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Spiritual Warfare II Spiritual Warfare II Spiritual Power to Change our World—Patrick Johnstone Recognizing and Defeating the Powers of Darkness—George Otis, Jr. The Parsee: Liberating an Unreached People by Prayer and Fasting—Kaezad Dadachanjee Overcoming Spiritual Resistance that Brings Transformation—John D. Robb Beyond the Four Spiritual Laws—Dean O. Michell Community Transformation Through United and Persevering Prayer—George Otis, Jr. Praying for the Lost in the 10/40 Window—Billy Joe Daugherty Spiritual Breakthrough in Turkey—Editors of Religion Today Editorial Spiritual Warfare and the Frontiers inally, be strong in the Lord and of reality. We commented in Spiritual battle field. We said it then, and can- “F in the strength of His might, put Warfare I, not not overstate it now, that “this sys- on the whole armor of God, that you Few can doubt that Satan has made temic evil needs to be disarmed (in may be able to stand against the wiles great advances in our modern world, Jesus’ name and authority) accom- including infiltrating our churches, and of the devil.” (Eph. 6:10, 11) Paul was playing havoc with our worldview. plished by the full armored soldiers of well aware of the fact that Christians This has been accomplished largely by the cross who know how to wield the means of a slow but persistent shift of are involved in a spiritual battle that thinking regarding our view of reality, Sword of the Spirit.” requires a full set of armor in order to accomplished through so-called “scien- tific thought” that would see our world stand and overcome. Paul reminded as a closed, self-contained natural sys- Why Still Unreached? his readers (then and now) that we tem, which would postulate Satan’s In Spiritual Warfare I we asked non-existence, along with other super- fight not against flesh and blood but natural beings, and somehow reduce the very pointed question: “Why are so “against the principalities, against the our problems and the battles we face to many people still unreached in this a natural plane of reality. powers, against the world rulers of late hour? Could it that we today, and this present darkness, against the We stated then, and want to those who have gone before, have mis- spiritual hosts of wickedness in the underscore it today, that we need a understood the spiritual nature of our heavenly places.” change in worldview since our view mission and the supernatural conflict was was not Paul’s view of reality. Nei- Paul taught his readers (then and of the task?” For greater and better ther has the modern (Western) secular now) that the fight is against “the reasons, my answer today is affirma- naturalistic view of life any bases any- prince of the powers of the air, of the tive. In fact, there is no doubt that the where in Scriptures. Scripture makes spirit that is now working in the sons principle task (not simply a prior task) it abundantly clear that our conflict, of disobedience.” (Eph. 2:2) He exhorts of reaching the unreached has to do including the battle we wage in world Christian “not to give place to the with the battle in the spiritual or invis- missions, especially on the frontiers, is devil” (Eph. 4:27), but leads them to ible plane of reality which we in mis- not principally fought on the natural understand their task that “the mani- sions from the West have largely plane. For that reason we wrote then, fold wisdom of God might now be ignored and have not adequately and repeat it now, that Christians and made known through the church to waged. My conviction, now some 5 missionaries in the Western world the rulers and the authorities in the years later, is that this is one main “need a major shift of perspective heavenly places.” (Eph 3:10, 11) Best reason (if not the main cause) for why regarding ultimate world and life of all, to the Christians in Colossae so many of the world’s peoples and issues. and that unless we do expe- Paul writes that “the principalities and nations still are unreached especially rience a radical paradigm (worldview) powers” are disarmed in Jesus Christ in the 10/40 Window. We are still ill shift, we are in for serious trouble.” who “triumphed” over them. This won- equipped to do this task, and unless This includes world mission, espe- derful news does not mean the end of we get adequately equipped, finish it cially frontier missions. Why? In the the battle but rather shows us in any time soon. Is it not true that we 10/40 Window we are face to face with whose name to wage it and that our have lost a true biblical worldview that peoples and cultures who have been victory is assured. takes into full account the unseen under the rule of “the prince of the supernatural world of God, of the Spiritual Warfare II power of the air” uncontested for cen- Kingdom of God, of angels and fallen This Special Edition is entirely turies. They have well developed anti- angels, of Lucifer the most anointed devoted to the important subject of the biblical views of reality that persevere cherub—fallen and converted to spiritual battle and the frontiers. And mainly because they are fueled by the Satan—and “the spiritual hosts of it is Spiritual Warfare II since it is the spiritual reality of the enemy of men’s wickedness in the heavenly places” second edition devoted to this very souls. Only the kind of soldiers ade- who interact with and influence for important topic in frontier missions. quately equipped and skilled to wage evil human life and should be seen as In that first edition (see Vol. 10:4, war on the spiritual plane ought to be the enemy of men’s souls? 1993) we focused on the need to cor- sent. No one else should be sent nor rect our Western (warped) perspective venture our and go into this mission (Continued on page 223) International Journal of Frontier Missions Vol. 15:4, Oct.-Dec. 1998 Spiritual Power to Change our World The world as we see it today is a battlefield at every level—political, moral, mental and spiritual. The arch enemy of our souls is no “push-over.” In recent years the nature and intensity of the war has become more apparent than ever. Yet, there can be no doubt that for the impregnable strongholds to fall, we must follow God’s strategy and wield the ultimate weapon of intercession given to us by our Lord and God. by Patrick Johnstone hat a privilege to be brought owe much to my godly African co- Satan. Frank Feretti’s popular novels W into the Kingdom for such a workers who educated me about the on spiritual warfare were written to time as this! Never before has the spiritual powers at work and their alert Christians to this unseen con- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ cultural setting. They also demon- flict. These helped to fill the gap in grown so fast or extended its witness strated how the lord Jesus gives total Western theology with a convincing so far. The tide of the Gospel now laps freedom through a deep repentance interpretation of the real world. But at the final bastions of the enemy of with renunciation of the works of despite the author’s pleas (Feretti souls. World evangelization is a fore- darkness and faith in Him. 1989, Wakeley 1995:158) not to build gone conclusion because of God’s 2. Too great a preoccupation with a theology based on these vivid por- promises.1 The world, as we see it, is the enemy. There has been a rapid trayals of demonic forces, we find a battlefield at every level—political, growth of awareness of, and fascina- many readers have. Our Christian moral, mental and spiritual—with tion with, the occult. This, together bookstores carry a plethora of titles many strongholds to be stormed. His with the infiltration of New Age Hin- on spiritual warfare, some propound- infernal majesty is not a “push-over” duism, has radically changed the ing exotic techniques and speculative and in recent years the nature and world-view of many in the Western solutions. Such extremes can become intensity of the spiritual warfare in world. As a result people have become a divisive element in the Body of which we are engaged has become far more conscious of these spiritual Christ. more apparent. Yet, for these seem- forces. We easily become too devil- We need balance and a biblical ingly impregnable strongholds to fall, conscious and lose sight of the reign- centrality in our understanding and we must wield those weapons given to ing Lord Jesus. The more we know of involvement in spiritual warfare. We us by God. God, His Word and His power, the need to return to biblical supernatu- better we are able to deal with the ralism. I aim to keep within this Extreme Approaches enemy. Dealing with the occult can parameter, for it is on this parameter There are two extreme approaches become a morbid fascination for that we all should be in basic agree- which can impair our effectiveness in Christians. It can be a dangerous ment. In writing this article I go the spiritual warfare associated with side-track to delve into every form of beyond present controversies and world evangelization; satanic stratagem and technique to want to focus on world evangelization 1. Under-emphasis of the spiritual overcome them, for we can become by active intercession for the coun- nature of the conflict.
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