satan and mind control

How Satan Gains Control Of The Mind Watchman Nee in his book The Spiritual Man states that there are five ways we give control of our minds to Satan: First, by not daily meditating on God's word. Second, by deliberately considering and living out sin in one's mind. Third, through willful ignorance of God's truth's and moral absolutes. Fourth, by accepting any suggestion in the mind as if from God without questioning or checking to see if it lines up with God's Word or past light of God. Fifth, by deliberately blanking one's mind so as to receive suggestions from evil spirits. James 4:7 states, "Submit therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you." God has a purpose and a plan for each of our lives. God’s Word commands us: Ephesians 5:15-17 "Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is." Each of the above points we could cover. For the most part they are self explanatory. Where they are not, we will cover them in this article. However, none of the above points, except meditating on God's word, would even be a problem if the individual Christian sought God's will for them and walked in His will. The way Satan gains control of a person's mind is when their mind is passive, idle, when they are out of God's will, not occupied with God's will. God commands us in His word to know what His will for our lives are individually. Paul wrote in Galatians 5:16 "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh." We are walking in the Holy Spirit when we are using our daily time according to God’s leading through the Holy Spirit. As long as we are occupied in our use of time according to God’s will, Satan cannot gain control of our minds. You have heard the saying, "An idle mind is the play ground of the Devil." That is literally true. It is only when we disobey God in our use of time, allow our minds to be idle, that Satan is able to get a foothold. First, understand that the Bible teaches us that the flesh never did obey God’s laws and it never will. Paul wrote, Romans 8:6-8 "For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God." This passage tells us that the flesh never did obey God’s laws and that it never will. How then do we bring the flesh under control? How do we keep from sinning? How do we keep Satan from gaining control of our minds? By occupying our time and our minds with God’s will. Paul wrote in Romans 13:14 "But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts." As long as you are occupied in doing God’s will, the flesh does not have opportunity to sin. It is when we become idle and our minds become idle that our flesh begins to drift toward its natural inclination to sin. Let me cite you an example in my own life. When I was in Junior College I went through a two year Degree in Electronic Technology. This involved four hours a day in class instruction with a twenty minute break in between five days a week. I used my twenty minute break to go out on campus and share Jesus with students. The campus had a population of over 15,000 students. It took me about five minutes to find a student to talk to, ten minutes to present to them the Gospel through a salvation tract, and five minutes to get back to class. I saw many students come to Christ during this twenty minutes a day sharing the Gospel. When I would go out and do this with my break, God would bless me in my electronics (Luke 6:38). One day I decided to go to the break room and get a coke and a candy bar. I sat down at a table and while drinking my coke I looked around and noticed all the beautiful girls that were on campus. RED FLAG! RED FLAG! RED FLAG! An idle mind is the playground of the Devil. Now there is nothing wrong with enjoying the flowers in the field, but I was idle and once these thoughts entered in, other thoughts also entered in and it was all down hill from there. Given the opportunity to sin, the flesh will sin. "An idle mind is the play ground of the Devil," I thought, so I got up and went out on the campus to look for someone to share Jesus with. So then, how do we bring our flesh under control and keep it from sinning? By filling and occupying our time with God’s will. It is God’s will that Christians use their free time to share Christ with others. When we don’t use our free time to share Christ with others we fill it with worldly things. We become board and start looking for ways to satisfy the desires of the flesh. Paul wrote, Galatians 5:17 "For the flesh with-strong-passion-fights against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please." There is no satisfying the flesh. the more you give into the flesh to satisfy it, the harder it is to go back to walking in the Holy Spirit, because the flesh with strong passion fights against the Holy Spirit. Getting back to our main discussion, how then does Satan gain control of the mind. Simply stated: when we are not obeying God in our use of time. An idle mind is the playground of the Devil plain and simple. The way you gain back control of your mind is by seeking the Lord’s will in your use of time and then obeying him in that use of time. That is what Chapter 5 of Section 1 in the Basic Textbook is all about: it teaches and explains to you how to set up a weekly schedule in your use of time according to God’s will. A second way Satan gains control of the mind is when we place our trust in what many Christians mistakenly call the Holy Spirit. What do I mean by this? I mean "God told me to do this. . ." However, what God told them to do is completely contrary to God’s word. Jesus said in John 8:47 "He who is of God hears the words of God." God never, ever, ever leads us contrary to the Word of God. So when we receive anything we think is the Holy Spirit, the first question we must ask is "Does God’s word agree with what I believe is the Holy Spirit speaking to me?" Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 11:14 "And no wonder for Satan transforms himself into an angel of light." Earlier in the same chapter Paul wrote, 2 Corinthians 11:4 "For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully." Paul talks about another Jesus and a different spirit and a different gospel. How do we know who is the true Jesus preached about or what is truly the Holy Spirit talking to us or what is the true Gospel preached? The Mormons have a different Jesus and gospel, the Jehovah Witnesses another Jesus and gospel, and the Muslims a totally different Jesus and gospel. What is the true Gospel? The Bible tells us who the true Jesus is and what is truly the voice of the Holy Spirit and what the true Gospel is. Paul wrote, "For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures." (1 Corinthians 15:3-4) "But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:8) Our faith is not based on air, it is not built on Jesus or the Holy Spirit or the Gospel; our faith is based on the Jesus and the Holy Spirit and the Gospel taught in the Bible. The Bible is the bases for what we believe or do not believe. If a voice tells you to do something that does not agree with God’s Word, it is not of God and is to be rejected plain and simple. God speaking through Isaiah said, "And when they say to you, ‘Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,’ should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn." (Isaiah 8:19-20) Another way Satan gains control of our minds which really relates to what we have already been discussing, is when we deliberately choose to sin. Our flesh is in bondage to sin. All Christians struggle with lust. However, when a Christian deliberately chooses to turn to pornography, they are with their will choosing to sin. That is a doorway. As a result Satan will take control of their minds and it will take more than confession of one's sin to get freed from the bondage of pornography because now unclean spirits are also involved which are keeping the person in bondage. Ecclesiastes 10:8 states "He who digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever breaks a hedge a serpent will bite him." You must now also ask God to cleanse you from the unclean spirits and free your mind from bondage to Satan, then bind the unclean spirits and command them to leave in order to get free. Christians I have worked with who have willfully turned to pornographic sights on the web have found afterwards that regaining control of their minds is a real battle and is not possible in most cases without the help of other Christians. My advise is occupy yourself with God's will and stay away from pornographic sights. See my article on Spiritual Warfare titled "How to Have Victory Over Sexual Sins." Another way Satan gains control of our minds is through non-Biblical types of meditation. What do I mean by non-Biblical types of meditation. What kind of meditation is Biblical, does the Bible teach? Joshua wrote in Joshua 1:8, "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success." The Bible’s definition of meditation is always doing something with your mind, never surrendering or blanking it to anyone or waiting for something or someone to fill it. Meditation in the Bible is always active, it is never passive. What is the active thing the Bible tells us to do in meditation? It tells us to study and meditate upon God’s Word, meaning to think about, muse over: "What is God's word teaching, telling me to do? What is it trying to teach me?" Meditation here refers to actively using your mind to study and understand what the word of God is teaching you. I had a friend once who told me he had a problem spending more than ten minutes of His time in prayer because his mind would wonder and before he was done he found he was thinking about sinful things. What was he doing wrong? He was praying and waiting upon the Lord with a passive mind. This is not how we are to seek the Lord when we pray. When we pray, first, we are to worship the Lord, thank Him for His goodness in our lives, for our salvation and for answers to previous prayers. Psalm 100:4 states "Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His name." The second thing we are to do is to bring our petitions to the Lord. Philippians 4:6-7 states, "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Third, while then waiting upon the Lord you are to read, study and meditate upon His word. "He who is of God hears the words of God." (John 8:47) "This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success." (Joshua 1:8) "He who gives attention to the word shall find good, and blessed is he who trusts in Yehovah." (Proverbs 16:20) "Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge; For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, that they may be ready on your lips. So that your trust may be in Yehovah, I have taught you today, even you. Have I not written to you excellent things of counsels and knowledge, To make you know the certainty of the words of truth that you may correctly answer to him who sent you?" (Proverbs 22:17-21) Why does God want us to meditate upon His Word while waiting upon Him? Psalm 138:2 tells us "You have magnified Your Word according to all Your name." Someone asks "What is God like?" God tells us in Psalm 138:2 that what God is like is what the Word of God teaches us about what God is like. God says that His Word is equal to His name. Being equal to His Name means equal to His character. God tells us in this passage of Scripture that His Character and what the Bible teaches about His character are one and the same. This is why God prefers to reveal Himself to us while meditating upon His word, because God's character, what He reveals to us about Himself through the Holy Spirit will never be contrary to what the Bible reveals to us about God's Character. They are one and the same. Now what is wrong meditation? Wrong meditation is what Eastern religions and Satanic cults teach you to do, and that is to blank your mind while waiting for Satan to come and fill it, and fill it he will. Years ago I prayed with a man who came forward in church to receive Christ. He had been heavily involved in Transcendental Meditation. This is a religion which stresses strongly blanking ones mind in meditation. As a result many unclean spirits entered him. After he came to Christ, he had great difficulty gaining control over his mind because he had passively yielded his mind to Satan for so many years. This is also what Satanists do to gain instruction from Satan and to receive demons, they plank their minds. They will focus upon a burning candle and clear their minds of all thought until an outside force enters their minds and takes control. This is just the opposite of what God asks of us. God never takes control of our minds. He created us in His image. That means like God we have free independent will. God never violates the independent will of anyone. Even after we give our lives to Christ, he does not take control of our minds. Jesus will tell us what His will for our lives are, but he will never force us to do his will. We are always in control of ourselves and must choose to obey Him. He never requires us to yield our minds and bodies to Him to control and walk through like demon possession. Jesus was not a man possessed by God, Jesus was God in bodily form. Paul wrote in Colossians 2:9 "For in Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form." That is what we mean by Christianity being relationship with Jesus. We seek God’s will for our lives while meditating upon His word. He then either directly through the Word reveals His will to us, or speaks to us through the Holy Spirit but never in contradiction to God’s word. We then choose with our will whether to obey Him or not. To have a relationship with Jesus then means to walk in obedience to His revealed will to us individually. But notice we must make the choice, He never forces us to do anything. When we choose not to obey God’s revealed will to us, this is disobedience, and this removes His protection over us and our minds become open to Satan’s control. Getting back to our original passage quoted in this article, in James 4:7 it states "Submit therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you." We have no power over Satan. The only power we have over Satan is Jesus’ power, and His power is only available to us when we are walking in obedience to Him. When we are not choosing to walk in obedience to Christ, we cannot resist the devil and we become open and under His control, and Satan gains control over our minds. You see, there is no in between: either Jesus is Lord over us or Satan is. This is what Jesus meant in Matthew 12:30 when he said "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters." Only when we choose to walk in obedience to Christ do we have Christ’s power over Satan and are we able to gain control over our hearts and minds. Paul wrote in Romans 1:28 "And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them up to a mind void of judgment, to do those things which are not proper." We are only able to resist the Devil and have control over our minds when we are choosing to walk in obedience to Christ, because then God gives us His grace to have control over our minds. Paul wrote in Ephesians: "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest." (Ephesians 2:1-3) "This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness." (Ephesians 4:17-19) How then do we keep Satan from gaining control of our minds? Paul wrote "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh" (Galatians 5:16). How do we know when we are walking in the Holy Spirit and when we are not? We are walking in the Holy Spirit when we are using our time according to God’s will (Eph 5:15-17). We are not walking in the Holy Spirit when we are not using our time according to God’s will, when we are allowing our minds to be passive and idle. When we do this the flesh automatically takes over, and since Paul tells us in Romans 7:14 "For we know that the Law is spiritual; but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin," when the flesh takes over, it will sin. James 4:7 tells us that as long as we are walking in obedience to God in our use of time we can resist the Devil and that he will flee, and as long as we are focusing with our minds on God’s will and doing God’s will with our use of time, we will have control of our minds. Satan can only gain access to the mind of a disobedient Christian.

Flee the church

Powered by Translate The Apostate Church Apostasy, basically means to fall away from the truth. Therefore, an apostate is someone who has once believed and then rejected the truth of God. Apostasy is a rebellion against God because it is a rebellion against truth. In the Old Testament God warned the Jewish people about their idolatry and their lack of trust in Him. In the New Testament the epistles warn us about not falling away from the truth. Apostasy is a very real and dangerous threat. It is by no mistake the Churches have become apostate. Satan has devised this plan and the purpose of this is that as we head into New World Order and the Antichrist takes over, the churches will be so lukewarm and so lacking discernment that they will blindly follow what their pastor says. By this time most of the Pastors will be so blind to the Gospel that they will lead their churches to worship the Antichrist and accept the mark of the beast. This explains why most Pastors and Christians will not make it to heaven. Any faithful Pastors and their followers left during this time will be martyrd and their church destroyed. But, I tell you that very shortly, there will be very few Spirit filled and faithful pastors left. "Let no one in any way deceive you, for it (Jesus return) will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction." 2 Thess. 2:3 14 Signs of an Apostate Church 1. Prosperity Gospel and "Word Faith" Church. "Money" and "Me" is the focus. 2. Seeking out Evil spirits, (kundalini) new age ideals, (mysticism) idolatry, (statues) etc, instead of seeking Jesus 3. Believe in OSAS - "Once Saved Always Saved" even if you have unbridled sin in your life 4. Woman Pastor - Women should never have authority over the Church, her husband or other men. 5. Evangelism is NOT a Priority. The Great Commission is not taken seriously 6. Ungodly leadership that act more like CEO's and Celebrities, instead of of Godly men. 7. "Sinner's Prayer" or "ask Jesus into your heart" altar calls 8. Baptism is put on hold for any length of time and is NOT a full submersion 9. Repentance is NOT a part of the Gospel. "Just Believe or Easy Believism" 10. There is NO true fellowship between its members 11. Believes that Sunday is the true Sabbath Day. The true Sabbath Day is Saturday 12. Church becomes a big business and there is more concern for growth in numbers than personal growth 13. Personal prayer or praying in your "closet" is seen as optional or unimportant 14. The true Gospel is sacrificed for the purpose of unity of all religions - Ecumenicalism Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 Prosperity Gospel There has been no greater destroyer of the Church than the Prosperity Preachers. I have written a whole article about it, so please click here to read it. The Prosperity Gospel is basically many Church Leaders/Pastors/Ministers/Preachers/Bishops, etc, who have taken the gospel and have twisted it so slightly in order to feed their greed and send their congregation into a poorer class or even poverty. This in turn makes the congregation focus more on what God can do for them, instead of what they can do for others and most importantly . . . how they can better serve Christ. The Church is supposed to be the Body of Christ, not a prostitute for the people and that is exactly what the Prosperity Preachers have done to Churches and Gods wrath will come down on those Preachers. Because the members of these churches buy into the greed of what these churches teach, Gods wrath will come down on those as well. You have to understand that if every person truly accepted and understood the Gospel of Jesus Christ, no person would ever attend a Prosperity Church and every one of those Churches would crumble in a week. Then, not one church would make the Body of Christ a greedy den of thieves anymore. These churches do this because their members allow them to do this and the Holy Spirit does not dwell in a place like that. I used to go to a Prosperity Church many years ago. The first thing I noticed about it was that the Holy Spirit did not dwell in that church. I finally left it because I felt like I was spiritually starving to death there. Now, I understand that I was attending a Prosperity Church and I am glad I left there before it was too late. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1 The Kundalini Spirit and New Age Movement There is a very dangerous spirit entering the churches that is so destructive that many people won't heal from it. I have studied about Satans tactics and I have to admit that the Kundalini Spirit is one of his greatest deceptions. The Kudalini Spirit is actually a demonic spirit that originates from India. The Kundalini Spirit and the Holy Spirit are so similar that someone who does not have good discernment or who is a new Christian will not be able to tell the difference. Once a person receives the Kundalini Spirit, it is really hard to get rid of, but it is possible through Christ, if that person is willing. The Holy Spirit cannot live in your heart when you have a Kundalini Spirit in you and it makes you more open to New Age ideas and less open to the Gospel. This could possibly mean that someone with the Kundalini Spirit may not enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that is why this evil spirit is potentially very deadly. I have also heard people say that all manifestations are evil and that is simply not true. It is very important to never suppress or grieve the Holy Spirit. You will experience manifestations when the Holy Spirit enters you. So often in the Bible, the Holy Spirit is associated with fire. This was so, concerning John the Baptist. Luke 3:16 "John answered saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I cometh, the latchet of Whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: He shall Baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." The Holy Ghost was likened unto fire at Pentecost. Acts 2:3, "And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them" The manifestations of the Holy Spirit and Kundalini Spirit are similiar, however, I think is very safe to say that if you are in a situation where people are crawling on the ground, laughing hysterically, making animal noises or violently shaking their heads, then you need to run out of that place. If you see people praying, weeping, repenting, falling down and resting on the ground with a peaceful smile on their face, then that is probably from the Holy Spirit. To see proof of how the Fire of the Holy spirit works, CLICK HERE "Once Saved, Always Saved is Heresy Once saved, always saved is the cry so often heard from many of the pulpits today. "I can do whatever I want, as long as I have accepted Jesus as my personal Savior. Then it would make sense that a man could kill a bunch of people and them kill himself and be saved. This makes no sense and many people believe this teaching today, but is it true? Once we have become a true child of God in Jesus Christ, can we go on living like the world, in open rebellious sin and still be saved? Most people who believe this teaching will quote the following bible verse as proof: "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, not powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38, 39 Now this is a wonderful Bible promise that God has given us and it should inspire us all. But, does it say once a person is born again, it is impossible for him to lose his way and be lost? In fact, is this verse talking about salvation of eternal life at all? No, this verse is clearly talking about God's unconditional love towards man, not undconditional salvation. Salvation is conditional! You might also notice that the word "sin" was not included in the list of things which are unable to separate us from God. If we continue in sin, after we have asked Jesus to be our personal Savior, are we really in a saved relationship? Have we really converted? "For if we sin wilfully after that have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins." Hebrews 10:26 I am nore sure if we ever do become sin-free, but I do know that God will Not deem us as righteous if we have unbridled sin and only the righteous make it to Heaven. Women Should Never be Pastors I am a woman and this website is a teaching tool for anyone who wants to learn from it. However, I would never pastor a church because God forbids it, according to scripture and scripture could not be more plain about the subject. Paul states, "But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet, For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve."1 Tim. 2:12-13 This is tough teaching for some people to hear, but to reject it means to reject all of the bible as the true word of God. God has ordained that only men are to serve in positions of spiritual teaching authority in the church. This is not because men are necessarily better teachers or because women are inferior or less intelligent (which is not the case). It is simply the way God designed the church to function. Men are to set the example in spiritual leadership—in their lives and through their words. Women are to take a less authoritative role. Women are encouraged to teach other women (Titus 2:3–5). The Bible also does not restrict women from teaching children. The only activity women are restricted from is teaching or having spiritual authority over men. This precludes women from serving as pastors to men. This does not make women less important, by any means, but rather gives them a ministry focus more in agreement with God’s plan and His gifting of them. The "Sinner's Prayer" is Not Biblical Many Pastors and Christians agree that in order to become "Born Again," you must say the sinners prayer. The reality is that no one in the Bible ever prayed the "sinner's prayer," or even prayed for their initial salvation. However, they did believe, repent, confess Jesus and be immersed in water for the forgiveness of their sins. The sinners prayer is a man made ideology that thwarts God's plan of salvation. 1. First, they replaced believers baptism by immersion with infant baptism by sprinkling of water. 2. Second, they later replaced baptism altogether with the "sinners prayer" so that baptism is no longer even part of the plan of salvation. If you prayed the "sinners prayer" for your salvation, you are still lost in your sins, because it is not what God said to do. It is a proven fact that 80-90% of people who say the sinner's prayer turns back to their old ways and yet they view themselves as "Christians." It makes sense then that only 10-20% of the congregations who attend Christian Churches are truly saved and are true followers of Christ. This explains why awhile ago, the Holy Spirit told me that most people who attend church will not make it to Heaven. This did not make sense at the time to me, but now it does. I said the sinner's prayer along time ago and did not turn from sin, but I thought that my place was in Heaven. About a year ago, the Holy Spirit told me, "your place is in Heaven, but you are not ready." Jesus was calling me to repent and become a true child of God. I did this and I am now a very devout Christian, which had nothing to do with the "Sinner's Prayer." And keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. Ezekiel 20:20 Sabbath on Sunday Has Pagan Roots People argue all the time about whether we should still keep the Sabbath Day Holy or what day it should be kept. The answer should be crystal clear in your mind when you know the history of the Sabbath. We all know that God said in the 10 Commandments to keep the Sabbath Holy. To ignore this would mean we should just ignore all other commandments and start murdering and stealing. So, obviously we should keep the Sabbath in obedience to God, just like the rest of the commandments. But what day is really the Sabbath Day? What many Christians do not understand is that Constantine claimed he was a Christian and he legalized the Sabbath to be on Sundays and yet before Constantine, the Jews and early Christians kept the Sabbath on Saturday. Constantine, knew that Rome could not kill Christianity. Instead, he devised a cunning plan to bend Christianity to his ways by changing things ever so slightly that over time Christians wouldn't even realize it. You see, Constantine was a devout Paganist and he regularly worshipped the Sun on Sun-day. He stated that he had a dream/vision and saw Jesus and he converted to Christianity. Christians believed him and blindly followed him and his pagan rituals. However, all of the artifacts of Constantines showed many signs of paganism and nothing of Christianity. I honestly never gave a second thought to having Sunday as the Sabbath day, until the Holy Spirit convicted me and showed me that if I worshipped on Sunday, I would be in essence worshipping the Pagan Gods that Constantine set up Christians to do. Constantine ultimately created the Catholic Church. (Click Here for more info) If I had to choose between worshipping on Saturday, based on old Jewish Law or worshipping on Sunday, based on Pagan/Catholic rituals, I would choose Saturday any day. However, I don't think there is anything wrong with attending a very good church on Sunday, if it meets the criteria I mention below, but the Holy Spirit convicted me that the Sabbath Day should be Saturday. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. Revelation 3:16 Church is Not a Business The Church should never, ever be set up like a business. This is happening more and more and I easily found an article that shows you how to Set up a Mega-Church in 7 simple steps and God Help Us All! The Church's priority should be preaching the Gospel and the truth according to scripture. CLICK HERE to read the full article. How to Start a Mega Church in 7 Steps 1. First think about yourself. To succeed you need to build a major corporation with a dedicated and loyal customer base. To do this you need to be professional, and powerful. 2. Get up to date demographic information for your city. Find the up-and-coming area. Ideally it should be growing quickly, mainly through settlement by young adults. 3. Plan to run a commissioning service for three months down the track. Your first month goal is to recruit a small group of people to support you. You will find them particularly at smaller local churches just outside the area you are targeting. Go to churches, attend services. Seek out key people, ex-members of the leadership team (they often are disenchanted with their churches progress). 4. Hire a great graphic design company (or better yet a talented religious designer willing to work on the cheap). Get a great flyer, website, and logo going. This will be your major calling card for the next 3 months. 5. Recognize that most of your churchgoers will be currently attending other churches (you’ll typically have less than 1/5 new converts). Your ideal recruit will be an existing churchgoer and male (because men still typically have more money, and have more say over their family finances, and if a man goes to a church it is much more likely that his whole family attends). 6. Make sure your first year of church is super-professional. Accept no amateurish compromises, even if you have to spend like crazy, or cut something out. Find some great musicians. If you can’t find them willing to do it for nothing, hire them. Music has to be top notch from day one. It is a main driver for visitors to feel ‘wowed’ and to feel that your church is better than theirs. Invest in a good PA and lighting. 7. From the very first service you need to be thinking about revenue. Initially it isn’t a hard sell. If you’ve done your job right, you’ll have a bunch of people excited about what you’ll do. They realise it needs resources. Appeal for support after your big sermons about changing the world. “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Mark 16:16 Baptism is Extremely Important Baptism is full of significance and should be performed on the same day of repentence and turning our hearts to Christ. Paul teaches us that the Christian is supposed to go through a similar experience to what Jesus went through in His death, burial and resurrection. The difference is that Jesus died physically and actually came back to life; we're to die to our sin, self and old ways, and then rise again to live a holy life through the power of Jesus. In other words, baptism is an outward symbol of an inner change and transformation that is supposed to take place beforehand. It's not that we have to completely overcome sin before we can be baptized, but we need to repent of our past sins and have our minds made up that we want to overcome sin. Baptism is not an option and must be done in full submersion for you to become a new creature in Christ. However, you do not have to be Baptized in order to become a "Born Again" Christian. Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves. Matthew 7:15 The Ecumenical Movement There is great emphasis in the Vatican on uniting people of all beliefs. The message is that we're not so different after all and we can work together, but the bible teaches against this. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. 2 Corinthians 6:14 & 17 The United Nations, which was created and is controlled by The Council on Foreign Relations, is highly involved in bringing to fruition a One World Religion, as part of a New World Order, which is the coming of the Anti Christ. This movement is real proof that we are truly in End Times and are approaching the Great Tribulation. It is just a matter of time that the "true" followers of Christ will become separated from the flock and then great persecution will come to them. Very soon the true followers of Christ will live and worship Christ in secrecy like the Apostles did. To see proof of popular Christian Churches joining this movement CLICK on these links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA4EPOfic5A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk3rCN7j66k What is a Good Church Like Not every Pastor is leading their flock astray. You can tell you are in a good church when your Pastor: 1. preaches the truth of the Gospel and is not afraid of the repercussions. 2. is not afraid to address controversial issues like the sin of homosexuality or abortion. 3. is convicted by the Holy Spirit that we are in End Times and preach to the congregation to get ready for it. 4. offers his congregation the option to worship on Saturdays. 5. truly loves and cares for his flock and is at their beck and call. If they need a place to stay, he provides it. If they need financial help, he helps. If they need food to eat, he gives them his food. He will also do weddings and funerals for free 6. is filled with the Holy Spirit and annoints his congregation with the Holy Spirit . It will truly be a place to honor and glorify Jesus Christ. 7. has a governing body in the church that handles the tithes and whom gives the Pastor a modest salary. They must all agree to where every single penny goes and how that money should be used to glorify God. Any Pastor that is rich and lives lavishly because of the tithes that come in or even of any books or products he sells should never be followed. The reason why is because no one should be rich when there is nothing but poverty and suffering all around us. You cannot serve Jesus and money at the same time. 8. takes care of the local people, (healing, casting out demons, financial help, signs and wonders) whether they are members of the church or not. 9. bears fruit and people wanting to be lukewarm Christians will not feel comfortable in his church 10. will NOT have altar calls as part of his sermon. Anyone willing to dedicate the rest of their life to Christ should be meeting with the Pastor or church elders and discussing what this all entails and making sure the person really knows what they are committing to. A full submersion Baptism should be offered at the same time as repentence and dedication to Christ. Keep in mind that people who truly repented and followed Christ the rest of their life did NOT have an altar call. God usually calls them to repentence in privacy. To see proof of this, CLICK HERE If you attend a church like this, than that is great and you should keep attending it. But such a church hardly exists anymore, I'm afraid. There are 4 Pastors whom I would highly recommend to you. These 4 men are my true brothers in Christ and God has placed a great love and respect in my heart for them. These are men that you should be listening to especially as we enter into End Times. 1. David Wilkerson - There has never been a Pastor whom had such a burden for the Church than David did. (he has passed away now) He also carried a tremendous burden that End Times was very near. He was a true example how a Pastor should lead his flock, take care of the local people and build a true Church to glorify God. 2. Paul Washer - It is not a coincidence that God has called Paul Washer to preach in End Times. He is a tenacious preacher who is not scared of the truth and who fights for the truth. I find it interesting that he bears the same name of Apostle Paul and they are similar in their dedication to Christ and the truth. 3. Torben Sondergaard - My spirit immediately leaped for joy when I heard this guy speak. He is a sweet and gentle man from Denmark, who goes around the world and does street healings. He loves Jesus very much and has a huge love for people. If you want to follow someone with more of a gentle approach to the Gospel, than Torben is your guy. 4. Andres Bisonni - Andres also has a very gentle and loving approach to bringing the Gospel of Jesus to the world. Andres has such an annointing that crowds of people flock to him and thousands of people are saved and many are healed. This guy is unstoppable and is called by God to give one last revival around the world so that all nations will hear the name of Jesus before End Times. If you combine these 4 men together in the body of Christ, you would have a powerful force (through Christ) that could not be stopped and that is how the Body of Christ is supposed to be. David Wilkerson - Getting you ready for End Times. Paul Washer - Tells you the truth no matter how hard it is to hear. Torben Sondergaard - Teaches you how The Body of Christ is supposed to be. Andres Bisonni - Helps ignite your spirit on Fire for the Holy Spirit. David Wilkerson Paul Washer Torben Sondergaard Andres Bisonni In Closing . . . The Church as we know it was never the Church that Christ intended for us. We attend Church on a pagan day and do rituals that were set up by a pagan worshipper. (Constantine) We are taught it is ok to sin just as long as we quote some little prayer. The Body of Christ was always supposed to be what Jesus set it up to be, which is in the Book of Acts. Instead, we just show up and sit on a bench for an hour, while the people around us suffer spiritually, emotionally, financially, mentally, physically, etc. The Church is now a place that tickles the ears of the lukewarm Christians and makes them think they have done well by attending it. The true Body of Christ is a group of people who can meet anywhere and pray and worship together, but then gets out and spreads the Gospel, just like the Book of Acts. It would be great to be a part of a great church, but hardly a church exists anymore and we will be better off not attending. Having fellowship with like minded people, getting out and sharing the Gospel, Praying and studying the word or God is very effective. In fact, it is more effective than attending church because we then aren't learning some very bad habits from very lost pastors. Your very life may depend on it.

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2 Peter 3:10-12King James Version (KJV) 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

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MY BISHOP AND MY DUKE AND MY RUFFLES My Chipper

Tribulation Now Goodnight Gracie, my sweet friend † ღ Thank you for your love and Father thank you for the loan “I stood by your bed last night, I came to have a peep. I could see that you were crying, You found it hard to sleep. I whined this to you softly As you brushed away a tear, “It’s me, I haven’t left you, I’m well, I’m fine, I’m here.” I was close to you at breakfast, I watched you pour the tea, You were thinking of the many times, Your hands reached down to me. I was with you at the shops today, Your arms were getting sore. I longed to take your parcels, I wish I could do more. I was with you at my grave today, You tend it with such care. I want to reassure you, That I am not lying there. I walked with you towards the house, As you fumbled for your key. I gently put my paw on you, I smiled and said “It’s me.” You looked so very tired, and sank into a chair. I tried so hard to let you know That I was standing there. It’s possible for me to be so near you every day. To say to you with certainty “I never went away.” You sat there very quietly, Then smiled, I think you knew That in the stillness of that evening, I was very close to you. The day is over. I smile and watch you yawning and say “Goodnight, God bless, I’ll see you in the morning.” And when the time is right for you To cross the brief divide, I’ll rush across to greet you And we’ll stand, side by side. I have so many things to show you, There is so much for you to see. Be patient, live your journey out. Then come home to be with me.”

HE IS COMING SOON

Now The End Begins The Strange, Unfulfilled Doomsday Prophecy Of Acts Chapter 2 by Geoffrey Grider It's the day of Pentecost, and it's the very first baby steps of the Church. Jesus was standing up and getting ready to come back. So what happened? "For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:" Acts 2:15-17 (KJV) As Christians, when we read the New Testament, we have a tendency to take everything from Matthew 1 to Revelation 22 and lump it all together with the Church. For many of us, this is how we were taught to read the Bible. But this is not how the Bible was written. All of the New Testament was not written about the Church living in the age of Grace. In fact, there are 3 different groups of people that God can be addressing at any given time. act-2-peters-prophecy-book-of-joel-battle-armageddon-great-tribulation-time-jacobs-trouble One of the greatest examples of this is found in Acts 2, where the apostle Peter is talking about something very strange. We understand that Acts 2 is the start of the Christian Church, that's true, but the story that it tells is of the Church in transition and not one in completion. In Acts 2, Peter is in charge, but just a few chapters later he will be replaced by the Apostle Paul, and by Acts 15 he is gone never to be heard from again. When Peter preaches the need to "repent and be baptized" in Acts 2:39, this gospel is not at all like the gospel Paul would preach in Ephesians 2:8,9 of salvation by grace though faith, with no works attached to it at all. The dispensation of faith plus works ends with Peter and the age of Grace begins with Paul. But before it happens, Peter opens his mouth and utters a prophecy that remains unfulfilled to this day. It's the day of Pentecost, and it's the very first baby steps of the Church. Peter is preaching, the Holy Spirit is falling like flames of fire, and thousands are getting saved. The miracle of tongues - the ability to speak a foreign language you never learned - is in evidence, and the shocked people watching begin to mock and say that they're drunk. Peter rebukes them, and then says something startling. He says not only are these men not drunk, but that the Tribulation is about to start and Jesus is getting ready to come back and fight the battle of Armageddon. What??? Yep. We know this is true because he opens his mouth and quotes from the Prophet Joel, who wrote almost exclusively on the subject of the Tribulation and Armageddon. We quoted the first part of it at the start of this article, here is the rest of it: "And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Acts 2:18-21 (KJV) To me, that's truly amazing. Peter is telling the crowds that had gathered that what the Prophet Joel had prophesied about the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus was coming true right then and there. If that had continued to happen, there would have been no Church Age, no Apostle Paul, no gentiles being saved. None of it. Let that thought sink in for a moment. So if Peter was saying that Joel's prophecy was coming true, what stopped it? It stopped in Acts chapter 7. "When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth." Acts 7:54 (KJV) It all came to a crashing halt when the Jews rejected the preaching of Stephen. When the Holy Spirit spoke through Stephen, God was giving His People one more chance to get it right. They rejected God the Father in the Old Testament, and they resulted in 400 years of silence from Malachi to Matthew. They rejected Jesus Christ in the New Testament, and that resulted in the cross and the empty tomb. Now here in Acts 7, God gives them one, last chance to accept the witness of the Holy Spirit through Stephen. Stephen preaches his heart out, and lets it fly with both barrels. This is some of the best preaching found anywhere in the Bible. At the end of it, in accordance with Peter declaring Joel's prophecy to be coming true in Acts 2, we see Jesus STANDING UP and ready to return to the Earth. This is end, here He comes..... "But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." Acts 7:55,56 (KJV) ...but it was not to be. Why? The Jews did not receive Stephen's preaching, in fact, the Bible records that they beat him to death with rocks. What was the result? Stephen died, the window in Heaven closed, and Jesus sat back down. Joel's prophecy would be postponed for 2,000 more years. In Acts 8, the first gentile gets saved with the Ethiopian eunuch and Philip, and in Acts 9, Saul gets knocked off his horse and get commissioned by Jesus Himself to be the leader of what the Church would fully transition into. A church made of up both Jews and Gentiles, in one body. Peter never saw it coming, and Paul called it a "mystery". "Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" Colossians 1:25-27 (KJV) The Church Age will end with the Rapture, and that event will usher in the time of Jacob's Trouble, what Jesus calls the Great Tribulation in Matthew 24. It will be in this time period that Joel's prophecy will finally be fulfilled. Joel's prophecy is for the Jews and about Israel, it is the final fire of refinement that God must put His People through. But it has nothing to do with the Church. The Church is "Plan B", it was always "Plan B". God was fully ready, as Peter preached, to pull the plug without ever creating a gentile Church. Peter was 100% right when he declared Joel's prophecy to be coming true, but the rejection of Stephen's preaching by the Jews stopped that timeclock. We are in the closing minutes of the Church Age, get something done for Jesus while there is still time left.

I knew something was off on facebook

Now The End Begins Inside An Asian ‘Click Farm’ That Sells Fake Facebook Likes Through Fake Profiles (VIDEO) by Geoffrey Grider Just Google "buy Facebook likes" and you'll see how easy it is to purchase black-market influence on the Internet though foreign click farms EVERY MORNING, KIM Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building high above the slums in Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines. She is a pretty, milk-skinned, 17-year-old girl who loves the movie Frozen and whose favorite pastime is singing karaoke. She is on her way to do her part in bringing down Facebook. Casipong huffs to the third floor, opens a door decorated with a crucifix, and greets her co-workers. The curtains are drawn, and the artificial moonlight of computer screens illuminates the room. Eight workers sit in two rows, their tools arranged on their desks: a computer, a minaret of cellphone SIM cards, and an old cellphone. Tens of thousands of additional SIM cards are taped into bricks and stored under chairs, on top of computers, and in old instant-noodle boxes around the room. inside-facebook-social-media-twitter-click-farm Richard Braggs, Casipong's boss, sits at a desk positioned behind his employees, occasionally glancing up from his double monitor to survey their screens. Even in the gloom, he wears Ray-Ban sunglasses to shield his eyes from the glare of his computer. ("Richard Braggs" is the alias he uses for business purposes.) Casipong inserts earbuds, queues up dance music, and checks her clients' instructions. Their specifications are often quite pointed. A São Paulo gym might request 75 female Brazilian fitness fanatics, or a bar in San Francisco's Castro district might want 1,000 local gay men. Her current order is the most common: fake Facebook profiles of beautiful American women between the ages of 20 and 30. Once a client has received the accounts, he will probably use them to sell Facebook likes to customers looking for an illicit social media boost. Most of the accounts Casipong creates are sold to these digital middlemen — "click farms" as they have come to be known. Just as fast as Silicon Valley conjures something valuable from digital ephemera, click farms seek ways to create counterfeits. Just Google "buy Facebook likes" and you'll see how easy it is to purchase black-market influence on the internet: 1,000 Facebook likes for $29.99; 1,000 Twitter followers for $12; or any other type of fake social media credential, from YouTube views to Pinterest followers to SoundCloud plays. Social media is now the engine of the internet, and that engine is running on some pretty suspect fuel. Casipong plays her role in hijacking the currencies of social media — Facebook likes, Twitter followers — by performing the same routine over and over again. She starts by entering the client's specifications into the website Fake Name Generator, which returns a sociologically realistic identity: Ashley Nivens, 21, from Nashville, Tennessee, now a student at New York University who works part-time at American Apparel. Casipong then creates an email account. The email address forms the foundation of Ashley Nivens' Facebook account, which is fleshed out with a profile picture from photos that Braggs' workers have scraped from dating sites. The whole time, a proxy server makes it seem as though Casipong is accessing the internet from Manhattan, and software disables the cookies that Facebook uses to track suspicious activity. Next, Casipong inserts a SIM card into a Nokia cellphone, a pre–touch screen antique that's been used so much, the digits on its keypad have worn away. Once the phone is live, she types its number into Nivens' Facebook profile and waits for a verification code to arrive via text message. She enters the code into Facebook and — voilà! — Ashley Nivens is, according to Facebook's security algorithms, a real person. The whole process takes about three minutes. Casipong sometimes wonders what happens to profiles like these once she turns them over to the clients. But it's just a job. Once she earns a degree in web design, she hopes to join the Philippine diaspora and find work in Australia, New Zealand, or the United States. When Casipong stands up at 6 p.m., a night-shift worker is waiting to take her chair. ONCE, IF YOU wanted to make money scamming people on the internet, you used email. For two years, Braggs made his living spamming half a billion email addresses, hawking blueprints for a mythical perpetual energy machine or e-books that explained the secret to winning the lottery. Filipinos even invented a term for this kind of work, "onlining," and for about a decade it was a semi-honorable career path in Cebu City, the metropolitan area that encompasses Lapu-Lapu City and is one of the foremost business-outsourcing centers in the world. But from 2010 to 2012, teams of internet security researchers and law enforcement officials dismantled several spambot networks across the world. These efforts, combined with the improved defenses of email hosts, effectively disabled many onliners in Cebu City. They had to look for new ways to make money. Meanwhile, social media's takeover of the internet had been swift and dramatic. Between 2005 and 2012, the percentage of internet-using American adults on a social media platform mushroomed from 8 to 70 percent. In 2005, Facebook had 5.5 million users; at the end of 2014, it claimed 1.4 billion active monthly users — a little less than half of all people with internet access. In 2009, Facebook introduced the "like" button, which quickly became a way for people to celebrate an engagement or the birth of a baby, but also for brands to get people to endorse their products. Companies loved social media for the ostensible humanity it lent them; sales leads that came through social media, studies showed, had a much higher chance of converting into actual purchases. Google's and Bing's algorithms take social media into account, so large followings could also improve a company's position in search-engine rankings, where appearing even one slot higher can mean significant additional revenue. Facebook Farming: The Scam of "Like" Celebrities — and more minor personalities, like bloggers trying to get endorsement deals — have increasingly found their value measured in Facebook fans and Twitter followers, and the payments they receive proportionate to their social media clout. Khloé Kardashian reportedly earns around $13,000 every time she tweets things like, "Want to know how Old Navy makes your butt look scary good?" to her 14.5 million followers. Politicians desire large followings for obvious reasons. Even ordinary people have discovered perks to having an extensive social media presence: Some employers, for instance, now require social media savvy for jobs in marketing, PR, or tech. To help companies, celebrities, and everyday people boost their social media standing, onliners set up internet stores — click farms — where customers can buy social media influence. Click farms can be found across the globe, but are most commonly based in the developing world, in countries like India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. Most are run by smaller teams that manage software to give digital life to accounts like "Ashley Nivens." Researchers estimate that the market for fake Twitter followers was worth between $40 million and $360 million in 2013, and that the market for Facebook spam was worth $87 million to $390 million. International corporations like Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, and Louis Vuitton have all been accused of employing click farms, and celebrities like 50 Cent, Paris Hilton, and LeAnn Rimes have been suspected of buying fake followers. During his 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney gained more than 100,000 Twitter followers in a single weekend, despite averaging only 4,000 new followers a day previously. (His campaign denied having bought any fakes.) One Indonesian click farmer told me that he had funneled 2 million Facebook likes to a candidate in his nation's hotly contested July 2014 presidential election. Click farms jeopardize the existential foundation of social media — the idea that the interactions on it are between real people. Just as importantly, they undermine the assumption that advertisers can use the medium to efficiently reach real people who will shell out real money. More than $16 billion was spent worldwide on social media advertising in 2014; this money is the primary revenue for social media companies. But if social media is no longer made up of real people, what is it? BRAGGS GOT INTO onlining in 2011 after a friend who had struck it rich spamming gave him the software to start his own operation. When Braggs' email spam business failed in 2012, he opened his own click farm, manually forging thousands of Facebook accounts and selling likes from them, incrementally hiring workers as his business grew. By July 2013, he was making phone-verified accounts — or PVAs — full time. He hired 17 employees, including Casipong, and established round-the-clock shifts so his farm never went dark. Casipong guesses that she makes over 100 Facebook PVAs a day. Other employees average more than 150. Braggs sells PVAs for 70 cents; "premium" PVAs — accounts that are fleshed out with more than bare-bones biographical details — can be bought for $1.50. Since his business began, Braggs has expanded into Yahoo, Gmail, and Twitter PVAs, and his customers have used the fake accounts in all sorts of scams. On the dating site Tinder, for example, Braggs said he believes seductive women solicit male users for pay-to-access porn sites. His biggest order, he told me, was for Chinese hackers trying to fleece the digital payment exchange Stellar; he hired every freelance worker he could find, but he was still only able to fulfill a small portion of it. But Braggs' farm feels more like a startup than a developing-world sweatshop. Most of his employees are young IT university graduates infused with the excitement of beating the system. There is an office puppy named Hacker, and Braggs pays for a cook to prepare lunch for the employees every day. Casipong earns about $215 a month, significantly more than the local minimum wage for a domestic helper, which can be as low as $34 a month. What Braggs and click-farm managers are doing is not illegal in the Philippines. Facebook's terms of service are not international law. "Click farming raises serious consumer protection questions," said Ian Ayres, a professor at Yale's law and business schools. But the actual law is less explicit. And Braggs has his own business ethics: He's not hacking anyone's bank account, only offering a service that people are clamoring to pay for. And in the process, he's providing for himself, his family, and his countrymen. THIS FEBRUARY, FACEBOOK stated that about 7 percent of its then 1.4 billion accounts were fake or duplicate, and that up to 28 million were "undesirable" — used for activities like spamming. In August 2014, Twitter disclosed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that 23 million — or 8.5 percent — of its 270 million accounts were automated. It is in the interest of Facebook and other platforms to downplay the severity of the fake-accounts problem. In 2014, more than 90 percent of Facebook's $12.5 billion in revenue and about 90 percent of Twitter's $1.4 billion in revenue came from advertising. If researchers are correct that advertising on social media leads to a high percentage of fake likes and fans and followers, the entire business model could be called into question by advertisers. It seems impossible that Facebook, with its army of coders and multibillion-dollar war chest, won't eventually crush Braggs and his operation. The company knows his real name. It barrages his inboxes with cease-and-desist orders. But he's hopeful. "Every system is made by humans," Braggs told me, "so there is always a way to beat it."