DON’T BE FOOLED: 
SATAN IS A BUSY FELLOW
by Max Solbrekken

‘Man’s fiercest foe from the Garden of Eden right to the end of time is not cancer, communism, disease or death. It is the devil!’                                                            - Billy Graham

Dr. Rebecca Brown wasn’t doing research for a book on witchcraft when she met Elaine, nor was she thinking about evil spirits, demons or the occult.

Brown, a medical doctor, was shocked by Elaine’s story of fear, torment and bondage. When therapy and drugs failed to help, Brown was amazed at her patient’s recovery by her acceptance of Jesus Christ.

After Elaine’s dramatic healing and escape from Satanism, other tormented young people in similar straits began calling the MD’s office, seeking similar assistance.

Dr. Brown’s recent book He Came to Set the Captives Free is the clinical report of many of her patients, who decided after deliverance, to publicize their traumatic encounters with the devil.

After seven years of medical and psychological research, the medic was convinced that Satanism is a most destructive and evil power, a power that can be conquered only through faith in Christ.

This should come as no surprise since Jesus said that Satan - the thief - had come “only to kill, steal and to destroy”. (John 10:10) Jesus called him by three names:

• SATAN - the adversary or enemy

• DEVIL - the liar, false accuser, traducer

• BEELZEBUB - the God of flies or master of filth

SATAN’S SLAVES

The Bible states that he is Abaddan - the destroyer and St. Paul warns that he is such a deceiver that he will “appear as an angel of light”. (2 Cor. 11:14)

Dabbling in the occult can open the door to possession and a controlled life, which turns people into Satan’s slaves, observes Brown.

Elaine’s story is one of sadistic and sexual bondage to evil spirits and a ritualistic marriage to the devil.

Other experts are also sounding the alarm, warning of the dramatic rise in Satan worship in the US and the psychological damage it is doing to unsuspecting youngsters. As well as the terrible trauma it causes to their families, friends and communities!

Earlier, Satanism was dismissed as a harmless fad that would soon die out, but now sociologists and clergymen are encountering new, scary and very real problems linked to devil worship.

Police have been checking out reports that covens of young people are gathering in wooded areas near Los Angeles, to worship the devil. Sacrificial satanic rituals like killing cats and dogs have been confirmed and officials suspect humans have been sacrificed!

SERIOUS PROBLEM

So serious is the problem, churches in the area sponsored a seminar several years ago on Satanism and neo-paganism just to learn more on the subject.

The seminar featured a Christian response to evil, exorcism and satanic deception.

“Satanism is alive and well, and the sad thing is that it is growing among teenagers”, states Roger Burt, a Christian authority.

Dr. Billy Graham declares: “A generation ago, when I began as an evangelist, people generally, and intellectuals in particular thought of the devil as an anachronistic symbol, a handy expression of profanity, or as a superstition believed in chiefly by religious eccentrics. Today, the devil is getting maximum exposure, precisely as the Bible predicted would happen prior to Christ’s return.”

In his book, The Second Coming: Satanism in America, Arthur Lyons states “that from a scientific or secular viewpoint, the 1970’s revival of devil worship, witchcraft, sorcery and occultism in America was totally unexpected. Most intellectuals had expected belief in the devil to disappear within a few years”.

And Dr. John Wesley White warns: “The devil. We all wish he’d go away. But he’s around a lot more than he was yesterday, and he’s going to be more visible and vocal tomorrow than he is today. Like a vast, vicious virus that won’t stop, his iniquitous vices are on every hand. To be ignorant of his tactics is to lay ourselves open to chronic peril”.

According to prophecy, Satan will make a momentous comeback just before Jesus returns.

He will orchestrate the world’s greatest confrontation, the ‘Battle of Armageddon’. In the end Satan loses totally. Only one angel will be needed to cast him into the bottomless pit forever!

For a short while he will bask in the limelight as a part of a Troika - the unholy trinity - together with the antichrist and the false prophet!

Then, he will be cast into the ‘Lake of Fire’ forever!

Hallelujah!