SONS OF BELIAL PART 2
Too many of my friends
have been fired, pushed out of their jobs, or are being oppressed right now by
evil people in positions of authority. These domineering people are willing to
literally sell their souls to Satan for the money and power they receive. Many
are bullies and rule by fear. They thrill at the feeling of power they get when
they can control and rule over other human beings.
It’s sad but true. And
anyone who has been under a person like this knows how horrific it really is.
These bullies rip the joy right out of you and leave you so exhausted at the
end of the day that you have no energy left. They suck the life out of you. And
they care nothing about you, except what you can do for them.
If you’re a giving person
and full of life, they will make it so that you have no one to give to. They
steal your anointing away from you and make you feel useless, worn out, and
flat-lined, and you might not even know why. But I’m going to tell you why. The
answers are all in God’s Word.
The Bible calls these
powerful people “sons of Belial,” “workers of iniquity,” “lewd fellows of the
baser sort,” “enemies of righteousness,” “wicked ones,” “generation of vipers,”
as well as “seeds of the serpent.” They propound the words, ideas, and actions
of Satan against the Lord Jesus, God, and the people who love the truth of the
Bible.
The sons of Belial (I call
them SOBs) willfully serve Satan. Mostly they won’t come right out and tell you
that. Only recently have some of the boldest musical artists admitted and
proclaimed the actual rite of selling their souls to Satan, the blood sacrifice
ritual involved and the signed contracts with Satan, that generally last about
ten years, as far as we know.
The definition of the
Hebrew word “Belial” is “worthless,
unprofitable, wicked, evil, destructive, ungodly.” Deuteronomy 13:13 gives us
the first usage of the word: “Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among
you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and
serve other gods, which ye have not known.’”
We can learn a lot from where a word in the Bible
is used for the first time. Here we see that these people are called children of Belial. In John 8:43-44,
Jesus says to the Pharisees, “Ye cannot
hear my word. 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.”
In Judges 19:16 we read: “Now as they were
making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial,
beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of
the house, the old man, saying, ‘Bring forth the man that came into thine
house, that we may know him.’” The usage of the word “know” in this verse means
to have sex with him.
We see from 1 Samuel 1:16 that women can also be
SOBs: “Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of my
complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.”
1 Samuel 2:12 tells us:
“Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.”
Psalm 52:1-3 speaks of these wicked people: “Why boastest thou
thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The
tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more
than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness.”
And Psalm 55:3 declares: “Because of the
voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast
iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.”
Although we haven’t heard
much about them in church, more and more Christians are becoming aware of their
presence and learning what to do about them. The devil has manipulated and fed
into people’s ego throughout history to manipulate and oppress others. From
what I’ve seen, they especially like to rule over Christians. In the workplace,
these SOBs (sons of Belial) love to have Christians work for them because
generally, Christians are good workers, on time, detail-minded and loyal. The
SOBs use this to their advantage.
David prayed to God about
them: “Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity,
which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. Give them according to their deeds, and according to the
wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render
to them their desert.”
I want to expose just a
few more prominent aspects of their character from the Word of God so that you
will be more apt to recognize who they are and what they do. And remember, they
also like to train others to follow them and be like them, so you may encounter
people with these characteristics who are not yet totally sold out to the devil
directly.
SOBs are “merchandisers of men” (2 Pet. 2:3). They gather and use good-hearted workers as stock items to carry out their deeds. They don’t care about the individual, only what that person can do for them. They abuse workers in sneaky ways: requiring more tasks than what’s reasonable, extra hours without pay, “mandatory” social events, etc. Since they love to prey on Christians, they will often use the guilt trip as a technique to get what they want.
When SOBs want what you
have, they’ll send someone to sidle up to you and try to learn or extract
skills from you, only to get rid of you and give the job to one of their
SOBs-in-training.
Often they are not the
spokesperson, but the one behind the scenes calling the punches. They desire to
be applauded and put on a pedestal for all their good charitable works, but
behind the scenes, they are out to take down anyone they perceive as being in
their way. They talk peace and work wickedness at the same time, speaking out
of both sides of their mouths. They are extraordinarily sneaky and try to
befriend and snare people with their smooth words. They are never to be
trusted.
Proverbs 6:17-18 tells us, they have “a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.”
Proverbs 6:17-18 tells us, they have “a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.”
These are some of the
general characteristics of these sons of Belial. We can now recognize them.
When we become aware of
their motives and methods either through experience or studying it in the Word
of God, we will be able to recognize them in the future and be able to protect ourselves
and others who have been pulled unknowingly into their realm of power and
destruction.
In next week’s chapter,
we’ll learn from King David a way to escape from, avoid, attack, and bring down
the spiritual bullies that unfortunately embody some of the people around us.
God gave David an entire arsenal of specific weapons that we’ll read about and
talk about next time.
Love, Carolyn
QUESTIONS AND EASY
CHALLENGES
1. What is the definition
of “Belial”?
2. What are some of the
other phrases used in the Bible for these sons of Belial? Look up a couple of
these.
2. Who does Jesus say is
the father of the evil spirits dominating and ruling these wicked people? Where
is that found in the Bible?
3. What are a couple of
characteristics of sons of Belial? Document these characteristics with
scripture references.
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on Amazon with chapters on Sons of Belial and other devil spirits.
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