Satan can produce miracles

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Satan can make miracles when humans show faith in Satan

Jas 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Question: "So where does the power of Satan come from to make miracles using faith in Satan's power?

Answer" From God via the Holy Spirit who empowers Satan with power.

Where does the Scripture teach this weird idea?

This is another reason why Ellen White says the Nature of the Holy Spirit is a mystery and silence is golden. Some functions of the Holy Spirit are weird? Make no sense to simple laypersons like myself.

Jg 9:23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

So does GOD really send evil Holy Spirit functions to some humans? Why?

1Sa 16:14 ¶ But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

Here is a helpful clue, the Holy Spirit of GOD departs Saul and a dysfunctional Holy Spirit from GOD troubles Saul.

Isa 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Since the LORD does create dysfunction, does this mean the Lord is dysfunctional as well as functional? No

One has to ask why does the Lord creates dysfunction and whom is really doing this?

La 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

This verse is saying the Most High Father does not do dysfunction... so why does the Lord create dysfunction, and why a dysfunctional Holy Spirit?

Notice this story in 1 Kings as I collect material from Ellen White

EGW: "_{They could have done a most precious work, if they had not cherished a spirit that was not pleasing to God, and that closed their hearts to the working of the Holy Spirit. They entered into temptation, and did not yield to evidence, but began to question, to find fault and to oppose. This was their attitude, and because of their unbelief, God could not use them to his name’s glory. They grieved the Spirit of God <time and again.>} {1888 1244.1}

This is the only help I could find regarding to this Bible verse.

1Ki 22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.

Really weird way of saying this? A man came with the Holy Spirit , standing before the Lord, said I will persuade him.

1Ki 22:22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.


1Ki 22:23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

EGW: "The lying spirit that enticed Eve in Eden, finds acceptance with the majority of earth’s inhabitants today. Even the Christian world refuses to be converted by the Spirit of God, but listens to the prince of darkness, as he comes to them in the garb of an angel of light. The spirit of Antichrist is prevailing in the world to a far greater extent than it has ever prevailed before. {7BC 950.4}


So Satan wants to be like the Most High, Satan wants humans to worship Satan through faith so miracles come to the human from Satan. This is a direct counterfeit of the miracles the Father does for the human, also through faith.

Miracles via faith in Satan come through a process like Harry Potter, saying the right magic words of some enchantment.

The miracles of faith in God come through a process of asking God for something you want. God looks into your heart and sees your needs and grants you your request.

Sometimes there are conditions, often there is not, God reads your heart, your intentions and your sins. If you are humble and meek God hears you prayer requests and answers them.

The Bible verse says Jesus 14:2 take with you words, saying to Jesus, take away all my guilt and receive me graciously that I will render your fruits on my lips.

What word do you take? Precious promises you read in the word, specifically ask for what you read, in faith that you will receive them. This is genuine faith in action, supporting God.

Ps 119:86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

Lord all your ten words are built on faith, help me to see what words to ask.

I am your Saviour, rescue me O Lord from my free will.

let me choose you, not myself.

May I speak your words, not mine O Lord.

Control my tongue.

Let me be a provider of your love, since you provide for me.

Now how do we make sense of the function of the Holy Spirit? The word Holy Spirit, means "medium", which is defined as "something that carries something".

For example, wind is a medium, where air is carrying the movement of air, within the medium. The energy of the wind is not of matter, so technically does not exist, but can be felts by the air that carries it.

A medium is a passive carrier of power, whether it carries God's power or Satan's abuse of God's power. The Shadday administrates the medium, carrying a functional use of God, or a dysfunctional use of God, which the Scriptures term RA. Ra is called for by sinning agents, such as humans who wish to sin, or the Opposer Satan, who is the agent of Ra and it's sinful affects on man.

Since all things are controlled and administrated by GOD, including evil, it was necessary for a medium function, so that things GOD does not do, can be done by somebody else, an agent that wishes to abuse God's power and therefore sin. In order for this to be observed, God has to create dysfunction because normally sin and dysfunction is not allowed to exist, under God's domain.

Question: Why didn't the cherub who sinned know that establishing a kingdom built on self was not possible? Curiosity killed the cat, the cherub didn't know and so thought by sinning, He could reign a kingdom on His own.

God set our earth as a stage, and developed a creation finely tuned to tolerate dysfunction as well as function, for this sinning cherub to develop his own kingdom of self powers.

The rest of unfallen princes looked on with interest:

Eze 28:17 .. I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

These unfallen kings look at watch sinning played out on earth.

Eze 28:18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

The end of Satan the Opposer is foretold here.

Jews mock this poetry parallel saying the cherub means to guard and protect.

There are two different creatures in Ezekiel about Tyre.

(1) The first is called a Eze 28:2 ...the prince of Tyrus, about a man claiming to be like God

and (2) the second is called a Eze 28:12 ...the king of Tyrus, a reigner reigning over the Prince of Tyre, and giving him the power of sinning. This creature is a cherub who sinned long ago.

The two aspects of this poetry story are different but contrasting.

Shalom

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Question : Why is the process of salvation simple but hidden?

Answer: To prevent the Opposer from mixing truth with error. The only way the Opposer can prevent humans from knowing and experiencing truth, is to flood simple world with fancy words, so the unlearned is bogged down with big jargon words.

Scripture is NOT like this.

Salvation in Jesus is really very simple.

Let Jesus explain the process for you

Lu 8:21 And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

The process is

(1) Hear

(2) Do

This is the process of genuine faith outlined by Jesus across the OT and NT.

No need to mention invented fancy words of scholars such as justification, sanctification, imputed, surrender, imparted, faith, righteousness, grace and repentance. All these meanings are purely nebulous spin, the scholars place on the simple child message of salvation, to confuse you and add to confusion to the salvation process.

Question: How does one hear?

1) You can hear words when somebody else speaks them to you, such as a priest speaking the teachings in an assembly

2) You can hear the words as you speak them yourself in prayer formally or within your mind, talking to God through your conscience.

Question: what does do mean?

Jews as well as many humans misunderstand the doings as to mean human powered doings. This makes a good pious man having human good deeds that sadly means nothing to the Lord. Human powered doings are nothing to God.

The doings Jesus likes is the doing of faith, in which you ask and hope for the doings of God to flow into you so that His doings do things in you. Now you have Divine Doings in you, and thus you support God and God supports you.

That is how simple genuine faith is.

Hear and do. What Bible verse in the OT says this?


De 5:1 ¶ And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. (keep is another word meaning for hear)


De 5:27 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

( speak is another Bible concept for hear)

Sadly Jews took this to mean human powered doings.

De 6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it;

De 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you. (hear also implies you fear or respect the Divine)




De 17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously

The Scripture even tells you that human powered doings is presumptuous.

De 30:12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

A famous verse quoted by Paul, explaining the process of salvation offered to humans by Jesus-YHWH is indeed very simple.

De 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

Again the simple message is simple, maybe too simple?

De 31:12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

(Notice hear is introduced with other words learn and fear)

Ps 38:15 For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

Jer 11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

Eze 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Sadly many humans hear words but do not do them because they are not truly asking for Divine power. Do not mock God, for GOD knows your heart and reads your intentions, before you ask. Ask and seek and knock and the Divine Door will be opened unto you, is a promise.

Now what is another way to hear the words? Why we have to take the word, in order to hear the word.

SO what about take and say?

Ho 14:2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips

Here is the only Bible verse that has all the elements of Salvation in one verse.

Notice the details in this verse expounds on "hear" and "do":

Ho 14:2 Take with you words( Hear) , and turn to the LORD: say unto him (Hear) , Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render (do) the calves of our lips

If you include the verse before

Ho 14:1 ¶ O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips

This verse explains salvation as a process

1) your need
2) your need to receive the gift of repentance
3) your sins are your downwfall
4) Take with your words as precious promises
5) Speak those promises in the Word, Hear the word
6) Hope in grace in Jesus for the expected Divine Power to flow via Faith
7) Allow His fruits to flow in you bringing glory to your Father in heaven

This passage says it all. Hear and Do.

Shalom