, Congress makes the laws in America, not the BLM.
Cliven Bundy asks: Why should I be paying the federal government to put me out of business?
The Bundys are the first example in recent decades of average Americans pushing back federal bureaucrats and winning – at least temporarily.
But there’s a lot more at work in the Bundy Ranch standoff than Harry Reid siding with the federal bureaucracy against his own constituents.
Reid’s son, Rory Reid, parlayed his tenure as a Clark County commissioner into a sweetheart deal with a giant Chinese energy company that wanted to build $5 billion solar farm and panel-building plant in the southern Nevada desert – right where Cliven Bundy and his family have been grazing their cattle since the 1870s.
But where are the Republican leaders on this?
We haven’t heard a peep from John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, or any of the Republican leadership. Their silence is deafening.
There’s a populist revolt going on out there against the Ruling Establishment in Washington. But the Republican leadership is nowhere to be seen or heard.
Real leaders would be making the trip to the Bundy Ranch to find out what’s really happening, what the issues are.
At a minimum, John Boehner and other prominent Republicans should be calling hearings on the unconstitutional fees the BLM has imposed on the Bundys and other ranchers in the West.
Standing with the ranchers against the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., would make great optics for the Republicans.
But today’s Republican leadership has no imagination, which is why most people don’t like them.
It’s why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is in trouble in Kentucky – among the reddest of red conservative states. Even his Republican constituents don’t like him because he’s so obviously part of the Ruling Establishment in Washington.
This is why the GOP so desperately needs new leadership. Standing with the Bundy family against an overreaching federal government would have been the right thing to do.
It would have signaled to voters across America that the GOP is on the side of the people and against out-of-control Big Government.
And it would be political gold for the GOP going into the 2014 mid-term elections. » Full Article
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Richard A. Viguerie is the author of the new book “Takeover: The 100-Year War for the Soul of the GOP and How Conservatives Can Finally Win It.”
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