"There is a conspiracy of prophets like roaring lions ravening their prey - they have taken the treasure and precious things - her priests have violated my law and have profaned mine holy things - they have put no difference between the holy and the profane - neither have they showed the difference between the unclean and the clean..." Ezekiel 22:25,26
The Church is in the greatest storm of this century. There are mighty winds of deception tossing unstable souls into strong delusions. Empowered by spiritual wickedness in high places, false prophets are imparting mocking spirits into pastors and leaders - who in turn, impart these antichrist spirits to their congregations Laughing demons have gained control of apostate revivals manifesting themselves in the most blaspemous ways against the Holy Spirit.
These religious spirits are very strong and can only be resisted by victorious Christians who deny themselves and hate sin and know how to overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb and word of their testimony.
"But there were false prophets also among tthe people even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways - by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken."
The powerful words of JESUS for the remnant Church (EKKLESIA) are timely: "Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ: and shall deceive many...And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."
(Matthew 24:4,5,11,12)
"Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are their many antichrists: whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him."
(1 John 2:18-27)
In "War on the Saints", Jesse Penn Lewis wrote: "Today there is a special onslaught of deceiving spirits upon the Church of Christ, the fulfilment of the prophecy which the Holy Spirit expressly made known to the Apostle Paul, that a great deceptive onslaught would take place in the latter times...
The peril of the Church at the close of this dispensation is foreshown to be especially from the supernatural realm, whence Satan would send forth an army of teaching spirits, to deceive all who would be open to teachings by spiritual revelation, and thus draw them away unwittingly from full allegiance to God. Yet in face of this plain forecast of the peril in latter times, we find the Church in almost entire ignorance of the workings of thie army of evil spirits. The majority of believers too readily accept everything "supernatural" as of God, and supernatural experiences are indiscriminately accepted because all such experiences are thought to be Divine. Through lack of knowledge, the majority of even the most spiritual people, do not carry out full and perpetual war upon this army of wicked spirits: and many are shrinking from the subject, and the call to war against them, saying that, if Christ is preached it is not necessary to give prominence to the existence of the devil, nor to enter into direct conflict with him and his hosts. Yet large numbers of the children of God are becoming prey to the enemy for lack of this very knowledge, and through the silence of teachers on this vital truth, the Church of Christ is passing on into the peril of the closing days of this age, unprepared to meet the onslaught of the foe. On account of this, and in view of the plainly given prophetic warnings in the Scriptures, the already manifest influx of the evil hosts of Satan among the children of God, and the many signs that we are actually in the "latter times" referred to by the Apostle, all believers should welcome such knowledge about the powers of darkness, as will enable them to pass through the fiery trialof these days, without be ensnared by the foe.
Apart from such knowledge, when thinking he is "fighting for the truth", it is possible for a believer to fight for, defend, and protect evil spirits, and their works, believing he is thereby "defending" God, and His works; for he thinks a thing Divine, he will protect and stand for it. It is possible for a man through ignorance to stand against God, and to attack the very truth of God, and also defend the devil, and oppose God, unless he has knowledge. The Bible throws much light upon Satanic powers, which cannot fail to be discerned by all who search the Scriptures with open minds, but these will not obtain as much knowledge of the subject from the sacred, as will those who have understanding by experience, interpreted by the Holy Spirit, and shown to be in line with the truth of the Word of God. The believer may have a direct witness in his spirit to the truth of the Divine Word, but through experience he gets a personal witness to the inspiration of Scripture, to its testimony concerning the existence of supernatural beings, and their works, and the way they deceive, and mislead the children of men."
(A Biblical Survey of Satanic Deception, chapter 1, pages 16,17, War on the Saints, 1912 original edition)
