Spiritual Warfare Volume 4 by Joseph a Cortes
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Spiritual Warfare Vol ume 4 Joseph A Cortes 0 Table of Contents Satan the Machine 1 Nephilim Part 1 6 Nephilim Part 2 16 Nephilim Part 3 23 Nephilim Part 4 28 Nephilim Part 5 36 Nephilim Part 6 48 Beginning of Evil 63 Witch of Endor 76 Demonized 91 Satan, the Machine This chapter will be about Ezekiel 28, but first I Want to share something with you. Now, I necessarily do not agree with all the views of this author. In fact, this chapter is only the beginning. In the next chapter I will teach about the Nephilim, the watchers, and how they relate to what many reality shows are now trying to make money from. I am sure there are some serious and sincere people exploring paranormal activity, ghostly encounters, and things they cannot explain that go ‘bump in the night.’ That topic has become popular on television, but those people do not have a clue what they are dealing with and how they are being manipulated, even though it makes for good TV, I guess. However, part of this series explores what the watchers created with the daughters of men, who became the giants of the land prior to Noah’s flood, and the reason why the flood destroyed everyone except one family. Do you ever stop to think of the pressures that were on that family? Everything was destroyed; giants, humans, the animal world, everything was destroyed. In the world, there are legions upon legions, millions upon millions of demons. Many people like to classify demons as fallen angels, but I will show what the differences are. Satan and his band of evil spirits must be rejoicing because they have been classified incorrectly. Demons and fallen angels are different types of beings and Satan is a cherubim. You need to know the differences. Things that go ‘bump in the night’ are not necessarily fallen angels. Most of the time, evil spiritual beings that possess individuals are not fallen angels. They do not need to possess bodies because they have their own. However, there is a certain type of spiritual evil being that needs to possess other bodies, which we will explore in future chapters. There is much confusion about this topic mostly because of the Middle Ages and the classification of the different types of angels that happened around that period. For now, I want you to know that it is important to understand Satan and his evil forces. They are a serious thing to comprehend. Do not limit God through your own preconceived notions of what things ought to be. Once again, I necessarily do not agree with everything that this author says, but one thing this author has done for me is bring me to the point of understanding how little I do understand, especially about these unseen evil forces out to destroy us. They are powerful beings. We are no match for them, but we are more than conquerors if we reside in the blood of Jesus Christ. His blood is the great neutralizer, it is the key. You may wonder how this relates to Ephesians 6 and Spiritual Warfare. We are in verse 12 that reads, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, [the Greek has it reversed, blood and flesh ] but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:11 describes Satan as a being with a multitude of methods or strategies against us. He is an intelligent being, far superior in intelligence than any of us. We are no match for him. At one time, before sin, I believe Adam was more than a match for Satan. Satan had to walk on hot coals for instance, even in his approach to Adam and Eve. If he tried a face-to-face confrontation with them, I think Adam and Eve were warned about Satan’s methods and 1 strategies, so Satan had to sneak in and confuse them by possessing whatever the serpent was. I am sure the serpent was another unique being created by God that communicated verbally with the understanding of something that Eve had never heard before. And because of her lack of understanding, she felt that God was trying to hide something from her that would expose God for what He was. Satan convinced Eve that God was someone who was not truthful and had not fully disclosed to them all their possibilities, that they could be like God and not serve God. Now we could go on for hours trying to explain the garden story, but that is not the purpose of this chapter, which is to demonstrate what we are dealing with. And that is something so incredibly originally wonderful, but because of his pride and sin of wanting to be like God, and even greater than God, turned into an evil monster. If he could not have it his way, he would destroy everything that God created. That describes what we would call an evil heart. I do not know if Satan has a heart or not, but I do not believe he does. He was not built like us; he was not created like us, but he has some emotional factor that controls his spiritual being that makes him hate the way he does. Remember, Satan was a unique being created by God, and I am not too sure all cherubim are created equal because he was a chief cherubim. He was a strange looking creature. He was incredibly large with four wings and four faces among other attributes. Here, this author is writing about the transporting cherubim. He writes, “If Satan is a cherubim, he is four-faced. [You find that in Ezekiel.] Forgive the pun, but if Satan is a cherubim he is a strange looking creature; a being incredibly large with four wings and four faces. When the prophet Ezekiel began writing his book, he actually was an eyewitness to a cherubim. In fact, Ezekiel was called to be a prophet of Israel upon having his encounter with this cherubim. His detailed description of a cherubim is the best in scripture.” Go to Ezekiel 1:4. It says, “And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.” Ezekiel 1:13 goes on the say, “As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.” There have been many pictures by artists trying to paint this image on canvas. I do not think anybody could truly capture what a cherubim can be, what they can turn themselves into, and what they are truly like. I would not even know how to begin trying to describe that on canvas if I was an artist painting what a cherubim would look like and what their capabilities would be. Returning to Ezekiel 1:14 we read, “And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.” Verse 16, “The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in 2 the middle of a wheel.” A wheel in the middle of a wheel. How would you visual that? Some describe this as a UFO. Maybe, maybe not. Verse 18, “As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four .” What four? The four faces? The four wings? I cannot even try to describe them. If anything, I probably would have fallen on my face out of fear if a cherubim approached me. It may even have the ability to change its features. Verse 22, “And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature [that was surrounding this cherubim] was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.” Verse 24, “And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.” Verse 26, “And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the stone was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of the loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the L ORD . And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.” What kind of creature are we dealing with here? We know Satan is a cherubim and not just any cherubim.