By guest contributor Chris Sabine
In all the time that I spent in the different variations/flavors/denominations of Christianity (40+ years), there was one constant among them all. The constant was a question they ask in sermons that run through all the different flavors. The question being “Do you know who the most faithful churchgoer is?” Now of course they ask this for two reasons. The first being to guilt trip church members into being there every time the doors are open. Secondly, they are indicating that Satan and his demons are there every service to hinder and obstruct. While this is true, they are right beyond what they comprehend. The demons are there to hinder and obstruct but not in the manner they think.
Christianity likes to point out verses such as 2 Thess. 2:3, and 2 Timothy 4:3 as if they refer to a falling away or turning to doctrines other than Christianity, without even knowing, much less acknowledging, that Christianity is built on the false doctrines Paul was writing about. They completely ignore WHEN Paul lived and that he wrote these things all while teaching new believers the traditions of Yah. None of what Paul taught included any of the traditions that you see across Christianity today, which wasn’t codified until nearly 300 years AFTER Paul’s death. Quite frankly, to teach anything other than the traditions of Yah is to “tickle the ears” of the listener as pointed out in 2 Timothy 4. Those in Christianity largely think they own the argument when the argument is actually referring to them and all of man’s created religions.
Paul lived in the first century AD and was a very prominent pharisee. He had the entire Torah memorized by the age of seventeen. As a matter of fact, he had the entire Tanakh (Old Testament) memorized. He was, for lack of better words, a rockstar, as he was also highly educated in Greek philosophy. He was the perfect choice for the teaching of salvation through the gospel of Yahoshua without adding to or taking away. He even went so far as to rebuke Peter, the oldest and most prominent apostle publicly in Antioch for what he saw as hypocrisy (Galations 2:11). When Paul said or wrote something, he knew it and meant it with utmost certainty.
Of course, the apostacy Paul spoke of did happen over the years after his death and was eventually codified in the 4th century by Constantine, a Roman Emperor that was a pagan sun worshiper. He along with the rest of the Roman council stripped away the very foundations of the one true faith (names, Sabbaths, traditions, etc…) out of their sheer hatred for the Jews, and replaced them all with pagan traditions and rituals. They didn’t even try to hide it that well, as most of their pagan statues and images are now loved and worshiped around the world by billions of Christians. They just changed the names of the statues and images to fit their narative. This would be the very thing that would be warned of in Eph. 5:11 as well as Paul telling the believers to “keep the traditions” so they wouldn’t be deceived by the false doctrines.
By stripping away the true faith and replacing it with pagan deities and rituals, they created an entirely false religion sprinkled with a few truths. After all, to create a great lie, you do need a little truth to make it believable. According to John 4:24, this religion and its worship are based in falsehoods and not truth, so it is not acceptable to the Father. If it’s not acceptable to the Father, then that worship belongs to Satan. As it belongs to Satan, he then takes ownership of both sides of the argument in Christianity. He has to play the “good guy” along with playing “the bad guy”. He doesn’t mind this at all as it is his mode of operation. He will perform false miracles (Matt. 24:24, 2 Thess. 2:9) just to keep you deceived while also doing the evil deeds he is known for.
Satan is not omnipresent, so it would not be possible for him to attend every church service. In fact, it would be highly unlikely, apart from something or someone VERY important being involved, that Satan himself would be in any church services, as he is busy accusing the brethren before the Father day and night.
But, as Satan is the prince (captain, commander) of the power of the air (demonic forces), he makes sure that his army of darkness is part of all church services, and they report back to him.
His demons must be there to “tickle ears,” pull on vocal cords causing people to babble incoherently, give goosebumps, and even perform a few small miracles to keep up the illusion. If they didn’t then people wouldn’t keep believing his great lie that he worked so hard to build in an effort to conceal the way, the truth, and the life.
Who isn’t and will not be a part of Christianity speaks greater volumes. That being is none other than the Holy Spirit. He cannot and will not be a part of something that is false, worthless, and idolatrous which is exactly what “taking His name in vain” means. He abhors false worship and has a history of destroying those who do such a thing (Ex. 32, Lev. 10:1-2, Isaiah 29:13, Matt. 15:8-9, Mark 7:6-7, Matt. 6:5, Acts 17:22-23, Ezekiel 8 and 9).
Once truth was revealed to me, it became quite easy to see that Christianity, specifically the churches that I did once attend, were absolutely correct about one thing. Satan is indeed the most faithful churchgoer of them all through his demonic influence. He has to be because it was a design in effort to pull off the great deception and keep people from finding truth (2 Thess. 2:11). Most just blindly accept the falsehoods and never even question it, ultimately just punching their ticket to a highway with over 41,000 lanes (denominations) that lead straight to destruction.
None so blind as those that cannot see!
For more information: Why I Am No Longer a Christian