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Mark Finley

You’re Being Conditioned for a Lie

Have you noticed that there is an unusual interest in unidentified flying objects, aliens and beings from outer space today?

There have been congressional hearings on this whole UFO phenomena.

There have been Hollywood productions made about it, books written about it, newspaper reports about it, and a variety of other public announcements about supposed contact and visual sightings of UFOs.

In fact, a recent News Nation investigation that was publicized had 1.6 million views in just 3 days.

Why all this interest in psychic phenomena?

Why all this interest in unidentified flying objects and beings from outer space?

Could it be that there is a sinister plot behind all this?

Could it be that Satan is conditioning the minds of people for an almost overwhelming surprise of deception?

The Bible's last book, Revelation, reveals the plans of God and unmasks the plans of Satan.

The book of Revelation lets us know where we are in the stream of time.

It clearly predicts Satan's last strategy to deceive mankind.

In this presentation, I'm going to present vital truths that will help you to keep from being deceived.

This is a presentation that will enable you to understand what's coming in the future and it will enable you to know how to prepare for what's coming.

The book of Revelation predicts that in the last days there will be a political, religious, and economic union to unite the world in an attempt to enforce what is known as the Mark of the Beast.

The devil is mentioned in a variety of ways in the Bible.

He's called Satan, Lucifer, the devil, but the devil always works through human organizations.

In the last days of first history, the Bible talks about the beast power, the antichrist power.

It talks about Babylon, the mother of harlots.

Those are all terms indicating how the devil is going to work through human power as a human conglomerate, religious, political, economic union in the last days.

And as the devil works through that conglomerate, he will enforce an economic decree where nobody can buy or sell.

But what is it that unites all these forces?

How does the devil get political powers and economic powers and false apostate religious powers?

How does he get them united at a time of chaos, at a time of conflict, at a time of political unrest, at a time of natural disasters, at a time of instability or instability in all society.

In a time like that, the devil works through spiritualism, he works through science, he works through wonders, he works through psychic phenomena, he works through unusual phenomena.

Maybe, maybe, just maybe UFOs, unidentified flying objects, are playing into a larger picture of conditioning people that we're not alone in the universe.

The Bible says in Ephesians chapter 6, We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and evil powers.

In Ephesians 2, verse 2, the Bible talks about the prince of the power of the air.

Something unusual is happening in our society, and it's part of a divine plan where the devil is preparing, through spiritualism, for his final delusions.

We're looking there at Revelation chapter 13 and notice in verse 13, He, that is the Antichrist, that is the devil working through the Antichrist, he performs great signs so that he makes fire come down from heaven on earth in the sight of men.

We don't fully understand what all that means, but we do know that the devil is going to work with great signs in the last days of earth's history.

What is it that unites the kings of the earth, the political powers, with the false religious powers that draws them into earth's final battle, the battle between good and evil, Christ and Satan, at the culmination of the great controversy.

Revelation chapter 16, And we look there at Revelation chapter 16 and verse 14.

Performing signs that his wonders are miracles, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of the great day of God almighty.

So here you have a prediction that what will unite the political religious powers of the world, what's going to unite them is false miracles, false signs, false wonders.

What's going to unite them is the spiritualistic working power of Satan to bring these forces together.

Now it is quite amazing that a 19th century bridging over to the 20th century prophet by the name of Ellen White, harmonized with what Revelation says.

It is quite remarkable to sense that Ellen White's predictions and the Revelation's predictions go hand in hand.

Ellen White emphasized that spiritualism would transcend traditional boundaries, appealing to both the religious and non-religious.

It'll be used by Satan as a major tool to deceive people exactly like Revelation says.

Let me read you a couple of these prophecies.

This is from a book called The Great Controversy, page 589.

Through spiritualism, Satan appears as a benefactor of the race, healing the diseases of the people and professing to present a new and more exalted system of religious faith.

But at the same time, he works as a destroyer.

Through spiritualism, exactly what Revelation says, Satan will work as a benefactor to benefit the race.

Next statement, Greek Controversy, page 588.

The line of distinction between professed Christians and the ungodly is now hardly distinguishable.

Church members love what the world loves and are ready to join them.

And Satan determines to unite them in 1 body and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of spiritualism.

So at a time of natural disaster, at a time of economic challenge for society, economies collapse, at a time of war, strife, and conflict, what will the devil do?

Through spiritualism he'll try to sweep the whole world into 1 body under the beast power, the Antichrist power, under what the Bible calls spiritual Babylon.

Great Controversy 588 continuing to read.

Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power.

And they will see in this union, that's the false religious movement, a grand movement for the conversion of the world in the ushering in of the long expected millennium.

Now notice, the statement indicates, as does the book of Revelation, that the purpose of the devil will be to unite the world through spiritualism under the umbrella that he's bringing in world peace.

Now the economic powers will join this as well.

Notice Revelation chapter 18 verses Revelation 18.

And we're going to look at a couple verses in Revelation 18.

We're going to start with Revelation 18 verse 20, Revelation the 18th chapter, and notice it says, Rejoice over her, O heaven and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her, that is God will judge Babylon.

Then the scripture goes on to say, then a mighty angel took up a stone, verse 21, like a great millstone, threw it into the sea, saying, thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down.

Verse 23, the light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore.

And the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall not be heard in you anymore.

For your merchants, now notice that's the economic powers, were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery, that's through spiritualism, all the nations were deceived and in her was found the blood of prophets and saints and of all who were slain on the earth.

So the Bible predicts that through spiritualism, church, state, economic powers will unite at a time of crisis.

Those who don't go along would suffer imprisonment, economic boycott, and eventually death.

But what I want you to see in this program is that which unites them is spiritualism.

And they're united through false miracles.

1 of the most amazing prophecies on all this comes from the Apostle Paul in the book of Thessalonians in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 beginning with verse 9.

I read 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 9, the coming of the lawless 1, that's the Antichrist power, is according to the working of Satan with all power, signs, and lying wonders.

We have seen Satan work before, but now he's going to work with what?

Signs, lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception.

Could it be that all this emphasis in Hollywood on the supernatural, all this emphasis on books that are currently being written to captivate the mind of our children, like the Harry Potter series.

Could it be that this is all part of a mind conditioning?

Could it be that this emphasis on UFOs and unidentified flying objects is all part of a divine scheme to prepare people for the final spiritualistic deception of Satan.

It says, with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth, they might be saved.

And for this reason, God will send them a strong delusion that they should believe a lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Because they did not receive a love of the truth.

They have turned their backs on the clear, powerful teachings of God's word, so they have fallen for spiritualistic delusions.

In the book Great Controversy, page 556, we read, "'The magicians of heathen times have their counterpart in the spiritualistic mediums, the clairvoyance and the fortune tellers of today.

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