Matthew 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished.
For starters, satan’s devices are always structured to put you into more problems than you’re already in. The devil doesn’t set his devices just for fun, it’s a well- thought-out plan to destroy unwary souls, and thus, we must study from the scriptures how his devices are employed. As our topic suggests, one of his most successful devices is to try to get you to make hasty decisions when you are in panic mode.
It is a tried, and true device that has driven many saints in ages past, to do, and say things that were entirely out of God’s will. First, satan creates, or he looks for an environment of desperation, or panic and then he suggests to the mind, plan “B”, which, in the overwhelming majority of cases, will bring us a lot of unforeseen problems. Let us take a few examples from the Scriptures, so that we could better understand the issue.
A massive army from the Philistines had amassed in Michmash, with the sole intent of wiping out the Jews once and for all. Their equipment was superior and their soldiers vastly outnumbered the small and ill-equipped Hebrews, and thus, defeat was all but guaranteed, without some major intervention from God. The situation was dire indeed, and as Saul saw the sheer size of the army, with thousands of horses and chariots, Saul knew that of themselves, they were greatly inferior, without God on their side, and they would no doubt be annihilated.
Matthew 12:45 Then goes he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. God bless!