{"id":233,"date":"2015-10-17T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T17:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblebookprofiler.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2022-02-13T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T05:00:52","slug":"organized-chaos-what-are-satans-2-purposes-for-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblebookprofiler.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/organized-chaos-what-are-satans-2-purposes-for-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Satan’s objectives and purposes for confusion?","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ever been so confused by so many confusing and contradictory doctrines and theologies that you’re ready to give up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God’s word, the perceived source of the confusion<\/strong><\/em>, is your answer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Definition of confusion<\/a>
verb (used with object), confused, confusing.
1. to perplex or bewilder: The flood of questions confused me.
2. to make unclear or indistinct:<\/strong><\/em> The rumors and angry charges tended to confuse the issue.
3. to fail to distinguish between; associate by mistake; confound: to confuse dates; He always confuses the twins.
4. to disconcert or abash: His candor confused her.
5. to combine without order; jumble; disorder: Try not to confuse the papers on the desk.
6. Archaic. to bring to ruin or naught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synonyms<\/strong>
1. mystify, nonplus. Confuse, disconcert, embarrass imply temporary interference with the clear working of one’s mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Satan’s objective of confusion is to interfere with the clear working of a person’s mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Satan also has at least 5 goals or purposes of confusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1.  To cause you to not be approved by God by the wrong dividing of his word.<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    II Timothy 2:15<\/strong>
    Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you’re confused and can’t think clearly, then how is it possible to rightly divide God’s word?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Its not.  That’s the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The bible isn’t actually confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Its the doctrines of devils, commandments of men and lack of knowledge on how the bible interprets itself that are to blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2. To stop you from understanding God’s word.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Confusion is a direct contradiction against God’s word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Nehemiah 8:8<\/strong>
    So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The word “sense” is a Hebrew word that means insight and is used 16 times in the bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The reason that’s important is because 16 is 8 x 2.  Eight in the bible is the number of a new beginning.  2 is the number of establishment or division, depending on the context [here its establishment].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So when we have a clear, distinct teaching on God’s word, with the critical insights provided for our understanding, then its a new beginning established for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Even mysterious<\/em> things in the bible are meant to be understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ephesians 3<\/strong>
    3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
    4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand<\/em> <\/strong>my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    3.<\/strong> If he can get you to not understand God’s word, then he can steal the word away from you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Matthew 13:19<\/strong>
    When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is why understanding how the bible interprets itself is so critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    That way you can rightly divide God’s word and hold onto it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Titus 1:9<\/strong>
    Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The word of God is like a football: the opponent is always trying to take it away from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    4. To slip in his corrupted gospel unnoticed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Galatians 1:7<\/strong>
    Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    God’s word is perfect. Therefore, the order<\/em> <\/strong>of the words in his word is perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In Galatians 1:7, the word “trouble” comes before the word “pervert”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Definition of trouble:
    Strong’s Concordance #5015<\/strong>
    tarass\u00f3: to stir up, to trouble
    Part of Speech: Verb
    Phonetic Spelling: (tar-as’-so)
    Definition: I disturb, agitate, stir up, trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    HELPS Word-studies<\/strong>
    5015 tar\u00e1ss\u014d \u2013 properly, put in motion (to agitate back-and-forth, shake to-and-fro); (figuratively) to set in motion what needs to remain still (at ease); to “trouble” (“agitate”), causing inner perplexity (emotional agitation) from getting too stirred up inside (“upset”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    With confusion, if Satan, the god of this world, can get you to be agitated with various negative emotions, then he has succeeded in obtaining his objective: interfering with the clear working of your mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Once that is accomplished, then he has an open door to walk right in with his distorted version of the gospel and mess you up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If you simply look up the word “another” in a bible dictionary, you arrive at this, which is a more accurate translation of Galatians:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Galatians 1<\/b>
    6<\/b> I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel of a different kind or type:
    7<\/b> Which is not another of the same kind or type; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So the adversary, the devil, just has to get you all riled up, mixed up and confused first.  Then you can’t see his subtle lies and distortions of the truth, like a gospel teaching about Jesus Christ that sounds real religious, but contradicts the bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    5.  To make you psychologically and spiritually unstable so that you can’t stand against him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So when confusion hits you, it can’t come from God.  Therefore, it must come from another source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    II Corinthians 4<\/strong>
    3<\/strong> But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
    4<\/strong> In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So if somebody tells you that they believe in God, just ask them, “which one?” You will almost always get a very confused response!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Because people simply haven’t been taught the integrity and precision of God’s word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The bible teaches that there are 2 Gods:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n