We as New Covenant Believers, understand the false images satan
attempts to foist on Believers.

TRUE FALSE

Faith Fear
Love Hate
Hope Despair
Salvation Bondage
Acceptance Rejection
Overflow Recession
Comforter (Holy Spirit) Loneliness (oppression)
Health & Life Sickness & Death

We can easily relate to the simple identification of the dichotomous
list above. But, do we recognize the subtle rational that exposes the fraud of satan:
1. He is the father of lies and there is no truth in him.
2. All truth originates with God our Father.
3. Since satan can create nothing, everything he presents is a
perversion or worthless reflection of what is true.

Satan is not a creator, nor an originator. If he brings it, he stole
it, perverted it or tainted it. His main objective is to steal from
you, what God has provided for you.

If the devil is talking to you, his words are counterfeit and have no
value, unless you yield to them.

The dictionary expounds it thusly:
Counterfeit:
1 : made in imitation of something else with intent to deceive:
forged <counterfeit money>
2a: insincere,feigned <counterfeit sympathy> b: imitation <counter-
feit Georgian houses>
: to imitate or feign especially with intent to deceive; also: to
make a fraudulent replica of <counterfeiting $20 bills>intransitive
verb 1: to try to deceive by pretense or dissembling
2 : to engage in counterfeiting something of value

A counterfeiter then, would be a person who engages in the craft of
deceptively presenting a worthless thing, that parades or portrays
itself as being true or of value.

John 17:17 (NAS)
17 Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. (Only one truth in
life)

Isaiah 40:8 (NAS)
2 The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever. (Time matters not to
truth, it remains)

Psalms 138:2 (NAS)
2 I will bow down toward Your holy temple
And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your
truth;
For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name.

Hebrews 1:3 (Amplified Bible)
3 He is the sole expression of the glory of God [the Light-being, the
out-raying or radiance of the divine], and He is the perfect
imprint and very image of [God's] nature, upholding and maintaining
and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty word of power
When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing of sins
and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the divine
Majesty on high, (The Word works - everything - everywhere)

John 8:44 (NAS)
44 You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires
of your father He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not
stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he
speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and
the father of lies. (All his words are counterfeit, worhtless,
trash)

The fallen angel who tried to exalt his treachery against God's truth, was named Lucifer. He was the anointed cherub that covered,
at the throne of God.

When he attempted to pass his counterfeit version of how things are
to be, he was cast forth from the very presence of truth and
authenticity.

Lucifer fell to earth, kicked out of heaven's realm, as a result of
his attempt to exalt his counterfeit authority, against the true
authority of God.

In reality his name is opposer.

Even the name he tries to go by is not true.

Revelation 12:9 (NAS)
9 And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is
called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was
thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown with him.

Revelation 12:9 (King James Version)
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast
out into the earth, and his agels were cast out with him.

His name is a deception.
His works are lies against the truth of God.
Everthing he is, everything he says, everything he does, is an affront to truth.

All he is, is a worthless counterfeiter. The only value he has, is
that ascribed to him by those taken in by, deceived by or defrauded
by, his lies. Counterfeit, counterfeit, counterfeit.

John 8:44 are you of your father, the adversary (opposer) (RHM)
and you are determined to do what your father loves to do (TCNT)
he was a manslayer from the very beginning (MOF)
and he did not go in a true way (BAS)
the truth will have nothing to do with him. (PHI)
- there is no truth in him.
when he speaks lies, he does what is natural to him (TCNT)
for he is a liar, and the father of lies (MOF)

He tried to pass the counterfeit of death on Lazarus, but Jesus (truth) would'nt stand for it.
He tried to pass the counterfeit of leprosy on the 10, but Jesus
(the truth) broke the lie.
He tried to pass the counterfeit of demonic possession on a young man
whom his father brought to the truth (I am the way, the truth, the
life), and the truth set him free.

"you will know the truth (because you study to prove you are ready to
handle and properly apply the truth, so you are never ashamed of your
inability) and the truth you know, in intimate personal revelation,
will set you free."

A counterfeit may look like something, but is, in reality, nothing but a lying attempt, to take something of real value from the person
the counterfeit is presented to.

A lie will cost you,
what the truth provided for you.

Don't let the fake, false, counterfeit,
take you to the cleaners.



foist

1 a : to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant b :
to force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit
2 : to pass off as genuine or worthy <foist costly and valueless
products on the public -- Jonathan Spivak>

Interesting, as it clearly says in the Bible that G-d created evil, Isaiah 45:7; and would do things like "...to destroy without cause" people like Job (Job 2:3) also if your translation is different the actual text reads:

"Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. . . . They are altogether brutish and foolish." (Jeremiah 10:2-8)

I hope that you have a nice holiday and enjoy your X-mas tree....