The Future Foretold/Fascination with Satan
From The Endtime
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"Now the [Holy] Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons" (1 Timothy 4:1).
Not only are many people unknowingly falling for Satan's deceptions, increasing numbers are following rank Satanism.
The Bible tells us that if people willfully reject God's truth, they will be given "strong delusion, that they should believe a lie" (2 Thessalonians 2:10-11). When we refuse the truth, there is nothing left to believe but a lie. This is why much of the world today is wide open for deceivers and false prophets. An abandoning of true faith frequently precedes "giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons."
Of course, the Devil doesn't always show himself to be the evil and destructive spiritual force that he is. Quite the contrary. He and his agents frequently portray themselves as messengers of light and goodness. The apostle Paul explains, "Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness" (2 Corinthians 11:14-15). He is the arch-deceiver.
Unfortunately, one reason a lot of people get caught up in the dark side of the spirit world is because they've been disillusioned by the apparent absence of spiritual reality in traditional religions. A South African expert on Satanism attributes youth involvement in the occult to spiritually dead churches. Reuters reports,
"Satanism is increasing, especially the serious cases; murder, assaults," Colonel Kobus Jonker, head of the police's Occult Investigations Unit in Pretoria, said in an interview.
Jonker blamed what he calls the spiritual bankruptcy of establishment churches in South Africa for the tendency of teenagers to dabble in the occult. "You can actually feel the deadness in many of our churches. There's nothing going on. I don't want to sit in a church like that."[1]Two fields in which paganism and Satanism have made tremendous inroads are the popular music business and the computer gaming industry.[1] Just take a look at the number of album covers and rock videos that come complete with all the symbols, liturgies, and rituals of witchcraft and the occult. The most popular genre in computer games is based on demons and violence. Many involve role playing with open worship of Satan and the netherworld. The sights and sounds of Hell have seduced and driven countless people into lifestyles of drugs, perversion, violence, and sometimes even suicide. The most shameless acts of blasphemy and desecration are now socially acceptable in the name of audiovisual and multimedia entertainment and "freedom of expression."
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