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Plan B calls for an attack the back door or indirect source.
Plan B involves an attack on things or OTHER people that are close to the heart of the intended target, who by words or actions, will call for the intended target to explain the adversity (or the withholding of blessings) that God sends, allows, or denies (1).
Should the explanation you offer be rejected, your own faith and patience will be put to the test, as you deal with the persistent and relentless mocking of the Word of God, by those who do not accept it.
Or, as in the case of Adam, the actual target (you) will be pressured to side with the one who was deceived, going as far as compromising one’s own beliefs and embracing forbidden activity, in order to avoid conflict.
Like Adam, one will learn soon enough, but too late to undo the damage (2), the true cost of compromising with known sin or evil.
We can only surmise how many times in the hundreds of years that followed, did Adam regret his choice to listen to the voice of his wife (3). He had it all (4) and then lost it all (5), as the result of a single act of disobedience.
How many times have we come to regret having listened to, and then gone along with, the voice of our own sin nature (6), or the voice(s) of other people, and then done things that we KNEW were wrong?
Forgiveness does not mean that all of the consequences of the negative choices we make are going to go away.
Satanic attacks of Plan A and Plan B can come in the form of adversity (7) or offers of what APPEAR to be opportunities for prosperity (8).
It matters not (to the devil) if he secures his objectives via Plan A or Plan B, sending adversity or making offers of “prosperity,” so long as he gets what he wants out of it.
The devil has no concern what later becomes of the ones he uses or deceives.
Plan B is used when the devil knows that Plan A would fail. Those who are wise enough not to fall for Plan A, will be attacked indirectly by the means of Plan B.
The classic example of a Plan B attack took place in the Garden of Eden.
There, the intended target (Adam) was defeated after choosing to go along with the woman (Eve), whom the devil had successfully deceived.
People will use the line, “If you really loved me, you would do what I want”. Jesus said, “If you love Me, you will keep (obey) my commandments (John 14: 25 NASB2020 parenthesis mine).”
When advancing disciples (9) find themselves in situations where one must choose between pleasing God or pleasing anyone/anything else, the right choice is obvious, but not always easy to make.
We naturally want to please the people we love.
Our choices often boil down to who or what we love the most, be it God (10), ourselves (11), other people (12, or other things (13).
Advancing disciples will learn soon enough that one cannot always be a people-pleaser and serve God (14).
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“And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a wrongdoer (1Tim. 2: 14NASB2020).”
The plan to deceive the woman was a multi-phased plan of attack.
Each phase us worth noting, as the devil, his Eph. 6 forces of evil, and those who knowingly or unwittingly do his bidding, continue to utilize this same strategy when Plan B is in view.
Phase 1 is to approach the one to be deceived (Eve) when the intended target (Adam) is not around. It is when the Word of God is not circulating around in our minds, or when people with accurate information (Bible Doctrine) are not present to offer divine guidance, that we are the most vulnerable to satanic attacks.
Phase 2 is to use an intermediary whose cunningness (15) and or appearance would appeal to the one being deceived. In our day and age, the devil often uses intermediators (friends, family members, the media, entertainers, celebrities, “religious” leadership, and politicians) whom he has already deceived, to take his intended targets captive.
If the presence of the devil were detected from the outset, his strategy of deception would fail.
Only a fool would knowingly listen to the voice of one speaking for the devil, and only a believer who has a Biblically-edified soul structure (16), and is equipped with the Eph. 6 armor of God, stands a chance in the midst if spiritual combat.
Phase 3 is to engage in a personal, one on one, conversation with the appearance of having a genuine concern for the interests of the one to be deceived. Such conversations often begin with the lines like, “I feel your pain.”
Phase 4 is to refute the veracity (truthfulness) or the momentary significance of the Word of God (17).
Phase 5 is to suggest that the one to be deceived has something good to be obtained, and that someone or something is holding out on them, denying them something that they would naturally desire to receive (18).
End of Part 2 of 3
(1) 1Pet.3: 15 (2) Gen. 2: 17 (3) Gen. 3: 17 (4) Gen. 2: 8 (5) Gen. 3: 22-24 (6) Rom. 7: 21ff (7) Job 1 13-22/Job 2: 7 (8) Gen. 3: 5, 6/ Luke 4: 6 (9) Luke 14: 26 (10) Matt. 22: 37 (11) 2Tim. 3: 2 (12) Matt. 22: 39 (13) 1Tim. 6: 10 (14) Gal. 1: 10 (15) Gen. 3: 1 (16) Matt. 7: 24-25 (17) Gen. 3: 4 (18) Gen. 3: 5, 6
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