Satan’s lie, you will not surely die is repeated every October 31st, in the celebration of the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (sow-in). Today we call it Halloween. Samhain (sow-in) is a pagan religious festival that celebrates the time between October 31 and November 1. The Celtics believed that the barrier between the dead and the living is broken down, allowing the dead to interact and interact speak with the living. This idea of the living interacting with the dead keeps Satan’s lie going. His lie has even been successfully infused into Christianity. How did this happen? (https://www.albany.edu/~dp1252/isp523/halloween.html)
This new series addresses an age-old concern that we all have: the concern for sin, evil, death, and what happens after we die. Is there hope after death? When God created us, humans, he intended for us to live forever in a loving relationship with him. But this relationship has been broken by sin.
Here, we address the origin of sin, and we look more closely at death and dying.
But, instead of looking at death in a negative way, we look at it in the context of hope, the promised hope based on what Jesus did for us when he died and came back to life again.
From the Sabbath School Adult Bible Study Guide 2022 Quarter 4: Sabbath.School
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Holy Father, some things we do out of tradition, not knowing any better. But as we learn, give us the heart to follow you rather than traditions. In Jesus Name Amen.
Satan’s lie is found in Genesis 3:4 in his debate with Eve about what God said regarding eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. (Genesis 3:4)
This same lie has been repeated down through the ages, in traditions such as Halloween.
Though pagan, Halloween was modified and adopted into the Christian Church to accommodate the Celtics people who converted to Christianity. It perpetuates Satan’s lie that you will not surely die.
In this lie is the belief that the spirit never dies. This false teaching is based on many ancient religions and philosophies. This is evident in ancient Egypt with the mummification practices and the funereal architecture of the pyramids.
This false idea about the spirit also became an important Greek philosophy found in the book The Republic of Plato, in which
Socrates asks: “Don’t you know that our soul lives forever and never dies?” In Plato’s book Phaedo, Socrates
Argues that: “the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls really will exist in Hades.”
These philosophical concepts would shape much of the Western culture and even post-Apostolic Christianity. But these concepts did not really originate from them.
They originated much earlier, in the Garden of Eden, with Satan himself. They have been perpetrated down through the age and the Christians in Europe accepted these false ideas. But these teachings come from the Master Mind, Satan, himself. He started this lie in the Garden of Eden.
When he told Eve, “You will not surely die” (Genesis 3:4).
With this strong claim, Satan made his own
words supersede the Word of God.
In contrast to the immortality of the soul, the following Bible verses teach that our spirit does not live forever. When we die our spirit ceases to exist. Hence, the dead cannot communicate with the living.
Psalms 115:17 (the dead do not speak, the dead to not communicate or interact with the living as some may think)
17 The dead do not praise the Lord, Nor any who go down into silence. (Psalms 115:17)
John 5:28-29 (the dead remains in the grave until Jesus returns)
28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice
29 and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. (John 5:28-29)
Psalms 146:4 (upon death any previous plans cannot be carried out by the dead)
4 His spirit departs; he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish. (Psalms 146:4)
I Corinthians 15:51-58 (the dead only come back to life again when Jesus comes. Immortality occurs at that time only for those who have accepted Jesus)
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (I Corinthians 15:51-58)
Everywhere we look, we see Satan’s lie that the spirit lives forever and doesn’t die. It even exists in our modern world. It is seen in books, movies, and TV programs. We see the dead perpetrated as ghosts or disembodied spirits. They all continue to teach this lie that Satan told Eve back in the Garden of Eden. “You will not surely die”.
These mediums teach that when we die, we simply pass from one conscious state to another conscious state. Many are under the assumption that when our bodies die, our spirits continue to live.
Sadly, this lie orchestrated by Satan, out of traditions is being taught in many Christian churches today.
Taking it a step further, science has gotten involved with extending Satan’s lie.
Did you know that there is a foundation in the United States trying to create technology that, it claims, will give us the ability to contact the dead? They are under the assumption that the dead are still alive but exist as PMPs, “post material persons.”
This false idea is everywhere. With this lie so prevalent, it comes as no surprise that this deception will play a crucial role in the final events of human history.
It says in the book Patriarchs and Prophets: Modern spiritualism and the forms of ancient witchcraft and idol worship—all having communion with the dead as their vital principle—are founded upon that first lie by which Satan beguiled Eve in Eden: “Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, . . . ye shall be as gods.” Genesis 3:4, 5. Alike based upon falsehood and perpetuating the same, they are alike from the father of lies. . . .
The “familiar spirits” were not the spirits of the dead, but evil angels, the messengers of Satan. Ancient idolatry, which, as we have seen, comprises both worship of the dead and pretended communion with them, is declared by the Bible to have been demon worship. . . .
Modern spiritualism, resting upon the same foundation, is but a revival in a new form of the witchcraft and demon worship that God condemned and prohibited of old. . . .
. . . God has in His word opened before us the great events of the future—all that it is essential for us to know—and He has given us a safe guide for our feet amid all its perils; but it is Satan’s purpose to destroy men’s confidence in God, to make them dissatisfied with their condition in life, and to lead them to seek knowledge of what God has wisely veiled from them, and to despise what He has revealed in His Holy Word.—Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 685, 686.
Think about it: how have you seen this lie perpetuated in the life you see around you? This is why it is so important that we not rely on our senses for what we see, hear, smell, taste or even touch in these last days of Earth’s History when it contradicts what God says. This was Eve’s mistake, she relied on her senses and reasoning rather than on what God said. Thus, we must instead trust and rely on what is written in the word of God. The Bible.
Satan’s lies can get us in deep trouble. Captivated by his speech Eve yields to his temptation. Little did she realize how far-reaching her act of disobedience and disloyalty to God would be. Sin has consequences. What are they? Find out in Day 5: The Consequence of Sin
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