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What is a devil?

Christians generally say that a "devil" is an invisible spirit-being.

This is only a half-truth. There are much more dangerous devils than
the invisible kind. There are visible devils that we can see every day.
These visible devils appear daily as angels of light and take captive
many souls to hell.

In the Bible Jesus says that devils are people and people are devils:

John 6:70
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve,
and one of you is a devil?

John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie,
he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

We see that the devil has children who are also devils--the religious!

Matthew 25:41
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me,
ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
angels:

The devil's angels are his messengers, which are men who serve him.
Often when Holy men speak of devils they are not speaking about
invisible spiritual "entities" but rather they speak of evil men.

Satan, that old serpent called the devil, IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE who are
the rich (materially from religious gain) who rule over the world and
make merchandise of men. The rich devils are spiritual predators who
dress up in wool to hunt the sheep.

While Christians run around looking for invisible devils, they ignore
the visible devils present before us. And so the devil's greatest trick
is not convincing you that he doesn't exist, rather, convincing men
that he is invisible. But that old serpent, the devil is not invisible.
He is highly visible and appears as a minister of God's righteousness.
His symbols, emblems, and uniforms are everywhere displayed by his
children in the churches.

Even as God the Father is invisible, but has a visible image in Jesus
Christ and the body of Christ, so also the devil has a visible image in
the human person of his worldly cabal of religious rulers with their
"divine right of kings" theology and Pharaoh's "divine progeny"
mentality entitling them to steal, kill, and destroy in the name of god.

Instead of seeking the invisible devil, take note of the visible devils
in temples and state houses who have usurped false authority over the
nations. These visible devils want nothing more than for the people to
be worried about invisible ghosts so the visible devils can continue
their extortion rackets.

You can talk forever about "invisible powers" and accomplish
absolutely nothing. When you begin to expose these visible devils you
are using the word of God as a sword against the wicked. And that sword
of the Lord does cut them.

Be mindful of such religious devils who preach false gospels to keep
you confused so you remain under their influence. Some of the false
gospels that devils preach are these:

1. You must stop sinning to be saved.
2. Your behavior will prove whether or not your are saved.
3. Calling God's grace, "easy believism" or "greasy grace."
4. Sinning proves you are damned.
5. You must be a disciple and overcome "sins" to be saved.

These five doctrines are lying doctrines of devils, taught by devilish
men who are the devil's ministers.

No man can stop sinning and no man ever has stopped sinning in the
history of mankind. All men are frightened, sinful creatures by nature
of their mortal flesh and they sin even when they don't want to.

Outward acts have nothing to do with God's grace. God's grace and
forgiveness are independent of the human organism--it is God's grace,
which God bestows. Grace is not earned by behavior. Grace is granted by
belief.

Slanders like, "greasy grace" are an insult to the blood of Jesus. His
blood is sufficient to pay for all mankind's sins. Any who say
otherwise infer his sacrifice to be an unclean thing.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is simple. If you believe that Jesus is the
Son of God who paid for sin, and you trust in that, then you are saved.
That's it, with nothing less and nothing more added to it. The world
hates this simple grace gospel because the world hates God. Abounding
devils want to add to this gospel so they can be the center of
attention or the recipient of taxes.

Human devils in sheep skin costumes will preach lies to keep men from
believing the true gospel. Here are some lies they will teach:

1. Lie: False preachers teach that Jesus is God incarnate, or a trinity.
By getting you to believe that Jesus is the Father in Heaven in a
human form, the devils are tricking you into denying that Jesus is
the Son of God. No son is his own father and no father is his own
son. By this mental trickery, the sonship of Jesus is denied,
making the cross of no effect on sin. Jesus is God's Son, not God
incarnate. God is the Father of Jesus literally and spiritually,
and by saying that Jesus and Jehovah are the same being is a denial
of both of them, and an insult to both of them. No one is equal to
God the Father. No being in heaven or earth is equal to God. God is
God alone, and there is no other. To believe otherwise is to
blaspheme both the Father and the Son.

2. Lie: If you sin you will roast in a fiery BBQ pit for eternity.
This religious horror nonsense was dreamed up as a way to control
people and make them submit to religious and political authority.
The bible teaches that you already are dead in trespasses and sins
upon arrival in the flesh, and already separated from God. The
bible teaches that this mortal world is the Hell, Hades, Sheol, or
underworld of the Bible. The burning is a metaphor for the
suffering and blindness of mankind, burning in his own delusions
about reality, a punishment he brings upon himself by unbelief in
the Son of God through man's many false religions and idols.

3. Lie: You must join a church to be saved, or not being joined to a
church puts you in spiritual danger. This is authoritarian
nonsense. Joining a church puts you in great spiritual danger since
churches are the chief source of false gospels. The only thing that
puts a man in spiritual danger is unbelief. Those who believe are
saved, and risk no spiritual danger to their souls. Those who never
believed the true gospel and believe a false gospel are condemned,
which is the greatest possible spiritual danger.

In every age, and sometimes in every generation, God sends His Spirit
to teach a few lost souls the truth so those souls can in turn tell the
few other lost souls who truly are seeking the truth. For example when
Elijah thought he was the only one who believed and served God, the
Lord showed Elijah there were seven thousand others who were not
worshiping the false god, Ba'al. Although seven thousand might seem
like many, only seven thousand out of millions is a tiny flock indeed.

The souls who know and believe God do not run about pretending to save
souls by preaching the gospel. They minister only to those who God sends
to them, or they contend with liars and false teachers who attack the
truth, exposing their lies. Even in the time of Jesus and the Apostles,
the most active time of preaching the true gospel, if they did not get a
warm reception in a town they would abandon it and kick the dust off
their feet. They did not endlessly harangue people about religion like
modern religionists do. A true believer does only what the Spirit calls
him to do. He does not try to build up a following. He seeks the lost
sheep who cry for their shepherd and lets the goats to their own
father, who has many servants building up their own followings.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is GOOD news. It is not TERRIFYING news.
Those who try to terrify you with false teachings of eternal hellfire
or annihilation of your soul are devils preaching the fake gospel of
their father, the devil, who is a group of people which by false
religion do impersonate Jesus and God the Father. For it is written
that the renegade devil, Nimrod, was a mighty hunter in place of the
Lord. The devil, Nimrod IMPERSONATES the Lord. He is a wolf in sheep
skin. This is what "anti-christ" means. It is someone who stands in the
place of Christ, claiming to be Christ or to do the works of Christ, but teaches religious lies to pervert the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

The spiritual wreckage caused by false Christians is orders of
magntitude greater than that caused by openly satanist retards. When
the old devil is handing out military medals to his army, many Christian pastors and celebrity preachers will get the gold medals.

The Christian religion is anti-christ to the core. No peace has ever
resulted from the Christian religion. Like all the other anti-christ
religions, Christianity also bears the violent and deceitful bad fruit
of a rotten tree, as prophesied in the beginning:

Revelation 12:9
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out
into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

As I said before, devils are people. Jesus described a multitude of
people as "devils", children of the devil, or children of hell.

Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass
sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make
him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Here we learn that the Pharisees (religions leaders) are children of
hell (devils) and their religion (hell) turns other people into children
of hell (devils).

What is a, "child of hell?"

A child of hell is a religious convert. This is a clue that the
religious system is "hell." The system of religion is the domain of the
dead, and the religious children of hell in the system are, "the dead."
And the living have no communion with the dead. We who live in the
light of the gospel of Jesus Christ do not break bread with the dead,
nor can we. God is the god of the living, not of the dead.

Now we know biblically what a child of hell is--a religious person
blinded by a false gospel. And we know what hell is--the mind-poison
system of spiritual death run by religious leaders. The Church system
is hell, a bottomless pit full of smoke and fire:

Revelation 9:2
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of
the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air
were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out
of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power,
as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them
that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green
thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal
of God in their foreheads.

The locusts are the servants of Apollo, a chief sun-deity of the Roman emperors, and of the Roman Church. The locusts are political and
religious parasites that devour the souls, labor, property, and
attention of the dead, who are not "green", while having no power over
the "green" grass and trees, which are the men who have the faith of
Jesus.

The souls in this religious system are metaphorically burning in a lake
of fire and brimstone, being tormented day and night because they have
not entered into the sabbath rest of Jesus Christ. The slaves of this
religious system have the mark of the beast upon them, while those who
trust solely in Jesus have the seal of God in their foreheads.

Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and
they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his
image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

This is the Church, or the Christian religion, which is the habitation
of devils:

Revelation 18:2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great
is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and
the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and
hateful bird.

Revelation 18:9
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and
lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her,
when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

And know you can know what this scripture actually means:

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

"The devils also believe" is in reference to the religious people
before described by Jesus. Devils are people--religious people. Those
who trust in Jesus are not to partake of their false sacrifice in their
false Churches:

1 Corinthians 10:20-21
But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they
sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should
have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the
Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's
table, and of the table of devils.

Where in the world do men drink of cups and eat of sacrificed bread?
Men do these ritual acts in the Churches. True believers are not to
partake of these false sacrifices to Christian idols.

So not only are devils a kind of men, but they are the kind of men who
worship idols, devil, demons, and false gods--including the false gods
of the many sects of the Christian religion. Each sect claims that it
worships the one true God, and so of the many sects there are many gods
among them totaled. These idols, or false gods, are invented by them
through the doctrines of devils, which are in the minds of wicked men.
The wicked men under the influence of these mental demons are
themselves by extension called, devils. And they pretend to be angels
of light when they are preaching false gospels and making converts for
their religion of hell.

As I have said before there is one gospel: Jesus Christ is the Son of
God who took sin out of the way. Any religion that teaches you to fret
and worry about sin is not a true gospel. Any religion that conflates
Jesus and the Father as a chimera being is denying both the Father and
the Son. Jesus Christ is as distinct and separate a being from the
Father as any two men are distinct and separate beings. Jesus is one
with the Father in purpose, not in mystical substance.

No man is saved by conjuring up God with a prayer or confession or
credo. No man is gifted eternal life by his own choice. No man has ever
chosen God or the Savior:

John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw
him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

It is the Father who does the saving. It is the Father's work. The
Church religious system is not doing the work of the Father. It is impersonating the Father and denying His finished work at the cross of
Jesus Christ.

Salvation is the gift of God which he bestows upon whom he chooses. It
cannot be earned by religious beliefs or religious rites or deeds. The
realm of hell, religion, has taken most of mankind captive. Jesus
Christ has been given the power from God to set them free:

Matthew 16:18
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it.

Matthew 7:13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go
in thereat:

Religion and religious power is, "the gates of hell":

Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up
the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves,
neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

The religious leaders barred the gate to the kingdom by preaching
falsehood about salvation. Jesus gave the keys to open this gate to his disciples.

By this we can see that this mortal world and its religious power
structure is the world of the dead, or hell. And we can see that Jesus
Christ is the gate we must enter to escape. The religious devils
threaten men with eternal hell, to frighten them into the Church hell.
The modern Pharisee devils threaten men with eternal death, to keep them
dead in the trespasses and sins of the religious world order. These
religious leaders threaten damnation to any who do not obey (and pay)
them, that by igniting mental fear they may gain power over them, and
keep them in the very hell from which they promise rescue.

These religious devils are the keepers of the dead in hell:

Matthew 23:27
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like
unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but
are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

The dead men's bones are the souls of their religious mind-slaves in
this present reality. This world is the Sheol or Hades or Hell of
scripture. The religious leaders work feverishly to stay here and stay
in charge, and to prevent the masses from having faith so the masses
may remain their perennial taxpayers. The religious system of the world
is not much different than the fear-fueled system of the Monsters,
Incorporated myth. The rich religious rulers are spiritual predators
preying upon the gullible and corruptible.

In the modern Christian religion we find a cargo cult peacocking the
trappings of the ancient faith yet devoid of its substance. The
religion is a sepulchre full of the bones of the spiritually dead.

It is written that the wages of sin is death. The religion of this
hellish world is the paltry payday of sinful unbelief. With faith in
Jesus Christ comes an end to the worry of punishment or wrath from God
the Father. God has made peace with man through the cross of Jesus:

Colossians 1:20-21
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be
things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime
alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he
reconciled ...

The Church is a tomb or grave full of the bones of the dead. Religion
is the grave. Religion is hell. Religion is where you will find the
dead. Jesus Christ is where you will find the living. Remember, Jesus
came out of the tomb and ascended to heaven. He didn't hang around
preaching about hell like the false preachers who hang him daily like a
threat over the heads of church taxpayers. Jesus preached freedom from
hell and he showed the way out of the tomb. Jesus left hell after
preaching to the spirits imprisoned in its religion.

Religion is a scam. Religion saves nobody. Religion damns men. Religion enslaves men into being taxpayers to the self-righteous, rich, religious rulers. Find Jesus and lay hold upon him and put all your trust in his
works, and not your own, and you will be saved from the fear of death
and hell, and you will be raised up to eternal life. Once the gift is
given by God, it is without repentance--God will never change His mind.
Once you are saved by God's grace, you can never lose the gift of
eternal life that is promised by His word. This is good news.
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