SATAN'S SUPERMAN

• Years ago, I read of a man who always wanted a barometer. So he bought one, a very expensive, minutely calibrated model from Abercrombie & Fitch, to tell the weather. He wanted to set it somewhere in his house, perhaps on his mantle. So he carefully unpacked it, and he looked at it, and the needle was pointing to the sector that says hurricane. Well, he shook it. It still didn’t adjust. He shook it again. But the needle just stayed that way. He said, “Well, as much as I paid for this thing—and now I have a defective barometer.”

He lived on Long Island, and on his way into the city—he was a commuter—he sat down and he wrote a scathing letter to Abercrombie & Fitch for sending him a defective barometer. When he arrived back at Long Island, the barometer was gone, and so was his house, because that was 1938, and the Great Hurricane had come through. There was nothing wrong with the barometer; he just refused to believe that a hurricane was coming. And may I tell you, my dear friend, there’s nothing wrong with the Word of God: It doesn’t need adjusting; it needs believing. •

And God is telling us that there are storms coming to this old world, and this second chapter of 2 Thessalonians warns of this coming howling hurricane called the Great Tribulation. It tells us of the rise of a man called in the Bible the “man of sin.” () I’m entitling our message this morning “Satan’s Superman.”

1 John 2:18 NASB95

18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

2 Thessalonians 2:1–12 NASB95

1 Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, 2 that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. 5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? 6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. 8 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; 9 that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, 10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, 12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

IF WE ARE TO BE GONE IN THE RAPTURE, WHY WORRY ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST?

Every generation before the rapture must fight the birth pangs of the Antichrist.

Matthew 24:36 NASB95

36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

SATAN HAS SOMEONE PREPARED IN EVERY AGE. (; Thes. 2:1-3)

Christians have a duty to examine preachers faithfulness to core doctrines.

Christians have a duty to hold politicians accountable.

HE WILL RECREATE RELIGION AROUND THE CULT OF HIS PERSONALITY. (4-7)

Usage in Hitler's psychological profile[edit]

The phrase was also used in a report prepared during the war by the United States Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler's psychological profile:[5][6]

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.[7][8]

The above quote appears in the report, A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend, by Walter C. Langer,[9][10] which is available from the US National Archives. It also appears, unreferenced, in Langer's ebook by the same title[11]. A somewhat similar quote appears in Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler: With Predictions of His Future Behaviour and Suggestions for Dealing with Him Now and After Germany's Surrender, by Henry A. Murray, October 1943[12]:

Never to admit a fault or wrong; never to accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time; blame that enemy for everything that goes wrong; take advantage of every opportunity to raise a political whirlwind

Christians must not put their faith in Preachers. (1 Cor. 11:1)

Nor Politicians.

HE USES THE POLITICS OF A BENEVOLENT TYRANNY EVEN NOW. (V.7- “ALREADY AT WORK”)

HE USES FALSE PROMISES TO APPEAL TO PEOPLE’S SECRET SINFUL DESIRES. (10-11)

One of the evidences that people want a world only God offers is the constant quest for “perfection”. or the Perfect Place. We hear about it want whenever you want. and those who govern only do it as a favor to you.

Folks that reveals that people want to LIVE in the Kingdom, but they don’t want the King.

Talk openly to God about your actions and motivations.

Has anyone noticed how much news, colleges and politics simply serve as a thin veil trying to disguise hatred, envy and bitterness. What is Intersectional Politics other than a totem pole of victimhood mentality? Listen, show me acts of prejudice, robbery, criminality, poisoning, etc… I will condemn it and seek to right it with you. However, we have people agitated angry, forming mobs on both sides of the prejudice scale now with no real solutions that don’t involve breaking the ten commandments.

So if you want the Kingdom benefits, but you don’t want the King. You want to break the commandments you don’t like. You are lying to yourself and destroying society, culture, and countries. You will be ripe to believe the one who tells you the biggest lie.

Joseph Georbels

1 John 3:12 NASB95

12 not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

b. Rejoice in others hard work and enjoy the good things that are yours.

Exodus 20:17 NASB95

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

c. Speak the truth and do not participate in lies.

Matthew 5:37 NASB95

37 “But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.

It is this point that makes the historiography of the USSR—a subject worthy of deep study in itself—so relevant today. Pulitzer-prize winning historian Anne Applebaum is one of the world’s pre-eminent chroniclers of the crimes of the Soviet Union. Her previous works, notably Gulag: A History, which detailed the horrors of the Soviet prison system, and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956, which analyzed the USSR’s imposition of communism in Eastern Europe, have played their part in bringing to light the full extent of Soviet oppression. Her new book Red Famine—a masterpiece of scholarship, a ground-breaking history, and a heart-wrenching story—turns to the horrors of Soviet policy in Ukraine, specifically Stalin’s mass starvation of Ukraine from 1932 to 1933. Such was the famine’s devastation that Ukrainian émigré publications coined a new word to describe its barbarity: “Holodomor,” a combination of the Ukrainian words for hunger (holod) and extermination (mor).

At least 5 million people died from starvation in the Soviet Union between 1931 and 1934—including 3.9 million Ukrainians. And, despite the contentions of certain historians of the Soviet Union, Applebaum argues that these deaths were no accident. As she notes at the beginning of the book, “The Soviet Union’s disastrous decision to force peasants to give up their land and join collective farms; the eviction of “kulaks,” the wealthier peasants, from their homes; the chaos that followed”—these policies were “all ultimately the responsibility of Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.”

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