Angelic Warfare

You do not hear this subject brought up in an institutionalized church in this day and age, do you? That is because the preachers and such don't believe in this sort of teaching anymore.     Beyond our five senses is raging a spiritual battle between the forces of good and evil. God gave " Lucifer" alot of power back in the day and it is good to remember that we have a very formidable foes to contend with.     If you read Daniel 10:1-14, you will see that Daniel saw a vision from God, but he did not know what it meant, so he asked God to show him. Three weeks later an angel showed up. He told Daniel that his prayer had been heard when he first prayed, and that he had at once left “Angel Headquarters” to bring him the answer. So why three weeks to get there, you ask? Because Daniel did not have enough faith? No, it was because “the prince of the kingdom of Persia” withstood the angel twenty-one days. Of course this “prince” was not a human being, but a high-ranking, territorial evil spirit. We don't the details of their confrontation during those three weeks, but this account makes it clear that the spiritual battle raging beyond our senses may be the reason why certain prayers take time— a little or a lot— to be answered. 1 Thessalonians 2:18    For we wanted to come to you— certainly I, Paul, did, again and again— but Satan stopped us. The Greek word for “stopped” was “used of impeding persons by breaking up the road [as by digging a trench across it], or by placing an obstacle sharply in the path.” We see that, in the temporal realm, God is not totally in control of all circumstances. But He and His Son are right in there with us, working to help us go over, under, around or through whatever obstacles the Devil puts in our paths. In Acts 14 we read that Paul was stoned, yet through the prayers of the saints the power of God healed him. MORE