Satan’s Snares
One of the main reasons God sent messages for His dear people to Ellen White was to warn us about Satan’s tricks and snares in these last days. There are some people who will tell you that we shouldn’t talk about Satan and his lies. How nice for our enemy, eh? He has all his tricks to fool us and we aren’t even supposed to talk about them? If we are truly belonging to Jesus, we are not to spend our time being afraid or worrying about him, but we certainly need to study and know his tricks!
In the Spirit of Prophecy writings, ‘Satan’ or satanic is mentioned in19,292 paragraphs. Why? Because if we know our enemies tricks we can avoid getting fooled! Jesus doesn’t want His dear children fooled, but all too many say, “Awe, I don’t believe that. Those writings are too ‘Old Fashioned’. Things are different today.”
Yes, things are different in this way; Satan’s lures and traps are all around us more than ever before, except maybe just before the flood. Ellen White was shown Satan’s plans, she even got to listen into his words as he commanded his angels how to fool God’s people.
One of the things he uses is to make us greedy and covetous. If we want to have lots of earthly money and pleasure, we don’t have time to really get close to Jesus. The missions that are to tell the people all around the world about Jesus, end up failing because the people won’t give their money to help the missionaries. They want to keep the money for themselves.
Another thing she saw was that Satan keeps young people busy with holidays and entertainment, shows, parties, socials, sports and even music. They are so busy with these things that they have no time to study and pray and allow Jesus to get their hearts ready for heaven. Even church socials and programs can do this.
We have more of these time wasting tricks today than ever before. With TV, video, computer games and video games, music and entertainment, sports and hobbies everywhere. Take a good look at your life; is Jesus first with you? Pray earnestly and ask Jesus to show you the truth about yourself, if you are ready for heaven, or just fooling yourself.
God’s message to the young is that Jesus is soon coming and we must be ready!
Honey for Sweetness 