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A Typical Day in the Kingdom of Darkness

THIRD REPORT: Temptation

By Tony Esezobor

Copyright © August 2004 by Tony Esezobor

E-mail: anthonyesezobor@yahoo.co.uk

 

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THIRD REPORT: Temptation

(Satan re-appears at the Council

Meeting, he tries to look

unruffled, but he is betrayed by

his fury).

Satan: You see what I have just experienced

out there? If Temptation doesn't do

his job well, all other Spirits won't

succeed at theirs. An average

Christian is scared of Temptation

and Temptation doesn't even know

it. The more righteous and serious a

Christian is, the more he or she is to

be tempted and tried. Temptation,

you must draw close to those who

draw near to God. I personally

tempted Christ because He was so

loved by God.

Temptation:I have six hundred Chief Spirits

working in my team. I’ll dwell more

on the activities of the Spirits that

make up my inner circle. They’re

the three Spirits in charge of Money,

Women and Pride.

I contend against the Word of God by

myself. You know how sharp the

Word of God can be. All my six

hundred Chiefs have permanent

scars, owing to the sharpness and

cutting edge of the Word of God.

Those Christians do not realise that

the Word that appears to them so

soothing; which they consider good

news, is not only actual sword in the

spirit realm against us, but also bad

news. When they begin to quote it to

our hearing, they remind us of our

hopeless state and pending doom.

They can be so tormenting my lord.

Beyond being sharp as a sword, the

Word of God is very quick. As soon

as it touches the ground and before

you know it, it has germinated.

Once it drops on a man's soul, it

takes root and grows so fast. You’d

need to spend sleepless nights

unearthing the effect of the Word.

I’ve stepped up efforts at dealing

with the Christians who act

promptly as soon as God speaks. It

can be difficult to catch up with them

the way they go. But it is a different

thing with those who do not act

promptly when God speaks to them.

Once there is a delay, we try to make

them disbelieve or forget what they

heard.

Satan: I feel like throwing you into the

furnace of fire before your time.

You idiot. Why do you whine over

your state? No wonder you have

achieved so little over the centuries.

If you could handle Christ properly

immediately after His forty days

fast, I needn't have been involved.

You failed to fell him; that's why I

came in. You were the one who

made me fail because you put the

wrong foot first. That's why we’re

having problems now. Tell me of

your success and take care of your

failures yourself. I want results and

not your tales of woe.

 

Temptation:What I’ve tried to do is to see where

the Word of God is active and

powerful. It can be a very daunting

move. But once I can identify the

Word's thriving areas, I move in to

quell its effects. I have to work

round the clock. Once the sower

gets about sowing the good seed, I

just watch him waste his time and as

soon as he leaves, I move in to uproot

his seed and replace it with mine.

I use two methods. The first and

most frequently used is internal

temptation and the other is external

temptation. A lot of times though, I

employ both methods because they

complement each other. Your

worship, you remember that I

advised you that we should try and

tempt Christ using the internal

temptation method, but you

preferred the external method. You

said that the internal style failed on

Him from the time He started being

accountable for His deeds up until

then. I've since learnt that it is more

effective to tempt people internally.

The major advantage of this is that

most times they don't know they’re

being tempted, so they play along.

This is the reason we’ve had great

success with a number of atheist,

those who don't believe that either

God or Satan exist.

Satan: You can't be exonerated. Didn’t I

use external temptation on the first

woman Eve? I appeared in a bodily

shape to her and spoke to her. Didn’t

it pay off ? I don't have time for this

whispering tempting method you

call internal temptation. However, I

demand results, whatever the

method. How could you expect me

to perform your duties? What

excuses do you now give? Wasn’t

Christ tempted in all things and in

all manner using the internal method

after the first one failed?

Temptation:The internal method has enabled us

to chain men and women who don’t

know or care about the Word of God.

They don't realise that the Word of

God is a light that exposes our wiles,

tricks, and schemings.

Take a look at the Angel of God in

charge of blessings. He has a burden

of blessings meant for Christians

who endure temptations but has not

been able to unload the blessings.

Many Christians cannot endure

temptation. Once I put a little

pressure they give up. When Christ

came out victorious after we

tempted Him, angels came to

minister God's blessings to Him.

That same Angels are laden with

Crowns of Life, which God

promised those who’ll overcome

trials. The reason this is so your

worship, is because we’ve had good

success and we’ve performed our

duties well.

The Christians of today cannot even

stand fiery trials, the like of which

Shadrach and his Hebrew brothers

withstood. It is effective enough to

try them with Money. Many

Christians will throw away their

cloak of Christianity once you entice

them with little money.

As you well know, we have two

categories of humans we tempt.

They’re the Christians and the

Unbelievers. Both categories are

tempted generally and randomly.

For the Christians, I’ve seen and

considered it very effective to attach

or assign spirits to each of them.

There’s no Christian that isn't being

monitored or watched. These types

of Spirits are known as Stumbling

Blocks and Besetting Spirits. If you

want to trap Christians, you must

ensure you watch them carefully and

once they are off-guard, you roll a

stumbling block in their path.

Their duty is to cause the believers to

stumble and to sin. They’ve been

asked to manifest in various ways by

capitalising on their weaknesses.

Once a Christian has anger for

instance as their weakness, a

Stumbling Block and Besetting

Spirit are detailed to ensure that he or

she stumbles, falls and dies

nurturing anger. I’m sure you

remember what we did to Moses.

For some Christians it may be

adultery or fornication. For others it

may even be unforgiveness or the

lack of faith in God.

Satan: Let me see the register of all the

barren women in the world. (He

receives it from Wickedness).

There’s this particular woman that

has been barren for twenty one years.

Why is she still going on strong?

She has prayed more than before in

the last three months. To worsen my

concern, six Angels from God have

visited her twice within the three

months. You’re the head of all

Elementary Spirits. Ensure you

monitor her and let me have a report.

If she conceives, her testimony will

shake the foundation of this

Kingdom because of how celebrated

her barrenness has been. You know

she is very famous. Liaise with

Prayerlessness, Affliction and Doubt

to bring her down. You failed with

Mummy Sarah, Father Abraham's

wife. Even though you did your best

to push her into menopause. It was

really the Spirit of Death that failed

to perform his duties. He should

have killed her before she was

seventy years. And Father Abraham

before he was eighty five years old.

But he failed.

Affliction: (Affliction interjects). I saw two

angels from God, Fruitfulness was

one of them, the one who was in

charge of the Garden of Eden before

the fall of man, although the fall was

really man's emancipation. I saw

him with Prosperity entering the

Church of Redemptive Prayers

(CRP) in Acrifa.

Satan: Which parish. Be specific. You

know those Pests proliferate fast.

Affliction: Yes, Fruitfulness and Prosperity

entered the parish at Marine Close.

My worry is, I hope they haven't

come to visit and to bless any of the

fifty of the eighty two families

attending that branch?

Temptation: I’ve stricken them with Poverty who

is stationed right on their businesses

to drive away prospective

customers. It is also stationed at

their homes to prevent those

Angels from intrusion. I observed

all these as I was inspecting my

regiment last week. Wickedness

must investigate and gather

intelligence on this Church of

Redemptive Prayers.

(Satan turns to wickedness)

Satan: Let’s hear from wickedness now.

 

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