Many imagine Satan, with his red face and green tail... may be with two horns... lol, will appear in front of the believers and confront them directly!!! I have no clue how this reptilian figure was coined when no one has ever seen him! lol. According to the Scriptures, devil’s snare for the believer is not some visible daunting gallows or deep pit of fire; if so even a dimwitted specimen will runaway from such a blatantly ‘obvious’ snare lol. The very fact our Scriptures call it a ‘snare’ clearly implies that it is a ‘trap’, to which men fall without knowing that they are falling, and surprisingly, even refuse to accept that they have fallen after falling! ...amazing veil indeed, that God in His good pleasure has deliberately placed on the eyes of those that were destined to perish!

So, how do believers recognize this snare? Well, by an incredibly simple litmus test - The Christ. If the scripture (or a ‘version’ of Christianity) is used for any thing else other than Christ, then it is not from the Holy Spirit, but a snare from the devil, period! Devil always twists the scriptures as a snare to distract his target from the ball - Our Savior (and His sweet Gospel); Christ is the ‘only’ link that we have between our reality (our current life) and our hope (the promised life); hence everything else, however good and reasonable it may sound, by all counts, it is definitely a snare! The sad news is, modern-day Christianity in our country has evolved itself to be a perfect snare – it has become a political movement, it has become a moral police, it has become an organization that is busy going after embryos and abortions, in fact most Christians here unlike other nations seem to bother more about the judges in their supreme court, than their own awaiting judgment. And shockingly, they fear many nations and nationalities than they fear their own damnation decreed upon them from the pearly throne; pathetic is their state, like the five foolish virgins, only to hear the voice from the groom “I know you not” when the time comes!

Nevertheless, as believers, our comfort rests on Christ, and since we are born-again our eyes should see the craftiness of the devil’s twists, without being veiled like the rest; the wise will see the snare laid for the foolish, as the scripture proclaims, unlike the reprobates all of us ‘the elects’ are ‘sealed’ by the Holy Spirit and that’s why the great liar Satan is so frustrated with the believers!

Let’s not take our eyes off the ball: our Christ. Let our knees fold, let our tongue cease to blabber, and let our heads bow in fear as we see the Christian-Right rush toward the snare laid for them.