There are only two churches the scripture recognizes: The local church (Matthew 18:20), and the Universal church (Matthew 16:18), every other church is for administrative convenience of man.
However, the devil doesn’t like any local church. He hates every gathering of the saints with passion and will do everything in his arsenal to corrupt her from within. Job 1:5 do confirm that Satan and his cohorts do come to gathering of children of God.
Your church name, location, policy, size, structure or wealth doesn’t matter to him, he just want to remove or corrupt these five fundamentals, so that he can destroy the church ultimately.
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However, the devil doesn’t like any local church. He hates every gathering of the saints with passion and will do everything in his arsenal to corrupt her from within. Job 1:5 do confirm that Satan and his cohorts do come to gathering of children of God.
Your church name, location, policy, size, structure or wealth doesn’t matter to him, he just want to remove or corrupt these five fundamentals, so that he can destroy the church ultimately.
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- The Bible- or the corrupt version of it. He loves to replace the Bible with other books like 6&7 Books of Moses, lost book of Eden and human philosophies. Whole, undiluted, balance and practical truth of the Bible he doesn’t want on any church altar. He has therefore corrupted many pulpits. Churches that only do meetings where they pray, sing, dance, entertain and pro-phesy without teaching the whole bible are falling into Satan trap big time.
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- Lordship of Christ. Satan doesn’t want the rule and reign of Christ in His church, rather he wants to be worshipped. That’s why many preachers no longer preach Jesus, careful to mention the name of Jesus because of political correctness. Modern preachers hate the lifestyle, teachings and practices of Jesus recorded in the gospels for us, and they prefer to do things their own way, because Jesus ways are too tough for them.
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- Holy Spirit – the devil wants the Holy Spirit to be grieved, lied to through sins, disobedience and literal quenching of the Spirit of God and therefore with-draw from the church so that there will be no transformations, miracles, power demonstrat-ions. He replaces the Holy Spirit with his demons, witches and witchcraft manipulations in the church.
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- Genuine Prayers – while the scripture says my house shall be called the house of prayers, yet the devil wants prayers to be no existing in any church. He wants prayers to become a form, ritual, officious, formal, lifeless and powerless. He will use wrong teachings, emphasis and practi-ces to produce unanswered prayers, so that people can be tired and quit praying.
5. Godly, Competent Pastor – the devil wants to corrupt every pastor. He wants every pastor to be sinful, bad example, ignorant, untrained, incompetent and a fake. In other instances, he wants the deacons and elders to usurp the position of the pastor so that the church will not be properly led. Once a godly and competent pastor is removed from a church, the devil will have free access to work and destroy that fellowship of the saints.
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