In Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical  The Phantom of the Opera, a young chorus girl named Christine Daae receives voice training from a mysterious musician she calls the ‘Angel of Music’. Christine believes that this is the angel her dying father had promised to send to her to complete her musical training.

As the plot thickens we find that her mysterious mentor is really a demented man who wants to carry her away into a bizarre underworld beneath the opera house. What the girl thinks is a supernatural agent sent by her beloved father is really a madman who wants to possess her for his own ends. The ‘Angel of Music’ is evil masquerading as good.

The believer in Christ also faces an evil one who masquerades. One of Satan’s key strategies is to look like someone who is good. Paul told us, “Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14). The Greek word translated as ‘transforms’ means “to change appearance, masquerade, or disguise oneself”.

In preparing us to face the evil strategies of the devil, God has provided all the equipment we need to stand our ground. Protecting ourselves with the armour of God unmasks the evil that opposes us and stabilises our spiritual walk (Eph. 6:10-18).

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Dennis Fisher

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