Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil helpers, he said, “We can’t keep the people from going to assemblies. We can’t keep them from reading the scriptures and learning the truth. We can’t even keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience with Yahshua. If they keep a personal connection with Yahshua, our power over them is broken.” “So let them assemble, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but keep them connected to the world and steal their time, so they can’t gain that experience in Yahshua Messiah.” ”This is what I want you to do. Distract them from maintaining a vital connection throughout their day with their Savior!” ”How shall we do this?” asked his angels. ”Keep the people busy with the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds, and keep them firmly in the world.” he answered. “Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow. ” ”Persuade the wives to take a job and to leave their children at daycare. Make them too stressed and tired to serve their husbands. Convince them that government schools are proper places to teach children. Allow them to think children don’t need to pray, study scripture or recite the ten commandments. Let the husbands work 6 or 7 days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Have them focus on the nice things they can buy their children while they ignore the requirement to teach them righteousness.”
”Let the children get their self worth from designer jeans and NBA endorsed sneakers, fancy electronic gadgets, gangs or drugs. Give them many extra-curricular events to make life stressful. Keep the parents from spending time with the children. As the family fragments, the home will offer no escape from the pressures of the world!”
”Entice them to talk on the cell phone and play the radio or CD player whenever they drive. Pound their minds with world news and commercials 24 hours a day. Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear Yahweh’s still, small voice. “Keep their TV, VCR, CDs, DVD’s, iPods, cell phones, and their PCs going constantly. Let them become busy at doing nothing! See to it that every store, restaurant and business everywhere plays worldly music constantly. This will fill their minds with messages of the flesh and break that union with Messiah.”
“Give them games and practices that are counter to the scriptures but can be spiritualized or rationalized by claiming that Yahweh knows their hearts.”
”Fill the house with magazines and newspapers portraying fantasy lifestyles. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, catalogues, sweepstakes, lotteries, and product catalogs and every type of home business newsletter filled with false hopes.” ”Make sexuality pervasive. Put sexy models on the magazines so husbands will lust after external beauty and they’ll become lustful and dissatisfied with their wives. Let the women become competitive and wear immodest clothes and to covet sculpted bodies created by men. Give them movies that portray a luxurious, gaudy, lusty lifestyle that does not actually exist. Keep them disgruntled.” “This will force them to be excessive in pleasure seeking. Make their recreation stressful, ego driven and competitive. Have them return home exhausted, full of self and disquieted. Don’t let them go out in nature to reflect on Yahweh’s wonders. Give them thrills at amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead.”
“Keep them busy, busy, busy!!
”And when they do meet for spiritual fellowship, let the women lead the men. Involve them in gossip, envy, or self righteousness, so that they leave with troubled consciences. They will then restrict their conversations to shallow, vain, unimportant topics.”
”Go ahead, let them be involved in witnessing. But crowd their lives with so many causes they have no time to seek power from Yahshua. They will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and families for the cause. They will lose sight of how important a human soul really is.”
“It will work….I tell you…. it will work!”
It was quite a convention. And the evil angels went eagerly about their assignment of causing “Yahweh’s people” to be busy, busy, busy, and to rush here and there.
The evil angels even stole the Yahweh-ordained day of rest!
Ask yourself… Does this describe my family?
Who is glorified by my lifestyle?
Does Yahweh want my life to be different?
Am I willing to do what it takes to change?
Original idea obtained from a magazine article written in 1998 by Dave Hunt.
