Revealing His Truth

A thief is someone who steals; in other words, a person who takes what does not rightfully belongs to him or her. These days several means are adopted to steal, while some device tricks and deceits as familiar among pickpockets, internet fraudsters and the one termed 419; others will engage the use of force to get what does not belong to them. The activities of armed robbers visiting places or on the highway will properly describe this. One undisputable fact about thieves anywhere on planet earth and perhaps beyond is that they are so detested. A thief is a criminal and this treated and punished as such. You will be fast to remember the capital punishment melted on the two thieves ('male factors' as used in the Bible) that were punished with sinless Jesus. They were crucified to death. "And one of the male factors (thieves) which were hanged with him[Jesus] railed on him...but the other answering rebuked him..." (Luke 23:39-43). You see, there is hope for a thief, b...

The first thief ever is the devil, that old serpent. He came to Eve in Garden of Eden to steal her mind when she was carried away by her lust and enticed; he came to kill her conscience such that she underestimated her God and His law; he came to practically destroy her relationship and that of Mankind with God. What a thief, a murder and a devourer. No wonder we see in John 10:10, "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." Also, in 1Peter 5:8, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour". Don't be his victim. Just the same way the devil carried out his devilish and deceptive antics on the first woman and by far the first family of the human race, so does he today. He is neither omnipresent nor omnipotent, but he has developed agents assigned everywhere in the world to undertake ...