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Chairman's Message: The Devil's Alphabet

27 May 2014

The Devil's Alphabet

by Rev. Eu Hong Seng - NECF Malaysia Chairman

 

IN 1978, I got hold of a book by Kurt Koch, The Devil's Alphabet in which the writer detailed practically every trick, scheme and wile of the evil one.

Today, the devil is hardly asleep and has even made progress. He has built up his arsenal with more novel weapons of wickedness, evil and deception.

The Church, meanwhile, is not alert, having forgotten the warning of the apostle Paul about deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, and some departing from the faith in the latter times.1

Since the days of Peter Wagner during the early charismatic revival, the awareness and excitement over spiritual warfare has undeniably waned. Indeed tares have been sown amongst wheat, whilst good men slept.2 The giant is lethargic with sleep. Far too many today are like the disciples at the Garden of Gethsemane the night Jesus was betrayed. Let us not be deluded to think that the Church could possibly be a giant, whilst the devil gloats in the fact that she is asleep.

The Malaysian Church needs to be awakened to the ongoing intensifying spiritual warfare in our land.

The devil's top four favorite weapons are:-

  1. Division and disunity. We may yet witness the biggest scandal when members of the Body attack and maul each other before a fallen world;
  2. Falsehood, deception and blatant lies. In the last days, he will move in lying wonders3, there will be false apostles and deceitful workers4, deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons5. These are becoming more evident both in the West and in our nation;
  3. Pornography and every form of uncleanness will be practised. No doubt countless will be "led away by various lusts6" and many of our potential Josephs, Daniels and Davids would have committed adultery a hundred times over before they hit their teenage prime because of the free flow of filth on the Internet. Our next generation of successors are being despoiled and surely disqualified before they can even stand behind the pulpit;
  4. Spiritism, vampirism, the emerging spirit of Jezebel and practically every unclean spirit. Interestingly, the infamous Raja Bomoh was busy performing rituals to cleanse the highway after the late MP Karpal Singh's fatal accident. It is not uncommon to hear of spiritists being invited to do their bit in commercial offices where there are jealousies, marital infidelity and the like. Some politicians reportedly have special rooms with altars set up to keep and honour spirits of the underworld.

 

The Church must wage warfare against principalities once again, return to the Word, and re-learn worship; for in His presence darkness will have to flee. For those already overtaken by sin and demonic influences, the Church needs to do the work of restoring7.

Incidentally, Kurt Koch in his book did not have a demon for the letter "z". The last book of the Bible, Revelation, forewarns in the last of the last days when the Pit is opened, every demonic spirit will be unleashed to accompany the Beast from the bottomless pit.8 I suppose one could say every demonic spirit from his "zoo" will then come forth to complete his alphabet.

Believe me, it will hardly be a tasty alphabet soup.

 


1 1 Tim4:1
2 Matt 13:24ff
3 2 Thess 2:9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders
4 2 Cor 11:13
5 1 Tim 4:1
6 2 Tim 3:6
7 Gal 6:1ff
8 Rev 9:2,3,11.

 



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