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
coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns like a lamb,
and he spake as a dragon.“
Revelation 13:11
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Because of this high-tech age we now live in, it has become very apparent just how depraved this world actually is (and increasingly so with each passing day)!
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It seems like each new day on the Internet brings with it some new form of depravity and wickedness we never imagined nor thought possible!
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Truly this lost world is spiraling downward!
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Burning Man – 2013 -Chapel – Wikimedia – Creative Commons License
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“And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.”
Revelation 9:2
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Yes, television and Internet have really opened up a great picture-window on the world!
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And what we are now seeing through this end-time, high-tech picture-window, isn’t good, to put it mildly!
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And because television was never morally upright, its powerful influence has gradually devolved society downward into a seemingly bottomless abyss of evil!
Brooklyn Museum – The Rich Man In Hell – James Tissot – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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“They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace”
Jeremiah 6:14
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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 hopeless and extremely discouraging for many, to say the least!
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Like never before, young people (and many oldsters too!) are looking at the world through the lens of social media and 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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Singers – No Angels Concert – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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 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, religious-radio teachers, prosperity-preachers, and all those who willfully and loudly promote this world, Satan’s 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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“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.“
Revelation 13:11
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This above verse speaks of a beast-like power which has two horns like a peace-loving lamb and speaks as that great Dragon, Satan!
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The United States of America fulfills this prophecy, having become that Beast power arisen up from the earth, feigning a false goodness, while at the same time speaking as the Dragon, Satan, via the mass media.
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Especially when we go on social media sites and listen to the astonishingly shocking and vile rhetoric and behold the devolving misbehavior of the world’s citizenry, it’s getting almost unbelievable how far and how fast the media is causing the world to sink into the bottomless pit of moral depravity!
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AN ‘END OF DAYS’ VERSE:
“The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.”
Joel 1:12
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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 the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: 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! 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 (And The Nations Were Angry! Part 3: “Summer of Love, Winter of Hate”)“, or you can also read… Today’s Devotional – January 26th: The False Prophet: (“And I beheld another beast (The False Prophet)”) ALSO READ: (Buying & Selling The Gospel)
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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“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 CONSTELLATION GROUP…
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“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.” Micah 4:1, 2
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Look eastward in the early summer through fall. Find the Cassiopeia Constellation. Cassiopeia is the Mount of Blessing. In this sketch, it is the farthest mountain to the left. In the sky, it is the northernmost of these three mountains when facing eastward. It somewhat resembles a pyramid, as do the other two.
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Then find the second pyramid to its right (south).
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Then go a little further south to the next third pyramid. The third snow-cap is the Destroying Mountain Constellation.
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These three pyramids are the snow-capped portion of these three mountains in this sketch. (of course, you won’t see the snow-caps in the sky. They are just an embellishment in this sketch to present a concept-EDITOR).
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THE VALLEY OF DECISION CONSTELLATION GROUP.
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They appear in mid-summer in the eastern skies in pre-dawn hours. These are made of Cassiopeia (mount on left), and various stars from the Andromeda Constellation (valley) and Pegasus (Mount of Cursing (middle mount) and the “Destroying Mountain” (right)), and Pisces (“The Broad Way to Hell”). The galaxy which appears to be climbing the Mountain of Blessing is the Andromeda Galaxy.
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The above Wikipedia star-chart shows this amazing constellation group as it appears from June to fall, just prior to the winter constellation group. Actually, these Valley of Decision Constellations appear in early summer in the pre-dawn hours. (Editor of this website has sketched in this constellation group onto this above Wikipedia star-chart.)
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READ MORE…
“The ‘Valley of Decision’ Constellation“
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU 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
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THE DESIRE OF AGES, BY ELLEN G. WHITE
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Dear Lover of Truth, This is a chapter of the audio book about the Gospel of Jesus Christ in His life and ministry.
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Chapter 20 – Except Ye See Signs and Wonders
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Sign of the Son of Man Constellation – made of the various constellations on this website
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EXCERPTS FROM THE OPEN FORUM 
QUESTION/ANSWER RADIO TALK-SHOW…
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ALL ‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) are invited to listen to this small 30 minute sampling of the late Harold Camping’s nearly 50 year series of 90 minute nightly talk shows…This is Open Forum Show #114
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