When I use the term “satan”
in the context that the
modern Christian church
is a “cesspool of Satan,”
I am not using the term flippantly,
nor am I referring to
Satan
as the omni-present being,
the horned
arch-enemy of God,
a red-skinned,
mythological
fallen angel
with a pitchfork,
assigned to preside over
the eternal outpost of hell,
whose mission is to tempt
individuals into sinning.
Rather,
The term is used
in the same sense that Yahshua
used the term
when, on the way
to his capture and death,
he rebuked Peter, saying
“Get behind me Satan,
you do not have in mind
the concerns of God,
but the concerns of man.”
Yahshua was about to enter
Jerusalem for the final time,
not to be inagurated
as the King
he was born to be,
the messiah
Peter knew him to be,
but rather to be murdered,
martyred,
and he well knew it.
When he shared this
then startling revelation
with his apostles,
Peter,
who was chief among the apostles,
and to whom Yahshua
had just given
the keys to the Kingdom,
strenuously objected,
opposing this fact
that the King of Israel,
the prophesied chosen one
they had been waiting centuries for,
was going to be killed.
By opposing Yahshua,
Peter positioned himself
against the King,
and thereby became
his adversary.
The term “satan”
literally means
“adversary.”
Hence the rebuke,
the admonition
against Peter's person.
America's Christian pulpits
who define the nature
of the modern church,
do not embody the Spirit of Christ,
but rather the spirit of Peter,
not having in mind
the concerns of God
but their own concerns.
What audacity
they have
to pass themselves off
to the people of the world
as the representatives
of the King.
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