Enemy in Camouflage
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★GREAT efforts have been made to seek peace in the Middle East. Every time it looks like we’re taking two steps forward in our progress toward a solution to the age-old conflict there, something happens that takes us three steps back. It looks like there is an accord, and then there is an eruption, and when you didn’t think things could get any worse, they do.
The issue of terrorism has now changed the equation due to the phenomenon of the suicide bomber. This is a person who straps themselves with explosives, goes into a crowded area, and blows themselves up with the goal of taking as many of the perceived enemy along with them as they can. In the news recently, we’ve seen a suicide bomber dressed up like an Orthodox Jew, with Jewish garb, Jewish colors, looking like he belonged to the Jewish people when he was simply an enemy in camouflage.
Who would suspect that a person looking like a Jew, would, underneath the garb, be death incarnate? How do you defend your own, when the perpetrator is among you?
This misleading situation is synonymous with how Satan deceives us.
The point
Satan, like a suicide bomber disguised as an insider, deceives by appearing to belong when actually being a threat.