The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

only came from across the waters by way of invading people’s idols, but that which is alien to the earth as well. Deuteronomy 32:12; Joshua 24:23; Psalm 44:20, 81:9; Jeremiah 5:19; Malachi 2:11. 1458. Stratagem—A) A military maneuver, a clever scheme. B) To be a general, one who leads an army. C) Pertains to the apostles. 1459. Stratagema—A) A piece of generalship; includes its artifices. B) Pertains to the apostolate. 1460. Strategica—A) The deeds of a general. B) Pertains to the apostolic. 1461. Strategos—A) A Greek word for a general with apostle-like authority, responsibility, and government. B) Secular apostolos. 1462. Strategus—A) A military leader, a general, commander, or president. B) Pertains to the apostle. 1463. Strategy—A) A war plan of a spiritual nature, formerly thought to be a contest between gods, executed through humans. B) Original warfare term that included the work of the apostle. Isaiah 19:3 (nas); 2 Kings 18:20 (niv); Isaiah 8:10 and 36:5. 1464. Strateia—A) A governor’s province. B) Pertains to the apostolic. 1465. Stratos—A) A word for the stratosphere, the immediate space above the earth and just beneath its higher heavens. B) The invisible territory or a military labor, its assignments and soldiers. Originally it meant the spheres and abodes of the invisible terrestrial hosts guarding and governing the earth. The term stratos comprised the territories of gods and their agents in heaven. On earth it included with their heavenly counterparts the spiritual arena of generals and other strategic military authorities. 2 Corinthians 10:13; Psalm 103:19; Hebrews 8:1. 1466. Stream—A) Prophetic flow, issues of the spirit. B) Significant of a fluidic flow. C) A successive procession, prevailing attitude. D) A dominating influence. Daniel 7:10; Amos 5:24. 1467. Stripes—A) The pattern seen in fabric or in décor speaks to regimentation and intermittent control. B) Stripes biblically refers to beatings and scourging usually of a spiritual nature or spiritually motivated. Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was beaten with thirty-nine stripes to take