Over the years I’ve tried to make this warning clear: If you can imagine Satan has the power to do something, you give him permission to abuse you that way.
If you suffer from the pagan delusions taught by movies, TV and other forms of entertainment regarding how Satan operates and what his powers are, then those delusions are more likely to happen. You need to get it through your head that his powers and authority are highly limited by God’s Law. But if you don’t adhere to God’s Law, then those limitations don’t apply in your case. You are giving Satan the authority to do things to you he normally couldn’t.
Stop giving him power over your life.
On the other hand, there is a whole herd of folks who are utterly certain they can tell Satan to stop doing things when God isn’t going to back them up. There is an awful lot of stuff that has been set in motion and God didn’t grant you the authority to derail it. We’re talking things that God has already approved. I’m amazed at the mass stupidity of people who have no idea how this stuff works.
So, on the one hand, everything outside of Biblical Law belongs to Satan. It’s been delivered into his hands. He does what God tells him to do with it, but he acts as God’s proxy for anything that isn’t under divine covering. The Lord covers only a tiny few things we might do, and all of them are under Biblical Law. The Covenant of Christ is a tiny narrow privilege. If you stray outside the limits — to the degree you do, and in whatever issues you do — Satan owns your butt.
Charismatic spiritual gifts do not work outside the limits of Biblical Law.
On the other hand, calling everything “satanic” is sometimes just plain stupid. It becomes a verbal excuse for doing nothing or doing too much. It’s a word game that blinds you to your moral responsibilities.
For example, Satan is destroying Western Civilization. It was built by Satan and its his to destroy, but he’s doing it at God’s command. You cannot possibly do any good trying to rebuke the Devil from tearing it down. It’s so stupid I cannot even put it into words. Yet, I’ve seen people doing things like that. Yes, Satan is destroying the West, including America, and you should be glad to see it all go. We lose only some measure of convenience and comfort, but nothing that matters in our Kingdom service.
Claiming that our government is “satanic” becomes an excuse for missing the point. It becomes an excuse for not responding according to the Word of God. For the most part, our mission is stay out of the way. They aren’t really after us. Their targets are political. Complaining is not going to make a darned bit of difference. If there is a direct threat to your feudal domain granted by God, ask Him what you should do. Pray about it before it happens, but a proactive attempt to stop the government ahead of time is simply wrong. This will be our moment with the Cross, knowing it’s coming and being ready to glorify the Lord.
Your domain is to love the brethren the way Christ loved His disciples. You have to know whom God says are your brethren. But this is how you fulfill Romans 13 — owe nothing but this sacrificial compassion of Christ for your covenant brothers and sisters. And anyone who does not qualify as covenant family gets something less than that, same as how Christ decided whom to heal and whom to leave in their sorrows. With only a tiny few exceptions, He did not heal those who weren’t under the Covenant of Moses.
You have to operate that way. You have to know when to reach out and when to crack the whip, when to weep over the body and when to raise the dead.
You aren’t going to drive demons out of the US government. It belongs to those demons, so let’s focus on the things God has called us to do about that. God intends to carry us through an apocalypse. He’s going to work miracles, but He’s not going to make everything easy for us. Most of us will still end up dead, so try to understand what God is doing through His servant, Satan.
