@nPeace , I hope you’re having a good day my brother.
As Jehovah’s people, we’re aware of how active His enemy the Devil is, especially with regard to misleading humans!
If Jehovah feels ‘distress’ when we’re distressed (Isaiah 63:9), imagine how He initially felt when
one of His own spirit sons turned against Him! (Like today’s text mentioned.)
I mean, His human children Adam & Eve had an outside influence (the Devil) working against them (and their rebellion was bad enough), but there was
no external influence working against Satan;
only his own thinking. Cultivating rebellious desires. As Jesus said @ John 8:44, “he did not
stand fast in the truth because
truth is not in him.” He made himself a resister & slanderer of God….and became a man slayer.
Look how productive he’s been at twisting what God’s Word really says….influencing people to remove God’s Name from His own book & replace it with Lord (muddying the clarity of Scriptures like Joel 2:32 & Proverbs 18:10, rendering them ineffective); or about humans living here at Earth (while Christendom teaches “all the good people are going to Heaven”, making Jesus’ statement @ Matthew 5:5, “the meek…shall inherit the Earth” - and so many others - seem contradictory.
Then we have what the Bible says about the dead, and that their only hope for coming
back to life is the
future Resurrection (John 5:28,29; Acts 24:15; John 6:39,40,44)… but Satan and the other rebellious angels have, not just the majority of Bible believers but
almost every religious group, believing in an immediate afterlife at death!
Just to show you how slick they are… I read a true account of a pilot named Raymond Hinchliffe…
en.m.wikipedia.org
He was married to an Emilie. Another source of information about him stated the following: He had gotten some insurance because he was about to attempt an East to West Atlantic Ocean crossing in an airplane, which up till that time had never been successful (this was in 1928).
He apparently hadn’t told his wife about those insurance papers, if I understood this right.
Well, he died over the Atlantic, he and his partner Elsie McKay, who had sponsored this trip.
To make a long story short, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the “Sherlock Holmes” creator, contacted his now-widow & almost destitute Emilie, saying her deceased husband “wanted to talk with her” through a medium, an Eileen Garrett.
Emilie was very skeptical - both her and her husband had always been, of paranormal claims - but because it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she went.
During the séance, her “husband” told her to “look behind the dresser, you’ll find some papers.”
She went home, and
found them, just where this entity said!
Now,
from that point on, do you think she would listen to
anyone showing her Scriptures saying the dead ‘know (or are aware of) nothing’? Or that the only hope for the dead to live again, is a
future resurrection? There’s no way!!
Same with millions of others, like Mary Todd Lincoln, or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself!
They died believing there’s an afterlife. Only in the New System under Jehovah’s Kingdom rulership, when the Resurrection begins and they
themselves are resurrected, will they discover the truth.
I can imagine those conversations, like when Emilie sees Raymond, and she says “Oh honey, thank you for coming back and telling me about those papers”, and he’ll say “
I never told you. It wasn’t me.”
From this Emilie & Raymond Hinchliffe account, not only do we learn how devious & clever these spirits are, but also that they’re interested in us! They watch us, learning weaknesses they can exploit.
Thank goodness Jehovah controls them to the extent He does! “In chains of dense darkness” (2 Peter 2:4), and all that that may entail. Apparently, they can’t read our minds, either. But they can learn our desires, our strengths & weaknesses, through observing our behavior.
Ultimately, though — in the end — most everyone who’s ever lived, will have known or will be given the opportunity to learn the truth as the light gets lighter! Not even death can stop that outcome! No more confusión! The issues of sovereignty honesty & justness, raised in Eden, will be resolved forever!
Stay healthy & cautious: I heard Covid-19 might be making a comeback.
