Emptiness

The Faithful Witness from the third chapter of the Book of Revelation offers His people spiritual fullness and advises me to buy from Him what will fill my life with this fullness, give meaning to everything, reveal Heaven to me, show Christ to the world, and be a healing power for many hearts.

The enemy of souls perfectly understands what the Lord offers His followers and how effective this weapon is in the battle against evil. Therefore, Satan is occupied with filling our hearts and lives with emptiness. In his arsenal, he has emptiness for every taste, every interest, every age, and intellectual level. The enemy has studied human psychology so well that it is not difficult for him to interest anyone with his emptiness, and every inquiring mind will find exactly the emptiness that will correspond to their spiritual and mental needs.

The power of Satan over our world was not obtained in a single day. By small steps and compromises, he conquered human hearts, making them his territory.

In spiritual warfare, there are its own rules and laws. Jesus stands at the head of our world and is the King of kings and Lord of lords. He will not give this power to the enemy and will ultimately establish His victory banner in this world, putting an end to evil. But now He gives people the freedom of choice so that they may determine and choose whom they will serve, whom they will love without seeing, and to whom they will worship. The call to "choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve" from Joshua 24:15 is as relevant today as never before. There is still a favorable time, still a day of salvation.

The enemy of souls is allowed to establish his power, destroy souls, and carry out his plans through people who will accept him as their king and fulfill his will. God also seeks worshippers who will accomplish their salvation in Spirit and truth and influence this world. For now, these two opposing camps can peacefully coexist in many countries of the world and carry out the plans of their leaders. But a time is approaching when everything will change, and those who chose Satan and chained themselves to his chariot will understand how cruel their master is and how bloodthirsty and merciless he is in his power.

What has the enemy of souls succeeded in?

The education system is under his control and power and is built so that you cannot go against this current without punishment. The enemy claims his rights to children, declaring them state property, not parents', and through his education system, he instills his values in young minds. What will a child be taught whom believing parents send to "Egyptian schools"?

The system of power in the world is built so that a person needed by the enemy of souls is installed at the head of the state, elected by the people. We do not know the heart of the people's elected representative and to whom he really serves and worships. A simple believing person from outside the system will simply not be allowed to rise and occupy a high post. And people in power receive unlimited control over the minds and conscience of their citizens, and if the ruler's heart is not in God's hands, he is controlled by another force. Even the ruler himself does not decide many issues. Everything is subordinate to the system, and he only needs to present it competently to the people. The enemy of souls has been moving toward what we have today in the world for a very long time, and the system of state power today is in his hands, although God's angels still restrain human passions until God's plans are fulfilled.

Medicine, unfortunately, has also become one of Satan's departments of power. Recent global events very clearly showed the power of this authority, where all human freedoms were trampled, and people were officially imposed non-Divine methods of fighting diseases.

The financial system in our world is built so that economies and banks of all countries are tied to the American dollar and depend on the interest rate set by far from believing people. As a result, all economic achievements are devalued in a moment, small and medium businesses are ruined, and all countries become debtors to a small group of people whose conscience is under Satan's influence.

Theater art has long been teaching the world not good things, imposing all kinds of abominations under the guise of beautiful scenes and plots.

Numerous media have become frank heralds of Satan, offering people emptiness, gnashing of teeth, and spiritual languor.

The current world is so full of weapons being produced and stockpiled for incomprehensible events that our planet could be destroyed several times. And someday the enemy of souls will put all these accumulations into action. And without armed forces, no country will stand and will be immediately captured by neighbors or overseas countries.

The enemy of souls has also put his hand to world religions, introducing his false teachings into every movement, mixing truth with lies and watering all peoples with this wine. Satan really wants to become the lord of every person's conscience, and he successfully achieves this through religious structures, forcing parishioners to believe lies.

Although we live in times of light and enlightenment, unfortunately, forces of darkness stand at the head of many systems, aimed at stealing, killing, and destroying.

Although God's church is under Christ's protection, the enemy of souls also stretches his disgusting hand there to tempt, if possible, even the elect. The enemy cannot resist the truth, but he successfully offers emptiness, that which does not satisfy and does not give knowledge of God.

Any science is interesting in itself, but disconnected from God, it does not bring the soul closer to Heaven. It is not capable of giving the right to Eternal life without the presence of the Eternal Divine Spirit within.

Let these revelations not seem gloomy to you, friends, but this is the reality we have around us. Almost everything in the civilized world is created and presented to distract our minds from important truths.

The emptiness of the world has the property of filling any space into which it is let in. It can even unite with lawlessness and cool love in many. And this can be resisted only by opening one's heart to God's fullness. In knowing God and following His counsels and laws, there is no emptiness, but there is He Himself and what accompanies this knowledge, giving Eternal life.

Strangely enough, material success and well-being bring much emptiness into people's lives, depriving the mind of the thirst for knowing truth. Statistically, spiritual decline occurs in economically developed countries, and Christ's teaching becomes uninteresting and boring to people.

God allows catastrophes, diseases, and wars so that many cooled souls may come to themselves and begin to seek the path of salvation. But must we bring ourselves to such extremes?

Solomon was a multi-trillionaire by our time's estimates, and this wealth almost destroyed his soul and led the country to moral corruption, the influence of which has reached our days. And this king summed up everything, leaving us his conclusion that everything is vanity if it does not have the knowledge of God as its foundation. Vanity is emptiness, the absence of meaning, the darkness of godlessness.

But the Faithful Witness offers us to acquire from Him the fullness of knowing God, the meaning of life, and light. He declares His buyers victors because they have responded.

Reflection Questions for this Chapter

1. Please read Psalms 61:10; Luke 13:35; James 1:26; Ephesians 5:4-7; Ecclesiastes 1:2,14; 2:9-11,17,21; 5:9; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; Jeremiah 10:12-15; 16:19; Ezekiel 13:3-11; Micah 6:12-14; Ecclesiastes 12:8,13 in light of this chapter.

2. What other Bible verses came to your mind?

3. What did you understand from this chapter?

4. What is the emptiness discussed in this chapter?

5. Do you think it is possible to be both religious and empty?

6. Does Jesus like the empty state of our hearts?

7. Is the lukewarm from Revelation 3:16 the same as empty?

8. Life itself is an interesting thing. Why does it become empty in light of the message to Laodicea?

9. How and by what can one measure the emptiness and fullness of one's heart?

10. What is fullness?

11. Do you think God has a plan to exit emptiness?

12. Will a person need to make any efforts on their part to fill the heart's emptiness with Divine fullness?

13. Is it worth dedicating precious time to studying the achievements and plans of Satan in this world?

14. Will my life get better if I study the enemy of souls' reports on his work?