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 98

Overcoming

When the game is on the line, the big hitter steps up to the plate.

So Satan-Heylel made two personal appearances, first against Eve and then against Yeshua. The devil struck out against Yeshua, but hit a home run against Eve.

Satan will also tempt all who try to follow Christ. When the big hitter comes after you, will the devil strike out or hit a home run? Will you overcome Satan, as Yeshua did? Or will you be overcome, as Eve was?

Will you be an overcomer?

After Satan got Eve and Adam to join the rebellion against Yahweh, human kings ruled Satan’s world. They gained rule by force, they maintained rule by force, they controlled lives by force. That is Satan’s way. Satan rules by force. God rules by spirit.

Like Satan, all those kings, chiefs, emperors, Caesars, sheikhs, khans, etc. wanted to be number one. Because of that, many people died fighting to keep those number-ones number one. War and killing have prevailed on the earth since Cain killed Abel. Humanity hates war because people just don’t like getting killed, but humanity as a whole has never been able to stop war. The farther time goes on, the worse wars get. Just as any one individual is doomed to die, so warring humanity as a whole is doomed to destruction. If left to itself, humanity will destroy itself because of its own spirit.

But most people don’t believe that. Even after six millennia of non-stop war – six thousand years of brutal killing! – people still believe they can save themselves from themselves. “Progressives” don’t think the human race is regressing toward oblivion, but is somehow progressing. After all, people have flown to the moon.

This is one of the great proofs of God. We are as He says we are. And if a bunch of “progressive” people wound up on the moon together, what would they do? They would fight. Just as we had World War I and World War II, there would be Moon War I.

Moon War II would come later.

When most people think the human race is progressing instead of regressing, that is massive self-deception.

(Jer 17:9 [WEB])
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Who does the deceitful heart deceive?

The one who has the heart.

And who can know it?

If you know that you’re not deceiving yourself, you’re probably deceiving yourself.

Satan has deceived the whole world. People also deceive themselves. So when Satan tries to deceive people, they’re sitting ducks.

What makes people even more vulnerable to Satan’s deceptions is the fact that people have the same spirit as Satan –

Enmity to God.

(Rom 8:7 [WEB])
because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

The name Satan means adversary or enemy. The King James Version in Romans 8:7 says that the “carnal mind is enmity against God.” So the natural human mind is enmity to God, and Satan is God’s enemy. People have the same spirit as Satan, God’s adversaries.

People don’t believe they have the same spirit as Satan. But Satan certainly believes it.

For example, when Satan attacked Job, the devil assumed that Job would react just as Satan would react.

Job 1:8-11 (WEB)
8) Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
9) Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
10) Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
11) But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Satan expected Job to be looking out for number one – himself. And when Job got blasted instead of blessed, Satan expected Job to attack God.

Job didn’t.

Satan couldn’t believe it.

Job 2:3-5 (WEB)
3) Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
4) Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
5) But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

When Job lost his wealth and family, he didn’t do what Satan expected. So Satan said take away his personal health, and he will be just like me.

But Job was “blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.” Job was not perfect, but he was not God’s enemy.

However, most people with a carnal or natural mind are God’s enemies, with the same spirit of lawlessness as Satan, just naturally doing wrong and thinking it’s right.

Prov 4:19 (WEB)
19) The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

This is fascinating to consider. All those people in all those six thousand years of war, you’d think they would say – “Hey, why don’t we all just stop killing each other?”

But they never have.

And now their weapons are worse than ever and they can kill better than they ever have. It’s like they’re in perpetual darkness, never stopping war, yet always thinking they can. “They don’t know what they stumble over.”

How about human “science?” Science is considered the ultimate advance in human progression. What does science believe?

Science believes that life came from non-life. They don’t know when, they don’t know how, they don’t know why. No one has ever seen life come from non-life, though they have searched diligently. No one has ever been able to create life from non-life, though they have tried desperately. Their science is said to be based on observable, repeatable actions, yet they believe something that has never been observed and cannot be replicated. Human science is a blaring, glaring contradiction of itself and is an epitomical deception, because –

All scientists are just people, and all scientists have Jeremiah 17:9 hearts.

Jer 13:16 (WEB)
16) Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

But there is a way out of human darkness.

Isa 9:2-7 (WEB)
2) The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

6) For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7) Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

By overcoming Satan, Yeshua the Messiah gave humanity a way out of darkness and death. Yeshua had a different spirit than Satan, a lawful, loving spirit that overcame the lawless, self-loving spirit of the devil.

“Get behind me, Satan!!!”

Against Satan, by yourself you’re a sitting duck. Satan deceives you and you deceive yourself. Good luck with that.

Each individual who comes out of the darkness of death must use the spirit of Christ – the overcomer – to overcome the spirit of Satan and of human nature. There is no other way. Humans can be self-serving but they can never be self-saving. And just as the Messiah had to face temptation, deception and false religion, so each of us has to overcome Satan-Heylel, the great deceiver.

Of and by ourselves, we cannot do that. Since we start with the same lawless spirit as Satan, relying on ourselves to overcome Satan is like –

Relying on Satan to overcome Satan.

That won’t work.

Yeshua emptied Himself of being God.

Phil 2:5-7 (WEB)
5) Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Yeshua,
6) who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7) but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Individuals who become Christ’s disciples must empty themselves of being like Satan.

In this life, we must grow from being like Satan to being like Yeshua.

Just before Satan entered Judas to betray Yeshua, the Messiah said:

John 14:30 (WEB)
30) I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

John 16:32-33 (WEB)
32) Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will