Borrowing context from the writing of Rev Billy Graham there is something to be learned from the direct confrontation of evilThe primary video of Democrat Rep. Alvin Holmes needs a backdrop reference.   

a-prayer-for-times-like-these(pg 64 Satan on the Attack) […]  Revelation 12:10 speaks of Satan as “the accuser of the brethren”, and Ephesians 6:12 describes the “rulers, the authorities, the powers of the dark world, the spiritual forces of evil present in the heavenly realms.”

Although the warfare as described references the heavens, it is an obvious principle the primary endeavor is to destroy faith in the world.

From Isaiah 13:12-14 the objectives are outlined – though we can assign a collective disposition to current influence: “[they] work to bring the downfall of nations, to corrupt moral standards, and to waste human resources. Corrupting society’s order, [they] want to prevent the attainment of order and to shake the kingdoms of our God”.

Evil, and in a larger sense the influences comfortable with immoral manifest, has great power. They are cunning and clever, having set themselves against God and His people:

[They] will do everything in [their] power to hold people captive in sin and to drag them down to the prison of eternal separation from God.

The manifestations of evil labor to thwart God’s plan of the ages. We can find inscribed on every page of human history the consequences of the evil brought to fruition by the powers of darkness with the deceptive influences in charge. They never yield an inch, nor do they ever pause in their opposition to the plan of God to redeem the “cosmos” from his control.

They forever try to discredit the truthfulness of those who walk in the light. They coax men to deny the belief in, or authority of, a loving God; and they persuade the world to wallow in the deluding comforts of sin and selfishness.

“He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (John 8:44 NIV)

Sin is the frightful fact in our world. It writes its ruin in vice and lust, in the convulsions of war, in selfishness and sorrow, and in broken hearts and lost souls. It remains as the tragedy of the universe, and simultaneously the tool of Satan (or however you believe the manifestations of evil to present) to blunt or destroy the works of a loving God.

Democrat State Representative Alvin Holmes April 2014 calls in to a local radio station:  You may wish to forward the audio/video to @3:30

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