Seasons and generations have been shaped by the character quality of the leadership spirit of those at the helm of affairs. However, men in leadership are often motivated by the historic ideology that forms the basis and framework of such a region. In other words, leadership is as good as the philosophy that determines its course.
The ancient battle nations and regions have always been centered around ideology, religion, and economy. Today’s 21st-century battle is no different. We’ve continued to witness the influence of ideology, religion, and economy shape what we believe and how we look at others. Amazingly, we’ve begun to see these three elements shaping the face of many calls the Church.
This new decade has, indeed, usher us into a confrontational position in the prophetic objective and advancement of God in the earth. Still, it will take those who can read the signs of the time to precisely articulate what is unfolding before our very eyes, particularly when you consider the recent assassination of the second in command in Iranian leadership core by the America drone strike.
Anyone following geopolitical affairs within the middle east would know that this strike was long coming due to the building up of tension between Iran and America right from the time President Donald Trump took office. Of course, the world of media at this time has continued to speculate and even predict what would happen next; TV networks and social media have continued to air various opinions, and many have already decided which part or side of the story they will believe, depending on which side of the political divide or school of thought that has influenced their perception.
The world today is completely divided on various grounds, from the concept of ideologies, race, religion, economy, and national identity. These concepts of divisions have created a good ground for an ongoing proxy war, and this will continue as the strategy of invading and influencing the battlefield of the days ahead.
The believer’s perspective
Being prophetically balanced [neutral] in analyzing what is happening across the globe allows us to effectively interpret what the Lord is doing or saying even from that which might look chaotic. Keeping our head clear and focused is one of the hallmarks of spiritual maturity because you need that to see and examine things accurately. To be prejudice is to disqualify yourself from the things of the Spirit, and how I have seen a degree of bias among Christians of late, even among those we thought were spiritually sound and mature.
Religious bias and other forms of humanist prejudice will not only blind our insight from seeing the intention and direction of the Lord in this hour but will, in fact, cripple our ability and capacity to effectively engage in the arts of advancing heaven’s prophetic initiative, even as we are called to charge in warfare against the Spirit of wickedness and destruction across the globe.
Laying this foundational narrative is crucial, because many are still divided behind some charismatic, Evangelical, religious, ideological lines, fueled on racial and economic grounds, depending on which side of the fence they find themselves. To develop a biblically sound world view in dealing with the socio-cultural, geopolitical, and economic divides is to allow the Spirit of the Lord to first strip us of our presumptive ideas, ingrained false identity, and knowledge gathered under the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Secondly, it is to allow the Father to enlighten and broaden our spiritual standpoint regarding the current political or socioeconomic realities of our time, which I usually term as a position of prophetic spectrum.
As we know, when a ray of light passes through a fraction prism, what we experience is a spectrum of colors. This truth is the same when considering the idea of allowing the light of God’s truth to pass through and permeate our spiritman, what happens is, we effectively see and identify the various, glorious, unique beauty and identity of the Father for each person, family, community, nation, continent, and of course, this generation as a whole.
The sovereignty of God’s wisdom
Is there anything that happens without the knowledge of God? or are things happening right now regardless of their implication on a national or global scale that surprises the Lord because he was not aware of it? Absolutely not. The influence of God within human affairs is still a mystery many are trying to grapple with; more so, we one considers the impact or influence of evil growing daily.
There’s a weak, humanist lens view we can use in trying to examine or comprehend the complexity of life that brings more and more challenging, unanswered questions. Yet, on the flip side, there’s a position of advantage we can allow heaven to locate us within the framework of biblical truth that gives us unprecedented prophetic [spirit] insight which ultimately allows us to see and know things differently; even things that might seem too complicated for our religious, limited, spiritual understanding to comprehend.
The further we move towards the days of the end, the more we are going to be left with questions that we may not find immediate answer, but if we have the right biblical, foundational understanding of truth and the operational wisdom of the sovereignty of the Father in our lives, it gives us the right state of attitude in approaching what is happening before our very eyes.
To be spiritually informed and aware of the nature of the days we’ve been brought into allows us to possess the right spiritual sight, capacity, and wisdom to engage effectively. As we proceed further into the days of the appearing of our Lord, we should be ready and prepare for regional instability even as we pray for divine intervention.
Our position is not to take a stand for or against regions, but to take our stand on the walls of NATION BUILDING in intercession for the redemption of the soul of the people, which include that of Iranians, China, and America, United Kingdom, Nigeria, South Africa, and the rest. We must continue to pray for wisdom to guide the heart of the President of America and the rest of the world leaders to do what is right and just.
We should ask the Lord to grant us his Church to see beyond what the Front-line news wants us to see and believe. We should pray for Pastors and leaders to be spiritually informed and prophetically aligned. Hence, they are prepared to rightly inform and develop their followers to follow the way of the Spirit and not what may look popular. May your kingdom come, Lord…
AND APPRECIATION TO OUR ONLINE MINISTRY FOLLOWERS.
A new phase in ministry demand a new face of engagement…
By Isaiah-Philips Akintola
This is to wish all our friends, followers and online community members a blessed and prosperous season ahead. Thank you for believing in the prophetic voice heaven has given to me. Thank you for your prayers, words of encouragement, and of course, your financial support in lifting my hands in ministry as Moses hands were lifted on the Mountain during the days of the battle of the Lord against the Amalekites. Today, we are called to engage a different type of Amalekites that requires the position of apostolic elders at the gates and on the walls of our homes, Church, and cities.
Unfortunately, many of our Elders and gatekeepers have been pressured and seduced to leave the wall and the gates to go look for food, platforms, and financial sustenance, therefore, the city has remained invaded and the church has been captured by another spirit that is teaching the Nazareth to drink wine. I appreciate the fact that you’ve been able to discipline yourself to awake in the morning in responding to the Spirit of governmental intercession and prayer.
It’s a joyful thing to begin to witness a new generation of apostolic priesthood, taking their place on behalf of their families, community, and nation. I will encourage you to keep the fire burning on the altar; don’t let it die! We’ve begun to build a culture of apostolic governmental ordinary Saints with in-depth, prophetic sight to invade the territory of darkness even as recover all the enemy has stolen.
2020 is just around the corner and we can look back with a deep sense of appreciation to how the Lord has guided and directed our pathway. Appreciating the Lord will be an understatement to the overflowing richness of his goodness and favor over us. The year 2019 is one filled with various types of adventure that we can say has indeed led us into depths and heights of spiritual realities of the speakings and the demand of the Lord.
There are no words strong enough to capture the expression of the heart of the Father for us. Heaven has continued to upgrade, update, and elevate our spiritual engagement to the degree of shifting our position of priestly relationship and interaction. The Lord has brought us to a new arena in his prophetic vision for the development and advancement of the mandate of the redemption of creation. We’ve touched new heights and realms in the spirit which has elevated our spiritual point of operation; our vision has become enriched even has wisdom takes us deeper into the apostolic design of the restored Ecclesia.
Personally, the year 2019 has been a great season of trial, test and maturity in walking the path of my prophetic assignment for the nation of South Africa and beyond. The prophetic mandate of the Father for my life regarding his redemptive vision for this nation and the rest of the world has become more visible and more defined in the spirit of wisdom. 2019 has allowed us to have a better picture of the reformation direction and restorational principle of the Church.
This prophetic, redemptive program has stirred the compromising sediments within the false, deceptive and lukewarm, Laodicean water that has characterized the state of the church for many seasons now. We are now seeing an open challenge and disagreements within the two order of leadership philosophy within the church.
The emerging reality of the restoration of the tabernacle of David is disrupting the political, elitism spirit of the house of Saul. I am afraid that this battle will continue deep into the seasons and years ahead, but we need to apply the spiritual character quality David exhibited until the Lord establishes his throne in Hebron.
Our apostolic mandate is to continue the reconstruction and restoration of the burnt gates and the broken wall of this nation of South Africa and the rest of the continent in the spirit of high level, intercessory, governmental [prophetic] engagement. Part of these mandate is the precise restoration and realignment of the prophetic image and identity of the people, so they can ultimately reclaim their place on the watchtower and the gates of their family, community, and cities. The more we can empower individuals and families to become priestly responsible for their allotted post, the more we are able to corporately reform, transform, and restore the nation back to her ordained position of development and prosperity.
Friends, may I remind you again that we are deep into the days of the restoration of the Ecclesia, and to the degree we understand this, is to the level we will be resourced to function with the various restored, unique ministry callings and gifts of the ecclesia. The resources of the Lord are always released in the context of fulfilling the prophetic mandate heaven in season and time. Whatever we are doing or seek to carry out should be done within the context of the prophetic movement and demand of the Father for this season. Let’s continue to track the leading voice of the Spirit, even as we break into new spiritual territories in 2020 and the years ahead.
Talking about the leading of the Spirit, we will be resuming Zadok prophetic leadership school of ministry for early January next year. This training promised to enhance and enrich your spiritual insight, wisdom, and capacity in making relevant decisions, especially in this season of immense deception. Allow me to wish you again a blessed holiday and a fruitful, advancing 2020.
There are many initiatives we are seeking to carry out even as we continue to prepare the way of the Lord, and I humbly pray that you will ask the Lord to speak to your heart regarding how to best support our prophetic assignment. Our platform of ministry is totally different from the conventional ones out there, hence, it’s a little challenging for people to see the need to support.
However, there are those gracious few, the Lord has stirred their hearts to lend a helping hand, and I am eternally grateful for their sacrificial care. I do hope that you will be part of the few that will respond to the voice of the Lord to encourage and support this online ministry which has begun to touch lots of lives in various parts of the world. Our online resource has become an authentic spiritual hub for many travelers and kingdom builders to find words of encouragement, comfort, direction, instruction, and even confirmation in their ministries, and we are grateful to be used in this great initiative.
Please join hands with us as we advance the will of the Lord further in 2020. May the Lord richly bless you and your family in this coming new year for his glory.
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DEPARTURE OF SPIRITUAL ELDER LIKE REINHARD BONNKE?
By Isaiah-Phillips Akintola
What is the meaning or spiritual implication when a spiritual (gift) personality like Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, who literally shifts the spiritual realm of an entire continent, exits the earth? What does it mean for a man who expresses humility to the core, but carries an awesome governmental authority that many of the high and mighty in the elites of ecclesiastical leadership listens to his voice? What does the departure of this kind of spiritual representative mean to the Body of Christ? These and many more critical questions, we should be asking ourselves as spiritually minded individuals and the corporate body of Christ, if indeed, we are moving towards the ultimate maturity and the finishing of all things.
More so, we’ve prophetically entered a more accelerated realm of the nearness and the impact of the kingdom of God upon the earth; many of the things happening now carries a high-level prophetic frequency and implication that we cannot afford to ignore or trivialize.
We live in a time where it has almost become the norm to trivialize spiritual things, particularly when what is seen seem not to make sense through carnal, human understanding. Appreciation and honor are no longer defined by a deep sense of prophetic insight but through the visual lens of material possession or sensual appraisal.
The concept of engaging values by spiritual knowledge, wisdom and revelational understanding has almost become a thing of the past, especially when almost everyone now claims both intellectual and [spiritual] psychological sigh as long as they have the pulpit and altar of social media to voice the opinion or objection about any spiritual matter.
In our overt quest for information and unending knowledge, we’ve managed to raise a generation that is highly informed, but also shallow and opinionists in its expression. Many have mistaken acquired information and psychological awareness for the inflow and impartation of the Spirit of knowledge, counsel, wisdom, and understanding, which comes with the fear of God.
The relationship between Elisha and tutorship under Elijah took Elisha beyond the realm of mere awareness. When the Sons of the prophet said to Elisha, did you know that the Lord is about to take your master from the earth today? Elisha replied, yes, I know, but hold your peace.
The apprentice [Sons] prophets all know that Elijah was to be taken to heaven, but they did not understand the prophetic implication of what they knew. Yet, for the first time that Elisha was also very much aware of the departure of his master, but he will not allow such knowledge to distract him from the bigger picture of his prophetic assignment.
The implication of allowing one to be submerged in the quest of seeking to know [information] without the formation of Christ in us as brought about a disease of spiritual blindness and the inability to discern movements, seasons, and divine directive. Wisdom is when we can carefully marry the vast realm of information power, we are exposed to with the virtue of humility that comes via the school of obedience in wisdom. To pursue the narrative of the 21st century of boundless information is to expose ourselves to falsehood, shallowness, and the seduction of the wisdom of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Tracking the prophetic implication of a man of such spiritual caliber like Reinhard Bonnke is highly necessary to see what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the Church, notably when he departed on the 7th day of the month of December. Without flogging the idea of numerology, I believe his departure, on the seventh of the last month of the year, speaks to us of several things that allow us to shift our perfective as the Church.
Furthermore, there are other prophetic shifts, directions, and implications we should consider and be keenly aware of; least we underestimate his departure as just another death that happens in the Body of Christ. The passing away of such carrier of grace, wisdom, and anointing in the redemptive, prophetic program of the Father in creation is never to be taken for granted or be just another incident of old Age death.
The passing away of God’s prophetic vanguards in a generation means several things, including the closure of a prophetic season and the opening of another. The passing of the type of ministry leadership grace and voice should be highly noted. Elijah and Elisha are two different personalities with unique grace, but we see Elisha receiving a double portion of the anointing upon the life of Elisha.
The anointing is God’s prophetic voice that allows certain things to be done on behalf of the kingdom of God, especially in the objective of redemption. There are certain individuals the Lord had developed and matured in the spiritual ranking to the degree that they have been entrusted with a specific position of influence as Eldership and governmental authority at the gates of nations and continents.
Such an individual has is not just limited to how we conventionally see their gifts; these individuals have become a prince over global affairs as we see them in the book of Daniel. They’ve been shifted and positioned in the realm of spiritual administration in order to advance and execute the judgment of God in the earth. The problem of generalization of grace, gifts, and ministry office due to the abuse of charisma and leadership position has aggravated our spiritual blindness and the lack of honor in the Body of Christ.
As we begin to exit the day of Saul’s type of leadership towards the restoration of the tabernacle of David, one of the things we must learn fast is the ministry of sighting and honoring faithful Elders at the gates. The scripture speaks about 24 Elders that surround the throne of the Father and not 24 gifts.
When our gift matures into the realm of Eldership, we’ve entered into the sphere of governmental authority that can be used to shift times and seasons according to the calendar of heaven, and I firmly believe that Reinhard Bonnke functioned in this capacity even as Evangelist.
There’s no single part of the ascended ministry that is lower and less in quality than another, even though they function in accordance with divine order. Ranking in the ministry gifts is a personal reward of how we respond to the unique dealings of the Father.
The Father is the one who defines our level of obedience to and reward. It is said of our Lord Jesus Christ; this day I have begotten you as a Son. Sonship is the place where we come to in the Spirit of obedience that enhances our gifts to function in a governmental capacity. Meaning, we function in our ascended gift from various levels of spiritual authority.
When we are keenly sighted and knowledgeable and spiritual things, we are open to receive the required training that allows us to receive and function within certain leadership, administrative Spirit that engages the operations of spiritual darkness over realms, cities, and nations.
People like Reinhard Bonnke though functioned as an Evangelist but carried a much mature, governmental influence in the prophetic activity of God in the earth and within the leadership of the Body of Christ. The way the Father used this great servant to awake and further push the prophetic agenda of the Lord of the can only be seen and measured by those who have been spiritually aware.
The inability to acutely reorganize elders and kingdom accessing point [gates of authority] beyond just a functional gift or even office is one of the main weaknesses of the present spiritual knowledge of the many in the Body of Christ, and worst still, amongst professors of the current apostolic initiatives.
As we
continue to track the architect of the spirit of Jezebel so we can be prophetically
equipped in dealing with it. We have reached a critical point in understanding how
this spirit gets to infiltrate the community of God’s people and society.
There’s
no better way to unveil the mystery of a spirit or character than being able to
discover how such a spirit in the first place gets into such human space and heart.
The formation of Alliances has always been one of the most effective instruments
used for nations to prevent or stop protracted wars and battles between the two
nations.
In
most cases, this alliance is made through the payments of dowries and ransoms;
and the given away of certain key villages, cities, or territories. But the
most effective one is the giving away in marriage of the princess in most
cases, or Prince in some case from one kingdom to the other as a seal of peace.
This
idea as further been adopted by very wealthy and influential families across
nations through the centuries for the purpose of keeping their riches, name,
and fame from being corrupted by those deemed as the commoners or the ignoble
of society. In the cases of Princess, often, they are usually prepared and
groomed to be given away in marriage to other Kings or kingdom as a pawn that
might become a very powerful and influential entity in the strategy of building
or reinforcing alliance.
However,
God, in his covenant sovereignty, wisdom, and relationship with the nation of
Israel had pre-warned them never to go into any form of alliance with foreign,
gentile nations. Not even ordinary Israelis citizens are allowed to marry from
other nations under the Old Testament biblical law. They’ve been forbidden to
marrying from countries that serves and worship foreign gods.
Marrying
from nations that serves other gods outside the God of their fathers is a
serious offense that carries severe punishment. Unfortunately, this violation
has been of the greatest sins the children of Israel had committed in the sight
of God by marrying and given their children in marriage to nations that
worships Baal.
The
plan of the Father for the children of Israel as a nation of a kingdom of
priest was one of the reasons this law was promulgated. The issue of divine
separation as a nation that will reflect the standard and glory of God to the
rest of the world was and is still a major objective in the call to stand out
from the rest of the world.
The easiest way for the enemy to infiltrate the prophetic activity of the Father in the earth is through wrong connections and alliance. As powerful as relationship means to the prophetic advancement of the purposes of God, particularly, a marriage relationship, so is relationship one of Satan’s key strategies in seeking to cripple, pollute, and destroy the agenda of God.
We today live in a world where what informs our connection to people is basically sensual and material base, and this has made it even easier for the enemy to carry out his diabolic attacks. If all we are preoccupied with is a pleasure to be derived from a relationship without considering another critical impact such a relationship will usher into our lives and space, then it means we really do not understand the effects of spiritual things around our lives.
The
life and objective of a relationship cannot be genuinely comprehended through
emotion or intelligence as highly important as they may be. We need spiritual knowledge, insight, and
wisdom in going into any kind of activity that we bind us with other people, so
we are not taking advantage of through ignorance. Humans are carriers of
spirits; these spirits can the right or wrong spirit.
Sometimes,
the issues we are trying to resolve or make sense of in marriage or in our
workplace are more of spiritual than just a position of bad attitude, and even
in cases of bad character, these characters or attitudes can be traced to
spiritual issues that seek to get us to a place of point of compromise by the
enemy. This is one of the major reasons
we should be careful regarding who we define to be it friends or relationship,
and worst still, who we finally decide to choose to be our life-partner in
marriage. These are major, life decisions that cannot be made on face value or
in the context of emotional excitement.
Marriage
is not just about two people coming to live together because they both claim to
‘love’ each other. Love is a big part of our lives we, unfortunately, know very
little about. There is great advantage to marriage when we understand its main
purpose and objective from God’s perfect ice, after all, marriage was his idea.
Unfortunately, there are also serious consequences to marriage when we
ignorantly ignore the foundational values and framework that ought be in place
before we go into a covenant of marriage.
In
Joshua chapter 6 we see a terrible mistake made by the children of Israel under
the military leadership of Joshua regarding the Gibeonite. The children
ignorantly allowed themselves to be tricked into false alliance to present the
Israelites from attacking the Gibeonite.
Marriage
is one of the highest levels of blood covenant and when it’s made ignorantly
without a precise, biblical, prophetic direction, we can directly or indirectly
bind ourselves to certain obligations, contracts, covenant, or even influence
of the powers of darkness.
In relating
to the people of God, insecurity and the lack of trust is what pushes most of
the kings to join affinity with other nations, particularly, through the medium
of marriage. In the cases of others, it’s just the issue of lust like we see in
relations to King Solomon and King Ahab.
One
of the main things that brought Solomon with his great wisdom, wealth, and
power down as the Son of one of the greatest Kings ever lived in human history,
King David, was his love for foreign women, and the scripture told us that
Solomon foreign wives turned his heart away from the love of the God of his
Father David. The bible told us that they tuned Solomon heart away from God
when he began to get old. As we begin to track the fall of great kingdoms,
empires, and ordinary people right from bible days to this present day, one can
see is clear that great men and leaders fall due to marrying the wrong person.
AHAB
MARRIED JEZEBEL.
The
marriage of princess Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal, a Phoenician empire
was a serious crime in the sight of God that brought terrible consequence to
the house of Ahab, and the entire nation of Israel. Ahab, the son of Omri did
not just marry Jezebel due to the issue of protecting his kingdom, at least,
the scripture never suggested this; Ahab took Jezebel in marriage due to
arrogance, and lust in disobedience to the command of the Lord.
As
many theologians will further confirm that Jezebel was not just a mere Princess
but in fact, she was a priestess of Baal. She was a direct worshipper of
Beelzebub, and we will later see how she turned the capital of Israel that
became Samaria to the capital of Baal worship. Beyond the sin of Jeroboam that
was committed by Ahab, he further angered God by going to join hands in
marriage to a nation that is openly committed to the worship of idols. Idolatry
is one of the highest crimes any human, family, or society can commit before
God.
Because of the leadership position and influence of Ahab, he exposed the entire nation to the spirit of Beelzebub, and this is where the judgement of God took another turn regarding the nation of Israel. As we can see the scripture that the direct judgement of God against Baal worship was is an attack on the economy and that’s because Baal worshippers believed that Baal is the provider of rain and good crops.
Another powerful strategy of the enemy which is part of the narrative of the spirit of Jezebel is the altering of words and their meaning, and I’ll like to highlight this point briefly we before begin to deal with the issue of how Jezebel infiltrate our lives, families, community and society.
Words, language, phrases are some of the most powerful tools in capturing and expressing culture. There’s absolutely no way we can capture the spirit of an Age or civilization without understanding the lingua of such society. Today, new language is be coined while old, relevant words are systematically being eroded, and this is what I’ll like us to briefly consider.
Undoubtedly
there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.
11 If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a
foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker is a foreigner to me. 1 Corinthians
14:10-11
The
more I look into the scripture in the context of what we are assigned to
represent in the 21st-century society, the more I see a lack of
preparation and almost the sense of total disconnection in terms of awareness
and understanding of the nature of the season.
Being
a sheep among wolves requires a deeper sense of the operation of the Spirit of
wisdom, and being wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove is certainly
operating from another realm of life that gives us the edge to effectively
represent the eternal intentions of the Father is an ever-increasing hustle
society.
The
nature and character of the days we’ve been brought into demand we are skilled
in all the langue of the Chaldeans, the Babylonians, and the Egyptians, and we
should stop seeing this idea as a foreign idea or unbiblical. As we know, Jesus spoke Aramaic because that
was the language of the day. The big
question we should be asking ourselves is, what is today’s language?
When
I speak of language, please note that I am not merely referring to lingua
franca but the generation ideological, operating interface within societies; a
manner of thinking that connects people, places, things and even machines in a
manner that allows a general communication and understanding. Every generation
developed and operated through this kind of language they adopted in promoting
certain values, beliefs and ideologies we sought to promote.
Cultures,
ideologies, traditions and captured within the language. Language is the total
sum of what defines our identity.
As
we can notice, the past three decades or so, the world and its philosophers
have been busy developing a new language that has almost become matured in use
to promote their ideology today but the church has been caught sleeping in
combatting the wrong ideology behind this language.
One
unique thing we witness throughout the scripture that gave the people of God
the edge to stand out even in times of captivity is their ability to quickly
learn and use the language of their captors as an advantage to advance the
purposes of God. Indeed, language is a
medium of communication. However, we are seeing various forms of communicating
today that goes way beyond two people merely talking. Communication today has
become a very powerful tool to imprint and establish a philosophy that is
weaponized to kill, steal, and destroy.
The
art of communication has become one of the most lucrative 21st-century
business that yields lots of profit. My point, however, is not just about the
profiting side of communication but to highlight the deliberate war on
destroying the meaning and definition of words, as they are today viewed to
serve the certain narratives and agendas.
Society
is being assaulted from all angles by those whose agenda is to destroy the very
fiber of society and sought to change the order of things redesign. Language
today, has transcended to the level of ideology; an ideology that should
promote certain ‘progressive beliefs’
We
live in a day where we are constantly being bombarded by various voices,
opinions, and ideologies that society seek to impress upon us regardless of our
interest or not. Unfortunately, many within the community of the Church have
not been adequately sensitized and prepared for these kinds of subtle
confrontations.
Indeed, these voices, when we face them, come across aggressively, demanding we take a side, and of cause, they want us to take their side because they’ve tried to desensitize the minds of many us using phrases the promotes their ideology of the new world order they are trying to create.
Many
spiritual leaders are yet to fully comprehend the nature and complexity of the
battle before the Church, and I do hope this few points will wake us up as we
confront the spirit of Jezebel and other powerful Satanic principalities.
While
I strongly believe the Father gave the Church the platform of social media to
propagate the gospel of Christ to the lost, and to serve as a melting point to
speak redirection to the disgruntled members of the lost sheep of God. We are yet
to understand that the social media just like other platforms is actually a 21st-century
language we must learn like Daniel and his friends learnt the language of the
Babylonians in other to carry out the mandate of the kingdom.
Those
who are masters of language will determine the direction of society, its
philosophy and economy. Everything today has a coded language that should be
learnt in order to utilize its power or influence. We, as the ecclesia is in
the midst of powerful warfare, and this war is all about influencing other
nations.
THE
POWER OF LANGUAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT CIVILIZATION
One
of the main reasons countries like America and China are fighting what is
termed as economic war is for the single reason of language. As I said,
languages, which the scripture also refers to as voices, has gone beyond voice
communication to an ideological war that is playing out on every form of system
that made has created to establish his dominance.
In
other words, those who are skilled in computer language have the edge of power
and influence. Introducing computer program language from early childhood is
necessary and highly critical for any nation or society to service.
Someone
of the wealthiest companies today is those dealing with computer language and
pregaming. I have used these points to further stress the point I am making.
The
world of social media has become a tool to increase the volumes of the voices
and noises to distract many away from the pathway of sound moral
judgement. There is all kind of voices
today that have been empowered and indeed, amplified through the tool of social
media that has brought more confusion and challenges regarding being able to
ascertain what the Spirit of the Lord will have many knows.
When
we talk about information overload, we are dealing with a reality that has come
to define the culture and structural fabric of today’s society. We are at the
twilight of a new sociocultural revolution; a revolution that is not fought
with guns and sword but with language and what I define as New Age opinions.
In
the last three decades or so, the English language has dramatically revolved to
the point that the meanings of certain key words that defines our social
lifestyle have been forced to change their meaning, or in some cases have been
reduced to obsolescence. Words are losing
their true meaning, and this is a deliberate act in reconfiguring how we
process thoughts, meaning, intentions, and actions.
The
agenda of the powers of darkness in this season carries various faces of
expression as we have earlier discussed, all depending on the position of the
battle line they find themselves and the objective they seek to achieve. As we continue to witness the systematic
introduction of certain phrases and words into the society the idea is to
reprogram how we see, process and accept meanings. One of the keyways the enemy can infiltrate
any heart or space is to change the meaning of words, particularly, if those
words expresses certain sense of morality, accountability and demand to
correctness.
The American society and a larger part of Europe have lost a major ground during the first battle around language in the last three decades, and the loss opened the door for certain ideologies and philosophy to be introduced their society to the point that an average teen or adult today are struggling to comprehend or appreciate the meaning of certain words that ought to give them moral definition and a deep sense of correctness.
Right from the beginning of time, language has played a major role in the development of humans and the desire to build a strong, shared community, and we saw this greatly impressed during the building of the tower of Babel. Every time there’s a need to build a tower of [Babel] rebellion, human always seeks for a common language to implement such a task, even if they have nothing in common with each other. The enemy also play behind the call and support for
[global]
unity for as long as such call play towards its diabolic agenda.
Principle of spiritual warfare and kingdom authority over the high places
By Isaiah-Phillips Akintola
Continuation…
WHY
JEZEBEL ATTACKS THE PROPHETIC
As
we have noticed, this is a spirit that is not afraid to charge against the
gift, ministry, and office of the prophet. Arguably, the office of the prophet
is one of the highest governmental position of spiritual authority,
representing the activities of God’s affairs within the church and around the
realms of societal affairs across earth.
We
are in a day of the awakening of some dark, ancient, governmental spiritual
activities within the realms of men that need urgent, but bold, courageous and
strategic intervention. Let me highlight
at this point that all that is unfolding from the powers of darkness,
assaulting the very nature and identity of both the Church and the nations,
specifically, today from the house of Ahab with his wife, Jezebel is a direct
response or confrontation to the prophetic awakening and engagement of God’s
Saints across the earth.
Mount Carmel, a type of the gathering of the nation under the false leadership of Jezebel will be the very place and point where the power of God will finally judge this evil spirit of Jezebel and the male prophets who have yielded their authority and ministry under her illegitimate authority due to her financial economic influence. Jehu reflects the personification character the Lord will employ to finally destroy this character or entity that has sought to capture, incarcerate, and change the desired order of God for man and the society but it will take a courageous spirit of Elijah to stand instead of running from her.
When
Jezebel had that prophet, Elijah had commanded the execution of her false
prophets on Mount Carmel, she sent words to the prophet of God that by this
time tomorrow, your head will be given to the vulture to feed. This was a
direct confrontation to intimidate and neutralize the authority and the
position [influence] of the prophet of God in the land.
The
Spirit of Elijah.
The
Spirit of Elijah is shifting things back to the Father’s ordained program for
the earth. The Spirit of the two witnesses is being released to prepare the
ecclesia for the great showdown. The Spirit of Exodus is characterized through
the anointed grace of Moses while the Spirit of Elijah is the Spirit that
breaks the hold of identity bondage from the illegitimate power of Jezebel;
this is also known as the Spirit of fire.
The
Lord is restoring his wind and fire in this third day. We are told that before
the dreadful day of the Lord, the Lord will send Elijah who will turn the
hearts of the Father’s back to their sons, and the hearts of sons back to their
Father. This prophetic activity in the earth is activating the closer proximity
and visibility of their kingdom of God.
The
coming or emerging reality of God’s presence and glory to the earth is shaking
the foundations, ideologies, beliefs, philosophy and the dominant political
cultures that have ruled and reign in the minds of men for centuries. The day
of the Lord is emerging with great noise and the rolling away of everything
that can be shaken.
Prophetic
Perspective
God
said to Jeremiah, this day, I have made you a prophet over nations…the
jurisdictional matron authority of a prophet in most cases, especially, a
seasoned, well-matured prophet reaches far beyond his or her place of
geographical location.
A
prophet based on one end of the continent can speak authoritatively, of course,
according to the directives, guidance and wisdom of the Spirit into another
city or nation. This is often carried according to the prophetic seasons and
initiatives of the Father around realms and continents. We saw Samuel,
Jeremiah, and many of whom we call minor prophets, operated in the apostolic,
governmental grace over nations. The
seven churches in the book of Revelation were all positioned prophetic across
Asia minor to spiritually influence the realms as we shall later examine
regarding the church of Thyatira.
The
governmental authority of prophets always creates a deep panic in the camp of
the enemy, and therefore, the assigned, principalities, powers, and wicked spirits,
over such realms gets agitated and therefore, tries to shut down or frustrate
the influence of the prophetic voice within such regions.
The
Spirit and operation of Jezebel are primarily assigned as a corrupt,
illegitimate, governmental spirit assigned to attack and frighten the prophets,
and their prophetic position and authority over cities and nations. The enemy is quite aware that if they can
stop or frustrate the operational initiatives and assignment of the prophet
over any community, city or region, such a region is already captured, it’s
only a matter of time.
Jezebel
and the fight for the Soul of America
Societies,
cities, nations, and regions carry or wear certain unique character or
personality traits that heaven identifies, relates to, and engage in judgement
accordingly to such persons. It is critically important that the Saints,
particularly, those called and grace with the spirit of intercession to
identify the image and personality each city or nation wear, so that when they
are praying, they can address such personality.
Every
city or nation in the Bible can be related to in particular name character.
Some cities, however, exhibit more than one character just as ordinary humans
can have more than one name or character expression. Most times in the
scriptures, the Lord addresses, cities by their predominant character
personality. In other words, the name of Israel can be exhibiting the character
of Sodom, therefore, when the Lord is addressing Israel in a context of a
certain issue, he will rather address Israel in the appropriate name that
captures the spirit he is addressing amongst is people.
Every
nation has got a soul that allows certain inflow or outflows of values,
beliefs, and philosophy. This is one of the reasons we are called to war for
the soul of cities and nation. To effectively address the predominant spirit
over an atmosphere, you need to identify the spiritual personality, such city
or nation is operating, and in most cases, not always, such spirit can be found
within the character framework of the founding fathers of such society.
This
character trait that defines the image-soul of the nation is then passed down
the ages through those thoroughly vetted and initiated into key leadership
positions of such society. This is one of the reasons why we need to understand
that there’s another election behind the so-called democratic election citizens
carry out.
Our
votes are important, but not as important as the vote of those who are
following the agenda and narrative of what has been covenanted by the dedication
of what such city or nation should maintain.
An alliance is formed on behalf of cities and nations through certain
foreknowledge agreements that are sealed by blood, and this is where compromise
is reached regarding how such cities or nations should express themselves in
all manners of policies and values.
As I
have said, my main objective in is article is to unmask the subtle, but a
powerful operational spirit of Jezebel within the current global affairs which
is unfortunately now shaping the narrative of most political debates and
discussions as the battle for the position of power in the new world order
plays out.
The
reality is, the sociocultural ideologies of societies, including many, who
today claimed to be Christ-followers unfortunately has almost been eroded by
this wicked spirit of Jezebel to the degree that if what you think and say
don’t fit into the narrative of political correctness, then you’re labelled as
the enemy of God or enemy of the state.
This
powerful Satanic system has almost capture, crippled, and redefine the
identity, culture, and authority given by God to men to be responsible in presenting
themselves, families and communities at large before the Lord as kingdom
priests. As we shall later study, we
will highlight the main purpose of the spirit of Jezebel which is to mainly to
emasculate, frustrate, and neutralize the identity and authority of manhood
within society, and that is the current agenda across most countries in the
name of democracy but in particular, in Europe and America.
Jezebel,
the institutionalized power of governance
We
are today seeing one of the greatest, satanic assault against the church and
the lives of ordinary Americans. There are various ancient, demonic stronghold
with being awaken today with the objective to disrupt, capture, and change the
very prophetic identity of the people of America and the rest of the world as
the Jezebel spirit leads this campaign.
This
assault should be worrisome to all awakened sons of God, particularly, those
with an advanced intercessory, leadership spirits, and elders within the order
of the fivefold ministry. America is a strategic nation that plays a role in
shaping the cultural and socioeconomic status of many continents. Whatever is
birth, established and accepted within the context of the America society, it’s
only a matter of times before such in adopted. The influence of America,
globally, is a two-way stream; it all depends on the school of thought or
agenda that is sought to be promoted from the political leadership class.
Every
political party is an ideology that seeks to promote an ideological belief.
these beliefs are systematically integrated into the political process that
shapes and forms the policies that inform society. Therefore, we need to adjust
our understanding and narratives about economic struggle. Behind the agenda of
fighting for equality and prosperity, there are invisible key players that seek
to manipulate the outcome of things. [Rev 18:} speaks about global trade and
whom the world trades with.
Trade
is not just about goods and services; the heart of global trade is about the
influence of lives, territories and mineral resource, and no doubt America is a
key player in this global trade as we can with the current trade war between
the two parties biggest economy-China and America.
The
nation of America has never been so divisive on almost everything, and there’s
a reason for this. The election of Donald Trump as the president of America was
a game-changer. His appointment was a statement that will shake the very
foundation of certain narrative that seeks to utter and change the prophetic
program of God not only for America but for the world at large.
The
war between the nation of America and China is far beyond the idea of goods and
service; the is about the control of power, and it’s important we have precise
prophetic insight into what is going on. We have always taken the stand that
God has a definite, prophetic program for each nation. No nation exists by
their own effort or plan; God has set nations and regions where they are for
his prophetic mandate. Just like Egypt, Mali empire, Rome, and Greece to
mention a few, were a powerful trade route in the early century, United
Kingdom, America, China and Russia are today, some of the most powerful economies,
and this is translated to global influence or power.
America
is currently being invaded by the spirit of Jezebel, and it’s critical for us
to study what’s going on as we reexamine the word of God in finding the
prophetic weapon to paralyze this spirit. What makes this study important is
the fact that Jezebel operate under a false, illegitimate authority. Therefore,
it is highly important we understand what leadership and spiritual authority
mean, and how it’s designed to function, so we are not captured by false spirit
in the name of leadership influence.
At
this point, I’ll like to highlight some concerns I believe needs to be
addressed in the context of the revelation of the spirit of Jezebel in relating
to what is today known as political correctness, which is my strongest point
has almost crippled the leadership authority ordained to guide and protect
families and individuals from the assault of the forces of darkness.
One
of the things that have become almost the trademark of the current political
landscape of the European society and of cause, the larger American political
narrative is the subjects on the accuracy of truth definition and other concepts
around moral values, issues relating to biblical position of sociocultural and
institutional development. These important fabrics of strong, family and
institutional structures are almost no longer accepted, nor is room given to
teach and debate on these subjects due to what is now known as gender
sensitivity.
So,
we are increasingly seeing certain important subject that speaks to the issue
of moral correctness, faith, identity, the natural definition and
characteristics of the male species, and the concept of womanhood from a sound,
biblical perspective are today seen as unaccepted In the promotion of the idea
of progressive beliefs.
The
push for humanist value has almost eroded the right order of human existence
and this is being promoted by the ideology of the new world order global
narrative. Therefore, the idea of gender-sensitive has become a weapon the
powers of darkness are today using to short down the voice of truth that needs
to be had regarding the current distortion of the identity and structure of
human values within society.
Today,
many within the Church are almost crippled to speak out regarding certain laws
and institutional practices that are contrary to their faith and believe due to
the fear of powerful political backlash against their organization, this is
totally unaccepted. Issues that deals with order, leadership and correctness
regarding homes, family, marriage, manhood, and womanhood are all today left untouched.
Our
children are becoming more and more confused and dysfunctional without the
right leadership identity and authority to bring nurturing, correction,
direction, and affirmation to them because the authority of father has almost
been stripped from them through the Satanic influence of the spirit of Jezebel
controlling the state powers.
The
promotion of feminist power is destroying the very structure and order of
family and societal values, and this is presenting feeding into how many now
view the principle of God’s word. Many are now interpreting the word of God
with the humanist and feminist lens view and this totally unaccepted.
The
perversion of sexuality and the right order of identity, which speaks into who
we are as the male man or a female, are almost now known existence. The moment
you begin to deal with subject that points to certain wrong values connected to
the female entity, suddenly it becomes an issue of the lack of gender
insensitivity.
Many
spiritual leaders are increasingly become frustrated due to the fact that they
are not able to exercise the spiritual authority God has given to them in
dealing with issues as they should be because they are afraid of not being
politically correct. The idea of political correctness or gender equality is an
idea that was systematically introduced into the political space through a
Satanic agenda to create a false narrative of inequality on issue of gender so
that the feminist agenda can use such a platform to promote the various program
they desire to push to society and the various institutions of society.
The
truth is, this has been the plan of Satanic agenda in promoting Jezebel
influence as the economic system, empowered by state and global institutions to
silence the voice of truth and to discredit and neutralize the authority of
faith and God’s word in their so-called New Age, progressive society.
Revelation
18:1-3
After
this, I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and
the earth was illuminated by his splendour. 2With a mighty voice he shouted: “‘Fallen!
Fallen is Babylon the Great!’ a She has become a dwelling for demons and a
haunt for every impure spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for
every unclean and detestable animal. 3 For all the nations have drunk the
maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery
with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive
luxuries.”
The spirit of Jezebel which today has taken the form of political and economic authority and has infiltrated almost every arm of government institutions and sociocultural view.
32 And
what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson
and Jephthah, about David and Samuel and the prophets, 33 who through faith
conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who
shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the
edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became
powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.
35
Women received back their dead, raised to life again.
There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. 36 Some faced jeers and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. 37 They were put to death by stoning; e they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated— 38 the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves and in holes in the ground.
This
highlighted scripture above defines the spiritual framework and character
posture the ecclesia must assume as a kingdom priestly regents Heaven is
empowering and releasing in this season of engaging the ongoing, complex issues
and challenges the nation’s and creation is faced with under the insidious influence
of the activity of Jezebel.
Divine
upgrade
it
is important to note that there’s a current, general update and upgrading of
our spiritual base and the apostolic resources at our disposal in order to be
effectively and efficiently prepared to
engage; this is to prevent us from being trapped by the same religious
web of division and extremism that entangled many in the past who tried
representing the purposes of God from a very shallow, narrow, and myopic
perspective.
What
is Gods agenda for the earth in this new day?
The
Father’s agenda is to fill the earth {people} with the knowledge of his glory
through a company of priesthood, emerging with the ascended revelatory reality
of the son, but functions from an ascended, eternal realm of representation,
the pattern of our ministry priesthood must change from the obsolete first and
second day reality of representation; we must come into the ascended ministry
lifestyle of Melchizedek.
Functioning
within the framework authority and power of this priesthood is highly important
if we must effectively move and function within the current Satanic activity
challenging our position and identity in Christ.
The
remnant of individuals who will live and function within the framework of the
ongoing complex, false order off the earth must have shift from the house of
Saul to the present, restored {house} tabernacle of David, and that is because
only David carries the ascended insight of the authority of the kingdom to face
and behead the giant, evil system challenging us today.
Beyond
this, these company of men and woman will carry and operate in the iconic
spirit of the patriarchs. Each of the Patriarchs represent a dimension of
grace, wisdom, strategy, and capacity that must function in the power of
corporate unity in dislodging the spirit of Darkness before us.
These are days where Enoch, Noah, Abraham,
Moses, Joseph, Esther, Ruth, Elizabeth, Mary, and the rest are all being awaken
within the hearts of the saints, emerging in their various respectable position
in defeating the spirit of humanist, Satanic activity distorting the prophetic
mandate of God for creation.
There’s
no doubt that the Spirit of the Lord is forcefully leading the Body of Christ
to a new position of more advanced, governmental engagement which requires we
shift from our old position towards a more accurate, matured reality of the
prophetic requirement of the Spirit for the season.
The
nature of spiritual resistance and opposition we are faced with today, demands
the finest of the Spirit of wisdom and faith. There’s a need we redefine and
update our prophetic insight in order to be strategically repositioned with
maximum, sustained capacity to advance.
The
mandate of entering to repossess our lost spiritual space and heritage as
legitimate, custodians of the earth has become an assignment that cannot be
neglected nor defer to the future, yet, we have to advance with caution due to
the kind of subtle but powerful enemy we are contending with.
The
prophetic objective of rebuilding and restoring the architectural structure of
the burnt gates and broken walls of lives, families, institutions, and the
society at large, will certainly demand we move towards a more advanced,
prophetic engagement towards all illegitimate spirits and entities at the
gates.
Maintaining
a biblically sound and balanced spiritual [perspective] neutrality in
responding and representing the eternal agenda of the kingdom of God within a
sharply, racially charged, and divided society is highly critical, if we are to
truly manifest the spirit of redemption, healing and restoration to creation,
and ultimately, reign with Christ in his millennial kingdom Age.
We
cannot afford to be found biased, religious, and denominational in our
prophetic philosophy and perspective as we advance in this season. Every form
of charismatic, blind spot and misconceptions regarding the ascended,
operational pattern and direction of the kingdom and its initiatives in this
season must be thoroughly examined and addressed before we step out again in
divine representation.
The
position of our utilization of kingdom authority and power in warfare should be
strictly built on the apostolic template of Christ nature and character which
must not be compromised by any form of religious assumption, humanist beliefs,
or some form of an overt, nationalistic, prejudicial attitudes.
This
is the day of the operation of the kingdom values and principle, meaning, we
have to test whatever we’ve been taught to believe in our various church
community within the principles of the kingdom so we are not found to be
misrepresenting Christ out there in the name of our own traditional,
charismatic Church believes or expectations.
The
standard is, if any man be in Christ and not in a church, such a person is a
new creation, behold, old [ways, patterns, culture, ideologies, and philosophy]
things have passed away, observe, all things have become new. The operational
position of those in Christ is a spiritual value and posture of an ever-increasing
newness. Newness should reflect the position of advanced spiritual development,
perception, interaction, and engagement with all humans and creation regardless
of how hateful or bitter they may be to us.
When
Joshua met the captain of the Lord of host standing, he asked him if he was for
them or against them, the captain of the Lord of the host said, am neither for
both sides. This is an important truth and attitude we need to understand and
embrace in a day where polarization has become the order of political
engagement.
Religious
bias and other forms of humanist prejudice will not only blind our insight from
seeing the intention and direction of the Lord in this hour, but will in fact,
cripple our ability and capacity to effectively engage in the arts of advance
prophetic initiatives, even as we are called to charge in warfare against the
spirit of Jezebel and the high places of our communities, cities and
generation.
Laying
this foundational narrative is crucial, because many are still divided behind
some charismatic, religious ideological differences, fueled on racial grounds,
depending on which side of the fence they find themselves. To develop a
biblically sound world view in dealing with the socio-cultural and economic
divides is to allow the Spirit of the Lord to first strip us of our presumptive
ideas and knowledge, gathered under the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil.
Secondly, is to allow the Father to enlighten
and broaden our spiritual standpoint regarding the current political or
socioeconomic realities of our time, which I usually term as a position of
prophetic spectrum.
As
we know, when a ray of light passes through a fraction prism, what we
experience is a spectrum of colors. This truth is the same when considering the
idea of allowing the light of God’s truth to pass through and permeate our
spiritman, what happens is, we effectively see and identify the various,
glorious, unique beauty and identity of the Father for each person, family,
community, nation, continent, and of course, this generation as a whole.
PROPHETIC
PRISM AND THE POSITION OF ELIJAH
To
understand and effectively Administrate the justice system of the kingdom of
God on earth, which is totally different in view and value from the humanist
and religious viewpoint, is to be ready to prophetically represent the
priestly, governmental authority of the kingdom of God according to Isaiah
chapter 11.
A
prophetic student will be keenly aware that one of the manifest Spirit of the
last days and before the final coming of Christ is the spirit of Elijah, and we
are told that this spirit, or, the posture of life if you will, carries the
authority of reformation and restoration in the earth. We’ve seen the
progressive released of this spirit in a dimension, right from the days of John
the Baptist and throughout church history. Today, we are witnessing a greater
outpour and the release of this spirit as we confront one of the deadliest,
Satanic assault, unleashed upon this generation.
The
restorative, prophetic capacity of the spirit and ministry of Elijah in this
season is a clear sign of the accelerated nature of kingdom activity that is
currently taking place across the earth. The emergence of the spirit of Elijah
amongst other apostolic governmental grace being restored to the ecclesia is a
high watermark in the call to the arena of divine representation, even as the
day of the Lord becomes more eminent.
The
kingdom of God is suffering violence, and the violence we must be ready to take
by divine enforcement of kingdom truth. We shall further consider the relevant
position and influence of the spirit of Elijah as we track the position of
divine confrontation.
THE
NATURE OF THE ENEMIE’S ATTACK
Therefore,
in the context of this apostolic framework, our war gear of readiness and
engagement must totally reflect what we see in Isaiah 11. Elijah which is a
type of the Carmel skin we should wear in this season must be dressed in these
qualities of spirit of Christ described as the full armor of God according to
Ephesians chapter 6. Having brought this into perspective, we
then need to begin to understand the nature of the common enemy of the kingdom
we are assigned and dressed to deal with as a type of a Davidic generation,
assigned to watch our father’s sheep.
Our
position as watchmen requires that we are truly positioned with the capacity to
watch the Lord’s sheep which is way beyond the walls of our local churches and
families. We must be prepared to watch and guard the sheep against the humanist
and religious lions and bears of our time. The spirits and assigned wicked
systems out there now charging against the vulnerability and identity of the
sheep of the Father out there must be protected across the nations.
THE
VARIOUS FACES AND OBJECTIVE OF SATANIC ATTACK
Unmasking
these lions and bears are a critical aspect of the current prophetic upgrade,
so we can effectively channel our Strategic attack. There are several types of
enemies with their unique focus of attack against the children of Israel as we
see in the scripture. Each character manifested by the enemy reflects a
specific objective of result in the mission to destroy the redemptive mandate
of God for his people and the nations.
A
significant number of the enemy’s attacks on the people of God are carried out
through their own acts of rebellion and disobedience, and in some cases, their
ignorance to the values and demand of the Lord as they are being led to their
Promised Land. It is critical we take
time to study and carefully examine the various character, focus, methods, and
objectives the enemy applies in launching its assault against the children of
Israel.
This
is important in unveiling the systematic idea of attack against the current
Church and society in general. When the enemy, through a particular nation like
the Philistine launches an attack, and decides to produce a key figure like the
giant, Goliath of Gath, behind such an attack is an objective which is more
stronger than the very confrontation itself which is to send a message to the
nation of Israel and the next generation, and this message is fear and
intimidation.
Fear
was a powerful, effective weapon the Philistine and the Midianites used in
trying to cripple the entire army of Israel from fighting until a young
teenager who had conquered the spirit of fear, through the abiding presence of
the Father in his life charged against Goliath.
We
noticed the same concept of engagement about Giedion when he was called to lead
his people to fight the Midianites and see to the freedom of the economic siege
the Midianites waged against his people.
[Judges 6]
You’ll
notice that the moment little David killed Goliath, the entire army of the
Philistine fled, and the army of Israel that was once crippled by fear suddenly
got bold and courageous as they chase after the army of the Philistine and
defeated them. This is a powerful, strategic concept of tactical warfare
playing out in our own very eyes today.
The
enemy is using fear and intimidation against the Church, and many churches and
its leadership have gone hiding. The spirit of Jezebel and the Midianites has
pushed many into some holes and cave to hide; we’ve lost our voices on issues
that truly matter. We are afraid to speak out against things we know we should
not defend.
There’s but one enemy in the kingdom of darkness and we all know his name, but this enemy wear different faces; manifest different characters, expresses itself through various philosophical beliefs and uses different methods of attacks depending on what he desires to achieve in the battle.
The
launch and objective of an attack, using culture or religion, seeks to creates
a different objective and impact from the launch of attack, using slavery,
racism, sexual perversion, and it certainly different from an attack that comes
through poverty, sickness, or even some other forms of freedom and liberty,
without a true sense of respect, responsibility or accountability to mention a
few.
The
enemy is a Strategist, master planner in launching his attack on humans, and
where there’s no clear, prophetic, governmental oversight, societies, which
includes, the church, becomes highly vulnerable and victims of such attack
unfortunately. As we understand this
natural phenomenon, we Begin to gain keen insight into the nature of spiritual
warfare, and the various methods the powers of darkness employ in attacking the
church’s position and identity as the nation of God in the earth.
This
understanding I’ve tried to lay down as a foundational framework of what we are
trying to track through this message gives us the context of why I’ll like us
to carefully examine the spirit of Jezebel as one of the most advance, Satanic,
method of attacks in this season of kingdom warfare.
