Illustration: "Furious Battle between Angels and the Damned," from Michelangelo's Last Judgement
The Scriptures speak of spiritual warfare in several places, but most directly by Paul in
Ephesians 6,where he speaks of the full armor of God. The most pointed is verse 12:
"For we are not contending against flesh and blood,
but against the principalities, against the powers,
against the world rulers of this present darkness,
against the spiritual hosts of wickedness
in the heavenly realms."
Ephesians 6:12 (RSV)
SPIRITUAL WARFARE IN THE THIRD MILLENIUM
Father Bob Papi
used with permission
http://www.domestic-church.com/.../ spiritualwarfare.htm
And tuberculosis is mega-bucks: ask Karel Vita Hudson. Any day now the richest nations will be facing a tubercular pandemic, and Dypraxa will become the multi-billion dollar earner that all good shareholders dream of. The White Plague the Great Stalker, the Great imitator, the Captain of Death is no longer confining himself to the wretched of the earth. He is doing what he did a hundred years ago. He is hovering like a filthy cloud of pollution over the West's own horizon, even if it is still their poor who are his victims. [1]
That is a quotation from Le Carre's latest novel The Constant Gardener, described on the fly leaf as a novel which explores the dark side of unbridled capitalism and is a magnificent exploration of the new world order.
Revelation chapter 6 relates two devastating apocalyptic events which certainly can be considered as aspects of spiritual warfare in the third millennium . . . and elements of which appear in Le Carre's novel . . . novels being as we know the expression as art of real anxieties in the human heart.
Verses 5 to 8 state:
"When he broke open the third seal I heard the third living creature cry out, 'Come forward.' I looked, and there was a black horse, and its rider held a scale in his hand. I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures. It said, 'A ration of wheat costs a day's pay, and three rations of barley cost a day's pay. But do not damage the olive oil or the wine.' When he broke open the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature cry out, 'Come forward.' I looked, and there was a pale green horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades accompanied him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth."
Ebola, AIDS, Tuberculous, West Nile Fever, Hanta Virus, there are plenty of plagues and opportunities for profiteering . . . Angola, Ethiopia, Palestine, Bosnia, . . . there are lots of places to die by the sword of bullets and bombs to waste away from famine but we need not venture beyond our own cities to discover the same diseases, gang warfare, homelessness, hunger, despair, the rendering of working men and women as mere disposal parts of vast corporate machinery as to the sword is not the ultimate plague the killing of the unborn itself a source of immense profits to those who perform the murders....and, frankly, an outrage far greater before the Face of God than the sin which so outraged Him at Sodom and Gomorrah.
Spiritual warfare is not some future event which will suddenly overtake us in the so called 'end times.' These are the 'end times' the 'last days'. Spiritual warfare is the nitty-gritty reality of daily life.
Excerpt from http://www.domestic-church.com/CONTENT.DCC/20010101/ESSAY/spiritualwarfare.htm
PRINCIPALITIES & POWERS
See also Saint Michael the ArchangelENTITIES
CHANNELING
POSSESSION
DELIVERANCE
EXORCISM
ONE WORLD RELIGION
See also Global Agenda
Benjamin Franklin
"Men will ultimately be governed by God or tyrants."
Benjamin Franklin
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