2 Corinthians 4:
3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Note the use of the SMALL 'g' in god. The 'god of THIS WORLD' is NOT the Father of Christ. The 'god of this world' is Satan, the devil, that old serpent, great dragon. For this world does NOT follow God, but the 'god of this world'. And the 'god of this world' has many 'angels' that do his bidding. I call them DEMONS.
So, WHO IS this 'god of this world'?
Blessings,
MEC
Adam
*[[Isa 14:5-17]] RNKJV*
%v 5% יהוה hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
%v 6% He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
%v 7% The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
%v 8% Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
%v 9% Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
%v 10% All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
%v 11% Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
%v 12% How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
%v 13% For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of El: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
%v 14% I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
%v 15% Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
%v 16% They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
%v 17% That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
*[[Eze 28:12-19]] RNKJV*
%v 12% Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Sovereign יהוה; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
%v 13% Thou hast been in Eden the garden of Elohim; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
%v 14% Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of Elohim; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
%v 15% Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
%v 16% By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of Elohim: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
%v 17% Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
%v 18% Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
%v 19% All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
*[[Luk 10:17-21]] RNKJV*
%v 17% And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Rabbi, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
%v 18% And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
%v 19% Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
%v 20% Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
%v 21% In that hour Yahushua rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Sovereign of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight
*[[Rev 12:3-4]] RNKJV* %v 3% And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
%v 4% And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
*[[Rev 12:7-9]] RNKJV*
%v 7% And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
%v 8% And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
%v 9% And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
*[[Gen 3:1]] RNKJV* Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which יהוה Elohim had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath Elohim said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
*[[Gen 3:14]] RNKJV* And יהוה Elohim said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
*[[Joh 8:44]] RNKJV* Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
*[[2Co 11:3]] RNKJV* But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Messiah.
*[[Jas 4:1-7]] RNKJV*
%v 1% From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
%v 2% Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
%v 3% Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
%v 4% Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with יהוה? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of יהוה.
%v 5% Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
%v 6% But he giveth more favour. Wherefore he saith, יהוה resisteth the proud, but giveth favour unto the humble.
%v 7% Submit yourselves therefore to יהוה. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
*[[Jas 1:14-15]] RNKJV*
%v 14% But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
%v 15% Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
*[[Mat 15:18-19]] RNKJV*
%v 18% But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
%v 19% For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
*[[1Pe 5:8-9]] RNKJV*
%v 8% Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
%v 9% Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
*[[1Jn 3:8]] RNKJV* He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of YHWH was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
*[[Rev 20:10]] RNKJV* And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
