Weapons Satan Uses Against the Church and Against the Children of God, 12

Weapons Satan Uses Against the Church and Against the Children of God, 12. In this section we will be talking about the weapons and strategies Satan uses to fight against us, against the church; to oppose salvation; to steal, to kill, and to […]

In this section we will be talking about the weapons and strategies Satan uses to fight against us, against the church; to oppose salvation; to steal, to kill, and to destroy. And although his strategies of opposition are many, I will mention some of them.

One of the lethal weapons Satan uses is the lie; another is deception. From the beginning, through lying and deception, he caused the first woman and the first man to sin by disobeying God, and as a result they died spiritually — and in that same way we are all dead, unless we are redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lying and deception are two of Satan's lethal weapons, from the beginning until today. The Lord said to the Pharisees, in John 8:44, "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." Satan is a thief, a murderer, and the father of lies — so says the word of God — and lying is one of his favorite strategies, since he is its father; he is good at lying. This is one of the subtle weapons he uses to steal souls; through lying he manages to kill, he manages to destroy.

John 10:10: "The thief does not come except to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." Satan is the thief; he comes for nothing else but to kill, to steal, and to destroy, and lying is one of the strategies he uses.

Also, in Matthew 24:24 the word says, "For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect." Deception, lying, falsehood, imitation, imitating what is true, are some of the additional strategies our adversary uses. Here the word warns us that many false christs will arise — that is, people who claim to be servants of God, prophets, supposedly with a calling, but who are false. In short, they make people believe that they themselves are like God, and through this Satan operates, performing signs and wonders, ministering healings, deliverances, giving very beautiful-sounding words — but all these things, when they come by the power of Satan, lead to death.

Another strategy Satan uses, tied to the lie, is getting everyone in the churches to think that he doesn't exist — that he no longer steals, no longer destroys, no longer kills. A lie this subtle contradicts the word of God, and so many churches believe it. In many churches they say: don't talk about Satan, don't mention him, that's not necessary, there's no need to talk about him, you don't bind Satan, you don't pray against Satan. Satan practically mocks us, because he came to steal, to kill, and to destroy, and instead of us resisting him in the faith as the word of God says, instead of submitting ourselves to God, instead of taking up our spiritual armor and our spiritual weapons and destroying the devil's works, we are told not to talk about that man — don't mention him, that man is not to be mentioned, Satan is not to be bound.

When Satan is oppressing a person with sickness, as happened with the daughter of Abraham, whom Satan oppressed for eighteen years, people tell them: no, that's just a trial, stay calm, sister, nothing's wrong, God is good, God is going to help you, keep your faith in Him.

Those are some of the lies Satan puts in the mouths of pastors. I don't want to offend any pastor; if there are pastors reading this, my intention is not to offend you — I am sharing the truth with you in love, because if we understand that it is Satan who plants these lies, and that these are Satan's weapons to keep the people of God bound, we would seek the true solution, which is prayer, fasting. Those of us who are used by God, those of us who have a true calling, simply need to wake up, take up our spiritual weapons, and take the authority the Lord gave us; we have to fill ourselves with truth, with true revelation of the word — then, yes, we can destroy the enemy's works. But the church wants to act as if nothing is wrong, or as if we are already free, that Christians don't have demons, that Christians don't get sick — shallow words are given, with little depth. The word says that for eighteen years Satan had bound the daughter of Abraham with a spirit of sickness, but apparently now sicknesses are no longer caused by Satan — that is how false doctrines get created, doctrines that are not biblical, because clearly, according to what the word teaches, Satan is the cause of sicknesses.

Another strategy Satan uses to bind souls, to fight against us, even to fight against the elect when they still lack revelation, is something called the transference of demons. The transference of demons is one of the strategies he uses within the church itself; through the word, the sermons, or the prayers of people who are not prepared, who lack understanding, who are not filled with the Holy Spirit, who are spiritually contaminated — through their sermons and their prayers, Satan transfers demons, and that is why so many churches are sick, everyone sick, everything going from bad to worse.

Another way Satan uses to oppose, to fight against us, is temptation. He looks for ways to tempt us; sometimes it isn't because the demons are inside — it's also from the outside; they place certain temptations before us to see if we take the bait and fall into their claws.

Accusation is another strategy Satan uses to torment us. The word of God says he is the accuser of the brothers. When he sees that we are walking firmly, seeking God with love, with a contrite and humble heart, that we want to worship Him from the heart, that we want to study His word, that we want to live a life of prayer, that we want to fast, and that we truly want to do His will out of the fear of Him because we want to please Him — Satan comes and suddenly uses people close to us, known or unknown, to accuse us: who do you think you are? And they start inventing things about us, trying to tear us down, to demoralize us — but it isn't them, it's Satan. He uses accusation; he accuses us directly and also through people.

It is my desire that many will have their eyes opened through this teaching series, and if you set your heart to understand, the Lord will allow you to grasp that the ones accusing you are not really the people themselves — it is demons speaking through them.

It should come as no surprise — Satan even spoke through an apostle, the apostle Peter, directly to the Lord Jesus Christ. It says in Matthew 16:22-23, "Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you. But he turned and said to Peter, Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man." We see clearly in this passage how the Lord responds to Peter: get away from me, Satan, because you only care about the things of man. And Peter was saying, no, Lord, don't let that happen to you, don't die, don't let them crucify you, don't suffer — but it was Satan speaking through Peter, not God.

Satan speaks through people — sometimes in an angry way, sometimes in an accusatory way, sometimes in a compassionate-sounding way, and in many other ways. He is still cunning; we have to pray for the Lord to give all of us much more discernment, so we can tell when it is the person speaking, or when it is God speaking — because God also speaks through certain people — or when it is the devil. When it is the devil, we have to respond as the Lord did: rebuke Satan immediately, not listen to him, not agree with him, and not accept whatever he wants to offer us.

Humiliation is another strategy Satan uses against everyone, and when we have some kind of calling he tries to demoralize us. If there are people with weak hearts, sometimes through family members, people close to us — whether over money or anything else — Satan uses them so that often the people close to us turn against us and humiliate us, saying things like, you don't do anything, you're useless, all you do is walk around with that book in your hand.

And when someone is seeking God fervently, with love, reading the word, praying, fasting, having reasons to give glory to God, Satan turns those very things against them, and suddenly even people close to them come at them like wild animals, trying to make them feel as though they were terrible people, as though they were doing something very wrong, committing some great crime — because they're praying a lot and fasting a lot and reading the word. Even though they're doing exactly what God commands, Satan wants to make them feel like criminals, like we are nothing, worthless, useless. This is no secret — for many, this experience is real. Humiliation is a strategy he uses to try to make us stumble.

Dreams are another means Satan uses against us. When we are asleep we are vulnerable to his attacks, and through dreams he bombards us. He has a special army strategically designed to try to contaminate us and attack us while we sleep.

Satan creates strife; he twists everything. Just as I just shared, everything done according to the word of God is meant for us to give glory to God, and even when something is good, Satan uses it to humiliate us and make us feel bad — he makes us believe we are doing things wrong and instills false guilt.

Manipulation is another of his strategies. When he cannot manipulate us directly because we are already strengthened in the Lord, and our hearts are filled with light and we are walking according to the word of God, then he uses people close to us — a spouse, children, father, mother, uncle, cousin, siblings, anyone who is not yet firm in the things of God, whether unbelieving, atheist, or believer — to manipulate us.

Also, when we still have weaknesses, still lack revelation of the word, and have spiritual weaknesses, Satan uses those weaknesses, and he tries to use these people who are close to us to manipulate us through them.

Domination is another weapon used to try to intimidate us; the spirit of Jezebel is a high-ranking demon Satan uses for this purpose. Jezebel intimidates. It is expert in manipulation. It is expert in using people close to us, preferably women, to manipulate and dominate us.

If the husband does not do exactly what the wife wants, that is when Jezebel is dominating that marriage through the woman, and then intimidation comes: if you don't do this, you're leaving the house. Many threats arise between the couple: if you don't do what I say, you don't love me; if you don't leave that church, it's because you don't love me; all you care about is your church, or all you care about is that religion.

She comes to try to intimidate and manipulate, and believe me, I have seen men who come online into the Zoom room wanting to be ministered to, only show up two times, because they let themselves be intimidated by their wives. I've heard the wife sometimes saying, 'What are you doing listening to that apostle? I don't want you to be part of that church. If you don't leave that church, I'm leaving the house.' And I've watched men immediately leave the virtual room.

There are also Jezebelic men who are used by that spirit to manipulate, control, and dominate, to oppose someone walking with God. And there have been cases of women who have told me, 'Pastor, I don't know what to do, my husband told me that if I keep going to church he's going to divorce me, pastor, I don't know what to do.' And they leave the church.

That's the wrong decision, because it is better to enter eternal life missing an arm, a foot, or an eye, as the word says, than for your whole body to burn in hell. Whoever puts husband, wife, father, mother, son, or daughter ahead of God is not worthy of Him. If an arm, the word says, causes you to fall, cut it off — that arm can be a symbolic or figurative expression of the temptation to sin.

Satan uses people close to us — people who are themselves being used by Jezebel — to try to manipulate us. Jezebel is a spirit of domination, manipulation, control, and intimidation. In its way of manipulating, it can express itself like this: no, let's go to this church instead. Not that church, let's go to another one. But its intention is for it to be a church controlled by Jezebel. There are many churches where that spirit operates freely, with many prophecies, and they appear to be very spiritual, but it is a false spirituality, a false prophecy, it is Jezebel's prophecy, Jezebel's spirituality, a false brotherhood, a Jezebelic brotherhood; there is a great deal of deception.

Another of the weapons Satan uses against everyone is pride. Religious pride, pride in material things, pride in social status. It doesn't matter what kind of pride — sometimes even pride in the place where you were born. All pride is bad. The word says that Leviathan is the father of the children of pride. Everyone who is proud has Leviathan as their father.

I don't want Leviathan as my father. I renounced pride a long time ago. When I read that word, that Leviathan is the father of the children of pride, I said no more pride in my life — I want humility, not pride. I don't want to be a child of Leviathan. It's found in the book of Job.

Science — I know this is a hard one for many, because the world, the schools, and the entire current system of government have taught us that we have to believe in science, that science is more important than the word of God, because supposedly science can be proven. But the word says regarding this, in 1 Timothy 6:20-21, "O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge, for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen." In what is falsely called science, there is a great deal of hidden darkness. Science is another subtle weapon Satan uses to steal souls, to steal blessings, to steal faith, to separate us from God. Yes, we will also talk more slowly about science later.

Money — some of these things aren't necessarily diabolical in themselves; it's that Satan twists them in order to manipulate. Money, for example, he also uses to steal souls, whether by instilling love of money, as in the case of the rich young man — when the Lord told him to sell everything he had and give it to the poor, he hung his head and became sad, because he had great wealth. Love of money, vanity, greed, covetousness — these are all part of this manipulation.

On the other hand, he also uses money to oppress — suddenly blocking everything, so there's nothing, not even food, and then he oppresses you through debt, through extreme poverty, through not even being able to pay for electricity and water. He manipulates finances to one extreme — living in greed, love of material things, wanting to have wealth and always wanting more, more, more — or he pushes you to the other extreme, living in poverty, poverty, poverty.

The enemy tries to prevent us from living a normal life, one where at least our basic expenses can be covered — having housing paid for, having food on the table, having food for the children, or anything else that needs to be paid for; even just something simple, without much splendor, where a person is simply content. Phones, vehicles, appliances, and many other aspects of daily life — he also uses these to attack us. He tries to push our lives to such an extreme that we experience oppression, discouragement, and despair.

According to some experiences I have lived through — from the very beginning, when the Lord called me to this ministry, since I began ministering to people — I have seen how Satan uses the phone to send witchcraft through a phone call, through text messages. He uses the phone against us.

Distractions — every distraction, all entertainment, sports, television, every kind of worldly distraction, is a lethal, hidden weapon. He is skilled at making what is bad look pleasant, look fun to the flesh, so the flesh desires it.

And this is what he does — he presents sin in an appealing way; he presents us with a wide road that leads to destruction, presenting it in a fun way, so that it seems harmless. It is very easy for us to take that bait, while the flesh still likes it and enjoys it, and we fail to notice that something that seems good is actually bad. That is how the world of entertainment is presented to us.

It is true that he even tries to use the very word of God itself to make us stumble, presenting it twisted, just as he did with the Lord Himself: 'If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down.' 'If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.' He is using the word of God, but twisting it in order to tempt, to see if we will trip. He uses the word in a twisted way — taking away from it and/or adding to it words the Lord never said.

He presents the word with deception, using pastors who teach the Scripture but mix in about ten percent heresy — words that are poison to the soul, but presented in a way that sounds pleasant. Unless a person has a great deal of discernment, knows the Scripture well, and is very focused on the things of God, they will not realize there is lying and deception involved. He uses, whenever he can, against us and against the church, love of the world and the things that are in it.

He also uses medicine. Many people believe enormously in medicine; the truth is that, sadly, even the church today believes more in medicine than in the word of God. We have all been taught that if we are sick, if we have a headache, taking a Tylenol tablet is the solution, and if the headache is very strong, going to the doctor.

But the word of God tells us what we should do, in James 5:14-15: "Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven." Doing what God commands here requires faith, and that is why fulfilling this word is very difficult for many people — not seeking God first and waiting on Him, instead of going to the doctor, in order to experience healing, is the most common thing among Christians, since it is easier for them to run to the doctor and follow the medicine. Add to that lack of faith the fact that most countries have public health systems where you don't even need money, because they give you the medicine for free — so then it doesn't take much faith, and not much waiting, to receive a false and deceptive solution.

Another strategy Satan uses to fight against us is witchcraft. This is a topic that comes up a great deal today, and it deserves to be explored more deeply later on, because there are many types of witchcraft: voodoo, black magic, santería, sorcery, white magic, red magic, blue magic, green magic, macumba, babalao, shamanism, Santa Muerte, Amazonian witchcraft, Illuminati witchcraft, religious witchcraft, among others. But one of the forms of witchcraft that many of you don't know about — the one I especially want to share about — is Christian witchcraft. Yes, in a great many churches — some know it, some don't — there are witches disguised as pastors, or disguised as apostles, prophets, evangelists, or teachers. These people have even sacrificed their own children to Satan, and have carried out many other rituals or family sacrifices; they are professional witches and warlocks disguised as pastors and pastoras. But the vast majority — as far as the Lord has allowed me to understand so far — the vast majority of those who carry that spirit of witchcraft don't know it; they are simply being used by Satan under deception, and even when they speak, it is the very same power of witchcraft operating, just as with a shaman or a voodoo witch doctor. They bind souls in a very powerful way, and souls end up bewitched through religious witchcraft.

That's why, when you tell someone, look, the word says you shouldn't have idols, they answer, that's not an idol, that's just a little virgin figure, or that's just a little angel figure — no, because the word says we should not have images — but they cannot understand it, because through the various religions and denominations created by man, not by God, a spirit of witchcraft is operating.

In Brazil, macumba is treated as a religion, just like the Christian religion; in Mexico there are many churches devoted to Santa Muerte, and for them it is a religion — for them, Santa Muerte is like Jesus Christ; in Venezuela, babalao is another religion, it functions like a religion, but it is witchcraft, though to them it is not. And we could name many more, because just as they do not know, I am going to tell you that many of you are also in a church that is likewise witchcraft, just like the babalaos, just like macumba, just like those who gather around Santa Muerte, simply under a different Christian-sounding label, and you don't know it, just as they don't know it either. But I invite everyone reading these pages to seek God and exchange the power of witchcraft for the power of the true God. Don't be angry with me — instead, give yourself the opportunity to seek God and to find in Him the confirmation that what I am telling you is true.

Another thing Satan uses is idols in the home — accursed objects; through these accursed, cursed objects in homes, he operates and does great harm to the household; he tries to get us to sin in various ways in the world we live in. In fact, the world itself is practically one of our enemies; Satan looks for ways to use it against us, given how he has it structured, because he is the god of this age, the god of the world; he has everything structured in such a way that everything pulls us away from the true God, that everything leads us into rebellion against God and into sin, and draws us closer to Satan himself. Therefore, the world is an enemy — that is why the word says, friendship with the world is enmity against God. James 4:4 says: "You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

Music — another lethal weapon of Satan. Both secular music and so-called Christian music — he uses both to bind souls; we will talk about this in greater depth later.

Government is also something that works against us; yes, many government laws, and many people in government, are Masonic, Illuminati — they practice another kind of witchcraft. Many national presidents present a certain outward appearance of holiness, like witches disguised as pastors, who look good and speak beautifully. But just as the Lord said to the Pharisees, they are whitewashed tombs — on the outside they look very good, very well dressed, very proper, and oh, wow, what a great person — but inside they are full of all kinds of bones and iniquity. There are incarnate demons, hybrid people — they are agents of Satan who are here with a mission and a purpose. Just as the Lord says, 'I will send my servant before me to prepare the way,' and also says, 'I will send my two witnesses,' Satan too sends his servants before him, his two witnesses, to prepare the way for the antichrist. There are incarnate demons.

Alcohol, and every legal and illegal drug, is something Satan uses to bind souls, to keep many of our loved ones from turning to the Lord, to keep most of the world bound, chained in spiritual slavery.

It's no secret that there are drugs like fentanyl, where practically as soon as a person tries that drug they become like zombies, because powerful end-time demons enter them, which is why they become like zombies. So, through every legal or illegal drug, a door is opened to different demons; but there are drugs like fentanyl, and others too, that open the door specifically to mental demons — demons that bind the mind, the personality, the character, practically causing possession, and this is difficult to deal with, though not impossible.

Satan also has many demons assigned to the church. Some of them are like the spirit of Korah, which causes rebellion against God's command; in the church he has the spirit of Jezebel, assigned to cause problems and division; Ahab, the daughters of Jezebel, Leviathan, Baphomet, Lucifer himself, Mammon, Ammon, Astaroth, Behemoth, a spirit like autism and other mental demons, including madness and insanity — these are demons the church has to deal with; the spirit of Babylon, the spirit of Sanballat and Tobiah, idols, images — every image represents a demon assigned to keep people away from the true God; the spirit of Caesar, the spirit of Pilate, Delilah, Amalek — each of the kings who fought against Israel represents a power of darkness, and almost all of them, from the beginning until today, have manifested when we pray; the spirit of Judas, the Philistines, the king of Syria; the prince of Persia, that demon who delayed the answer to Daniel, has manifested many times when we pray. Practically every demon, every power of darkness, represents demons who are fighting against us, and what they did in the past is exactly what they are trying to do today, to oppose the work of God.

The spirit of the beast, the antichrist, the false prophet, the Kundalini, Python; witches and warlocks disguised as pastors, hybrid witches disguised as pastors — these hybrid witches are people who are not fully human, people who are like the Nephilim, like the giants born in the past that the word of God speaks of, who were born of the angels and the daughters of men; so there are hybrid people now as well. There is a spirit of laughter in the church, supposedly the 'gift of laughter' — this is a demon that makes people laugh uncontrollably; it works together with Kundalini and Jezebel. There is a spirit of shaking — many people are praying and shaking, and they think it's the Holy Spirit, or their bodies tremble; this is a religious spirit.

In some denominations there is a spirit of jokes and storytelling in church — even while preaching, people always want to crack jokes; many times behind those jokes, even though they sound pleasant to the ear, there is a demon — it is a spirit of jokes. False doctrines, false tongues — Satan is an impostor; for everything that is true, he has a counterfeit: false fire, false discernment, false knowledge, false interpretation of tongues, false interpretation of the word of God, false revelation, false miracles, false deliverance, false spirituality, false worship, false praise, false peace, false compassion, false love, false joy, false conversion, false baptism, false brotherhood, false faith, false holiness, false humility, false calling, false prophet, false teacher, false apostle, false pastorate, false evangelism, false leadership — those are some of the demons assigned within the church; he has many, it's a large army. This is simply a small summary, because there is much more on this subject to expose and go deeper into.

We will also cover one of Satan's favorite areas of attack; he attacks many areas — I would say every area of our lives — but we will talk about the most important area: how he attacks our relationship with the Lord, our time set aside to read the word of God, our time of prayer, our time of fasting. Also the family, our family, finances, work, business, sales, health, our children, the mind — the mind is a battlefield, one of the primary places he tries to attack — the emotions, personality, character, willpower, interpersonal relationships and how he tries to manipulate them so that adverse situations arise, vehicles, electronic devices, especially what we use to work or to serve God, direct attacks on our own person, subjecting us to degradation, humiliation, making us feel lesser.

We will also cover some of the entry points demons use — how they enter through the eyes, through the ears, through the mouth. That's why the Lord said it is not what enters through the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of it; through the sense of smell, the sexual organs, sin, and every part of the body we use to sin. If we steal, there are demons that can enter practically through the hand, and then live in the hands as well; if we commit sexual sins with the hand, with the mouth, that part we use for sin also becomes a way it gets contaminated, and the devil takes possession of it. Witchcraft, obviously, is something he uses to gain entry into us; dreams, a time when we are very vulnerable; also generational sins — what has happened in the family across generations is something he uses against us. There are also territorial demons that affect us — demons tied to the country or state where we live, the city, the county, the district, the territory where we live; there are also demons present on a property because of sin committed there before we moved in, which also affect us.

Building on the topics laid out here, I will go deeper into the weapons Satan uses against the church and against the children of God in upcoming sections.

I know that what has been shared so far has brought more clarity to many of you, and thoughts are coming to mind like: now I understand why such-and-such happened, why when I dream this, that happens, or now I understand why some of my loved ones, some family members, suddenly speak to me in a certain way. The purpose is for the mind to keep waking up, so that we come to know how the enemy works and fights against us, and how we are to use the weapons the Lord has already given us to fight this battle and live in freedom and victory in Christ Jesus.

If you feel that this teaching has been edifying, please share it with your family, friends, acquaintances, people you know, and people you don't know — that is one way to support the kingdom of God, exposing the truth clearly to more people and bringing the schemes of the evil one out into the open. The Lord bless you.

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