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Christianity or Satan's world

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    “Behold, I am sending you as sheep in the midst of wolves;   therefore be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves” – Matthew 10:16 “   We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one” – 1 John 5:19 The nation of Israel, a nation with well-established armies and borders, had to be on guard and fight to survive from the very beginning of its existence – Joshua 24:8-15 It might seem strange to some that God's people were forced to fight... but if we understand who really ruled the world we also understand that it, namely Israel, was a real thorn in the side, an anomaly for the ruler of the world - John 14:30 This indirectly also explains why little is said about Satan in the Jewish scriptures: far from concluding that he "does not exist", one should only understand that he would not have had a hold on Israel, as he did on the rest of the world, except through the transgressions of individual that they could pollute pure worship, b