Daily Devotional, Year 4 – October 20 (And He Spake As A Dragon! Part 2: “Satan’s Cheerleading Squad”)
By admin On October 5th, 2023.
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Daily Devotional, Year 4 – October 20
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And He Spake As A Dragon!
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Part 2
“Satan’s Cheerleading Squad”
To read Part 1, click here…October 1 (And He Spake as a Dragon! Part 1: “Internet: The Ultimate Great Tribulation Weapon!”)
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“And I beheld another beast
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coming up out of the earth;
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and he had two horns like a lamb,
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and he spake as a dragon.“
Revelation 13:11
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But aside from its terrible influence, television (and Internet, radio, magazines, etc.) has become a sort of cheerleader of sorts.
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Don’t we all remember back in school, how a cheerful and energetic group of fresh-faced youngsters danced and jumped and chanted to their respective fans, all with the intent of inspiring their home-team to a hopeful victory?
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Cheerleaders – Wikimedia – cropped photo – the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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“And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them”
Revelation 9:6
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But Satan has his own cheerful and energetic rally-squad!
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Yes, it’s true! The “god of this world” has begun using high-tech devices to become his own ‘cheerleading squad’, so to speak.
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After all, this sad and hopeless world is getting increasingly sad and more hopeless and extremely discouraging for many, to say the least!
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Singers – No Angels Concert – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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“That at that time ye were without Christ…having no hope, and without God in the world:”
Ephesians 2:12
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Like never before, young people (and many oldsters too!) are looking at the world through the lens of social media…
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…and as a result, are becoming so confused by all the societal madness, perversity, and moral depravity now being broadcast over today’s high-tech, “power of the air(waves)” devices.
(See Ephesians 2:2, 3)
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And many of these victims of the current-day high-tech obsession are sometimes resorting to suicide to escape this current-day hopeless insanity!
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Girl – “Depression” – by Danielzanetti – cropped image – for Wikimedia – C.C. Share-alike License 3.0
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“And that they (the unsaved world) may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will”
2nd Timothy 2:26
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And so, “the god of this world” realizes that unless he can keep us hopeful in this, his antichrist world-system, he will have a rebellion and mutiny…
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…as we desperately run to the Lord in hope of escaping from Satan’s kingdom of selfishness, sin, confusion and madness!
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Therefore, this great deceiver and “father of lies” has brought in his squad of cheerleaders, his chief spokespeople, to give us hope, howbeit a false hope, to keep us captive in his prison-house of sin and selfishness! (2nd Corinthians 4:4 & John 8:44)
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Announcer with microphone – svg – Wikimedia – Public-Domain
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JUST WHO ARE SATAN’S SPOKESPEOPLE?
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Now, Hollywood isn’t the only place where Satan’s spokespeople can be seen and heard, cheering on the general public!
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No, Satan’s cheerleading squad also consists of, for instance, pop-music-idols, sports-stars, politicians, authors, playwrights, atheistic-teachers, world-loving-preachers, and all those who willfully and loudly promote his fallen antichrist-world-system.
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Listen to Scripture…
…”Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world.
If any man love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him.”
1st John 2:15
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Yes, whether by word or by example, all those who willingly lead the populace to further love this present proud, lustful, and self-seeking world are, by participation, an integral part of Satan’s cheerleading squad.
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Sadly and tragically, we are now witnessing the fulfillment of the ongoing prophecy of Peter…“But the end of all things is at hand”. 1st Peter 4:7
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Yes, it truly is the “end of days”! Everywhere we look, we are confounded to witness how fast this world is sinking into wholesale depravity!
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From the meteor-like rise of crime and vice,
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To the corrupt, two-tiered justice-system,
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To the rapidly declining morality,
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To the irresponsible and suicidal spending by government,
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To the Sodom-like indoctrination of society and their schoolchildren,
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To the incredible dishonesty of the mass-media, as they vigorously incite division, distrust, and hatred between the various color-groups and social groups,
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To the corruption of the decadent political system,
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To the aimlessly lost and hopelessly confused younger generation, being encouraged to embrace hopeless nihilism,
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To the self-loathing nihilism of a godless generation, without hope, like a ship lost and tossed about on the stormy sea!
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Los Angeles Skid Row homeless – edited image – Wikimedia – the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license
prostitution – cropped image – Wikimedia – the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license
Posing with the gay drag queens – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
Ship in Storm – Backhuysen – Wikipedia – Public-Domain
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“And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God…and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed”
Acts 16:25, 26
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Here above is an ‘End of Days’ prophecy all tucked away in the Book of Acts!
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Yes, Paul and Silas represent God’s own “cheerleading squad”, which cheer for Heaven’s victory over Lucifer’s sorrowful and tragic world!
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Yes, Paul and Silas represent God’s people, who are bound in fetters in this Prison house of sin, which this world is!
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And just when the night couldn’t be darker (at midnight), the joy-filled “songs of deliverance” sung by these two saints results in our chains being broken, and the doors of freedom are finally opened! Psalm 32:7
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“Rejoice in the Lord alway:
and again I say, Rejoice.
Let your moderation be known unto all men.
The Lord is at hand.
Be careful for nothing;
but in every thing by prayer
and supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God”
Philippians 4:4-6
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READ PART 3, CLICK HERE…
October 12 (And He Spake as a Dragon! Part 3: “Satan’s Persecution of Jews”)
Arthur Szyk – 1894-1951 – Jewish Children To Be Shot as Dangerous Enemies – cropped – Wikimedia – the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to not be fooled by this very deceptive world…
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read…October 4 (“Summer of Love, Winter of Hate”)“…
…or you can also read…August 26th (“And I beheld another beast (The False Prophet)”)
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S HEAVENLY SIGN
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VALLEY OF DECISION CONSTELLATION GROUP…
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“Multitudes, multitudes in the ‘Valley of Decision’…
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for the day of the Lord is near in the ‘Valley of Decision’.”
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“The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining…
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“The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem…
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“And the heavens and the earth shall shake…
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“But the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
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Joel 3:14-16
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LOCATING THIS VALLEY OF DECISION CONSTELLATION GROUP…
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Look eastward in the early summer through fall. Find the Cassiopeia Constellation.
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Cassiopeia is the Mount of Blessing.
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In the sketch, it is the farthest mountain to the left.
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In the sky, it is the northern-most of these three mountains when facing eastward. It has a snowcapped top.
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Then find the second snowcap to its right (south).
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Then go a little further south to the third snow-cap which is the Destroying Mountain Constellation.
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… The ‘Valley of Decision’ Constellation
Magnifying Glass – Wikimedia – Share-alike License
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TOMORROW…
October 21 (And He Spake as a Dragon! Part 4 “How to Read the News in this Era of Yellow Journalism”
The Yellow Press by L.M. Glackens