Jesus Vs. Satan, with Humans Caught Between

Jesus is pure, 100% Truth and Love, and therefore pure white light.  Satan is 100% Lies and Hate, and therefore pure blackness.  Humans are God's lost sheep wandering in the gray wilderness area between Jesus and Satan.

Truth can be used as a weapon.  I have seen (and personally experienced) the use of truth as a weapon.

What is truth without love?

When someone claims they love somebody, they will sometimes shelter the object of their "love" from the full truth.  White lies are told.  Part truths are told, where the "not so nice" parts are left out.  Part truths are sugar coated.  The story is twisted and coloured to the advantage of the one speaking.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) said,

 "In war-time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies". 

With the amount of lying that occurs today, we all must be in a continuous state of war.

What is love without truth?

Love depends upon trust.

Trust is created and nurtured and protected by 4 mandatory factors:

• Benevolent best interest in the other party (ie. love)
• Open & honest communication (ie. Truth)
• Competency
• Predictable behaviour

If one or more of these 4 factors are missing, weak, or violated, trust is quickly stopped, or reduced, or destroyed.  Trust should take a significant period of time (and a number of sequential event) to slowly arise naturally.

Only Jesus can be fully trusted forever.  Period.  End of story.

Trusting humans isn't so easy.  Many people make the mistake of trusting too much or too quickly.  Others trust too little or too late.  All of these extreme cases have significant losses, risks, and dysfunctional outcomes.  Even when we trust the right amount at the right time, we are sometimes disappointed by a breach of our precious trust.

While trust can take a long time to form, it is usually destroyed in the blink of an eye.

Jesus embodies both truth and love simultaneously.

Jesus said there is no truth in Satan.  Inside Satan, there is pure hate for all that is good.

We humans are like lost sheep that wander in the gray area between Jesus and Satan.  We nibble the grass here, then go over there for what seems like good reasons at the time.  Often, there is little or no awareness, a lack of caring, miserly sharing, intermittent perseverance, a mediocre rate of improvement, and unclear or unspecific goals in our lives.  For the most part, we humans do as we please.  We run away to a different area when the consequences get too painful or risky.

If Satan starts to nip at our heels, we run a little closer to Jesus so as to be under His protection.  As soon as the immediate danger passes, we wander back to the darker shades of gray as we please.  In other words, most of us lack any visible commitment and consistency in our behaviors, and half-hearted allegiance to Jesus Christ.  Most of us are mediocre Christians, luke warm at best.

Most people don't realize we are now in End Times.  Times have changed.  We need to change too.

The geographical size of the gray area is shrinking fast.  The shade of gray is getting a darker and darker.  Soon there will be a chronic shortage of the gray area that remains,, and an uncomfortable shade of gray (ie. a significant lack of light) .  As the gray area disappears more & more, we humans will soon be forced to choose:   Pure White or Pure Black.

If you fail to choose, Pure Black is the default, with you eventually being tossed into the Lake of Fire with eternal suffering.

You must make a conscious, express choice of Jesus Christ, Heaven, light, white, and everlasting life.

Choose soon.

Make sure all your family, friends, and neighbours understand the important choice that must soon be made.

Love All, Loved By All

Do you love all, and are loved by all?  If not, you'd better pay attention to the following.

Are you a sourpuss with grudges, anger, & enemies?

Can you love your enemies? In Matthew 5:43-44, Jesus added this to the Commandments for Christians:

 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

God's End Times process may be starting very soon, perhaps Nov. 30, 2018 or sooner.

If you have enemies and Grid-Down occurs during God's End Times process (ie. no electricity, phones, TV, Internet, stoplights, transit, water, sewer, food deliveries, etc.), governmental authorities will no longer be able to prevent or settle petty disputes, nor intervene on major crimes.  What is preventing your enemies from seizing this ripe opportunity to settle an old score?

On this basis alone, it's likely a good idea to bury the hatchet soon.  If you aren't worried about the possible consequences of enemies today (ie. you currently have the overwhelming advantage in any battle that may occur today), what happens if your fortune reverses, and you suddenly become poor, sick, lose your position of power, or slowly become old?

Remember, the opposite of love is not hate.  The true opposite of love is indifference (ie. "I just don't care!").  If you can't bring yourself to love at this moment, at least avoid indifference.

If no consequences arise from your anger and trespassing against others during your lifetime, perhaps you should consider what Jesus said in Matthew 6:14–15:

"If you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."

If God doesn't forgive your trespasses because you have failed to forgive the trespasses of others against you, then you will have residual sins when you stand before God at the Great White Throne, which means you will be judged sinful and go directly to the Lake of Fire for eternal suffering.  Claiming you know and believe in Jesus Christ won't save you from this terrible fate.  Jesus is quite clear that those who claim to know Him, but live in chronic sin, don't really know Him, and will be turned away from Heaven and thrown into the Lake of Fire for eternal suffering. (see Matthew 7:21-23, 1 John 2:3-6, and Blog: Know Your Sins, Transgressions & Iniquities).

Loving someone doesn't mean you have to put yourself into harms way.  Everybody, including true Christians need to keep a safe distance between themselves and Satan, killers, rapists, con artists, abusive family members, and all other risky people.  Rebuke the sins you uncover, and if they confess and repent, forgive them their transgression.

Do you have mutually reciprocal animosity of hate-hate with your enemies, or is it sometimes one-sided?  In other words:

• Are there some people who consider you to be their enemy, but you are unaware they have strongly negative feelings towards you?


• Are there good Christians who turn the other cheek, accepting you in spite of your anger and bad behaviours towards them?  The more they persist in treating you nicely in spite of the evil you spew at them, the more you see them as weak, Goody-Two-Shoes, and deserving of bullying and abuse?
• Do you hate or despise some people in secret, while pretending to be their friend?

If it's a 1-sided hate (ie. you are neutral or loving towards them, but they have a passionate hate on for you, and you know it), are you safe from the Lake of Fire?

I'm not so sure.  They obviously hold a grudge, so according to Matthew 6:14-15, they are damned to eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire.  You know they are damned by their grudge against you.  Do you have a sliver of glee, or a stone-cold heart about their terrible fate?  Either way, that may not be seen as a fully Christian attitude when you get to the Great White Throne Room.  I suggest you do everything within your power to help the other person overcome their animus towards you.

Under Takiyya, Quran 3:28 and 16:106 permits strategic lies to non-Muslims so that Muslims can protect themselves, their community, or Islam.  In the Bible, people were praised for choosing to oppose evil by concealing the truth from wicked people (see the lying midwives in Exodus 1, and Joshua 2:4–5 for the lies by Rehab about the Hebrew spies within Jericho).  Other than that, love (and/or "tough love") requires open and honest communication.  Truth should be done in a kind and loving manner; not harsh nor used as a weapon.

By writing his, I just realized that I know a few people who may have a grudge against me, even though I wish they didn't.  I guess I have some work to do too, and soon.

In business, I had the opportunity to travel all around the world.  A few foreigners have told me that Canadians are recognized the world-over for being Olympic Gold Metal contenders for passive-aggressive behaviours.  Most Canadians are very nice and polite, but never cross a Canadian, as many Canadians have long memories, and will likely get even when the opportunity presents itself.

Therefore Canadians may need to take a lesson from Jesus' book more than other citizens of this wicked world.

Alan Jacobs, a professor at Baylor University, wrote the book How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds.  Listen to an excellent CBC Radio Podcast about his ideas.

Paraphrasing Alan Jacob's ideas and combining it with Jesus' Commandment, I suggest the following for avoiding the creation of enemies, and to extinguish past fires:

1. Listen so as to understand without judging.


2. Count to 10.  While counting, DO NOT think about where you disagree, or how to defeat the other person's position.  Instead, think about where you agree, or have similar values, shared starting points, or win-win opportunities.


3. Immediately feed back the positives.  If necessary, ask a clarification question in a open, fair, non-judgemental manner to ensure you fully understand their position.


4. If, in spite of the first two steps, you get hot under the collar, or want to press your side of the issue, stop and count to 10 again.  Request the necessary time to fully consider the other person's point of view.  Use the break period to cool off, and reflect on the other person's point of view to your confidants, family, and friends; faithfully presenting the other person's view in the best possible light as their faithful agent while they are absent.


5. When you're ready, come back together with your new found friend who can work co-operatively with you so as to keep both of you from suffering forever in the Lake of Fire.

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