Be Alert to Satan's Perversion of Scripture

Christ Triumphant - A Devotional by E.G. White

Be Alert to Satan's Perversion of Scripture

Today's Text: The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him. Psalm 37:39, 40

The Message:      The wilderness temptation Christ endured was a personal conflict with the wicked one who had shown himself to be the author of sin. Satan was once a covering cherub in the heavenly courts, the angel next in power to Christ Himself. But he lifted himself up against God and induced some of the angels to join him in rebellion. There was war in heaven, and Satan and his followers were cast out. Expelled from heaven, Satan determined to set up a kingdom on this earth and win the human race to his side. But Christ pledged His word that if humans were overcome by temptation, He, the Son of God, would be their surety.      Christ came to our world to stand where Adam stood, to endure the temptations Adam failed to endure.... After His baptism, He went forth to the wilderness, and there He was tempted by the enemy. For forty days and forty nights He fasted; then, when He was an hungered, Satan came to Him as though he were a messenger from the heavenly courts, and tempted Him....      The enemy knew well the power of God's word. He knew that this word had supplied bread for the Israelites in their journeyings through the wilderness, and that the same word could now supply the necessities of Christ. But this was not God's plan. He designed that Christ should be treated as human beings are treated. He was not to exercise miraculous power in His own behalf, for if He did, Satan would say that His test had not been a fair one, because He had made use of supernatural power; and that He could not require human beings to keep all His requirements if the effort to keep them would destroy life....      Satan desired Christ to make Himself guilty of the sin of presumption by needlessly exposing His life. He did not repeat the whole of the quotation, but left out the words "in all thy ways," that is, in the path of duty. If Christ had presumed on God's mercy by risking His life to give Satan evidence of His Messiahship, He would not have been in the path of duty.      All should become familiar with God's Word, because Satan perverts and misquotes Scripture, and people follow his example by presenting part of God's Word to those whom they wish to lead in false paths, withholding the part that would spoil their plans.-Manuscript 153, 1899.

Commentary: My friend, it is imperative that we study the Scriptures that we may know the truth.  Jesus said "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6), and yet the doctrine of the trinity teaches that the Holy Spirit is a separate being from the Father and the Son, and it is he that intercedes in behalf of man.  Satan has artfully misapplied Scripture to deceive the whole of the Christian world to believe a lie.  The false doctrine of the trinity teaches that God is a triune god, made up of three co-equal, co-eternal beings called God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, while the Scriptures testify "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him." (1 Corinthians 8:6). Many are deceived by this perversion of Scripture and are lead to worship an altogether different god from the one that is revealed in Scripture.  In John 17:3 Jesus, praying to His Father, prayed "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."  The Father is the only true God and Jesus Christ is His Son, and as such is divine.  His power and authority comes from the fact that He is the Son of God, but the trinity teaches that His divinity comes from the fact that He is God unto Himself and as such has always existed.  This is in contradiction of the plain testimony of the Father saying "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:17). The trinity teaches that the Father and the Son are co-eternal, meaning that they both have always existed.  But in order for this to be true then the Son cannot truly be a son, and the Father cannot truly be a father.  For this to be literally true then the Son must have a beginning, therefore the trinity teaches that the father-son relationship is only a metaphor, meaning, not real.  This goes against everything that the gospel teaches.  Numbers 23:19 says "God is not a man, that he should lie;", and in Hebrews 6:18 it says "That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie". The spirit of the trinity is the spirit of antichrist.  1 John 2:22, 23 says "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."  1 John 5:9, 10 says "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son." The Seventh-day Adventist church has accepted the trinity as god since 1980.  Our early pioneers and the prophet of God did not believe in the trinity and yet here we are today worshiping an altogether different god than the One true God of the Bible.  God is a jealous God and will not accept this perverted form of worship.  The trinity is a man made doctrine and as such cannot save us.  Jesus said in Matthew 15:9 "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." My friend, it is high time that we wakeup to the deception that has been played upon us.  Heed the testimony of Jesus when He prayed "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3). May you look away from the trinity and unto the Only true God and His Son Jesus Christ today. God bless,

Video of the Week The Jealous God - Allen Stump This presentation reveals that God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is a jealous God. "The close and sacred relation of God to His people is represented under the figure of marriage. Idolatry being spiritual adultery, the displeasure of God against it is fitly called jealousy" (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 306). In this study we see how the Bible reveals that God will not accept false worship.