Introduction: Everything that glitters is not gold! Did you know that all of the devil’s apples have worms? Satan transforms himself into an Angel of light.

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14).

Is it any wonder that Paul writes inspired by the Holy Spirit that Satan uses ministers as tools.

Speaking to the religious crowd of His day, Jesus Christ said that the devil was the father of all lies.

“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44).

There we have it. The origin of lies is from the devil. Do you remember what he said to Eve after being told that they could not eat of the tree of knowledge of both good and evil?

“Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? ……..And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:3-5).

Do you see how he twists what God says? He misleads, deceives, and ultimately achieves.

Where is all this going? Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians reveals Satan’s plan. “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish” (2Thess 2:8-10).