Savour not the things of man

When Jesus rebuked Peter, or the voice of Satan in Peter, pay close attention to what he said - "Get thee behind me, Satan, thou art an offence to me, for thou SAVOUREST NOT THE THINGS THAT BE OF GOD BUT THOSE THAT BE OF MAN" Mt:16:23.
Here, we clearly see Satan's strategy for enslaving and defeating all of mankind. It isn't by destroying man physically but rather spiritually by appealing to Man's pride, by exalting th things "that be of man", by honoring man. Verse 24 reveals another stamp on our ticket out of Babylon, Satan's kingdom on earth - "If any man will come after Me, let him DENY HIMSELF and take up his cross and FOLLOW ME" Mt:16:24. Man must be denied! Not only was Jesus going to the cross but all of mankind with him. This is the way out of Babylon for Babylon exalts the things of man and resists the things that be of God.
Jeremiah was the prophet God used in his day against Babylon more than any other by far and the last chapter of Jeremiah reveals Satan's secret end time strategy to defeat the Church. Just as he offered Jesus power and authority so he is doing today to christians everywhere. As man gave up his authority and place of blessing with God in the garden by heeding Satan's voice so is Satan now seeking to replace God's voice in our lives and he's offering to share with us the very authority he usurped from man to begin with! Satan hasn't changed his ways in all this time.
"And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, the Evilmerodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, king of Judah, and BROUGHT HIM FORTH OUT OF PRISON AND SPAKE KINDLY UNTO HIM AND SET HIS THRONE ABOVE THE THRONE OF THE KINGS THAT WERE WITH HIM IN BABYLON. AND CHANGED HIS PRISON GARMENTS AND HE DID CONTINUALLY EAT BREAD BEFORE HIM ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE. AND FOR HIS DIET, THERE WAS A CONTINUAL DIET GIVEN HIM OF THE KING OF BABYLON EVERY DAY A PORTION UNTIL THE DAY OF HIS DEATH, ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE" Jer:52:31-34.
After oppressing and attacking and harassing the saints, imprisoning them if he's allowed to, wounding us when he can, SATAN'S FINAL END TIME STRATEGY is to turn to the very ones he's placed in bondage and suffering or tried to and offer them peace, to exalt them by putting them on a throne above all in his kingdom but his, right next to him, just as the Father has sat us at the right hand of Jesus. Satan's offer is to care for and feed us everyday from his table till the day we die. We are clearly warned by God not to eat at the table of devils in Corinthians so it is clear many christians were doing so.
Daniel had godly wisdom and an upright heart and unlike King Jehoiachin, "purposed in his heart that he WOULD NOT DEFILE HIMSELF WITH THE PORTION OF THE KING'S (of Babylon) meat, nor with the wine he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself" Dan:1:8. Remember Revelation 17:1&2 speaks of spiritual Babylon as a great whore (for she leaves her first love, our precious God and lies with Satan, producing his fruit. Like him, she is full of lies and deceptions). "Come hither I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters (she is found among all nations and peoples, just like the bride of Christ) with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication" Rev:18:4-7, her fornication of communing with any other spirit but God's. Daniel would not drink this wine and neither should we. But the kings of the earth (leaders) and it's inhabitants (followers) would. These are the same kings mentioned in Jeremiah 50, the kings that were with him, Evilmerodach, IN BABYLON. All of us have been made kings and priests by our God in service to Him, Yahweh, but if we leave his service and go into captivity into Babylon and we choose to eat of Satan's table and accept his hospitality and authority, we are then known to God as a GREAT WHORE.


to be continued...