Daily Devotional, Year 2 – SEPTEMBER 18 (Cuttlefish & The False Prophet, Part 4: “All Power, Signs & Lying Wonders” (continued))
By admin On February 5th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 2 – SEPTEMBER 18
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Cuttlefish & The False Prophet,
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Part 4:
“All Power, Signs & Lying Wonders” (continued)
To read Part 1, click here…April 1 (Cuttlefish & The False Prophet)
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“And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan
with all power and signs and lying wonders,”
2nd Thessalonians 2:8, 9 (condensed)
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Sign of the Son of Man Constellation – made of the various constellations on this website
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CUTTLEFISH: THE GREAT IMPOSTOR!
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One of the most amazing creatures ever created is the Cuttlefish! Actually, it is not a fish, but a type of mollusk, like a squid, or octopus.
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The reason why this creature is so incredible, is that it can just glance at its environment and instantly change its body to imitate that environment! As a matter of fact, whatever the Cuttlefish passes over, it instantly and automatically begins to change into the same color and shape, of that undersea object!
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And so, its enemies cannot easily detect the Cuttlefish! Or when it lays-in-wait for its victims, perhaps next to a seaweed, its color, and spots, and shape automatically change to imitate that seaweed! It can even instantly grow leaf-like appendages to imitate certain seaweeds! This little creature is nothing short of amazing!
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Cuttlefish.ogv – cropped image – Wikipedia – Creative Commons License
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CUTTLEFISH: SYMBOL OF SATAN
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Well, God has created this little predator to give us further insight into the inner working of the kingdom of Satan.
(As this little 26 second video below shows, the Cuttlefish has the ability to paralyze his potential victims, by using his hypnotizing strobe-light effect! Amazing!)
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Certainly, Satan and his unseen minions love to make themselves invisible, and then use his strobe-like hypnotizing powers upon his intended victims! That way, Satan and his unseen evil angels can work their misery and woe upon this unsuspecting world, without its inhabitants becoming alarmed, causing us to rebel against Satan’s kingdom, as we flee out of sheer terror, back to God!
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“…they that are unlearned and unstable wrest (wrestle), as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction”
2nd Peter 3:16
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Today’s Bible teachers and theologians try their best to deny and cover up the fact historical records give Cyrus I. Scofield credit for popularizing this false doctrine of the “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”, first invented by another 19th-century false Bible teacher, one John Darby of The Plymouth Brethren denomination.
John Nelson Darby – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
Cyrus Scofield – 1920 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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NOT A PERFECT COUNTERFEIT
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Yet even though the cuttlefish can seemingly, miraculously morph itself to blend into its surroundings, it cannot exactly duplicate its surroundings. If one examines its disguise closely, there are tell-tale signs that it is an impostor!
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And so it is with Satan, the great impostor! Yes, he can do a great and masterful job of counterfeiting the Holy Spirit.
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But, upon close examination, there are tell-tale signs that something is just not right in the fallen church-world.
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Cuttlefish – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
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THE CONSERVATIVE CUTTLEFISH DECEPTION
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The first three parts in this little series have spotlighted some of the tell-tale signs of the apostasy even within the very most conservative of churches.
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And though it is much more difficult to discern these signs in the more conservative churches, they are nevertheless still present.
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Giant Cuttlefish – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution
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THE CURSE OF REVELATION 22:18, 19
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Today, another sign will be spotlighted, which gives further evidence to the satanic delusion which has swept over the church-world like a giant tsunami.
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This sign is warned against in Revelation 22:18…“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”
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Here is pronounced a curse upon anyone who adds or takes away from, “the Words of this prophecy”.
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THE BIBLE ONLY? NOT REALLY!
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Now of course, every conservative church swears allegiance to the Bible.
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Yes, every conservative church claims to believe in, “the Bible and the Bible only!”
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But the fact is, these conservative churches have added and have taken away from God’s Word.
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And, so, they would be the first to say, “How in the world have we added to, and taken away from God’s Word?!”
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Question Marks – At a loss – svg – Wikimedia Commons – Share-Alike License
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UNBIBLICAL ‘PRE-TRIB RAPTURE’
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For example, perhaps the most dangerous false doctrine being taught in the fallen churches today is the so-called, “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”!
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This is the idea that the Church-Faithful will be “raptured” out of the world, PRIOR to the final judgment and tribulation coming on the whole world.
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In other words, these false teachers insist on, not one return of Christ, but TWO separate returns of Jesus Christ!
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Of course, there is nothing in the Bible that states this will occur. As a matter of fact, John 6 clearly states that the resurrection will occur on the “Last Day”…
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Resurrection Morning – Jan Luyken – Bible – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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RAISED ON THE LAST DAY!
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Listen as Jesus reveals when the dead in Christ will be raised…“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent Me, that of all which he hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again AT THE LAST DAY. And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up AT THE LAST DAY.” John 6:39, 40
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Four times in John 6, this statement is repeated. And so, the resurrection and the Rapture absolutely cannot occur 7 years prior to the Last Day!
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Sign of the Son of Man Constellation – made of the various constellations on this website
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SATAN WILL “DECEIVE, IF POSSIBLE, EVEN THE ELECT!”
Matthew 24:24
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But Satan does not want God’s people to ready themselves for the final tribulation, so he has convinced modern-day theologians that there will be this phantom event which theologians have coined the name, “The Pre-Tribulation Rapture”, saying that there will be two separate returns of Jesus.
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So, if you missed this so-called Pre-Trib Rapture…great news… you’ll get a second chance at Christ’s so-called “Third Coming”…or so they falsely claim!
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1ST THESSALONIANS REVEALS THE DECEPTION
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Now, one tell-tale sign which exposes this deception is found in the very passage that they claim establishes this so-called “Rapture”…
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Listen to what the proper name of Jesus’ Coming is…“For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto THE COMING OF THE LORD shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be CAUGHT UP together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1st Thessalonians 4:15-17
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Now this passage calls this event, “The Coming of the Lord”. But theologians, beginning with John Darby in the 1800’s, reject this God-given name, and have concocted their own name, “The Rapture”, by the verb “caught up” in verse 17 of this very same passage, and have changed it into a proper noun. But since the words, “caught up” doesn’t make such a nice name, one clever theologian (Satan) used a Latin word, “Ripere”, and morphed that word further, to “Rapture”.
John Nelson Darby – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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REJECTING GOD’S NAME FOR MAN’S NAME
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And so, in essence, the Christian community has rejected God’s given name used in 1st Thessalonians 4:15, “The Coming of the Lord”, and replaced it with “The Rapture”, thereby adding to, and taking away from God’s infallible World.
(Oh yes, they still use the name, “The Coming of the Lord”, correctly applying it to the last day Return of Christ. But in addition, they’ve added to Scripture by taking various verses concerning this totally biblical “Coming of the Lord” on the “Last Day”, and now claim these ‘Last Day’ verses, instead, actually apply to their unbiblical, so-called, “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”! In other words, they have robbed many verses which actually apply to the ‘Last Day’ event, so as to bolster their theologian-contrived, heretical church-doctrine, the so-called, non-biblical, “Pre-Tribulation Rapture”!)
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This is just one example of how the modern-day churches have brought themselves under the curse of Revelation 22:18, 19.
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REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH & IT WILL BE ACCEPTED AS TRUTH
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Now Satan repeats this false doctrine day and night over the airwaves, via television, radio, and Internet, calling down their own curses on anyone who challenges this false teaching first popularized by Cyrus I. Scofield in the early 1900’s (and John Darby in the 19th Century).
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But the fact is, the entire Christian community is totally unprepared for the coming time of trouble, thinking that they will be “Raptured” out of the world, prior to this final tribulation!
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So just think about it! Satan has successfully convinced the vast majority of Christians that they need not be prepared for the final conflict, since they will supposedly be Raptured out of the earth just prior to the soon-coming time of trouble! (And even if they miss this phantom “Rapture”, they still (supposedly) get a second chance during that 7-year period!)
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Cyrus Scofield – 1920 – Wikipedia – US Public Domain.
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COME OUT & GET ARMORED UP!
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Now we would have to say that this current unprepared condition of God’s people to be a tragically hopeless situation! But praise God that He is so merciful, and has kept open the door of mercy, so that His people might come out of all the Babylonish confusion, which is the current state of the church-world!
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So if the Reader is one of those who has been deceived by this deception, then he (or she) should waste no time in putting on the full armor of God, to stand against the wiles of the Devil, as he comes against each and every Soldier of the Cross.
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WATCH THIS AMAZING 2+ MINUTE VIDEO…
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TO READ PART 5, CLICK HERE…
SEPTEMBER 19 (Cuttlefish & The False Prophet, Part 5: All Power, Signs & Lying Wonders (continued))
ABOVE PICTURE: Satan, The False Prophet who now in these last days destroys the churches via a world-loving prosperity-driven false gospel – www.signsofheaven.org
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Help me to prepare for the coming tribulation. Help me to put on the armor of God, that I may stand in the coming evil day…
Woman Praying – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… The Crown of Revelation 12: What Is “The Time of Jacob’s Trouble”?, or you can also read… ” June 24th (The War Nobody Prepared For!)”
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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ORION THE SOLDIER
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The pagan cultures saw this incredible constellation as a hunter, with a club.
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Well, they weren’t too far off. Actually, God created it to appear like a soldier. This is because all nature presents aspects of the Gospel.
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Listen… “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.” Psalm 19:1.
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And so now we are amazed to discover that beyond the awesome grandeur of the starry night-heavens, God has actually written the Love of God upon the heavenly scroll!
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Orionurania wikipedia public domain
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7 MAJOR STARS OF ORION…
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Orion Constellation can best be seen all winter (but even in August in the pre-dawn hours of morning in eastern skies) traveling east to west through the night, in mid-sky. To find the seven major stars of Orion (one star on each shoulder and one star on each foot, plus the three stars which make his belt), you can locate on just about any clear night regardless of the blackness of the night. To find Orion’s other stars, you need more star-visibility…a darker, moonless night, and possibly away from city lights.
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Orionurania wikipedia public domain
Orion wikimedia share-alike license
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… Orion the Soldier (Armor of God)
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TOMORROW…
SEPTEMBER 19 (Cuttlefish & The False Prophet, Part 5: All Power, Signs & Lying Wonders (continued))
ABOVE PICTURE: Satan, The False Prophet who now in these last days destroys the churches via a world-loving prosperity-driven false gospel – www.signsofheaven.org
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Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.com – Public Domain
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