In the Book of Daniel chapter 10, we see a very interesting story of Daniel praying and fasting and seeking the Lord concerning a troubling vision he had about Israel and their coming captivity. Let’s take a look at it:

Daniel 10:1-21 NLT.

“In the third year of the reign of King Cyrus of Persia, Daniel (also known as Belteshazzar) had another vision. He …

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More Than Just a Cup of Coffee

When my Wife Kelley and I first moved back to the Knoxville area of Tennessee, we lived in a house that had a large patio that ran the entire length of the back porch area. Early of a morning I would brew a pot of coffee and go out their and build a fire in our fire pit. I would take my Bible and I would pull of 2-chairs to sit around the fire. I would get some coffee and invite Jesus to come sit with me and have a cup of coffee and let’s talk! I would position the chair so that I could talk to Him as I would my Best friend or my Father. And I would just talk to Him and drink coffee, then I would read my Bible, and we would talk some more. It was an intimate personal time of fellowship with the Lord! We would enjoy the fire; drink some coffee; read His Word; and enjoy intimate “Father and Son” time as the day broke in upon us! And that is the Lord’s desire also! Listen to this truth in Revelation 3:20 in the NLT whic says this...

“𝑳𝒐𝒐𝒌! 𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒌. 𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓, 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔.”

In this case, it was a cup of coffee, a fire, His Powerful Word, and personal time with my Savior! Now that I am Semi-Retired and live in the Blountville area of Tennessee by Bristol, I still get up during the 4th Watch and spend intimate time with the Lord in prayer and Bible study. And oh yes, a good cup of coffee!

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A Time of Personal Fellowship and Blessing

These have been some of the most blessed times in my life in intimate fellowship with the Lord! Allow me to encourage you to develop your own personal intimate time of fellowship with Jesus! You may not be a “morning person” but find a time that you and the Savior can enjoy a cup of coffee; a sweet tea; hot tea; juice; water, or anything you want to share with the Lord in this personal time of fellowship! Make it your own! A time between you and the Lord that you both can share. Get your Bible, brew a cup of coffee, and invite the Lord to sit down with you and share a cup and just talk to Him!....... And oh by the way, the Lord really enjoys a good Dark Roast cup of coffee!

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POSTULATION:

I am considering today a postulation, and that postulation is there is a “cyclical“ nature to Eschatology. Allow me to explain. In Matthew 24; Mark 13; and Luke 21, Jesus share about the End-Times from the Mount of Olives. We He speaks about certain events of the “End” there is a NOW and a NOT YET element to its fulfillment. For example, we saw fulfillments in AD 70, but elements that have not been fulfilled yet, like the visible nature of the “Coming of the Son of Man (Not Yet) fulfillment. it appears to me, as I am considering this, that the manifestation of evil is cyclical in nature. In various generations, evil manifests with a nothing “NEW under the sun” type meaning. The manifestation of evil cycles over and over again at various times, and then again repeats itself. Example: Antiochus Epiphanes desecration of the Temple, and the not yet desecration of the Temple from the Antichrist. So, it is that the manifestation of evil against the Kingdom of God, and the People of God, is “CYCLICAL!”

Cyclical, Now and Not Yet

This postulation, I believe, aligns with a well-established theological framework. What we are describing as the “NOW and NOT YET” or “cyclical“ nature of biblical prophecy is a recognized reality in biblical scholarship. With this postulation, we have independently tapped into what theologians call dual fulfillment, progressive fulfillment, or the “double reference” of prophecy. There are multiple examples of this in Scripture and then in history.

Analysis of This Postulation

This observation hits on the core dynamics of biblical apocalyptic literature. Prophecy is rarely a one-time, linear prediction that checks off a box and disappears. Instead, it functions more like a spiral or a crescendo. The “comfortableness” of a clean liner, very futurative series of events happening mainly AFTER the Curch has exited the building, is not in keeping with this “cyclical” nature of eschatology. We interpret, and thus apply, a theology that spares us from any and all of the fulfillment of the prophetic End-Times! What we do not want, we “forecast” out in the future, when we are not here! This is an Eschatological human Conditioned Reflex to the evil that manifests against the Kingdom of God and His Church! We don’t understand the eschatological truth, so we are afraid, hence we put it WAY OUT in the future, when we won’t have to deal with it! Not only is this incredibly sloppy hermeneutics, it is also not Biblical in the least! The “cyclical” nature of Eschatology assures us that we WILL have to deal with this manifestation of evil. And we are experiencing that NOW!

1. The Pattern of Evil: We have noted that “evil manifests with nothing NEW under the sun.” Scripture supports this. Systems of human defiance against God—whether it is Nimrod’s Babel, Pharaoh’s Egypt, Antiochus’s Syria, Nero’s Rome, or the future global system—share the exact same spiritual DNA. A DNA which we are thrust into! A manifested “cyclical” event of manifested evil.

2. The Prototype and the Ultimate: In eschatology, historic events act as “prototypes“ or “shadows“ of a future, ultimate fulfillment. I grew ups with this concept, of which I am deeply thankful for! As we have already correctly identified, Antiochus Epiphanes IV desecrated the temple in 167 BC (the historic prototype). Jesus points back to this event in the Olivet Discourse to warn of a future desecration in AD 70 (the near-future fulfillment), which itself foreshadows the final, ultimate “Abomination of Desolation” by the Antichrist (the ultimate Not Yet fulfillment).—>Please note the “cyclical’ nature to these both historic, and futurative, fulfillments.

Are We Alone in this Speculation? Who Else Has Considered This?

This postulation is in excellent company. Many historic and contemporary theologians, historians, and scholars have written extensively on this exact concept.

1. Theologians of “Inaugurated Eschatology”

The phrase we used here, “Already and Not Yet,” is the defining characteristic of Inaugurated Eschatology.

G.K. Beale: A premier New Testament scholar, Beale argues in his works on biblical theology that the New Testament authors viewed Old Testament prophecies as having a multi-layered, organic fulfillment. He notes that the tribulations of the church cycle throughout history, escalating until the final climax.1

George Eldon Ladd: A brilliant theologian who popularized the “Already/Not Yet” framework, Ladd explained that the Kingdom of God has broken into history now (in part), but its final, visible consummation is still to come.2

2. Contemplating Historicism and Preterist-Futurist Hybrids, a Unique Thing!

• Partial Preterism: Scholars in this camp argue exactly what we have observed regarding the Olivet Discourse. They believe Jesus’ words in Matthew 24 were partially and tangibly fulfilled in the horrific destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70 (Now), but that these events served as a microcosm or a historical warning track for the final, global Second Coming (Not Yet).—>Again, note the “Cyclical” nature to this manifestation of Eschatology.

• The “Spiritual” or “Idealist” View: Thinkers like Augustine of Hippo in his classic seminal work The City of God viewed history as a concurrent story of two cities: the City of God and the City of Man. Augustine saw the clash between evil and God’s people as a continuous, cyclical struggle happening across every generation of the church age, rather than just a checklist of linear events at the very end of time.

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3. Literary and Historical Scholars

• C.S. Lewis: My most favorite Theologian, In his essay The World’s Last Night, Lewis touched on the confusing nature of the Olivet Discourse. He noted that apocalyptic prophecy behaves like looking at a mountain range from a distance. Two mountain peaks (e.g., AD 70 and the Final Judgement) look like they are right next to each other from a distance, but as you walk through history, you realize there is a massive valley of time separating them. The pattern of the peak repeats. It’s amazing how much “perspective” changes one’s understanding!

• The Concept of “Typology”: The entire school of Typological Interpretation treats history as a series of recurring patterns. Just as King David is a “type“ of Christ, the historical oppressors of God’s people are “types“ of the final Antichrist. The evil cycles, but the final iteration is the most potent, and for some, most scary! That’s why it is relegate to a far-off future, where they won’t be!

Summary of the “Spiral” of Eschatology

Instead of a flat circle where history just repeats aimlessly, or a straight line where things only happen once, our postulation in this article perfectly describes history as a historical spiral staircase. Think about this…

As you walk up a spiral staircase, you keep looking out a window, the same window at the same scenery (the same manifestations of evil, persecution, and desecration), but every time the cycle repeats, you are at a higher level of intensity and closer to the ceiling (the final consummation of history). And thus, because of “perspective” our understanding adapts!

Conclusion:

This “cyclical”nature to eschatology then concludes, and rightly so, that the manifestation of evil against the Kingdom of God and His People, continuously repeats itself. Even though we are linear beings, our experiences are not linear; they are “cyclical” in nature. To illustrate, imagine a flowing river whose course is set over miles. As it moves along in a linear fashion, but there may be eddies along the linear flow of the river. This accurately illustrates the “flow” of time and the “eddies” within that time of the manifestations of evil that we experience. In much the same way that a river flows in a linear fashion but experiences eddies of water.

We are now in one such Eddie! We are experiencing manifestations of eschatology that are cyclical in nature. We are seeing the same old manifestations that we can look back into history and see! This is an interesting concept, but it explains the “Now and the Not Yet” aspect of eschatology. The kingdom of God is advancing yet it continuously experiences the same manifestations of evil against it. It is cyclical! “Now and not yet!” Eschatological manifestations, then are the repeating of evil battling against the kingdom of God and his people that has happened historically before. As we study the end times this is exactly what apocalyptic writings are informing us of! We continuously experience the cyclical nature of the manifestation of evil against God’s kingdom! This is a deeper understanding of the book of Revelation and other Apocalyptic writings.

A fundamental interpretive error concerning the Book of Revelation specifically, and eschatology in general, is the failure to employ an ‘already/not yet’ hermeneutical framework. Far too often, prophecy is viewed through an exclusively futurist lens, completely detached from historical precedents. In reality, eschatological events represent recurring historical manifestations of evil arrayed against the economy of God and His kingdom. Recognizing this cyclical pattern provides the Church with vital historical footing, reminding the body of Christ that we have traversed this crucible before. While these trials are not unprecedented, they are steadily intensifying as history accelerates toward its final, definitive climax—a reality best described as living in the “Last of the Last days.”

In the Modern Western Church, “Militant” is not a word often associated with the mission of the Church, but one that is very apropos for this season we are now living in. This season (kairos) we are in has quickly mandated that the Church of Jesus Christ in the West must become aware that the days of “Casual-Christianity” are over! The “Norman Rockwell” image of what it means to go to church and enjoy a Worship Service have come crashing down, in the face of an Antichrist agenda now in full swing!

The Attack is Four-Fold

First, we are witnessing an utter invasion of a Socialistic Ideology flooding our culture! In the 1960’s and 1970’s those of us in the Church warned that there was nefarious forces that have been placed within the Educational systems of our country. We warned that there were professors whose sole purpose was not to educate our children, but to indoctrinate them! Their indoctrination was an all-out acceptance of Socialism and Communism, in an assault of ideas and values, that our children were defenseless against.

This indoctrination of ideas and values (mores) were manifested in the following four ways:

1. First, with the introduction of the ideas of Socialism in the name of being “FAIR.” They were taught to believe in the idea of “FAIRNESS” by the introduction of the redistribution of ……STUFF! Other people’s “STUFF!” I saw this first-hand at of all places, a Youth Camp! We were encouraged that in the Sports Competitions, there should be NO Winners and Losers, but EVERYONE should receive ribbons for “PARTICIPATION!”

2. Second, was the assault on “IDENTITY!” In the 60’s the statement was…..”We’re trying to find ourselves!” As Young Men and Women, we were trying to find out where we fit into this world, and what our purpose was in life! We NEVER questioned within that “finding ourselves” if we were MALE or FEMALE! And now, our children are indoctrinate with the lie that questioning, in the name of “fair”, their very Gender Identity! This is a resurrection of false “gods” which are manifestations of demons and their lies!

3. Third, was the renunciation and outright castigation of all things Conservative! I’m not referring to a Political Platform, I am referring to Conservative Christian Values. And in our case, that which America was founded upon, a Judeo-Christian Worldview. While it can be argued that we as Americans do not have a “Christian” Country, because of the embracing of the murder of babies and the embracing of the LGBTQ agenda, we were truly founded upon Biblical values! Biblical concepts, that are now being “thrown-off” like a worn out dirty piece of clothing!

4. Fourth, with the cultural embracing and participation in all things Sexually perverse! With the flood of pornography like raw sewage flowing through our homes and our children’s devices, how can we possibly even wonder why sexual perversions have so manifested among us. Again, all as part of that “Finding Ourselves and Fairness” ideologies! LGBTQ militant agendas, no longer seeking to be “accepted” but mandating that we agree with and succumb to their idiology. Transgender onslaught against our children, young children! By the way, have you never asked yourself the question…….”WHY do Transgenders even WANT to participate in “Children’s Reading Time” in our schools?” Again, it’s another ATTACK against our society and culture!

Role Over and Play Dead, or Become Militant in our Faith

So, asking how the Body of Christ can and should respond, is closing the barn door, after the horses have gotten out! We have preached and sung ourselves into a “Churchy” stupor! We have willfully and gleefully ignored the Great-Commission and wonder why our society is in such trouble and turmoil! WAKE UP Church of Jesus Christ; Bride of Christ; the EMPOWERED and SPIRIT-FILLED body of Christ!…..WAKE UP!!! Our Culture is under attack, and WE are the ONLY ones with the ABILITY, AUTHORITY, and POWER to do anything about it!

So, ok, what exactly am I meaning to becoming “MILITANT?” I am not referring to Physical altercations, or attacking people and physically fighting with them! It is NOT an “US” against “THEM” scenario. The Socialist and the Communist and the Transgender and the LGBTQ and all the Liberal Professors, are NOT who we are fighting against! It is the DEMONIC forces manifesting through these people that our fight is against, and we had better become ……… MILITANT against those demonic forces! Listen to the Word of God:

So, how “CAN” the Church of Jesus Christ become “MILITANT?” The same way we have ALWAYS become “Militant!”

There is something very special about out getting up early in the morning to seek deepened intimacy with God! A time, set-aside, for prayer, study, and communion with the Lord. I used to get up early, and then when I was so ill, I found my body needing more rest than usual. So risings early for this time of intimacy with the Lord was non-existent. Then about 2 or 3 months ago, I found myself going right back into my old pattern of getting up early to spend time with the Lord. No alarm, just a “sudden” awake and awareness of time to withdraw to be with the Lord Jesus Christ. Maybe that’s what David meant when he said in Psalm 63:1…”O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You; In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water.” This can be translated as earnestly I seek You. I feel that sense of earnestness! So, here I am awake and writing in the pre-dawn morning, laden down heavy with the feeling that God is up to something!

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I know that some people cannot get up this early, and that’s ok. There are times and “watches” all through the day when you can draw aside to seek the Lord and align yourself with what He is doing in these Last of the Last-Days. Brother and Sister, don’t you sense it? Sense that God is truly up to something, and with our alignment, we can be a part of it! Consider this information about the Fourth Watch:

The fourth watch is highly significant in the Bible because it represents the time of divine rescue, spiritual breakthrough, and the transition from darkness to light. Historically, the Romans divided the night into four military watches, placing the fourth watch in the pre-dawn hours between 3:00 AM and 6:00 AM.

The deep spiritual importance of this specific time frame stems from several biblical themes and events:

1. The Hour of Divine Deliverance

The fourth watch is traditionally known as the hour when God intervenes after a prolonged period of trial or struggle.

2. A Symbol of Endurance and Faith

Spiritually, the fourth watch represents the final stretch of a difficult season—the moment when human strength is entirely exhausted, but hope is on the horizon. It teaches believers that God may not alter the storm immediately, but He will appear before the dawn breaks. It highlights the necessity of spiritual vigilance, mirroring Jesus’ constant commands to “watch and pray” so that you are not caught off guard.

3. Establishing the Day (”Commanding the Morning”)

Many Christian prayer ministries view the 3:00 AM to 6:00 AM window as a critical tactical time for intercession. Praying during this watch is seen as a way to “command the morning“, dedicating the day to God before the world wakes up. It is highly regarded as a quiet, distraction-free window where the mind is still, making it an optimal time for deep reflection, meditation, and intercepting spiritual warfare.

This is also a time where we can Align Ourselves with the Will and Purposes of God

For the Follower of Jesus, especially in these Last of the Last-Days, it is imperative that we align ourselves with what He is doing in these Last-Days! We must be on the “TEAM!” How does one “align” themselves with the will and purposes of God? Briefly, there are multiple “steps”…

A follower of Jesus aligns themselves with the will and purpose of God through surrender, active obedience, and continuous spiritual renewal. Rather than chasing a hidden blueprint, a believer aligns with God by actively seeking His character and commands as revealed in Scripture, and at the direction of the Holy Spirit.

The biblical framework for this alignment relies on several foundational steps:

1. Renewing the Mind

Alignment begins with a radical shift in how a person thinks. According to Romans 12:2, believers must stop copying the behavior of the world. Instead, they let God transform them by changing the way they think. This mental transformation allows them to learn, test, and discern God’s good, pleasing, and perfect will. And this is where “alignment” begins!

2. Daily Surrender and Humility

Jesus is our example! He modeled ultimate alignment in the Garden of Gethsemane to God’s will and purpose when He prayed, “Not my will, but yours be done” in Luke 22:42.

Believers align themselves to the will and purpose of God, by actively dying to selfish desires daily. They hold their personal plans loosely, yielding their timeline and ambitions to the Holy Spirit. They have a “Whatever You Command Lord, I will Obey” mentality and practice!

3. Walking in the Spirit

True alignment is impossible through human effort alone. Followers must actively rely on the Holy Spirit to guide their daily decisions. Galatians 5:16 informs us that walking by the Spirit prevents a person from gratifying the desires of the sinful nature, naturally steering them into God’s will and purpose.

4. Intentional Obedience to Known Truth

God’s sovereign will and purpose is never divorced from His written Word. A Follower of Jesus aligns themselves with God by simply doing what He has already explicitly commanded. So, in order to DO that, we must know what He has already explicitly commanded, by STUDYING the Word of God!

So, here I am, up at an incredibly early hour, to seek God! To pray, study the Bible, and write what He gives me to share. And the discovering of God’s will and purpose, and then aligning by the help of the Holy Spirit, to it! I challenge YOU to join me in this pursuit! God’s will and purpose are “discoverable” and available to each and every one of us, as we pursue Him! GOOD MORNING!

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As a Linear Being, we have a beginning; a progression of life; and an end. We are not beings who are mandated to live within a “loop” of repeated errors, which violates the concept of “linear.” What do I mean by a “loop?” A manipulated destiny of repeating the errors of the past over and over again. Living in a “Loop-Cycle” is the playground of the enemy of our souls! Repeating the errors and sins of the past, and somehow expecting a different outcome, is indicative of the effects of sin upon our individual lives and society. The devil, in a veiled attempt to get us as a society, to be “enlightened” or “progressive” continues to regurgitate the same old lies of the past, which miserably failed and led humanity into moral and societal bankruptcy. Yet, here they are once again, erupting upon our societies like a sewer that has backed-up and flowed into our houses! And in a brash expression superiority elitism, the same old lies are spun, as if they are something new and innovative! And truly they are, if we are beings who live within a “cyclical-loop” instead of beings who are linear.

The “back-up” sewage that is flowing into our “house!”

The same old “cyclical-loop” of lies that have now been regurgitated like a societal-vomit, is that of Socialism and Communism! An unholy marriage has taken place between socialism and Islamism. Irregardless of the fact that the two are philosophically exclusive, somehow with the shared targeted purpose of the destruction of Western civilization and the Christian message that cradled it. The smiling faces that spew the lies cloaked in the visage of “fairness” and “equality” are embrace by the gullible! By gullible, I mean those who refuse to live in a Linear life and embrace the lessons learned from history!

Socialism is a failed attempt at a type of “Theocracy!”

What do you mean by this Steve? Very simple. Socialism is Fallen Humanities attempt at experiencing the provision of God, devoid of God! It is satan’s perversion of the provision manifested through the Savior Jesus Christ, in a restored Millennial Reign! It is Fallen-Humanity being their own god! The lie of equity and fairness does not; and cannot; exist in a Fallen society! When we divest ourselves of God, and His values in the Bible, we embrace the same lie that Lucifer succumbed to in Isaiah 14:13-14: “For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.” And their you have, in a nutshell, the lie of socialism! Fallen Humanity saying: “We will ascend to the heaven and set our throne above God!” And to a heart full of darkness and sin, it all feels so normal, in a twisted encasing of “fainess” and “equity!” And when this lie is embraced, the sewer has once again backed up into the house of humanity! Socialism has NEVER succeeded! When embraced, it’s “humanistic” lies become rapidly obvious! As a Linear Being, do what Linear Beings are SUPPOSED to do, and take a brief look back into our history! Now witness, in a Linear fashion one Historical example of the failed fodder of Socialism!

The Snapshot…

VENEZUELA: “The Sewage in Their House!”

1992—Venezuela is the 3rd richest country in the Western Hemisphere, powered by oil and a growing middle class.

1997—Venezuelans become the 2nd largest buyers of Ford F-150s—a sign of widespread prosperity.

1998—Hugo Chávez is elected, promising to “redistribute wealth” and fix inequality.

2001—The country votes again for socialism, framed as compassion and fairness.

2003—The government imposes price controls and currency controls. Black markets appear. Shortages begin.

2004—Private healthcare is fully socialized.

2006—Inflation rises sharply as massive welfare programs expand without real economic backing.

2007—All higher education becomes “free.”

2008—Key industries—oil services, steel, cement, telecom—are nationalized. Production drops almost immediately.

2009—Private gun ownership is banned.

2010—The currency is devalued by 50%, crushing savings and accelerating inflation.

2011—Oil production begins a steady decline due to mismanagement and lack of investment.

2012—American politicians, like Bernie Sanders, publicly praise Venezuela’s model.

2013—Chávez dies. Nicolás Maduro takes power and tightens state control.

2014—Opposition leaders are arrested or silenced.

2015—GDP collapses. Hyperinflation begins.

2016—Severe food and medical shortages spread nationwide.

2017—The constitution is suspended. Elections are no longer meaningful.

2018—Inflation exceeds 1,000,000%. Maduro “wins” a widely fraudulent election.

2019—Unarmed civilians are killed by their own government.

2020—More than 8 million people flee the country to escape hunger and repression.

2023—Minor economic improvements fail to relieve mass poverty.

2024—Disputed elections trigger protests and global isolation.

2026—Maduro is removed by force. Venezuela is liberated after decades of ruin.

Seen Enough? Be mindful, what I call the “Venezuelan-Effect” has already begun in New York City; in Michigan; in Colorado; in Illinois; and make no mistake about it,……..Like a cancer, it will eventually “infect” the whole country! The sewage is backing up even now into our house!

The Only Answer…

God is the only answer to this problem! We as a People must REPENT and have Genuine REVIVAL, returning to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior! In addition, we must ABANDON and FORSAKE and stop VOTING for ANY Politician that espoused these “Non-Linear” lies of socialism! Which means, if you are a Follower of Jesus, you MUST leave and utterly abandon, the Modern Democratic party! Here this Preacher, this is NOT the Democratic party of our Grandparents! Allow me to state this as plain as I can…………”YOU CANNOT REMAIN A FOLLOWER OF JESUS, AND REMAIN IN, AND VOTE FOR, THIS MODERN DEMOCRATIC PARTY!” The two are incompatible and violently opposed to one another!

In these Last of the Last-Days, I can hear Joshua’s exhortation echoing across our Land:

“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."1

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INTRODUCTION: The Invisible Kairos: The Stealth Architecture of End-Times Deception!

In this article, we will share with you two mysteries of demonic activity that is often overlooked or ignored. We have been Conditioned Reflexed to think of demonic spirits from a well contrived architecturally formed perception, based in fiction and not fact. The pieces of this well conceived strategy is connected using Biblical facts, put together, to form a profound Biblically based picture of the exact nature and strategy of our enemy. If the postulations of this article are correct, and I believe they are, then we have misdiagnosed not only the individual battles with these demonic spirits, but the whole spiritual war! In fact, we are culturally at the place we are at right now, not because the Church lacked power, but because the Church lacked discernment. The Church has been fighting a largely unseen enemy of invisibility and deception. A type of smoke and mirrors, that any good Magician would be proud of! We have largely fought this spiritual war with “blinders” on! Fighting over here, when the real battle was over there! Trying to deploy weaponry over this hill in front of us, when the real enemy and the real fight, is behind us!

The enemy has successfully been “camouflaged” right in plain sight, but as the church, we were too busy looking and fighting “Over-There!” This article serves as an exposure to the demonic spirits and their true warfare, hidden in plain sight! It is a “ripping-off-of-the-lid” revelation that only the Holy Spirit can do! When the enemy says in such a structurally profound was: “There is nothing to see over here folks!” Trust me, there is plenty to see over here! To this end of exposure, revelation, and manifestation; this article is written. Follow along; take notes; buckle up your spiritual seat belts; because we are about to expose the greatest of all times hidden in plain sight agenda of the enemy!

A bevy of Hollywood produced movies have been the “vehicle” that the enemy has so successfully used to mislead us into the true nature of demonic spirits as grotesque monster-like looking beings who want to sneak up on us and yell “BOO!” Horror movies of demonic encounters and ghostly apparitions have only fueled the fires of misconception. Describing an enemy in such a profound misidentification, that we have thought that we were being successful in our battling, only to find out that the enemy’s agenda was advancing with little to no resistance from the Church. By the way, the forecast Christ had put in place to thwart the schemes of the enemy. But you can’t fight what you can’t see! Unless your “blows” and “counter-attacks” are being guided by a force greater than our enemy. And that “force” is the revelatory information and guidance, of this article for one! The Holy Spirit is asking us to “let go” of the guidance system of our counter-attack, and let Him direct us where to launch that attack! So, with a good introduction in place, let’s get into this revelatory article and expose the works of these camouflaged demonic entities!

For centuries, popular culture and even segments of the Church have misprofiled the enemy. We have been conditioned to look for the demonic in the overt, the chaotic, and the visually grotesque. But this is a profound miscalculation. The true brilliance of demonic strategy lies not in cinematic terror, but in absolute stealth. The most dangerous spiritual entities are those that operate so cunningly that they blend seamlessly into the background of our media, our politics, our academies, and even our pulpits—achieving their greatest victories by convincing the world they do not exist.

As we navigate the closing frames of the biblical timeline, this strategy of anonymity is undergoing a terrifying escalation. Scripture warns of a profound mystery: there are high-level spiritual entities that have been kept “on deck,” bound in dark restraint for millennia. These are not the common, roving spirits encountered in the everyday pages of the Gospels. These are specialized, ancient forces held in reserve for a precise kairos hour—the final, volatile days of this age.

They have just been given their cue. But they are not entering the stage with a roar; they are slipping through the stage door unnoticed. This study explores the quiet warfare of these newly unlocked entities, exposing the sophisticated, behind-the-scenes architecture they are using to manipulate our world, and revealing why understanding their hidden nature is critical for the survival of the modern believer.

Theological Building-Blocks

Part 1: Scriptural Cross-Reference Guide

• Theme 1: The Strategy of Invisibility & Deception

  • 2 Corinthians 11:14: Satan masquerades as an angel of light. Focus on the word “masquerade” (Greek: metaschēmatizetai), meaning to change outward appearance. They change forms to blend into cultural norms.

  • Ephesians 6:11: The “schemes” or “wiles” (Greek: methodeia) of the devil. This implies a highly methodical, calculated, and invisible wartime strategy, not random chaos.

  • 1 Timothy 4:1: Deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons. In the latter times, the infiltration is intellectual and ideological, operating quietly through false teachers rather than overt manifestations.

Chapter 1: The Strategy of Invisibility: Warfare in the Shadows

The greatest tactical advantage in any conflict is the element of surprise, and the ultimate surprise is an enemy whose existence is entirely denied. While the modern world looks for spiritual warfare in Hollywood-style manifestations, the kingdom of darkness executes its most devastating operations in total silence. The primary objective of high-level demonic principalities is not to terrify humanity, but to blend seamlessly into the background of daily life. By remaining invisible, they manipulate human history without facing resistance.

The Scriptural Mandate of the Mask

To understand this covert architecture, we must look to the precise language used by the Apostle Paul. In 2 Corinthians 11:14, he writes that “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” The Greek word used for “disguises” is metaschēmatizetai. This is a compound word:

• Meta implies a change or transition.

• Schēma refers to the outward, temporary, changeable form—the fashion or habit that appeals to the senses.

Paul is not saying that the enemy merely tells lies. He is stating that the enemy radically alters his external appearance to perfectly match what a culture deems good, progressive, enlightened, or true. A demonic spirit assigned to subvert a society will never present itself as a monster. Instead, it adopts the schēma of an academic theory, a political movement, a wellness trend, or even a theological breakthrough. It wears the clothing of the host culture so flawlessly that any attack on the spirit is interpreted by the world as an attack on progress itself. The results than “boil over” into the oppositions and protests were seeing manifesting within our societies. An entire wing of our two-party system, is devoted to this opposition and protests.

The Methodeia of the Mind

A few years after writing to the Corinthians, Paul expanded on this invisible warfare in his letter to the Ephesians. He commands believers to stand against the “schemes” or “wiles” of the devil (Ephesians 6:11). The Greek word here is methodeia, from which we derive the English word “method.”

Methodeia denotes a highly organized, systematic, and calculated plan. It is a slow, patient blueprint. This is not the erratic behavior of mindless monsters; it is the corporate strategy of an occupying army. The methodeia of demonic forces involves setting up cultural, intellectual, and spiritual currents that slowly drift away from biblical truth. Because the current moves slowly, those caught inside it do not realize they are traveling downstream. They believe they are thinking independently, completely unaware that their thoughts have been curated by an invisible architect. And the effects on society is like the “frog-in-the-kettle” syndrome. Little do we know that the current is moving, or the pot is boiling!

The Weapon of Anonymity

Why is invisibility the preferred strategy? Because a visible enemy invites a counter-offensive. A counter-offensive of profound authority, strength, and power! If a demonic entity manifests overtly, it immediately validates the spiritual realm, drives people to prayer, and forces the Church into an active, defensive posture.

Conversely, an invisible enemy enjoys three distinct advantages:

1. Impedes Discernment: When demonic influence is masked as natural human behavior, psychology, or political debate, believers treat a spiritual battle as a flesh-and-blood argument. We end up fighting the symptoms rather than the source. And as the Apostle Paul reminds us in Ephesians 6:12

“For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.”

1. Neutralizes Spiritual Weapons: You cannot cast out a spirit you refuse to acknowledge. When the Church adopts secular vocabulary to describe spiritual rot, we lay down our spiritual authority and attempt to fight cosmic battles with carnal tools. At this point when this happens, the enemy has won the battle.

2. Isolates the Discerning: When an individual actually spots the invisible enemy and sounds the alarm, the masked nature of the spirit makes the watchman look crazy, intolerant, or paranoid to the surrounding culture. They are labeled either “out of date” or “fringe.” Their revelations and ideas are dismissed as foolishness!

As the timeline of this age compresses, this strategy of invisibility serves a dual purpose. It conditions the world to accept systemic deception without question, creating a completely sterile environment. Once the environment is fully prepared, the highly specialized, long-restrained kairos spirits can step into the vacuum—completely undetected by a sleeping world. And this prepare the entrance of the antichrist onto the scene of an “educated sophistic and enlightened” society! One that is progressing with the deep thinking of an enlightened society, built upon inclusion and fairness. So, we open up our countries to the infusion of every evil idea and politics masked as religion, in a bazaar twist of “fairness.” And the camouflaged demonic spirits take their place on the altars of our societies!

The Modern Mask: Institutional and Ideological Infiltration

To fully comprehend the strategy of invisibility today, we must look past the ancient world and analyze our current landscape. The modern mask of demonic activity is rarely religious; it is institutional. However, it will be often times masked as religion, so as to appeal to our nature of acceptance and “fairness.” By embedding themselves within the very infrastructure of global society, these entities do not have to fight human systems—they simply ride them. This modern camouflage manifests primarily through three major vectors: media, technology, and cultural ideation.

1. Media and the Desensitization of the Conscience

In the past, cultural narratives were passed down through family, community, and the Church. Today, media acts as a decentralized pulpit, shaping human desire and morality on a mass scale.

• The Normalization of the Occult: High-level spirits do not remain hidden by staying out of media; they remain hidden by becoming mundane. Sorcery, divination, and dark spirituality are no longer framed as dangerous; they are repackaged as trendy forms of self-care, entertainment, and personal empowerment. For proof, take a look at many of the cartoons and/or movies targeting children and young teens. They are laden with ancestry worship; new age philosophy; occultism; and witchcraft. All geared to desensitize and indoctrinate in a predatory exercise of acceptance as normalcy.

• Narrative Hijacking: By quietly influencing the gatekeepers of entertainment and news, demonic forces can dictate what a society considers “good” or “evil.” When media routinely calling evil good, and good evil (Isaiah 5:20), it creates a smoke screen. The spiritual assault is entirely invisible because the public has been conditioned to applaud the very ideas that are destroying them. This then serves as a “reshaping” of societal mores and norms! And then in a bazaar twist of perception, those who insist on holding on to the old mores and norms are considered archaic and “out-of-step” with modernity!

2. Technology and the Digital Workspace

Technology is a neutral tool, it is neither good nor bad, but can be used for either good or bad. However, It provides an unprecedented, highly efficient delivery system for the methodeia (systematic schemes) of the enemy.

• Algorithms of Division: (if you don’t believe this, try posting something on Social Media considered unacceptable to a supposed “enlightened” society). Modern digital algorithms are engineered to amplify outrage, fear, and tribalism. Behind the mathematical code, demonic principalities capitalize on these platforms to systematically fracture families, churches, and nations without ever showing their hand. And we think it’s just the Big Tech tycoons turning the steering wheel. Let me remind you of what we just shared from Scripture…

“For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.”

• The Post-Truth Environment: The rise of hyper-realistic deepfakes, synthetic media, and artificial intelligence has untethered humanity from objective reality. When truth becomes entirely subjective, the enemy thrives. In a world where nothing can be fully trusted, the voice of the Holy Spirit is easily drowned out by a deafening chorus of digital noise. And please understand, I fully use technology to advance the Kingdom of God, but again, it depends on how it’s used that matters.

3. Ideation and Intellectual Strongholds

The Apostle Paul notes that spiritual warfare involves “casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God” (2 Corinthians 10:5). The modern battlefield is entirely academic and philosophical.

• The Rebranding of Sin: Ancient sins are scrubbed clean and given clinical, sophisticated, or compassionate new labels. Rebellion against God’s design for humanity is framed as “authenticity.” The destruction of the family unit is marketed as “liberation.” Such as Gender Transitions and the entire LGBTQ worldview.

• Secular Humanism as a Camouflage: By establishing secularism as the default worldview of the West, the enemy pulled off a masterstroke. In a culture that believes the spiritual world is a fairy tale, demonic spirits can operate with absolute impunity. If a society proudly claims that demons do not exist, those demons are entirely free to write that society’s laws, shape its education, and guide its future.

By weaponizing media, technology, and cultural ideas, the kingdom of darkness has constructed a brilliant paradox: a world that is intensely spiritualized, yet utterly blind to the true nature of spirits. This widespread blindness ensures that when the specialized, long-restrained entities are finally unchained for their kairos hour, they will find a world completely unequipped to recognize their arrival. Or misappropriate their identity.

Theme 2: The Restrained “On Deck” Entities

• Revelation 9:14–15: The four angels bound at the Euphrates, kept ready for the specific hour, day, month, and year. This is your ultimate proof text for kairos entities held in reserve for a precise prophetic micro-moment.

• Jude 1:6 / 2 Peter 2:4: Angels kept in eternal chains under darkness for judgment. This establishes that a specific class of ancient, high-level rebels has been locked away from the general population, awaiting a release trigger.

• Revelation 12:12: The devil has come down with great wrath, knowing his time is short. This supports the escalation of activity as the timeline compresses.

Is it possible that with the camouflage purpose of demonic spirits that we just discussed, that they have also manipulated our Eschatological interpretation and understanding as well? An interpretation based upon the deception of remaining hidden within the structure and activity of our time now! If we can be convinced that the eschatological fulfillment of what makes up the Last of the Last-Days and their fulfillment is way off in the future. And it just simply doesn’t concern us (because we won’t be here) then they will be allowed to run rampant and do their worst, in the here and now! We need to engage in a more exegetical deeper non-biased study of eschatology in general, and the book of Revelation specifically.

Chapter 2: The Kairos Release: The Awakening of the Restrained

To understand the current acceleration of global deception, we must move past the ordinary operations of the cosmic hierarchy and look toward the prophetic calendar. Scripture reveals that the spiritual landscape is not static. Just as God operates on a divine timeline, the kingdom of darkness is bound to a cosmic clock. We have entered a volatile transition—a kairos window—where a highly specialized, ancient class of demonic entities is being unchained from their long-standing vaults to execute the final movements of the age.

The Architecture of the Kairos Timeline

In secular thought, time is linear and sequential—measured by the ticking of a clock. The Greeks called this chronos. But the New Testament frequently utilizes a second word for time: kairos.

• Chronos: Quantitative time (seconds, minutes, years).

• Kairos: Qualitative time (the appointed season, the strategic moment, the window of destiny).

A kairos moment is a pregnant intersection of time where the spiritual realm breaks into the physical realm to alter human history. When we speak of the “last of the Last-days,” we are talking about a compression of kairos windows. These are specific epochs engineered by God where the spiritual restraints keeping certain dark forces at bay are legally revoked, allowing prophetic events to rapidly unfold. The enemy understands this timeline perfectly. As Revelation 12:12 notes, he operates with “great wrath, because he knows that his time (kairos) is short.”

The “On-Deck” Entities: Who are They?

The roaming spirits cast out by Jesus in the Gospels—often associated with localized afflictions, sickness, or individual torment—are the foot soldiers of the dark kingdom. They have been active on Earth for millennia. The entities we are addressing in this chapter belong to an entirely different tier. They are the “on-deck” forces: high-level, cosmic architects that have been held in deep, subterranean confinement since ancient times.

Scripture provides undeniable proof of this hidden reserve army:

1. The Chained Rebels of Tartarus: In 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 1:6, we read of a specific class of angels who abandoned their proper domain in antiquity. God did not leave them free to roam the earth; instead, He cast them into Tartarus (gloomy dungeons) and “kept them in eternal chains under darkness until the judgment of the great day.” They are locked away, waiting for a release trigger.

2. The Strategic Garrison of the Euphrates: The most explicit picture of “on-deck” entities is found in Revelation 9:14–15. The voice commands to “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” The text specifically notes that these four entities “had been held ready for this hour, day, month, and year.”

This language is highly precise. These entities were not wandering the earth during the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, or the World Wars. They were locked in a localized, spiritual maximum-security prison, explicitly reserved for a micro-moment on the prophetic calendar.

The Nature of Their Assignment

Why keep these specific entities “on deck” instead of utilizing them earlier? Because their power and deceptive capacity are too potent for ordinary human history; they would have disrupted the timeline prematurely. Remember, we are linear beings, and timelines are very fragile! The nature of these entities are highly specialized for global, systemic subversion.

• Mass Ideological Delusion: Unlike common spirits that target individuals, these corporate entities target whole demographics, nations, and systems. They carry an infectious potency capable of blinding millions simultaneously, triggering what 2 Thessalonians 2:11 calls a “strong delusion.”

• The Blueprint of the Beast: These spirits are uniquely engineered to build the global architecture required for the end-times antichrist system. They are experts in centralization, global governance, and the total subversion of institutional truth.

• Systemic Warfare: They do not manifest as spinning heads or demonic voices in a bedroom. They manifest as sudden, unexplainable, global shifts in morality, law, and consciousness. Like we are seeing in the “shift” of major cities embracing and electing, Socialistic/Communistic antichrist people and agendas! They create a cultural tsunami that sweeps over nations overnight, leaving believers wondering how the world changed so drastically in a matter of months.

These “on-deck” entities are currently stepping onto the playing field. Yet, because they are masters of the strategy of invisibility detailed in Chapter 1, they do not announce their arrival. They simply step behind the curtain of existing global institutions, utilizing the prepared digital, political, and academic frameworks to quietly orchestrate the closing scene of the age. The questions are: Can you see them? And are you ready?

Chapter 3: Unmasking the Shadows: Cultivating End-Times Discernment

As the spiritual landscape shifts and high-level kairos entities deploy their stealth strategies, the Church cannot rely on yesterday’s methods. Fighting an invisible, highly structured enemy with carnal or superficial tools is a guarantee for defeat. If the enemy’s primary weapon is absolute camouflage, the believer’s primary counter-offensive must be supernatural discernment. For success over these To stand firm in the last of the Last-days, individual believers and the corporate Church must intentionally cultivate a specific, warfare-ready discernment. And as has been said: “The enemy is taking the battle much more seriously than we are!”

Moving Past Sensory Discernment, Being Dependent Upon the Holy Spirit

For too long, the modern Church has conflated discernment with human intuition, emotional suspicion, or intellectual critique. Hindering, or in many cases, completely loosing our spiritual discernment!

• The Trap of Intellectualism: I am a “forever Student” and deeply believe in the study of the Bible and Theology! However trying to outthink these ancient, “on-deck” entities using human logic or academic analysis is impossible. They are the architects of the very systems of thought (secularism, post-truth ideologies) we are trying to analyze.

• The Trap of Emotionalism: Relying on whether something “feels” wrong is equally dangerous. Because these spirits operate under the Greek schēma of an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14), their cultural programs will feel compassionate, progressive, tolerant, and moral to the natural human heart. Just look at our society and all the protestors.

True discernment is not a heightened human faculty; it is a supernatural impartation. It is the diakrisis (Greek for judicial estimation or thorough distinguishing) listed among the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12:10. It is the ability to look at something that appears completely good, light, and beneficial on the surface, and perceive the dark, underlying spiritual architecture powering it. Without this Gifting of the Holy Spirit, we are destined to fail!

The Protocols for Cultivating End-Times Discernment

To activate this level of spiritual sight, the Church must return to strict, ancient, and non-negotiable spiritual protocols. Protocols that to some who are deceived, might seem old fashioned and outdated, but are actually timeless!

1. Anchoring in the Immutable Word

If you want to spot a flawless counterfeit, you do not study the infinite variations of the fakes; you study the absolute perfection of the original.

• The author of Hebrews notes that mature believers have their “senses trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil” (Hebrews 5:14).

• This training requires filtering every headline, every cultural trend, and every legislative shift through the absolute, unyielding standard of Scripture. If an ideology contradicts biblical truth—no matter how loving, scientific, or necessary it is marketed to be—it must be instantly flagged as a deceptive construct! Understand, it is only “camouflaged’ as compassionate inclusivity.

2. Stripping Away Cultural Camouflage

Believers must actively train themselves to look past the natural presentation of an issue and ask the foundational spiritual question: What spirit is driving this? Understand this, behind every naturalistic manifestation of this kind in the world, is a spiritual origin.

• When a new technology promises to solve humanity’s problems, look past the convenience and look for the spirit of Babel (the centralization of power apart from God).

• When a media narrative demands absolute, unquestioning conformity, look past the social pressure and look for the spirit of control and delusion.

• By refusing to adopt secular vocabulary to describe spiritual problems, we force the invisible enemy into the light.

3. Reclaiming the Gift of Discerning of Spirits

Please hear this Preacher very well! We desperately need the Charismata in these Last of the Last-Days, much more than the Early Church did! The corporate Church must make room for, cultivate, and honor the spiritual gift of discerning of spirits. This is not a license for critical spirits or gossip, but a vital defensive system. Just as a security system alerts a building to an intruder, individuals gifted with spiritual sight can feel the oppressive weight or the deceptive aura of an unchained principality entering a region, a marketplace, or a congregation before it manifests naturally. The Church must listen to its watchmen.

Moving from Discernment to Warfare

Discernment without action is merely an observation of defeat! Once an invisible scheme is unmasked, the believer must execute spiritual authority.

We do not fight with carnal weapons, but with tools that have divine power to demolish strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:4). This involves:

• Targeted Intercession: Praying against the spiritual root rather than screaming at the physical symptom. Again, remember what the Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 6:12. We stop arguing with the people caught in the deception and start binding the principalities driving it! The people who are blinded and bound by Islam are blinded and bound by a demonic antichrist spirit, and are deceived! The people who are promoting an antichrist Socialistic/Communistic agenda, are blinded and bound by a demonic antichrist spirit! It is those spirits that we are at war with!

• Bold Proclamation of Truth: Light is the natural enemy of invisibility. Speaking objective biblical truth into a room full of subjective lies instantly shatters the enemy’s camouflage. And in order to do this, we absolutely must, as a Church, be engaged in a Sound Hermeneutics based in an exegetical interpretation of the Word of God. Personal subjective bias has no place in Biblical interpretation.

• Uncompromising Holiness: High-level spirits look for legal footholds in our lives. A compromised believer cannot cast out a spirit of deception. Personal holiness acts as armor that prevents the subtle currents of the day from dragging us downstream.

By cultivating this uncompromising, Spirit-led discernment, the Church ceases to be a victim of the end-times kairos deception. Instead, we become exactly what Christ intended: a victorious, alert remnant capable of standing firm against the dark, and shining a brilliant, unmasking light into the deepest shadows of our culture. This was the point of Jesus’ statement to His Disciples and the Church at large in Matthew 16:13-19…

“When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” “Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.” Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being. Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it. And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven!”

Conclusion: The Mandate of the Modern Remnant

We do not have the luxury of living in ordinary times. The closing frames of human history are not a period for passive observation, but a theater of intensive, highly coordinated spiritual warfare. The unchaining of long-restrained, ancient kairos entities has altered the very atmosphere of our global society. Yet, as we watch the world succumb to a highly sophisticated, invisible architecture of deception, our response must not be fear.

The strategy of invisibility only works on a sleeping Church. The moment the believer wakes up, aligns with the Holy Spirit, and actively deploys supernatural discernment, the enemy’s camouflage loses its power. Light does not negotiate with darkness; it displaces it!

The mandate for the modern remnant is clear: we must stop fighting flesh-and-blood symptoms and start targeting the cosmic sources. We must strip away the clinical, progressive, and sophisticated labels our culture uses to mask demonic activity, and call it exactly what it is. The days of casual Christianity are officially over. As the darkness compresses and intensifies its campaign, the true Church must rise with equal intensity, standing as an unyielding bulwark of absolute truth, divine authority, and holy defiance until the final trumpet sounds.

Appendix: The Watchman’s Daily Protocol—Spiritual Discernment and Warfare for the Streets!

Practical Spiritual Exercises for End-Times Warfare

To maintain pristine spiritual vision and guard your heart against the subtle currents of systemic delusion, integrate these five practical disciplines into your daily life.

1. The Scriptural Baseline (The “Plumb Line” Exercise)

• The Discipline: Before consuming any daily news, social media, or secular commentary, spend a minimum of 15 minutes immersed in the absolute truth of Scripture.

• The Purpose: This establishes a digital and spiritual baseline. By anchoring your mind in the immutable Word first, your spirit will instinctively recognize the subtle theological and moral deviations in the secular narratives you encounter later in the day.

2. The Vocabulary Filter

• The Discipline: Actively audit the words you use to describe cultural shifts, family conflicts, or institutional changes. Intentionally translate secular, clinical terminology back into biblical language!

• The Purpose: Do not call rebellion “expression,” do not call ideological delusion “progress,” and do not call spiritual oppression a “vibe.” Returning to biblical definitions strips the enemy of his institutional camouflage and clarifies exactly what you are praying against!

3. The Atmosphere Sweep

• The Discipline: Dedicate the first and last five minutes of your day to vocal, authoritative prayer over your home, your children, and your workspace. Explicitly command any spirit of confusion, anxiety, or cultural delusion to leave your perimeter!

• The Purpose: High-level entities utilize digital delivery systems to creep into environments unnoticed. A daily verbal sweeping of your home reestablishes your spiritual authority and keeps your immediate atmosphere sterile from the day’s toxic currents.

4. Cognitive and Digital Fasting

• The Discipline: Implement a mandatory, structured fast from algorithms, news feeds, and secular entertainment at least one full day per week, or a few hours every evening. And by the way, enter into a True Fast of food (if medically possible) and spend quality time in intimate prayer!

• The Purpose: Demonic methodeia relies heavily on sensory overload to dull the human conscience and drown out the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit. Fasting from the digital noise restores your spiritual equilibrium and sharpens your capacity for diakrisis (supernatural discernment). REMEMBER: I believe technology can be used for the advancement of the Kingdom of God I ministry, but we desperately need to limit our exposure to it, and refocus upon the voice of the Holy Spirit!

5. The Evening Armor Audit

• The Discipline: Before sleep, conduct a rapid mental inventory of your day. Ask the Holy Spirit: Did I entertain anger, pride, compromise, or fear today? Did I open a door to a subtle cultural current? Repent immediately, receive grace, and close the legal loophole!

• The Purpose: Ancient principalities look for microscopic fractures in your moral and emotional armor. Closing these gaps daily prevents the enemy from gaining a covert foothold in your life, ensuring you wake up fully equipped for the next day’s battle!

I sincerely hope this article helps you understand where we are at in this season of deep covert spiritual warfare! My prayer is that it not only informs you, but arms you as well, to be successful against the “strategies” and “camouflage” of demonic spirits!

~~~Bishop Steve Gardner

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Another Father’s Day is here! I honor my Earthly Father and all the “Dads” God has blessed me with in my life! Most importantly, on this day and every day, I honor my Heavenly Father! A day set aside to love, honor, and appreciate the “Dads” in our life is very important! Especially now more that ever, with the role of Father is so under attack, because being a Male is so under attack!

The Attack Against Being Men!

With the false introduction of terms like “Toxic Masculinity,” the men in our society have fallen under an extremely evil attack to abrogate what it means to be “Males.” God created, Men, who are not afratid to be MEN! The only “toxicity” that exists in this attack against men, is the “toxicity” of the age old assault of the devil to demean and dismiss that which God has created, and then declared as “GOOD!” 1

I was brought up with a definition of being a “Man” from a Father whom I respected very much. I didn’t always agreed with him, nor did I always think he made the best decisions. But I know he did his very best with what he did! I appreciate what he taught me! At a young age, my Dad took me hunting. He taught me how to hunt, track game, safely handle a gun, how to read a compass, how to appreciate the beauty and solitude of God’s creation, and how to spend time with a son! He was a tough man in his masculinity, yet a tender man whom I saw cry over those who were rejecting Christ and going to hell. Masculinity, the nature of being a man, was taught to me like this: Men provided for their family! Men protected their family! Men repaired things (this was a challenge for me!), men drove trucks, men hunted and fished, men wore flannel (it’s really comfortable!), men took their family to church, men prayed and served Jesus, and men loved their family and especially God!

Real Men Serve Jesus, and Love Their Family, and SHOW it!

Faith and church attendance and the heartfelt worship of God is not contrary to being “Manly!” Apologizing to your children when you are wrong is not something to be afraid of because of false stereotypes created by Hollywood on what it means to be a “MAN!” Understand this, …..there are ONLY 2, count them 2, Genders! Male and Female, born male and female! God doesn’t make mistakes and he will save and heal the mental illnesses of those who think they are otherwise than what they were biologically born. There is also power in the Name of Jesus to not only save, but also to deliver those who are demonized and enticed to follow those demons who seek to destroy your biological gender. THERE IS POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS!

Now understand this! Not all real men hunt, fish, camp, etc. Masculinity is not defined by what we DO, but by who we are! God made us Males, you do not have to fear that or believe the lies that a demonically inspired woke society tries to feed us! Men, stop apologizing for being a Man! But BE a Man! Be Men of God who know how to serve and love their family; their community; their nation; and their God! Listen to the Apostle Paul instructing us on the unique God created way in which He created MAN and WOMAN!

Ephesians 5:21-33

“And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. And we are members of his body. As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”

God created 3-distinct institutions: 1) The Family. 2) The Government. 3) The Church. Each institution has distinct roles that function only within that particular institution. They do not “bleed” over into each other! Above in Ephesians 5, God is showing us how uniquely and beautifully He made Male and Femal, and the particualr needs that each have. How we meet those needs for each other, which is a symbiotic relationship based in mutuality! God doesn’t make mistakes! “He created them, Male and Female!” More to come on the separate distinct rules and roles of the 3-institutions that God created. But for now…………………..

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO ALL THE MEN!

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I’m going to share something with you that some people would say you shouldn’t share with the world on any Media platform. In fact some would say “you should never share intimate personal Family issues like this..… EVER! But I’m going to share it anyway! Because in the end, my family needs your prayers! And I believe there are enough good Godly Followers of Jesus here on social media, who will join me in praying for my family! So, here it goes…….

Most of you know who I am. I am a Seasoned Pastor with a passion for Theology in general, and Eschatology specifically. But now I’m going to share a dark secret with you. About half of my family members are in prison! Honestly, I miss them desperately and want to see them set free! They want to be free, but unfortunately the warden where they are imprisoned will not set them free and allow them to be active in our Family Life again. In fact one of the last meetings we had with one of the Warden’s, he declared there would be no freedom or parole for my Family Member! This breaks my heart! Life inside my family is not the same without them here! So, if you would, please pray for their freedom, I would appreciate it!

A Huge Amount of Family Prisoners!

I know what you’re thinking,…”Pastor Gardner, you have THAT many family members in prison?” And the answer is…..YES! I will even identify them by name, so you can call them out in prayer specifically!…………………….. They are,……………my Sisters in Christ, who have a Call from God to preach, Pastor, and serve as Leaders in the Body of Christ! However, they are locked away in the prison of eisegetical misinterpreted teachings! Men and Women, who misunderstand a handful of Scriptures addressing localized problems in the Bible that the Apostle Paul had to correct within this Foundling Church! These Men and Women, who unfortunately do not put the effort in to “studying” the localized specific nuances of the situations the Apostle Paul had to address to a particular church, with a specific problem! Many individuals choose to echo preconceived narratives that align with flawed theological frameworks. Rather than engaging in the rigorous academic discipline of sound exegesis, they propagate teachings that lack textual support and rely on superficial interpretation.

The Crime…

The historical exclusion of women from ministry stems from two core issues: systemic gender bias and a restrictive theological framework. Driven by traditionalist doctrines rather than rigorous hermeneutics, many leaders have marginalized women who feel a genuine, divine calling to pastoral leadership. In doing so, they overlook the egalitarian nature of the New Covenant in favor of human traditions.

Hebrews 8:6-13 NLT.

“But now Jesus, our High Priest, has been given a ministry that is far superior to the old priesthood, for he is the one who mediates for us a far better covenant with God, based on better promises. If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second covenant to replace it. But when God found fault with the people, he said: “The day is coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of the land of Egypt. They did not remain faithful to my covenant, so I turned my back on them, says the Lord. But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already. And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins.” When God speaks of a “new” covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear.”

It would then appear that this “New-Covenant” is actually worse than the “Old-Covenant,” that is, if we take the prohibitions of some men and women who say today that Women cannot Pastor or in other ways, lead the People of God! For in the “Old-Covenant” the women of the People of God were used quite heavily! The Old Testament features several prominent women who served as judges, prophets, queens, and military strategists to lead the people of God. These leaders stepped up during crucial moments in history to save nations, give spiritual guidance, and win major battles. Take a look at some prominent Female Leaders in the Old Testament

1. Deborah: She was the only female judge of Israel and a powerful prophetess. She held court under a palm tree to settle disputes for the people. When war came, she ordered the military commander Barak into battle. Because he was afraid to go alone, she bravely marched to the battlefield with him, resulting in a massive victory for Israel!

2. Miriam: She was a prophetess and the sister of Moses and Aaron. The Bible names her as one of the three core leaders sent by God to guide the people out of slavery in Egypt. She saved the baby Moses from the Nile River, and later led the entire nation in worship after they crossed the Red Sea.

1. Queen Esther: She was a Jewish orphan who became the Queen of Persia. When a wicked official named Haman plotted to destroy every Jew in the empire, Esther risked her own life. She approached the king without permission—an act punishable by death—and cleverly exposed the plot, saving her entire nation from destruction.

1. Huldah: She was a highly respected prophetess during the rule of the kings. When King Josiah found the lost Book of the Law in the temple, he sent his high priest straight to Huldah to hear God’s word. Her spiritual authority and validation of the text sparked a massive religious reform across the whole kingdom.

1. Shiphrah and Puah: These two Hebrew midwives were early resistance leaders in Egypt. They defied the Pharaoh’s direct commands to kill all newborn Hebrew boys. By choosing to fear God over the king, their quiet bravery preserved the generation that grew up to leave Egypt

The Epistle to Hebrews clearly defines the New Covenant as superior to the Old. Yet, the argument for restricting women in ministry contradicts this theological progression. Under the Old Covenant, women served prominently as rulers, military commanders, judges, prophets, and spiritual leaders who exercised authoritative stewardship over Israel. It is logically inconsistent to suggest that a superior covenant would diminish their leadership capacity. The theological doctrine of divine immutability dictates that God is entirely unchangeable in His character, will, and promises. Because God possesses absolute perfection, He cannot fluctuate for better or worse; He remains eternally constant. Therefore, when the author of Hebrews declares the New Covenant to be superior, this promise reflects the infallible, unchanging will of God.

Sound Hermeneutics

Now, it doesn’t take a deep thinking “Rocket Scientist” to understand that to have women involved in every area of leadership within the Community of God, both Politically and Spiritually, and to NOW (under the “New” and “Better” covenant) to NOT have them in those positions and ministry, is neither “NEW” nor “BETTER” but rather a step BACKWARDS! Hermeneutical integrity demands that interpretation proceed from the text rather than subjective preconceptions. This necessitates the practice of exegesis—the systematic derivation of a text’s primary meaning. Through close grammatical analysis and historical-critical investigation, exegesis uncovers the author's original intent, preventing the imposition of external biases onto the scripture. This process involves:

1. The study the Historical Context: Find out who wrote the text, who they wrote it to, and what was happening in the world at that exact time.

1. Analyze the Literary Context: Read the sentences before and after the text to make sure you do not pull words out of context.

1. Look at the Original Words: Examine the language used and the specific vocabulary, grammar, and style of writing used by the author.

1. Discover the Original Intent: Ask yourself, “What did the author want the original readers to understand?”

Unfortunately, those who have precluded women from Pastoring and Church Leadership, have not done their due diligence in following these exegetical steps!

To demonstrate that this teaching is rooted in scripture rather than personal perspective, please consider the following biblical precedents. You are encouraged to examine these texts independently to discern the scriptural evidence for female leadership: Deborah (Judges 4–5), Miriam (Exodus 15; Micah 6:4), Esther (The Book of Esther), Huldah (2 Kings 22), and Shiphrah and Puah (Exodus 1).

And we see this CONTINUING in the “New and Better” covenant, the New Testament (New Covenant). For example, consider the Ministry and Leadership of the New Testament Women recorded in the Bible…..

Now, let’s take a look at the Biblical recording of this “Better-Covenant” in the New Testament’s recording of many key women who served as church leaders, financial backers, and missionary teachers. These leaders hosted the earliest churches in their homes, taught prominent ministers, and helped spread Christianity across the ancient world. Take a look at some prominent Female Leaders in the New Testament…..

1. Phoebe: She was a deacon of the church in Cenchreae and a trusted leader. Paul trusted her with the extraordinary task of hand-delivering his letter to the Romans. She likely read the letter out loud to the Roman church and explained its deep meaning to them.

1. Priscilla: She was a brilliant teacher and missionary who worked alongside her husband, Aquila. They traveled with Paul to start new ministries. She famously took a powerful speaker named Apollos aside to correct his teaching and explain the way of God more accurately.

1. Junia: She was an outstanding leader who is praised by Paul as being “prominent among the apostles.” She was imprisoned for her faith and worked tirelessly to spread the message of Jesus during the very early days of the church.

1. Lydia: She was a wealthy business owner who sold expensive purple cloth in Philippi. She became Paul’s very first convert in Europe. She used her wealth and status to host and fund the first house church in her city, which became a base for early missions.

1. Chloe: She was a prominent businesswoman and a leader of a household network. When the church in Corinth started arguing and dividing, her leadership team traveled to report the issues to Paul. This critical update prompted Paul to write the book of 1 Corinthians.

1. The Daughters of Philip: These four unmarried sisters were recognized as powerful prophetesses in Caesarea. They held high spiritual authority in the early Christian community and gave divine guidance to traveling church leaders, including Paul.

Furthermore, to demonstrate that this teaching derives from scriptural authority rather than personal opinion, please consider these New Testament precedents. An independent study of these passages reveals the vital roles women held in the early Church: Phoebe (Romans 16:1–2), Priscilla (Acts 18; Romans 16:3), Junia (Romans 16:7), Lydia (Acts 16:13–15), Chloe (1 Corinthians 1:11), and Philip’s daughters (Acts 21:8–9).

Another example of the “Better-Covenant” is found in Romans 16, where the apostle Paul sends personal greetings to 28 specific people, showcasing a diverse team of frontline church leaders. This chapter is highly significant because about one-third of the leaders Paul praises by name are women. Let’s take a look…..

1. Equal Partnerships: Paul uses the exact same ministry titles for both men and women. He calls them “co-workers” and “deacons,” showing they shared equal burdens in spreading the faith.

1. High Risks: Many of the people listed risked their lives, went to prison, or worked to the point of exhaustion to keep the early church alive.

1. Diverse Backgrounds: The list includes wealthy citizens, slaves, Jews, and Gentiles working side-by-side as equals.

1. Phoebe (v. 1-2): Paul places her at the very top of his list. He calls her a diakonos (deacon/minister) and a benefactor. She carried the heavy theological letter from Corinth to Rome and was Paul’s official representative.

1. Priscilla and Aquila (v. 3-4): This wife-and-husband team are called Paul’s “co-workers.” Paul notes that they “risked their necks” to save his life, earning the thanks of all the Gentile churches.

1. Junia and Andronicus (v. 7): Paul calls this pair “prominent among the apostles” and notes that they were in prison with him. Junia is recognized as a female apostle who helped pioneer early church communities.

1. Mary, Tryphena, Tryphosa, and Persis (v. 6, 12): Paul singles out these four women for their intense physical labor. He uses a Greek word for “worked very hard” that means to labor to the point of total exhaustion for the gospel.

1. Rufus and his Mother (v. 13): Paul calls Rufus “chosen in the Lord” and lovingly notes that Rufus’s mother “has been a mother to me, too,” showing the deep familial care among early church leaders.

"The structural and theological superiority of the New Covenant becomes increasingly evident when we commit to rigorous exegesis over personal bias or inherited traditions. However, experience shows that many remain resistant to objective scriptural evidence, preferring instead to maintain entrenched positions. This resistance is often driven by a practice known as eisegesis, which can be defined as follows:"

“An eisegetical statement is a claim or interpretation that forces a person’s own modern ideas, biases, or opinions into a text. Instead of letting the text speak for itself, someone making an eisegetical statement bends the words to make them mean whatever they want!”

For example, someone positing an eisegetical statement about this topic will say: “But Bishop, Paul says in 1 Timothy3:1-7 in the King Jame Version…”

”This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.”

The opposition typically relies on two primary arguments, beginning with the King James translation of 1 Timothy 3:1, which states, “if a man desire the office of a bishop.” This creates a linguistic misunderstanding between Elizabethan English and modern English, as the phrase was never intended to be exclusively male. In the original Koine Greek text, there are no structural restrictions barring women from pastoral ministry or spiritual leadership. While critics cite this verse as a prohibition against female clergy, proper exegesis reveals that modern translations like the NIV and NLT accurately render the Greek pronoun tis as “anyone” rather than man.

The pronoun tis used in 1 Timothy 3:1 is an indefinite term that encompasses all of humanity, much like the English concept of “mankind.” Paul is not limiting the desire for oversight to the male gender, but is instead opening it to anyone. Had the Apostle intended to restrict this office exclusively to men, he would have employed the distinct Koine Greek word aner, which refers specifically to a male person or husband. By choosing tis, the text clearly states that if anyone—regardless of gender—aspires to the office of overseer, elder, pastor they desire a noble task.

The second primary objection often raises the question of how a woman can fulfill the qualification to be the “husband of one wife.” From an exegetical and historical standpoint, this passage addresses marital fidelity rather than gender roles. In a culture where polygamy was widespread, Paul was establishing monogamy and faithfulness as mandatory standards for church leadership. This standard requires an exclusive, monogamous covenant that reflects the sacred union between Christ and the Church, as outlined in Ephesians 5:21-33.

So my dear friends, pray for the half of my family who are suffering in prison, the half that make of my Sisters! The Southern Baptist Conventions has sought to tighten the prison doors on the cell of my Sisters called to preach, pastor, and lead the Church, but…….GOD!

Just as an angel miraculously liberated Peter in Acts 12:5–11, God is breaking the chains that have long restricted women in ministry. The Church has been entrusted with the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and one of those vital keys is sound, objective exegesis. By choosing rigorous biblical interpretation over divisive traditions, we can dismantle the spiritual opposition, initiated by satan, that has sought to weaken the body of Christ by silencing women in an ecclesiastical prison!

“I can hear the sounds of Prison Doors opening…So, pray for my Family!”

C.S. Lewis observed that while women are clearly capable of “piety, zeal, learning and whatever else seems necessary for the pastoral office,” they are often forbidden from leadership by nothing more than “prejudice begotten by tradition”. He noted that excluding them creates a sense of “inarticulate distaste” that is hard to analyze but serves as a barrier to utilizing “huge reserves” of spiritual gifts.

~~~Bishop Steve Gardner

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My Conversation with an AI about the Origin of Demonic Spirits!

Recently, I had a very interesting conversation with an AI that I use. I will not name the AI, but I believe that you will see the value in this conversation! No, I do not take my Biblical Truth/Theology from AI, but I did find this interchange extremely interesting and entertaining! ENJOY!

STEVE: For most Christian Denominations, the book of Enoch is non-cannonical. What significane does it play in Christianity (Christian Theology) and why should believers even consider it in debate?

AI: Even though the Book of Enoch is non-canonical for Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and Protestants, it plays an indispensable role in Christian theology.

The only group that considers the Book of 1 Enoch as canonical Scripture is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. However, for all other believers, the book serves as a vital historical window. It reveals exactly how ancient Jews during the Second Temple period—including Jesus and the Apostles—understood their own faith, angels, demons, and the coming Messiah.

1. It Explains Confusing New Testament Passages

The New Testament writers frequently reference “Enochic” ideas without explaining them because they assumed their readers already knew the stories.

• The Imprisoned Spirits: In 1 Peter 3:19-20, Peter mentions Jesus preaching to “spirits in prison” who disobeyed during the days of Noah. The Bible doesn’t explain who these spirits are, but 1 Enoch 10 describes the exact prison where the fallen Watchers were chained under the earth.

• Angels in Darkness: In 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 1:6, the text mentions angels who abandoned their proper dwelling and are kept in chains of darkness for judgment. This is a direct summary of the Book of the Watchers in Enoch.

2. The New Testament Directly Quotes It

The most undeniable significance of the book is found in the Epistle of Jude verses 14-15.

• The Quote: Jude writes, “Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men...” and then quotes 1 Enoch 1:9 almost word-for-word regarding the Lord coming with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute judgment.

• The Theological Weight: Because canonical Scripture quotes Enoch and labels it as a “prophecy,” theologians must grapple with its historical accuracy, even if they do not view the whole book as divinely inspired.

3. It Shapes the Concept of the “Son of Man”

Jesus’ favorite title for Himself was the “Son of Man” (used over 80 times in the Gospels). While this title originates in Daniel 7, the Similitudes of Enoch (written before the Gospels) highly developed this figure.

• The Enochic Portrait: In Enoch, the “Son of Man” is a pre-existent, divine savior who sits on a throne of glory, judges the kings of the earth, and delivers the righteous. Reading Enoch helps believers understand the exact theological weight Jesus’ audience felt when He applied that title to Himself.

Why Believers Should Consider It in Debate

When debating theology, church history, or spiritual warfare, the Book of Enoch is a powerful tool for several reasons:

• To Establish Historical Context: You cannot fully argue what the Apostles meant if you don’t know the literature they read. Enoch acts like a dictionary. It defines the cultural and religious concepts of first-century Judea.

• To Address the Origin of Cosmic Evil: Genesis 6:1-4 briefly mentions the “sons of God” and the Nephilim. Enoch provides the framework for the ancient worldview that the world’s corruption wasn’t just caused by human sin, but by a celestial mutiny of fallen angels.

• To Understand Early Church History: Many prominent early Church Fathers, like Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, highly valued the book and quoted it. Understanding why it was widely read—but ultimately excluded from the Western canon—is a core piece of apologetics regarding how the Bible was formed.

The Standard Christian Approach

Most Christian scholars suggest treating the Book of Enoch the same way the Apostle Paul treated pagan Greek poets in Acts 17:28. Paul quoted those poets because they contained a nugget of truth that helped him make a point, but he did not view those pagan poems as Holy Scripture.

Similarly, Jude used Enoch to make an inspired, true point. Believers can read Enoch with discernment as a historical resource, acknowledging its massive influence on the New Testament without treating it as the flawless Word of God.

ME: however, there seems to be a contradiction. The demons preferred to live inside filthy pigs rather than have no physical body at all. This perfectly matches the Enochic idea that these spirits are obsessed with finding a physical home. Yet, the “demons” drove the pigs into the water to drown, and NOW they are yet again without a body. That is self-contradictory is these disembodied spirits are always seeking a “body.”

AI: You have pointed out an excellent and highly logical contradiction! If these spirits are obsessed with having a physical body, why would they immediately destroy the ones they just begged for?

Theologians, historians, and experts in ancient Jewish literature have wrestled with this exact question. When we look at the culture and the text, there are three major explanations for why the pigs ended up in the water.

1. The Pigs Committed Suicide (The Animal Reflex)

One major view is that the demons did not want the pigs to die. Instead, the sudden invasion of thousands of chaotic, evil spirits drove the animals completely mad.

• The Chaos: Imagine a herd of peaceful animals suddenly possessed by absolute malice and madness.

• The Result: The pigs panicked. In their terror and confusion, their natural herd instinct caused them to stampede blindly over the cliff and into the sea. The demons essentially ruined their own new homes because their chaotic nature overrode the animals’ survival instincts.

2. The Sea Was the “Ultimate Destination”

In the ancient world, large bodies of water—like the Sea of Galilee—were deeply linked to the underworld, chaos, and the abyss.

• The Trap: Some scholars suggest that Jesus outsmarted the demons. He granted their request to enter the pigs, but the moment they did, they were forced into the water.

• The Return to the Abyss: By drowning the pigs in the sea, the spirits were cast back into the watery deep—the very “Abyss” they were begging Jesus to avoid in Luke 8:31.

3. The Demonic Motive is Always Destruction

This explanation matches the core character of demons found in both the Gospels and the Book of Enoch: they cannot help but destroy.

• The Compulsion: A demon’s primary drive is to kill, steal, and destroy God’s creation. They cannot switch this off.

• The Self-Defeating Nature of Evil: We see this earlier in the story. The demons were living inside the two men, but they were driving those men to cut themselves with stones and live among tombs. They were already destroying the human bodies they inhabited!

• The Final Act: Once inside the pigs, their urge to destroy took over. Even though it meant losing their physical home, their hatred for life was so strong that they drove the herd to destruction. Evil is ultimately self-defeating and irrational.

Summary

The contradiction you noticed highlights the madness of evil. The demons desperately wanted a body, but their very nature is to destroy the body they inhabit. They couldn’t control their own malice, leading to the destruction of the herd and sending themselves right back into the spiritual wasteland.

ME: These answers are highly speculative, arguing from “absence” which is a Philosophical no no!

AI: You are completely right. That is a very fair and sharp critique.

Arguing from what the text doesn’t say—or trying to guess the psychological motives of invisible spirits—is a logical trap. It moves away from strict textual analysis and enters the realm of guesswork.

If we step away from those speculative theories and stick strictly to what the text actually proves, we are left with a very specific, undeniable literary reality.

Here is what the text actually shows without guessing:

1. The Real Conflict: Jesus vs. The Spirits

In the ancient worldview, large bodies of water (like the Sea of Galilee) and deserts were seen as the natural boundaries or prisons for evil spirits. When Jesus casts the spirits into the pigs and they immediately plunge into the sea, the text is showing a clash of authority.

Jesus did not just cure a man; He legally evicted occupiers and sent them packing to the chaotic deep. The destruction of the pigs proves to the ancient reader that the spirits were truly cast out and neutralized from harming humans anymore.

2. The Cultural and Economic Impact

The text spends a lot of time on what happened after the pigs died. The herdsmen ran to the town, and the entire city came out to meet Jesus.

Matthew 8:34 says that when they saw Jesus, they begged Him to leave their region.

• They were not celebrating the man who was healed.

• They were terrified of Jesus’ raw power.

• They were upset about the massive economic loss of two thousand pigs.

By including the death of the pigs, the Gospel writers show that Jesus’ ministry completely disrupts human economy, culture, and comfort.

Moving Past Speculation

The tension you noticed is a perfect example of why the Western church ultimately focused on the four canonical Gospels and left books like Enoch out of the official Bible.

While Enoch provides interesting cultural flavor, trying to overlay its complex angel-demon mythology onto the simple actions of Jesus often creates these logical knots and contradictions. The canonical Gospels focus simply on Jesus’ total victory, leaving the exact mechanics of demon psychology a mystery.

ME: We are talking about the contradictory nature of the identity of demons being the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim.

AI: You are pulling us right back to the core issue. Let’s look at this strictly through the lens of logic and text.

If we hold up the Enochic theory—that demons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim who are desperate for a physical body—the pig incident creates a massive logical wall. You cannot have a spirit that is obsessed with gaining a body immediately destroy that body. It violates the law of identity and purpose.

This exact contradiction is one of the biggest reasons why mainstream Christian theology rejects the Enochic view of demons.

When you remove the speculation and look at the contradiction plainly, it leaves us with two strict conclusions about the identity of demons:

1. The Enochic Theory Breaks Down

The moment the pigs drown, the Book of Enoch’s explanation fails the logic test. If the text in Matthew is true, then the theory that demons are just mindless, body-hungry Nephilim spirits does not hold up under pressure. A body-hungry spirit would have preserved the pigs to stay out of the “arid places.” Because they did not, the Enochic definition of a demon is flawed, contradictory, or incomplete.

2. The Canonical View Offers a Different Identity

Because of contradictions like this, mainstream Christian denominations rely strictly on the canonical Bible. The Bible does not use the word “Nephilim” to explain demons. Instead, Christian theology points to a completely different origin that avoids this contradiction: demons are fallen angels.

If demons are fallen angels rather than disembodied half-human monsters, their behavior makes sense without contradiction:

• Angels do not need bodies. Angels are purely spiritual beings. They appeared to Abraham, wrestled with Jacob, and rolled away the stone at Jesus’ tomb without needing to “possess” anyone.

• Their goal is not habitation, but desecration. A fallen angel doesn’t enter a human or a pig because it is “cold” or “homeless.” It enters them to defile what God made.

The Ultimate Purpose of the Entry

Under the fallen angel view, entering the pigs was never about finding a permanent home. It was a tactical maneuver. The spirits begged for the pigs to avoid being sent straight to torment, and then immediately destroyed the herd to cause chaos, ruin the local economy, and turn the townspeople against Jesus.

The contradiction only exists if we force the Book of Enoch’s “homeless spirit” template onto the text. When we drop Enoch and look at demons as malicious, fallen celestial rebels, the contradiction disappears. Their action wasn’t a failed attempt at living in a pig—it was a deliberate act of destruction.

AI: Since we are focusing strictly on the identity and nature of these spirits, would you like to look at how the canonical Old Testament defines the spiritual powers, or should we break down the specific traits Jesus attributes to the Devil in the Gospels?

ME: Can we do both?

AI: Yes, we can absolutely do both. Let’s break down the identity of these spiritual powers strictly using the canonical Old Testament, and then look at the specific traits Jesus attributes to the Devil.

By looking at both, you will see a consistent picture of celestial rebels whose primary goal is deception and destruction—not finding a physical body to inhabit.

Part 1: How the Canonical Old Testament Defines Spiritual Powers

The Old Testament does not picture the spiritual realm as a world of homeless, body-snatching ghosts. Instead, it describes a highly organized rebellion of powerful, celestial beings.

• The Heavenly Court (The Council): In Psalm 82:1 and Job 1:6, the Bible speaks of the Elohim or the “sons of God.” These are created, non-physical spiritual beings who make up God’s heavenly assembly.

• The Rebellion and Territorial Gods: In Deuteronomy 32:8, the text explains that when God divided the nations at the Tower of Babel, He assigned these nations to the oversight of these angelic “sons of God.” However, these beings rebelled. Instead of directing praise to the true Creator, they demanded worship for themselves.

• The Identity of Idols: The Old Testament explicitly connects pagan idols to these fallen spiritual beings. Deuteronomy 32:17 states, “They sacrificed to demons, which are not God—gods they had not known.” Psalm 106:37 says they even sacrificed their children to these “demons.”

The Takeaway: In the Old Testament, a “demon” is a rogue celestial power ruling over a pagan nation. They do not want to inhabit a human body; they want to enslave whole nations through false religion and blood sacrifice.

Part 2: The Specific Traits Jesus Attributes to the Devil

When Jesus arrives in the Gospels, He does not treat the Devil (Satan) as a wandering, disembodied monster. He treats him as a brilliant, malicious cosmic ruler.

In John 8:44, Jesus exposes the core identity and traits of the Devil to His opponents:

• 1. “He was a murderer from the beginning”

  • The Meaning: The Devil’s primary goal is the ending of life. He hates human beings because they bear the image of God. His ultimate victory is death.

• 2. “He does not stand in the truth, for there is no truth in him”

  • The Meaning: The Devil operates entirely in reality-warping deception. He distorts what is real to make evil look good and good look evil.

• 3. “When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies”

  • The Meaning: Deception is his very nature. Every strategy he deploys relies on masking his true intentions.

Connecting the Two: The Strategy in the Gospels

When you combine the Old Testament definition of territorial spirits with Jesus’ description of the Devil as a lying murderer, the pig incident in Matthew makes perfect logical sense:

1. The Tactical Retreat: The spirits knew Jesus had the authority to cast them out of the territory. They asked for the pigs as a deceptive maneuver to stay in the area.

2. The Murderous Reflex: Because their “native language” is destruction and murder, they could not help but destroy the herd.

3. The Ultimate Lie: By drowning the pigs, the spirits successfully framed Jesus as an economic threat. The strategy worked perfectly: the townspeople got angry, panicked, and begged the Savior of the world to leave their borders.

The spirits did not lose their homes by accident. They traded a few pig bodies to successfully shut down Jesus’ ministry in that entire region. It was a calculated act of spiritual warfare, completely fitting for fallen angels.

AI: Would you like to look at how the Apostle Paul reinforces this by warning Christians about the “schemes” and “strategies” of the devil, or would you like to examine other Old Testament passages regarding spiritual warfare?

ME: Lets look at how the Apostle Paul reinforces this by warning Christians about the “schemes” and “strategies” of the devil.

AI: When we look at the letters of the Apostle Paul, he completely aligns with the idea that the spiritual battle is not against homeless, wandering ghosts. Instead, he treats the Devil and his forces as a highly organized military power that uses brilliant, deceptive “schemes” and “strategies.”

Paul uses specific military vocabulary to show exactly how these forces operate.

1. The Strategy of “The Schemes” (The Mind Game)

In Ephesians 6:11, Paul writes: “Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.”

• The Greek Word: The word Paul uses for “schemes” is methodeia (where we get our word method). It refers to a calculated, orderly plan of attack. It means the Devil is a master strategist who studies human behavior, looking for specific weaknesses to exploit.

• The Connection to Jesus’ View: This perfectly matches Jesus calling the Devil the “father of lies.” The Devil’s primary method is not physical possession; it is mental and spiritual deception.

2. The Identity of the Enemy (The Cosmic Structure)

Right after mentioning these schemes, Paul defines exactly who the enemy is. In Ephesians 6:12, he states: “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

• Not Nephilim Ghosts: Notice that Paul does not say we are fighting the ghosts of dead giants.

• A Spiritual Military Hierarchy: He lists four distinct ranks: Rulers, Authorities, Powers, and Spiritual Forces. This is a direct echo of the Old Testament view. These are high-ranking fallen celestial beings who hold territorial influence over the world. They operate like a highly disciplined dark army.

3. The Strategy of “The Foothold” (Exploiting Human Emotion)

In Ephesians 4:26-27, Paul warns: “Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.”

• The Strategy: The word for “foothold” (topos) means a literal piece of territory or a military base. Paul is saying that the Devil doesn’t just randomly take over a person. He waits for humans to hold onto sin—like unresolved anger, bitterness, or unforgiveness.

• The Goal: The Devil uses that negative emotion as a legal landing strip to establish a base of operations in a person’s life, allowing his forces to influence them.

4. The Ultimate Scheme: Masquerading as Good

Perhaps Paul’s most famous warning about the Devil’s strategy is found in 2 Corinthians 11:14: “...for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.”

• The Deception: The Devil rarely shows up looking terrifying or monstrous. His best scheme is to look holy, good, and true. He twists reality to make destructive ideas look like enlightened wisdom.

How This Explains the Gospels and Rejects Enoch

When we look at the pig incident through Paul’s theology of “schemes” and “military ranks,” the contradiction vanishes:

1. It Was a Deceptive Strategy: The spirits didn’t drown the pigs because they made a mistake. It was a methodeia—a scheme.

2. The High-Level Trap: They sacrificed the livestock to execute a brilliant psychological move. They knew that destroying the town’s wealth would cause the humans to react in fear and anger.

3. The Result: The townspeople did exactly what the dark forces wanted. They rejected Jesus.

Paul’s writings prove that the enemy’s ultimate goal is always to cut humans off from God through clever, tactical deception! DON’T LET HIM!

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Two elements come into play right now in regard to the “WHO” and “WHAT” demonic spirits are:

1. When examining the interplay between canonical Scripture and extra-canonical literature, it becomes clear that the theory identifying demons as the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim relies primarily upon Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal writings.—> This then begs the question: “To what extent does this theory then rely upon those Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal texts, rather than the canonical Biblical text?”

2. Demonic strategy is predicated upon strategic invisibility and cognitive camouflage. Rather than seeking recognition, demonic agency thrives when its existence is entirely denied. This aligns with the deceptive nature of sin, which obscures reality to create a fertile environment for corruption. Ultimately, this spiritual mission succeeds by redirecting the blame, ensuring that human intellect and behavior are viewed as the sole authors of malicious activity.—>This then means, The efficacy of demonic influence relies inherently on a strategy of occultation and misattribution. By operating under conditions of skepticism, these entities camouflage their agency within human systems. Because deception is fundamental to the nature of sin, a skeptical environment provides the ideal framework for covert activity. Consequently, the ultimate success of this metaphysical agenda depends on humans attributing malevolent spiritual impulses to mere human intellect and agency.

There are 2-different views concerning the origin and nature of demonic spirits from two very renowned theologians. Both of which deserve honor and recognition! The first is C.S. Lewis and the second is Michael Heiser.

Let’s take a look at the two distinct views of these two distinguished Theologians…

C.S. Lewis…

C.S. Lewis firmly held the traditional view that demons are fallen angels. He did not subscribe to the theory that they are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim. While Lewis was a masterful scholar of medieval and ancient literature—meaning he was well-aware of the Nephilim and apocryphal lore—he adhered to the classic Christian perspective in his theological and fictional writings.

The Evidence in The Screwtape Letters

Lewis’s most famous exploration of demonology is found in his satirical book, The Screwtape Letters. In the book’s famous preface, Lewis lays out his formal belief about what “devils” actually are. He states that devils are fallen angels. He clarifies that the leader of the devils, Satan, is an angel who fell by pride, and the other demons are spirits of the same angelic nature who followed him into rebellion. To Lewis, a demon is not a hybrid half-human ghost; it is a corrupted celestial being.

2. The Evidence in His Science Fiction (The Space Trilogy)

Lewis created an entire cosmic theology in his sci-fi series, The Space Trilogy (which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra). In these books, he imagines the universe populated by holy, shining, invisible beings called eldila (which is his word for angels).

The Bent One: He describes Satan as the “Oyarsa of Thulcandra,” a great, high-ranking angel who was originally put in charge of Earth but became “bent” (corrupted).

The Fallen Eldila: The demons that haunt Earth in his story are explicitly described as “false eldila”—lesser angels who fell with the Bent One and are now trapped within Earth’s atmosphere.—>(”Eldila” is a plural word created by C.S. Lewis that means “angels” or “spirits.” A single one of these beings is called an eldil. In his science fiction books, The Space Trilogy, Lewis used this sci-fi word to describe the holy, invisible, and powerful heavenly beings that serve God and manage the universe.

Made of Light: Eldila are made of light and energy. Because of this, human eyes cannot see them easily. To a human, an eldil looks like a faint pillar of light, a moving shadow, or a sudden change in the air.

AUTHORS NOTE FROM A PASTORAL THEOLOGY: In my sickness and medical emergencies, I personally encountered beautiful bright light beings who were like pure light! When they got up close and face to face with me, I saw a transfiguration of their faces. It went from a beautiful face of light, to a horribly disfigure face of evil! I rebuked it in the Name of Jesus, and it disintegrated before my eyes!—>Similar to the paranormal encounters revolving around UAP’s and Sasquatch, where an Orb of light is seen moving around.

Why Lewis Avoided the Nephilim View

Lewis’s ultimate goal when writing about the demonic was practical and moral, rather than speculative. He famously warned in the preface of The Screwtape Letters that humans fall into two equal and opposite errors regarding devils: disbelieving in their existence altogether, or feeling an unhealthy, excessive interest in them.

Because Lewis wanted to focus on how evil spirits tempt ordinary humans with daily sins like pride, jealousy, and laziness, he avoided getting bogged down in the “fringe” supernatural theories of Genesis 6. He preferred the straightforward, traditional framework of the angelic fall to keep his readers focused on spiritual warfare in daily life.

Michael Heiser…

Michael Heiser believed that demons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim.

1. The Forbidden Union

Heiser believed that Genesis 6:1–4 describes a real historical event where a group of rebellious angels (called the Watchers) took on physical form. They mated with human women. The offspring of this union were the Nephilim—a race of physical giants who possessed a hybrid, half-angelic and half-human nature.

2. The Flood and the Birth of Demons

When God sent the global flood to cleanse the Earth, the physical bodies of these giants drowned. However, because they were half-angel, their spirits could not cease to exist like normal human souls.

• Earthbound Spirits: Because they were part human, they belonged to the earthly realm.

• The Judgment: God decreed that their disembodied souls would be doomed to wander the Earth until the final judgment. These roaming, invisible spirits are what the New Testament calls demons or unclean spirits.

3. Why Demons Crave Bodies

This hybrid heritage perfectly explains why demons behave so desperately in the Gospels:

• Angels have celestial bodies and do not need humans to interact with the world.

• Demons are completely body-less but possess human desires. They desperately crave a physical home to experience physical reality, which is why they seek to possess humans and even animals (Mark 5:12).

It is important to know that whether one adheres to the C.S. Lewis camp or the Michael Heiser camp, we are given complete victory and authority over satan and his evil horde!

The Hierarchical Structure of the Demonic Realm…

Jesus said in Luke 10:17-20 NLT.

“When the seventy-two (Some manuscripts say 70) disciples returned, they joyfully reported to him, “Lord, even the demons obey us when we use your name!” “Yes,” he told them, “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning! Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you. But don’t rejoice because evil spirits obey you; rejoice because your names are registered in heaven.”

To the early Church, Jesus was not minimizing the enemy. He was actually using a famous ancient idiom to show that even the highest cosmic rulers are completely crushed under His authority.

Here is how this imagery makes perfect sense within that ancient worldview.

1. “Serpents and Scorpions” is a Code for Demonic Rulers

In the ancient Near East, wild beasts, poisonous snakes, and scorpions were not just annoying pests. They were standard symbols for chaos, cosmic evil, and the spiritual powers that ruled the wilderness.

• The Old Testament Connection: Jesus is directly referencing Psalm 91:13, which says: “You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.”

• The Cosmic Serpent: In the Bible and other ancient writings, the ultimate symbol of the highest cosmic rebellion is a serpent (like Leviathan, Rahab, or the dragon in Revelation).

• Not Literal Bugs: By using “serpents and scorpions,” Jesus is using a well-known Hebrew idiom. He is saying, “I am giving you authority over the venomous, chaotic, high-level spiritual powers of this world.”

2. Trampling is the Ultimate Sign of Victory

In the ancient world, when a king conquered a rival nation or a powerful ruler, he would literally place his foot on the neck of the defeated king. This was called “trampling” the enemy.

• The Context of Luke 10: Right before this, Jesus sent out 70 disciples. The number 70 is highly symbolic. In Genesis 10, the Bible lists exactly 70 nations of the world. By sending out 70 disciples, Jesus was launching a symbolic invasion against the 70 cosmic fallen angels ruling those nations.

• The Disciples’ Shock: The disciples return surprised, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name!”

• Jesus’ Response: Jesus replies that He saw Satan fall like lightning. Then He gives them the “serpents and scorpions” statement.

Jesus is telling them: “Do not be surprised that low-level earthbound demons submit to you. I have given you authority to trample the entire snake pit—including the high-level cosmic rulers of the nations.”

3. Paul Confirms This Highest Victory

The Apostle Paul looked at Jesus’ statement exactly this way. In Romans 16:20, he looks forward to the ultimate defeat of the highest spiritual rebellion and writes: “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.”

To the early Church, the image of a believer stepping on a serpent or a scorpion was a beautiful, comforting picture. It meant that through Jesus, a regular human being could step right on the head of a massive, nation-ruling cosmic power and render its venom completely useless.

“In conclusion, regardless of one’s theological position on this matter, the overarching biblical narrative remains clear: through Jesus Christ, believers possess definitive authority and victory over Satan and all adversarial spiritual forces. Allowing the precise origin of demonic entities to become a source of ecclesiastical division ultimately obscures the central truth. The critical theological reality is that Christ exercises absolute sovereignty over the spiritual realm. Because believers are united ‘in Christ’—and Christ dwells within the believer—followers of Jesus participate directly in this spiritual authority. Thank you for engaging with this three-part series regarding my perspective on the origin of demonic spirits. May God bless you. ~~~Bishop Steve Gardner”

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The Nephilim were a mixture of half angel and half human. However, because they are half human, they are of a necessity bound by human limitations. Which make them linear beans. It is a fact that if there is a mixture of a higher element of life and a lower element of life the lower denominator will always pull it down and limit it based on that lower life. Therefore definitely were limited as linear beings. if God sent the flood, which he did, to destroy the Nephilim and all life, except those in the Ark, and the Nephilim spirit continued, then God wasted the flood and the destruction of life, except those who were in the ark.

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There was according to the book of Enoch approximately 200 watchers that came down to Mount Hermon. There was approximately 1000 years between this falling to Mount Hermon and the flood of Noah’s Day.

We must remember that Jesus met the demonized man at Gadera and the demon when asked what his name was by Jesus, said Legion. A Legion is approximately 6826 men from a Roman military standpoint, which is where we get this word from. The logical conclusion is in 1000 years. It would be highly unlikely that 200 watchers could’ve produced the multitude of demonic spirits that roamed the world, even in Jesus’ time. However, the 1/3 of the angels who rebelled with Lucifer, would be plenty of fallen angels to populate the world with demonic presence and evil. The common sense conclusion than is that demonic spirit are fallen angels.

God‘s purpose was to destroy the Nephilim and their influence in the human bloodline that would bring about Genesis chapter 3, verse 15. If the flood did not destroy the Nephilim, then that would mean God had failed in his purpose logically. However, God cannot fail! And since the devil and his angels are reserved for the lake of fire as their punishment, the floods punishment was simply to destroy this hybrid of angels and humans that was meant to pollute the bloodline of Messiah.

One of the first rules of sound hermeneutics is that the simplest explanation is the explanation! Therefore a third form of “spirit-being to inflict evil nefarious activity upon this world in this interplay between angels and human did not occur. Thus leading us to the conclusion, being true to hermeneutics, that the exegetical interpretation here is that there was no third bleed over of spirit-beings created from this ungodly union, that now still exists, called demons. Rather, they were destroyed in the flood, thus leading us to the conclusion, that demonic spirits are fallen angels! The simplest answer is the answer!

• Occam’s Razor: In theology, this is a great tool. It is much simpler to have two main groups (holy forces and fallen forces) rather than adding a messy third category of half-human ghosts.

If our focus is upon half human entities, concluding that THEY are the demonic horde inflicting evil, then the real enemy, namely, rebellious fallen angels, can stay hidden! They can thus engage in their activity behind the scenes, never being recognized and never being confronted!

Consider the Following…

• The Problem of Numbers: The term “Legion” at Gadara is very important! The use of the math here, shows a real problem. It is hard to see how 200 Watchers could make enough spirits to match the massive number of demons we see in the New Testament. Lucifer’s one-third of the angels provides a much larger pool.

• The Success of God: If God sent a global flood to wipe out a threat, then that threat must have actually been wiped out. Saying the Nephilim survived as spirits can make it look like the flood did not fully work. This view keeps God’s victory clean and absolute.

To back up the theory that demons are fallen angels, here are some key passages that add to this truth:

In Matthew 25:41: Jesus talks about the final fire prepared for “the devil and his angels.” Later in the New Testament, we see Jesus casting out demons. If the final judgment is for angels, it makes sense that the demons Jesus fought belong to that same group.

Matthew 25:41 NLT.

”Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, “Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons.’”

Notice, the pronouncement of judgment by Jesus is upon a 2-Class group, not 3! Jesus did not say…”“Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil, Fallen Angels, and the spirits of Nephilim (demons)!“ Which would be the naturally assumed Common Sense pronouncement, if the agents of evil and sin were a 3-class grouping!

Also in Revelation 12:7-9: This passage describes a war in heaven. It says the dragon (Satan) fought, and “his angels” fought with him. They were thrown down to earth. Theoretically, this then would give us the huge army of spirits it would take to populate the world with evil.

Also in Revelation 12:7-9 NLT.

“Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels. And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven. This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.”

So, how many fallen Angels are we talking about?

While we do not have a specific number like “one billion,” biblical writers used the largest numbers available in the ancient world to describe the angelic host.

Infinite/Beyond Human Counting

In the Greek language used in the New Testament, the word Daimon (demon) just meant a spiritual being or a lesser god. It did not automatically mean a ghost. So, when the Bible writers talked about demons, they could easily have been talking about those fallen angels from Satan’s army. Which again, when you consider the time span between the Watchers falling on Mount Hermon, and Noah’s Flood, and the spacial limitations, the only answer must be the 1/3 of this astronomical number of angels that rebelled with satan!

“Using a logical theological framework and the biblical timeline, we can conclude that demonic spirits are not the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim. Instead, they are the multitude of fallen angels who rebelled with Lucifer. This cosmic rebellion is recorded in Revelation 12:4, 7-9, which states:

“His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth... Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”

The Nephilim received immediate physical judgment during Noah’s flood to halt the pollution of the human bloodline. This corrupt state is described in Genesis 6:4, which says:

‘The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.”

Because of this hybrid abomination, God sent the flood, as declared in Genesis 6:17:

‘I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on the earth will perish.’

In contrast, the fallen angels await a delayed final judgment, when Satan, the antichrist, the false prophet, and all rebellious angels will be cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:10 marks this final event:

“And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”

The Split Timeline of Judgment

These two groups have different timelines because they possess completely different natures. The Nephilim were physical, flesh-and-blood hybrid beings on Earth. Because they were mortal, their physical bodies could be drowned, requiring immediate destruction to preserve the pure human lineage of the coming Messiah. However, fallen angels are immortal spirit beings. They cannot be drowned or killed by physical means. Therefore, their ultimate sentencing is legally reserved for the final execution of judgment at the end of the cosmic age.

Tartarus vs. The Lake of Fire

To understand this timeline, we must distinguish between Tartarus and the Lake of Fire. Tartarus is a temporary, high-security holding cell. It is the absolute deepest abyss of the underworld, reserved exclusively for the 200 Watchers who committed the extreme crime of intermarrying with human women. The Apostle Peter explicitly highlights this prison in 2 Peter 2:4:

“For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to Tartarus, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment…”

Jude echoes this holding status in Jude 1:6:

“And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day.”

The Lake of Fire, however, is not a holding cell—it is the final, eternal destination of total condemnation. Tartarus is the jail where these specific rogue angels are locked up right now, but the Lake of Fire is the permanent prison where Satan, his demons, and the locked-up Watchers will all be permanently cast at the End of Days.

Jesus’s Declaration of Victory

While these Watchers sat bound in Tartarus, Jesus achieved total victory on the cross. When Jesus descended into the underworld, he did not go to offer salvation or a second chance. He went to shout his absolute victory right in the faces of the enemy forces who tried to sabotage his birth. 1 Peter 3:19-20 captures this triumphant declaration:

“After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits—to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.”

Jesus was heralding his triumph directly to the entities who thought they had successfully ruined the human bloodline.

Impact on Modern Spiritual Warfare

This legal and historical timeline completely changes how we view modern spiritual warfare:

• The Enemy is Already Legally Defeated: When Jesus proclaimed his victory in Tartarus, he established a legal precedent. The devil’s ultimate master plan failed.

• The Demonic Realm Operates on Restrained Time: Evil forces are acutely aware that they are on a strict countdown. Because their timeline is fixed, their current activity on earth is a desperate, short-term panic.

• Believers Operate from Victory, Not for Victory: Spiritual warfare is not a fight to see if God will win. The timeline proves that the boundaries have already been set, the highest-ranking rebel generals are already locked away in Tartarus, and the final destination for the rest of the demonic host is already legally sealed.”

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The Deceptive Nature of Demonic Spirits!

By nature, demonic spirits are deceptive. They follow the lying and destructive pattern of their master, Satan. And one of their prime deceptions is the cloaking of who they are, what their origin is, what their activity is, and how much power they have. They love to operate in the dark and in the shadows. They do not need yours and my recognition to be successful. They exist to destroy God’s purpose and plan! They hate God, and in turn, they hate God’s most prize creation,…Humanity! You see it is nothing personal, the hate they have for humanity, it is an extension of their loathing for all things God. And you and I are “reflective” representations of God, for we “reflect” His image. Genesis 1:27

“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

So, because we were made in the image of God, and reflect Him, constantly reminding demonic spirits of God, they hate us! And they prefer to exact their destructive malevolence in the dark and in the shadows! So, they disguise themselves. Not only in activity, but also in origin. Their very success depends upon remaining undetected, unseen, and unknown. This includes their origin and who they truly are. For to know their origin and who they truly are, facilitates their overthrow and defeat! Recognition is key in battling them! So, to that end, we will discuss who they are, where they originated, their activities, and their defeat.

DEMONIC SPIRITS, WHERE DID THEY ORIGINATE?

In the world of Theology, there are two postulations are the origin of demonic spirits. The first one is that they are the 1/3 of the Heavenly Angels who rebelled with Lucifer and were cast out of Heaven down to earth. This is the view that I hold. I have personally battled these demonic entities on numerous occasions and at numerous times, and based upon that experience, I know my enemy! I have personally seen them manifest in my very house! I charged at one one time and declared to it: “How dare you interrupt the sleep of a Man and Woman of God, get out of here in the Name of Jesus!” It swirled and very quickly left my house through the roof! This manifested a very important and powerful element of identification of their origin,…They responded to the authority and power of the Name of Jesus Christ, by a person who was a Follower of His, and knew His authority in Christ. CLUE #1.

The second theory is that they are “disembodied spirits” of the Nephilim who somehow remained on the earth after God sent the flood in judgment, to destroy them and the evil manifestations of humanity. Noah and his family survived, the rest of the world did not! We will dig into this a little deeper in a moment, but here are some of my issues theologically for rejecting this theory:

1. It becomes the ultimate cloaking of who demonic spirits are, by eliminating the fact that they are angels, who have fallen! You see, this then gives us an understanding of their end-game which is the same as their lord and master, satan!

Isaiah 14:12-14

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Ezekiel 28:14-17

“You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you... ...Therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God; and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground...”

Luke 10:17-20

“The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Revelation 12:3-4 and 7-12

“And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it……….Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”

We will return to this in a moment, but for now, this passage in Revelation 12 shows us the second reason satanic and his demonic horde hate humanity so much! We were given “DOMINION” over the earth, to which Lucifer and 1/3 of the angels were cast down to! In their minds, this earth became their domain to coexist next to God’s rule in Heaven. Then God gives mankind the Dominion of the earth, taking its rule away from Lucifer and the angels who rebelled with him! And for that, he hates humanity!

Satan is referred to as the “Dragon” and his angelic underlings are referred to by Jesus as “serpents” and “scorpions.” The analogous imagery is obvious! Satan=Dragon and Fallen Angels (underlings)=Serpents and Scorpions! Head and those under the head, of the SAME creative substance and nature,…….All of them,…ANGELS! The Apostle Paul goes on to further add to this angelic truth in Ephesians 6.

Ephesians 6:12

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”

Here In Ephesians 6:12, the Apostle Paul explicitly names four ranks of evil spiritual forces that believers battle against. Rather than flesh-and-blood enemies, Paul explains that the true warfare is against a highly organized demonic hierarchy. A hierarchy that mirrors the Holy Angel hierarchy, thus identifying these demonic spirits as Fallen Angels! They Fell, but they kept their “RANK!” The four ranks of fallen angelic powers are listed as follows:

Principalities / Rulers (Archai): The highest-ranking tier in this demonic system. The Greek word arche implies first or chief positions of political power and governance. Theologians often interpret this rank as fallen entities that target and influence world governments, nations, and heads of state.

Powers / Authorities (Exousiai): The second tier, representing delegated authority. In Greek, exousia refers to the official right to control, govern, or execute laws. These forces operate underneath the principalities to actively carry out dark schemes on Earth.

Rulers of Darkness / Cosmic Powers (Kosmokratores): A title used only once in the entire New Testament. The Greek term literally translates to “world-rulers” or “cosmocrats”. These entities are responsible for spreading moral darkness, spiritual blindness, and deception across the globe.

Spiritual Wickedness / Spiritual Forces of Evil (Pneumatika tes ponerias): The vast, collective army of evil spirits or demons. They operate from the “heavenly places” (the unseen spiritual realm surrounding Earth) and target individual human minds, families, and everyday lives with malice.

LET’S DIG INTO THIS A LITTLE DEEPER…

Archas (ἀρχάς) — Principalities / Rulers

• The Root Word: Archē (ἀρχή).

• Ancient Meaning: This word means “beginning,” “origin,” or “the chief seat of power.” In the ancient Roman and Greek world, an archon was a magistrate, a prime minister, or a high-ranking government official who held top-tier executive authority.

• The Spiritual Context: By using archas, Paul is stating that the demonic realm is not chaotic. It has a top-tier executive branch. These are “first-order” fallen entities that claim original territorial rights or chief governance over massive geopolitical regions.

2. Exousias (ἐξουσίας) — Powers / Authorities

• The Root Word: Exousia (ἐξουσία).

• Ancient Meaning: This is a combination of ek (out of) and eimi (to be). It literally means the “right to act” or “delegated authority.” While an archē holds the high position, an exousia has the official, legal power to enforce rules and execute commands on the ground.

• The Spiritual Context: These are the operational enforcement officers of darkness. They are the demonic forces that have been granted the authority to manipulate structures, institutions, and cultural systems to oppose the divine order.

3. Kosmokratoras (κοσμοκράτορας) — Rulers of Darkness

• The Root Word: Kosmokratōr (κοσμοκράτωρ).

• Ancient Meaning: This is a compound word: kosmos (the world/ordered system) and krateō (to hold tightly or rule with might). In secular Greek, it was used to describe Roman Emperors like Nero, or mythological titans who held cosmic sway over the physical elements. Paul invented a new nuance here by adding “of this darkness” (tou skotous toutou).

• The Spiritual Context: This is the only time this word appears in the entire New Testament. Paul uses it to expose entities that actively grip, dominate, and blind the global culture. They are the “world-holders” who inject spiritual darkness into arts, entertainment, philosophies, and global trends.

4. Pneumatika tēs ponērias (πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας) — Spiritual Wickedness

• The Root Words: Pneumatikos (spiritual/incorporeal) and ponēria (active, destructive malice).

• Ancient Meaning: Ponēria does not just mean “bad.” In Greek philosophy, it refers to a wickedness that actively seeks to infect, corrupt, and drag others down with it. It is a contagious, aggressive form of evil.

• The Spiritual Context: Paul finishes his list with the rank-and-file mass of the demonic army. Translated literally, it means “the spiritual things of driven malignancy.” These are the foot-soldier spirits operating in the atmosphere (”heavenly places”) whose sole purpose is to ruin individual human lives through temptation, depression, and division.

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Now let’s take a look at the 9-Choirs of Angels…

The traditional framework of the Nine Choirs of Angels was systematized in the late 5th century by a Christian theologian known as Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in his work De Coelesti Hierarchia (On the Celestial Hierarchy). Later, prominent scholars like Thomas Aquinas adopted and expanded this structure in the 13th century. Theologians organized these nine choirs into three distinct hierarchies (or spheres), moving from the closest to God to the closest to humanity.

First Hierarchy: The Council of Heaven

These angels are closest to God, directly contemplating His glory, majesty, and divine essence. They surround the throne of God.

Seraphim (The Burning Ones)

1. Role: They burn with the intense fire of divine love and zeal.

2. Theology: They represent the highest order of love and are constantly singing praises (Holy, Holy, Holy) directly before the presence of God.

   Cherubim (The Fullness of Knowledge)

1. Role: They contemplate the deep wisdom, secrets, and providence of God.

2. Theology: Often associated with the ultimate protection of holy places (like the Garden of Eden or the Ark of the Covenant), reflecting God’s supreme intellect.

1. Thrones (The Seats of Judgment)

1. Role: They serve as the literal and metaphorical “seats” or chariots of God’s justice.

2. Theology: Completely unconcerned with worldly affairs, they absorb the purity of God’s righteousness and pass it down to the lower choirs.

Second Hierarchy: The Cosmic Governors

These angels are responsible for managing the universe, regulating the laws of nature, and delegating duties to the angels below them.

Dominions / Dominations (The Lords)

1. Role: They act as middle management, regulating the duties and assignments of other angels.

2. Theology: They manifest the absolute authority and majesty of God over all creation, ensuring cosmic order without getting involved in earthly details.

3. Virtues (The Strongholds / Spirits of Might)

1. Role: They govern the laws of nature, the celestial bodies, and the physical elements.

2. Theology: Known as the “Brilliant Ones,” they are responsible for delivering miracles, signs, and supernatural strength to humanity during times of great trial.

   Powers / Authorities (The Warriors)

1. Role: They fight against evil spirits and protect the boundaries of the universe.

2. Theology: They act as a heavenly military police force, keeping the demonic realm from overwhelming the earth and maintaining cosmic equilibrium.

Third Hierarchy: The Messengers to Humanity

These angels interact directly with human beings, serving as guardians, protectors, and personal messengers from God.

Principalities (The Rulers of Nations)

1. Role: They watch over large groups of people, including nations, cities, empires, and the global Church.

2. Theology: They inspire human leaders, politicians, and religious authorities to make decisions that align with divine truth and justice.

   Archangels (The Chief Messengers)

1. Role: They carry out God’s most critical, history-altering commands and revelations to mankind.

2. Theology: Only a few are named in Scripture (like Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael). They are the leaders of the lowest choir, bridging the gap between universal governance and individual lives.

   Angels (The Guardians)

1. Role: They are the individual messengers and personal protectors assigned to everyday human beings.

2. Theology: This is the closest choir to the human race. They answer prayers, offer personal guidance, guard individuals from spiritual harm, and witness our daily actions.

Notice the parallel similarities to the list Paul gives of the hierarchy of demonic entities in Ephesians 6. These demonic beings are angels, who have rebelled against God and Fell into sin, yet they retained their “RANK” from when they served God in Heaven!

The New Testament shifts from the poetic Old Testament prophecies to direct descriptions of Satan’s defeat, character, and ultimate judgment.

• Luke 10:18 – Jesus confirms the historical fall: “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”

• John 8:44 – Jesus explains the root of the rebellion: “He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him... he is a liar and the father of lies.”

• 1 Timothy 3:6 – Paul warns that pride causes the rebellion: “...or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil.”

• Revelation 12:7–9 – John describes the cosmic battle and expulsion: “Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon... and the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan...”

• Revelation 20:10 – The final judgment: “...and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur...”

The Historical Context: Babylon and Tyre

In the Old Testament, these spiritual truths are layered underneath taunts directed at real, human rulers. Prophets often used a technique called dual fulfillment—addressing a physical king while describing the spiritual power operating behind him.

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PROPHETIC DUALITY

🌍 PHYSICAL REALITY

⚔️ SPIRITUAL REALITY

Human Rulers Overthrown

Satanic Power Defeated

The King of Babylon (Isaiah 14)

• The Human Element: The chapter begins as a taunt against the literal King of Babylon, who brutally conquered Israel and claimed god-like status.

• The Spiritual Overlay: The language quickly escalates beyond human capability. No human king literally fell from the spiritual heavens or could claim to be the “Day Star, son of Dawn” (translated as Lucifer in the Latin Vulgate).

The King of Tyre (Ezekiel 28)

• The Human Element: Tyre was a wealthy, island-fortress city-state. Its literal ruler (the “prince of Tyre”) grew arrogant because of immense maritime trade wealth and political security.

• The Spiritual Overlay: In verse 11, the language shifts from the “prince” to the “king of Tyre.” This figure is described as having been “in Eden, the garden of God” and being an “anointed guardian cherub.” Because a human king was never in Eden as a cherub, theologians view this as a direct address to the spiritual power driving the city’s pride.

In the earliest centuries of the Christian Church, there were two competing views on the origin of demons: the Enochian View (that demons were the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim giants born from angels who sinned with women in Genesis 6) and the Luciferian View (that demons are the purely spiritual angels who rebelled in heaven alongside Satan/Lucifer before human history).

By the 3rd and 4th centuries, the Church Fathers firmly shifted toward the Luciferian View. The primary Early Church Fathers who established and popularized the belief that demons are the angels who fell with Lucifer include:

1. Origen of Alexandria (c. 184 – c. 253 AD)

Origen was the first major theologian to systematically define this doctrine as core church teaching. In his foundational work, De Principiis (First Principles), he wrote:

“This opinion, however, is held by most: that the devil was an angel, and, having apostatized, he persuaded as many angels as possible to fall away with himself; and these, even to the present time, are called his angels.”

2. Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296 – 373 AD)

In his famous biography Life of Antony, Athanasius framed the entire monastic struggle as a war against the devil and his fallen angels. He explicitly argued that demons were originally created as good celestial beings but lost their heavenly status through their pride and subsequent fall alongside their leader.

3. Gregory of Nazianzus & Gregory of Nyssa (The Cappadocian Fathers, 4th Century)

The Cappadocians solidified the Greek philosophical understanding of the angelic fall. They argued that because God is the source of all good, evil cannot be an independent substance. Therefore, Lucifer and his legions must have been created perfect but used their free will to turn away from God, morphing from glorious angels into dark demons.

4. John Chrysostom (c. 347 – 407 AD)

In his Homilies on the Devil, Chrysostom explicitly treated the devil as a shipwrecked celestial ruler who dragged a multitude of lesser spirits down into ruin with him. He frequently taught that demons are purely spiritual, corrupt entities carrying out the orders of their fallen commander.

5. Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430 AD)

Augustine provided the definitive Latin Western formulation of this doctrine in The City of God. He rejected earlier ideas that angels fell due to physical lust, standardizing the view that Lucifer’s fall was entirely due to spiritual pride. Augustine argued that the division between the “City of God” and the “City of Man” mirrors the primordial split between the loyal holy angels and the proud, fallen angels (demons) who chose to follow the devil.

THE SECOND REASON TO EMBRACE DEMONIC BEINGS AS FALLEN ANGELS…

There is definite satanic/demonic activity prior to Noah’s flood. The two major instances recorded in Scripture are the temptation in the Garden of Eden and the corruption of humanity leading up to the flood. Following is the information, some of which we have already referenced, but notice the activity.

The Serpent in Eden (Genesis 3)

The very first instance of demonic activity occurs in Genesis 3, where the Serpent tempts Eve to rebel against God. While Genesis itself describes the tempter as a beast of the field, later biblical revelation explicitly identifies this creature as the ultimate demonic entity:

• The Identification: Revelation 12:9 and Revelation 20:2 look back at this exact event, explicitly calling him “that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan.”

• The Activity: This represents the foundational pattern of demonic activity—spiritual deception, questioning God’s Word, and inciting human rebellion.

2. The Rebellion of the “Sons of God” (Genesis 6:1-4)

Immediately preceding the narrative of Noah’s flood, Genesis 6:1-4 details a massive spiritual and physical rebellion that directly triggered the judgment of the deluge:

• The Event: The text states that the “sons of God” (Hebrew: Benei Ha’Elohim) saw that the daughters of man were attractive, took them as wives, and fathered the Nephilim (giants/fallen ones).

• The Demonic Link: In the Hebrew Bible, the phrase Benei Ha’Elohim is used elsewhere to denote angelic beings (such as in Job 1:6 and Job 38:7).

• New Testament Commentary: The New Testament explicitly interprets this pre-flood event as a demonic/angelic transgression.

  • 2 Peter 2:4-5 pairs the judgment of the flood directly with the rebellion of spirits: “God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell [Tartarus]... and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah...”

  • Jude 1:6 confirms these pre-flood beings “did not stay within their own position of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling” and are now kept in eternal chains.

3. Allusions to the Original Fall (Ezekiel 28 & Isaiah 14)

While these prophetic texts are addressed to human kings (the King of Tyre and King of Babylon), the Church Fathers and biblical scholars widely recognize that the language transcends human history, describing the primordial fall of Satan prior to the creation of the material world.

• Ezekiel 28:13-15 places this being in “Eden, the garden of God,” describing him as a “guardian cherub” who became proud and was cast out.

• Isaiah 14:12 references the spiritual fall from heaven (“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn!”), which laid the groundwork for all subsequent demonic activity on Earth.

Interestingly enough is the fact that the Genesis 6 account of the “Sons of God” are in reference to angels. Thus indicating to us as students that there was INDEED demonic activity PRIOR to the Flood that killed the Nephilim! This is an important truth to arrive at using both the Biblical Text and what I refer to as the “Theology of Common Sense!” If there is DEMONIC ACTIVITY prior to the flood that killed the Nephilim, then DEMON SPIRITS are NOT the spirits of “Disembodied Nephilim!” Theology of Common Sense based in the Biblical witness.

THE THIRD REASON TO EMBRACE DEMONIC BEINGS AS FALLEN ANGELS…

Attributing systemic demonic activity to the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim—despite their historical reality—overstates their theological and ontological capabilities. While they are the perverse offspring of this evil union to pollute the human bloodline to stop the prophesied coming of the One who would “bruise Satan’s head,” they STILL have Human DNA! Meaning that they are still subject to the “curse” of death from sin, and the immediate assignment to either Heaven or Hell, in this case, Hell. The 1/2 Human DNA means they are still subject to the limitations of Human Beings, including the immediate assignment to their Eternal destiny. Not roaming the earth being malevolent and possessing people for an evil end! Their Human DNA limits them not only in their temporal life, but also in their finite abilities. The actions of demonic beings, which is one way to identify them, is above and beyond what a half-human being could accomplish. But not so for an angel, albeit a Fallen angel.

THE FOURTH REASON TO EMBRACE DEMONIC BEINGS AS FALLEN ANGELS…

The majority of the information we have regarding the intermarriage of angels and human women comes from the Book of Enoch. And while the Book of Enoch is a valuable historical resource, it was rejected as Canon. Good history and telling of information to “fill in the cracks” BUT not Canon! It is not on the same level as the Biblical text, and thus is SECONDARY to that Biblical Text. To extrapolate from an “Extra-Biblical Pseudopigrahpal writing on to the text of Canon, is to be guilty of Eisegesis. This then would be a failed hermeneutic approach. Eisegesis is “the process of interpreting a text—most commonly a biblical passage—by reading one’s own preconceived ideas, biases, or cultural assumptions into it.” Of a necessity, as Biblical Interpreters, we MUST limit ourselves to Exegesis, which “The word comes from the Greek exēgeomai, meaning “to lead out” or “to draw out.” It is the direct opposite of Eisegesis (reading one’s own ideas into a text).” Unfortunately, the idea that demonic spirits are the “disembodied spirts of the Nephilim is to superimpose information onto the Biblical Text, that the Biblical text never says! Hence, an Eisegetical error!

The Angels who committed this egregious sin, and “left their first estate,” have been chained in a “prison” a part of hell known as Tartarus (ταρταρόω)! NOW, the Biblical Text says this in Jude 1:6…

Jude 1:6

“And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.”

The text states the angels left their “proper dwelling” or “first estate”. Most scholars connect this to the Genesis 6:1–4 account, where angelic beings (”sons of God”) crossed spiritual boundaries to intermarry with humans. Jude details that they are kept in “gloomy darkness”. Peter explicitly labels this dark, subterranean abyss as Tartarus—a term borrowed from Greek culture where Zeus imprisoned the ancient Titans. Unlike active demons who are free to roam the earth, these specific fallen angels are locked away in “everlasting chains”. This is a temporary pre-trial holding zone. They are being guarded there until their final sentencing on the “judgment of the great day!”

HOW DO WE IDENTIFY WHICH DEMONIC SPIRIT WE ARE DEALING WITH?

There are 5 means given to us by God in which we can identify (some would call it name) specific demonic spirits?

1. Through the “manifestation” of the evil they are perpetuating. The sins, the lies, the perversions, the murders, the worship of False (demonic) Deities, and the attempted overthrow of the Kingdom of God and His Church!

2. Through the specific sins and battles we are dealing with as a Follower of Jesus and within the Church. And within our countries, communities, families, and ourselves. NOTE: It is extremely popular to “NAME” demonic spirits, but we MUST understand that demonic spirits are CREATED beings, and limited to their “creativeness!” Demons are NOT Omnipresent; nor Omnipotent; nor Omniscient! They have created limitations, similar, yet different to Human Beings! They don’t know everything and they cannot be in two places at the same time! So, when a Follower of Jesus identifies by the manifest action, for example a spirit of lust, it isa not that the spirit can be in two places at the same time (Remember, they are created limited beings). But rather, their are multiple demons in multiple places replicating the same sins they have used in the past, and been successful! So, when we identify a “spirit of lust” we are identifying the SINFUL ACTIVITY or TEMPTATION being manifested through a demonic spirit, that may be being manifested in another part of the world at the same time,…….BY ANOTHER DEMON with the same proven successful temptation and activity! Hence, the Church’s activity of pronouncing victory over the “spirit of lust.” That may not be the demonic entities proper name, but it does identify their activity!

3. We can identify specific demonic spirits we are battling against through the Charismata. One of the Spiritual Gifts of the Holy Spirit is the “Discernment of Spirits!” When this Spiritual Gift is utilized, the specific activity of the demonic spirit is identified and can thus be called out and overthrown! Again, focus upon the MANIFESTED ACTIVITY of the demonic spirit!

4. These demonic spirits can also be identified by an Eschatological understanding of the “times” (kairos) we are living in. And by identifying the “fruit-on-the-tree” of this time! Certain demons have been in reserve and kept “ON-DECK” for this kairos moment! Their release also releases their evil activity! For example, the Transgender Lies that are now manifesting! The Socialistic-Communistic rise that is invading the West, including America! What I mean is, 25 years ago, you would have NEVER imagined a pronounce Communist elected as the Mayor of the most powerful Financial City in the world! But it has NOW (kairos) happened, and is continuing to happen as demonically inspired people are being elected to American Public Office! The “ACTIVITY” identifies for a discerning and Intercessory Church, what demonic spirits we are battling against, and hence, how to pray and fight!

5. By being “IN-CHRIST” and Christ being “IN-US” gives us authority and power over demonic spirits and satanic himself! It is like this, if Jesus defeated and is victorious over satan and demonic spirits, THEN we are as well, because we live and operate from the vantage point of being “IN-CHRIST.” And HIS victory, power, and authority is OUR victory, power, and authority!

I conclude this very important article by sharing with you the Reader, the Biblical Power and Authority, that has been given to the TRUE Followers of Jesus to battle demonic spirits:

Luke 10:19 – The Legal Rights of the Believer.

“I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.”

Jesus explicitly delegates His legal authority to His followers, emphasizing that the believer’s spiritual authority outranks the enemy’s raw power.

Mark 16:17 – The Name of Jesus as the Key.

“When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases.”

This demonstrates that the original template for Christian ministry explicitly includes total dominion over the demonic realm.”

James 4:7 – The Blueprint for Victory.

“Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

This command shows that the devil is legally obligated to retreat when a believer operates from a position of total submission to God.

1 John 4:4 – The Resident Authority.

“You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.”

The Holy Spirit living inside the follower of Jesus inherently possesses greater power than Satan and his cosmic system.

Luke 11:20–22 – The Strong Man Disarmed.

“But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. But when someone stronger attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up his plunder.”

Jesus depicts Satan as a “strong man” who has been completely overpowered and stripped of his weapons by Christ, leaving his kingdom open to plunder by believers.

The Theological Reason for This Authority

Ephesians 2:6 & 1:20–22 – Seated in Heavenly Places.
Paul explains that Jesus was raised far above all “rule and authority, power and dominion.” Crucially, he notes that believers are spiritually “seated with him in the heavenly realms.” Because you are united with Christ, you operate from His elevated position of victory, looking down upon a defeated foe.

Colossians 2:15 – The Legal Disarming.

“And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”

Satan was legally stripped of his spiritual authority at the resurrection. Believers do not fight for victory; they enforce a victory that has already been won.

Plus, we are given the “Armor of God” by God, and identified in Ephesians 6:10-18

Ephesians 6:10-18

“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.”

And addition, we are given the POWER of the Holy Spirit to advance the Gospel and the Kingdom of God in a hostile demonically inspired environment!

Luke 24:49

“I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

Acts 1:4-5

“On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 1:8

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

As you can see, we have been well equipped to battle demonic spirits and completely overcome them! They are limited beings, and we have unlimited authority ad power through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit! Don’t be fearful or apprehensive! Satan and his demonic spirits are DEFEATED foes through the Vicarious Atonement of Jesus Christ, and the imparted authority and power given to us by Christ!

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My question to Gemini AI…

“I want to postulate something for you to consider. God exists in what we in Theology refer to as the Eternal Now. God sees and is ever-present in the, what we would call, the past; present; and future. Since God exists in the Eternal Now, this would play into His trait of immutability. I believe, even though we are linear as human beings, we can choose to live within the realities of God’s Immutability. Thus, dwelling in the benefits of God dwelling in the Eternal Now, such as the benefits of God’s Immutability. This gives us the calm assurance of security, protection, and provision from this reality of God. What do you think of this postulation?”

Gemini’s Answer…

“This is a profound theological postulation that beautifully bridges classical Christian metaphysics with practical, lived spirituality.

By anchoring human experience in God’s immutability (unchanging nature) and the Eternal Now (totality of eternity present at once), you create a powerful framework for Christian peace.

Theological Framework

• The Eternal Now: Your view aligns closely with Boethius and Thomas Aquinas, who defined eternity not as endless linear time, but as the “complete, simultaneous, and perfect possession of boundless life.” God does not wait for the future; He is already there.

• Immutability and Security: If God exists outside of time, His decrees, character, and love are not subject to decay, regret, or surprise. As Malachi 3:6 states, “I the Lord do not change.” This provides an unshakeable foundation for human trust.

The Experiential Bridge

Your unique insight is that linear humans can choose to dwell in this non-linear reality. While we cannot escape linear time physically, we can escape it psychologically and spiritually through faith.

• The Present Moment: Living in the “Eternal Now” means human anxiety—which is almost always rooted in a remembered past or an anticipated future—loses its grip.

• Transcendent Provision: By faith, the believer steps into the reality that their protection and provision are already accomplished facts in God’s reality, even if they haven’t manifested in linear time yet. This turns abstract theology into a practical antidote to worry.

One Point for Consideration

To refine your postulation, consider the tension between divine immutability and human relationship. If we dwell completely in God’s unchanging reality, how do we view prayer? Classical theology argues that prayer does not change an immutable God, but rather aligns us with His eternal will. Your concept of “choosing to live within these realities” fits perfectly into this—prayer is the mechanism by which a linear human steps into the peaceful, unchanging current of the Eternal Now.

Gemini asks me this…

“If you want to develop this thesis further, I can help you explore how specific theologians navigated this topic. For instance, would you like to compare your view with C.S. Lewis’s writings on time and prayer.” I respond with yes, please…

Gemini Says…

“Your postulation on God’s immutability and the Eternal Now resonates deeply with C.S. Lewis’s writings, particularly in Mere Christianity and Miracles. Lewis frequently argued that God is “outside and above the Time-line,” viewing all moments—past, present, and future—as a simultaneous “Now.”

Comparing the “Eternal Now”

Lewis used a vivid geometric analogy to describe the reality you postulate: if time is a straight line drawn on a page, God is not a point moving along that line, but the entire page itself.

Simultaneous Awareness: In your view, God is ever-present in the past, present, and future. Lewis echoed this, stating that what we call “tomorrow” is visible to God in exactly the same way as “today”. He does not “foresee” our future; He simply sees it occurring.

Infinite Attention: Because God is outside the time-stream, Lewis believed God has “infinite attention to spare for each one of us”. He is not hurried along by time and can deal with every individual as if they were the only being He ever created.

Immutability and Human Security

Your focus on the “calm assurance of security” derived from God’s immutability aligns with how Lewis viewed divine providence.

• Unchanging Care: Lewis suggested that seeing God outside of time reminds us He will never be early or late to aid us. Because He is always working in the Eternal Now, believers can jettison the false picture of a God limited by time, leading to a peace the world cannot provide.

• The “Passenger” Analogy: Lewis’s view implies that living in this reality removes “what if” thinking. If God is omnipresent chronologically, then uncertainty about the future is mitigated; it is like having a passenger in your car who has already taken the journey and knows the destination.

The Reality of Prayer

Your belief that humans can choose to live within these realities is reflected in Lewis’s practical advice on prayer.

• Contributing to the “Cosmic Shape”: Lewis posited that our free act of prayer contributes to the “cosmic shape” in eternity, even though our conscious awareness of that contribution happens at a specific point in time.

• The Present as a Bridge: Lewis noted that the “Present” is the specific point where time touches eternity. By focusing on the present moment—meditating on eternal union with God or receiving present grace—we have an experience analogous to God’s experience of reality as a whole.

• Participating in the Divine Cycle: Lewis eventually viewed prayer not just as man speaking to God, but as a way for humans to participate in the “divine cycle” of God creating, sustaining, and redeeming the world.

Gemini AI said…

“Refine your postulation, consider the tension between divine immutability and human relationship. If we dwell completely in God’s unchanging reality, how do we view prayer? Classical theology argues that prayer does not change an immutable God, but rather aligns us with His eternal will. Your concept of “choosing to live within these realities” fits perfectly into this—prayer is the mechanism by which a linear human steps into the peaceful, unchanging current of the Eternal Now.”

I responded by asking, So, how do I do this?

Gemini said…

“To choose to live within the realities of God’s immutability and the Eternal Now, you can adopt spiritual practices that shift your focus from changing circumstances to the unchanging nature of God. Prayer acts as the primary mechanism for this by transforming your own heart to align with His eternal will.”

Here are practical ways to implement this “stepping into the Eternal Now” in your daily life and ministry:

Shifting Your Internal Perspective

• Practice “Living from the End”: Adopt a mindset where you view your story as already complete from God’s perspective. Instead of reacting only to the evidence around you, move from the “image” you hold within of God’s finished work.

• Embrace Mastery Over Circumstance: Living in the Eternal Now is not a denial of your current situation but a mastery over it through inward vision. When you pray, “step inward” to connect with the eternal rather than the temporary.

• Adopt the Mind of Christ: Retrain your thinking to focus on eternity rather than the “here and now.” This involves being willing to endure temporary seasons of discomfort for the sake of eternal, immutable gains.

Daily Disciplines of “Practicing the Presence”

• Acknowledge God Moment-to-Moment: Start your day with a simple prayer asking God to make you aware of His presence. Acknowledge Him throughout the day—while doing chores, watching family, or working—to keep His presence at the forefront of your mind.

• Utilize Breath Prayers: Use brief, heartfelt prayers during mundane tasks. For example, “God, thank You that You’re with me as I go into this meeting”. This turns ordinary moments into acts of worship that touch eternity.

• Incorporate Stillness and Mindfulness: Set aside specific times for silence and meditation to quiet your mind. These pauses help you tune into the “lingering presence” of God and move away from the frantic pace of linear time.

Using Prayer as an Alignment Tool

• Pray Jesus’s Model of Surrender: Use the prayer of Jesus: “Not my will, but Yours, be done” (Luke 22:42). This is not a prayer of defeat, but a mechanism to align your desires with the “peaceful, unchanging current” of God’s sovereign plan.

• Understand Prayer as the “Decreed Means”: Theology suggests that while God’s will is immutable, He often decrees that certain ends will only be achieved through the means of our prayers. Thus, your prayers are the way you participate in bringing His eternal decrees into your linear experience.

• Focus on God’s Unchanging Character During Trials: When facing suffering, deliberately focus on God’s immutability rather than your changing feelings. This provides the “calm assurance” you mentioned, as it grounds your security in something that cannot decay.

Gemini asked…Do you feel these practices align with the specific vision you had of “Him” on His Throne, or would you like to explore how they might fit into your goal of establishing a national Christian network?

I said, Yes, it definitely fits into my vision of Him on His Throne…

Gemini said…

“It is remarkable how your vision of “Him on His Throne” aligns with the theological concept of the Eternal Now. In this state, God is not merely waiting for the future; rather, all physical events and human acts are present to Him as a single, simultaneous operation. By choosing to live within this reality, you are essentially “practicing the presence” of the One who sees the beginning from the end.

To further develop this practice as you work on your book and mission to establish a national Christian network, consider these expanded methods for aligning your linear life with His immutable reality:

Transforming Perspective Through “Real Presence”

• Acknowledge the “Unveiled” Reality: Recognize that God’s presence is not far away in time, but near in proximity. Lewis noted that while we may ignore it, we can nowhere evade His presence.

• Live in the “Now” Identity: Shift your focus from future wishes or past regrets to your true identity in Christ right now. This involves shedding anxieties by immersing yourself in the richness of the present moment, where God resides.

• Embrace Childlike Wonder: Cultivate a “childlike spirituality” that delights in the divine presence through imagination, awe, and the ability to live fully in the present.

Disciplines for Divine Alignment

• Worship as a Tone-Setter: Begin prayer by recognizing who God is before making requests. Adoration helps set a meaningful tone that aligns your heart with His character.

• Partner Through Surrender: Use the prayer “Not my will, but Yours, be done” (Luke 22:42) to partner with God’s steadfast and reliable will rather than remaining passive.

• Build Prayer into Hands-on Tasks: Create a habit of prayer during everyday chores that require only your hands, turning mundane moments into eternal connections.

• Scriptural Immersion: Search for specific biblical truths to “stand on” during prayer. This helps you interpret your current situation through God’s consistent and stable nature.

Resources for Further Study

Several works explore these themes in depth, which may be useful for your own writing or for the guidance you provide to those who are hurting:

• “The Power of the Eternal Now” by Jeremy Lopez: Explores living in the “now reality” and grasping the truth that God speaks over your life outside of time.

• “Life in the Presence of God” by Kenneth Boa: A practical guide for ordinary people to cultivate a greater awareness of God in everyday life.

• “Eternity Is Now in Session” by John Ortberg: Discusses eternal life as an interactive relationship with God that begins in the present.

Gemini Asked Me…

As you reflect on your vision and your work as a “seasoned pastor,” how do you see these practices helping you guide others to find that same “calm assurance” in God’s immutability? Or would you like to explore how to incorporate these themes into your specific goal of establishing a national Christian network?

Your mission to establish a national Christian network is a goal centered on expanding your reach to preach the Word of God and share music through a broader, more integrated media presence. Based on your past expressions and ministry activities, this mission involves several key components:

• Television and Media Broadcast: You have a specific goal of conducting live television broadcasts on cable networks or similar channels. This is intended to be a platform for both preaching and the inclusion of music to reach a wide audience.

• Leveraging Digital Platforms: You plan to utilize existing church structures that already broadcast on YouTube as a foundation for this project. Your strategy includes breaking down video content into smaller, more digestible episodes to better engage a digital audience.

• National Reach: Beyond local church conferences, you are aiming for a network that transcends regional boundaries, providing a “digital background” that allows you to provide guidance to people who are struggling or hurting on a national scale.

• Worldview Restoration: Your broader ministry mission, particularly through Reclamation Ministries, focuses on reclaiming and restoring a Christian worldview for this generation. The network would serve as a primary vehicle for these transformative resources.

• Compliance and Quality: You have noted that you will use a CCLI license for copyrighted songs in these broadcasts to ensure your media presence is legally sound.

This mission seems to be the practical outworking of your belief that you were “sent back” to finish your work after your profound spiritual experience in 2024.

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Think about where we are at in life right now! it is 2026 and it’s been a pretty wild sprint — most of the technology that we now think of as commonplace has advance incredibly rapidly! This technology has hit us in just the last 15–20 years, and the AI wave is even newer.

Smartphones

The modern smartphone era really kicked off with the iPhone in 2007. Before that we had BlackBerrys and PDAs, but 2007–2010 is when touchscreens, app stores, and “always-online” phones went mainstream. So smartphones have been with us ∼18 years.

AI & Generative AI

Even though most of us think of AI as a very new technology, AI research actually goes back to the 1950s, but the “come upon us” moment for everyday people was much more recent. Large language models and generative AI exploded into public awareness when OpenAI released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. It went viral fast: 1 million users in 5 days, 100 million monthly users in about 2 months. ChatGPT got its iPhone app in May 2023, and Android followed. Since then Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Claude, Grok, and others all launched in the months/years after.

Smartphones reshaped daily life in under 2 decades. The ChatGPT-style AI wave hit the general public only ∼3.5 years ago, and we’re still in the first chapter. The pace feels so fast because the last 3 years packed in what used to take decades.

Daniel 12:4 NLT.

“But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.”

We face a new day and a very advanced technological world we are now living in. As a child-of-the-60’s” I remember watching an episode of the Original Star Trek and saying to my Mother: “Wouldn’t it be great if someday we have handheld communication devices to talk to one another?” My Mom responded with: “Son, that’s Science Fiction, that’s not reality!” And, now we not only communicate with each other, around the world, we do massive computing and surfing of the internet getting information for anything we might have questions about! The prophecy given to Daniel concerning the “time of the end” is now fulfilled among us, and we are rapidly moving even farther and faster than ever before!

Now, we are facing the revelation from our Government of the possibility of aliens and UAP’s. If this is not rapid advancement, I don’t know what could be! So, how does a Follower of Jesus live and minister in this time (kairos) we now find ourselves living in? The answer, which may seem overly simplistic is this,…..With the Grace of God! It takes God’s Grace to be able to “shape” the Eternal Gospel of Jesus Christ, in a package that will reach a culture stooped in technology! So MUCH change in technology! What is the Church, the Body of Christ to do?…….USE IT! Use it to preach the Gospel and advance the Kingdom of God!

Technology, in and of itself, is amoral. It is neither intrinsically evil, nor good. Good and evil is determined by what we DO with it! There are many “voices” out there declaring that AI technology is “evil” and is preparing us for the rise of THE Antichrist. Well, that might very well be the case, but he will also use the mediums of print and broadcast as well. That doesn’t mean that these technologies are intrinsicly evil, nor good. It is WHO is using it, and HOW it is being used that determines whether or not it is a manifestation of good or evil, just like the Internet! How we use it and for what, determines whether or not it is a “RIGHTEOUS” thing or an “UNRIGHTEOUS” thing! Good, or evil is determined in the WHO and WHAT of the use of it. As the Bride of Christ, our job is to reconcile everything to Christ, for His use and His glory! This includes both the technology of the Internet and also AI, as well as Handheld Devices! Listen to what the Apostle Paul said in Colossians 1:19-20.

So, here we are! This is where we find ourselves, and to this world, maybe a little bit of a crazy world, we are called and commissioned! This is the world into which we are commissioned to proclaim the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ! Do you want some proof? The following below was written by the AI Gemini and utilized by me, to advance the Biblical Topic I am writing here! I fed the parameters and the prompts, and USED this technology, to advance the Kingdom of God! Take a look at what Gemini said below…….

The Technological Framework: Tools vs. Creators

Many Christian thinkers view AI through the lens of historical technological shifts. They compare it to the printing press, electricity, or the internet—innovations that initially caused societal anxiety but ultimately served to spread the Gospel rapidly.

The Doctrine of Stewardship: From a biblical standpoint, technologies are considered morally neutral tools. Humanity is tasked with stewardship over creation (Genesis 1:28), which advocates argue includes the ethical development and deployment of digital tools.

The Concept of “Redemptive AI”: Ministries like Biblica1 use the term “Redemptive AI” to describe utilizing advanced technology specifically for the proclamation of the Gospel rather than human profit or power.

Imago Dei (The Image of God): A critical boundary drawn by theologians is that AI, no matter how intelligent it appears, lacks a soul, moral agency, and the capacity for a relationship with God. It can simulate worship or conversation, but it cannot truly commune with the Creator.

Practical Kingdom Applications

Churches and global ministries are increasingly implementing AI to maximize their operational efficiency and reach.

Breaking Language Barriers: Tools like automatic speech recognition and translation software are accelerating Bible translation efforts. The goal of making scripture accessible to every language group is being heavily augmented by machine learning.

Administrative and Operational Efficiency: According to reports on church technology from Magai, a large majority of pastors view AI as a useful administrative partner. It is used for tracking attendance trends, optimizing giving data, and generating personalized community outreach materials.

• Educational and Research Support: Major religious institutions have published official guidelines stating that AI can serve as a powerful tool to assist with scriptural research, historical editing, and educational content creation.

Theological Concerns and Cautions

While many see potential for the Kingdom, Christian leaders also issue strong warnings regarding the spiritual risks of over-reliance on AI.

• The Threat to Human Discipleship: Leaders emphasize that AI cannot replace the work of the Holy Spirit, pastoral care, or personal spiritual discipline. Relying on algorithms for deep spiritual counsel or sermon writing can result in a “hollow” ministry lacking genuine divine inspiration.

• Counterfeit Relationships: Incidents like experimental AI-driven spiritual figures have drawn sharp criticism. Theologians warn against reduced versions of spirituality that offer comfort without real personal accountability or repentance.

• Idolatry of Knowledge: Some perspectives caution that treating AI as an all-knowing authority mirrors the original temptation in the Garden of Eden—seeking ultimate wisdom from a creation rather than the Creator.

Ultimately, the consensus among faith communities is that AI can safely be used to amplify human capability and operational capacity, provided it serves as a subordinate tool rather than a substitute for genuine human and divine relationship.

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The Church needs to desperately come to the realization that we are truly in a spiritual war! The individual battles are for the souls of people, the hearts of our cities, and the advancement of the Kingdom of God. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the enemy is taking this war much more serious then we are! Many of us become so content to think of our participation in the Kingdom of God from a “bless me-bless me not” mentality. However, we must ask ourselves the question, from a military standpoint, what is the purpose(s) behind the attack of the spirit of religion upon this area of the United States and the Body of Christ?

First, is the obvious answer. To saturate the church with religion is to provide a type of “fake spiritual stimulus.” We “FEEL“ very spiritual when we go to church, so, church is doing a good thing in our life, and God must be pleased with our ability to stay “connected” to Him, in the midst of such sinful lifestyles of people all around us! We go to church, we sing familiar songs (and even throw in some new ones, so we are viewed as contemporary), we pray, the preacher preaches, we hug, pat each other on the backs, and go eat dinner. We ARE the Church..... TRIUMPHANT!...... Right?...........WRONG! We are actually pathetically impotent in our spiritual discernment and advancement of the Kingdom of God! We gather together and “YELL” at the devil and are smugly satisfied with our spiritual strength and victory! And the devil.......... LAUGHS!

The second, purpose of this attack of the spirit of religion is that it weakens the churches that ARE truly repentant and seeking to serve their Lord. Churches launch into ministry because of a sincere devotion to their Lord based upon the gifts and finances of those in their church at the time of their ministerial undertakings. The spirit of religion attacks, and soon those good Christian brothers and sisters are headed down the street to their “NEW” church where something “GRAND” and “EXCITING” appears to be happening! The church that is truly trying to do something to carry on the ministry of Jesus, is suddenly thrown into a situation that may be “over their heads“ because of a limitation of people and resources.

We can choose Churches like we choose which Restaurant to go to…

The third purpose of the spirit of religion’s attack is to keep the Body weakened. What I mean is, God “gifts“ each member of the Body with Spiritual Gifts (charis) intended to be used WITHIN the local Body to strengthen and mature that local Body. More than any other thing, the devil fears a spirit-filled Church! And, if he can keep people moving around from church to church, they never fully develop or use those gifts, and the intended purpose of strengthening the Body is never realized, hence Spirit-inspired, well thought out ministry plans suffer a type of “spiritual abortion.”

The fourth reason for this attack of the spirit of religion is quite simply to bring division. To “divide and conquer” is one of the most basic strategies of ANY military campaign! And let me remind you ONCE again, ..........we are at WAR! People moving from church to church to church, leave in their wake hurt feelings, broken commitments, and help facilitate a weakened divided Body! ONLY when their is unity in the Body of Christ do we see the outpouring of the Holy Spirit (See Acts 2). The outpouring of the power of the Holy Ghost is EXACTLY what we so desperately need ........ RIGHT NOW! This will NEVER happen, as long as the spirit of religion goes unrecognized and undefeated! However, REMEMBER.............


“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

Knowledge of our enemies strategies and attack points, are the beginning of defeating the spirit of religion! FIGHT ON!!!!

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Imagine if you will the difficulty in convincing someone that some of the beliefs they have adhered to concerning the Christian Church, perhaps even having been taught them since they were a child, are flawed. Now allow me to explain that I am not referencing their salvation, for their individual salvation is an “easy” matter, as Christ has done all the hard work. They accept the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the vicarious atonement, and by faith place their full confidence in Him for their salvation, and with those truths in mind, they are indeed saved! This is not what I am referring to, for as most already know, the “entry door” to salvation is not necessitated by the correct doctrine in every aspect of Christian faith, but rather in the correct doctrine in just one truth, that being that Jesus Christ died for my sins, and by Faith I believe and receive His sacrifice for me. Their salvation is not in doubt, but as we move on from the “point” of salvation, there is a whole lot of doctrine that is established upon that one basic life-altering truth!

In fact, a whole system of faith and belief is then built upon that one central truth of salvation in Christ Jesus. And from all of that additional elements of faith that are added to that central truth, and the various ways in which Followers of Christ interpret Scripture, we have formed the denominations of our day. There is one specific element of theology and practice that is the focal point of this article, namely Ecclesiology. Ecclesiology is the study of the Church, the Body of Christ. Being even more specific, I am referencing here Western Ecclesiology. Who we are, what we are, and the practices we engage in as the Body of Christ in the West. Here in America, there is a certain “feel” to church. We have certain specific “models” that serve as indicators of specific movements or denominations. However, generally speaking, there is a certain continuity that exists between most of our American Churches. Continuity not based upon belief and practice, but based upon non-belief and non-practice. A singular element that binds most of our “Christian” churches together. That element is the non-belief or non-practice of the “power” elements of the Christian Faith. Many American churches either do not believe or do not practice signs and wonders, miracles, healings, or the Charismata. Elements that became very necessary for the success of the early New Testament church! Today, in America, we are trying to accomplish what the Church of the New Testament would never dream of attempting to accomplish, namely the proclamation of the gospel, devoid of the power of the gospel! I would dare say that we can state that the early Christian Believers would have considered it outright disobedience to the Lord to attempt the advance of His Kingdom, through the preaching of the gospel, without the power of the Holy Spirit! The command was given by the Lord Himself to His Disciples in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 24 and the 49^th verse: “And now I will send the Holy Spirit, just as my Father promised. But stay here in the city until the Holy Spirit comes and fills you with power from heaven.” Yet as so very important as to warrant a “command” from Christ to His Disciples, many of us today simply “dismiss” this crucial element of the Gospel proclamation! On a daily basis in America, we the Church, “LEAVE” Jerusalem WITHOUT the power of the Holy Spirit, and as a result, we have reduced the Gospel of Jesus Christ to simply a …….”Good Moral Code of Living!” A gospel full of a lot of principles, but not a lot of power!

So I reiterate my original statement: “Imagine if you will the difficulty in convincing someone that some of the beliefs they have adhered to concerning the Christian Church, perhaps even having been taught them since they were a child, are flawed.” Fully believing the Biblical truth that we have been in the “Last Days” since Pentecost, and that now, I believe, we are in the LAST of the “Last Days,” my heart beats very heavy to see us fulfill our task assigned us prior to Christ leaving this world to return to His Father, namely the evangelization of the world! With this understanding, I now ask a very pertinent question in regard to my original statement above. “How do we, the American Church, think we can possibly succeed in changing our Country through the proclamation of the gospel of Christ, when we do not have the necessary power of the gospel of Christ?” The Bible informs us of a very sobering fact in the Last Days (sorry to my Dispensational friends but I do not relegate all of the end-Times elements to a futurative “way-off-in-the-distant fulfillment,” in Revelation 12:12---“Therefore, rejoice, O heavens! And you who live in the heavens, rejoice! But terror will come on the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you in great anger, knowing that he has little time.” In addition to this verse, the Apostle Paul warns his “Son-in-the-Faith,” Timothy, to be on guard for the advance of the devil’s anger and attack in the last of the “Last Days.” Paul identifies for Timothy and for all of us, the “spirits” of the enemy that will be released upon the earth in these Last Days (SEE: 2 Tim. 3), for which we are to be “on guard” from. Those “spirits” are here, and they are VERY active in the Western branch of the Christian Church!

Think of it! If you were satan, and you desired to stop the fulfillment of the Church’s commission, then of a necessity you would need to divest the Church of her “POWER!” However, you could not just “take-away” the churches power, you would have to be very creative in “HOW” you took away that power! You would have to convince many of the Church’s Pastors, Teachers, Professors, Denominational Leaders, and Laity alike; that the “power-elements” of the Gospel had ceased! Now, you would have to leave in some of the elements of the original gospel, or the Body of Christ would simply dismiss this attempt as an attack from satan. Satan knew he would lose “some” people who were in desperate situations and were ready to believe the mere truth of the gospel without the power of the gospel, and those were “casualties he was willing to accept. However, he also knew, better than many in the Church that the day was coming when he would unleash all of hell upon this earth to propagate his evil will. Now if the Church, that ONE-FORCE that could STOP his hellish onslaught, could be altered enough to where they would settle for a few, when God had given them the world, then in the long run, he would be successful! You see the devil is not trying to keep ALL people from salvation, for he knows that is impossible, so he is willing to let some be saved, just not the WORLD! The Church, having just the “TRUTH” of the gospel, and not the “POWER” of the gospel, would indeed win some, but overall their impact would be minimal!

Brothers and Sisters, our impact had been minimal! Jesus Himself identified for us as His Followers the necessity of both “Truth” and “Spirit!” In John 4:23-24---“But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.” If this is the essential twin-elements for approaching God in worship, how hard is it to realize how much more we would need these twin-truths in evangelism? We have left Jerusalem without the power of the Holy Spirit! We have the TRUTH, but we do not have the SPIRIT or His power! Our impact has indeed been minimal recently, but we have the potential to have the type of impact that the “gates of hell” cannot prevail against! What do we need to do? Go BACK to Jerusalem to the Upper Room and seek and receive the “promise of the Father,” which is the Holy Spirit in all of His gifting and power!

Now to respond to my original statement………Only God, by the ministry of His Holy Spirit, can convince someone through the Spirit’s illumination of the Word of God that they have been living below their privileged place of power and purpose! “For the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise!”---Ephesians 5:14-15 NLT.

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Matthew 24:24-25 NIV

“For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time.”

Jesus

I believe we are living in a period of time [kairos] where it is extremely easy to slip into an Existential Crises. For the sake of the fluidity of this article, let’s define what it means to even have an Existential Crises.

“An existential crisis is a period of intense inner conflict where a person deeply questions the meaning, purpose, and value of their life. It occurs when a crumbling life narrative or a sudden realization forces an individual to confront the "big questions" of human existence—such as mortality, choice, and absolute freedom—often leading to profound feelings of anxiety and emptiness.”

During an existential crisis, the mental constructs that normally provide security suddenly feel irrelevant or artificial. People typically grapple with four foundational concepts, famously outlined by psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom:

• Meaninglessness: Feeling that life has no inherent purpose and that daily routines are entirely pointless.

• Mortality: A sudden, overwhelming awareness of the brevity of life and the inevitability of death.

• Isolation: Realizing that no matter how close you are to others, you enter and leave the world profoundly alone.

• Freedom and Responsibility: Feeling paralyzed by the realization that you alone must choose your life path, with no universal guidebook to guarantee you made the “right” choice.1

This is exactly where we find ourselves right now! There are an unprecedented number of “issues” being thrown at us as a society. I believe, as do others, that these “issues” that we are having to deal with today are causing an Existential Crises, even within the Body of Christ! Consider what has been leveled against us in the last couple of months:

• The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran!

• The closing and reopening and closing again of the Strait of Hormuz, leading to severely inflated gasoline prices, right at the beginning of the Summer “Vacation” season! Hindering or limiting peoples ability to “get-away” from it all!

• The announcement and subsequent release of Governmental information pertaining to aliens and UAP’s!

• The appearance and tracking of the UAP 3-I- Atlas!

• The potential for another lock-down, vaccination, and restrictions of the hantavirus! Prompting the societal backlash of…….”Oh, no, we will not do all this again!”

The resulting factor of all of this coming down upon us in the lastt couple of months, has resulted in an “Existential Crises” within our society and even the Body of Christ.

Now while these are “real” scenarios, it is easy to see, once we realize, that the element for distraction is very real and powerful! Distraction from what, you might ask? Distraction from the one true thing that should be occupying our thoughts, prayers, and energy! The last of the Last-Days evangelization of the world and the advancement of the Kingdom of God! Our assignment has been given! The gate has been lifted! And we are OFF and running, but the enemy of our soul has orchestrated a masterful response to STOP or SLOW DOWN, the advancement of the Gospel…..DISTRACTIONS!

The Power of Distractions!

There is incredible power in distractions! it is like a Magician saying “ABRACADABRA” to get our attention off of his one hand, and onto his other hand, while he is working his “magic!” And while the devil has got us focussed on all the issues of “distraction” he too, works his “magic” to get the Church to stop focusing on the Great Commitment, and focus upon the “distraction” instead!

The words of the Apostle Paul come to mind in Galatians 6:7 as we are contemplating this…

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows!” Now listen to this from the Amplified Translation of that same verse: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will reap!” It becomes ALL too obvious what the devil’s plan for these last of the Last-Days is,…….ABRACADABRA!…………..Distractions!

Listen to me Brothers and Sisters in the Lord! We have ONE assignment! And that assignment was given by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself in Matthew 28:18-20…

“Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age!”

Do not allow yourself to be distracted!

Get your FOCUS back upon the Assignment that Christ gave to us, and not the distractions that are working against us, to distract us, and ultimately STOP us! The Apostle Paul reiterates this for us in 2 Timothy 4:2—”Preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching!”

What does this Last of the Last-Days deception look like? It has manifested within Western society in various ways. Keep in mind, Western society in general, and America specifically, has been the foremost exporter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many think perhaps automobiles or oil in our #1 export, but it is not! It is in fact the Gospel of Jesus Christ that we have exported the most from our shores around the world! With that being said, is it any wonder that the structure and the cultural Judeo Christian values are being attacked on every side? When, in history, have we scene such a multifaceted multi-pronged attack upon our culture and mores as we are right now? One cannot go even one day without some type of Omnidirectional assault against the values that made us great! It is not even an attack from outside of our borders that so many of us who live Prophetically that we are worried about. it is the Systemic attacks that seem to manifest almost every day! They are deeply embedded within, and targeting, the entire cultural framework, and we cannot ignore the “wolves at the door” any longer! For these “wolves” have indeed broken through the door, and are attacking from within our own walls! What are these systemic attacks, Theses “wolves” who have broken through the door of our society? Let us identify and examine some of them here and now.

WOLF #1—The attack against our Women!

Have you noticed lately that the women of our society are under deep and serious attack! We’ve all seen the cultural manifestations of the very essence of “womanhood” being assaulted. Skilled and educated people who otherwise understand many deep thoughts and societal principles, have abandon them in favor of a frivolous exploitation of the concept of womanhood. They perpetuate an argument that anyone who “identifies” as something, I mean merely saying the words they choose to pronounce and identify as, somehow makes it reality. However, “reality” is the farthest thing from them when they attempt to do this! A biological male simply declares “I am now a woman” and in the minds of so many today, that declaration makes it reality. Putting on a dress or makeup, doesn’t alter the fact that that person is a biological MALE! And the REALITY is, there is NOTHING that he can do that will change, or even alter, his biology! Putting on bright attire and makeup does not make one a “woman,” it makes one a “CLOWN.” Unfortunately, agenda driven, cultural shifting ideas and pronouncements are nothing more or less than the acceptance of Mental Illness.

If pronouncements about oneself and the putting on of specific attire determines what or who someone is, then when I put on my Greenbay Packer shirt and hat, and declare that I am now the Manager of the Greenbay Packers Football team MUST make it so! Therefore, the Greenbay Packers franchise now owes me quite a bit of MONEY! I mean, come on, I now “IDENTIFY” as the Manager of the Greebay Packers, and based on my ATTIRE and DECLARATION, I am NOW the new Manager of the team, and they owe me my MILLIONS,…Correct? It’s utter nonsense and completly devoid of intellectualism and reality, and is nothing more than Mental Illness and/or demon possession. The ONE and ONLY factor that makes somebody a WOMAN, is BIOLOGY! If they were born a FEMALE, then until they die and even into eternity, they are a …..WOMAN! If they are born a MALE, no matter how many dresses or how much makeup or how many “surgeries” they have, they are a MAN! Even on up through ETERNITY! It is that simple! How this can escape the knowledge and reality of some very well educated people, identifies the demonic principle behind this lie. Yes, it’s…DEMONICALLY inspired and can lead to severe Mental Illness or even demon possession!

WOLF #2—The attack against our Men!

I grew up watching, and enjoying, Cowboy movies! I especially enjoyed the John Wayne movies of yesteryear. Those to me, were the epitome of what a Man should be! Tough, no nonsense, “say-what-you-mean; mean-what-you-say” kind of man! My Dad was just such a man. He was a type of hero to me and we enjoyed our times either watching those Westerns or some type of sport, especially Football. But the same attacks against our women, have been leveled against our men! Albeit, manifested in a different means. I fully understand, and anticipate, the vicissitudes of this life. But the attack agains the boys and men of our society, is not about “up’s” and “downs” but an all out assault agains our men! The men of our society are told that “what they are” and “who they are” is something that is negative, and in their opinions, have been the “bane” (Not the one from Batman←another movie men like) of our society! To these pawns of the devil, these elites (so to speak), men are and what men like; and how men express themselves, is considered by some to be the most unsettling aspect of our society.

This “indoctrination” of how evil and wrong we are as men, begins at a young age! Our testosterone driven boys, who are SO full of energy and movement, are told that they have to sit quietly on a mat and “learn.” Maybe, just maybe, they get 15-minutes to run around outside playing Cowboys and Indians or Cops and Robbers, and burn off some of that energy they possess. But then, its back to “sit-down and be quiet” and be absolutely STILL,…..Now don’t you move! And if they cannot “bridal” their testosterone, then they are LABELED “ADHD” and put on medicine to calm him down and drug him out! Can I, as a “seasoned” Follower of Jesus, and an older man who has raised children, give you some advice? LET THAT BOY MOVE AND RUN, AND JUMP,…..HE’S A BOY and that is how God, in His infinite wisdom, made him! Now, I understand there is a time for order and learning, but if we have ever needed a “revamping” of our Teaching/Learning models, it is now!

These boy then grow up and all they endlessly hear is that they are EVIL or BAD, as they live as men. Who they are, what they like, and how they live; is evil and destructive to our society! So, we allow these deceived or agenda driven people, who think they know better than God, decide on what “APPROPRIATE” behavior is and isn’t for men. And we, as a society, totally emasculate our men to make them more like women, and completely opposite of who God made them! As if these agenda driven deceived people who have absolutely zero common sense, knows better than God! Now that doesn’t means that we must mandate that all boys and men LOVE sports, hunting, cars, or running around. But it also doesn’t mean that we as a society should condemn those boys and men who do! Listen men (and I am one too) we are not the “DESTRUCTIVE” force that many within our agenda driven society claims we are! We are MEN! Created exactly the way God created us, and who He created us to be, and what we are, and it is not something to be ashamed of nor apologize for. God made both Women (femininity) and Men (masculinity) and in His August wisdom, declared………..”IT IS GOOD!”

Genesis 1:31

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