The four end time spirits: 1) a Spirit of Stupor, 2) a Spirit of Confusion, 3) a Spirit of Assault, 4) a Spirit of Terror – build upon one another…resulting in havoc and chaos…personally, nationally, and globally…inside and outside the boundaries of Christianity. They do this to those who do not submit themselves to God and RESIST the DEVIL….the source of all of them.
Think of it! Word of these 4 specific spirits came in the early 90s, and the last 25 years has been FULL of these evil and reckless spirits…running rampant over the earth…especially growing in strength in America, as well as, around the world. Today, we are living to see the evidence of their strike…and are living with the consequences of the fact that they were not bound and stopped by the church when the call FIRST went out for us to do so…before they established strongholds in the lives of people on the earth…and in America which was founded upon many Christian principles.
The news media is a “polluted well” which continually churns up these spirits listed above…and especially the spirit of ASSAULT. “Spin” has become acceptable fare in this wicked business…attack, verbal abuse, argument, violent debate, yelling matches, assassinations of character, blaming of everyone else, total lack of respect of righteousness, truth, and justice is given free rein and has even become a very “popular form of entertainment” 24 and 7 on cable TV and the internet…globally! The roar from this continual activity is the “intercession of hell!” Always tempting, biting at and seeking to devour the undiscriminating listener. Verbal pollution is one of the enemy’s main tools to spread his agenda in these end times.
Evil becomes established when good men and women sit calmly by and do nothing…especially in the unseen spiritual realm. Therefore: We MUST wake up! Become aware! Arise and get up! Be alert! Sound the Alarm about such things…FIRST to ourselves, in our own walk with the Lord…and then to all people everywhere! And we must RESIST any form of these behaviors attempting to work in and through our own lives.
4). A Spirit of TERROR: intense, sharp, overmastering fear; extreme fear; violence or threats of violence used as a means of intimidation or coercion. TERRORISM: the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes; the state of fear and submission so produced; political control by means of terror, or resistance to godly government by means of terror. TERRORIZE: to fill or overcome with terror; to dominate or coerce by intimidation. TERRORIST: a person through whom any of the above is manifest!
In keeping with the lingo of our “cell phone technological world….’CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?!!?’”
THIS is what daily life in this world has come to. And it did not begin with Osama bin Laden or Al Qaida or ISIS…nor did it start on 9-11. TERROR is plainly a Biblical concept…for its influence is listed there many times, as is its foundation…FEAR…a distressing emotion aroused by EVIL, impending danger, pain, whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid, dread.
NOW! Of this kind of “fear”, the Word of God plainly states: “ For GOD has NOT given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind!” 2 Timothy 1:7
The spirit of FEAR…and the spirit of TERROR…comes to “steal, kill, and destroy” (John 10:10) everyone…especially Christians. It is Satan’s plan to carry this out and wipe us off the face of the earth. So to entertain this spirit is to partner with the Thief…Satan…whose purpose is DESTRUCTION. Destruction of God’s Kingdom, His people, their unity, of any attempt to lead people to God, and to block Christians – God’s people – from living like Jesus and establishing “His Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven,” (Matthew 6:10 ) We are his TARGET! The enemy of our soul tempts us with evil continually…to think evil…that that we will speak evil…and follow through with evil plans and actions. We are NOT to cooperate in any manner with him or his schemes…especially with the spirit of FEAR and TERROR!
If one is alive upon the earth today…there is no escaping the “sights and sounds” of FEAR and TERROR. It is present in reality in its most deadly forms…as was greatly exhibited on 9-11. However, leading up to and aiding and abetting the entrance of such things is the entertainment industry (movies, TV, videos, video games, and main stream media) which not only provides a wide variety of exhibitions of TERROR…but people (including Christians) actually PAY MONEY to “feed upon it”! This literally invites the spirit of FEAR and TERROR to “enter in” their “eye and ear gates” and be planted in their hearts and souls. One does not have to even be an instrument OF terror…to be controlled and manipulated by it. They can just watch and listen and continually “feed” on it to be mesmerized by it! TERROR becomes a morbid fascination and people are held hostage by it!
As God’s people, we must NOT “feed” upon news reports, movies, TV dramas, videos, articles and stories that are laced with strong doses of TERROR, horror, rampant killing, violence, and death. We cannot escape normal knowledge of these things by living in this world, but we can chose NOT to fix our attention on it and be lulled into a STUPOR…a state of being held hostage emotionally by such things. What we “look at” and “listen to” on a continual basis, we draw unto ourselves…so we must be careful WHAT we “look at” and FIX our attention upon!
Our Lord told His people thousands of years ago…”See, I have set before you today, LIFE and GOOD, DEATH and EVIL, in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in HIS WAYS, and to keep HIS commandments, HIS statutes and HIS judgments, that you may live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. BUT if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them (including the spirit of Stupor, Confusion, Assault, and Terror), you shall SURELY perish! I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you LIFE and DEATH, BLESSING and CURSING, therefore…CHOOSE LIFE, that both you and your descendants may LIVE; that you may love the Lord your God that you may obey His Voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days!” Deuteronomy 30:15-20.
To CHOOSE LIFE is to CHOOSE JESUS! The Bible, of course, speaks about “Godly fear”…and the “fear of the Lord”, but this “spirit of Terror” is NOT that! Actually, if all the people of the word had the fear of the Lord, there would be no problem with the spirit of Terror. It would cease to exist, for “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding,” Proverbs 9:10. The fear of the Lord is sanctifying: “The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether,” Psalm 19:8-9
As we daily humble ourselves, pray, seek His Face, repent, and turn from our wicked ways…the spirits of Stupor, Confusion, Assault, and Terror will have no entrance in our hearts or minds…and thus in our lives. It is not only good for God, His Kingdom, and us…it is also good for our children. For the best way to love and protect our children and families is to “fear the Lord…and walk in His ways…looking unto Jesus day by day!” For He is our LIFE and the length of our days!!!
For each of us, it is a personal choice. If you are in great anxiety and are overwhelmed by the “sights and sounds” of TERROR you see and hear daily in this modern, dangerous, perilous global environment in which we live, if you are living in a home situation locally where there is violence, the terror and pain of betrayal, lies, broken relationships, personal failure or ruin…then DAILY cry out to the LIVING GOD! Look to JESUS rather than to the overwhelming situation which torments and terrorizes you personally. Jesus has already defeated any and all fear and terror that you can experience or imagine….and ONLY IN HIM can we overcome it and know the Truth which He sent to us to make us FREE!
CHOOSE LIFE! CHOOSE JESUS!
In writing about these four end time spirits, I have in no way exhausted insight on the consequences of these evil things nor are they the only things Satan, the enemy of our souls, has released over humanity. My prayer is that these thoughts will cause us all continue to seek the Lord about how these 4 things many have influenced us or people we know so that we can be RELEASED from them and their influence…in Jesus’ Name. Also, may we be enlightened to firmly resist them. I do NOT believe that we have to be held hostage by them! Evil spirits are liars, fueled by the “father of lies…Satan”. These evil spirits are terrorists themselves…but they are NOT and never shall be more powerful than our God and the TRUTH of the His Word! For “greater is He that is in us, than he (satan) that is in the world!” 1 John 4:4
Our God has PROMISED us the safety of ABIDING in the Presence of God and speaks specifically to His faithful ones of that in Psalm 91. In verses 3-10 He speaks saying: “SURELY, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall not be afraid of the TERROR by night, nor of the arrow (bullet) that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look and see the reward of the wicked! Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling!”
Our God is not a God of explanations…but He is a God of PROMISES. He calls us to “Trust in the Lord with all our hearts, and lean not to our own understanding. In all our ways, acknowledge Him, and He shall direct our path!” Proverbs 3:5-6 We will never understand all the reasons why some things happen on this earth and even in our own personal lives, but we must each learn to LIVE BY HIS PROMISES and complete FAITH in HIM! Even in the face of actual TERROR and spirits of such swirling all around us in these last perilous days! He says to the ones who set their love upon Him: “Call upon Me, and I WILL answer you and show you great and mighty things that you do not know!” Jeremiah 33:3
He is our God who has promised to be with us in trouble and deliver us and honor us and with long life. He will satisfy us and show us His salvation! What a MIGHTY GOD we know and love and serve!!!
Looking unto JESUS….the ONE MIGHTY to SAVE and DELIVER US from ALL evil spirits!
Sandy
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