A Temcat study
COUNTERFEITS -1
The Truth About Harry Potter
Now
I am going to tell you right away that I am not going to be saying
much about what is in the Harry Potter books or movies. Instead, I
want to tell you about why Satan wants people to get into reading and
learning about these things. I want to help you learn how to spot
Satan’s tricks and how to find real power for your own life.
Everything
good that God has given to His people, Satan has made a counterfeit
of, and he even counterfeits things that belong only to God. What is a
‘counterfeit’? It is a copy that isn’t real. It may look real
but it isn’t. You can get toy coins that look all bright and sparkly
like gold. But they are just hollow and have gum or chocolate in them.
Real gold is worth a lot, if you had a big, pure gold coin, you could
buy a lot with it, but if you took one of these toy coins to the bank,
they would just laugh at you.
There
is one thing that we know, if there is a counterfeit—there must be a
real thing somewhere. Nobody makes a counterfeit 3-dollar bill,
because it wouldn’t fool anybody. There are no real 3-dollar bills.
So when Satan is busy fooling people with his counterfeits, we can
know that there are real blessings that God has for us.
Satan’s
aim is to get us all mixed up, so we go after his lies and throw away
God’s truth. You see, he knows that we can’t have his lies and
God’s truth together. Some of the things Satan promises people are
things that are not possible for us to have at all. They are things
that only God really has. They only belong to God.
Things
like being able to create a living being or make a dead person come to
life; living forever and never dying; being able to know the future
before it happens. These things only belong to God. (See John 1:3; 1
Timothy 6:16; Isaiah 46: 9,10)
Satan
can’t do these things, but he tries to trick us into thinking he
can. In fantasy stories and witchcraft, people are told that if they
have the right words to say, or actions to do, or ingredients to mix
together, then they will be able to do these very things, make things
alive that are not alive, make dead people talk to them, stay alive
forever, and be able to either control what happens in the future, or
be able to tell what is going to happen.
He
tricks people into thinking such powers are real and if they just
learn enough, or obey him or study ancient mysteries, they can learn
to have these powers. Now the truth is that even Satan does NOT have
these powers, nobody has them except God. So how does Satan get you to
think he has them?
Mainly,
through lies. He just tells people they will not die, that they can
live forever. People like to believe that lie. Remember, he told
Mother Eve that lie didn’t he? But we are not like Eve now, we see
people die, we see dead bodies, so he has to tell us another lie. He
tells us that our body isn’t really us. He says we have a part
inside called a ‘soul’ and that part is really us, and it never
dies even if our body dies.
He
has most everybody in the world believing that lie. But the Bible
tells us in Genesis, that man became a living soul, it does not say we
have a soul or we were given a soul. It also says that souls die. (See
Ezekiel 18:4)
Another
way he is tricking people, is to have his angels change how they look
and imitate someone who is dead. Then he has them tell you things that
you think only the dead person would know about, but Satan’s angels
know about these things too. So people are fooled into thinking that
spirits of dead people live on and can talk to us. But the Bible tells
us that the dead don’t know anything. (Ecclesiastes 9:5) This is a
counterfeit.
What
about telling the future? Well Satan has a hard time here, because he
doesn’t know the future; but he has been around a long time. He saw
your daddy and your great grand-daddy and so on. He knows what they
were like and what they did; this helps him to know what you might
also do.
There
are other ways he tries to tell the future. He tells what he and his
angels are planning to do. And so if God does not stop him, he can
make his story about the future happen. If he says a certain plane
will crash, he can go and crash it, unless God doesn’t let him do
it. If a fortune teller says to you that you will meet some wonderful
person and fall in love, Satan can do a lot to make this happen.
Now
if someone tells you they have power to do these things, or that you
can learn to have power to do them, just walk away from them and have
nothing more to do with them; because it is all a lie and a
counterfeit.
But
there is a real part. God has these powers. God tells us about the
future in the Bible prophecies. God promises if we come to Jesus and
give our hearts to Him, that He will save us, and someday we will live
forever. God can create and make the dead come to life again and He
will, when Jesus comes again. Don’t let Satan trick you into
throwing away what is real; to try and get what is not real.
–Continued =^..^=
COUNTERFEITS -2
The Winner and the Looser
This
time we will talk some more about the lies and tricks that Satan is
using to snare boys and girls (and big people too) and get them to
turn away from Jesus, the One who loves them so much that He died to
save them, to go chasing after the devil’s rabbits. Even if they
catch one, they will find out it will just turn around and bite them.
So
many people get lured into different kinds of magic and witchcraft,
thinking they are going to get some special power and have a better
life through it. Many even go into it, thinking that if they get these
special powers it promises them, that they can use them to help
other people and not for anything bad.
Very
few people go into magic and New Age and Wicca and so on, thinking
that they are going to serve Satan and do his bidding. That is why so
many young people, and older ones too, when they see the warnings on
our Harry Potter Magic site, write to us all angry, and deny that they
have anything to do with Satan.
But
sadly, saying so doesn’t make it true, and when Satan can get people
to serve him, he is especially happy when they don’t even believe he
exists. That way he can fool them easier and when he does some tricks
for them, they are all excited thinking THEY have special powers or
that God is doing it for them.
Satan
can better use these people to fool others, even Christians, into
doing things that are really just witchcraft under new names.
But
there are some people, yes, even some children, who are quite happy to
serve Satan, if they could just get some of those powers, like they
read about in the Harry Potter books.
I
received a very sad letter from a little boy who is all caught up with
Harry Potter. His letter was full of bad words so I can’t print it
here for you to read, but what he said showed some of the tricks and
lies that Satan tells to these poor people.
This
boy said he had read all the books 3 times each. From what he said, he
thought people who believe in Jesus are stupid. But what the poor
fellow didn’t know or forgets is, that Jesus is real-Harry Potter is just something that a woman made up, it isn’t true
at all. I believe that Satan helped her to make up these stories, as
he wants to use them to catch and fool boys and girls who read them.
But still, it is only a fairy tale.
Now
here is something interesting, people are saying it is good for
children to read Harry Potter, because at least they learn to read.
But this poor boy’s letter showed that he did not know how to even
write a proper sentence or spell even simple words. All his reading
wasn’t doing anything good for him; just putting him where he was
hating Jesus and Satan could fool him.
Now
this boy felt that he would get great power, if he could only get the
right ‘spell’ and he meant witches spells. He even said he would
sell his soul to get this power.
I
want to talk for a moment about this idea that people have, that they
can ‘sell their soul’ to Satan and he will give them great power,
and they will live forever as a special evil servant of Satan. What a
sad bunch of lies!
For
one thing, we don’t HAVE a soul-we
ARE a soul. Soul just means what you are as a living thinking being.
Even animals are called ‘souls’ in the Bible.
The
second important thing to know is, you can’t sell your soul, because
you don’t own it! Every living thing belongs to God. Even Satan’s
life belongs to God. God created all living things; they belong to
Him.
Also,
Jesus died to redeem you from Satan, so He owns you double-first because He made you-
second because He bought you. So Satan can’t buy from you
what you don’t own.
But-and this is a big BUT, there is a third way that God wants to own you,
and that is He wants you to CHOOSE to be His. He won’t force anyone
to belong to Him if they don’t want to. This is where Satan comes in
with his tricks. He actually gets children even, to think they can
sell their souls and they do some ritual for to do this. Then later
when they find out how cruel Satan is, and they learn about Jesus
and would like to belong to Him, Satan tells them they can’t,
because they sold their soul to him and now Jesus won’t accept them.
Boys
and girls, if you find anybody who has fallen for this trick, you just
tell them that Satan is a liar! He can’t buy a soul from you,
because you don’t have one, and God owns your life. He is just
tricking you. Run to Jesus in prayer and tell Him you CHOOSE to be His
and He will help you right out of Satan’s claws.
What
if you do get some sort of power from Satan by promising to serve him?
Well, remember, these powers are not real. Satan himself does not have
the powers he often promises to people stupid enough to listen to him.
He
promises them they can live forever. Satan can’t make anything alive
or keep anything alive! In the end he will find out he can’t even
keep himself alive. All life belongs to God.
So
what are some other powers—telling the future; this is not a power
that people really can have; Satan’s angels have to tell people what
they want to know and they can tell some things because they are all
over the place and know a lot about what is happening. They can also
help make some things come true. But when the bad angels get tired of
doing this for a person, he finds out, it was just a trick.
Levitating
or flying; this is only possible when Satan’s angels carry something
and it looks like it is flying. If they get tired of carrying it-no more flying! In Heaven
we will be able to fly for real!
Power
to ‘cast a spell’ to hurt people; this is all done by Satan and
his angels and not by people at all. It is interesting that in
the mission fields in years gone by, when Christian missionaries were
close to the Lord, even the devil-doctors would say that their spells
could not hurt God’s people. God’s angels are stronger than the
fallen angels.
Jesus
defeated Satan; someday he will be destroyed; why get tricked into
serving a LOOSER, when you can choose to belong to the
WINNER?
Continued =^..^=
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