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Continuing with the topic from last time, as I promised we will focus on Satan’s goals and the tactics he used in confronting Christ.

 

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We will begin with the confrontation between Christ and Satan when our Lord Yeshu was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.

 

𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝟰:𝟭-𝟭𝟭. „Then Yeshu was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’” Yeshu said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’” Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Yeshu said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’” Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.”

 

Satan shows us many tactics in these verses. He waits for the right moment to attack, then strikes a weak point. When he fails to approach Christ, he moves to a higher level, even tending to quote the Inspired Scriptures. When this fails, he decides to lay everything on the table, wanting to bribe our Lord. All attempts were aimed at breaking Christ, mainly using narratives so that the Son of God would make his position credible by allowing himself, in the first temptation, to break his fast and perform a miracle to satisfy his bodily needs, in the second temptation, to put God to the test, and in the third temptation, to refuse obedience to God.

 

In the last temptation, Satan reveals more information to us, which we will look at more closely. The detail, expressed in a few words, reveals to us that the slanderer has all the kingdoms of the world, which he offers to Christ. These few words should change our worldview, because from what we read in the Holy Scriptures and see in today’s world, Christ Yeshu has not yet taken over the authority given to him by God the Father, and is only to take it after defeating the beast and locking the slanderer in the abyss.

 

As we know, Satan did not manage to approach our Lord in any way. Both during His life on earth, where He was repeatedly tested by the Pharisees (children of Satan) and during His suffering and death, which was foreseen in advance by God the Father, so that our Savior would fulfill it. However, what interests us more are the steps that Satan had to take after the death of Christ. For this purpose, we must examine the teachings of our Lord that He left us in the Holy Scriptures, with the help of His servants who wrote them down.

 

Christ, by sacrificing himself, through his death gained the right to the whole world and authority over all creation. The letter to the Philippians presents it this way.

 

𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟮:𝟵-𝟭𝟭. „Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Yeshu every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Yeshu Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

 

In these verses we find what Christ really gained after his death and how he should be glorified. This is best explained by the verse from the Acts, when the Apostle Peter, under the inspiration of Holy Spirit, says such words before the sanhedrin.

 

𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝟰:𝟴-𝟭𝟮. „Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Yeshu Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. This Yeshu is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.””

 

First, the healing in question was done „in the name of Yeshu Christ,” as well as all the other miracles were done in that name. However, what interests us most is verse 12, where we read that „there is only one name under the whole heaven by which we must be saved.” A very important detail that will reveal to us the next steps taken by Satan to lead us away from the path of salvation.

 

I invite you to read the article „The Mission of Salvation” in which I describe how important the name of our Lord is and to know Him by His true name. From what you will learn in a moment, it is important to deepen your knowledge on this subject.

 

𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟭𝟬:𝟵-𝟭𝟮. „because, if you confess with your mouth that Yeshu is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.”

 

The above quoted verses show us how our calling takes place. We must believe that Yeshu is Lord, that is, we must know Him by name, the only one that saves, and believe that God raised Him from the dead, which further emphasizes the knowledge of the personality of Christ Yeshu. So it is not only important to know the name of Christ but also His personality to correctly identify Him. As we read in verse 12, there is only one Lord for all people. Another important detail is calling on the name of the Lord, which is the key to salvation.

 

𝟭 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝟮:𝟱. „For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Yeshu,”

 

Christ is also the only mediator between us and God the Father.

 

So to sum up, Christ after his death received authority over the whole world but he did not take it yet. He also received a name above every name, the only one we must call upon so that we can obtain Salvation. It was given to all people under heaven. It is also important to know Christ through the deeds he did and his personality in order to be able to identify him correctly. He is also the only mediator between us and God the Father.

 

The question now comes to mind, what must Satan do to distance us from Christ and salvation?

 

The answer can be found in 1 John.

 

𝟭 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝟮:𝟭𝟴. „Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.”

 

Do you know now what steps Satan will take?

 

Satan is introducing many antichrists, from what John writes, he introduced them in the first century. John explains what the antichrist is a few verses later.

 

𝟭 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝟮:𝟮𝟮. „Who is the liar but he who denies that Yeshu is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.”

 

The key meaning of the word antichrist is the Greek word „anti”, which means opponent but in the sense of substitution. As I wrote earlier about the personalities of Christ, here we find confirmation that the antichrist is different Christ. Satan initially works by presenting different Christ, confusing His personalities, until the introduction of the Latin language which allowed him to introduce other names.

 

In today’s times we find many distorted names of our Lord, as well as we find many personalities that do not represent Christ but the antichrist. An example would be the trinity or the claim that Christ was born as God. Looking at today’s beliefs these two examples are just the tip of the iceberg.

 

Satan, however, did a lot more, he introduced many cults in Christianity and made many divisions, which is why there are over 41 thousand Christian branches in the world. Another tactic of Satan, which he uses very often and is opposed to the unity that Christ and God the Father present to us. Satan has been using this tactic for a very long time and it is one of the most destructive for believers of Christ.

 

The major religions such as Catholics and Protestants have no regard for the message of the Holy Scriptures because they prefer to conform to traditions and beliefs that were never passed on to us by Christ or His Apostles. Instead, they prefer to introduce changes that are a distortion of the Word of God. It is important to cite a verse that tells us whether anything has been subject to change.

 

𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝟭:𝟯. „Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.”

 

Faith was once delivered to the saints by our Savior Yeshu. It is perfect and not subject to any human changes. If anyone make changes, He will be punished for it.

 

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟮:𝟭𝟴-𝟭𝟵. „I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.”

 

Satan had about 2 thousand years to lead humanity astray. Fortunately for us, God foresaw all of his moves and gave us knowledge in the Holy Scripture so that we can find the truth and return to the path of salvation by giving glory to the true and only Christ Yeshu. We are even able to restore the true name of our Savior Yeshu. As it turns out, Satan did not manage to completely erase Him. We find it in many countries where Latin has not reached, e.g. India or China, and because the Inspired Scripture was written in Greek, we can also recreate this one name by translating it and comparing it with the Hebrew language.

 

There are many other tactics that Satan uses with great success on people that I have not mentioned in my articles. It is important that we do not fall for them. We must be very vigilant because his traps are spread all over the world. Remember to deepen your knowledge of our Lord Yeshu so that we can know Him as He really is.

 

𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐈𝐒 𝐘𝐄𝐒𝐇𝐔!!!