Bible Wonders- COUNTERFIT JESUS

Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder?

I do. Did you ever wonder? Why the sun always rises, but the stars never fall?

Why dry land is never satisfied by water? And why fire never says enough? Enough. And the idea of his light being dark light, which is looking for the evil in things, not necessarily looking for the good. And we've talked about yesterday how this smoke, or this smoke of judgment, and certainly Satan's involved in, is God has smoke of judgment coming down when he comes down on Mount Sinai, and later in Revelation, you know there's going to be a smoke that goes up. And it's going to be the smoking of, essentially, the seeds of Satan that has been planted in the seeds of Satan that has been planted. You know, those seeds of hate and of lust and greed and all those things, they have to be consumed, or otherwise they're going to grow more fruit, so to speak, that we don't necessarily want.

But of course, Satan has his judgment, and when he finds something evil, he certainly accuses. And he's been using his judgment, which also causes smoke, but it's the smoke of oxidizing seeds of goodness, like those that Jesus describes in the parable of the sower. But the one we're going to talk about today is from Job 41 21, which again, we're still speaking of Leviathan, as we know God has given us this amazing picture of Satan as he gives it to Job. So we get to Job 41 21, the verse actually reads, his breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

Now that's the way it's translated usually, but that word flame kind of made me sit back in my chair when I saw what it means. That sometimes it's translated flame or something bright and shining, but often it's translated sword. And so, just like in the book of Revelation, right, when Jesus comes there at the end, it's going to be a sword that comes right out of his mouth. Well, here we see that Satan has a sword that comes out of his mouth too, and when you consider what that is, it's lies, right? He used that sword most effectively for Adam and Eve, and he's been using it on us ever since. And if he can sow a lot, if he can sow that kind of seed that God's not going to come through for you, or God's holding out on you, or God's mad at you, if he can sow any of those seeds, right?

They are very much a sword that goes right into your heart. That's why the shield of faith is so important, because if you believe that this is the truth, what God tells you in his word, you see you have this shield that can stop these fiery darts, which are clearly swords coming out of Satan's mouth. So, once again, we see Satan is a counterfeit.

In so many different ways, what he does is the antichrist, right? It's the opposite of the truth are these lies, and if he can get you to have faith in his lies, then he becomes your father, the father of pride. Because there are so many ways that we try to shield ourselves, that we try to walk in our own glory, which means, again, like it says at the end of Job 41, that Satan is the king of the children of pride. So, getting back to the word of God being the truth, what we've got to do is hold up that shield of faith, right? That faith that God told us in his word, that he loves us and that whosoever believes in his son, which is the authentic star of the morning. He is the real light of the world, he is the real bread of life, he is the real living water, and so as we believe what Jesus says, we believe the truth. Which in Hebrew, the word truth is pronounced ametz, which is an aleph, a mem, and a tav, which is the beginning of the Hebrew alphabet, the middle of the Hebrew alphabet, and the end of the Hebrew alphabet. So, when you look at those three letters, and so when Jesus came to John and he said, you know, I'm the alpha and the omega, well, that's Greek for I'm the aleph, the mem, and the tav. In other words, I'm the whole story, and I am the truth. So, as we get more and more into God's word and we begin to believe the truth wholeheartedly, then up comes the shield of faith and these swords that Satan has coming out of his mouth just bounce right off. Jesus, help us to take up the shield of faith.