Material things, sometimes is the best weapon use by the ‘fallen one’ to pull away the children of God from worshipping HIM. And it became the most effective tool.
Evil has entered men’s hearts and turned themselves against their brothers and against God.
When our Lord Jesus Christ tempted by the Devil, he promised Him all the powers and all the wealth in the world. It was written, to give us an example that all good things in life, sometimes, are not the real measure for having a true life.
God Made the past as the mirror for the future, and all are well written in the Holy scriptures, for us to learn from it.
God even gave Job as an example in the Old Testament, whose faith was tested by taking away all his material belongings, the life of all his children, disease from head to toe and had despised by his own wife. Still, all these thing didn’t hinder his faith from God.
Our Lord God no longer communicates with His people the way He did in the Patriarchal period. Neither He have any prophets as in Prophetical era, but by way of messages written in the Holy Scriptures thru His messengers in the Christian era. Anyone who deviates from His wills given in this Christian era, are sinning against Him.
One of the ‘mirror of the past’ that God do not want us to do is to deal with spirits.
Deu 18:11-12 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
(Deu 18:11-12 O enkantador ng mga ahas, o nakikipagsanggunian sa mga masamang espiritu, o mahiko, o SUMASANGGUNI SA MGA PATAY.
Sapagka't sinomang gumagawa ng mga bagay na ito ay KARUMALDUMAL sa Panginoon: at dahil sa mga karumaldumal na ito ay pinalalayas sila ng Panginoon mong Dios sa harap mo.)
If God doesn’t want His children to deal with these things, then we can assured that these ‘spirits’ and ‘mediums’ are not from God.
The devil was not the devil before. He was the most beautiful and most powerful angel created by God. With these qualities, he exalted himself to be an equal to God.
(Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. )
With his inequity, God cast him away together with his angels and became the devil.
(Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst lay low the nations! )
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
(Rev 12:9 At inihagis ang malaking dragon, ang matandang ahas, ang tinatawag na Diablo at Satanas, ang dumadaya sa buong sanglibutan; siya'y inihagis sa lupa, at ang kaniyang mga anghel ay inihagis na kasama niya.)
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