Don't Pet The Dragon

This book will not save you from hell nor will it answer all of your questions about spiritual matters.  What it will do if you are borderline in determining whether to believe or to reject the idea of God and Satan or of heaven and hell, is to help you with the thinking process.  If you are already a believer, hopefully this book will help you develop the study method for going to the Bible with questions.  This book reveals how God spoke to me through the events in my life and the people He placed around me; not one soul was there by coincidence or mistake. None of us were just wound up like some toy and turned loose to make it on our own, although I’ve felt that way at times.

     Having taught Sunday school for more than twenty years, I have seen and heard many others going through the same struggles I went through, not knowing exactly how to go to God in prayer and Bible study to clear away the confusion that is always brought about by Satan, the dragon.  Many read the Bible through in a year and go to God with a want list either for themselves or for others.  No, I do not believe I know more than others, but I do not trust heresy or the way someone else thinks about God.  I wanted to know Him personally, not just know about Him.  I believe God helps me write in a manner that connects the dots between scripture and life as we are living it now.  This book talks about my struggle to understand and know God better.  It talks about my

need and desire for a change in my heart.  My struggle to surrender has been an ongoing war between my fleshly conscience and my spiritual conscience.

     This book is about my journey from seeing God as being about religion to knowing Him as my Father and personal Savior. It is about how I moved from thinking of Satan as a religious myth to realizing just how real, evil and active he is in our lives and the lives of those around us.

     There are several satanic organizations active today.   One is the Church of Satan, which was established in 1966 in San Francisco, California, by Anton Szandor LaVey, whose philosophy is that pleasure, should be the principal goal in life.  May seem like a good idea, but it led to the fall of Rome and many marriages, including my own.  This philosophy is currently costing the United States dearly.  Don’t always think of pleasure as referring strictly to sexual pleasure; ask any addicted person.  A spin off from the Church of Satan, the Temple of Set, was formed by Michael Aquino in the mid seventies.  There are several other groups around made up mostly of young people that haven’t a clue about the dangers of petting the dragon; they are mostly seeking attention. This activity, however, is all the work of confused humans and no threat to the population of the world.  This is not the activity that needs to attract our concern; it is the subtle activity within the government, the Church, the educational systems, the news media, the court rooms and within our own neighborhoods that need to make us take a closer look at the work of Satan and what God has to say to us about this activity.   Believe me, evil is not just a plot in a Steven King movie, it is permeating our society more and more as society turns its back on God, drifting into the secular snare of the dragon.  Think about what is considered comedy or what is now considered acceptable for small children in the form of cartoons.  Pay attention to the suggestiveness of commercials on television and in magazines.  Be more sensitive to the process used to make you believe that being, acting and dressing dumb is cool. Do you no longer wonder about what happened to the high standards that made this nation looked up to? How are we viewed today? Our flag is burned and hung upside down within our own borders.