Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

been planned years in advance. We often assume that attacks of our adversary are sudden and perhaps were planned in what I call the war room of hell after Satan’s secret agents reported, “Now is the time to attack.” In reality, the enemy plans his plots for weeks, months, and even years in advance and then waits for the right time, placing the right people in the right circumstances for a person to fall into the snare. The adversary has his own list of your fleshly weaknesses, your previous habits, your spiritually dangerous former friends, and what sin magnet could pull you back into a spiritual prison. The enemy capitalizes on weakness. T HE A KAIROS M OMENTS Consider the example of Christ, who was tempted during forty days by Satan himself. After the temptation was ended, the Bible says that Satan “departed from him for a season” (Luke 4:13, KJV ). This word season in Greek is kairos, and it means a “set time” or an “opportune time.” You see, not all time is an opportune time —the surroundings, people, and places may not at that moment fit the adversary’s plan. In the Greek, if a certain prefix is added to the word kairos , it changes the meaning. If you add eu in the front, it becomes the Greek word eukairos and means to be “happy, pleasing or a pleasurable time.” If, however, you add the prefix a before the word, it becomes akairos and has a negative meaning, “bad times or a bad season . ” 1