Years ago, I heard a preacher during a sermon say that there were satanic people infiltrating churches to cause disruptions.\u00a0 \u00a0Presently, there are numerous reports that the entire structure of Christianity has been infiltrated by satanic people.\u00a0 This includes pastorates, local church leaders all the way up to leaders of denominations, Christian music, Christian literature, and television ministries.<\/p>\n
I am inclined to believe those reports.\u00a0 Nothing else explains the overwhelming inundation of New Age beliefs, witchcraft, paganism, etc., into Christianity.\u00a0 Further, there are blasphemous statements and practices, homosexuality, rejection of biblical doctrine, and ecumenism with evil religions.\u00a0 As the wickedness comes in, truth and righteousness are forced out.\u00a0 It is not just happening to churches and pastors hooked on numbers growth, and those obsessed with signs and wonders. \u00a0\u00a0Also at risk of being infiltrated are churches where few if anyone prays, and cold formalism and rituals have replaced once vibrant spiritual life.<\/p>\n
I do not know if anyone has a firm grasp on how extensive and deep the infiltration is.\u00a0 From my observations, and the degree of apostasy, I would say that it is a severe infestation.\u00a0 I have wondered if it is not a fulfillment of a prophecy in Daniel.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help; but many shall join with them by intrigue.\u201d \u2013 Daniel 11:34<\/p>\n
The Hebrew word for \u201cintrigue\u201d here is \u201cchalaglaggah\u201d, which means; flattery, slipperiness, fine promises, smoothness.\u00a0 Why will individuals join with the people of God by \u201cchalaglaggah\u201d?\u00a0 The only reason is to cause decay and corruption from within.<\/p>\n
Presently, Christianity and churches have no earthly means of detecting and ridding themselves of this evil vermin.\u00a0 One might ask, \u201cHow did they prevent infiltration in the past?\u201d\u00a0 I will reply by relating a story from when I was a young evangelist years ago.<\/p>\n
I was preaching a revival in a small church of about 100 people.\u00a0 The revival had certainly broken out in the church.\u00a0 People were coming and being saved, and there were folks being healed.\u00a0 One night, after the altar call, there was what I can only describe as organized pandemonium in the church building. \u00a0All over the sanctuary people were being touched by the power of God, healed, delivered and saved.<\/p>\n
A man came in whom I had not seen before.\u00a0 He certainly had not been in the building during the preaching.\u00a0 He was going about laying hands on people.\u00a0 Before I could get to the pastor to ask him about the man, an old lady, with her hair in a bun, absolutely beaming with the presence of the Holy Spirit, walked up to the man. \u00a0She had her Bible clutched in her right hand.<\/p>\n
She said, \u201cMister, don\u2019t you know that God\u2019s people know when we\u2019ve got a devil amongst us?\u201d<\/p>\n
Then she swung and smacked him in the head with her Bible.\u00a0 He was stunned, but didn\u2019t move fast enough.\u00a0 She hit him again.\u00a0 In fact she hit him several times before he navigated through the crowd, bodies on the floor, and made it out the front door on a dead run.<\/p>\n
The point is, churches with godly people committed to God, praying, studying the Bible, and filled with the Holy Spirit, did not get infiltrated. \u00a0They recognized the one in whom Satan had an influence through a demon.\u00a0 \u00a0There was no soft entry point for them and they could not remain as an attendee.<\/p>\n
If there is going to be any purging of a church, or any other sector of Christianity, people will have to get serious about knowing God and being filled with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying that I advocate smacking the infiltrator with a Bible.\u00a0 (I suppose if we advertised that it was how we practiced purging, and they showed up, they ought to be expect to be smacked.)\u00a0 I am saying that if we are not dedicated enough, filled with the Spirit, so that we cannot even discover many of the truths of God, how are we going to recognize the emissaries of Satan? \u00a0We should recognize them, and make it very difficult for them to remain in the meetings.\u00a0 That is accomplished by people praying, and generating an atmosphere so poignant with the anointing that evil people cannot stay or are completely exposed.<\/p>\n
I actually pastored a church (briefly) that had demonic people in leadership that had controlled the church for years.\u00a0 They had had 20 pastors in 20 years.\u00a0 The church was a stain in the city.\u00a0 We are in a very dark and evil period when Christianity is replete with that type of church.\u00a0 I do not know how some professing Christians and their churches are going to survive.\u00a0 Many churches, and even some denominations, are in danger of being overthrown by evil people.<\/p>\n
It is past time to become a praying person. \u00a0There must be no further reliance on a pastor to do everything for you.\u00a0 The time is past to become strong, mature, and filled with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Either people rise up in the power and might of the Lord God, or they will go down in horrible defeat.\u00a0 The very continuance of Christianity depends on how well professing Christians understand and react to this truth.\u00a0 This is not a game!\u00a0 It is a life or death struggle for the eternal destiny of souls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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