The Unseen World Chapter 10

How do they Fight? While it is common to see angelic depictions wielding swords and shields, the exact nature of the battle they fight is not as their human counterparts. Swords are symbolic to the realm of the angel. To find a scriptural clue as to the type of warfare that angels engage in, we need to look no further that to the visions of Jesus that are described in the scripture. Out of his mouth goes a two-edged sword. The writer of Hebrews declares that the word of God is sharper that any double-edged sword and that it is a divider. However grotesque a thought, the purpose of the sword is to divide. In a spiritual sense (as in many other applications) division is the prerequisite to order. Division brings order. The sword, which is the word of God, brings order… the order of the one who commissioned the sword. Order is the business of Governments. Governmental order must be backed with some kind of force… the sword represents that force… it represents the authority of the government for which it is wielded. Ultimately, the sword is for the upholding of the authority of any government… this authority is defined by words. The word of God defines his kingdom’s order and it is this order that is challenged by the spiritual forces that have their own design of order. The New World Order is a challenge to God’s order of the kingdom. We will see this in greater depth later. Order is put in place by a declaration of words; these words are the expression of ideas, concepts, and principles of the authority, which has given forth its word. According to the Psalm, “Forever, O Lord, thy word is established in heaven.” Order stems from the authority in power through the medium of words. The word of God came to Adam, who had been placed in the Garden of Eden, to dress it and keep it. Adam was to order the garden and God gave him direction in that order. Challenge came to God’s order when the enemy approached Eve and deceived her into changing the established order of Eden. She ate the fruit and the order of this earth was given to Satan, thus Paul calls him the “god of this world” and Jesus affirmed that he was the “prince of the power of the air”. Simply, the war that wages in the spirit world is a war of ideas and it is fought with the sword called “words”. This manner of warfare is seen in the contention between Michael and the devil over the body of Moses as we observe that they disputed over the body. They discussed, or argued, over the body of Moses… it was war. While we are aware of the term “war of words”, it may be that we relegate a “word war” to a lesser form of conflict than that of physical combat. Be not deceived, the powers that wage the word war are powerful beings that are committed to victory at any cost. The terrible carnage occurring as a result of the wars of humanity is in actuality the result of ideas, concepts, and principles… the very ones that the spirit world contends over. Conflict in the natural world is the result of spiritual ideas, attitudes, and ambitions. Spiritual powers must put these into a society’s psychology before physical forces enter into combat. As seen then, it is in the world of the spirit that all war begins, and what we observe in the natural world is definitely a reflection of ideological battles that have already taken place in the heavens. Single humans can be the instrument of great spiritual and societal changes, both for good and evil. It is highly unlikely that any human who was able to effect great societal change was not connected in some manner to the spiritual world… whether for good or evil. It is documented that Adolph Hitler was involved in various occult practices. Jesus was able to bring the hope of eternal life to the world because of his spiritual connection. The apostles turned their world upside-down when they were filled with the Holy Ghost. False prophets have deceived and are deceiving many and they are associates of the antichrist spirit. Alexander the Great conquered his world by the age of 32, but Daniel gives a glimpse into the world of the spirit just prior to Alexander’s great feats, showing that before Alexander marched his armies Gabriel wrestled with the Prince of Greece to make way for the coming armies.