An issue of dominion
This article is about understanding the source and purpose of pressure.
The source of the pressure is always spiritual. In order to get clarity we need to return to the origin of things in the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 3:15
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
Enmity means hostility, warfare, battle and struggle.
Notice, God makes reference to the head and heel. The serpent would bruise man’s heel or his sense of dominion.
The Seed of Woman figuratively refers to Jesus, who comes to bruise the head of the serpent and restore man to his rightful position of dominion by suffering death on the cross.
We wrestle against…
God set perpetual warfare between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.
Through an act of disobedience, a door was opened and a third party, Satan, was allowed entrance into the earth. He was also given seed.
Satan appeals to Jesus sense of dominion
Satan said to Jesus, ‘If you fall down and worship me, I will give you the kingdoms of the world and their glory, for they are delivered to me,’ Luke 4:6
Where did Satan get this authority over these kingdoms? He won them through conquest. How do we know this?
Revelation 12 reveals who the serpent was in the Garden of Eden and what he has become! Revelation 12:2 reveals him as a great red dragon with seven heads and crowns. He drew a third of angels with his tail and cast them to the earth.
Revelation 12:9 says that the great red dragon is the serpent of old, Satan and the Devil, who deceives the whole world.
That warfare came to a head on the day that Jesus Christ was crucified and resurrected to the right hand of God.
The rest of Revelation 12 talks about how Satan was cast out of heaven to the earth. He knows his time is short. The Bible says, woe to the earth because the devil has come down with great wrath because he knows his time is ending!
Ephesians 6:12 states that our warfare is not with people but against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places.
A Prince rules over a territory mainly through exerting influence over the way people think
Powers- emanate from a base of power. For example, Jesus says when a strong man armed keeps his palace, his goods are in peace, Luke 11:21-22. They come to manifest sickness and disease.
Another example is in Mark 5:9, Jesus cast out a demon called Legion from a possessed man. When Jesus asked its name, they said
“And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.”
Rulers of the darkness- this classification of the demonic traffick in vice like cocaine, fentanyl, sex trafficking,
Spiritual Wickedness in High Places: this spirit works in and through people who amass great resources and influence. An example can be seen in Revelation 18, where the Bible talks about the great men of the earth and kings ruling in alliance with the Whore of Babylon
Colossians 1:13, we have been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of his dear son.
Grace & peace!
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