WHAT ARE THE WILES OF THE devil IN
🕯️EPHESIANS 6: 11
WILES are SCHEMES, TRICKS, DECEPTIONS or MANIPULATIONS designed to deceive someone.
THE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK PHRASE A WOMAN’S WILES REFERS TO THE SEDUCTIVENESS OF FEMME FATALES IN USING CHARM OR SEX APPEAL TO ELICIT A DESIRED RESPONSE FROM MEN.
In My Case The Authorities Use What They Term As “BE-FRIENDERS”, {Under RIPA Act} &/Or My Social Workers Or Carers As “HONEY-POT” SCHEMES Or TRAPS For Over 22 Years To This Present Time...{Ongoing}
WILES OF THE devil are those CLEVER SCHEMES USED BY Satan TO ENSNARE US THROUGH TEMPTATION, THREAT, or INTIMIDATION, DEVIOUSNESS, DECEPTION, DECEIT, DISHONESTY, DELIBERATE PROVOCATION And PROPAGANDA.
🕯EPHESIANS 6: 11
Warns us to “PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD, THAT ye may be able TO STAND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE devil” (KJV).
Other Bible versions speak of the “devil’s SCHEMES,” “STRATEGIES,” or “EVIL TRICKS” rather than “WILES.”
📍SCRIPTURE GIVES US;
✨WISDOM
✨KNOWLEDGE
✨UNDERSTANDING Or INSIGHT INTO OUR ENEMY’S TACTICS:
“WE ARE NOT UNAWARE OF ITS SCHEMES”
🕯2 CORINTHIANS 2: 11.
☝️And we are wise to heed its warnings.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE devil’s WILES WE SEE IN SCRIPTURE:
🛑 1. CHALLENGING GODS WORD.
GENESIS 3 gives us a detailed look into this tactic of our enemy.
It led to the first human sin, and atan still uses it because it works so well.
The first recorded words of the devil, through the serpent, were these:
“Did GOD really say?”
🕯GENESIS 3: 1.
WITH THOSE WORDS, THE devil INVITED THE WOMAN TO RECONSIDER WHAT SHE UNDERSTOOD GOD TO HAVE SAID.
By adding her HUMAN INTERPRETATION, she convinced herself that GOD’S WORD was far too restrictive.
📍BY SUGGESTING THAT WE SHOULD RE-EXAMINE THE CLEAR TEACHING OF GOD’S WORD, Satan INVITES US TO ADD OUR OWN INTERPRETATION AND THEREBY NULLIFY GOD’S STATED WILL.
Entire CHURCH DENOMINATIONS are FALLING PREY to these WILES OF THE devil.
“DID GOD REALLY SAY THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS WRONG?” IT HISSES, AND CHURCHES CRUMBLE.
“Did God really say there are only two genders?” It suggests, inviting us to put our own spin on reality, making ourselves gods in place of the LORD.
🕯EPHESIANS 6: 11
‘SAYS THAT WE NEED TO BE CLOTHED IN THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD TO WITHSTAND SUCH WILES.
🛑 2. CHALLENGING OUR IDENTITY.
🕯LUKE 4: 1–13 gives INSIGHT into several of the devil’s WILES.
Satan came against JESUS to tempt HIM in the WILDERNESS.
On two different occasions, Satan began its temptations with these words: “If you are the SON OF GOD.”
Satan knew exactly who JESUS ‘Is’:
🕯MARK 1: 34.
JESUS was there when Satan fell “LIKE LIGHTNING FROM HEAVEN”
🕯️LUKE 10: 18
✨SIGNIFICANTLY, the devil chose a time when JESUS was PHYSICALLY WEAK AND HUNGRY TO ATTACK HIS IDENTITY.
The devil does the same with us.
✨ TO MAKE ITS WILES MORE EFFECTIVE, IT {devil} HITS US DURING A CRISIS OR A SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE & SUGGESTS;
✨“If you were a CHILD OF GOD, this wouldn’t happen.
✨If you were actually a Christian, GOD would help you right now.”
Again, we need the “HELMET OF SALVATION” firmly in place to withstand such attacks against our identity and GOD’S CHARACTER
🕯EPHESIANS 6: 17.
🛑 3. TWISTING SCRIPTURE.
ANOTHER OF THE WILES THE devil USED AGAINST JESUS WAS TO QUOTE Scripture, BUT WITH A TWIST.
In LUKE 4: 10–11, Satan quotes;
🕯️PSALM 91: 11–12 in an effort to persuade JESUS to ACT IN THE FLESH RATHER THAN FOLLOW THE SPIRIT
See GALATIANS 5: 16, 25.
But Satan failed to complete the thought of the psalm.
The next verse, PSALM 91: 13, says;
🦅“You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
🦅You will trample the great lion and the serpent.”
THOSE ANIMAL REFERENCES ARE METAPHORS FOR FIERCE & DANGEROUS ENEMIES
And the devil is likened to both a Lion and a Serpent in Scripture;
🕯GENESIS 3:15
🕯REVELATION 20:2
🕯1 PETER 5: 8
🕯ROMANS’ 16: 20.
The true meaning of the passage in PSALM 91 is that GOD will protect and EMPOWER HIS servants as they OVERCOME the ENEMY, Satan.
One of the wiles of the devil is to leave out key parts of SCRIPTURE in order to TWIST ITS MEANING TO FIT ITS AGENDA.
Don’t Fall Prey To The WILES, SCHEMES OF THE devil, Scripture Tells Us:
🕯EPHESIANS 6: 11-13
THE ARMOUR OF GOD
“PUT ON THE FULL ARMOUR OF GOD, SO THAT you can make your stand AGAINST THE devils SCHEMES.
FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST
FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT
AGAINST THE RULERS
AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES
AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS WORLDS DARKNESS
&
AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS.
THEREFORE TAKE UP THE FULL ARMOUR OF GOD, SO THAT WHEN THE DAY OF EVIL COMES, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO STAND YOUR GROUND, AND HAVING DONE EVERYTHING, TO STAND.…’ “.
WE SEE THESE WILES OF THE devil IN ACTION TODAY, AS PROSPERITY TEACHERS AND FALSE PROPHETS QUOTE SCRIPTURE IN SELFISH AND MISLEADING WAYS.
They USE ENOUGH OF GOD’S WORD to SOUND AUTHORITATIVE, BUT THEY TWIST IT TO FIT THEIR PERSONAL AGENDAS.
CHERRY-PICKING the Bible for verses that AFFIRM whatever we want to believe or do is a widespread problem, and most participants have no idea they have fallen victim to one of the WILES OF THE devil.
🛑 4. OFFERING A TEMPTING ALTERNATIVE TO OBEDIENCE.
Another SCHEME or WILE of the devil used in the temptation of JESUS was to SUGGEST ANOTHER PATH, AVOIDING STRICT OBEDIENCE to GOD’S WILL.
✨ CUNNINGLY, Satan knew better than to suggest that JESUS forget the whole salvation plan and go back to heaven.
Instead, he offered an alternative.
In LUKE 4: 5–7.
“The devil led him up to a high place and showed HIM in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
And he said to HIM, ‘I will give you all their authority and splendor;
It has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to.
If you worship me, it will all be yours.’”
This temptation was aimed at the humanity of the Son of Man.
📍JESUS now knew what it felt like to be in the FLESH.
HE knew what SPIKES would feel like in HIS hands and feet.
I Adorn My SPIKES InSide My Left Hand;
📍It Reminds Me Daily What Evil Human Beings Are Capable Of To Another Human, It Also Reminds Me The Extent It Will Go To Try And Justify “A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY”
JESUS knew what REJECTION and MOCKERY would feel like when HE was stripped naked and paraded before the crowds.
Satan was offering HIM a COMPROMISE.
What if JESUS could “SAVE THE WORLD” without having to SUFFER CRUCIFIXION?
What if HE could take a SHORTCUT and POSSESS all the WORLD’S KINGDOMS NOW?
📍ONE OF THE MOST SINISTER WILES OF THE devil INVOLVES Its ABILITY TO OFFER A RELIGIOUSLY TAINTED COMPROMISE.
It knows it can’t come at mature believers with a frontal attack on their values and convictions.
So it slides in the back door, posing as a friend with a reasonable alternative:
“Well, yes, technically it might be wrong for someone to move in with a Girlfriend, but you can witness to her better as she WATCHES you live out your FAITH.”
Your BEHAVIOUR Could Make A Non-Believer Become A BELIEVER
It Could Make Them Stop Smoking, Drinking Or Taking Drugs
In Most Cases You Don’t Have To Preach, Be A WITNESS For CHRIST By Living The Life That Emulates JESUS:
This Happened Between My Wife And I
Or this:
“You don’t need to go to CHURCH to be SPIRITUAL.
You connect better with GOD alone in the woods.
Those people are all hypocrites anyway, and you are too righteous to associate with them.”
We must beware of the devil’s wiles when he offers something other than total OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WILL.
The New Testament writers often pointed out the SCHEMES & WILES OF THE devil to those in the church who were falling for them, and we should take note.
✔️ “THE DEVISING OF FOOLISHNESS IS SIN, AND THE SCOFFER IS AN ABOMINATION TO MEN”.
The presence of:
✨FALSE PROPHETS; 1 TIMOTHY 6: 3–5.
✨BUSYBODIES; 1 PETER 4: 15.
✨ADULTERERS; 1 TIMOTHY 1: 9–10.
✨SEDUCERS; REVELATION 2: 20.
Are all part of Satan’s MASTERPLAN to UNDERMINE the CHURCH from WITHIN.
TO COMBAT THE WILES OF THE devil, FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST MUST STAY CLOTHED IN THE ARMOUR OF GOD.
WE MUST STAY IMMERSED IN HIS {GODS} WORD SO THAT WE RECOGNISE DECEPTION.
And when we realize we have been caught in the SCHEMES &/Or WILES OF THE devil, we must quickly repent and seek GODLY ACCOUNTABILITY.
✨✨STUDY RELATED SCRIPTURES ✨✨⤵️
🕯PSALM 37: 23–2
ENCOURAGES THOSE WHO DESIRE TO LIVE GODLY LIVES:
“The steps of a man are established by the LORD, when HE delights in HIS way;
Though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD upholds his hand’.”
WHEN THE LORD HOLDS OUR HAND, THE devil’s WILES CANNOT HARM US.
🕯PROVERBS 24: 1, 7-10
“BE NOT THOU ENVIOUS AGAINST EVIL MEN, NEITHER DESIRE TO BE WITH THEM.
WISDOM IS TOO HIGH FOR A FOOL:
HE openeth not his mouth in the gate.
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.
THE THOUGHT OF FOOLISHNESS IS SIN:
AND the SCORNER IS AN ABOMINATION TO MEN.
IF THOU FAINT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, THY STRENGTH IS SMALL’ “
🛑 JESUS PRAYS:
“These words spake JESUS, and lifted up his eyes to HEAVEN, and said, FATHER, the hour is come:
GLORIFY THY SON, that thy SON also may GLORIFY THEE:
As thou hast given HIM POWER over all flesh, that HE should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given HIM.
And this is life eternal, that they might know THEE the ONLY TRUE GOD, and JESUS CHRIST, whom thou hast sent.
I have glorified thee on the earth:
I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
And now, O FATHER, glorify thou ME with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world:
Thine they were, and thou gavest them ME;
And they have kept thy word.
Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me;
And they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
I PRAY for them:
I PRAY not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me;
For they are thine.
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine;
And I am GLORIFIED in them.
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.
HOLY FATHER, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given ME, that they may be one, as we are.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name:
Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition;
That the scripture might be fulfilled.
And now come I to thee;
And these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
I have given them thy word;
And the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them through thy TRUTH:
THY WORD IS TRUTH.
As thou hast sent ME into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be SANCTIFIED through the TRUTH.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on ME through their word;
That they all may be ONE;
As thou, FATHER, art in ME, and I in THEE, that they also may be ONE in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent ME.
And the GLORY which thou gavest me I have given them;
That they may be ONE, even as we are ONE:
I in them, and thou in ME, that they may be made perfect in ONE;
And that the world may know that thou hast sent ME, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved ME.
FATHER, I will that they also, whom thou hast given ME, be with ME where I am;
That they may behold MY GLORY, which thou hast given ME:
For thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
O RIGHTEOUS FATHER, the world hath not known thee:
But I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent ME.
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it:
That the love wherewith thou hast loved ME may be in them, and I in them.”
AMEN
🕯️JOHN 17:1-26 KJV
🕯2 CORINTHIANS 4: 7-10 🙌{English Standard Version}🇬🇧TREASURE IN JARS OF CLAY🇬🇧
🕯2 CORINTHIANS 4: 7-10 🙌
{English Standard Version}
🇬🇧TREASURE IN JARS OF CLAY🇬🇧
"BUT WE HAVE THIS TREASURE IN JARS OF CLAY, TO SHOW THAT THE SURPASSING POWER BELONGS TO GOD AND NOT TO US.
☆WE ARE AFFLICTED IN EVERY WAY, BUT NOT CRUSHED;
☆PERPLEXED, BUT NOT DRIVEN TO DESPAIR;
☆PERSECUTED, BUT NOT FORSAKEN;
☆STRUCK DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED;
☆ALWAYS CARRYING IN THE BODY THE DEATH OF JESUS, SO THAT THE LIFE OF JESUS MAY ALSO BE MANIFESTED IN OUR BODIES'."
BRETHREN:
Brothers & Sisters, Be Vigilant;
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but;
Against The Rulers
Against The Authorities
Against the Powers Of This Dark World
&
Against The Spiritual Forces Of Evil In The Heavenly Realms'."
🕯EPHESIANS 6: 2 https://t.co/DvJ1Ku8iJr
