Impending

By Paula Johnson

Do you ever feel that you are being attacked by unseen evil forces in your mind, body, and hear voices repeatedly in your head? Some people are under demonic oppression, who do not know how to get free and are enduring the various degrees of torment that Satan and demons inflict. Impending is a book written to expose Satan and his kingdom of darkness and to show people how to get free spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically. Jesus Christ warns us that we have an enemy (Satan, the devil). "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)" (John 10:10 AMPC). Whether you need deliverance or have a desire to help set others free, Impending provides solutions for defeating Satan and his kingdom of darkness.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781638742708

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Impending

Paula Johnson

ISBN 978-1-63874-269-2 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63874-270-8 (digital)

Copyright © 2021 by Paula Johnson

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

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Table of Contents

The Deceiver

Impending

The Blinded Minds

The Truth

The Birth Pangs

The Holy Spirit

Unselfish Love

The Invisible Enemies

The Mind Oppressors

God’s Impending Judgment

Prepare Yourself for War

Assured and Unshaken

Eternal Damnation

Introduction

Hear and Obey the Prophecy of the Lord God

Ispeak to you of the dawn of a new age for my church. I speak to you of a day that has not been seen before. Prepare yourselves for the action that I begin now because things that you must enter now are different; it is new. You need wisdom from me that you do not yet have. You need the power of the Holy Spirit in a way that you have not possessed it. You need an understanding of my will and of the ways that I work that you do not yet have. Open your eyes. Open your hearts to prepare yourselves for me and for the day that I have now begun.

Do two walk together except they make an appointment and have agreed? Surely the Lord God will do nothing without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets. The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy? (Amos 3:3, 7, 8 AMPC)

Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on My holy Mount (Zion). Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of (the judgment of) the Lord is coming; it is close at hand. And the Lord utters His voice before His army, for His host is very great, and (they are) strong and powerful who execute (God’s) word. For the day of the Lord is great and terrible, and who can endure it? (Joel 2:1, 11 AMPC)

Jesus Went to Galilee, Preaching the Good News of (the Kingdom of) God, and Saying, the (Appointed Period of) Time Is Fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God Is at Hand; Repent (Change Your Inner Self—Your Old Way of Thinking, Regret Past Sins, Live Your Life in a Way That Proves Repentance; Seek God’s Purpose for Your Life) and Believe (With a Deep, Abiding Trust) in the Good News (Regarding Salvation). (Mark 1:14–15 AMP)

Repentance is essential before Jesus Christ can come into our hearts and lives. Repentance is a decision, not an emotion. Repentance changes your mind and changes the way you think. You can repent without a change of emotion, but you cannot repent without a change of your will. Repentance will cause you to live a life that will please Jesus Christ and not to please yourself any longer.

For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will and purpose but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me. And this is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should not lose any of all that He has given Me, but that I should give new life and raise (them all) up at the last day. For this is My Father’s will and purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in and cleaves to and trusts in and relies on Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up (from the dead) at the last day. (John 6:38–40 AMPC)

The most significant moment in any person’s life is when God begins to deal with you about repentance, and you refuse and say you are not interested right now or at all. There is no guarantee that you will get another chance later. If you deliberately despise the grace of God and the inheritance that He offers in Jesus Christ by turning away for some cheap pleasures of this world, you make God angry, like Esau did. Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of soup.

As it is written, Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated. (Romans 9:13 NKJV)

For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. (Hebrews 12:17 NKJV)

Some people see good all around them, while others see nothing but evil. What is the difference? Our souls become filters through which we perceive goodness or evil. The pure (those who have Jesus Christ in control of their lives) learn to see goodness and purity even in this evil world. But corrupt (defiled) and unbelieving people find evil in everything because their evil minds and hearts color even the good they see and hear. Whatever you choose to fill your mind with will affect the way you think and act. Turn your thoughts to God and His Word, and you will discover more and more goodness, even in this unprecedented crisis this world is facing. A mind filled with good has little room for what is evil. Satan corrupts your mind and your conscience with evil (opposition to God).

To the pure (in heart and conscience) all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted. They profess to know God (to recognize, perceive, and be acquainted with Him), but deny and disown and renounce Him by what they do; they are detestable and loathsome, unbelieving and disobedient and disloyal and rebellious, and (they are) unfit and worthless for good work (deed or enterprise) of any kind. (Titus 1:15–16 AMPC)

Don’t envy evil people or desire their company. For their hearts plot violence, and their words always stir up trouble. (Proverbs 24:1–2 NLT)

Beloved, I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health (physically), just as (I know) your soul prospers (spiritually). (3 John 1:2 AMP)

The Deceiver

And war broke out in heaven, Michael (the archangel) and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought, but they were not strong enough and did not prevail, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the age-old serpent who is called the devil and Satan, he who continually deceives and seduces the entire inhabited world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Therefore rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them (in the presence of God). Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you in great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time (remaining)! (Revelation 12:7–9, 12 AMP)

Satan’s master plan is to deceive the whole world! Satanic activity continues to increase at an explosive rate, and the nations are gone mad because Satan is intoxicating all the earth with hatred, violence, and death.

Now the judgment (crisis) of this world is coming on (sentence is now being passed on this world). Now the ruler (evil genius, prince) of this world shall be cast out (expelled). (John 12:31 AMPC)

I will not talk with you much more, for the prince (evil genius, ruler) of the world is coming. And he has no claim on Me. (He has nothing in common with Me; there is nothing in Me that belongs to him, and he has no power over Me.) But (Satan is coming and) I do as the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know (be convinced) that I love the Father and that I do only what the Father has instructed Me to do. (I act in full agreement with His orders.) Rise let us go away from here. (John 14:30–31 AMPC)

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows). (John 10:10 AMP)

Satan’s (the thief) goal is to totally devastate your life—obliterate you! He comes to steal everything good in your life—God’s purpose for your life, your mind, your health, your finances, your happiness, your family, your relationships, your job, and your identity. Jesus Christ comes to give you a matchless life filled with vitality, abundance of peace, joy, health, prosperity, protection, favor, and blessings.

Knowing that the last confrontation with Jesus Christ is near, Satan is desperately trying to recruit as great an enemy force as possible for the final battle. At Jesus’s birth, Satan’s power and control were disrupted. In the wilderness, Jesus overcame Satan’s temptations, and at the resurrection, He defeated Satan’s ultimate weapon—death.

Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could He die, and only by dying could He break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could He set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying. (Hebrews 2:14–15 NLT)

I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore. Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. (Revelation 1:18 KJV)

Eventually, Satan will be constrained forever, and evil will no longer pervade the earth. Jesus has complete power over Satan and all his hostile forces. Satan wants us to think that we are weak and that he is as powerful as Jesus. We are engaged in a spiritual warfare, so put on God’s whole armor and use God’s weapons to resist Satan’s attacks and to stand true to God during the attacks.

In conclusion, be strong in the Lord (be empowered through your union with Him); draw your strength from Him (that strength which His boundless might provide). Put on God’s whole armor (the armor of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies), that you may be able successfully to stand up against (all) the strategies and the deceits of the devil. (Ephesians 6:10–11 AMPC)

For though we walk in the flesh (as mortal men), we are not carrying on our (spiritual) warfare according to the flesh and using the weapons of man. The weapons of our warfare are not physical (weapons of flesh and blood). Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the (true) knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3–5 AMP)

Although the war is still being waged, the outcome has already been determined.

Then the devil who had led them astray (deceiving and seducing them) was hurled into the fiery lake of burning brimstone, where the beast and false prophet were; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever (through the ages of the ages). (Revelation 20:10 AMPC)

Satan is the father of the unbelievers, and they will be thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone with him.

You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires (which are characteristic) of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar (himself) and the father of lies and of all that is false. Whoever is of God listens to God. (Those who belong to God hear the words of God.) This is the reason that you do not listen (to those words, to Me): because you do not belong to God and are not of God or in harmony with Him. (John 8:44, 47 AMPC)

And He said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the one who thirsts I will give (water) from the fountain of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes (the world by adhering faithfully to Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior) will inherit these things, and I will be His God and He will be My son. But as for the cowards and unbelieving and abominable (who are devoid of character and personal integrity and practice or tolerate immorality), and murderers, and sorcerers (with intoxicating drugs), and idolaters and occultists (who practice and teach false religions), and all the liars (who knowingly deceive and twist truth), their part will be in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Revelation 21:6–8 AMP)

It is impossible to be neutral about Jesus Christ. Anyone who is not actively following Him has chosen to reject Him. Any person who tries to remain neutral in the struggle of good against evil is choosing to be separated from God, who alone is good. To refuse to follow Jesus Christ is to choose to be on Satan’s team. Satan is battling daily to bring more into his ranks and to keep his own from defecting to God’s side.

God will not lose the war, but we must make certain not to lose the battle for our souls. God has given man authority and right to choose his eternal destiny.

Do not waver in your commitment to Jesus Christ or reject Him. A great spiritual battle is being fought, and there is no time for indecision.

For whoever wishes to save his life (in this world) will (eventually) lose it (through death), but whoever loses his life (in this world) for My sake and the gospel’s will save it (from the consequences of sin and separation from God). For what does it benefit a man to gain the whole world (with all its pleasures), and forfeit his soul? For what will a man give in exchange for his soul and eternal life (in God’s kingdom)? For whoever is ashamed of (here and now) of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels. (Mark 8:35–38 AMP)

Because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand (from observation and experience) the time of visitation (that is, when God was visiting you, the time in which God showed Himself gracious toward you and offered you salvation through Christ. (Luke 19:44 AMPC)

Satan’s work has become more intense, and he is desperately trying to kill as many people as possible before Jesus Christ returns to earth.

Satan, the devil, is not a symbol or legend; he is very real. Originally, Satan was an angel of God, but through his own pride, he became corrupt.

How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. For you said to yourself, I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High. Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths. Everyone there will stare at you and ask, Can this be the one who shook the earth and made the kingdoms of the world tremble? Is this the one who destroyed the world and made it into a wasteland. Is this the king who demolished the world’s greatest cities and had no mercy on his prisoners? (Isaiah 14:12–17 NLT)

Satan always attacks believers because he wants to destroy their faith. Faith pleases God! Regardless of what kind of situation you face in life, faith in God and His Word helps you overcome Satan and his attacks.

Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen (the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses).

But without faith it is impossible to (walk with God and) please Him, for whoever comes (near) to God must (necessarily) believe that God exists and that He rewards those who (earnestly and diligently) seek Him. (Hebrews 11:1, 6 AMP)

God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. (Romans 12:3 KJV)

And behold, a woman who was a Canaanite from that district came out and with a (loud, troublesomely urgent) cry, begged, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is miserably and distressingly and cruelly possessed by a demon! But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came and implored Him, saying, Send her away, for she is crying out after us. He answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But she came and kneeling, worshiped Him and kept praying, Lord, help me! And He answered, It is not right (proper, becoming, or fair) to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs. She said, Yes, Lord, yet even the little pups (little whelps) eat the crumbs that fall from their (young) master’s table. Then Jesus answered her, O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for