“The kingdom of heaven is liken unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.”… (Matt.13:24-25) … “He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil.” (Matthew 13:37-39). Satan is the arch-counterfeiter. As we have seen, the Devil is now busy at work in the same field in which the Lord sowed the good seed. He is seeking to prevent the growth of the wheat by another plant, the tares, which closely resemble the wheat in appearance. His objective is to neutralize the Word of Christ. Therefore, as Christ has a Gospel, Satan has a gospel too, the latter being a clever counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which is the true gospel of Jesus Christ, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it. It is to this gospel of Satan the apostle refers when he says to the Galatians, “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel of Christ (1:6-7). This false gospel was being heralded even in the days of the apostle, and a most awful curse was called down upon those who preached it. The apostle continues, “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed” (V.8). The gospel of Satan is not a system of revolutionary principles, nor yet a program of anarchy. It does not promote strife and war, but aims at peace and unity. It seeks not to set the mother against her daughter or the father against his son, but fosters the fraternal spirit whereby the human race is regarded as one great “brotherhood.” It does not seek to drag down the natural man, but to improve and uplift him. The apostles of Satan are not saloonkeepers and white slave traffickers, but are the most part ordained ministers. Thousands of those who occupy our modern pulpits are no longer engaged in presenting the fundamentals of the Christian Faith, but have turned aside from the Truth and have given heed unto fables. Instead of magnifying the enormity of sin and setting forth its eternal consequences, they minimize it by declaring that sin is merely ignorance or the absence of good. Instead of warning their hearers to “flee from the wrath to come” they make God a liar by declaring that He is too loving and merciful to send any of His own creatures to eternal torment. To the greater number who read this article the doctrine would seem strange. So it should, Biblical truth is strange to the minds of unconverted men. Yet the teaching of the article is perfectly consistent with the doctrine that Jesus taught. Contrary to the idea of men, Jesus taught that His gospel rather than unifying society and human relations would ultimately divide. Take a little time and get your Bibles and study Matthew 10:34-39.
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