Daily Devotional, Year 2 – JANUARY 17 (World of Lies, Part 3: “Silken Cords of Deceit!”)
By admin On January 16th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – JANUARY 17
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World of Lies,
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Part 3:
“Silken Cords of Deceit!”
TO READ PART 1, CLICK HERE…JANUARY 3 (World of Lies, Part 1: “The Femme-Fatale Firefly!”)
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“For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD,
and He pondereth all his (Man’s) goings.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself,
and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins…
and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray”
Proverbs 5:21-23
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As you can see in this photo, this spider quickly twirls its victim with his front four legs, until this entombed victim is now in a preserved state, to be later!
Pretty horrific!
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Spider – Garden orb weaver – Wikipedia – Share-Alike License
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SATAN: “THE GOD OF THIS WORLD”
2nd Corinthians 4:4
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But the Devil is in charge of this present antichrist world system: this world of sin and selfishness!
A world-system which reflects Satan’s character: tokens of his wickedly deceptive attributes.
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Satan presiding at the Infernal Council – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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On the other hand, nature belongs to God!
And as such, God has purposely designed certain things in nature to expose the workings of Satan and his armies!
And that little spider wrapping its victims in a silky cocoon, teaches us a great and fearful lesson about how Satan indoctrinates us as quickly as he can!
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THE SILKEN CORDS OF TELEVISION
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Just look around at this world!
Just behold how this world has become one great house of indoctrination, and spiritual death-camp! 
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Take for instance, the most obvious indoctrination tool, the television (TV, Internet, radio, etc.)!
Having much the same qualities of Satan’s character, these high-tech devices begin indoctrinating little toddlers with seemingly innocent cartoons.
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And yet, ever-so-gradually through time, the toddler graduates to other shows, which introduce more and more insidious evil: greed, selfishness, atheism, unbelief, fashion, violence, war, murder, revenge.
These are just some of the qualities of Satan.
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TV – highquality – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons License
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A FORM OF GODLINESS
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Oh yes, most programs also have a form of godliness.
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But Satan fully understands that the best lie is always cloaked with a shroud of goodness, to deceive the simple-hearted.
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Beautiful music, colored lights, pretty faces, and sympathetic storylines, mingled with a few nice virtues!
These, O Christian, are the cords which Satan wraps around his entranced television viewers!
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Thus, these high-tech hucksters spin their cords of deception, deceiving many into believing that television/Internet/etc. are a good thing!
And millions buy into those silken threads of deception!
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LEARNING INSTITUTES
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But television is just one of Satan’s many cords of deception! This world is literally filled with similar deceptions!
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Take for instance, our learning institutes.
Yes, our school systems, once were dedicated to teaching Christian ideals and Bible truths (prior to the 1950’s).
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But schools have gradually been taken over by secularists and atheists, indoctrinating children into worldly and atheistic ideologies, and are now even beginning to push perverted and shameful lifestyles on our children!
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Oh yes, there are many fine and dedicated teachers out there!
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CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
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Even our religious institutes are not fully innocent of such indoctrinating of newcomers!
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Yes, even our Christian schools have become so mingled with the world, that only a thin layer of religiosity is offered, alongside the very same curriculum as one gets in a public school.
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This is partly due to state requirements for secular curriculum, but also in part because of the general apostasy and worldliness of the church-world.
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Nevertheless, the bottom line is, that Satan spins his silken cords of deception around our Christian school children, too!
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CHURCHES TOO!
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And it is no secret that our churches have devolved to a great extent, into little more than a “form of godliness, but denying the Power” of the Holy Spirit.
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Yes, just as Paul prophesied…
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned unto fables.”
2nd Timothy 4:3, 4
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We should be weeping like the prophet, Jeremiah, when we look out across the great Christian community which Paul refers to as the, “Jerusalem which is now, and is in bondage with her children”, i.e., the apostate church-world!
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Rock Music Christian CHURCH – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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SOCIAL/FRATERNAL ORDERS
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Being void of the Spirit, there are numerous other worldly enticements, such as sports, clubs, counterfeit miracles, hospital systems, ethnicity, traditions, candles, parties, clubs, plays, bingo, clowns, comedians, celebrities, concerts, extravagant buildings, attractive and charismatic leaders, prosperity-driven sermons, movies, and many more similar worldly inducements.
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Yes, over the decades, churches have devolved into little more than social/religious fraternal organizations with merely a thin coating of religiosity!
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Audience hands – cropped & altered – Wikimedia – Universal Public Domain
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GOOD NEWS!
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Now, these are just a few of the countless ways that Satan has turned this society into one giant mind-control center!
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But believe it or not, there is some extremely Good News amidst all this doom-and-gloom! That’s right! God has provided a way of escape from these societal walls which seem to be closing in all around us!
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Listen… “And the LORD answered me,
and said, Write the vision,
and make it plain upon tables,
that he may run that readeth it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time,
but at the end it shall speak, and not lie:
though it tarry, wait for it;
because it will surely come,
it will not tarry.”
Habakkuk 2:2, 3
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Yes, now that we can see this Babylonish world close in all around us, the prophet, Habakkuk tells us to run! To Flee!
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But where can we run to?
Just where are we to flee?
After all, Satan has all but locked up just about every possible way of escape!
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Well, the answer to this will be dealt with in another devotional.
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Question Marks – At a loss – svg – Wikimedia Commons – Share-Alike License
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WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO OF THE “BLACK & YELLOW GARDEN SPIDER” WRAPPING ITS VICTIM…
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TO READ PART 4, CLICK HERE…
MARCH 17 (A World of Lies, Part 4: It’s A Chameleon World!)
Chamaeleo namaquensis Lizard (Namib-Naukluft, 2011) – Wikipedia – Share-alike License
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Keep me from allowing the Devil to wrap me up in his silky threads of deception! …
Prayer – USMC – Wikimedia – US Govt. Public Domain
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READ PART 4, CLICK HERE…
“Floodwaters of the False Prophet: “Atheism & Psychology””, or you can also read…MARCH 17 . . . . A World of Lies, Part 4: It’s A Chameleon World!
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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LOCATING THE DRAGON of REVELATION 12 CONSTELLATION
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The Dragon Constellation can be located by finding Orion in winter months.
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The Dragon is to Orion’s left, and the Dragon’s mouth is right next to Orion’s shield.
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This Dragon’s mouth is the V-like constellation The Hyades Cluster, which is the very same constellation that comprises the head of Taurus the Bull.
In other words, Hyades is also known as the head of Taurus the Bull.
And Hyades is the mouth of this Dragon.
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The tip of the Dragon’s tail is composed of that star-cluster known as The Pleiades.
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The Pleiades is actually in the shape of a lion’s furry tassel tip of his tail. The sketch below shows this Pleiades as the tail tip.
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Now with aid of a dark starry night, you may begin to connect this mouth and the tail with a very long body in an oval shape.
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The front and back legs are very well-defined with stars.
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The front legs are made partially of Taurus.
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The back legs and rear fin are made of the Cetus Constellation.
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But the long oval-shaped body has relatively few stars, but can been seen, howbeit with a dark starry night.
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The four stars of the front fins are made partially of Taurus.
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This Dragon constellation appears in the eastern horizon about mid-summer in the pre-dawn hours, spewing his flood-waters northward toward the Woman of Revelation 12 (Woman in Travail).
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The Wave of Water is primarily composed of the Constellation Auriga.
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There are two more less bright stars which are closest to the Dragon’s mouth.
These two dimmer stars are also part of this Wave of Water.
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “The Dragon of Revelation 12 Constellation”
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TOMORROW…
JANUARY 18 (George Whitefield, Ye Must Be Born Again!)
George Whitefield GNU Free Documentation License, wikipedia
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ABOVE PICTURE: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain