Occult Invasion

Instead of building a solid basis for peace, science has brought us to the brink of destruction, with a nuclear sword of Damocles hanging by a hair over our heads and ecological collapse threatening vast areas of our planet. Moreover, scientific materialism has utterly failed to answer the ultimate questions we face and to quench our insatiable thirst for a satisfying purpose and meaning to life.Many people who call themselves Christians are drawn into the occult because it acknowledges the reality of the soul and spirit and can even sound biblical in doing so. This apparent agreement with the Bible is a deliberate setup by Satan in order to lead simple souls into deeper deception.Throughout history and in all cultures, mankind has held a common and unshakable conviction that a nonphysical realm inhabited by spirit beings does indeed exist.It should be of more than passing interest to everyone that Jesus Christ and the prophets and apostles, whose words are recorded in the Bible, predicted the burgeoning interest in generic spirituality which we are experiencing today. As we shall see, they foretold a time of unprecedented interest in the mysterious and apparently miraculous. Yet they warned that these last days signs and wonders would be a great delusion that would prepare the world and a false church for Antichrist.The fact that Christ and His apostles accurately pinpointed more than 1900 years ago precisely what we are seeing today ought to pique our interest in what else they said and why. We will examine these prophecies and seek to understand them in the context of todays highly touted spiritual awakening that is occurring simultaneously inside and outside the church. Could there be a connection?There can be no question that we are seeing a dramatic move of some spirit; but what spirit? The secular world is seeking not only political and military power but spiritual or psychic power. Sadly, the same could be said of much of the evangelical church. Certainly, if biblical prophecies of a coming world government and world religion are to be realized under Antichrist, then the world and the church must come together once again, as happened in the days of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Could the common pursuit of spiritual power bring this about? Is that what we are seeing at this critical moment in history?Biblical prophets and Jesus Christ Himself warned of a great spiritual delusion and occult seduction in a period of time called the last days just prior to Christs return. The warnings concerned false prophets who would perform great signs and wonders that would be so convincing that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect (Matthew 2424). Paul also warned of a false signs and wonders movement in the last days (2 Timothy 38).Today a growing signs and wonders movement in the Christian church is literally exploding and is involving not only charismatics and Pentecostals but even evangelicals who only a few years ago were opposed to what they would have characterized at that time as fraud. Today, in spite of the warnings by both Jesus and Paul, there is scarcely any thought that todays signs and wonders might be part of the very spiritual deception which the Bible foretells.We are also seeing as a part of the signs and wonders movement a burgeoning church growth movement, a prayer and fasting for revival movement and a spiritual warfare movement, all working toward the same goal. Few are those who dare to see any connection between these movements within the church and the false signs and wonders which the Bible prophesies for the lastdays apostate church. Significantly, nowhere in the Bible do we find a good or legitimate signs and wonders movement prophesied for the last days, nor even a hint that it would be needed or helpful.Those who call themselves Christians are just as reluctant to admit the possibility of any satanic involvement in their miracles as the secular world is to admit the possibility of such