Satan has always derived his authority and power from the consent of those he deceives into following him.
Therefore, he must continually convince us to chose him over God, lies over truth, and death over life. A case in point is the abortion issue. Why is there such vehement insistence that women be granted the right to kill their unborn babies? Is it merely a misguided defense of women’s rights or something more?
Child sacrifice was integral to the worship of Chemosh and Molech in the Old Testament. We also know from Scripture that idols represent demonic beings that empower them. Paul wrote this enlightening passage.
What am I trying to say? Am I saying that food offered to idols has some significance, or that idols are real gods? 20 No, not at all. I am saying that these sacrifices are offered to demons, not to God. And I don’t want you to participate with demons. 21 You cannot drink from the cup of the Lord and from the cup of demons, too. You cannot eat at the Lord’s Table and at the table of demons, too. 1 Corinthians 10:19-21 (NLT)
All demons serve Satan, including those connected to Chemosh and Molech. These pagan deities demanded the blood of infants. People willingly sacrificed their children in order to gain some sort of occult spiritual advantage from them. Below is a particularly intriguing passage.
When the king of Moab saw that he was losing the battle, he led 700 of his swordsmen in a desperate attempt to break through the enemy lines near the king of Edom, but they failed. 27 Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would have been the next king, and sacrificed him as a burnt offering on the wall. So there was great anger against Israel, and the Israelites withdrew and returned to their own land. 2 Kings 3:26-27 (NLT)
In this instance, evil power was released against Israel when the king of Moab sacrificed his son to the devil. This man willingly killed his son to enlist Satan’s power to defeat God’s people, which was granted.
We may consider such a thing barbaric, but was it any less gruesome and horrific than modern day mothers choosing to execute over 60 million of their own unborn babies in the United States alone since 1973?
The king of Moab wanted victory over his enemies. What do modern Americans want? Most of the time mothers kill their unborn babies to avoid embarrassment, inconvenience, career interruptions, or economic hardship. Some have more humanitarian reasons, such as protecting their own health in the case of extremely hazardous pregnancies. Some pregnancies are the result of rape, and the mother does not want anything or anyone reminding her of that travesty. Most of these women probably have been deceived, as was Eve, into thinking that these babies are not really human beings at all, just blobs of tissue. They do not understand God knew them before the creation of the world and personally formed them in the womb. Those unborn infants may be just tissue to these mothers, but to God they are beloved children. Some deceived women have declared they rejoice in their abortions, but many others rue having aborted their child or children. Thankfully, God offers forgiveness, if we turn to him with a repentant heart.
We are engaged in a spiritual battle between the kingdom of God and the realm of darkness and evil ruled by Satan.
We understand that even though Christ dealt a death blow to Satan and his kingdom when he rose from the dead, God in his wisdom has permitted us, his people, to be part of the “clean up operation” here on the earth. It is our Lord’s intention that his people have the privilege of crushing Satan under our feet.
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. Romans 16:20 (NASB95)
This verse references the promise made to the serpent in the garden back in Genesis that one of Eve’s descendants would crush the serpent’s head. (Genesis 3:15) Many consider this to be the very first messianic promise in the Bible. Jesus fulfilled this prophecy, but we his people will be part of the final act in this great drama unfolding over the centuries.
All will be concluded when Jesus appears in the clouds with great glory, just as he promised. Until then, we are living through an intense contest between two opposing kingdoms for the hearts of people. Each kingdom is enlisting the consent of people to be governed by their respective kings. Each kingdom has a different leader, goals, sources of power, and ways of doing business.
Our Lord Jesus is the captain of God’s forces in heaven and on earth. God’s goal is to redeem and restore his fallen creation. Jesus is the Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer, and Judge. The source of power in God’s kingdom is the Holy Spirit. Jesus has all authority in heaven and on earth, but the Holy Spirit carries out and enforces his commands. God’s authority and power is expanded, so to speak, as more and more people acknowledge Jesus as Lord and consent to be governed by God. Under the Spirit are legions of angels ready to do God’s will.
Satan commands his evil minions. His goal is to usurp God’s authority, dishonor him, and destroy as many people as possible. He is a liar, murderer, thief, and destroyer. The source of the malevolent power behind Satan is derived from what he usurps from humans.
The devil relies upon humans continuing to show allegiance to him.
Satan is an enslaver. Everything he does works toward that end. Despite how obvious is Satan’s hatred for mankind, we seem to be rather stupid in that we repeatedly fall for the same lies. In fact, he has so deceived many that they think of him as a benefactor.
People under the devil’s oppression continue to choose to serve and honor him, ensuring that his stolen authority remains intact. This is part of what is behind the worship of Satan through abortion.
Cultures where the gospel does not have the ascendancy often have certain rites in place to appease the demon “gods” and keep them on “our side.” Some villages in Africa and Asia annually make sacrifices to these demonic beings, thereby renewing the ceding of God-given human authority to the devil.
When people accept Christ as Lord, Satan’s power over them is finished.
When the seventy-two disciples returned, they joyfully reported to him, “Lord, even the demons obey us when we use your name!” 18 “Yes,” he told them, “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning! 19 Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you. 20 But don’t rejoice because evil spirits obey you; rejoice because your names are registered in heaven.” Luke 10:17-20 (NLT)
Those of us who have have put our faith and allegiance in Jesus the risen Lord and King have been rescued from the kingdom of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of God. (Colossians 1:13)
When Jesus rose from the dead, he triumphed over Satan and his evil authority and power; however, just as God left enemies in the Promised Land for Israel to overcome in battle by faith, our Lord did not immediately remove Satan and his demons from the earth. Multitudes of human beings still willingly serve the devil.
God’s kingdom also operates through people’s willingness to declare allegiance to the true King, Jesus the Messiah. The gospel is a proclamation that God will forgive the rebelliousness of his people and restore them to his glorious kingdom, if they will accept his offer to be reconciled to him through Christ.
There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:9-13 (NASB)
The acknowledgement that Jesus is Lord, therefore, is the keystone of the gospel and the undoing of our alliance with Satan.
As more and more people consent to be governed by the Lord Jesus, Satan’s power and authority on earth is further weakened. Therefore, the proclamation of the gospel is our greatest spiritual weapon.
The door is still open for people to change sides and come back to God.
The enemy uses people to infiltrate and use the power and authority connected with human governments to further his kingdom’s objectives. There is a push across the globe to move us into a one world government that will be tyrannical, enslaving, and anti-God.
God’s government always produces freedom. Satan’s always enslaves.
The only way for Satan’s plan to work is for masses of compliant people to willingly surrender to it. Of course, this requires a massive amount of deception, since no one in his or her right mind would choose to follow the lord of death.
Just as some cultures repeatedly offer animal sacrifices to demonstrate their allegiance to the devil, we also have such a blood sacrifice in our country.
I believe that the power source used by the demonic realm has been child sacrifice through legalized abortion.
The Supreme Court’s decision to nullify Roe v. Wade is an answer to prayer and a direct threat to Satan’s power grid, so to speak. We should expect all hell to break lose as Satan’s minions try to stop this from happening.
How odd it seems to watch the Left violently protest for the right to kill babies. You would think this would be sufficient to “wake up” vast numbers of people to the horrors of child sacrifice. But just as Eve looked upon the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and thought it was beautiful, delicious, and able to make her wise, modern “man” looks at abortion as a “right” and an avenue to greater freedom and fulfillment, not for a moment understanding Satan’s horrific plan.
The tragedy of mothers choosing to destroy their own unborn children has to be one of Satan’s greatest deceptions and triumphs.
Our nation has been given a golden opportunity to rid ourselves of one of our most egregious affronts to God, the shedding of innocent blood. This great sin of the state sanctioned murder of infants keeps the threat of God’s judgment hanging over the nation like a sword of Damocles. Since Roe v. Wade was passed, which used the courts to bypass the legislative process and opened the door to legalized murder in this country, some sixty million unborn babies have been put to death. Most of this slaughter has been hidden from public view within the confines of abortion clinics and hospitals, but God has seen every last drop of innocent blood that has been shed. This blood cries out to God for vengeance. Thank God that Jesus’ blood cries out for mercy!
The Bible teaches that life is in the blood (Genesis 9:5). God holds people, cities, and nations accountable for the shedding of innocent blood (Numbers 35:33). The guilt for all the innocent blood shed by the abortion industry is shared by those who promote it to gain spiritual power, the politicians who champion it to gain and maintain political power, the providers – doctors, clinics, hospitals, and other medical personnel, who have tapped into the wealth this industry supplies, and those who procure their services for whatever selfish reasons. Our entire nation will be held accountable for what we allowed to happen under our watch. When judgment falls, even those who were not directly involved usually are affected. Sometimes the Lord’s judgment falls immediately, but often God delays judgment, allowing it to accumulate (Matthew 23:35-36). But we can be sure that God will not be mocked: we will ultimately reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7).
Thankfully there is hope for those who come to realize the horrendous nature of abortion and ask God for forgiveness.
The Bible says that without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness (Hebrews 9:22). This is why Jesus had to shed his blood on the cross on our behalf. It was the only way to atone for our sins. He offers to forgive anyone who comes to him in humility and faith, but unless a person or nation turns to God in repentance and finds forgiveness in Christ’s atoning sacrifice, he, she, or they eventually will encounter God’s wrath. I am understandably troubled, as I hope you are, when I contemplate how much wrath has been accumulating due to the travesty of abortion which has piled up such an enormous death count over almost fifty years.
If I am correct, the overturning of Roe v. Wade is an existential threat to the Left, because it will likely cause them to lose their “sacrament” of abortion and their source of evil power. If I am wrong about abortion being the Left’s link to evil power, I am not in error concerning its being part of a demonic plot to bring down God’s righteous judgment for the shedding of innocent blood upon our nation.
May God lift this horrendous weight of judgment from us as we repent and mend our ways at a national level. May God protect us from the violence and ugliness that the Left is sure to unleash upon the nation as we attempt to unplug them from their evil source of power and remove ourselves from God’s looming judgment. We cannot afford to be passive onlookers in this battle between light and darkness. The least we can do is pray and declare the truth to others.
