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I think Lucifer is a crafty SOB, and he will decieve many good meaning people with his beauty. It has nothing to do with what I believe - it has a lot to do with what others will believe, or want to believe. Afterall - when the AC is shot in the head and survives, people will call it a miracle that he survived at all. He'll recover with full mental faculties... and people will say, "he is as a God" and he will reply, "You know me" .... and people will be decieved.

I stand by my statement.

and... yes, I believe you can call for help at any time and He will answer, but sometimes the answer is "no".

Drudge has a story this Sunday morning that Arafat says his country is at the breaking point and the next thing will be a huge bang that will be heard around the world. Go read it and report here what you think. I don't happen to think is is just talking off hand. I think they have something, Iraq probably, and they are going to use it. It is the first time he has said something like this.

Okay, Joe, that's good.

What you're saying is that if someone is deceived by Lucifer, it's because he is willing to be deceived by Lucifer. I think you're right. (And I think Lucifer must be something to behold!)

In fact...I'm convinced of it.

That's why I contend that the Islamic terrorists, on some level, know very well that they are not serving God and that they are serving Satan--or Lucifer--or The Devil--or evil--or the Dark Side--or whatever one wants to call it. No matter what they call this "god" they serve, it is evil and not God.

In other words, they are devil-worshippers--and they know it.

As you point out: They are deceived by Lucifer because they are willing to be.

They probably want to be "deceived" by him, because they want his assistance in achieving their worldly aims--a Faustian bargain--which are to avenge their pride hurt by Western imperialism, their own failure to rise above poverty and ignorance, the failure of their "culture", and their insignificance in the world.

Those who allow themselves to be deceived by Lucifer, actually want to, in order to strike a Faustian bargain of one kind or another.

You will agree, I think, that anyone who asks for the guidance and protection of Jesus Christ will receive them and will be safe from any satanic influence. I mean, no matter how crafty Lucifer may be, he is no match for Jesus Christ--unless some hapless fool should be receptive to him. Right?