Satan’s plan hasn’t changed in 6000 years. He is a legalist and knows his legal right’s in your life down to the very last ‘jot and tittle’.
We were creations of Father God in His image. Satan wants us to lose our identity and the connection that we were created with and to Father God. He wants to debase us and remold us in his image, a perfect reflection of sin and death.
His overriding strategy is to keep us bound in legalism, totally in the dark about our true identity in Christ Jesus so that we die without re-connecting spiritually to Father God.
His plan formulaic. It is predictable. The administration of his game plan comes in every different flavour, size and shape imaginable — to deceive us and make us his creatures.
Understanding how he works, and then using the information can help you break his power in your life.
Ephesians 6:10-20
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
When the all-powerful God decreed Satan’s expulsion from heaven, Satan could not resist. Jesus chose the metaphor, like lightning, to emphasize the speed with which Satan fell. He fell, not like molasses, but like lightning. He didn’t fall like a leaf from a tree or a rock from a cliff. Oh no. Satan was in heaven one second, and in the next — BOOM! — he was gone!
There is no doubt that the Bible, interpreted in normal fashion, testifies very clearly to the reality and activity of demons.
| shedbim | Deuteronomy 32:17, Psalms 106:37 |
| setrim | Leviticus 17:7 |
| ‘elilim | Psalms 96:5 |
| gad | Isiah 65:11 |
| qeter | Psalms 91:6 |
The gospels record seventeen mentions of demons connected with the ministry of Christ, and in nine cases they specifically state that Jesus cast out the demon. From all these pieces of evidence, we cannot profess to believe the Bible and deny the reality of demons, either in Bible days or now.
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There exact origin of demons since it is not precisely stated in the Bible. There is good evidence, however, that demons are the progeny of fallen angels, aligned with Satan.
Ancient Jewish texts, the Apocrypha and the Dead Sea Scrolls, identify demons as the disembodied spirits of dead Nephilim giants who perished at the time of the great flood.
Nephilim
Genesis 6:1-4 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
1 Enoch 6:1-2; 7:1; In those days, when the children of man had multiplied, it happened that there were born unto them handsome and beautiful daughters. 2 And the angels, the children of heaven, saw them and desired them; and they said to one another, ‘Come, let us choose wives for ourselves from among the daughters of man and beget us children.’ . . . And they took wives unto themselves, and everyone (respectively) chose one woman for himself, and they began to go unto them. . . .
The sons of God, meaning ‘angels’ transgress. They cross Father God’s divinely-ordained boundary between the spiritual being and earthly/animal beings by copulating ans producing spiritual/human hybrids. Those children are referred to as Nephilim. The term “Nephilim” does not mean “fallen ones”; it means “giants.”
Historical Mesopotamian records note these giant offspring as “apkallu“. They provided advanced knowledge to humanity. They were enemies of Father God, and their giant offspring surviving the flood set about annihilating Israel, many years later.
1 Enoch 9:1, 9-10; Then Michael, Surafel, and Gabriel observed carefully from the sky and they saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all the oppression being wrought upon the earth. . . . As for the women, they gave birth to giants to the degree that the whole earth was filled with blood and oppression. And now behold, the Holy One will cry, and those who have died will bring their suit up to the gate of heaven. Their groaning has ascended (into heaven), but they could not get out from before the face of the oppression that is being wrought on earth. . . . And to Gabriel the Lord said, ‘Proceed against the bastards and the reprobates and against the children of adultery; and destroy the children of adultery and expel the children of the Watchers from among the people. And send them against one another (so that) they may be destroyed in the fight, for length of days have they not. . . .’
The apkallu who survived the flood were the mighty ones who developed societies like Babylon. These second-generation apkallu hybrids, were the giants of Gilgamesh who is referred to the “lord of the apkallu” in Mesopotamian historical records. They were also described as mats-tsarey, or “watchers.”
Rephaim
In the Old Testament, the Rephaim are described as giant warlords (Deut 2:8-11; 3:1-11; Josh 13:12), but also as frightening, sinister disembodied spirits “the shades” in the Underworld, called Sheol in Hebrew (Isa 14:9; 26:14; Job 26:5).
Anakim
tells us explicitly that the Anakim came from the Nephilim.
Numbers 13:32-33 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Deuteronomy 2 and 3, names the giant clans Emim, Zamzummim, and Rephaim. Seizing the promised land meant wiping out giant Anakim, and Joshua chronicles it “There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.” Those were three Philistine cities. Goliath would come from one of them (Gath) in the days of David
1 Samuel 17:4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
The disembodied spirits of these giants were associated with the home of the dead, and were feared.
The references in the Old Testament to a place called the Valley of the Rephaim, including, 2 Sam 5:18, 22; 23:13.
Joshua 15:8 and 18:16 tell us that the Valley of the Rephaim adjoined another valley, the Valley of Hinnom, also known as the Valley of the Son of Hinnom.
In Hebrew “Valley of Hinnom” is ge hinnom. gehenna is linked to Hades/Hell in the New Testament.
1 Enoch 15:8-9;And when they and all their children have battled with each other, and when they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them for 70 generations underneath the rocks of the ground until the day of their judgment and of their consummation, until the eternal judgment is concluded. . . . But now the giants who are born from the (union of) the spirits and the flesh shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, because their dwelling shall be upon the earth and inside the earth. Evil spirits have come out of their bodies. Because from the day that they were created from the holy ones they became the Watchers; their first origin is the spiritual foundation. They will become evil upon the earth and shall be called evil spirits.
“Bastard spirits” described demons in Enoch and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls calls demons “offspring of man and the seed of the holy ones, as in Genesis 1.
The Watchers whose blasphemous fornication spawned the demons were to be bound “for 70 generations underneath the rocks of the ground.” 2 Peter 2:4-5, speaking about the days of Noah says, “God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment.” this is in the original context for Genesis 6:1-4.
In his original rebellion, Satan drew with him a great number of angels; perhaps a third of all created
Ezekiel 28:18 — Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Revelation 12:4 — And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Originally referred to as Lucifer, an archangel who became Satan when he was expelled from God’s presence and condemned to the lake of fire when Jesus returns to earth. These fallen angels may now be classified as either confined or free. The free have their abode in the heavenlies and have access to earth and its inhabitants
Ephesians 3:10, 6:12 Some are in the abyss or pit
Revelation 9:1-11…a place to which Christ cast many.
Luke 8:31 Others are bound on earth…in river Euphrates
Revelation 9:14 and Jude 6 describes a particularly wicked group of demons as “kept in eternal bonds”.
“In eternity past, God and Satan engaged in a great battle. Today, the cosmic struggle still rages between them.”
This particular lie or myth contradicts one of the most well-established, fundamental truths about God that is revealed in Scripture—the truth that He is all-powerful, or omnipotent, to use the theological term. From cover to cover the Bible affirms God’s omnipotence.
On page one of the book of Genesis, we learn that God created everything. He spoke the universe into existence. How much power did that require? Whatever amount was necessary, God had it!
Has God’s power diminished since then, now that He has grown so much older? No, Jesus told us that all things are possible with God ― Matthew 19:26. Jeremiah affirmed that there is nothing too difficult for Him ― Jeremiah 32:17. No person or force can stop Him from fulfilling His plans, see 2 Chronicals 20:6; Job 41:10; 42:2. Through Jeremiah God asks, “For who is like Me….And who then…can stand against Me?”― Jeramiah 50:44. The answer is no one , not even Satan.
Speaking through the prophet Isaiah, the Holy Spirit said, “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired” ― Isiah 40:28. Paul wrote that God is able to do “exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think” ―Ephesians 3:20.
If God is truly all-powerful as the above-mentioned scriptures affirm, then to say that God and Satan were or are in a battle is to imply that He is not all-powerful. If God lost even a single round, or was slightly overcome by Satan even to a small degree, or had to struggle against him for even a short time, then He is not all-powerful as He declares Himself to be.
Christ’s Commentary on Satan’s Power Jesus once said something concerning Satan’s fall from heaven that will help us understand how much power Satan has in comparison to our omnipotent God:
And the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” And He said to them, “I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning” ― Luke 10:17-18.
When Jesus sent out seventy of His disciples to preach and heal, they returned exuberantly to report that even the demons were subject to them in His name. They should not have been so surprised, however, Jesus informed them that in His pre-incarnate state, He had witnessed a very revealing demonstration of the Father’s supreme power over Satan: When the all-powerful God decreed Satan’s expulsion from heaven, Satan could not resist. Jesus chose the metaphor, like lightning, to emphasize the speed with which Satan fell. He fell, not like molasses, but like lightning. He didn’t fall like a leaf from a tree or a rock from a cliff. Oh no. Satan was in heaven one second, and in the next — BOOM! — he was gone!
If God can so quickly and easily expel Satan himself, it should have been no surprise that His commissioned servants could also quickly and easily expel demons. Previously, those disciples possessed great respect for the horrible power that demons exercised over their victims, but now they had witnessed a far greater power, causing their joyful amazement. How some of us need this same revelation. Too many Christians have a great respect for the power of the devil and have not yet grasped that God’s power is far, far, far greater. God is the Creator, and Satan is only a creation.
Satan is no match for God
There is no comparison between God’s power and Satan’s power. Satan cannot even struggle against God’s great power, as Jesus so aptly put it.
The War That Never Was
As strange as it may seem to some of our ears, we need to understand that God and Satan are not, have never been, and never will be in a battle. Yes, they do have differing agendas, and perhaps it could be cautiously said that they are in opposition. But when two parties are in opposition to one another, and one is immensely more powerful than the other, their conflicts are not considered battles. Could an earthworm fight with an elephant? An earthworm might make a very feeble attempt to oppose an elephant, but their contention could hardly be described as a fight.
Satan, like that earthworm, made a feeble attempt to oppose One who was immensely more powerful. His opposition was quickly dealt with, and he was expelled from heaven “like lightning.” There was no battle—there was only an expulsion.
If God is all-powerful, then Satan doesn’t have a ghost of a chance at slightly hindering God from doing what He wants to do. And if God does permit Satan to do something, ultimately it is only to accomplish His own divine will. Obviously, God permitted Satan to make a choice regarding obedience or disobedience, which is what we call free will. But the only reason Satan possessed the authority to make a choice was because God gave him that authority.
Was Not Satan Defeated by Jesus on the Cross? In regard to this myth of God and Satan’s reputed battles, I would like you to consider the following commonly-used statement: Jesus defeated Satan on the cross.
In the past, I had often stated that Jesus defeated Satan on the cross until I realized that what I was saying was not entirely biblical. Scripture never actually states that Jesus defeated Satan on the cross. Am I, perhaps, splitting theological hairs? No, there is good reason to be so particular. When we say that Jesus defeated Satan, we make it sound as if Jesus and Satan were in a battle, which implies that God is not all-powerful, and that Satan was not already under the complete authority of God. That is why I no longer say that Jesus defeated Satan on the Cross. There are more biblical ways of describing what happened to Satan when Jesus gave His life on Calvary. Hebrews 2:14-15 tells us: “Since then the children [that’s us, the children of God] share in flesh and blood [that is, we have physical bodies], He Himself [Jesus] likewise also partook of the same [a physical body], that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death , that is, the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives” (emphasis added).
Note that Jesus, through His death, rendered Satan powerless. To what extent did He render Satan powerless? Obviously, Satan is not completely powerless, or else the apostle John would never have written that “the whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19, emphasis added). Neither would James and Peter have told us to resist the devil, because if Satan had no power, there would be nothing for us to resist, see James 4:7; 1 Pet. 5:8-9 Nor would Paul have written, “And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet” Romans 16:20
We’ve already determined from other scriptures that Satan was not rendered powerless or inoperable by Jesus’ death. Thus, we need to know in what area or to what extent Satan was rendered powerless. Hebrews 2:14-15 tells us. It says that through His death, Jesus rendered “powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives” (emphasis added). Satan was rendered powerless regarding “the power of death.” What, exactly, does that mean? This question is answered by looking at what other parts of the New Testament have to say about death.
Three Kinds of Death
Scripture teaches that we are tripartite in nature: spirit, soul, and body, see 1 Thessalonians 5:23.
Our body is our physical person, the flesh and bones and blood. Our soul is often considered to be our emotions, intellect and will. Our spirit is referred to in Scripture as “the inward man”, 2 Corinthians 4:16, or “the hidden man of the heart”, 1 Peter 3:4. In both cases, the spirit is called a “man.” The spirit is a person who is made of spiritual material, rather than physical material, just like angels, for example. The spirit has been described by some as the “real you.” Your spirit is eternal. With this in mind, we can better understand the third kind of death of which the Bible speaks.
Scripture refers to these three kinds of death: spiritual death, physical death, and the second death.
Physical death occurs when a person’s spirit departs from his body, and his body then ceases to function.
The second death (or eternal death) is referred to in Revelation 2:22; 20:6,14; 21:8, and is described as the time when unbelievers will be thrown into the lake of fire.
Spiritual death
Spiritual Death is described as the condition of a human spirit which has not been born again by the Holy Spirit. A spiritually dead person has a spirit that is alienated from God, a spirit that possesses a sinful nature, a spirit that is, to some degree, joined to Satan.
Ephesians 2:1-3 paints for us a picture of the spiritually dead person: “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest”. (emphasis added)
Paul said the Ephesians Christians were dead in their trespasses and sins. Obviously, he was not referring to physical death because he was writing to physically alive people. Therefore, he must have been saying that they were dead, spiritually speaking. What killed them, spiritually? It was their “trespasses and sins.” Remember God told Adam that in the day he disobeyed, he would die, see Genesis 2:17. God was not speaking of physical death, but spiritual death, because Adam did not die physically on the day he ate the forbidden fruit. Rather, he died spiritually that day, and did not die physically until hundreds of years later.
Paul continued by saying that the Ephesians, as spiritually dead people, had walked in (or practiced) those trespasses and sins, following the “course of the world” (that is, doing what everyone else was doing) and following “the prince of the power of the air.”
Who is “the prince of the power of the air”? He is Satan, who rules his dark domain as commander-in-chief over other evil spirits who inhabit the atmosphere. Those evil spirits are listed by various ranks in a later chapter of Ephesians, see Ephesians 6:12. Paul said that dark prince is a “spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.” The expression, “sons of disobedience,” is just another description for all unbelievers which emphasizes that their nature is sinful. Paul later said that they “were by nature children of wrath”, Ephesians 2:3, emphasis added). Additionally, he said that Satan was working in them.
The Devil for a Father
Whether unsaved people realize it or not, they are following Satan and are his subjects in the kingdom of darkness. They have his evil, selfish nature residing in their spiritually dead spirits. Satan is their spiritual lord and father. That is why Jesus once said to some unsaved religious leaders: “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father”, John 8:44.
This is the bleak picture of the person who has not been born again! He is walking through life spiritually dead, full of Satan’s nature, heading for an inevitable physical death which he greatly fears; and, whether he realizes it or not, he will one day experience the worst death of all, eternal death, as he is cast into the lake of fire to suffer there forever.
It is extremely important that we understand that spiritual, physical, and eternal death are all manifestations of God’s wrath upon sinful humanity, and that Satan has a part in all of it. God has permitted Satan to rule over the kingdom of darkness and over all those who “love the darkness”, John 3:19. In effect, God said to Satan, “You may hold in captivity through your power those who are not submitted to Me.” Satan became a subordinate instrument of God’s wrath upon human rebels. Because all have sinned, all are under Satan’s power, filled with his nature in their spirits and held captive to do his will, see 2 Tim. 2:26.
The Ransom for Our Captivity We can thank God, however, that He had mercy upon humanity, and because of His mercy, no one must remain in that pitiful condition! Because Jesus’ substitutionary death satisfied the claims of divine justice, all those who believe in Christ can escape from spiritual death and Satan’s captivity because they are no longer under God’s wrath. When we put our faith in Jesus, the Holy Spirit comes into our spirits and eradicates Satan’s nature from it, causing our spirits to be born again, see John 3:1-16. and allowing us to become partakers of God’s divine nature, see 2 Peter 1:4.
Now back to our original question. When the writer of Hebrews stated that Jesus, through His death, rendered “powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,” he meant that the power of spiritual death, which Satan holds over every unsaved person, has been broken over all those who are “in Christ.” We are made spiritually alive because of Christ; He has paid the penalty for our sins.
Moreover, because we are no longer spiritually dead and under Satan’s dominion, we no longer must fear physical death, since we know what awaits us—a glorious inheritance in heaven. Some of us may even escape physical death—if we are alive when Jesus returns, see 1 Corinthians 15:51; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
Finally, because of Jesus, we have been delivered from suffering the second death , being cast into the lake of fire. Did Jesus defeat the devil on the cross? No, He did not, because Satan was already defeated and because there was no battle between Jesus and Satan. Jesus did, however, render Satan powerless regarding Satan’s power over spiritual death, by which he holds unsaved people captive in sin. Satan still holds the power of spiritual death over unsaved people, but as far as those who are in Christ are concerned, Satan is powerless over them. Therefore, in Revelation 12:11, we read, “And they [the believers] overcame him [Satan] because of the blood of the Lamb.” It was because Jesus shed His blood on the cross for our sins that we have overcome Satan.
The Disarming of the Powers This also helps us understand Paul’s statement about the “disarming of rulers and authorities” found in Colossians 2:13-15: And when you were [spiritually] dead in your transgressions…He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him (emphasis added).
Paul uses obvious metaphorical language in this passage. In the first part, he compares our guilt to a “certificate of debt.” What we could not pay was paid for us by Christ, who took our sin-debt to the cross. There our account was paid in full.
In the second part, just as ancient kings stripped their defeated foes of their weapons and triumphantly paraded them through their city streets, so Christ’s death was a triumph over “rulers and authorities,” ALL ranks of demons who rule over rebellious humans, holding them captive.
Could we not say, based upon this passage, that Christ defeated Satan? Perhaps, but with some qualification. We must keep in mind that, in this passage, Paul was writing metaphorically. And every metaphor, whether written or spoken, has a point where the similarities turn to dissimilarities.
For example, if I say to my wife, “Your eyes are like pools,” I mean that her eyes are deep, dark, and inviting. But I mean nothing more, because those are the only similarities between my wife’s eyes and pools of water. I do not mean that fish swim in her eyes, or that they freeze over in the winter, or that ducks might want to land on them. Every metaphor is like that. It reaches a point where, if pushed beyond the intended similarities, would darken understanding rather than enlighten it, as metaphors are supposed to do. (This very thing is often done by people trying to find some significance in every minor detail of Jesus’ parables, when Jesus was usually only trying to make one major point.)
In interpreting Paul’s metaphors in Colossians 2:13-15, we must be equally cautious. Obviously, there wasn’t an actual “certificate of debt” that had all our sins written on it that was nailed to the cross. That is, however, symbolic of what Jesus accomplished. Similarly, the demons who ruled over unsaved humanity were not literally disarmed of their swords and shields and paraded publicly through the streets by Jesus. The language Paul uses is symbolic of what Jesus accomplished for us. We were held captive by those evil spirits. By dying for our sins, however, Jesus released us from our captivity. Jesus didn’t literally fight against those evil spirits and they were not at war with Him. They, by God’s righteous permission, held us in their power all our lives. Their “armaments,” as it were, were pointed, not at Christ, but at us. Jesus, however, “disarmed” them. They can’t keep us captive any longer.
Let us not think that there was some age-long fight between Jesus and Satan’s evil spirits, and finally, Jesus won the battle on the cross. If we are going to say that Jesus defeated the devil, let us be certain we understand that He defeated the devil for us, and not for Himself. He didn’t need to overcome the devil for Himself. How did He chase away that Satan-dog? He did it by bearing the punishment for our sins, thus releasing us from our guilt before God, thus delivering us from God’s wrath, and thus the evil spirits whom God righteously permits to enslave human rebels no longer had any right to enslave us. Praise God for that!
Question: “In eternity past, God and Satan engaged in a great battle. So today, the cosmic struggle still rages between them.”
No, we can thank God that in eternity past Satan was expelled from heaven without a fight. God will someday, through one powerful angel, bind Satan and render him inoperable for a thousand years. In the meantime, Satan’s power in holding people captive through spiritual death has been broken over all those who are in Christ. Satan is no longer our spiritual father and lord. Our tripartite God Himself is our heavenly Father, but He is not, never has been, and never will be in a battle with Satan.
We don’t talk about Satan or the Devil…this is just the fallen nature of man.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
If you have been under this ministry, ask Father God to reveal to your the evidence from the word and the revelation through the Holy Spirit, so that you are given the opportunity to be delivered from the Spirit of Spiritual Blindness.
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Jesus Christ removed all sin by his finished work n the cross. Christians can no longer sin, as they are under Grace
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And,
There is no such thing as Ancestral Sin because Jesus Christ dealt with that too.
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Although highly intelligent beings, and highly organised and controlled through terror, Satans and his allies do not have the same power that Father God has.
The 6000 years of manipulation and observation of us has provided Satan with a huge database of stimulus vs response information.
We respond or manifest demonic ‘fruit’ based the personal preference that we have as the basic wiring of our brain and our parasympathetic nervous system. This includes our body language, the unconsidered things spoken, our atcions.
Satan can plant thoughts in our mind, plant demons in our genes, and fleshy members and manipulate our external circumstances, but our Free will is always our own.
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1. They are personal beings. This is evidenced by the fact that
i. Personal pronouns are applied to them ― Luke 8:27-30
ii. They may assume personal names, such as “legion” ― Luke 8:30
iii. They use intelligent speech ― Luke 4:33-35, 41; 8:28-30
iv. They recognize the identity of Christ ― Mark 1:23-24, Acts 16:16-17 v. They exhibit emotion of fear and trembling ― Luke 8:28; James 2:19
vi. They have will ― Matthew 12:44
vii. They have ability to speak
2. They are powerful beings
i. Highly intelligent ― Ezekiel 28:12
ii. Capable of carrying out strategies on the local or worldwide scene ― Ephesians 6: 11-12; 2 Corinthians 2:11
iii. May control and overpower men ― Acts 19:14-16; Mark 5:1-4, 12-13
iv. Their powers can be used in terribly wicked fashion ― Revelation 9:1-11; Revelation 9:13-19
v. They can produce deceptive miracles 2 Thessalonians 2:9
3. They are spirit beings.
i. They are contrasted with flesh and blood, that is beings with bodies ― Ephesians 6:12
ii. They are among the invisible creatures of God ― Colossians 1:16
iii. They may appear in visible forms as if they were angels of light ― 2 Corinthians 11:14 or as hideous and fearsome beings ― Revelations 9:7-10, 17; 16:13-16
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Promoting Satan’s program ― Ephesians 2:1-2; Danial 10: 13, 20; John 12:31; Ephesians 6:11-12; 2 Thessalonians 2:8-10
Opposing God’s purpose ― Isa. 14:14; Ezek. 28:16, 18; 2Thess 2:3-4; Rev. 16:14 Rev. 20:7-9
Opposing mankind ― Job 1:12-19; 2:7 Romans 1:18-32; Ephesians ― 2:1-3; Matthew 9:32-33; Matthew 12:22; Lk. 13:11,17; Matthew 17:15-18, Matthew 4:24; Lk. 7:21; Mark 5:5; 9:22; Revelation 18:2, 24; Revelation 9:14-19
Attacking their confidence in God and His word ― Matthew 16:22-23; 1 Timothy 4:1
Tempting them to sin ― 1 Chronicles 21:1-8
Promoting immorality ― 1 Chronicles 7:2,
Breaking up Christian marriages
Introducing false teachings ― 1 Timothy 4:1-3
Causing divisions ― James 3:14-16; 1 Corinthians 3:1-4
Creating harshness and lack of forgiveness ― 2 Corinthians 2:5-11; Ephesians 4:26-27
Hindering communication and inciting misunderstanding ― 1 Thessalonians 2:2-18
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‘If you wander through the Old Testament, you will start to notice that satan’s chain of command is noted.
In the same way that Father God has His Godly Angels and Spirits assigned to people, things, and places, and so has Satan. It’s obvious really because Satan has never had nor is he ever going to have an original thought – let alone universal game plan.
Satan has under his command, Satanic or Fallen Angels. They reign over geographic regions and have dominion over various behaviors. They rule as Princes and Principalities, with Princes and Principalities. This is to come against Father Gods Angelic Hierarchy which had the original pattern. For example, Michael the Archangel has specific responsibility for Israel as a Nation and geographically.
Satanic Spirit forces inhabit physical mechanisms, relating to time and space. They can use natural forces and can manipulate things like rain, clouds, wind, vegetation, and the animal kingdom. They form conduits of spiritual energy to transmit information and do harm.
The fallen Angels are in the second heaven and can manifest on earth – as Satan does.
They are also aligned with the specific forms of Sin, for instance, there is an Angel of death that has command over Islam.
Specifically in relation to human inhabitation
The top division of the demonic hierarchy supervises and closely monitors activities in the lower ranks without violating any of the legal rights provided in the Word of Father God.
Lower ranks are the demons whose job is to gain entrance to mortal bodies
Chief Captains and Chief Rulers
The demonic entities have various persona or characteristics, for instance
Animistic spirits, for instance
There are “familiar spirits’ that are watcher, scanner, tracker, eavesdropper spirits assigned to us and our homes
Spirits that produce accidents and physical calamity, steal and wreak havoc.
Satan has an influence in every earthly situation which is not covered in the blood of Lord Jesus Christ.
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The Weapons of Our Warfare
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 — (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
This is the greatest weapon of spiritual warfare because it, alone, when accepted by the unbeliever, transfers that person from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light.
| John 12:46 | Ephesians 5:8 | 1 John 1:6,7 |
| 1 Peter 2:9 | 1 Thessalonians 5:5 |
Satan’s defeat.
| 1 John 1:6,7 | Revelation 12:11 |
Which empowers prayer
| Hebrews 11: 1 | Ephesians 6:12 |
| James 1: 6,7 | Revelation 12:11 |
Your faith confession – these are your faith-filled words, spoken aloud from the applied Word of God, over another person, self, or circumstances.
| Mark 11:23, 24 | Proverbs 18:21; |
| Ephesians 6:16 | Revelation 12:11 |
| Matthew 7:7 | 1 John 3:22 | 1 John 5: 14 |
| Mark 11:23 | Proverbs 23:7 | Proverbs 18:21 |
See the preceding section
| Ephesians 6:11-17 |
| James 4:7 | Matthew 4: 1 -11 |
| Matthew 16:19 | Matthew 12:29 |
| Matthew 16:17, 18 |
| Job 22:28 | |
| Luke 10:17 | in the Name of Jesus Christ |
