Spiritual Weapons :: By Greg May

The recent announcement that witches across America will unite to place a curse on President Trump asks the question: How are we as Christians to live until Jesus returns?

God has a destiny for us to fulfill—faithfulness. Our responsibility is to be faithful to God’s Word and directives. The Church is the Body of Christ, or the bride of Christ which is supernaturally composed of all true believers in Jesus who have received salvation by faith in Christ and have the Holy Spirit living inside them.

The reality is that every believer is in the world, but not spiritually of the world, because heaven is our true home. But in the world or the world system, we must be faithful to God.

In the Old Testament, we see how God placed the prophet Daniel among the most powerful occult forces on earth in the courts of the king of Babylon. Daniel’s relationship  with the elite occult power center was not confrontational.  Daniel did not call them names or denounce them. Daniel walked with God and allowed God to supernaturally move through him.

In the Old Testament, Joseph was called to be the second in command under the pharaoh of Egypt. The court of the pharaoh were also the highest centers of occult power on earth. Joseph did not get into a confrontation with the pharaoh but walked with God, and God supernaturally used him to help God’s people and demonstrate the reality of God’s existence.

Many Christians falsely believe they are called to denounce and engage in all-out confrontations with the occult elite. But that is not what Daniel, Joseph or even Jesus did, except on very specific occasions. The battle we are in is a spiritual battle, and we are to use spiritual weapons:

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” (Ephesians 6:11-13)

When Jesus sent His apostles out on their mission, He said He was giving them authority (exousia) over all the power (dunamis) of the enemy (Luke 10:19).

Jesus’ authority is greater than satanic power.

When the disciples said, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name,”

Jesus replied, “Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven” (Luke 10:17, 20).

The Christian believer has unlimited authority over demons in the name of Jesus, but that authority is nothing compared to the glory and authority we will know in heaven!

Every believer should obey the Word of God, rely on the power of the Holy Spirit, and use the spiritual weapons God has given us such as praying, repentance, worship and evangelism.

Sources:

The Babylon Code, Paul McGuire and Troy Anderson. (Faith Words, 2015)

End Times Deceptions :: By Greg May

In 1968 Eric von Daniken wrote a book called Chariots of the Gods suggesting that ancient astronauts visited earth to “seed” our planet and constructed monuments which exist even today. Many Bible scholars believe these ancient monuments ,including the Great Pyramid of Giza were built by the fallen angels before the Flood.

The belief that our Creator comes from the stars rather than being the One who made them is one of the great deceptions of the end times.

“And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie.” (2 Thessalonians 2:11)

Just what is this “strong delusion” mentioned in this Scripture? Many Bible prophecy commentators believe it refers to the UFO phenomenon and that extraterrestrials will play a role in the end times as fallen angels masquerading as “space brothers.”

The description of “signs in the heavens” during the last days is believed by some to be pointing to the UFO phenomenon and has given rise to what the Bible describes as “doctrines of demons” (I Timothy 4:1-4).

“Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” (Luke 21:26)

“Things which are coming on the earth” could imply things that are not of this earth but of an extraterrestrial nature. A recent poll conducted by the Huffington Post revealed that more people living in the UK believe in extraterrestrials than those who believe in God.

There is a curious Scripture in Daniel 2:43 which says “they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men.” “They” seems to refer to beings that are not of the seed of men. In the sixth chapter of Genesis we are told fallen angels bred with the women of earth creating a race of giants known as the Nephilim.

In the days of Noah the Nephilim practiced genetic interference mixing the DNA of humans and animals to create “chimera” or monstrosities. These creatures were an abomination to God so He destroyed them in the Flood along with the Nephilim.

The Obama Administration – through the National Institute of Health – proposed a new policy to allow scientists to use federal funding to create part-human, part-animal embryos known as “chimera.” Last year the Pope gave his blessing to mix human and animal DNA to create chimera for the sake of medical research.

“And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man.” (Luke 17:26)

Combining human stem calls with animal embryos to create a new life form that is part-human, part-animal is an example of man playing God. “We’re not trying to make a chimera just because we want to see some kind of monstrous creature,” said Pablo Ross, a reproductive biologist at the University of California.

But many are concerned and have raised questions that chimera research could end up producing animals with human brains or animals able to father human children. Experiments involving the brain as well as giving animals human sperm and eggs are being planned by the National Institutes of Health.

It all began in the Garden of Eden when Satan told Adam and Eve, “Ye shall be as gods” (Genesis 3:5). There are reports that Nephilim DNA has been recovered from bodies frozen in Antarctica, Iraq and other locations around the world. Some researchers believe there are secret projects using Nephilim DNA for interspecies breeding. So when we read the Scripture, “And as it was in the days of Noah . . .” we are eerily reminded of the mischief of Genesis chapter six and the lateness of the hour.

There was a time – not too long ago – when such things were considered the fantasies of science fiction, but these shocking experiments have become a reality. When Nimrod began construction on the Tower of Babel God said, “Nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do” (Genesis 11:6) which translates to “Nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” So God gave them different languages in order to confuse them which halted the construction.

And how does God plan to avenge the altering of His creations today? This time the Flood will come as the Tribulation after God removes His faithful from the earth at the Rapture.