Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

you should do . Thus, when our youth went to college and returned, they lacked foundational teaching in order to be a light in the darkness. If the adversary can’t keep you blinded, he will keep you dumb or ignorant—just enough light to keep you from tripping, but just enough ignorance to keep you from total deliverance. If he cannot keep out the light and you become educated in spiritual truth, then he will plan a trap of deception as his third phase strategy. One of the prime examples of deception was years ago when a married bishop of a large congregation engaged in a long term extramarital relationship with a younger woman in his church. The woman told him she thought they were sinning and the adulterous act was wrong. He in return allegedly convinced her that he was an archbishop , and archbishops were of a higher level than a regular bishop and were not under the same biblical mandates as the lesser-ranked bishops; thus she was “ministering” to his “needs.” Throughout church history there has been sexual temptation. However, in this case it went beyond an extreme temptation to deception. In Matthew 24 Christ connects end-time deception to false prophets and false christs who use the name of Christ as an entry point for believers to hear their words but deceive the flock with their false teachings (Matt. 24:11, 24). Christ warned, “Take heed that no one deceives you” (v. 4). Paul warned believers in the church to “let no one deceive you” (Eph. 5:6; 2 Thess. 2:3). The Bible warns that many false