THE DANGERS Of The OCCULT – The Christian vs. The Occult – Part Three Covered in Part One:

Teaching #1 & 2 – The Dangers of the Occult & Christians Should Abstain from Halloween

Covered in Part Two:

Teaching #3 & 4 – Divination, Witchcraft and Nature Worship & Demonic Influences on Sinners and Saints

And lastly, Part Three:

Teaching #5 – Spiritual Warfare in the 21st Century

Ask ten Christians what spiritual warfare is, and you will probably get 10 different answers – maybe even eleven? After studying Scripture for a few decades, I’ve come up with my own, and it probably resembles most others:

Spiritual warfare – the contest between the two spiritual kingdoms of GOD and Satan over the souls of humanity, each desiring to direct people towards serving the glory of their respective kingdoms.

Satan already had the human race in his back pocket when he persuaded our First Parents (Adam and Eve) to rebel against GOD and advocate for the Frank SINatra doctrine by doing it “their way”. They became sinners, slaves in bondage to the devil. There really aren’t any orphans in this world: One is either a child of GOD or a child of the devil. There’s no third option or neutral position.

Some say that we are all GOD’s children, but this is an error. We are all His creation, yes, but we lost our familial link to the LORD when Adam sinned; hence the need to be born again of the Spirit of GOD, and this is done when we receive Jesus Christ as LORD and Savior:

JOHN 1:12-13
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Those outside of Christ are still POW’s in Satan’s prison camps, and it’s our mission to seek out and to rescue them, having on the armor of GOD to protect us in our engagement against the evil one, armed with the Sword of the Spirit and the Shoes of the Gospel we are determined to liberate them.

Satan will not stand on the sidelines, wringing his hands and fretting about how he is losing souls – no, he will fight tenaciously to thwart our efforts. Because of his pride, he will not tolerate the loss of a single slave of sin to his enemy, the Savior of souls, the LORD Jesus Christ.

For this reason, Satan will seek to compromise us soldiers of Christ, to get us to fall for temptation and into sin. As long as we remain compromised, we are invalidated, fallen, no longer able to conduct warfare.

A slogan or motto I teach in my Discipleship Class 103: Spiritual Warfare:

UPRIGHT and OUTREACH!

UPRIGHT: We must walk in the Spirit, walk in holiness, allow the Spirit of Christ to live out His victory through our lives, and by abiding in His Word, in prayer, and godly fellowship we are by the grace of GOD able to maintain our uprightness. If Satan can get us to stumble and fall from our uprightness and keep us down in a state of unrepentance, then any outreach will be ineffective!

OUTREACH: In such a spiritual condition, we will come against “the gates of hell” – that is, the authority of the kingdom of darkness, and prevail against it, snatching souls left and right, leading them to the LORD for their redemption, and thus, they themselves become enlisted in the LORD’s army! From slavish sinner to sanctified soldier in JESUS! That is our outreach, which includes evangelism, prayer, fasting, setting souls free from demonic possession or oppression!

Every disciple should be well trained in the authority that they have in Christ. For a child of GOD, who has the Spirit of Christ residing in them, and the LORD’s robes of righteousness upon them (and the garment of salvation; IS 61:10) when they pray in the name of JESUS (to pray in His name is to pray in accordance with His will, His heart, His nature, His desire, according to His Word), the Father hears and responds to those prayers just as though it was the LORD Jesus Himself, the only begotten of the Father, that prayed that prayer! WOW! What can Satan do to overcome that??

In a very real sense, we are the LORD’s deputies, carrying out the will of… “Sheriff Shiloh” could we say?

1 JOHN 5:14-15
14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

We are living in the days just prior to the reign of antichrist. Satan is maneuvering all of the forces of hell and earth towards the ultimate goal of setting up this one world order, in preparation for the Beast’s rising to power and assuming his throne in the kingdom of darkness that will manifest fully in this world.

In light of this preparatory perdition, we are facing increasing demonic activity as well as the wickedness of this world which is waxing greatly before our very eyes. This world wasn’t half as bad as it is now, just ten years ago!

I believe that we Christians will be facing satanic opposition like never before, particularly those of us in the West, and especially here in America. I believe that the church as a whole is woefully unprepared for the war just ahead. In fact, it’s so close upon our ranks, that if you pay attention, you can smell the battle smoke!

For this reason, I would strongly recommend you read this Four Part Series: The TTUF Book Report on WAR of the AGES by Greg Reid.

As well as this, another Four Part Series: The TTUF Interview with Greg Reid on his landmark book WAR of the AGES.

There is a book that I highly recommend for all Christians to read: William Gurnall’s (1616-1679) excellent treatment on The CHRISTIAN in COMPLETE ARMOR (originally published in 1865), a work highly recommended by no less than Charles Spurgeon and J.C. Ryle. I have the multivolume set in one binding, and in my opinion it’s the best classic treatment on the subject of the armor of GOD and the engagement of the saint in spiritual warfare.

The best book I know of for the 21st century is Greg Reid’s book, WAR of the AGES.

If one were to procure these two works, having already been armed by the WORD of GOD, the Holy Scriptures, one can’t be much better equipped than this for proper knowledge in the training of spiritual warfare.

We already know that Satanism, and even more so, Luciferianism is experiencing a kind of renaissance, the ranks of which are swelling – while we in the church think of spiritual warfare as a rather quaint 80’s sort of concept, out of vogue with today’s more sensible, rational Christianity that’s far too sophisticated to take the Bible literally, much less the blood drenched Cross where Christ died for the atonement of the sins of the world.

Our Bibles have become dubious paraphrases; prayer is allocated to a polite mention of GOD at the beginning and ending of our services, and at meal times, witnessing is a lost art – done by only 2% of any church body you might examine.

Our youth, the next generation of the church can barely tell you what they believe about the Bible, much less why they believe it – not in the least equipped in Christian discipleship, certainly not in spiritual warfare.

Are we late in preparations for this ensuing war? That’s a gross understatement!! We have to get serious in our walks with Christ – it’s past time to shuck off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light (ROM 13:12).

Ø The reason why I felt led of the LORD to do this short series is out of a heart of love and concern for the body of Christ, and the fight that we will engage in (some of us have already engaged) in the very near future.

I also wanted to issue warnings to the church from getting involved in any way with Halloween; regardless of cute little costumes that we don upon our tots, the ghoulish accoutrements that we strewn over our houses and lawns, and the spooky fun that people customarily engage in - - this is a night of satanic sacrifices: where animals, and dare I say, even people (of all sizes, but the smaller the better) are offered up as a demonic delicacy for the devil. And demonic power thrives and grows and rots our society all the more with its corruption. Two films that you’ll want to see that verifies these seemingly outlandish claims are by Angry Son production, produced and directed by Thomas Dunn of THROUGH The BLACK ministry (www.throughtheblack.com): DETESTABLE and THIS IS A WAR.

Check out Greg Reid’s autobiography, NOBODY’s ANGEL: Check out the TTUF Interview with Greg on TTUF, here!

The LAW of the LUCIFERIAN

How can we commune at the LORD’s table and at Satan’s as well? How can we hope to engage in the battle if we are celebrating one of Satan’s high unholy days? When are we going to wake up and understand the spiritual consequences of our lackadaisical lifestyle that’s satisfied with a brief visit to GOD’s house on a Sunday, and settle in to the worldly ways of this Babylonish system the rest of the week?

Ø Lastly, I want to summon the saints with a call to battle against Satan and his kingdom of darkness, this High Unholy Day and the detestable deeds of abomination that would take place, perpetrating lawlessness, and bloodshed upon the innocent.

Ø Halloween is going to fall on a Saturday this year: I call for saints to take the week end of OCTOBER 29th and the 30th to pray and fast for the denial of covens and Satanic circles in Satanic Ritual Abuse upon their would be victims, that the demonic powers of the kingdom of darkness would be confounded, unable to fulfill their will during this time, that Law enforcement would be spiritually protected as they safely take into custody any occultists engaging in illegal activities. That Satanists, witches, occultists would be confronted with the Gospel from the lips of saints, whose hearts will express the love of Christ to these lost souls!