The Prince of the Power of the Air

In my last post, I talked about how the atmosphere changed after Adam sinned in the garden. The atmosphere changed again in the days of Noah after the flood. Every thought of the imagination of the heart and mind was only to do wickedness (Genesis 6:5-8)

In the days of Adam and Eve, their atmosphere was radically changed from being radiated with the light of God’s glory to one of darkness, where Satan was the ruler.

“In the process of time”, Satan started started and with Cain managed to murder his brother Abel; and a generation of evil was birthed that impacted every part of society to point that “every thought and imagination the heart and mind was evil continually”

Ephesians 2:1-5 (KJV)

“AND YOU hath he qickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the Spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.”

The prince of the power of the air is another title describing Satan’s influence over regions, territories, and nations.

He is the ruler who influences culture. He blankets entire cities and nations with darkness. He works through people to spread the virus called darkness. Darkness has a life of its own.

The apostle Paul wrote the New Testament book of Ephesians out his experiences ministering to the city of Ephesus in Acts 19.

Ephesus was a city wholly given to the worship of the goddess Diana. They had craftsmen who made shrines for the worship of Diana. They had a thriving book business that taught people how to practice the curious arts.

Once the apostle Paul went to Ephesus to preach the gospel, a revival broke out, and many people were delivered out of darkness.

In Isaiah 25:7, it is prophesied about the day when God will destroy the covering cast over nations.

“And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.” Isaiah 25:7 (KJV)

There is presently a cloud of darkness covering covering nations and blinding people to the truth. This spirit of darkness works its way into people’s hearts and minds.

Let back to the beginning; Adam’s transformation from light to darkness

Adam’s environment was full of the abundant blessings of God. They walked in the light of God’s glory. The light of God’s glory flowed to the inside of Adam and Eve to outside, blessing everything within their environment. The radiate glory of God flowed out them, clothing them in glorious light.

All of their physical senses (eyes, ears, smell, feeling, and taste) received the fullness of God. Their faces reflected the glory of God. They knew one another by their voices. The glory radiated out of them.

After Adam’s trespassed the boundaries of their dominion by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, their eyes were opened to their environment. They knew that they were naked. They hid themselves. Their faith was turned from confidence to fear!

God said to them,’Who told you that you were naked?’

Death began working in them and in their atmosphere. Satan is working in their environment, getting into their hearts and mind, and twisted them into streams of darkness.

But we have been restored to a blessed relationship with God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

“Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (KJV)

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2:9

My personal experience

Back in 2001, I remember having a dream about this dark cloud that covered this community. All the people in this region were dark covered people. Dark colored people in the sense that the darkness of the atmosphere and the culture turned people into dark colored figures. In this dream, I saw a man who was dressed in priestly garments of light, called this person out of darkness, and began ministering to him.

I was the dark colored person I saw in the dream. I was dealing with a lack of resources. Things were hard and difficult. The economic situations of those days had gotten into my heart and mind just as they did with the rest of the people.

You can be saved and suffer from a lack of knowledge. I was saved but had a highly developed lifestyle of living in credit debt. But once I found out God’s will that he was my source and that he would deliver me from debt of all kinds, I sought his will with a passion. God delivered me from debt. I am debt free!

Satan has always used a lack of resources to force people into debt or into compromising situations as a means of controlling them. He sows seed of hopelessness and despair to force people into his service.

But God called us out of darkness into his marvelous light! God provides seed! God has always provided seed, but we didn’t know what to do with it or how to sow it.

Go back to Genesis chapters 1-3. God’s original vision. He illustrated what means to be like God, created in the image of God. When God wanted something, he called for it! He spoke words!

Grace & peace!