The Higher Law

 (The following is a translation from the character formation, “Satan’s Strategy for World Politics.”  Below is the character associated with this translation.) 

Controlling technological advancement is one of the most important objectives of Satan and the beast.  Satan, through the beast, has worked diligently to establish great positions of power by accumulating great wealth, establishing control over critical natural resources and embedding his ideologies and followers into the most influential organizations in each society.  Through this strategy, the beast has generated an untold treasure of power and wealth.

Technological advancements redefine an economy.  Each significant technological advancement has the potential to change the positions of power and create new wealth, which often significantly reduces the power and wealth generated by older technologies.  Satan fears free-market economies, as they encourage technological advancement and lack the government control of the power and wealth created through such advancements.  In such an environment, it is difficult for Satan and the beast to establish and maintain permanent positions of power. 

Five Essential Industries

The following is a list of five industries Satan has identified as essential to his strategy in maintaining his positions of power and wealth and advancing his purposes:

Energy

The beast has established a fantastic position of power in the energy industry.  It has obtained significant control and ownership over the energy companies as well as the natural resources they utilize.  Further, the beast has established significant national and international laws that protect its power and wealth.  Emerging technologies threaten this position.  To combat this, the beast utilizes a myriad of strategies including purchasing and shelving new technologies, discrediting or eliminating the companies or individuals creating or promoting new technologies and preventing the advancement of technologies through regulations, lawsuits or patents.  Control of energy is a critical part of the beast’s strategy in establishing The New World Order, thus, at whatever cost it must maintain its position of power in this area until this objective is achieved. 

Transportation

The transportation industry is essential for the operation of every nation and control of this industry provides a significant position of power.  Satan’s primary strategy in this industry is to control the infrastructure and the most influential corporations.  He has achieved much success in this strategy in most nations.  Further, because of the significant size of the transportation industry, any significant technological advancements in this industry could provide significant power and wealth to the owners of such technology.  The beast combats this through significant regulations and laws.  These laws inhibit innovation and advancement outside of what the beast can easily control.    

Food Production

The beast seeks to control the food industry throughout the world through large corporations and government regulations.  The beast recognizes that if it can control the food, it obtains a significant position of power over the entire world.  Currently the beast is creating regulations that significantly increase the complexity and costs associated with food production.  These regulations are aimed at putting the small farmer out of business and increasing the food production of and our reliance on the large corporations, which it controls.   Further, the significant regulations for food production and distribution make technological advancements in this area very difficult and easily controlled by the beast.  Finally, the beast’s control of the food industry provides a way for genetic alterations and manipulations that have important long-term ramifications for the strategy of the beast. 

Healthcare

Satan’s control of healthcare is a critical part of his strategy.  The beast’s objective in this industry is to be the most advanced medical organization in the world.  Although healthcare creates significant wealth and is a great tool through which to impose government regulations in free markets, its greatest power is in its ability to create distractions and fear.  Through the distraction and fear it can create through pandemics and other carefully timed medical emergencies, it can distract the world from key events and violate the liberties of citizens.  The beast is constantly advancing in its abilities in molecular manipulation, virus mutation, and genetic alterations.  This is only the beginning of all that the beast plans to do through its great position of power in this industry.

Communication

The beast perceives the internet as a great danger to his causes.  As it is difficult to control information, communities and transactions on the internet, innovation in this area presents a significant threat that could reposition power and wealth.  The beast recognizes that the internet and the associated technologies that will expand its current abilities are creating a fundamental shift in economy, business, and society.  The beast is working diligent to establish regulations over the internet and obtain as much control as possible over those organizations most influential on the internet and in the emerging technologies.   On the other side, Satan is seeking to exploit the internet to accomplish many of his purposes in increasing the wealth and power of the beast, corrupting the individual and teaching his philosophies.  Other communication technologies are also a critical battlefield between good and evil.

Controlling Technological Advancements

Satan has designed to control technological advancements through a series of strategies.  The following are some of the most important aspects of this strategy. 

Corrupt Free-Market Economies

Through the beast, Satan seeks to destroy all free-market economies.  Satan has learned through history that these economies produce the most frequent technological advancements and provide him the least amount of control.  In such an environment, it is so difficult for Satan to maintain his positions of power.  Using the same strategies he has used throughout history, Satan corrupts the free-market economies by degrees until he has destroyed the very essence of the market.  He has achieved great success in this area, as even the greatest free-market economies of the world are losing their character to the corruptions he has introduced within them through the beast. 

Legislate Regulations and Taxes

Through the beast, Satan works to establish significant regulations and other barriers that hinder the creation of new technology.  He does this by adding government agencies, creating complex laws, and adding significant costs to those industries in which he is seeking to control technology development.  Through this, he can essentially control any technological advancement in these industries.  Further, Satan seeks to increase taxes to reduce the incentive and reward for the entrepreneur.  This is directly consistent with his strategy to corrupt free-market economies. 

Purchase or Destroy New Technologies

Through the unfathomable wealth and power of the beast, Satan directs the purchasing of new technologies or the destruction of the associated companies and individuals.  Currently, the greatest inventors and entrepreneurs are not seeing their inventions successfully brought to the market because of the designs of the beast. 

Technological advancements are some of the great unknowns in the adversary’s strategy to establish the New World Order.  Because of this, the beast is doing all that it can to control these technological advancements and ensure they do not compromise the great dominion Satan has obtained over this world.

 (The following is a translation from the character formation, “Satan’s Strategy for World Politics.”  Below is the character associated with this translation.) 

One of the most significant barriers to Satan achieving his purposes through the beast is the constitutions and laws that govern the nations of the world.  These laws protect the people, the natural resources, the culture and the social and economic structure of these nations.    When upheld by the people and the leaders of these nations, these laws can be a great force for good.  Satan recognizes this and through the beast systematically works among each nation and people to change these laws.  Through this process, he removes barriers that threaten the destiny he has planned for this world. 

 The beast accomplishes its purposes through its control of large corporations, governments, special interest groups, and not-for-profit organizations.  The organization of the beast is extremely complex and well-hidden.  In most of these organizations, only an elite group of leaders understand the real intentions of those purposes that are prospered through them, and very few of them understand the root organizations they serve.  In essence, we live in a society where our greatest and most powerful organizations are manipulated and controlled by Satan through the beast. 

One of the greatest tools of the beast is the large, multi-national corporations.  Not only do these organizations have tremendous wealth and power, but also have influence that penetrates into all countries and people.  These organizations, although subject to the laws of each nation in which they operate, are able to effectively prosper their purposes through their economic impact and political influence as citizens of the nations in which they operate.  Because of this, the beast continually expands its ownership of large corporations and increases its influence among those who lead these corporations.

Conquering Nations

Countries that effectively establish constitutions and laws that protect the rights of its people are a great enemy to the beast.  These countries not only inhibit the efforts of the beast in that nation, but also provide a standard to which other countries can aspire.  Thus, a key part of the strategy for the beast is to expand its control over each nation.  The following is a list of ways through which Satan achieves this control.

Increase Debt

The beast works diligently to enslave each nation through debt.  This strategy usually begins with a central bank that indebts a country through the issuance of its own currency.  Further, countries are often enticed to take loans from the World Bank or International Monetary Fund (IMF), both of which are powerful organizations controlled by the beast.  A nation’s debt is further increased through conflicts, wars and excessive government spending.   As the debt increases so does the control of the beast over that nation, as it is the controlling power behind almost all debt.

Control Leadership

The beast strives to control the leadership and influential people of each nation.  Satan’s strategies in this area include fear, bribery, blackmail, and assassination.  The beast accomplishes most of these purposes through large corporations.  We cannot currently comprehend the sophistication and craft associated with these efforts in converting, mobilizing, removing and disposing of key individuals in each nation. 

Transform Structure

In many nations, the beast must transform the very economic, social, political, and legal structures to obtain the power it desires over that nation.  The beast and its organizations are so often the instigator of political movements, legal reforms, revolutions, wars, and other conflicts that transform the underlying structure of a nation.  These often require shifts in regimes and political control to give power to those willing to move forward the changes designed by the beast.  The beast also uses fear to increase its ability to change laws and manipulate the political philosophies of individuals and nations.  Satan has learned to be patient, and in many cases allows his purposes through the beast to be prospered over many generations. 

Exploiting Nations

As the beast increases its control over a nation, it changes the laws and continues those policies that will increase its power over that nation.  Further, it exploits each nation to prosper its purposes.  Examples of strategies utilized by the beast are as follows: 

Exploit Natural Resources

The beast covets the natural resources of each nation.  As the beast obtains power over that nation, it either purchases control of the natural resources or obtains agreement by which it can purchase the resources at a much discounted value.  In all cases, it is a detriment to the people and the nation, further binding them in poverty and restriction. 

Devalue Currency

The beast seeks to devalue the currency of each country to reduce the cost necessary to purchase organizations, natural resources, and other assets of the country.  Examples of these include public utilities, owners or producers of natural resources, and influential organizations.  Further, the devaluation of the currency often leads to political turmoil and economic weakness that increases the ability of the beast to control the government, organizations, and individuals of these countries. 

Induce Political Support

The beast induces the political support of these nations for both local and international political agendas.  Through this, the beast obtains great power in changing the laws.  Further, this influence allows the beast to place its people in positions of power throughout the world and expand its dominion. 

Utilize Military and Intelligence

The beast utilizes the intelligence and military operations of those countries it controls to prosper its purposes among other countries.  For example, the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were manipulated by the beast’s strategy to overthrow existing governments, increase access to natural resources and increase the debt of different nations.  Further, once the military had accomplished the desired purposes, the beast began utilizing political means to seek the withdrawal of these militaries that it may establish a new regime willing to abide by its dictates and create a structure that allows it to exploit these nations.  When the initial efforts of the beast fail, it calls upon, through treachery and deceit, the military and intelligence operations of different nations to fulfill its purposes by force. 

The beast will spare nothing in accomplishing its purposes.  Breaking laws, bribery, blackmail, and murder are all utilized regularly to move forward the purposes of the beast.  The countries, organizations, and individuals that stand against it are discredited or destroyed.  Unknown to most of us, the beast grows in power and strength and binds the world with a great chain of deceit and power that threatens our very existence.  The only thing left for the beast to fear is that the people of the earth recognize their bondage and rise up together.  However, Satan is so confident in his current position that he no longer even fears this, as he believes he can squash any movement before it obtains momentum sufficient to attract and unite a sufficiently large group of individuals.

 (The following is a translation from the character formation, “Satan’s Strategy for World Politics.”  Below is the character associated with this translation.) 

Throughout the history of this world, Satan has enticed individuals to seek wealth and power at the expense of others.  Once wealth and power are obtained, Satan convinces them that they are the elite and entices them in a greater journey for wealth and power.  Through such individuals, Satan seeks to accomplish his purposes according to the principles established in the translation for “The Dispensation of Power.”  Satan has often sought to unify his followers, but these efforts have been plagued with inner conflict, lack of long-term vision and other vulnerabilities.  Through many failures, Satan has refined his strategies and structures.  Using his new knowledge over the last century, Satan has successfully combined a large group of the most wealthy and powerful individuals in the world and successfully united them behind a common cause.

Secret Societies

This group of elites and the movement they propagate is the beast.  Satan has united these individuals through a variety of secret societies where they learn and conspire together.  Examples of these secret societies include The Bilderberg Group, The Bohemian Club, Council on Foreign Relations, and the The Trilateral Commission.  Many of the individuals in these secret societies do not understand the nature of and great evil behind what they promote but are enticed to contribute that they may benefit from the current and future power and wealth that are promised by these organizations. 

The most powerful and wealthy of all of the secret societies goes by different names but can trace its roots back to a secret organization established hundreds of years ago–the Illuminati.  This group has obtained great power through its discovery of a secret order utilized by individuals and organizations in the past to obtain great power and wealth.  This secret order includes oaths, signs, tokens and rituals through which they obtain great secrecy, loyalty and power.  This organization is among all nations and is often unknown by many of those who contribute to and prosper its causes.  More will be revealed about this organization in future translations, as it is at the heart of the beast and is the primary source of power through which the beast continues to achieve its objectives.  However, as you consider this, please recognize the extent to which Satan has gone to hide and fictionalize this organization. 

The New World Order

Through secret contracts and treaties, many of the secret societies have united together to further a single objective, which is the establishment of the New World Order.  This movement seeks to establish a worldwide totalitarian government that will be led by the elite.  This government will include a worldwide currency and central bank.  Although the elite have already achieved great milestones in achieving this, they believe that the most essential milestone, which will essentially guarantee the success of their movement, is the establishment of a worldwide economy, currency and central bank.  Through the wealth and power they will obtain through this, they are confident they can complete the transition to a worldwide government. 

The elite will build a great case for the New World Order, claiming it will fix the inefficiencies and volatility of the global economy, end war and conflict and allow the world to unite behind the common good.  In reality, the New World Order will rob us of our rights and agency, giving all power to the elite who have chosen Satan.  As with all such governments that violate the order of the republic, it will eventually fail and bring the great suffering and destruction that Satan has planned for this world. 

To accomplish this strategy, Satan knows he must achieve two things. 

Bring the World to Its Knees

First, Satan must bring the world to its knees.  In essence, he must create the need for and break down all barriers to the establishment of the the New World Order.  The following are three components of Satan’s strategy, which he is accomplishing through the beast.    

Remove Our Stability and Identity

Satan seeks to remove our stability and identity, so that in desperation we will accept the diabolical plan that he offers.  One of his primary tools he will use to accomplish this is to create great volatility in the financial markets by manipulating the money supply through his control of central banks.  This further leads to political chaos.  Through this and other efforts, he creates great suffering that he believes will destroy our national pride and lead us to embrace regional and worldwide organizations like the United Nations and European Union.  Through such organizations, Satan consolidates power and systematically extracts the individual sovereignty of each nation and its people.

Destroy Our Purpose and Progress

Satan seeks to destroy our purpose and progress, as he recognizes the great power that we obtain through developing our gifts and pursuing our passions.  Satan seeks to destroy or taint our education to alter our understanding of history and reduce our ability to think and reason.  He seeks to prevent industrialization and scientific advancement.  Satan further seeks to establish laws and traditions that prevent us from choosing our own path and destiny.  He also seeks to demoralize the human spirit through mass employment and suppression. 

Break Our Moral Foundation

Satan seeks to break the family and the moral fiber of society, as they are great barriers to his plan for the New World Order.  He does this through weakening religion and decreasing morality.  Drugs, pornography and so many other false beliefs and addictive habits are the tools he utilizes to accomplish this.    

Control Our Lives

Second, Satan must establish great control over all aspects of our lives to ensure that the false reality he builds is not exposed, and that he can discredit or destroy any individuals or organizations that oppose his efforts.  The following is a brief summary of the primary ways by which he seeks to obtain this control over us through the beast.

Positions of Influence

Satan places his people in key positions in government, business, legal systems and all aspects of society to ensure he maintains control and knowledge of each nation and society.  The beast has millions of employees and loyalists that carry out its purposes in all aspects of our lives. 

Mass Surveillance

As Satan, through the beast, has great control over most governments, he seeks to reduce our privacy and increase mass surveillance among all nations.  This provides his organizations a great awareness of the movements, opinions and strategies of all people, especially those who may potentially hinder his plans. 

Media Control

Satan, through the beast, controls most media and is able to filter and format news to manipulate our understanding and beliefs.  Through this control, he can hide his organizations and prosper his philosophies and purposes.  Further, the control of the media gives him the ability to discredit potential foes and distort truths that threaten the progress of his plans. 

Gun Control

Eventually, Satan, through the beast, will seek to use force in his conquest of the world.  As he maintains significant control over governments and thus militaries, he seeks to remove the weapons from the general population to prevent current and future uprisings against his planned conquests.   

Distractions

One of Satan’s primary objectives is to distract us from the real enemy.  As long as he keeps us focused on outside enemies, we will not recognize the destruction that is occurring within our nations.  Al-Qaeda is a perfect example of this.  Satan indoctrinates the western nations that Al-Qaeda is its greatest enemy.  This is especially convincing because of the lack of knowledge and fears many individuals in western countries have of the Islamic people, especially those they consider to be extreme.  Yet, Satan directly created and funded Al-Qaeda through the beast to draw the attention of the western nations away from the real enemy working among them. 

Over the years, Satan has become a great organizer.  He has learned to exercise patience in carrying out his purposes.  He has structured organizations, built secret societies and indoctrinated so many people to move forward his purposes.  The beast has clear objectives it is accomplishing one at a time.  We, as a world, must become aware of the pending catastrophe that hangs over us and the evil that has so successfully interwoven itself into all aspects of our lives.

  (The following is a translation from the character formation, “Satan’s Strategy for World Politics.”  Below is the character associated with this translation.) 

One of the great strategies of the adversary is to establish the belief that money is evil.  Through this strategy, Satan can make significant strides in establishing key doctrines through which he can accomplish his purposes in economy.  First, he can diminish our understanding of the importance of economy in our growth and in the fulfillment of God’s plan.  Second, he can minimize the importance of the structure of production and trade.  Third, he can hide his strategy to destroy money and rid us of the opportunities we receive through its proper use.  This translation will reveal the true nature of money and the adversary’s strategy to destroy it. 

Money is the primary tool of exchange and is the physical manifestation of production and trade in a market.  Money acknowledges an essential purpose of our existence—to utilize our God-given gifts to create and produce.  When allowed to operate under the natural laws of economy, money demonstrates the core principles of accountability, as we are rewarded according to our productivity.  Money acknowledges our responsibility to think, learn, create, produce and build economies and markets that fulfill the greater purposes of this existence.    When used properly, money is a great protector of a significant set of moral values.

Money and Worship

Satan recognizes that our dealings with money demonstrate the God that we worship.  Further, he understands that the power of money is directly correlated to the strength of the character of those who earn and use it.  Those who earn money through creativity and production unlock its power and worship God.  Those who obtain money through craft worship Satan.  Those who respect money and use it to obtain happiness unlock its power and worship God.  Those who worship money or deplore it and use it in a manner inconsistent with happiness worship Satan.  Those who earn and spend money according to the natural laws of economy unlock its power and worship God.    Those who plunder or violate another’s rights in obtaining money worship Satan.  Those who obtain money through their pursuit of their passions and dreams unlock its power and worship God.  Those who obtain money through envy worship Satan. 

Money and Philosophy

When allowed to function within the natural laws of God, money and its use in production and trade provide the foundation for understanding important truths of this life.  When used properly, money requires value for value.  Further, money allows us to better understand our liberties and progress in our understanding of God’s natural laws.  Through this, we are taught and invited to live three fundamental philosophies.  First, that man’s happiness is the moral purpose of his existence.  Second, that we are never to live for another person or ask another person to live for us.  Third, that we can find greater happiness for ourselves by following God’s laws.  Serving others and helping those in need are examples of laws that offer a greater happiness. 

Through subtle manipulations of natural laws, Satan has changed the purpose of money and altered the underlying philosophies it promotes.  He labels the seeking of happiness as selfishness and individualism.  He offers an alternative philosophy of self-sacrifice for others or the common good.  These principles sound very appealing and appear consistent with God’s laws of service and helping those in need.  However, these subtle manipulations alter God’s laws sufficiently to justify Satan’s attacks on all three aspects of agency defined in the translation for “The Economy of Satan.”  As soon as Satan can convince us that the happiness of others or the common good are the moral purpose of our existence, he has established the foundation through which he can destroy our economies and governments.  This is the underlying philosophy Satan preached before this life and by which he convinced so many of God’s children to rebel against the plan of happiness God had established for each of us. 

Satan’s Plan to Destroy Money

The battleground of money has now been established.  Satan understands his strategy requires that he be victorious in altering our philosophies of money and destroying its power to teach and reinforce truth.  To alter our philosophies associated with money, he must destroy our confidence in money and alter the natural laws that are to govern how money is obtained and used.  Satan utilizes two primary strategies to accomplish this.

Economic Plunder

In our weakness, we seek to achieve our desires through the least possible labor.  Through the enticements of Satan, we so often seek to live and prosper at the expense of another.  Satan entices us to alter laws and violate the unalienable right of property, taking from another that which they have earned.  Although this may be legal according to the altered laws, it is theft according to the higher laws of God.

Through economic plunder, Satan destroys the accountability of the economy and reduces the incentive to trade and produce.  As economic plunder increase, more and more people profit from the work of others.  Over time the trade and production of an economy is reduced until the economy fails and the people suffer.  Through this process, Satan completely distorts the role and destroys the value of money and economy.

Control of Money Supply

Satan seeks to control the money supply of the world.  Through this, Satan manipulates economies causing great turmoil in financial markets.  He causes great periods of prosperity and great recessions, removing consistency and reliability from the market.  Through this, he shakes our confidence and trust in money and in the economy.

Further, through his manipulation of money supply, he obtains great wealth for his organizations.  These organizations then use this wealth to protect their position of power, prosper the causes of Satan and obtain political power through which they can change laws. 

Satan is the master manipulator.  Through his strategies, he has so successfully tainted our understanding of economy and money.  We should view economy and money as the great source of opportunity and freedom.  We currently view economy and money as an evil but necessary parts of life.  We should trust the natural laws of economy and allow them to expand without government regulation.  We currently view economy and money as unstable and something that must be regulated and controlled by government.

It is time for us to awake to the realities of our situation.  What is it about money and our economy that has altered our perspective on its purpose and power?  Is it not fractional banking and Satan’s control of money supply?  Is it not the economic plunder and government regulations?  It is time for us to take another look at our economies and reestablish them on the natural laws that God created for our learning and progress.  Satan continues to win so many victories in our economy primarily through his manipulations of our understanding and use of money.

 (The following is a translation from the character formation, “Satan’s Strategy for World Politics.”  Below is the character associated with this translation.) 

In folklore, the devil or Satan, is said to hold a pitchfork.  This stems from actual symbolism shown through Greek Mythology and other sources that reveal what Satan actually holds is a trident.  A trident is a three-prong staff.  This trident provides significant symbolism in revealing Satan’s power.  Satan is a fisherman in that he is seeking to catch each of us.  The tool he has chosen is a trident.  Why?  Because it doesn’t just catch us, it bleeds us of strength and life.

In regards to his strategy for the world, Satan seeks to stab his trident through the center of the world.  Why?  To bleed the world of strength and life.  The orbit and position of our world is maintained through the principles of physical law as balanced by light and gravity.  The environment of our world that provides for our advancement and learning is also maintained through God’s laws.  Through deceit, Satan seeks to convince us that we need the prongs of his trident to support and sustain our world.  Through these lies, he has embedded the prongs of his trident in our world and in many of us. 

The purpose of this translation is to reveal the trident and its three prongs.  We will first discuss the symbolism of the three prongs—pride, fear and envy.

Pride

The word “pride” has been given many meanings throughout history.  However, for the purposes of this translation, pride is hatred or hostility towards God and man.  Pride is the antithesis of love and is one of the adversary’s greatest tools in accomplishing his plans. 

The power of pride is in its ability to destroy the foundation and power that is found in the Law of Equality.  The Law of Equality states that all men are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights.  The Law of Equality is based on the existence of God, as He is the Creator acknowledged in this law.  Love is that which seals the Law of Equality to become the foundational laws for our world.  The first of these foundational laws is to love God with all of our heart, mind and strength.  The second of these foundational laws is to love our neighbor as ourselves.  All other laws hinge upon these foundational laws. 

Pride is the great tool the adversary uses to negate the light and power we obtain through the Law of Equality and the foundational laws it becomes through love.  Further, pride is the justification through which we violate the rights of another, put our will above God’s will and commit so many other evils.  Pride is addictive in that to justify pride we rationalize our thoughts and actions, creating a great web of lies that taint our ability to see the world as it is.  The cycle of pride continues to the point where an individual has lost their love for God and others.  At this point the individual is left to himself and is bled of strength and life. 

Fear

Fear is a natural, emotional response to a perceived threat.  Fear is only possible if we perceive something as a threat.  The greater we perceive the threat, the greater our fears become.    The only way to overcome fear is to change our perception of the threat.

Faith is the opposite of fear, as faith is the assurance of God’s watchful care over us and this creation through an individualized plan He has created for us in love.  Through faith, we can overcome our fears by changing our perception of the threats we once feared.  When we learn to trust God with all aspects of our lives, then we have the faith necessary to change our perception of threats.  These threats are overcome one at a time as our faith progresses.        

Satan works diligently to create all manner of fear by manipulating our understanding of all aspects of life to create threats.  He creates all sorts of commotions and deceptions that assist him in convincing us of and attaching us to threats.  Each threat we perceive weakens our faith, giving the adversary greater power in our lives.  

Envy

Envy is an ill-intentioned desire to have what is possessed by another or to see that which is possessed by another taken away.  Envy is the source of greed, lust and many other evil desires.  Envy seeks to have something without abiding the natural laws through which it can be obtained.  Envy inspires us to violate or change laws to allow us to have that which we are unwilling to pay the price to earn. 

Envy is the opposite of hope.  Hope is the trust in God that He has prepared a way for us to obtain all that is required for us to accomplish the purposes of this existence.  Through hope, we no longer seek what is had by another but only seek that which we need to accomplish our purposes.  Through hope, we no longer hope that another will lose that which we lack, instead we rejoice in the achievements of others and in their unique position.  Through hope, we see the inequality of things through God’s eyes and understand that such were designed for the fulfillment of His purposes with each individual according to their own unique needs. 

Envy, like pride, is addictive and leads to greater and greater envy.  The most powerful form of envy is in those who Satan entices through the path of envy to seek power and wealth at whatever cost in defiance of their responsibilities to God and others.

The Staff of Power 

Now that we understand the prongs associated with the trident, we must understand the staff itself.  The staff is the source of Satan’s power and is the means by which he utilizes pride, fear, and envy to destroy this world and each of us.  Although Satan has rejected God’s ways and fights to destroy God’s creations, he is still subject to the truths and laws of this existence.  Each of us have our liberties and our agency.  Each of us has the ability to choose. 

Satan’s staff of power symbolizes our consent.  He only obtains power as we give it to him through our consent.  Satan is so wise and manipulative in the ways he entices us to give him this consent, but in the end he has no power over us unless we give it to him.  When we remove our consent, Satan loses his power over us, and we are free to withdraw the prongs from our world and ourselves.  When we grant our consent, his trident is embedded in us, and we are left to bleed and die until we awake and withdraw the consent that is the source of his power.  Only when we as a world withdraw our consent can this world and each of us exist according to the natural laws of God and progress through His laws to become all that we were designed to be. 

As we become aware of these and others of the adversary’s purposes being prospered within our own nations and societies, we can do what is within our power of influence to teach and prosper the causes of truth.  If our nations and societies continue to degrade and turn away from the correct principles in spite of our efforts and the efforts of others, we must make a choice.  After we have made every effort possible and when the direction of the nation or society has embraced Satan’s strategy that will be revealed in these translations, we must remove the power that we give that society or nation by withdrawing our consent.