The Enemy Among Us

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. And the Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” (Job 1:6-7)

Every army knows how important it is to have operative on the inside of the opposition’s camp. With all the diabolical activity going on in denominations and mega-churches today, one has to wonder if this supernatural intelligent being called Satan has managed to plant his soldiers inside of Christianity. Further, does he have operatives within the inner circle of leadership? If so, then what are we to do about it?

There is an unwritten rule that nothing should be done when diabolical people come into Christianity via television, literature, or other channels of entry. Most professing Christians believe that the parable of the tares and wheat in Matthew 13:30 forbids us to oppose or even identify evil people, but that is a misunderstanding of God’s word. Consider that the Apostle Paul instructed Titus to “rebuke them sharply” concerning evil people that had wormed their way into the assembly of believers (Titus 1:13). He also instructed the church concerning those who claim to be Christians, but are in fact flagrant sinners in the assemblies.

“And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.” (1 Corinthians 5:2)

However, when it comes to leadership, God’s Himself makes it very clear how we should respond to wicked leadership.

“Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.” (Revelation 2:20)

Obviously, God expected the leaders of the church in Thyatira to confront Jezebel. Was Jezebel a “tare” or one who sows “tares”? In my opinion, it does not make any difference. The fact is that she was in the church teaching diabolical doctrine and leading people into bondage.

It is obvious today that Christianity is rife with false Christians. But it is just as obvious that there are many heretics and hirelings in leadership including pastorates and denominational leadership. The problem is that few people will confront them. Professing Christians will confront school board member, politicians, and a whole host of other leaders, but become silent and tolerant while the enemy walks to and fro among them at will. They hide behind a false rule of passivity insisting that it is a demonstration of love, and that it is Christ-like to do so. But is it love or Christ-like to make truth a vassal to error?

The decadence of Christianity came about gradually and proportionately with the entrance of heretics and hirelings and their perverse dilution of truth. The spiritual sensitivity of the masses to the Holy Spirit decreased at the same pace. The masses of professing Christians were too busy being laity to recognize the invasion as a threat. The few that knew what was happening laid back, waiting on the leadership to stop the encroachment. However, the leadership was being infiltrated. It was all rotting from the top down. A contributing factor was that “Christian” television, namely PTL and TBN, kept many of the heretics and hirelings from being rejected and ostracized (It is revealing that very few if any ministers speaking truth rose to fame through these networks.).

Many pastors, evangelists, teachers, and wanna-be television ministers, adopted the heresy flowing from these networks and reissued them in order to build their own personal kingdoms. The majority of those individuals had the agenda of speaking to encourage giving money so that they could continue to speak to encourage people to give money, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. In between the manipulative pleas for money they filled up the air time with heresy. Their spiel is now so diabolical that were any of the significant Christians in history alive today, they would stand up in great alarm and rebuke them openly. In fact, they would not rest until every visage of their evil heresy was erased from Christianity.  However, we are burdened with silent or weak protests from supine leaders that are never going to jeopardize their positions to be a significant threat to the enemy among us.

Diabolical individuals now have a strong presence within Christianity. They pastor churches, sit on church boards, lead “worship”, and control everything essential in the church meeting. They walk among us freely, speak at our church conferences, come into our homes via books, television, Kindles and iPads. As spots in our “feasts of charity”, they mingle on our forums, blogs, our Facebook pages spreading their heresy. Their quotes are proudly posted by ignorant and unsuspecting professing Christians. It’s not that everything they say is evil. Consider how many people have been deceived by individuals speaking truth. A man may say everything right to a woman, but not sincerely mean any of it. A con man will tell you what he wants you to hear until the one paragraph where he takes your money. Likewise, Satan will speak truth as long as it leads to the point where an individual lowers his or her guard and allows him to infect their spirit with deception. Hirelings have gained and managed positions in the church by preaching sermons from a book (not the Bible), but they had no calling or anointing. Once in position, they invite the heretics to spread their perversion of God’s word.

Are we to accept truth from a deceiver? Truth from a deceiver always comes with a significant lie.

Consider that the lie of Contemplative Prayer is accepted by professing Christians because it is represented by influential leaders as truth. The practice came from Islam and entered Christianity through Roman Catholic heretics. Most individuals that engage in it become possessed with a religious demon. Religious demons specialize in making people feel special and close to God when they are actually in the grasp of deception. Further, the god that they become close to is certainly not God Almighty. They are ecstatic and bubble with a false joy, false peace, and other imitations of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Of course, after possession they do not know that they are possessed and in fact believe that they have become very intimate with God. They will accept a false “holy spirit”, false religions, believe that they are super spiritual, and have found deep and hidden truths. The proof of their deception is that they view things that were once deemed evil as righteous and vice versa, and become amenable to every heretic and heresy. Their testimony, “I tried it and it was wonderful” leads others into the same trap.

Now we have arrived at the period in earth’s final days before the Coming of Christ when heresy in Christianity is blatant and diabolical to a degree that it stuns and frustrates the spirits of godly Christians. Rank and file professing Christians (nominal at best) munches on it daily like cattle grazing in a field of poison weeds. All attempts to warn them is blunted by the silence of a vast number of pastors, evangelists, teachers, and other leaders that are fearful of speaking boldly in truth and righteousness against the enemy within. Instead, they claim what they believe is a space of moral high ground. It is actually a position of pusillanimous silence and abject dereliction of duty while people are led into deception, apostasy and delusion. Deception is the lure, apostasy is the trap, and delusion seals their fate. What kind of a shepherd would allow a gradual slaughter of his sheep without putting up a fight or even a warning to spare them from the jaws of the Beast!

The leadership of denominations may be the worst of the shepherds too cowardly to do their duty. They attempt to hide among the stuff like Saul rather than to rise up as a champion of God’s truth like David. They do not pray enough to develop sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. True prayer is the least of their priorities, if it even makes the list. Most of them are immersed in mundane activities, religious business, flitting here and there, smiling, shaking hands, and issuing platitudes where needed. The activity helps them to ignored the Beast and his hoard of emissaries as they ravage Christianity with lies and evil practices. They not only do nothing themselves, but will punish a minister ordained in their denomination that speaks out boldly against the encroaching evil. A number of them are actually joined together with the very diabolical ones that are polluting Christianity with their refuse.

The feeble protests of other ministers that dare to poke their heads out from under the Denominational security blanket can be quenched with a simple conciliatory gestures from headquarters that sooths their alarm. They have no backbone for a true defense of God’s truth. They will remain in their heretical denominations until those entities rot to the ground around their feet (consider the Episcopalians). When it becomes apparent to them, if it ever does, that they are going to be trampled under the feet of the enemy, then they may find some courage to stand and lift the sword of truth. Then it will be too late. If they cannot resist the enemy within now, they will have no power to resist the Master of Darkness when he makes his entrance. Satan will arrive when his solders have finished their work dismantling Christianity. Their deadly heresies are now spreading rapidly throughout Christianity like poison gas. Only someone willfully deaf and blind, or lacking courage, can ignore it all and remain silent.

“Oh, but we won’t be here when the Antichrist appears,” the Evangelical preachers declare with stars in their eyes. What makes them think that they are going to be raptured when they were too cowardly to stand up while Satan trampled and spoiled God’s heritage?

I have some questions for every professing Christian who considers himself or herself a pastor, evangelist, preacher, teacher, prophet, or apostle. My questions are also to every professing Christian that claims to be a lover of God, of Christ Jesus, of God’s word, and that claims to live godly and upright. If an individual came into your home where you were assembled with close friends and family, and attempted to teach New Age doctrine, homosexuality as God ordained (including homosexual marriage), necromancy, conjuring demon spirits, one-world ecumenism with false religions, a return of Protestants to Roman Catholicism, that the concept of eternal hell was a false doctrine, and that Jesus Christ did not die for our sins, would you remain silent or at the best make a feeble and benign protest? These doctrines and many more evil heresies have infiltrated the church and the infiltrators are honored with wealth and fame. They are invited to speak at denominational conventions. What have you done and what are you doing to slow down or stop the invasion? Are you even identifying this horrific invasion to the people that depend on you to protect them? What about your family and friends? When will you remove the lock from your mouth and speak boldly and righteously against the enemy among us?