I've been thinking about how cult leaders succeed.
I now know.
Because I thought about the supreme ultimate cult leader and the supreme ultimate cult:
Satan and the demons--and every human who follows Satan and demons.
Jesus said that Satan is the Father of Lies, that lying is Satan's native tongue.
What is "the lie?"
Worship the creation (Satan) instead of the Creator.
That. Is. The. Lie.
And within this lie is the cult lie:
Without the Creator, the creature can make creation heaven.
That is what every single cult is trying to do,
and what every single cult leader promises.
Satan began this. He promised it first. Now really think about this.
If Satan, in heaven, can convince angels to follow him out of heaven...
If Satan can enter Eden, which was the literal paradise on earth, the literal heaven on earth and convince the first man and woman to follow him instead of the Creator of Eden...
Then how can any human attempt to recreate Eden and stand a chance against Satan?
In other words, how could Jim Jones promise Eden in Guyana and Satan not enter it and take over?
Heaven and Eden were far better than anything they had in Jonestown.
Yet Satan succeeded--in heaven, in Eden, in Jonestown, in every human attempt at Utopia--because Utopia is heaven without God.
Any and every "heaven" without God is hell.
Satan will ultimately "succeed" before the end comes.
Yes. Paul said that Satan, through the Antichrist, will rule the world, and the world will worship him.
Satan will for a short time get what he has wanted from the very beginning--to be worshipped as God.
This will happen.
In every cult, it does happen.
And every cult ends the same--with the death of the followers, and with the cult leader taking the cult down with him.
Isn't this what Satan is planning?
The scriptures state plainly that Satan knows his time is short.
Satan knows his destiny is the lake of fire. So he wants to go down ruling.
He knows he is going down. And out of complete spite, he is going to take as many down with him.
Will you be one of them?
Don't misunderstand.
When I speak of Satan "succeeding," I only mean that God will let him--and you and I--ultimately have what we want. We "defeat" God by not yielding. By our freewill we "win." If you can even call it winning. It means that if you really want God to leave you alone--he will.
Or put this another way.
When Jesus says, "Everyone who seeks finds," He means everyone, and He means whatever anyone or everyone seeks, they will eventually find it--whatever it is.
If someone seeks God, they will find Him.
If someone seeks Satan, they will also find him.
If someone seeks the true heaven--God's heaven, they will find it.
If someone seeks the false heaven--Satan's heaven, the human heaven, they will find it.
It's up to you and me.
We are all one step away from being in the ultimate cult, and in believing the cult lie.
