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Practical Spiritual Warfare PRACTICAL SPIRITUAL WARFARE Concrete and practical information about spiritual warfare prayers, methods to use immediately! 1 INDEX Who Is The Shekinah Spirit? 3 A very interesting painting by Michelangelo 36 What does she look like? 43 The Spirit of Whoredoms which causes to err 46 The synergy between the land and her people 47 Who is Jezebel? 55 Dominion Reign of Fear and Paralysation 58 Mystery Babylon the Great, Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth 65 Cut off the dominion of Jezebel 68 Cut off the dominion of Asherah 71 Cut off the dominion of Shekinah 73 Cut off the dominion of Kabbalah and it's influence 76 Cut off the dominion of Fear and Paralysation 79 Cut off the dominion of Sophia, false wisdom and understanding 81 Dethrone the Spirit of Whoredoms which causes err and cut off her dominion 85 Destroy the wrong covenants and altars 88 Destroy the Witchcrafts 89 What is Mystery Babylon-Jezebel? 92 What is Babylon? 96 Who is Jezebel? 100 Bride vs Harlot/Prostitute 111 Soberness vs Drunkenness & Awake and Watchful vs Sleeping and Slumbering 118 Sons of Belial 126 2 Doctrine of Balaam 129 Doctrine of the Nicolaitanes 132 What are the mysteries of Mystery Babylon? 135 Babylon-Jezebel Vocabulary and speech 141 The spirits behind social networking and online media technology 152 The stars behind the stars, just like in the days of Noah 159 Cutting off sabotage and oppositional forces 166 Cutting off Negative Societal Influences 168 Spiritual Warfare Prayers 1 171 Spiritual Warfare Prayers 2 195 List of Jezebel Spirits 207 3 Who Is The Shekinah Spirit ? 4 From Asherah to Shekinah Who where the Canaanites? Genesis, or Bereeshit, includes the so-called Table of Nations. In this section we read that the Canaanites descended from Canaan, the son of Ham, who was the son of Noah. Genesis 10:15–19 (KJV) And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn and Heth. And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgasite, and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite, and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar unto Gaza, as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorah, and Admah and Zeboim even unto Lasha. Parashah Noah As a territory Canaan is an ancient term for the region of Israel, the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and the western parts of Jordan and Syria). The term "Canaan land" is also used as a metaphor for any land of promise or spiritual state of liberation from oppression. Moses' journey from Egypt to the promised land of Canaan thus symbolizes a people's journey from oppression to freedom, from sin to grace. 1 Canaanites are mentioned in the Bible as well as in Mesopotamian and Ancient Egyptian texts. According to the Bible, the land of Canaan was the "promised land" which God gave to Abraham and his descendants. The Canaanites themselves were the fierce enemies of the Israelites, who practiced a decadent and idolatrous religion. The religion of the Canaanites was an agricultural religion, with pronounced fertility motifs. Their main gods were called the Baalim (Lords), and their consorts the Baalot (female gods), or Asherah (a singular female god). The god of the city of Shechem, a city the Israelites had absorbed peacefully under Joshua, was called Baal-brith (Lord of the covenant). Canaanite religion was polytheistic, and in some cases monolatristic. Monolatrism is derived from the Greek words monos which means single, and latreia which means worship. What it means is the recognition of the existence of many gods, but with the consistent worship of only one deity. 1 http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Canaan 5 It’s a different concept than that of monotheism, which is the belief in the existence of only one God. The Baalim and the Baalot of the Canaanites were gods and goddesses of the Earth. They were believed to be the ones who revitalize the forces of nature upon which agriculture depends. 2 All this is at odds with our own faith of course, because the Jewish bible clearly states: Exodus 20:1-3 And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Parashah Yitro Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD Parashah Vaethanan 1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (Yeshua) existence of only one God. The Baalim and the Baalot of the Canaanites where gods and goddesses of the Earth. They were believed to be the revitalizes of the forces of nature upon which agriculture depended. 3 2 http://history-world.org/canaanite_culture_and_religion.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolatrism 3 http://history-world.org/canaanite_culture_and_religion.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolatrism 6 All this goes against our own faith of course because it says clear in the Jewish bible: Exodus 20:1-3 (KJV) And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Parashah Yitro Deuteronomy 6:4 (KJV) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD Parashah Vaethanan 1 Samuel 2:2 (KJV) There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. Ephesians 4:6 (KJV) One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 1 Timothy 2:5 (KJV) For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus (Yeshua) Who is Asherah? The Canaanite mother of all the gods representing life and the sea is Asherah. Other variations and spellings of this name: Athirat, Asherdu, Ashertu, Ashratum or Athirat yammi (meaning 'Athirat of the Sea'). She was the main goddess of the coastal cities of Sidon and Tyre. Asherah the sensual goddess was seen by the Canaanites and certain other pagan people groups as the wife or consort of the Sumerian god Anu or Ugaritic god El, the oldest deities of their pantheons. In the book of Jeremiah Asherah is also referred to as the Queen of Heaven". Jeremiah 7:18 and Jeremiah 44:17–19, 25. 4 Asherah was worshipped with prostitution. The sacred sea (or lake) upon which the Ugaritic or Canaanite Asherah goddess stood was known as Yam Kinneret and is now called Lake Galilee. Asherah is also considered to be the consort of Elkunirsa (The Hittite version of El) and mother of either 77 or 88 divine sons. By the way these numbers are used 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Asherah 7 often within witchcraft and considered occult numbers. Her sons with El, described as a pride of lions, are also called the Waves, Death and Rabbim (many) 5 Asherah was also worshiped as the goddess of love and war and was sometimes linked with Anath, another Canaanite goddess. Worship of Asherah was noted for its sensuality and involved ritual prostitution. The priests and priestesses of Asherah also practiced divination and fortune- telling. 6 Asherah was also considered to be the Great Queen of Heaven and Earth. Other names for Queen of Heaven are Isis (Egypt), Astarte/ Ishtar (Hebrew, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Etruscan) and Inanna (Sumeria, Sumer, the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia, Iraq). The title Queen of Heaven is used by Catholics for Mary. 7 Asherah poles, groves, trees, hangings and prostitution An Asherah pole was a 'sacred tree' or pole that stood near Canaanite religious locations to honor Asherah. The Jewish Bible indicates that the poles were made of wood. 8 In the King James Version of the Bible Asherah or Asherim (plural) is translated as groves. The JPS (Jewish Publication Society) keeps it's Hebrew names. But what is a grove anyway? A grove is a small group of trees on an island or possibly in a woodland. A group of trees with minimal or no undergrowth, such as a sequoia small orchard planted for the cultivation of fruits or nuts. Other words for groups of trees include woodland, copse, woodlot, thicket or spinney. The primary meaning of "grove" is simply a group of trees that grow close together, generally without many bushes or other plants underneath. A sacred grove is a grove of trees of special religious importance to a particular culture. 9 Asherah was worshipped in groves and thus these became sacred trees, sacred groves for religious worship which included prostitution. 5 http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Asherah 6 http://www.gotquestions.org/who-Asherah.html 7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_heaven_%28Antiquity%29 http://www.orderwhitemoon.org/goddess/Asherah2.html http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Asherah 8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah_pole 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_grove http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_grove#ixzz1zTyh1bgq http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grove_%28nature%29 8 Deuteronomy 16:21-22 (KJV) Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
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