Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Chapter 11

11 SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES

The Media's Attack on Christianity

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Ephesians 6:12) The March 1990 Christian Information Bulletin included an interesting article by David Hunt about a missionary in the 1930s who had worked among Tibetan Buddhist monks. One morning he observed mass confusion among the monks. When he inquired about the chaos, one of them explained that all of their big gods had gone to Germany that morning! The missionary recalled later that it was the day Adolph Hitler came to power in Germany. As a student in Austria, Hitler frequented a museum that exhibited a collection of relics from the Holy Roman Empire. One display captivated him. It contained what was said to be the Roman centurion's spear that pierced Christ's side. Allegedly, since the third

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