Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

that would be unleashed in the last days. However, in Ephesians 6:13 he was speaking of a specific day (the evil day), which would be very difficult for the individual believer. This “evil day” in Paul’s time could refer to arrest by Roman government officials, persecution of the righteous, or of general temptation and spiritual attacks that can impact a believer’s walk with God. The Greek word for “evil” in Ephesians 6:13 is poneros and is used in a wide sense of “bad, evil, grievous, harmful and lewd.” 3 We see a form of this word in the word pornography . In the Book of Revelation the King James Version speaks of a “whore” (Rev. 17:1, 15–16), which is from the Greek word porne, meaning a “prostitute.” The evil day of Paul’s warning is a day that includes lewdness, sexual immorality, and perversion. In Roman times sexual promiscuity was common. When a person visits Rome, Italy, and the museums holding Greek-Roman art, full nudity was consistent with the Roman culture in paintings, sculptures, and in the bathhouses of that day. There was an obsession with gods and goddesses of fertility, which led to further immorality in the name of a god or a religion. In Corinth there were hundreds of temple prostitutes to “serve the worshippers” at the temple of Diana. This type of perversion assisted in the eventual fall of the Roman Empire, and the fall began morally, spiritually, then economically, then finally politically as ten heathen tribes overtook the western half of the empire. In Ephesians 6:12 Paul list four types of active spirits in the