“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!”

(Isaiah 14:12).

We forget that when Satan roams around the earth, seeking whom he will devour, it’s not just individuals he seeks to deceive; it’s whole nations. He is the father of lies and the author of confusion. If you are a student of history, you know that countries have risen to greatness, only to crumble and fall.

There is a quote which some attribute to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” Some believe that Hitler himself said this. No matter which evil mind spoke those words, there is, unfortunately, truth in the statement. And as believers, we know from whom this originates.

The lie which has been propagated for over a…