Thursday, May 23, 2013

The Devil's Great Weapon Against Humanity


We live in the time of the greatest assault against the human person in the history of mankind.  The devil uses a very powerful weapon against us.  Do you know what it is?  Does he use it on you.


The devil's plan is to prevent life before conception, and if he is unsuccessful, his goal becomes to destroy life before birth.  And if he is unsuccessful, his goal then becomes to destroy life after birth in any way possible.

How has the devil been so successful at destroying and dividing humanity?  What a paradox;  to destroy those whose company he covets with such fervor.

Lucifer wants us to keep him company in return, in hell, for all eternity. 

Keep in mind that the devil is a liar, manipulator, deceiver, and a killer, and he has been from the very beginning.


Lucifer is very clever, and he and his legions of demons have been extremely successful (take a good look around) because of one particular weapon they use against us. 

Do you know what it is?

It may surprise you.

So many people don't know it, and are quite unaware of the fact that they are actually cooperating with, that is helping, the devil.   

THE DEVIL IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY SKILLED TEACHER

The devil a very good and convincing teacher.

And he rewards us quite well when we learn.  

He pretends to be many things he is not, and he has many devoted pupils.  Some of his best students are good people with good intentions, including many who call themselves Christian and Catholic.

He allows his students to call themselves whatever they like.

KNOW YOUR ENEMY; HE KNOWS YOU VERY WELL   

Battling the devil is complex because he abides by no rules.  Without God, mankind has a serious disadvantage on the battlefield.

How important it is to know our enemy.

How much more important it is to know God. 

How important it is to remember to always fight evil with good.

Sacrificial love is the most powerful force in the universe and through it, the devil's stranglehold on so many precious, immortal souls can be  broken. 

Sacrificial love is so powerful that the bonds formed by it cannot ever be broken. It is so powerful that the gates of hell cannot prevail against it.

The devil knows this well and so he teaches us in so many ways to be selfish.

He conquers us through our pride.

WHO IS TEACHING YOU? 

The devil is an excellent teacher, and often, he is the only one teaching people. His influence on popular culture and popular opinion has had devastating effects on individuals, families, organizations, churches, schools, businesses, and every system intended by God to serve humanity in imitation of Christ.

The reason so many people behave badly and then celebrate such harmful behavior, even in the name of God, is because they do not know their Faith. 

The reason leaders allow bad behavior and corruption, sometimes even selling themselves out for very little, is because they do not know their Faith. 


The reason people get disgusted with corruption and defect from the Sacraments against the Lord's wishes is because they do not know their Faith. 

The reason so many of the devout faithful are suffering even more in the pews is because they do not know their Faith,  and few are telling them what they need to know because they don't know their Faith. 

The reason we do not have more strong moral leaders and evangelizers is because so few people know their Faith. 

The reason for the modern moral crisis is because so many people do not know their Faith. 

THE TEACHER RESPONSIBLE FOR SO MUCH SHAMEFUL, AND LARGELY TOLERATED, BEHAVIOR

The devil has taught us to kill our unborn children, serve ourselves, forget about God, take advantage of other people, use them through fundraisers and tie them up with marketing and solicitations and requests for donations and anything else under the sun.  He has taught us to dress without dignity, to create class systems and place ourselves at the top of them, to worship money and power, and to crush anyone who gets in the way.  He has taught us to get involved in everything possible and then ignore the presence of our neighbor, their needs, and their great dignity.  He is the king of obstructing our vision, and has taught us how to see other people as invisible unless of course we can use them in some way (or to insist that they get out of ours).  

The devil has caused destruction outside and inside of our churches, and has taught so many well meaning people who call themselves Catholic to serve themselves in God's name.  He has made them experts in committing blasphemy in the name of good and has provided them the very knives they use to gut the Church from within.  

The devil actually encourages such people to call themselves Catholic.  They often have power, human respect, and money, all of which facilitate their downfall because they do not know their Faith, and leads to the downfall of so many others who behave in like manner, celebrate it, encourage it, allow it, or fear it because they don't know their Faith, either.  

So many people know so many things and yet they know so little.   

WHOSE SOULS WILL YOU BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR?

Ask the Lord whose souls you will be held accountable for on judgment day.  Every one of us will be.  

The devil teaches us that our actions don't matter, that we are the only ones that do matter, and that we exist to bring ourselves as much pleasure as possible.

How many good people have been literally driven out of their parishes by those claiming to work for the Lord.  If you left, especially if you left with good reason, please come back.  Return to the Sacraments because God loves you.  Please return and help clean up the mess.  We need you.  

ONE OF THE DEVIL'S FAVORITE LESSONS:  SUFFERING HAS NO VALUE 

Something else you must know in order to be able to fight against the devil's influence: he makes it a point to teach us that suffering has no value and that we are to avoid it all cost or potential cost to ourselves and to others.  

The devil is a liar and he appeals to our fallen human nature during every single lesson. 

TRUTH ALWAYS REVEALS THE SOLUTION

God is the answer to all of humanity's problems. 

We must fight evil with good.

We must live sacramental lives.

We must ransom sinners from the clutches of the devil by living, loving, suffering, and serving in imitation of Jesus and Blessed Mother.

We must live lives of heroic virtue, and always strive to love in greater measure.

We must approach the communion rail absolutely covered, mystically, with the Blood of the Sacrificial Lamb (more about that soon;  read on). 

Most American Catholics know far too little about their faith and far too much about raising or making money and remaining very, very busy.  Instead, we must frequent the Sacraments.  We must attend Holy Mass daily if possible, make sacramental confessions often, discover or rediscover the power of Holy Hour, integrate prayer into our schedules, and practice true fraternal charity that seeks to give and not take first. 
 
We must have a great desire to  know God very, very, very intimately.  

The untapped grace available to humanity is absolutely staggering, and far too few people even know what can and must be done to fight this colossal battle against evil.

We must realize that if good people do nothing, if they make no attempt to learn their Faith, and as a result  share nothing, what happens is NOT that others are taught nothing.  What happens is far, far worse. 

What happens then is the devil is  the ONLY teacher.  

The demons are highly organized, extremely intelligent, manipulative, convincing, and it is their goal to have every single person's soul join them in hell for all of eternity. 

They have fooled many people into believing that could never happen.  But it does. 

And so the devils' work is made easy by good people who are not interested in learning their Faith  and as a result, they cannot teach the Faith to others.  

So much damage is possible.  Far too many people do not understand the responsibility they have as Christians to know their Faith;  as a result they are enticed away from the One True Faith by fancy talk, entertaining services, fun programs, and the gospel of prosperity and leave the Catholic Church and Her powerful sacraments.  

The devil assigns special teachers to Catholics who do not know their Faith with the intention of getting them to abandon the full expression of it.       

How often these very people, who never made it a point to know their Faith, are the ones who attack it most vehemently.  How many times they have been quoted in newspapers or on television, or cause strife at family gatherings.  They attack what they don't even know or understand, for if they knew their Faith they would never attack it or abandon it.  They would be willing to die for it instead.  

Prideful disinterest and serving one's self leads many people to learn from the devil, because they  deprive themselves of learning what they should be knowing.  Such people allow themselves no other teacher, not even Jesus, for the Teacher comes where He is welcome.  

Many teaching devils don't have any competition.  None at all. 


THERE'S A WAR ON FOR EVERY SINGLE HUMAN SOUL

The best thing you can do to fight is to live a sacramental life and continue your faith formation throughout life.   Read the Bible, Pray the Divine Office, read about the lives of the saints. 

KNOW YOUR FAITH

How well do you know your faith? 

Oh, if only more people REALLY KNEW their Faith!  

So few people ever are presented with material that is profoundly Catholic (but there is plenty of material that is profoundly demonic; just walk into any secular book store).  Here's an example to provide you with a sense of what is possible.

Earlier it was mentioned that we are to approach the communion rail absolutely (mystically) covered in our own Redemption (Christ's Sacred Blood).  How is this accomplished? 

The covering of ourselves in His Precious Blood is accomplished in so many ways:  when we make sacramental confessions, as we are martyred while having to walk past the dreaded marketplace in church vestibules which seek to redefine charity at the expense of other people, again and again and again and again, when we throw ourselves at the feet of our Lord during His Passion when we enter the church,  when we wipe His Sacred Face as He travels by us carrying the Cross during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, when we ask that our hearts be also torn open by the lance in tandem with His to create a gateway where He may enter, when we follow Him to the Cross on this bloody road as we approach the altar to receive Him in the Eucharist, when we stop to place our hands in His Bloody Handprints marking the place where He fell, when we lay prostrate at the foot of the Cross in His Sacred Blood and hand ourselves over to Him and to Blessed Mother completely, when we kiss the Bloodstained wood upon which He is impaled…


WHEN THE STUDENT SOUL IS READY, THE TEACHER APPEARS

Learn more about your faith!  Then, lead others right into the waiting, welcoming, loving, compassionate, and merciful arms of Jesus.  There is so much more of God's love to discover or rediscover.  He is so in love with us all!!

Ask all the martyrs, the saints, the Holy Souls in Purgatory, and the tens of millions of Holy Innocents to help you fulfill God's plan for your life.  They are very powerful friends and intercessors who are ready, willing and able to help each one of us.

And of course, our Blessed Mother loves us and beckons each one of us to, "Come to me."

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