schreech wrote: What "reality" are you talking about here?
I neglected to answer this portion of your inquiry because it deserves specific attention. I used the word "reality" because there is one that is tangible that can be seen right here in the flesh. If you patiently bear with me I will give you a rough sketch and a few examples of what you can see that is real.
Often in scripture references are made that sound as if an individual is being spoken of but it is actually societal bodies of people gathered upon a united goal or mindset being spoken of. Thus, when I speak of "the adversary" I am knowingly making a reference not to just a single individual person. Rather, I am making a reference to a single spiritual force that has become adopted into the mindsets of a societal body of people who are unitedly working for a specific goal.
With that distinction in place, let's take a look at the closest thing that is real that I am confident we all can agree upon that represents an advocate for us in terms of our individual unalienable rights to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We had the great fortune to receive from a body of men a document whose sole purpose was to restrain man's innate tendency to rob, plunder and violate one another for our own selfish gain. They put in place a system of governance that makes all men free, yet only inasmuch as they stay within the bounds of the "free will and choice" cooperation of all individuals around him in honoring their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness too.
All those participating in this development were believers in God because the document itself explicitly mentioned Nature's God and the God of Creation to which they ascribe as the source of our individual unalienable rights. The vast majority derived their religious views from the Bible and held it as inviolate truth and likely had a knowing they were actually fulfilling prophecy to form this great nation upon those principles. Our prosperity and relative peace compared to ages past are a direct result of this development of freedom. These men were our advocate.
Now that we have this backdrop, I would like to introduce you to the real adversary of which I speak. I say adversary in terms of being an enemy to our individual unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I speak of a spiritual force that is being adopted by multitudes of people to act in accordance with its agenda. Once I introduce you to those people and help you discern how that common spirit is working through them that you will be able to appreciate the substantive reality of what I speak.
Our adversary has a much different tool belt of devices to work with than our advocate does. While our advocates toolbelt has truth and love, which always win in the end, our adversary's most productive tools for his agenda are deception and force. The adversary knows no individual on their own, while fully understanding everything he is about, would ever elect to advance his agenda. Thus, deception initially until force can secure is his method. His agenda is to pillage and plunder all he can to simply satisfy his own lusts, which have no end. Of course it won't look that way on the surface, but that is a core aspect of his spirit if you peel back the facade.
In a nutshell, here's the shift that has been implemented by our adversary. Maintaining a society where all individuals are absolutely safeguarded in their individual rights as sovereigns to freely cooperate out of love rather than coercion has now been transformed into a society where a majority of individuals can begin to put all individuals of the society into servitude to service the "needs" of everyone else via coercion. They are accomplishing this through the agency of government. Without realizing it, they have created of themselves the ouroboros, which begins to feed itself upon its own flesh.
The sign of the ouroborus can be seen in many things. One of the most obvious is our Federal Reserve monetary system. All of the money it puts into circulation for us to use has some form of debt instrument with usury to back it. Saying it prints money out of thin air is an understatement. The collateral pledged to back the value of the monetary units it puts out on loan for our use is ourselves. When those holding our dollars wish to have a fair and reasonable value in redemption for them do not receive such, we are going to wish it was just thin air these notes were backed by. We were deceived into allowing a very few elitists to put together this system that essentially put into motion their ability to collateralize us, monetize the debt instrument, and then rake in a cream stream of usury directly into their own pockets. The Federal Reserve System is NOT a government agency. This monster is getting so hungry for things of value to collateralize so that more money can be produced that they are now having to come up with new things to monetize. Kyoto Credits are the next thing they are going to use to create another cream stream to exploit. All of these things are being done in direct violation of the principles of our Constitution. As all the debt instruments expand they are in a position of incredible power. They used deception to get it all going and now they are using force to keep it all going. In the meantime, more and more of our body is being consumed by the head. Eventually those who helped facilitate getting the tail in the mouth because it was so far removed from them and they received benefits of the tail being consumed are going to feel the teeth slicing through their own flesh.
There is a very good description of how Marxist Liberals and Fabian Socialists are utilized as beguiled "useful idiots" by a Russian Communist defector and how things go for them when the teeth of the ouroborus head reaches them. Do please listen to this clip: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov He describes that by the time the "useful idiots" come to figure out they have been beguiled and that they really aren't going to receive the "pie in the sky" utopia they thought could be obtained by mutually enslaving everyone and throwing all moral values out the window, as they become disillusioned and potentially a great force to turn things around they are "disposed of". How can they be saved from the very monster they helped to create? They cannot. They helped to build a system that assumes ownership of all, including individual souls, and thereby they forfeit their own souls to it.
Another example is what transpired with the 9/11 attacks. Our government could have easily prevented what happened and should have. Instead, it appears to me it was somehow beguiled by a true optimist of the Winston Churchill variety. He says an optimist is someone who sees the opportunity in every difficulty and a pessimist is someone who sees the difficulty in every opportunity. How else would Americans be convinced to accept the massive grab of our individual rights in the Patriot Act if there wasn't some pretext for it? I will stop short of saying our government did it, but I am not about to look the other way in what response they gave it. It served the interests of our adversary bigtime to usurp our unalienable rights.
We are getting screwed by both the leftwing socialists and the rightwing statists. This development has been growing steadily for over 100 years and is now increasing at an accelerated pace. It has long passed the point of no return in terms of a peaceful correction. We are now full out engaged in a new War in Heaven where the final confrontation for man's individual agency shall be waged. We have the original plan of the Father to look back on and draw strength from and to help us discern the adversary and the beguiling lies he has used. Many of us shall die under the forceful measures he shall use to preserve his power. We shall die because we left things too long to correct and preserve our mortal lives. All that shall remain for most of us is to be willing to be killed by the adversary such that our soul shall be cleansed of having participated in it so that we shall be worthy to come forth in God's Kingdom after the final battles are over and victory is obtained.
So, the real adversary of which I speak is the body of beguilded men and women who are promoting measures in government (state and religion) to enslave you as an individual in violation of your God-given rights in order to accomplish their aim, which unfortunately is a lie that can never come to be. A snake that eats upon its own flesh shall eventually die. This is happening in the LDS church and every other organized religion on this planet.
If we had real leadership at our head as eyes that could see they would teach the members in very clear and explicit terms who and what the adversary is and get serious about implementing those measures ordained of God that will call down His divine protection when all the death throws of the doomed ouroborus begin. But, they are too busy enjoying their share of the fresh flesh and don't see that it won't be long, as Yuri detailed, when the teeth of the head are going to be consuming them.