Learning Spiritual Warfare Page 1

The Bible paints a very vivid picture for us from Genesis to Revelation of a warfare that is occurring right now among spiritual elements of the cosmos. God, Yahweh who is the Creator, is the God of light and good. All good comes from Him.

And long before humanity existed, there was among God’s creation an element of his created beings known as angels (literally, His messengers) who rebelled against God in their pride and put their allegiance behind God’s greatest angelic being, a cherub known as Hallel, who would after his fall be known as Satan or the Devil.

Mankind is in this warfare, and you see it being waged around and inside of man from Genesis to Revelation. Man or the race of Adam is also a spiritual race as well as a physical one. 1 Thessalonians speaks of us being body, soul, and spirit. The spirit is the breath of life that God breathed into Adam to make him a living soul… an immortal being having a temporary physical existence here on earth made into the image or reflection of God to stand for and with God.

Man was to be God’s companion and friend, and God gave man dominion over this Earth. And on this Earth there was a prisoner from before named Satan, who is the crooked serpent or the Great Red Dragon. He tempted the woman as this warfare began with our race, and she and her husband fell to sin, and the war was on.

Jesus Christ has won the decisive victory of this war at the cross winning a triumph over Satan and sin and over all of his demonic powers, but the war will continue for a while yet while God redeems from sin those who are willing to be redeemed, and brings judgment on the rest.

If you like it or not; and if you want to or not, you are already a part of this war. You can be on God’s side (the winning side), or on Satan’s side (the losing side that will join the Devil in his fate in the Lake of Fire), or even as a Christian you can become still a victim by not learning or being willing to fight the fight of faith.

Some would say, we don’t need a study on spiritual warfare. Some are afraid of the very idea of spiritual warfare not understanding that Satan’s forces are set to destroy us already. I admit we don’t need what a lot of people call spiritual warfare, but things are getting darker all of the time. We are seeing things in these last days that we have never seen before and having to face attacks that we have never had to face before. We are called to make a stand against the darkness for Jesus Christ and be a light in this dark world and resist the darkness.

It is not a fight with people or flesh or wits, but it is a spiritual fight and it takes the spiritual weapons that God has given us to overcome. Here are some quick verses on this warfare before we actually start digging into it: 2 Timothy 2:3-4 (KJV)3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (KJV)3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

1 Timothy 6:12 (KJV) Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

1 Peter 5:8-9 (KJV)8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

James 4:7 (KJV) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.