Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

are in. B EWARE OF THE F ADS OF S PIRITUAL W ARFARE Being from a Full Gospel background, I was raised to believe the Bible “from cover to cover” and to believe that Christ is the same “yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb. 13:8). Part of our foundational belief was (and is) that there is a real world of angels and demonic spirits that are in a continual battle for this planet and its inhabitants. This is called spiritual warfare , and this belief has produced thousands of books and messages on the subject. The concept of warring “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Eph. 6:12) has given the body of Christ much-needed truth over the centuries, but it has also produced some of the oddest fads related to warring against demonic spirits. There are several fads I have observed over the years. The first is the idea of flying in a small plane high in the clouds and rebuking the prince spirits in the atmosphere. The idea is that by going up into the realm of their rule (the heavens—wicked spirits in heavenly places, Eph. 6:12) a believer has greater authority over them. To a young, immature believer this may have some logic. But use the mind the good Lord gave you and ask yourself, “If Jesus spoiled principalities and powers and gave us authority over them, how did He do it without an airplane?” The answer is that He conquered the enemy through His shed blood, death, and resurrection. We read: