TRICK OR TREAT

   In the garden of Eden, Satan tricked Adam and Eve with a treat.  If they would eat fruit from the forbidden tree, the devil said, "ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
   By disobeying God, Adam and Eve became gods in their own minds---and so has every human that has been born to this very day.
   Adam and Eve had never known evil until that time.  Not long thereafter, however, their own son, Cain, murdered his brother, Abel, and human blood was shed in the first family of the universe. 
   Since that day and since that time, man, with this god image of himself, has sought to go his own way and to make his own decisions apart from God.  And man's pursuit of evil has never ended.
   Man has a better way.  Man knows best what is best for man.  Whatever man wants, man should have.
  Without man living to be pleasing to God, man is like a toddler without parents:  running wild without restrictions, no limitations, no discipline, and no restraint from his pursuit of evil.
   As it was with Adam and Eve, so it is with people today:  people are tricked to not believing God, and with their unbelief, they are receiving a treat---even a psychological reward.
   Today, being are being tricked to believe that the New World Order will produce a time of peace and prosperity throughout the world.  This is a lie.  The New World Order plans to kill millions of people worldwide. 
   People are being tricked to believe that a partnership of the United States with Europe will be a good thing.  This is a lie.  Such a partnership will produce a global government.
   People are being tricked to believe that a parnership of the United States with Canada and Mexico to create the North American Union will be a good thing.  This is a lie.  For to do so the people of America will lose the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the American flag.
   For thousands of years, Satan has been tricking men in the creations of religions.  Religions of any kind and of any system of belief.  Whatever suits man, just do it.  Write your own laws, rules, and regulations.  Worship whatever you want to worship.  Believe whatever you want to believe.  And it doesn't matter which religion you choose:  pick one.  Shopping for a religion is like shopping for a new car.  Drive it.  See how it feels.  See how you think of yourself sitting on that pew or bench.
   Satan also tricks people to believing that certain men are holy and that certain water is holy water; and if the holy man baptizes you with holy water your sins are thereby washed away and you are now suitable for heaven.  The treat you receive is psychological:  you now believe that you are holy.  But why is it when these holy men die they remain dead?  Not one of them is ever raised from the dead!  Not one of them ever died for your sins!  Why?  Because they are imposters.  They are pretenders in order to deceive you from believing in God and from believing that only Christ can save you from your sins.
   Satan has an endless supply of tricks and treats.  He has something in his bag for everybody. 
   Satan tricks people to believe that the Holy Bible is no more than a book of myth, legend, and fairy tales.
   Satan tricks people not to believe that Christ will return to earth and that the signs Jesus gave us before His return are nothing more than words on paper.
   As for the future, Satan has been working, as he is working now, to deceive people into believing that the false messiah will actually be Jesus Christ.  And just as many people believe that certain men are holy men, millions of people will believe that the Antichrist is the real Son of God. 
   Have you been tricked by Satan?  And what it is the treat you have received? 
   You have the power to change your present and change your future by placing your faith in Christ.   
   Only Christ can do this for you and only you can make this decision.