If Satan Has Deceived the Whole World

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Revelation 12:9 "So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to earth and his angels were cast out with him."

Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom

Matt 7:13-14 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

If Satan has deceived the whole world and Christ's flock is a little flock and there are few who go in by the narrow gate, have you ever wondered, if you could be deceived? Have you ever wondered if you really are following the truth or if you could be "of your father the devil" as many people like to accuse each other of?

If you have, what approaches have you taken to undeceive yourself, so to speak. What made you think or wonder if you were deceived in the first place?
 

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Jesus' Gospel of the Kingdom runs contrary to the world of man. It represents a counter-culture to the world man has made in our own image. God continually tells us to put His will before our own but we chose the opposite. Everything here is backwards. This is a world of self interest and has been ever since Eve chose to put her will ahead of the will of God. It is easy for a world to be deceived when it spends all its time deceiving itself.
 
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Revelation 12:9 "So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to earth and his angels were cast out with him."

Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom

Matt 7:13-14 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

If Satan has deceived the whole world and Christ's flock is a little flock and there are few who go in by the narrow gate, have you ever wondered, if you could be deceived? Have you ever wondered if you really are following the truth or if you could be "of your father the devil" as many people like to accuse each other of?

If you have, what approaches have you taken to undeceive yourself, so to speak. What made you think or wonder if you were deceived in the first place?

Two key deceptions: Equality and Islam.

[Note: I'm keeping this super short.]

The ideas of equality have taken hold of the West. The dominate religion in the West today is the Church of Woke. Isaiah 5:20 is now in play:

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

That "woe" is now directed at America. In my War Log I post article links about the march to World War 3. Here I give a Bible prophecy angle to World War 3.

I completely reject the ideas of equality.

Islam is the religion of angels. And by angels I mean demons. Islamic prophecy talks about the return of the Mahdi (Antichrist) and Jesus (the Islamic Jesus, aka false prophet). Here I show how 666 comes from Allah. The parable of the wise and foolish virgins is about the arrival of the fake Jesus (false prophet) and the mark.

One should completely reject Islam even unto death.

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One thing you need to absolutely do is make clear what you yourself mean by the word "deceive". There's a difference between being deceived and being wrong. For example, there's a difference between believing Christ is not God (Unitarians, Jehovah's Witnesses, Islam) & believing in something like Universalism. One's clearly a deception and the other a secondary issue amongst brothers & sisters in The Faith. When you look at the sheer amount of people who live and have lived I think you'll find that even though there's currently hundreds of millions of Christians living at this present moment, in contrast to the rest of the world throughout history we're actually quite small. It's how God's promise to Abraham of his descendants being more numerous than stars (Gen 26:4) is fulfilled (Romans 2:29, Romans 4:16-18) while also few entering the narrow way.

John in 1 John 5:13 also states that we can know we have salvation and Paul in 2 Timothy 2:13 reminds us that God is ALWAYS faithful. If you're ever unsure pray to your Father in heaven for clarity and help. He will help you and show you truth.

God bless :heart: .
 
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Here I show how 666 comes from Allah
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Hi. Arabic-speaking Christian here. I'm afraid this just doesn't work, friend. This is not written in the correct direction that Arabic is actually written in -- from right to left. It's not even possible to write this left to right as you have it above, because the way that the letters connect in the script disallows it, since the Alif letter (the A in "Allah") connects to the Lam letter (the double L in "Allah") with its own distinct ligature, as it has since the early days of the Arabic script, prior to the writing of the Qur'an. Here is a recently published pre-Islamic inscription in Arabic from Dumat al-Jandal (NW Saudi Arabia), dated to 548-49 AD (recall that Muhammad was not born until 570):

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The description provided by the uploader, Tweeting Historians on Twitter (@tweetistorian), states:

"While Christianity is perhaps not surprising in Syria and Nagrān, a new text from Dūmat al-Jandal suggests that it was more widespread. This text, published by Nehmé in 2017, also contains crosses and an invocation to al-ʾilāh 'the God', dated 548-9 CE. ~AA"

If you can read Arabic, you can quickly recognize the invocation of al-ilah 'the God' in the second line, as it looks very similar to how it would look today: الإله

You can see in the above inscription that the لا ligature that connects Lam ل and Alif ا is present in pre-Islamic Arabic, so you'd never get a form written from left to right like you have it in your description such that it would match what you've made of the Greek for '666' unless the whole language were written going the other direction, which is not the case (only numbers signs are written from left to right).
One should completely reject Islam even unto death.

Amen. This is absolutely true.
 
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Revelation 12:9 "So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to earth and his angels were cast out with him."

Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom

Matt 7:13-14 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

If Satan has deceived the whole world and Christ's flock is a little flock and there are few who go in by the narrow gate, have you ever wondered, if you could be deceived? Have you ever wondered if you really are following the truth or if you could be "of your father the devil" as many people like to accuse each other of?

If you have, what approaches have you taken to undeceive yourself, so to speak. What made you think or wonder if you were deceived in the first place?

One must diligently study His Word (They Word is Truth) .... outside of that one is subject to deception. I was deceived by many false teachings .... immortal "soul", state of the dead, the authority of the 7th day Sabbath ... Gods laws being abolished ..... many things.

It's something we need to guard against ... and the only way to do that is through self study. ... many deceptions are being taught through various "religions" and we are warned of that.

Acts 17:11

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Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

Be noble .... examine the scriptures for yourself ..... daily.
 
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Hi. Arabic-speaking Christian here. I'm afraid this just doesn't work, friend. This is not written in the correct direction that Arabic is actually written in -- from right to left. It's not even possible to write this left to right as you have it above, because the way that the letters connect in the script disallows it, since the Alif letter (the A in "Allah") connects to the Lam letter (the double L in "Allah") with its own distinct ligature, as it has since the early days of the Arabic script, prior to the writing of the Qur'an. Here is a recently published pre-Islamic inscription in Arabic from Dumat al-Jandal (NW Saudi Arabia), dated to 548-49 AD (recall that Muhammad was not born until 570):

EWsA4yUXkAAtTj7


The description provided by the uploader, Tweeting Historians on Twitter (@tweetistorian), states:

"While Christianity is perhaps not surprising in Syria and Nagrān, a new text from Dūmat al-Jandal suggests that it was more widespread. This text, published by Nehmé in 2017, also contains crosses and an invocation to al-ʾilāh 'the God', dated 548-9 CE. ~AA"

If you can read Arabic, you can quickly recognize the invocation of al-ilah 'the God' in the second line, as it looks very similar to how it would look today: الإله

You can see in the above inscription that the لا ligature that connects Lam ل and Alif ا is present in pre-Islamic Arabic, so you'd never get a form written from left to right like you have it in your description such that it would match what you've made of the Greek for '666' unless the whole language were written going the other direction, which is not the case (only numbers signs are written from left to right).


Amen. This is absolutely true.

Thanks for that analysis. That's a different way to reject what I've done. Usually the problem is that Allah gives us 665 instead of 666. But one must at least rotate Allah in order to get to the correct form. I rotated and flipped it to match the Greek in the Bible. Anyway, I guess you didn't like that.

Interestingly, I only hear crickets when I point out the Allah-666 connection, except for people pointing out that I'm wrong. What about when I bring up Islamic prophecy about the return of the Islamic Mahdi and Islamic Jesus? They are going to bring Islam to the entire world. And they look a lot like the Antichrist and false prophet. Does that get the attention of anyone? Crickets.
 
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Thanks for that analysis. That's a different way to reject what I've done. Usually the problem is that Allah gives us 665 instead of 666. But one must at least rotate Allah in order to get to the correct form. I rotated and flipped it to match the Greek in the Bible. Anyway, I guess you didn't like that.

It's not that I don't like it, it's that you can't do that and yield a valid result. Lam and Alif connect in their own unique ligature as shown, but Alif and Lam do not, so the direction of the writing does actually matter quite a bit in this instance.
Interestingly, I only hear crickets when I point out the Allah-666 connection, except for people pointing out that I'm wrong.

I'm not commenting on that because I'm not interested in numerology. Also I find it hard to believe that Christian Arabs who existed long before Islam ever did were somehow worshiping the devil or whatever the point of trying to connect Allah to 666 is just because they use the same word for God as the later Muslim Arabs do, since they're both Arabs.

What about when I bring up Islamic prophecy about the return of the Islamic Mahdi and Islamic Jesus?

I can't speak for other people and their reaction to whatever you say, but I personally don't put any stock in the prophecies of a false religion.
They are going to bring Islam to the entire world. And they look a lot like the Antichrist and false prophet. Does that get the attention of anyone? Crickets.
I'm sorry more people don't take it seriously. I don't really know what to say to that. My particular Church has lived with Islam in its homeland since the 640s, so we're more than aware of it, and are as vocal as we can be in our demand for equality in Egypt and the wider Muslim world:

 
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Revelation 12:9 "So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to earth and his angels were cast out with him."

Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is the Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom

Matt 7:13-14 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

If Satan has deceived the whole world and Christ's flock is a little flock and there are few who go in by the narrow gate, have you ever wondered, if you could be deceived? Have you ever wondered if you really are following the truth or if you could be "of your father the devil" as many people like to accuse each other of?

If you have, what approaches have you taken to undeceive yourself, so to speak. What made you think or wonder if you were deceived in the first place?

Christ said He has built His Church and not even the gates of hell can stand against it. St. Peter has said the word of the Lord endures forever. St. Jude has written that we earnestly contend for the faith that was once and for all delivered to all the saints. St. John said that if abide in the teaching we have heard from the beginning we don't need to follow after random teachers. St. Paul wrote that we abide in the teaching we have received from the first, and that there is no other gospel other than what has been proclaimed from the beginning.

God has faithfully persevered and preserved His word, His people, and the faith from the beginning. If we confess, as we have always confessed, the Creed of our fathers, and believe even as our mothers and fathers taught us, if we abide in this one confession, then we have the invincible truth of God: Jesus Christ crucified and risen from the dead, ascended and seated at the right hand of the Father, who has received all power and authority over all things, and will come again on future day to judge the living and the dead. Then we shall not fail nor fall, and the lies of the devil can do us no harm.

This is why the Apostle has taught us to take up the shield that is our faith, and it shall defend us from every fiery projectile of the devil, for his lies cannot penetrate the invincible shield of our faith in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Christ is the True Vine, and we the branches. Abide in Him. He is the Source, He is the Fount, He is the Shelter, the Rock, the Foundation, and the Head. Take refuge in Him, and the devil can do nothing--for the devil is already conquered, trampled beneath the feet of the Lamb of God.

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Christ said He has built His Church and not even the gates of hell can stand against it. St. Peter has said the word of the Lord endures forever. St. Jude has written that we earnestly contend for the faith that was once and for all delivered to all the saints. St. John said that if abide in the teaching we have heard from the beginning we don't need to follow after random teachers. St. Paul wrote that we abide in the teaching we have received from the first, and that there is no other gospel other than what has been proclaimed from the beginning.
Yes the will of God is stronger than the will of man or any other adversary
 
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