SPIRITUAL WARFARE IS NOT WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN TAUGHT
Pentecostals have given spiritual warfare a bad reputation as something that super-spiritual religionists do to fight demons, devils and their evil cohorts in heavenly places or on planet earth. They couldn’t be more wrong.
The reason they are wrong is that mythical characters are borrowed from ancient pagan religions and New Testament adversaries all symbolize religious leaders in every age. They are not real. Religious people wrongly believe that these creatures are real because they read about them in the bible without understanding that they all symbolically represent the kind of evil people God wants his people to avoid. See these links for understanding:
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- Introduction to Bible Interpretation (4 minute video)
- Serpent, Devil, Satan, Adversary, Demons, Evil Spirits and Anti-Christs (blog)
- Heaven and Hell are not what you think (3 minute video)
- Understanding Heaven and Hell (6 minute video)
- Heaven and Hell (blog)
- Demons, devils, satans, evil spirits and anti-christs are not real (2 minute video.) NOTE: Ignore strike through. Link is good.
- Demons, devils, satans, evil spirits and antichrists: Part 1 (video)
- Demons, devils, satans, evil spirits and antichrists: Part 2 (video)
- Demons, devils, satans, evil spirits and antichrists: Part 3 (video)
Knowing that demons, devils, satan and evil spirits are not real is the most important fact to know about spiritual warfare. Here are other things to understand about spiritual warfare:
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- It is not a matter or praying in tongues against demons and devils.
- It is not a matter of singing, marching or blowing a shofar.
- It is not a matter of slashing at invisible creatures with a physical sword.
- It is not a matter of prophesying about the future or the downfall of evil spirits.
- It is not a matter of calling down fire from heaven to destroy evil spirits.
- It is not a matter of binding and loosing satan and evil spirits.
- It is not something to be done in church, at a prayer meeting, at a street protest, or at a conference.
- You must forget everything you have ever been taught or believed about demons, evil spirits, the devil and spiritual warfare.
All of the behaviors typically associated with spiritual warfare are not spiritual at all because they happen visibly and publicly. If they are visible and public, they are not spiritual. And if they are not spiritual, they are religion which is flesh at work. They are not exercises in faith.
Spiritual warfare is nothing like political activism or any form of religion. It does not involve planning meetings, prayer meetings, gatherings of any kind, praise worship, organization, or money. It does not involve flyers, door-knocking, tv advertisements or any of activity typically associated with politics because it is spiritual — not visible.
Spiritual warfare is a solitary activity in which Spiritual Warriors, also called truth-tellers, study to learn truth and then share truth whenever and wherever the time seems right to share it with Christian Nationalists.
The kinds of truths that need to be studied and shared are found in these links:
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- Truth vs Lies
- Doable, Common Sense Strategies for Achieving Political and Social Unity
- Christian Nationalism Doctrines and Philosophy: Lies and Truth
- Dominionism Doctrines and Philosophy: Lies and Truth
- Early American Religious History.
- Seven Mountains Doctrines and Philosophy: Lies and Truth
- Understanding the US Constitution
- God’s Commands About How to Relate to Him and to One Another