Beth Yeshua Messianic Congregation

1. Beth Yeshua Messianic Congregation Spiritual Warfare Part 1 Introduction http://www.bethyeshua-idaho.com/

2. I have Taught Many Times About the very real possibility of our being in the Great Tribulation and NOT being “pre-trib” raptured out before it happens.

3. If that is the Case: Revelation 9:1-11 Says demons in the form of hellish locusts will be released out of the pit during the Tribulation.

4. This means that we, as Believers in Yeshua will Have to Deal With Them Even more than we do in this day!

5. Most of Us and Many Pastors (Including Myself) Are sadly unequipped to deal with them!

6. Hell's Spells How to identify, take captive, and dispel the weapons of darkness [Paperback] Publisher: Charisma House (September 4, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1616389435 ISBN-13: 978-1616389437

7. Jim Raley in his book, Hell’s Spells Writes: “One of the most misunderstood subjects in the whole of Christian theology and teaching is the subject of spiritual warfare. Oftentimes when topics like this are discussed, well, it can have a tendency to get a little weird. People can get strange, leaders can get strange, and church gatherings can get strange. So then, many times, rather than taking these important topics head-on, Bible preachers and teachers will avoid them all together.

8. “When this occurs, we do great harm to those within the body of Christ who desperately need to be empowered, impacted, and prepared for spiritual battle. Hell’s spells are in full effect when the church ignores the reality of spiritual warfare. We will never win a war we refuse to acknowledge.”

9. First: We Must Believe in the Spiritual Realm He goes on to write: “The first key to victory in spiritual warfare is this: you must believe in the spirit realm. You must believe that this realm is real and tangible. The spirit realm is not some made-up fairy tale that lives only in the minds of children and the superstitious, but it is real. In other words, you must believe that what you see isn’t all there is. You must believe and acknowledge that there is more.”

10. Second: We Must Remember that Satan is NOT God! He writes: “Satan is not a wicked god who is the evil version of Jehovah God. He wants you to think he is, but don’t give him that kind of credit. He is not God at all; he is a fallen angel. Satan is a created being. God, on the other hand, was never created; he is the Creator. He has always been and will always be. He is all powerful and has no limitations. That’s one of the things that make Him God.

11. “In contrast, Satan is not all powerful, and he has limitations. There is tremendous advantage gained by the believer who recognizes and exploits the weaknesses of the devil. “Be confident and courageous as you gain understanding; all of heaven is on your side!”

12. It Only Takes ONE Angel To place Satan into the Bottomless Pit for 1,000 years – Revelation 20: 1 Next I saw an angel coming down from heaven, who had the key to the Abyss and a great chain in his hand. 2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan [the Adversary], and chained him up for a thousand years. 3He threw him into the Abyss, locked it and sealed it over him; so that he could not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were over…

13. Third: Yeshua Gave Us, as His Believers, Authority over Demons! Matthew 10:8 - "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give." I think it's interesting how Yeshua didn't tell us to pray and ask God to heal the sick, He told US to heal the sick!

14. Luke 9:1 Notice in that He not only gave His disciples authority over all devils, but also to cure diseases: "Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases."

15. Luke 10:17 "And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name."

16. Understanding Spiritual Authority A solid understanding of spiritual authority is vital to build your faith when casting out demons, healing the sick, and exercising your authority over the powers of darkness. When we have been given authority to cast out demons, but instead we pray that God brings the demon out instead, we are basically asking God to do something that He gave US the tools to do ourselves!

17. Yeshua told US to cast out demons! Nowhere in the Bible does it tell us to ask God to cast out demons! Authority doesn't beg; authority doesn't ask; authority commands! We are not told to ask God to cast out demons, we are told to do it ourselves! We are not told to beg demons to come out, we are told to CAST them out! Authority is exercised through our spoken word.

18. Our Problem is this: Our Lives don’t match what we read in God’s Word!

19. Even though the Bible claims we have great power over evil, the way most of us actually live is much different. We tend to avoid confrontations with the demonic as though they are more powerful than us!

20. Kind of Like the 10 Spies Numbers 13:27-33 They looked at the inhabitants of the land as though the enemy was more powerful than they were.

21. However, in God we are more powerful than the Enemy! Sha’ul in Ephesians 6:10 wrote: “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.”

22. Satan is NOT Afraid of Our Power! Satan never has been and never will be defeated, detoured, or made afraid because of our power. The only power Satan fears is the power of God, and the only name that makes him tremble is the name of Yeshua (Jesus).

23. Satan Fears Us Only when we are depending on the Lord. When we try to operate in our own strength, that is when we get into trouble.

24. God Doesn’t Need Numbers to Win He wants believers in Him with a Biblical Faith (Hebrews 11 Series) to join with Him to fight against the enemy!

25. Think of Gideon – Judges 6 To fight against the Midianites: army whittled down from 32,000 to 10,000 to 300.

26. BUT: Those 300 were UNIFIED in one purpose in the Lord AND alert!

27. Satan Knows that If he Can DIVIDE Us, he has little to fear from us! As believers in God, even in small numbers, if we are UNIFIED in Him and in His power, then we will prevail over the enemy!

28. However, The Truth is: We Often fall to the wiles of the Adversary and DIVIDE over the littlest of things! This is because we aren’t fully submitted to God and are as a result, NOT UNIFIED!

29. Satan Can Use Good People to Try and Thwart God’s Purposes! Matthew 16 – Kefa (Peter)

30. Believers are Invincible… …in the face of evil only when they are in totalsubmission to God and would rather suffer torture or loss or death than let evil win.

31. We Must Fear God MORE than we fear the loss of our lives! To do that, we must be God’s Slaves!

32. God’s Slaves Being God’s slave is not remotely like being tricked and ensnared like sin’s slaves. Instead of forcibly submitting to a master who will destroy us, being God’s slave is voluntarily submitting to a master who, as Yeshua proved, would rather be tortured to death than see us harmed. God’s slaves are love slaves. At any instant we could rebel, but we choose instead to revel in God’s loving wisdom, and obey like a starving man saying yes to food.

33. Romans 6:16-22 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey – whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?

34. . . . But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. . . . Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

35. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

36. We Have a Choice: To be slaves of Sin (under Satan) or to be slaves of Righteousness (under God and Yeshua).

37. A Choice: As in the Beginning In the Garden Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any wild animal which ADONAI, God, had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You are not to eat from any tree in the garden'?" 2 The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat from the fruit of the trees of the garden, 3 but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, 'You are neither to eat from it nor touch it, or you will die.'" 4The serpent said to the woman, "It is not true that you will surely die; 5 because God knows that on the day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

38. Adam and Eve’s Choice: Genesis 3:6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it had a pleasing appearance and that the tree was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her; and he ate.

39. So, in Genesis 3 Satan is traditionally identified as the serpent who convinced Eve to eat the forbidden fruit; thus, Satan has often been depicted as a serpent.

40. HaSatan Satan (Hebrew: הַשָּׂטָןha-Satan, "the opposer") is the leader of fallen angels and adversary to God, particularly in Abrahamic religions.

41. Traditional Christian Understanding In traditional Christian understanding of the holy Hebrew scriptures, the Torah, Satan is a synonym for the Devil. For most Christians, he is believed to be an angel who rebelled against God—and also the one who spoke through the serpent and seduced Eve into disobeying God's command (Genesis 3). His ultimate goal is to lead people away from the love of God—to lead them to fallacies which God opposes.

42. The popularly held beliefs that Satan was once a prideful angel who eventually rebels against God, however, are not portrayed explicitly in the Bible and are mostly based on inference (e.g., Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14:12–17).

43. Ezekiel 28 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

44. “The Anointed Cherub” 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

45. “Lucifer” From the Fourth Century “Lucifer” is sometimes used in Christian theology to refer to Satan, as a result of identifying the fallen "son of the dawn" of Isaiah 14:12 with the "accuser" of other passages in the Old Testament.

46. Isaiah 14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!

47. Luke 10:18 And He said to them, "I was watching Satanfall from heaven like lightning.”

48. The Demons – Fallen Angels The New Testament speaks of the operation of demons (devils) many times. So plainly there are demons who are not bound who do the work of Satan in the world.

49. One Third of the Angels Fell from Heaven While there is no verse that says a "third of the angels fell from heaven," some verses, when put together, lead us to that conclusion. Sometime after their creation, and most certainly after the sixth day when everything was declared “very good” (Genesis 1:31), Satan rebelled and was cast out of heaven. “How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!” (Isaiah 14:12).

50. When Lucifer sinned, Yeshua said, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven” (Luke 10:18), and in the book of the Revelation Satan is seen as “a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth” (Revelation 9:1).