Sporting With The Devil

Think not that Satan fights the Lord alone,
Or by a few small groups of twos and threes;
He directs millions from his would-be throne,
Sufficient to cause all brutalities!
The strongest souls from God Satan can wrest;
Let not your guard flag for the briefest time,
Lest you from heaven's host be quickly pressed,
To join the sad plodders into hell's clime!
Great demon princes command dominions,
Each with occupants of earth's highest places;
Archangels and angels his glad minions,
Snatch the wayward, when new sin embraces!
Many risk their souls, with Satan to sport,
Yet he can take with ease the strongest fort!

Satan is capable of bringing fire down from heaven, assuming the forms of men, angels, and animals, perfoming miracles and signs of all magical sorts, and he's the most deceptive of enemies. He has plenty of help, too, because a third of all the angels fought and fell with him from heaven, and each of them possesses supernatural powers, and he is capable of imparting more of his power to them. The book of Revelation in Chapter 13 tells how he is going to lend power to the "beast from the ocean" in the last times. Even so, many human beings do not believe even that he exists, and they are prone to risking their souls and futures to associate with him in various worldy pursuits that ensnare them, for his traps are set in every place on earth.

"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, for you know your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of suffering." (1 Peter 5:8-9)

The devil does not actually eat people; he traps them into loving things of the world: sex, strong drink, drugs, gambling, lack of self-responsibility, lack of will power, indebtedness, profanity, etc. Not real? He is as real as jail and a thousand times worse. Through his leadership America has strayed far from its roots. The founding fathers were nearly all Christians, and they designed the nation according to Godly principles. We have reached the point where our new president is telling the world this is not a Christian nation, rekindling rumors that he is a "closet" Muslim. For the first time ever, he removed the presidential endorsement of National Prayer Day, evidently casting doubt that God even exists, or that if He does, He would not help us with our problems. And God might not; we have so misused Him with abortion, same-sex marriage, and other violations of His commandments that He might have His finger on the trigger of the asteroid collision that is going to destroy us.

If any nation needs God's help, it is ours.