Can Satan read our minds? If not, how does He feed our minds with thoughts of temptations?
Can Satan read our minds? If not, how does He feed our minds with thoughts of temptations?
QUESTION 21
Can Satan read our minds? If not, how does he feed our minds with thoughts of temptations?
From the Bible we understand that only God can read the
thoughts of His creatures. He declares:
I know their works and their thoughts. (Isaiah 66:18)
The Psalmist adds:
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man. (Psalm 94:11)
During the time of Noah the world was corrupt. God decided to
put an end to life on earth, and spare only those who would repent.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
Their very thoughts were evil. It was all as an open book before
God. Paul said:
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his
sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes
of him with whom we have to do. (Hebrew 4:13)
The dark chambers of our minds are as an open book in the sight of
the Lord.
The Bible writers mention that all our thoughts, words, actions,
intentions, etc., are all written down in the books of Heaven to be
retrieved at the time of the final judgment. Daniel recorded:
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient
of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and
the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was
like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A
fiery stream issued and came forth from before him:
thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand
times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment
was set, and the books were opened. (Daniel 7:9, 10)
We know not exactly what kind of books they are; but for sure
the holy angels maintain an unerring record-an assignment given
to them by God. Those divine books are very sophisticated, no
doubt. If man can capture a person's action on video camera, why
can't the holy angels capture our thoughts, words, actions, motives,
live on some sophisticated photographic books of Heaven?
ONE MIGHT ASK: Does an all-knowing God need to maintain
any records?
Well, God doesn't need any records for Himself. But God is not
alone in Heaven; angels are living in Heaven too. And sin started
with an angel in Heaven. And God wants to convince all the holy
angels, and also all the other intellectual beings in the universe,
about all the details of sin. Therefore He makes these angels to keep
a record of every individual born in this world for a purpose-not
just for their benefit but for our benefit too.
The redeemed saints, when they get to Heaven at the second
coming of Jesus, will want to know why many of their "good"
friends and loved ones could not make it to Heaven. And these
accurate records will help, because God likes to prove everything in
this great controversy with Satan. Paul wrote:
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord
come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of
darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the
hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
(1 Corinthians 4:5)
Only God can read the thoughts of all his creatures, and the holy
angels who are assigned the task of recording our lives' records are
given the power to do so. Also, some of God's people were given,
on occasions, the power, by the Holy Ghost, to read the thoughts of
the wicked people. Peter was given the power to read the thoughts
of Annanias and Sapphira (See Acts 5:1-11)
The devil and his angels have no power or capacity to read the
human mind. It is a great science of how this great machinery,
called the mind, works. Men are trying their level best to device
instruments to read the human mind. In vain are all these efforts. It
is beyond the reach of man and the devil too.
ONE MIGHT SAY: How do we know that the devil is powerless in
regard to the reading of our minds?
The classic story of Daniel Chapter 2 exposes the instruments
of the devil, and in reality, exposes the devil himself. The magicians,
astrologers and sorcerers are Satan's mediums of communication.
God has nothing to do with these people who perform some
supernatural feats. They get their help from the enemy of God to
perform some tricks. God spoke against them and commanded the
children of Israel not to spare them (See Deuteronomy 18:10-13.)
In this classic story in the book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar
was given a dream from the God of Heaven. He forgot his dream. He
called all the agents of the devil to tell him his dream and the interpretation
of it. They failed. They asked the king to tell the dream and
these liars would make up their own interpretation. (See Daniel
Chapter 2 for the whole story).
God gave Daniel the same dream, and he communicated it to
the King, who was astonished. With this simple dream God
exposed the devil and his agents. Daniel told the king:
As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind
upon thy bed. (Daniel 2:29)
Since the devil could not read the mind of Nebuchadnezzar, a
heathen king, he could not tell the dream to his agents-the magicians,
the astrologers and the sorcerers! Only God can read our
minds.
But we need to realize that though the devil cannot read our
minds, he can feed our minds and then study our minds by the
actions and words that we bring forth. Feeding the mind is not a big
deal. Don't we feed the minds of other people too? When you tell a
child to read a book, are you not feeding his mind with the contents
of the book? When you talk to someone, are you not feeding that
person with some information? Through the sense organs of our
body, the devil feeds our minds with evil and temptations. Once he
feeds us with his stuffs, he observes us carefully and thus he can
know what we could be thinking of. Can't we humans too do the
same? Once you tell someone of some tragic news, can't you guess,
almost accurately, what that person is thinking about?
Satan has been studying carefully the human behavior for the
past six thousand years. He knows, by his very vast experience,
nearly exactly how the human mind functions. Not because he can
read it or scan it, but by feeding and careful observation. Thus he
makes people believe that he too can read our minds! He can almost
tell accurately what we are thinking of by his shrewd methods and
methodologies.
There are times where the devil's calculations do not work, and
he falters. Nebuchadnezzar's dream was just one example. God
registered it directly on Nebuchadnezzar's mind, and Satan had no
clue as to what it was, as there were no external manifestations. It
was an internal communication from God to the human mind.
Once something is fed in the human mind, it gets registered
permanently. The thoughts can flash back anytime. That is the
mechanism of it. It is very complex. But, by the grace of God, we
can push back the evil thoughts and suppress it every time it comes
up. Of course the devil has a part in flashing back the thoughts that
he has fed, by feeding our thoughts frequently.
ONE MIGHT SAY: If the devil can feed our minds he should be
able to read it too!
Not necessarily. Don't we have human devices that work the
same way? For example, we have audio players, and video cassette
players that can only play and not record. Also we have CD ROMs,
which cannot write, but only read. If man can device such methods
can't God just restrict the devil to just feeding our thoughts?
Do not ever think that the devil is all knowing. He has his limitations.
He even could not read the message written by God on the
Babylonian walls! (See Daniel Chapter 5). All his magicians and
his men failed again-not in just reading the human mind-but
even in reading and understanding the plain letters inscribed on the
wall! The devil has his boundaries. When God codes something,
even this "great" fallen angel is clueless.
Praise God for His ways!
QUESTION 21
Can Satan read our minds? If not, how does
he feed our minds with thoughts of temptations?
From the Bible we understand that only God can read the
thoughts of His creatures. He declares:
I know their works and their thoughts. (Isaiah 66:18)
The Psalmist adds:
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man. (Psalm 94:11)
During the time of Noah the world was corrupt. God decided to
put an end to life on earth, and spare only those who would repent.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
Their very thoughts were evil. It was all as an open book before
God. Paul said:
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his
sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes
of him with whom we have to do. (Hebrew 4:13)
The dark chambers of our minds are as an open book in the sight of
the Lord.
The Bible writers mention that all our thoughts, words, actions,
intentions, etc., are all written down in the books of Heaven to be
retrieved at the time of the final judgment. Daniel recorded:
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient
of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and
the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was
like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A
fiery stream issued and came forth from before him:
thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand
times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment
was set, and the books were opened. (Daniel 7:9, 10)
We know not exactly what kind of books they are; but for sure
the holy angels maintain an unerring record-an assignment given
to them by God. Those divine books are very sophisticated, no
doubt. If man can capture a person's action on video camera, why
can't the holy angels capture our thoughts, words, actions, motives,
live on some sophisticated photographic books of Heaven?
ONE MIGHT ASK: Does an all-knowing God need to maintain
any records?
Well, God doesn't need any records for Himself. But God is not
alone in Heaven; angels are living in Heaven too. And sin started
with an angel in Heaven. And God wants to convince all the holy
angels, and also all the other intellectual beings in the universe,
about all the details of sin. Therefore He makes these angels to keep
a record of every individual born in this world for a purpose-not
just for their benefit but for our benefit too.
The redeemed saints, when they get to Heaven at the second
coming of Jesus, will want to know why many of their "good"
friends and loved ones could not make it to Heaven. And these
accurate records will help, because God likes to prove everything in
this great controversy with Satan. Paul wrote:
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord
come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of
darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the
hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
(1 Corinthians 4:5)
Only God can read the thoughts of all his creatures, and the holy
angels who are assigned the task of recording our lives' records are
given the power to do so. Also, some of God's people were given,
on occasions, the power, by the Holy Ghost, to read the thoughts of
the wicked people. Peter was given the power to read the thoughts
of Annanias and Sapphira (See Acts 5:1-11)
The devil and his angels have no power or capacity to read the
human mind. It is a great science of how this great machinery,
called the mind, works. Men are trying their level best to device
instruments to read the human mind. In vain are all these efforts. It
is beyond the reach of man and the devil too.
ONE MIGHT SAY: How do we know that the devil is powerless in
regard to the reading of our minds?
The classic story of Daniel Chapter 2 exposes the instruments
of the devil, and in reality, exposes the devil himself. The magicians,
astrologers and sorcerers are Satan's mediums of communication.
God has nothing to do with these people who perform some
supernatural feats. They get their help from the enemy of God to
perform some tricks. God spoke against them and commanded the
children of Israel not to spare them (See Deuteronomy 18:10-13.)
In this classic story in the book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar
was given a dream from the God of Heaven. He forgot his dream. He
called all the agents of the devil to tell him his dream and the interpretation
of it. They failed. They asked the king to tell the dream and
these liars would make up their own interpretation. (See Daniel
Chapter 2 for the whole story).
God gave Daniel the same dream, and he communicated it to
the King, who was astonished. With this simple dream God
exposed the devil and his agents. Daniel told the king:
As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind
upon thy bed. (Daniel 2:29)
Since the devil could not read the mind of Nebuchadnezzar, a
heathen king, he could not tell the dream to his agents-the magicians,
the astrologers and the sorcerers! Only God can read our
minds.
But we need to realize that though the devil cannot read our
minds, he can feed our minds and then study our minds by the
actions and words that we bring forth. Feeding the mind is not a big
deal. Don't we feed the minds of other people too? When you tell a
child to read a book, are you not feeding his mind with the contents
of the book? When you talk to someone, are you not feeding that
person with some information? Through the sense organs of our
body, the devil feeds our minds with evil and temptations. Once he
feeds us with his stuffs, he observes us carefully and thus he can
know what we could be thinking of. Can't we humans too do the
same? Once you tell someone of some tragic news, can't you guess,
almost accurately, what that person is thinking about?
Satan has been studying carefully the human behavior for the
past six thousand years. He knows, by his very vast experience,
nearly exactly how the human mind functions. Not because he can
read it or scan it, but by feeding and careful observation. Thus he
makes people believe that he too can read our minds! He can almost
tell accurately what we are thinking of by his shrewd methods and
methodologies.
There are times where the devil's calculations do not work, and
he falters. Nebuchadnezzar's dream was just one example. God
registered it directly on Nebuchadnezzar's mind, and Satan had no
clue as to what it was, as there were no external manifestations. It
was an internal communication from God to the human mind.
Once something is fed in the human mind, it gets registered
permanently. The thoughts can flash back anytime. That is the
mechanism of it. It is very complex. But, by the grace of God, we
can push back the evil thoughts and suppress it every time it comes
up. Of course the devil has a part in flashing back the thoughts that
he has fed, by feeding our thoughts frequently.
ONE MIGHT SAY: If the devil can feed our minds he should be
able to read it too!
Not necessarily. Don't we have human devices that work the
same way? For example, we have audio players, and video cassette
players that can only play and not record. Also we have CD ROMs,
which cannot write, but only read. If man can device such methods
can't God just restrict the devil to just feeding our thoughts?
Do not ever think that the devil is all knowing. He has his limitations.
He even could not read the message written by God on the
Babylonian walls! (See Daniel Chapter 5). All his magicians and
his men failed again-not in just reading the human mind-but
even in reading and understanding the plain letters inscribed on the
wall! The devil has his boundaries. When God codes something,
even this "great" fallen angel is clueless.
Praise God for His ways!
QUESTION 21
Can Satan read our minds? If not, how does
he feed our minds with thoughts of temptations?
From the Bible we understand that only God can read the
thoughts of His creatures. He declares:
I know their works and their thoughts. (Isaiah 66:18)
The Psalmist adds:
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man. (Psalm 94:11)
During the time of Noah the world was corrupt. God decided to
put an end to life on earth, and spare only those who would repent.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5)
Their very thoughts were evil. It was all as an open book before
God. Paul said:
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his
sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes
of him with whom we have to do. (Hebrew 4:13)
The dark chambers of our minds are as an open book in the sight of
the Lord.
The Bible writers mention that all our thoughts, words, actions,
intentions, etc., are all written down in the books of Heaven to be
retrieved at the time of the final judgment. Daniel recorded:
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient
of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and
the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was
like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A
fiery stream issued and came forth from before him:
thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand
times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment
was set, and the books were opened. (Daniel 7:9, 10)
We know not exactly what kind of books they are; but for sure
the holy angels maintain an unerring record-an assignment given
to them by God. Those divine books are very sophisticated, no
doubt. If man can capture a person's action on video camera, why
can't the holy angels capture our thoughts, words, actions, motives,
live on some sophisticated photographic books of Heaven?
ONE MIGHT ASK: Does an all-knowing God need to maintain
any records?
Well, God doesn't need any records for Himself. But God is not
alone in Heaven; angels are living in Heaven too. And sin started
with an angel in Heaven. And God wants to convince all the holy
angels, and also all the other intellectual beings in the universe,
about all the details of sin. Therefore He makes these angels to keep
a record of every individual born in this world for a purpose-not
just for their benefit but for our benefit too.
The redeemed saints, when they get to Heaven at the second
coming of Jesus, will want to know why many of their "good"
friends and loved ones could not make it to Heaven. And these
accurate records will help, because God likes to prove everything in
this great controversy with Satan. Paul wrote:
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord
come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of
darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the
hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
(1 Corinthians 4:5)
Only God can read the thoughts of all his creatures, and the holy
angels who are assigned the task of recording our lives' records are
given the power to do so. Also, some of God's people were given,
on occasions, the power, by the Holy Ghost, to read the thoughts of
the wicked people. Peter was given the power to read the thoughts
of Annanias and Sapphira (See Acts 5:1-11)
The devil and his angels have no power or capacity to read the
human mind. It is a great science of how this great machinery,
called the mind, works. Men are trying their level best to device
instruments to read the human mind. In vain are all these efforts. It
is beyond the reach of man and the devil too.
ONE MIGHT SAY: How do we know that the devil is powerless in
regard to the reading of our minds?
The classic story of Daniel Chapter 2 exposes the instruments
of the devil, and in reality, exposes the devil himself. The magicians,
astrologers and sorcerers are Satan's mediums of communication.
God has nothing to do with these people who perform some
supernatural feats. They get their help from the enemy of God to
perform some tricks. God spoke against them and commanded the
children of Israel not to spare them (See Deuteronomy 18:10-13.)
In this classic story in the book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar
was given a dream from the God of Heaven. He forgot his dream. He
called all the agents of the devil to tell him his dream and the interpretation
of it. They failed. They asked the king to tell the dream and
these liars would make up their own interpretation. (See Daniel
Chapter 2 for the whole story).
God gave Daniel the same dream, and he communicated it to
the King, who was astonished. With this simple dream God
exposed the devil and his agents. Daniel told the king:
As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind
upon thy bed. (Daniel 2:29)
Since the devil could not read the mind of Nebuchadnezzar, a
heathen king, he could not tell the dream to his agents-the magicians,
the astrologers and the sorcerers! Only God can read our
minds.
But we need to realize that though the devil cannot read our
minds, he can feed our minds and then study our minds by the
actions and words that we bring forth. Feeding the mind is not a big
deal. Don't we feed the minds of other people too? When you tell a
child to read a book, are you not feeding his mind with the contents
of the book? When you talk to someone, are you not feeding that
person with some information? Through the sense organs of our
body, the devil feeds our minds with evil and temptations. Once he
feeds us with his stuffs, he observes us carefully and thus he can
know what we could be thinking of. Can't we humans too do the
same? Once you tell someone of some tragic news, can't you guess,
almost accurately, what that person is thinking about?
Satan has been studying carefully the human behavior for the
past six thousand years. He knows, by his very vast experience,
nearly exactly how the human mind functions. Not because he can
read it or scan it, but by feeding and careful observation. Thus he
makes people believe that he too can read our minds! He can almost
tell accurately what we are thinking of by his shrewd methods and
methodologies.
There are times where the devil's calculations do not work, and
he falters. Nebuchadnezzar's dream was just one example. God
registered it directly on Nebuchadnezzar's mind, and Satan had no
clue as to what it was, as there were no external manifestations. It
was an internal communication from God to the human mind.
Once something is fed in the human mind, it gets registered
permanently. The thoughts can flash back anytime. That is the
mechanism of it. It is very complex. But, by the grace of God, we
can push back the evil thoughts and suppress it every time it comes
up. Of course the devil has a part in flashing back the thoughts that
he has fed, by feeding our thoughts frequently.
ONE MIGHT SAY: If the devil can feed our minds he should be
able to read it too!
Not necessarily. Don't we have human devices that work the
same way? For example, we have audio players, and video cassette
players that can only play and not record. Also we have CD ROMs,
which cannot write, but only read. If man can device such methods
can't God just restrict the devil to just feeding our thoughts?
Do not ever think that the devil is all knowing. He has his limitations.
He even could not read the message written by God on the
Babylonian walls! (See Daniel Chapter 5). All his magicians and
his men failed again-not in just reading the human mind-but
even in reading and understanding the plain letters inscribed on the
wall! The devil has his boundaries. When God codes something,
even this "great" fallen angel is clueless.
Praise God for His ways!