The Rules of Engagement

The Rules of Engagement

their jurisdictional and delegated authority from principalities. They affect and infect structures, systems, and the five pillars of our society: marriage, family, government, education, and church. (See Ezekiel 28:1–10; Colossians 2:15.) 3. Rulers of the darkness of this world Kosmokrator and skotos are the Greek words used for this category of spirits. These spirits are very high-ranking officers that have specialized juris diction over the twelve cosmological systems of the universe and rule in the kingdom of darkness. They are responsible for blinding the minds of people to truth and for facilitating sin, wickedness, and iniquity within the nations of this world. They are also responsible for keeping people in a state of dark ness. (When I speak of darkness, I am not merely speaking of the absence of light, but of the absence of God. God is light and divine inspiration.) They affect the thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of humanity through mass media, music, movies, fashion, sports, philosophies, and religious ideologies. (See Colossians 1:13; Revelation 16:10; Jude 6, 13.) 4. Spiritual wickedness in high places The Greek phrase pneumatikos poneria epouranios speaks of types of spirits found in high and lofty places that are responsible for anything that is perverted, depraved, debased, warped, or corrupt. This spirit is spoken of as working from high, lofty, and heavenly places that speak of not only celes tial zones and dimensions but also the mind, which is a type of a heavenly place. It influences, seduces, and falsely inspires actions, perceptions, moti vations, fantasies, imaginations, and appetites through the overt or covert attack and influence of the mind, affecting terrestrial and celestial domains. (See Jeremiah 1:10; Luke 11:16–26; Romans 8:14–23.) According to Daniel 10:10–13 these spirits, operating in the second heaven, frustrate and prohibit the manifestation and answers to believers’ prayers. Perceptions, mind sets, paradigms, ideologies, and belief systems are twisted and perverted to accommodate the personality of these evil spirits. (See Isaiah 14:12–14; 2 Corinthians 10:4–5; Ephesians 2:6; 3:10.)

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