The End Time Church: From the Cathedrals to the Catacombs

By Dan L. White

Copyright 2021 by Dan L. White, all rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (WEB) which is in the public domain.

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Chapter 95

The Master Deceiver at Work

Heylel-Satan is certainly clever, but the Enemy’s first attack on Yeshua was not rocket science.

Matt 4
1) Then Yeshua was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2) When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

How do you attack someone who’s fasting?

You go for the belly.

As when the Arabs attacked Israel in 1973.

History.com
On October 6, 1973, hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, in 1967, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Taking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise, Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula…

…[M]any of Israel’s soldiers were away from their posts observing Yom Kippur (or Day of Atonement), and the Arab armies made impressive advances with their up-to-date Soviet weaponry.

That biased article omitted the very, very relevant fact that Israelis were fasting, and the Arab armies purposely chose that fast day for their attack.

The Arabs just followed Satan’s example. The devil attacked Yeshua when he was fasting, not just for one day but fasting for forty days.

Again this is not rocket science. Satan did the obvious. The devil tempted Yeshua with food.

Matt 4
3) The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

Satan used the same technique that was so successful with Eve – the doubting query.

With Eve – “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”

With Yeshua – “If you are the Son of God…”

When Satan queried Eve, the devil implied that God lied. And with Yeshua, the query implied that the Messiah lied. Are you really the Son of God?

Actually Satan lied.

Matt 8:28-29 (WEB)
28) When he [Yeshua] came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.
29) Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Yeshua, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Those demons knew who Yeshua was. If they knew it, then their master knew it. So Satan lied when she acted like she didn’t know that Yeshua was the Son of God.

This is the one biggest factor between the followers of Christ and the followers of Satan. The followers of Satan deny that Yeshua is the Son of God.

The disciples knew He was the Son of God.

Matt 14:25-33 (WEB)
25) In the fourth watch of the night, Yeshua came to them, walking on the sea.
26) When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It’s a ghost!” and they cried out for fear.
27) But immediately Yeshua spoke to them, saying “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”
28) Peter answered him and said, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters.”
29) He said, “Come!” Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Yeshua.
30) But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”
31) Immediately Yeshua stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
32) When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.
33) Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”

Peter knew He was the Son of God.

Matt 16:13-16 (WEB)
13) Now when Yeshua came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
14) They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”
15) He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
16) Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ [Messiah], the Son of the living God.”

John the baptizer knew.

John 1:34 (WEB)
34) I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

Martha knew.

John 11:25-27 (WEB)
25) Yeshua said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
26) Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
27) She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

And when Paul learned about the Son of God, he immediately preached it.

Acts 9:19-20 (WEB)
19) He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.
20) Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

All those knew and acknowledged Yeshua as the Son of God.

On the other hand –

Or more correctly stated, in the other spirit –

The head waggers did not accept that Yeshua was the Son of God.

Matt 27:39-43 (WEB)
39) Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
40) and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
41) Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said,
42) “He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.
43) He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

The high priest did not accept that Yeshua was the Son of God.

Matt 26:63-66 (WEB)
63) But Yeshua held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”
64) Yeshua said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”
65) Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
66) What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”

Even some of those who first followed Christ did not accept the Son of God.

John 6:64-69 (WEB)
64) “But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Yeshua knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.
65) He said, “For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”
66) At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67) Yeshua said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”
68) Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
69) We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

The difference between the disciples who left and those who stayed was whether or not they believed in Yeshua the Son of God.

To not acknowledge Yeshua as the Son of God is to follow Satan.

Luke 12:8-9 (WEB)
8) “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
9) but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.

John 3:16-18 (WEB)
16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
17) For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
18) He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

In the resurrection, there is no middle ground. When the dead hear the Son of God’s voice, the difference between life and judgment is whether or not they believe in the Son of God.

John 5:25-29 (WEB)
25) Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
26) For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
27) He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
28) Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
29) and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

Again, those who follow Yeshua know that He is the Son of God. Those who follow Satan don’t acknowledge that.

That’s why government schools are Satan’s schools. They don’t teach that Yeshua is the Son of God, and they’re right in Satan’s camp. Public schools are not neutral. They oppose the Son of G