You belong to your father, Satan, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. From the start he was a murderer, and he has never stood by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is speaking in character; because he is a liar — indeed, the inventor of the lie! John 8:44 CJV
The Lord continues his teaching on manipulation, or as written in the bible a lie. Although manipulation is a little easier to give the understanding in todays language than a lie. Because the way satan does things is manipulation, and so it is with his children. His children are those who are not of God by first birth.
The interesting thing to me is how it works, how we all fall under this and do not even realize it or see it. We even manipulate ourselves into believing we are good when in the eyes of God we are bad. Most of the time we do not even realize we are doing it, because we only do what we are shown to do, so if satan is your go to guy by default because you do not know any different and ignore the voice of God. Then you are manipulated by him and you also will manipulate others.
We do this in many different ways, maybe by our religious beliefs, and we push others to agree with our idea of who God is and what he expects. As an example, in the past few weeks two of our owners here in the development have both made comments about my idea of God, indicating I am very wrong in who he is. Top which on one occurrence I simply ignored it as it is a waste of time with her. The second one I made the point that the God I worship and know is very different than any religious god I learned about in any of the many religions I went to.
The point is we are manipulated into believing certain things about who God is. And those manipulations are based on different factors like what your religion or church system teaches about him. And what you personally want him to be like.
We all have our own ways to live life, different beliefs. And we try to get others to agree with us in our viewpoint. But it can never work like that because every single person is a bit different.
As another example, we are trying to finalize a few things in our development with the common areas, to make them more attractive. There are 5 of us to agree upon things, and each with a different idea of what to do, who to do the work, how much we want to spend… And because it was my project and there is disagreement, each comes to me for solutions, BUT their only idea of a solution to to manipulate and give arguments as to why their idea is best. And to do something about the other ones who disagree with them. And also attaching me for things others did wrong.
I mentioned yesterday one person in our group who pointed out how certain areas look terrible, and they do. But she twisted the truth (or manipulated or lied, whichever word you want to use). And made the bad looking areas because of the work the guys I hired did, when the work was good. Why it looks bad is because a few of them came in behind and tore out and redid some of the work, leaving a mess behind which now with the rain is exposing the problem more with weeds growing. If it had been left alone, we would not have these problems. But in her mind, it is not because of what she did later, it is because of my workers, so she is twisting things. And then when I do not agree she says things like “you’re not going to heaven.”
Again, the reason someone would say things like this is because my God whom I know and obey, does not act the same as the god they worship in their catholic church system. The same system that is nowhere near teaching what is truth written in the bible. And of course hardly any catholic has ever read the bible or does now. They are trained to believe they simply have to do their obligation which is to go to church, do communion, and give tithes. And of course confession once in a while.
Here is the point again of God, the true God. If your works (or actions) are not in him, they are not good works. And the fruit you bear will not be good fruit. We will know them by their fruits or outcome of their actions. The majority of the people think that if you do not fall for their manipulation and stand up in truth against it, then you are bearing bad fruit and not of God. But is that the truth?
They will quote certain verses like “turn the other check.” But ignore the verses which tell you clearly to confront people with truth and if they do not repent and turn and see this truth, you have nothing to do with them. If we look at the letters Paul wrote, he made this point over and over, pointing out what their church was doing wrong and or certain people in their church were doing wrong, and to remove them. To repent and turn back to the truth, which is Yeshua.
Yeshua himself came and spoke the truth, and the people did not like it so they killed him. We get some weird idea because of a few things he said about “turning the other check.” That he was OK with sin and died out of pity for mankind. And we ignore or do not teach in the church system we go to all the times he spoke out against the authority of the Jews and how wrong they were and as shown in the verse above, how they were of their father satan.
This verse says soooooo much, yet instead of letting it show us things we ignore it. We think it is specific for the Jews at that time, not meant for all of us. But it is for all of us because all of us follow some religion and do the same things as the Jews did and do not see it. We have our traditions and religious ceremonies which we think are of Yahweh but are not. We believe in our idea of a god who does not exist yet argue we serve the same God.
But then at the same time we make comments that the God I follow does not fit in their idea of who God is. To which I say, follow your own god then, it is your right, your choice. But your god is NOT perfecting you, making you holy and your actions or works are not of the true living God. The one who will speak to you directly and teach you which actions will result in good fruit in the end.
Daily, I pray to God that all my works would be done in him, that I only want to hear him and obey him and to not let the voice of the enemy manipulate me or trick me into doing something of him instead of you my God. And if there is any confusion or no real conviction it is of God. Or my progress is stopped, I do not move forward.
A simple example as of recently. I have tried to open up a brokerage account to trade. I wanted to trade silver mostly. But over and over I got stopped, so I left it alone, and am glad I did. Because back to the manipulation, this week 5 times in 5 days the people who run the show manipulated silver to beat it down. Plus a few other times in the past month. Without getting too technical, they changed the margin requirements a few times to make people get out because they did not have enough money in their account to cover the margin. They also traded enough shorts when the market was closed and there were no buyers to drive the price down a lot. And then on Friday because the price was not low enough, they hit it really hard, making the price drop by $30 dollars which from reports I saw was what they needed it to be at to cover some shorts they had from months back or they would get called out by margin requirements. When silver was going up, if it went up more than $10 a day they stopped trading citing a limit for the day. But when going down no such limits for the day. However I can promise you if they were long and not short there would be no limits on the way up and limits to the down side.
The interesting thing is silver still trades at $120 plus an ounce overseas like in China and India. And the biggest problem is there will be people who will buy at $86 and send the silver to China and get $120 plus. I would if I knew how to do it. So then that drains the little silver they have in the US and sends it to the enemy, when the US needs it to make bombs and other things to protect the US from or in war. As well as all other technology which China is taking over, something that requires a lot of silver to produce. AI, robots, cars… So if the US has no silver to make these things and China has plenty, then what?
These are all things which are manipulation and how it is destroying the US. Most people do not even know about it or see it, or care about it. But then when the real problems come, which they are experiencing with inflation already. Who is not crying because of the cost of groceries, car payments, home loans high interest (which now the average age to buy a first home is something like 58). More than 50% say they cannot afford to buy a home, or even rent for that matter. The unemployment rate for college graduates is 25%, so they are living at home and the parents are paying their bills.
For those of us living in Mexico as expats, and if you are relying on dollars to pay the bills, like social security, a pension or fixed investments in US dollars, you are in big trouble. The peso is gaining strength against the dollar and has been for more than 5 years now going from a high of $25 to now as low as $17.12 a few days ago. It bounced back up a little Friday with all the other manipulation to $17.47, but it will drop again. To most this does not sound like a big deal, but this drop is 32% which means your cost to live here just got 32% more expensive. I have seen a few people posting on facebook recently saying they are moving because they cannot afford it here anymore. Especially here in the Tijuana area. I can promise you the cost of living here have gone up much more than 32% in the past 5 years.
But the real point is these problems did not just show up one day out of the blue. They happen because of politicians and law changes. Because of turning our backs on what the elite money people are doing when they rip us off. For example in 2008 many people made an issue about the banksters bankrupting their banks and the US bailing them out because they “were to big to fail” and then paid themselves millions in bonuses as if they did something really good.
No one was hung for treason or went to jail or even went before a judge. And many cried out about it, but never did anything about it. In the past few years JP Morgan Chase has paid out over $920 million in fines because of manipulating silver, yet no one goes to jail or pays any price for it, and they laugh all the way to the bank because they made billions, maybe trillions over the years, so this little fine is a part of doing business. I can promise you they had a HUGE part in last weeks dealings. And they will most likely pay another fine and keep making 10 times on their money of this cost to do business. And no one will go to jail or die from the treason to the US people.
This is why it keeps happening, the laws do not apply to the politicians and elite money people who control the politicians. And most people are good with things if they get free health care or a free cell phone. And pay no attention to what else they are doing, while they destroy your finances by the actions or manipulation they use. And again then cry when they no longer can pay the bills.
The same with your physical health, you eat their manipulated trash food, then take their manipulated drugs, and end up with serious health problems from it and spend all your money to stay alive in a mostly dead state. And cry because we are in a nursing home or have cancer and are going to die. And we do not look at the actions we did which give us the results we got. And then we want everyone else to pay for our mistakes.
Do you see the point? Which is how God sees things? We do certain things, make certain actions, thinking it is OK with God, then we get bad outcomes from them and cry about it, many times blaming God for the outcome. Which you should partially blame the god of this world for his manipulation which made you sow bad seeds to get the bad results. But in the minds of the people, they blame the God Yahweh for it. Like it is his fault you obeyed satan instead of him to get the results you got.
When you see the truth of this and repent and start to do things the way of God, a way unpopular to the people. Then things will change. Then your fruit will be good, because you are sowing of Yahweh and not of satan going forward. And this is when grace comes in, when you repent and do the good works (or actions) of the Lord God, King of Kings, Lord of Lords.
It is written “your God is who you obey.” Do you still obey satan and his manipulated ways because you refuse to hear and obey Yahweh and Yeshua? Or have you repented and seek the Lord and then do what he shows you to do. Either way you are a slave, a slave to satan and unrighteousness or to Yeshua and righteousness. But your works will come from which one you obey. And as you see w=from what I wrote, the outcome or fruit in your life is from who you obey.
In my old life my outcome was not so good when I was still under the god of this world following my religions and their gods. But once I really seeked for God because the outcome was so bad and painful, and found him. He showed me why I was getting these bad results and how to do things in a way (his way) where my fruit or results were good. And in these ways you learn to not let anyone manipulate you in any way, which then as said before, makes people not like it and not like you and makes them think your God is not the real God and you are not saved when they are. When it is the opposite.
Just look at the fruit you are bearing, are your finances in order, do you see what is happening so you do things right to prosper and not get destroyed by the manipulation? Is your physical health in good shape? Or are you manipulated again into believing their lies about food, drugs and vaccines? And mostly, because both of these things are a result of if you believe the lie and are manipulated, or if you have moved to the truth in Yeshua, because he is the truth. And live in it instead and do not let the lies and manipulation into your life?
This is why Yeshua said “you belong to your father, satan…”