OUT OF COSTUME AND EXPOSED!

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I usually post on Sunday, but going to work early tomorrow so thought I'd get this out today. Have a great day. Love, Carolyn

I walked into Trader Joe’s and there was Ellen, yes the real Ellen, perusing the frozen food aisle. She wasn’t in her “dressed for TV” outfit. Then yesterday I looked over at the guy in the car next to me:  one of the dancers from “Thunder from Down Under.” He wasn’t in his costume either. We see people all the time here in Vegas who are not in their performing costumes. Did you know that the devil and his devil spirits put on costumes too? If we’re smart we can see who they really are: characters putting on an act. It’s a convincing one, yes, but we have the authority to expose and deflate them.

Here’s a little history of the devil’s show:

The devil started off as an angel and was designed to do God’s will. The devil was originally supposed to help mankind. He was created as the angel of light. Light makes things grow. Things are made clear in the light. Lucifer was to illuminate things for mankind. But God is the Ultimate Authority: “In the beginning God” “the Most High over all the earth” (Gen 1:1 and Psa 83:18b). Next in authority is us: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion.” Then comes angels (both good ones and evil).

We’ve been taught wrongly about the authority of angels and devil spirits because of a mistranslation of Psalm 8:5:

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels.

In verse 5 where it says man is “a little lower than angels,” the word “angels” is the word Elohim, God the Creator. This verse should read: “For thou [God] hast made him [man] a little lower than Himself.”

Lucifer didn’t like the idea of being subservient to anyone. He didn’t want to do what God created him for. He didn’t want to help mankind; he wanted to rule over them and be worshipped by them. Isaiah 14 takes a look back in the devil’s history and gives us the story:

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! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Is 14: 12-14)

To “sit upon the mount of the congregation” means to sit at the top, above all beings and judge them. (See Psa 82:1 and Psa 75:2.) Lucifer liked that idea—to be the bully on the throne and judge as he pleased.

“The most High” in the preceding verses is the Hebrew El Elyon. E.W. Bullinger explains: “ El is Elohim [the Creator] in all His strength and power. Elyon is rendered ‘the most high, the possessor of heaven and earth.’ It is Elyon, as possessor in the earth Who divides the nations their inheritance.” Lucifer craved that position and the power to divvy up possessions however and to whoever he wanted.

The Message reads: “I'll climb to the top of the clouds. I'll take over as King of the Universe!" But he couldn’t do that because there’s only one God over all. Because of Lucifer’s transgression, he was tossed out of heaven:

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. (Rev 12:9, 12)

Adam had dominion on the earth but he got tricked by the devil and ended up giving him the power he wanted. In the one area where Adam gave into the devil, Jesus stood against him. Jesus was able to take back dominion on the earth for anyone who would believe in what He did.

So where is the devil now? He would like us to believe that he is still running things; for those who let him, he’s glad to do anything he can to run and ruin their lives. But legally he has no authority over any Christian. He is a bully with no backup. He’s a doomed being who puts on a costume to look powerful.

We can’t let the devil or his cohorts trick us into thinking they are mightier than we are or that they have any legal authority to be involved in our lives. Isaiah tells us that in the end the devil will be totally exposed for who he really is. All the costumes will come off and everyone will realize that it was all an act. He and his devil spirits will be annihilated for ever:

Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave.

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!

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;

Thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.  (Is 14:9-19)

The devil and his devil spirits are legally under our feet now. We don’t have to wait till the end to expose and deflate. Every single time they come up in their costumes to threaten us, we need to strictly send them away. The name of Jesus Christ and the blood He shed are our weapons to use and they work. We need to put the bullies down, strip them of their costumes and deflate their pretend authority every time!

Love, Carolyn