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The Weapons of our Warfare

Meaning and Purpose of the Concept

The weapons of our warfare (οπλα της στρατειας) was a term the apostle Paul coined to refer to a particular authority we have in the name of Jesus, to subdue and disable the darkness authorities established in the regions we inhabit.

The apostle does not use the expression in epistles in which he discusses the ‎spiritual warfare, as the epistle to the Ephesians, Thessalonians, and even, ‎Philippians, which suggests that the term was not coined to identify defined and known warfare resources, like the pray, or the fast, but to identify spiritual protocols to snatch the legal right that assists Satan to possess a region..

The term coined by the apostle not intended to instruct about spiritual ‎warfare, as intended as war against principalities and powers in the air. In both epistle where the expression appears, the epistle to the ‎Romans and the epistle to the Corinthians, do not focus on spiritual warfare, therefore, the weapons of our ‎warfare are not war resources, but effective strategies to disable the darkness inside of our societies.

It is not exactly a spiritual warfare against forces of darkness, as presented ‎in his epistle to the Ephesians, is another kind of fight, or rather, is another ‎battlefield. It is fight against forces of darkness that use the elements of our ‎societies to undermine the spiritual strength, and break up the faith before people going to war. ‎

This is a different battle against darkness, because are involved customs, ‎habits and practices that have been part of the daily routine of the believer, but that ‎unwittingly, the strength and revelation of the believer have been contaminated by them. Satan has ‎been very subtle, and according to the apostle, many have succumbed to the ‎degree of being asleep or infirm.‎

And it is, that if we noticed as is written in the original Greek —οπλα της ‎στρατειας— we will discover that the apostle with the use of στρατειας he is ‎referring to a campaign, military expedition, or the work to which is sent to a ‎specialist command. With the use of this word is not defined a group of soldiers, it ‎is rather, the work to which are sent to perform to, as well as is explained in the lexicon LSJ ‎Middle Liddell.

  1. an expedition, campaign, στρατηίηνor – είανποιεῖσθαι Hdt., Thuc.; ἀπὸ στρατείας coming from war, after service done, Aesch.; κατὰ τὴν Σιτάλκου στρατείαν about the time of his expedition, Thuc.; ἐπὶ στρατείας or ἐν στρατείᾳ εἶναι to be on foreign service,Plat., Xen.: pl. military service, warfare, Plat.
  2. στρ. ἡἐντοῖς μέρεσιν, an expedition for special service, to train the young soldiers next after serving as περίπολοι, Aeschin.

So, the best translation should be, read, the weapons of our military campaign, or ‎better yet, the weapons of our strategies; and in this form it would understand that the apostle ‎Paul is instructing us to learn about the missions which have been delegated to us to perform.

In ‎other words, with weapons of our warfare it is not suggesting us that we identify ‎weapons of war, but to know to distinguish the missions that have been ‎assigned to us, because depends of that the actions that are going to develop. The ‎weapons are protocols to perform the divine project in the regions where we have ‎being located. ‎

Proof of this is that the term appears in an epistle addressed to carnal Christians who have not yet come to understand about the ethical that governs Christian behavior. So that, the use of the term aims to train and educate on the issue that captured the attention of the apostle to write that epistle, discover his motivation is the task of this chapter.

In fact, the etymology of the word leads us to identify, militia, not as an armed group of combat, but as a protocol of action as a measure to solve a particular situation. The original Greek word —στρατείας—appeals to the use of strategies, methods, measures that can be taken to resolve a situation.

Paul wrote to the Christian community of Corinth, and reproaches them the forms —στρατείας— that they are using to resolve conflicts that threaten the integrity of the community. He warns them that the measures taken have been carnal (σαρκικὰ), and therefore the situation has been complicated.

We confirmed this by observing carefully the grammatical structure of the ‎expression. The term is composed of two words which alone will not convey the ‎grammatical emphasis that the apostle gave to the combination of both. For example, the word ‎translated as weapons (οπλα) appears conjugate as ὅπλα, and as ὅπλων. In both ‎cases does not identifies a particular weapon of war, by contrast, are identified ‎instruments that are not directly related to the activity of a soldier.

Let’s see the cases for the first conjugation:

  • Romans 6:13 “13And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness (ὅπλα ἀδικίας) to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness (ὅπλα δικαιοσύνης) to God.”
  • Romans 13:12 “12The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light (τὰ ὅπλα τοῦ φωτός)”
  • 2 Corinthians 10:4 “4For the weapons of our warfare (ὅπλα τῆς στρατείας) are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,”

According to the use which the apostle gives to the word in the Epistle to the Romans, the weapons are identified as members of the body, or the body itself of the believer.

In chapter six of Epistle to the Romans, the apostle introduces the idea that the weapons are the members of body of the believer, constituted as instruments of iniquity (unrighteousness) or instruments of righteousness, according to the use and customary that he develop with them. In all case, it is the exercise of justice of the kingdom what makes the difference.

In the conjugation used in chapter thirteen, on the other hand, the weapons are the believer himself, depending on the partnership that he establishes with others. This chapter mainly emphasizes the need to recognize and submit to the human authority in recognition of the principle that he who is faithful in a very little is also in much. The weapons are the righteousness acts of the believer.

Regarding the second conjugation, ὅπλων, the texts where appears, are listed below:

  • John 18:3 “3Then Judas, having received a detachment of troops, and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons (λαμπάδων καὶ ὅπλων).”
  • 2 Corinthians 6:7 “7by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness (διὰ τῶν ὅπλων τῆς δικαιοσύνης) on the right hand and on the left,”

With the exception of the reference of John, where the word is used to ‎identify an instrument of attack, Paul uses the expression to identify how the ‎actions of the believer are constituted in weapons at the disposal of kingdom of ‎darkness, if are actions of unrighteousness; or weapons at the disposal of kingdom ‎of God, if are righteousness actions.

The weapons could be to the disposal of Kingdom of Heaven, or darkness kingdom, Depending on the realm that the people placed their body to serve.

So it, given that the term is coined by the apostle, and is he who teaches on ‎the subject, we must understand that the weapons of our warfare are acts of faith that ‎are executed according to the righteousness of the kingdom. Any act of faith that ‎establishes righteousness is considered a weapon, mighty in God for pulling down ‎strongholds.

the power comes according the way of how it is confronted a particular situation, according the specific ‎design of treatment for every situation. That is the definition of a strategy, a protocol of ‎operating under which will be resolved any disturbing ‎situation.‎

Strategies should be spirituals, to ensure that they will produce radical ‎changes not only in the believer himself, but also inside their community, that was the entity led him to observe unethical practices and unchristian.‎

So, when Paul used the term, weapons of our warfare, he was considering that ‎as a Christian community established in a region, in this case, Corinth, the ‎community has an ethical and spiritual responsibility to establish the ‎corresponding protocols to develop God’s purposes in that region.

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Denounces Evil. Spiritual Warfare Resources

But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. Micah 3:8

The main reason why the darkness is ‎established ‎in one place, and cannot be removed from ‎there, despite ‎the prayer of the saints, is because the ‎people of faith ignore that there is a biblical protocol ‎to expel them ‎from the place.

This protocol is spiritual, ‎and it is ‎the resource of spiritual warfare gave us by God to ‎make ‎the darkness move back and release the region ‎under its ‎control. This protocol was designed by God in ‎the first day ‎of His ‎Creation. We read in chapter one of ‎Genesis that God ‎introduced the light to prevent the ‎darkness do not fill out ‎all the space of the earth. The ‎darkness move back before ‎the presence of light.

This protocol consists in exhibit to the light all ‎things that belong or share with the kingdom of darkness. ‎Exhibit to the light means that evil be denounced, ‎and ‎even those who are involved with their works. The ‎darkness must be denounced ‎publicly. It is a spiritual ‎operation, of course.

Denunciate the evil of the place, of the region, of the population, of the city, is a resource of spiritual warfare, but little known.

Denounces evil it is the way to bringing to light all that is hidden, as we read in next verses,

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. Job 12:22

Only that which is brought to light can be expelled. It is brought to light when it is publicly denounced.

But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Ephesians 5:13

It is the first step, primordial step, without which there is no ‎spiritual authority such that it can expel the demons established in region. Hard to hear ‎it, but true.

Darkness has the characteristic that all its operations go unnoticed, camouflaged in everyday human scenarios, logical and sense scenarios, so that no one can imagine that those who promote them are demons. This form of operation is the basic norm of their executions.

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless. 1st. Timothy 5:7

The case of Achan’s “sin” illustrates how something hidden can affect the normal development of life, and how satanic control dissipates as soon as the hidden evil is denounced.

Observe the levels of evil under which all the people are before the hidden things have been exposed to the light.

— Israel hath sinned,

— and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them:

— they have even taken of the accursed thing,

— and have also stolen,

— and dissembled also,

— and they have put it even among their own stuff. (Joshua 7:11).

As soon as Joshua exposes what was hidden, the government of the darkness that had contaminated them disappears, and they regained their authority,

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. 23And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD. Joshua 7:22,23

Achan’s sin was not just greed for the elements that were ‎involved. The elements did not have an economic value, ‎as in our time, their real value was religious, idolatrous, and ‎consisted of the images of casting that would be made of ‎them.

If we review the text of the book of Judges, we will see that the gold was to melt it and to make teraphim, figures of adoration, idolatrous practice of the region; and the silver to pay the engraver for his work.

And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. 4Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah. Judges 17:3,4

So, when Achan hidden this elements, he really put ‎the ‎idolatry to which they have been consecrated ‎in Jericho, as the dignity of hidden power who ‎would ‎possess them from there to ahead.

Achan was contaminated with idolatry and introduced into the camp the same type of demons that operated in the region.

The sin of Achan is not resolved with confession and admission of guilt, his sin was idolatry, the sin of Eden, in which the idol displaces the sovereignty of God.

It is about denouncing the elements of the human ‎actions that give access and presence to the darkness, doing so, people of faith avoid that the darkness ‎be stationed in a place. In the case of Achân, not only ‎were valuable items withheld, it was a flagrant ‎opposition to the divine disposition given through ‎Joshua. Hiding the anathema meant tolerating the ‎idolatrous presence that gave strength to Jericho in its ‎time.‎‎‎‎‎

The action of a single man brought the ‎disruption of the strategies of victory that the Almighty ‎had given them to possess the land. His hidden action was equivalent to introduce enemy forces inside the army. The Israel’s army was attacked from inside for the demons that supported the idolatry of Jericho.

This is denouncing evil. Is publicizing ‎the evil of ‎what sinful human acts provokes spiritually. ‎Achan ‎introduced among the people the same demon ‎that ‎operated in Jericho, that is why God discovers that ‎Israel ‎has sinned, and that their sin has led them to break ‎the ‎covenant given by God.

It was necessary to ‎denounce it, to then be in the capacity and authority to ‎overcome and possess the darkness stationed in the ‎area, and those who protected them.

You cannot defeat the enemy, nor expel him from its territory, if before we do not enter into the process of denouncing the human evil behind which the darkness and / or demons hide operationally.

Notice in the text, in the answer of God to Joshua, how God warns that they will not be able to overcome their enemy but that they will flee before him:

— Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies,

  • but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed:
  • neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. (Joshua 7:12)

Denounce evil is vital for the development of spiritual life in the Kingdom of God. Unfortunately, many believers do not know this protocol of spiritual warfare, and therefore allow the demons to operate in their respective communities, even in congregations.

In our communities, it is common that a man steals, or embezzles. If a child of faith realizes this, and does not denounce it spiritually, his decision to ignore it will eventually bring about the establishment of powers that will establish poverty, scarcity and misery, and will affect communities of faith that never participated. actively of the action.

Similarly, a woman who prostitutes whatever her motivations, and induces other women and even men to establish it as a basis of life, their actions will introduce into their environment spirits of fornication that will affect even the doctrine of communities of whole faith.

In a similar way, a pagan festival, accepted and tolerated as a traditional feast, can affect the spiritual life of entire communities. This is the case of the celebration of Valentine’s Day, which although celebrated in Christian communities as “friendship day”, is based on idolatrous practices to the god Eros, and therefore those who sponsor it are demoniac forces. The effects of not denouncing it will bring spiritual decay within faith communities.

And likewise, other folkloric festivals not denounced, ‎but accepted, tolerated, even celebrated within Christian ‎communities, such festivities promote the establishment ‎of powers of darkness in entire regions. Hence the need to ‎understand the importance of the subject.

The apostle Paul discovers the Colossians, a community struck down by idolatrous powers, that the way Jesus triumphed over the powers of the kingdom of darkness consisted in denouncing them publically, that is, bringing them to light.

And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Colossians 2:15

The same teaching is established among the faith community of Ephesus:

But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Ephesians 5:13

The theme is not Christian invention, the same principle is described in the writings of the Old Testament:

Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. Jeremiah 50:2

When the abominations of the area are denounced, ‎judgment is established over the kingdom of darkness of the site, and immediately the power of their execution is annulled over their inhabitants.

The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; Ezekiel 23:36

What should we denounce?

DENOUNCE UNBELIEF:

Unbelief is the most powerful weapon of demons. It hinders the development and growth of faith, and stops the establishment of the Kingdom.

And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. Matthew 13:58

Not denounce the unbelief of a place brings as a direct consequence the contamination of those who saw it and did not nothing to denounce it. They themselves are affected with the same demonic spirit of unbelief.

And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. Luke 9:5

That is why Jesus’ recommendation to shake the dust off the feet.

Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. Luke 10:11

Unbelief works by slowly enveloping a region, almost imperceptibly, until when its inhabitants become aware of its presence, they have no way to escape. It works like a snake that stealthily envelops, and then suffocates.

Unbelief brings spiritual death.

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:36

Unbelief stops the processes of Revelation,

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Hebrews 3:19

Unbelief separates people from God, even the believers.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Hebrews 3:12

Unbelief blinds spiritually,

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2nd. Corinthians 4:4

Unbelief promotes the persecution of the Gospel,

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren. Acts 14:2

This is the condition of many Latin American countries that once were avant-garde Gospel countries, but today are in a moral and religious decline, and even in a social and political destruction.

DENOUNCE IDOLATRY

Idolatry is the sin of rising up against God, and replacing him with another god. It is a process of displacement that assigns value to tangible things, and disregards spiritual aspects.

And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Romans 1:23-25

Idolatry is an abomination to the Lord. It is abominable because idolatry is the sin of the garden of Eden.

The abomination is that by idolatry the image of the Almighty is changed, and the image of a serpent is placed in its place. The apostle Paul clearly states it when, in his epistle to the Corinthians, he writes,

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 1st. Corinthians 15:49

The image of the earthy is the image of the serpent to which they obeyed to submit to his lordship.

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Romans 6:16

High rank demons operate in idolatry,

And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations. Leviticus 17:7

And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made. 2 Chronicles 11:15

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. 1st. Corinthians 10:20,21

A region where idolatry has been established is a place where a demon of death operates, and it is because the demons that operate behind idolatry demand sacrifices of death,

Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. Acts 14:13

In many communities of the Latin American countries have been established head cities of idolatry that promote pilgrimages, processions and cyclic satanic convocations.

Sites like Esquipulas, in Guatemala; Cerro Las Pavas, in El Salvador; the Corcovado, in Rio de Janeiro; the virgin of the Socavón, in Bolivia; different Christs in Chiapas, Honduras, Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Costa Rica; they are idolatrous centers that have brought death in their respective regions.

An idolatrous site that we must denounce is Disney. No one has noticed the idolatry of this site, in Orlando, California, France and Japan. Year after year are millions of people who make pilgrimages, investing large amounts of money, to embrace idols in the form of mice whose images people carry with them to their places of origin.

The communities of faith in these countries have not seen the danger of allowing such demonic permanence. That is why it has become difficult in these places to establish Kingdom.

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Romans 1:21,22

DENOUNCING SORCERY, WITCHCRAFT AND SANTERIA

Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Nahum 3:4

Another effect of the presence of idolatry in a region is the activity of witchcraft and sorcery that run parallel to it.

Witchcraft, sorcery, Santeria, voodoo, spiritualism, and other forms of occult activities, including magic, are satanic rituals inside of which operate families of demons.

The practice of these occult cults is proscribed by God,

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Exodus 22:18

This type of satanic ritual is practiced by all sectors of the population, to enrich themselves, and to govern.

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Revelations 18:23

There are several Latin American leaders who have among their collaborators, shamans and sorcerers, to guarantee with their rituals their permanence in power, and to get their closest adversaries out of the race.

The government in these countries is developed from a platform of spells and enchantments capable of keeping an entire population captive, without opposition. It is administered from a demonic base that even manages the district of the goods of the nation.

If we add to this the uprising of the narco groups that also use spells, and gather the most powerful sorcerers in the area, to control and distribute the drug throughout their region, we will see clearly how the kingdom of darkness is taking over regions. whole

There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Deuteronomy 18:10

Countries where shamans and sorcerers create incantations and sacrifices to keep a ruler in power are places where demons establish poverty among their inhabitants.

For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do. Deuteronomy 18:14

Witchcraft, sorcery, Santeria, voodoo, spiritualism, and other forms of occult activities, including magic, have been in the service of drug traffickers in recent years. They have hidden with their rituals those who are persecuted by the police, so that even passing in front of them they are not seen by those who seek them.

In the United States a type of hidden Satanism is being raised, which moves to the level of sects, lodges, brotherhoods, groups banned from the law, who perform their rituals cyclically, in some cases, with human sacrifices, preparing to establish a government apocalyptic on the basis of economic power. This Satanism promotes the affiliation of people in secret groups, and they maintain an electronic control over them.

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. Malachi 3:5

When we denounce witchcraft, sorcery, Santeria, Satanism, demonic rituals and other occult practices, confusion is immediately caused over the demons that operate with them, and they are scattered.

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods. Isaiah 42:17

When sorcery, witchcraft, Santeria, and other occult practices are denounced, the way is opened for God’s judgment on the regions to be executed, and be free.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Revelation 21:8

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. Revelations 22.15

DENOUNCE THE EVIL OF THOSE WHO DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Romans 1:28

It could be thought that with the statement we try to identify perverse and evil people, and in some cases, even atheistic and / or agnostic people.

The reality is that the statement is not aimed at identifying this type of people, but rather to recognize that there are people who do not want to acknowledge God in their knowledge, simply.

When we admit the possibility of this type of people, we will be surprised to discover that these are people who profess faith in Jesus, who define themselves as disciples of Jesus, but who do not take him into account for any of their own decisions.

Not acknowledge God in their knowledge means not following the instructions of Jesus, not seeking his spiritual direction, not even considering if what their proposes to do is in accordance with His Will.

Seeing it in this way we will see that it is not atheistic people, but believers, disciples, but not aligned according to biblical and spiritual protocols.

Are people who build on achievements, on testimonies, on acquisitions, in short, on superficial and cosmetic aspects.

Not acknowledge God in their knowledge causes that be built religious lives nuanced with haughtiness, pride, arrogance and competence. If we continue with the description that the Apostle Paul presents of this class of people, in his epistle to Romans, we will see that the description makes sense, and we will find them even within the same communities of faith.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Romans 1:29-32

In the recommendations that the apostle Paul gave to his closest collaborators, and to the communities of faith he visited, we will see that in them the need is present, as a protocol of execution, to denounce everything that is not subject to the Instructions from the Lord.

For example, the recommendation to Timothy,

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 2nd. Timothy 4:2

The recommendation to Tito,

These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. Titus 2:15

To communities of faith, he recommended:

To denounce those who argue taking the Word as argument of dispute,

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. 17Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. 1st. Corinthians 11:16

To denounce those who do not conform to biblical doctrines,

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:21

Denounce and deviate from those who do not submit to biblical doctrines,

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. 2nd. Thessalonians 3:6

Denounce all profane and fabled talk,

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 1st. Timothy 4:7

Denounce those who contend with issues that do not edify the congregation,

Neither gives heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. 1st. Timothy 1:4

Denounce that religious knowledge does not bring benefit to the building up of the body of Christ,

Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Titus 1:14

Denounce the arrogance of not recognizing God, nor the advice of those who were sent by Him.

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. Obadiah 4

Taken from the book Spiritual Warfare against the Powers of Sin: Series of Teachings about the Spiritual Warfare
Authored by Pedro Montoya
5.5 “x 8.5” (13.97 x 21.59 cm)
Black & White on White paper
92 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1723187971
ISBN-10: 1723187976

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Fighting the Institutional Witchcraft of Our Cities.

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 26:1

Our cities, especially those that have been constituted as municipal headwaters, are designed in response to the intention of their founders to leave inside the town the philosophy that led them to become a town.

The designs that distinguish them, and have led them to characterize them in history, are not only a futuristic environmental urban design, are the fingerprint of the philosophy that supported its founders.

Despite the fact that the Spanish urban planning provisions of urban settlements in America required certain design norms, many island and continental cities only considered them partially, and as soon as they became independent they created a philosophical and religious autonomy that led them to develop unique settlements.

These are theosophical maps that draw on the city and especially on its residents, a philosophical-religious-spiritual order that conditions the type of life that will be lived inside the city.

This is how we have in our days the squares of arms (central squares), the commemorative and recreational squares, as an idolatric symbol raised to identify the generation that was established in that city.

The squares of arms, once the main square, in whose surroundings was erected the cathedral, the town hall (cabildo), the military fortress and commerce, symbols of ecclesiastical, military and commercial power, is nowadays in the most of the Cities, the emblem of the ruling group in the city.

The squares of arms were constructed as open spaces where the social activities were developed; it was the meeting center of the inhabitants that conformed the city, and the site used by the local government to communicate the life matters of the region.

Over time strange elements were built on it, one of them was the fountains. Not all squares have fountains. A fountain in a square indicates that the group that rules the city is masonic, pro-masonic, religious-santero, warlock-mystical-spiritualist, or medieval Gothic.

The shape of the fountain design will tell which group specifically rules the city.

A fountain in the form of a circle may indicate that the group is a religious-santero type. A star-shaped fountain tends to a warlock-mystical-spiritualist group. While a cross-shaped fountain, alone or formed next to a circle, will lead us to identify a Masonic or pro-Masonic group.

The element inside the fountain is also important. The element inside will be decisive in cases where the same form of design is used by two different groups.

Other elements such as trees, statues or busts, add value to the emblems of the ruling groups. The trees indicate pacts, alliances, grant life, or periods of life, of the ruling groups. The busts or statues within it establish a norm, a school.

The commemorative squares, and even the recreational ones, are annexes of the main square. The trace of all of them draws a constellation, similar to the ones we see drawn in the skies during the night.

The other element that draws map of the groups that ruled in the city is its buildings. A human construction is a symbol of rebellion.

The first construction that we are aware of is the one described in chapter eleven of the book of Genesis. The intention to reach the sky is an act of rebellion which is reflected in the construction that they build.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:3, 4

The height of the buildings indicates the haughtiness and arrogance of the groups that rules in the city. Not all buildings are built high, but those who stand out do it with the purpose of showing who has the supremacy in the city.

The buildings of a city are symbols of the glory of the ruling group. The disciples show with national pride the buildings of the Temple,[1] a temple built in forty-six years[2] that represented the glory of Herod, but not with the same dimensions of the original temple.

The buildings within a city, and to whom it belongs, are a way of mapping the predominant theosophy, the groups that ruled it, and the fate that these groups have designed for the inhabitants of the city.

There is a philosophical, magical, spiritist, esoteric, warlock government over the city, and many ignore it. And even worse, the communities of faith constituted within the city are carried along by non-biblical paths, and they do not realize it.

It happens as described in the book of the prophet Ezekiel, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?[3]

It is a stupor that has entered and established itself in the communities of faith, a conformity, which seeks only numerical multiplication and the construction of large buildings, in the same line and style of the theosophical groups that rule the city.

And none saith, Restore.[4] Many of our cities are headed in the same direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and not so much because the same sin of Sodom and Gomorrah is practiced in our cities, but because the prophetic voice has been quenched, and there has been no one warn of the evil that weighs on our cities. It fulfills what the prophet Ezekiel warned about Jerusalem:

30 And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Ezequiel 22:30

Let the prophetic voice rise! May the watchmen rise!

God Almighty, Creator and Sustainer. Revive thy work in the midst of the years.

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[1] Mateo 24:1; Marcos 13:1; Lucas 21:5

[2] Juan 2:20

[3] Ezequiel 13:18-20

[4] Isaías 42:22