Devil, Give Us Back Our Teenagers! !

by Dale Sides

Not long ago, I released a tape entitled "Devil, Give Me Back My Money." It was distributed around the country and overseas and has helped thousands of people become free from financial persecution. My prayer is that this sharing will receive the same attention and distribution. However, if patterns of logic hold true, faith will have to move this message instead of popularity because the topic of money overshadows the importance of helping teenagers.

In the previously mentioned teaching, I frankly described a revelation vision of being ushered into the devil's bank vault by the Lord Jesus Christ. In the vision, I saw wrapped packages lying all around. When the Lord asked me if I knew what these were I responded, "Yes, Sir. These are blessings that the devil has stolen from your people." As the topic of the first teaching relates to this article, the devil has stolen a greater reality than our money -he has stolen our teenagers.

The Problem

The devil has captured our teenagers. Even though we did not ask for this, and were born into this campaign; nonetheless, the war against the devil rages on. Lucifer (as he was called then) initiated the aggression when he attacked our Father. After deceiving a third of the angels and relegating them along with himself to the depths of eternal torment, he focused his mayhem on the apple of God's eye - God's children. After dethroning Adam, he drew first blood. Cain, the devil's child, murdered Abel. He has continued harassing God's people since then. As David said, "Is there not a cause?" If these causes are not enough, he tortured and killed our brother, Jesus Christ. Regard- less of whether Christians are angered by that mutilation, we are still at war with our adversary, the devil. Along with all the past atrocities, presently, the latest act of cowardice and treachery he has committed is that he has stolen and kidnapped our teenagers.

"… when public prayer in schools was refuted, the United States Supreme Court committed the highest act of tyranny and treason ever imagined in the history of the United States…"

There are two major rules of warfare. #1 All is fair in love and war. #2. To the victor goes the spoils. Included with the spoils of warfare is the option of kidnapping and manipulating the people you have conquered.

But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil therefore shalt thou take unto thyself and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee. Deuteronomy 20: 14

Unfortunately, the Christian church often thinks that the rule of "love never fails" applies to war with the devil. Love certainly failed against him. He was the most honored cherub when he committed high treason against God. Love does not work against him. The devil understands only one thing- exercised power! The church should teach him a lesson.

"We may stand and sing, "God Bless America " until we turn blue, but unless we bring forth the actions to indicate that He is me Sovereign God of this nation, God will not bless America."

The church has been given authority over the devil (Matthew 28:18-20). We have everything we need to recapture our rightful possessions. We have the God-given gift of holy spirit, the commander in chief (Jesus Christ) standing with a two- edged sword in his hand and the host of the angelic army of God at our disposal. We have the authority to use it all.

The church is no longer a baby church. It is a mature body with all the resources needed in order to take back what has been stolen from us. (Once we have broken through and recaptured our teenagers, we need to remember to take all the other women and children who have been illegally stolen too.) The only lacking articles in the believer's arsenal of spiritual warfare are the willingness and courage to engage the enemy and take back what he has stolen.

If we continue to allow Satan and his hordes to stealthily sneak across enemy lines to plunder and steal, he will continue to do so. The scriptures report that he is a thief. He will always act true to his nature. It is bad enough that he has stolen the money Christians need to faithfully perform their ministries. But he is also stealing our most valued commodity - our next generation.

Those people who say that "God is in control" should reread their Bibles. It is true that the final victory is guaranteed, but the things of this earth have been put under man's stewardship by God.

If we let the devil have it, he will continue to take it. Adam gave the authority away; Jesus came, took it back and gave it to us. The question is, "What are we going to do?" Better still, "What are you going to do?"

Would anyone deny that the American youth has been kidnapped? They may still be here in body, but in spirit, they are gone. How could this have happened?

This is a hard saying but must be realized- Satan spiritually conquered the United States of America in 1962. We should have listened to Joseph McCarthy. Maybe even by then it was already too late. By political deception, while the American Christian passively languished over the self-proclaimed victory of world war II and self-centeredness, Satan crept up from behind and cut the throat of the Statue of Liberty. He infiltrated the Supreme Court and voted God out of this country.

With one stroke of a pen when public prayer in schools was refuted, the United States Supreme Court committed the highest act of tyranny and treason ever imagined in the history of the United States -they kicked God out of our schools, turned the nation over to Satan, and told God that He was not the God of our nation.

After God had this nation founded for religious freedom and a home for liberty and Christianity, the United States government told God that He was not welcome in the schools of our youth. What the Supreme Court did was no less than what Darius did when making it illegal for Daniel to pray according to the laws of the Medes and Persians (Daniel 6).

In an unabashed attack against God, the elected officials of the United States publicly declared that God was no longer the God of our nation. This decision represented a 3% consensus of the population of the United States. The 97% continued sleeping and refused to do anything about it. In retrospect, the adult and teenage population should have revolted against this tyranny. The decision to disallow prayer in the schools was a biased, unsubstantiated attack against the Christian principles of our nation. It was planned, spawned, and executed by Satan. And it was as successful as it was deceitful.

God had the United States of America founded as a stronghold of freedom and a home for Christianity. Because of the sovereignty of God, this country excelled to prominence in every aspect of nationalism. God had caused the United States to be victorious in every military campaign in its history. He bared His arm and kept the United States from being overrun after the worst assault in the history of our nation at Pearl Harbor. Even after this, the American nation allowed Satan (in his predictable, subtle method) to conquer the stronghold of freedom.

The deception was so subtle that most Americans are still unaware of it 30 years later. As devious as Satan is, he is predictable. After conquering a nation, he endeavors to dominate it by indoctrinating its youth with doctrines of demons. America, wake up!! Satan is now in the later stages of dominating the United States of America. As hard to accept as this sounds, the overwhelming evidence of life styles should be convincing enough. Some would even try to deny this reality, but the enclosed charts about the degradation of American society will certainly establish the validity of the above statements.

Recently, Madeline O'Hare, a confirmed atheist and the proponent of removing prayer from schools, has been rumored dead. Her associates are covering up her death in fear of losing all of the money that has been donated to the foundation designated to preserving the "atheist" viewpoints and keeping prayer out of schools. They are also fearful that Christians may find her body and curse her. (Since these are atheists, who do they think will enforce a curse?) We, as Christians, do not need to find her body to curse her, she has already cursed herself by defaming the name of God. The curse awaiting her is the eternal flames of hell. May she and all her followers burn in hell and receive the retribution and wrath of God for their actions of infamy. May the ashes of her dead body be sprinkled over the graves of the dead teenagers she has been responsible for. She will discover that there is a God when she bows before him at the resurrection of the unjust. May the Lord reward her for her work.

"School prayer" was just the issue that Satan used to accuse America before God. The Supreme Court is the highest "judging body" in the land. They passed a legal proclamation that God was not welcome in our country. They followed suit by legalizing abortion. This further infuriated God.

"Few were aware that the focus had been subtly taken off God in schools and replaced by the environment. ‘One Nation Under God’ became ‘One Nation Under Government.’"

With the public proclamation of "God get out," Satan deceived Americans into turning against God. God will judge individuals at the Judgment Seat of Christ and the Great White Throne Judgment, but He judges nations in the present time. He administrates either mercy or wrath on nations according to their works.

This may come as a shocking statement to American chauvinists- God is not an American. Is it not obvious that the United States has done something that has angered God? What was once the greatest nation in the world, now is the most indebted nation in the world with the highest per capita crime rate. We may stand and sing, "God Bless America" until we turn blue, but unless we bring forth the actions to indicate that He is the Sovereign God of this nation, God will not bless America.

With God's hand of blessing out of the way, Satan rode into the schools on the road that the founding fathers of our nation paved. The men who gave their lives to establish "One Nation under God", intended for youth to honor God and to be educated with "In God We Trust." The road our founding fathers paved for educating our youth now carry Satan's cargo and doctrines instead. Now his philosophies are being taught to our youth.

The Effect

Since the "Happy Days" of the 1950'5, satan has been rapidly indoctrinating our American youth. The 1960's left an unparalleled era in American history as testimony to Satan's victory. The assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy further divided the country. The Vietnam war, the music of the times and drugs served as fuel for teenage rebellion. American youth rebelled not only against their parents and all forms of authority, but especially against God. It was one thing for America to be conquered, but then, the teenagers were not only quickly indoctrinated away from God, but were secretly and swiftly swept into the occult.

The "occult", similar to its first cousin, "cult," means "hidden meaning or secretively operated." Teenagers were rapidly, yet ignorantly, led as lambs to the slaughter into the occult. Discipline became a dirty word, causing teachers to lose control of their classrooms. The "New Age" theory of "worshipping the created thing" (such as the environment) and "mother earth" replaced prayer in schools. (Worship of "Mother Earth" is nothing more than the Baal worship in the Old Testament.) Few were aware that the focus had been subtly taken off God in schools and re- placed by the environment. "One Nation Under God" became "One Nation Under Government." Satan does not wear a red suit when he is sitting on local school boards and voting "new age" educational material into the curriculum.

Parents became, and still are, overly consumed with money and careers. Raising of children has been relegated to the "electronic baby sitter"- television. Television gladly contributes its part to the occult curriculum. More and more programs advocate violence, illicit sex, magic and astrology. "Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best" have been replaced with "The Simpsons" and "Power Rangers."

Over the last decade the problem has compounded. The later stages of total domination is at hand. The young rebels of the 60's have grown into older rebels and have born and raised even more rebellious ones. Now Satan is further strengthening his grip on the populus by taking the next generation deeper into the occult. The danger is that the first generation of rebels who were educated during the 1960's are now the age of elected officials. Many "teen vets" of the 60'5 are now effecting legislation that will further sell the remainder of our national godliness to Satan and make it easier yet to capture the younger ones.

"Parents are daily handing over their God-given rights of raising their children to the government."

Over the past few decades the problems of an occasional fight, someone getting high, drunk, or getting pregnant has moved from the high schools to the middle schools, if not elementary schools. Alas, Satan is not satisfied with the teens. Now he wants all the little ones.

Parents are daily handing over their God - given rights of raising their children to the government. Children are legally being granted the right to sue their parents. Parents are being arrested for disciplining their children. Parents are continually being made into circumstantial idiots by television sitcoms. (And they still let their kids watch them.) Daily, the American family is being divided farther and farther by Satan as he continues to dominate the American populus.

Guns, drugs, and crime are just the veneer on the surface. The real cause of the violence among the teenagers is "the spirit of rebellion". This exists because the master rebel, Satan, is the school superintendent. The popular teenage games: "Dungeons and Dragons" and "Magic - The Gathering" actively teach how to operate demons by instructing them to send curses on others. There are covens of witches in basically every high school in America. Astrology is one of the major sponsors on MTV, and this is just a break in the action as popular music groups use enchantments to conjure suicide spirits and prepare our teens for the ultimate aim of stealing, killing, and destroying.

These hard words are for these hard times:

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, un- thankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; II Timothy 3:1-4

Enough of this madness! "Devil, Give Us Back Our Teenagers!!" In the process of getting back our teenagers, we will get back our country Our country and our teenagers are purchased possessions of Jesus Christ. The devil stole them. We need to aggressively unite and take back the things that have been stolen from us.

If we learn from what Satan did in the 1960's we can see what needs to be done in order to take back what he has stolen from us. As in all war, the lesson is "divide and conquer". The nation was divided over Vietnam. Roman Catholics were divided against Protestants when John Kennedy was elected president. The hatred of blacks against whites raged when Martin Luther King was killed. Teenagers rebelled against their parents and churches when "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" crashed down on their heads. Teens then ultimately rebelled against all discipline and authority when drugs were dumped into our country .These were all devilish maneuvers to divide the country .These were only possible be- cause the unifying element of godliness had been removed.

Our strength must be drawn from the unity we have in knowing our Lord Jesus Christ. Our common foe is the devil - not each other. Christians must stop acting like the previous generation and stop attacking each other on trivial, doctrinal matters. Will we continue "to bite and devour one another and be consumed one of another?" Is the real issue, "Black versus white," or "God versus the devil?" Will we be like the past generation and be lulled to sleep while watching television and say, "Let someone else do it." If this is your attitude, then resign yourself to keeping this attitude when your teenager, or one that is close to you, gets addicted to drugs, gets shot in a drive-by shooting, gets thrown in jail, gets pregnant, or ends up consulting an astrologer in- stead of seeking God for answers.

We must unite and take our teenagers back

The Solution

The church need no longer be a baby infant, confined to surrendering at the hands of an inferior foe. By refusing to be blown about by insignificant, divisive doctrines, it becomes fully capable of waging war on an inferior foe. God's people have always been victorious when they have applied God's method of victory. These principles are learned from studying accounts of spiritual warfare in the Old Testament.

#1. Each one of us needs to get on our knees in humble prayer for God to come to our rescue.

#2. Each one of us needs to get on our feet to "stand" against the wiles of the devil.

#3. We all need to stand together and fight against our common enemy J not against each other.

God is very direct about the action to take when His people are kidnapped. God recorded His will in His Word in order for us to know what He wants us to do. As the accounts of Godly- initiated aggression are studied, the clarion fact emerges that when anyone attacks you and kidnaps your people, it is time to go to war and get them back.

"Our strength must be drawn from the unity we have in knowing our Lord Jesus Christ."

God answers His peoples' prayers. He intervenes and sends deliverance to break the bondage of the devil. Perhaps the most familiar and vivid account of this is the rescue of the children of Israel from the slavery of witchcraft in Egypt. When God's people prayed for deliverance, God retaliated with destruction and vengeance on their enemies. Under the direction of Moses, mil-lions of Egyptians died learning the lesson that God will not tolerate his children in captivity unless they themselves tolerate it!

And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. Exodus 2:23 –25

"The Word of God establishes the grounds as to when it is right to aggressively go to war. It is when God's people are captured and taken hostage. "

As we pray for the release of our teenagers, we should also humble ourselves and ask God to forgive our nation for the sin of following after other gods. Support and get involved with any and all united prayer groups. If Christians cannot unite in doctrine, they can always unite in prayer for the rescue of our teenagers.

Many accounts in the Word of God illustrate the following two principles of prayer: 1. ) stand up, and 2.) stand together. The first record of genuine Godly aggression (except for the vindication of God against the disobedient angels in Noah's time) occurred when "Father Abraham" avenged the capture of his nephew, Lot.

And when Abram heard that his brother [nephew] was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan. Genesis 14:14

Notice that Abraham did not negotiate peace terms. He and his servants stood up and stood together. He gathered his trained servants, pursued the enemy, and took back what had been stolen. This first armed aggression by a servant of the Lord was to rescue a person. He also garnered the spoils of warfare. He took back what was rightfully his own and then he took other "booty" from the enemy. Then, in what is the first occurrence of the tithe, Abraham shared with Melchezidek a tenth of the spoils he took in the victory .

The Word of God establishes the grounds as to when it is right to aggressively go to war. It is when God's people are captured and taken hostage. This lesson of Godly spiritual aggression continues in Genesis 34.

Jacob's daughter, Dinah, was raped and kid- napped by a neighboring people, the Hivites. Shechem, the son of Hamor, the prince of the Hivites, after defiling Dinah then wanted her for his wife. After pretending to arbitrate peace terms by requiring the men of the Hivites to be circumcised, the sons of Jacob avenged the rape and kidnapping of their sister.

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males. And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister. Genesis 34:25-27

They stood up and they stood together. First they brought back their sister who had been stolen. Then they took the rest of the goods. This is war - look at what else they did.

They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house. Genesis 34:28, 29

One of the main prizes for conquering a people is to take the children. Satan has been practicing this for many, many years.

"We need to parallel or match our zeal and commitment to at least be at the level of what Satan is doing."

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god,. and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god" And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes," Daniel 1:1-3

Nebuchadnezzar took the gold out of the temple and the finest young people as his spoil for conquering the nation of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar, as an agent of Satan, took such youths as Daniel, Hananiah, Misheal, and Azariah (Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego).

This is what Satan has done in every country of the world he has conquered. First, he gets a strong foothold in the nation. Then he trains the youth of the nation to follow him and thereby dominates the nation. This is the pattern seen in every domination throughout world history. In contemporary times, the examples of Stalin and Hitler seem most pronounced. The indoctrination of the youth is always the method of completely dominating a nation and overtaking it from within.

Just as sure as the Elamites kidnapped Lot and the Hivites raped and kidnapped Dinah, Satan has captured our teenagers. It has been done with deceit and treachery; nonetheless, they are captured as much as Lot, Dinah, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. It is time for us to remember Moses, Abraham and Jacob and avenge the theft of our youth !

Practically we must begin with prayer for the release. Then we must stand up and get in the fight. Consider volunteering to do some work in your nearby youth programs. Ask local pastors if they need help with their youth groups. Ask the Lord what you can and should do. Reaching one teenager is the key to reaching the others.

The message that teenagers are listening to today concerns their own power and identity. Teach them to identify with Jesus Christ. (Romans 8:29) Show them how to operate the power of God and tell them that they have authority over the devil. Not only is this where the fishing is best, but it is also where the next generation of fishermen are. Be prepared when you fish for teenagers. The "Youth Pond" has "No Trespassing" signs posted around it. They have been posted by the devil. He thinks he owns these ponds.

I once heard it said, "1 am a fisher of men, not a hunter of demons." My response is: you can- not fish if a strongman has a "No Trespassing" sign posted. Fight for and claim the ground that Jesus Christ won for you. Back the strong man down. Curse him and bind him in the name of Jesus Christ. You have the authority of Jesus Christ to preach the gospel to every nation, kindred and person on the earth. Personally, my statement is: "I like to hunt and fish."

"The message that teenagers are listening to today concerns their own power and identity."

Each of us needs to begin on our knees. Then each of us needs to stand against the wiles of the devil. Next, we need to move as a united force into every level and strata of society and culture and be aggressive in the spiritual campaign. Then, united we stand to proclaim, "Devil, Give Us Back our Teenagers!!'

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: Ephesians 4: 13

"We should demand that the Supreme Court and our other elected officials recant of their devilish atrocities."

In closing, a good exhortation for all of us to remember is Romans 11: 14.

If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. Romans 11: 14

The Greek word for "provoke to emulation" is "paraze/oo". It is composed of para- parallel and ze/oo- zeal. We need to parallel or match our zeal and commitment to at least be at the level of what Satan is doing. His children and agents are viciously assaulting the kingdom of our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ daily. Are we going to idly sit by and let these atrocities continue with- out retaliating?

The words of our Lord Jesus Christ should echo in our ears.

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke 10: 18

Satan is a dethroned and defeated enemy. Jesus beheld him being cast to the ground like a meteorite burning up as he bounced off the face of the earth.

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Luke 1 a: 19

We have authority over Satan and his king- dom. His strength is his deception. He continues to employ it because Christians are not standing up and exposing his lies and treachery . We need to unite and expose him. Let's move into our schools and tell our teenagers that not only is it okay to pray, but that they should. We should march into our school boards and demand that they revoke the devilish curriculums. We should demand that the Supreme Court and our other elected officials recant of their devilish atrocities. If they deny your demands, then run for public office and change it yourself. Don't shut up and don't quit. Have at least as much zeal as the activists and atheists do.

You are more than a conqueror. Satan has ransacked our country and is holding our teenagers in captivity. Let's go get them back! !

Remember that Satan and his demons are subject to you in the name of Jesus Christ.

Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Luke 10:20

Let us rejoice even more when we see the names of teenagers written in heaven. Let us preach to our teenagers the same message as Paul was commanded to preach.

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power [authority] of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. Acts 26: 18

1. Get on your knees in prayer to God for the release of our teenagers.

2. Get on your feet and stand against the wiles of the devil.

3. Stand together in rescuing our teenagers from the kingdom of darkness.

When we do these three things, then we can rejoice together as we see their names written in the kingdom of heaven.

Boldly we proclaim: "DEVIL, GIVE US BACK OUR TEENAGERS!!!"

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