Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

return to their original land and reestablish Israel—because Israel must be a nation with Jerusalem as the capital when the Messiah returns to earth (Ps. 102:16; Isa. 66:8). A spiritual conflict is often initiated when a prophetic word concerning a person’s future is made public. After Samuel anointed David as the future king of Israel, David’s own brothers viewed him in a negative manner (1 Sam. 17:28–29), and David was thrust into new battles. He had defeated a bear and a lion and afterward took on the giant Goliath (1 Sam. 17). Yet this anointed young man would spend about thirteen years being chased like a hunted animal through the Judean wilderness by his jealous father-in-law who was attempting to kill him (1 Sam. 18–28). He experienced one battle after another and eventually came to Ziklag, where the entire city was burned and the enemy captured the wives, daughters, sons, and spoils of David and his six hundred mighty men (1 Sam. 30). This was the lowest moment of his life, but David “encouraged himself in the Lord his God” (v. 6, KJV ) and received a prophetic instruction to “pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all” (v. 8). David was certainly a threat to Israel’s and God’s enemies, and the word that he would be the next king set the kingdom of darkness on alert to prevent the prophecy of his kingship from coming to pass—but God won and the enemy failed! Christ is another example. From age twelve (Luke 2:42) to thirty (Luke 3:23) we know Christ lived in Nazareth in Galilee (Matt. 2:23), but little is known about His activity. He was