ANGEL LIGHT - Fire and Ice Ministries River of Life Fellowship
ANGEL LIGHT - Fire and Ice Ministries River of Life Fellowship
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The End Times 237<br />
When God called the Apostle Paul, God gave him an encounter with<br />
himself that many would reject. This encounter included being knocked<br />
<strong>of</strong>f a donkey, blinded for three days, to end up at a stranger’s house<br />
that prayed for Paul <strong>and</strong> Paul was baptized in the Holy Spirit as scales<br />
fell from his eyes! Jesus seemed to particularly deal with this spirit by<br />
doing things that would <strong>of</strong>fend the religious. He would heal on the Sabbath,<br />
eat with sinners, <strong>and</strong> do things like spit in the mud <strong>and</strong> put it on<br />
someone’s eyes to be healed. The message I believe God wants us to<br />
get from the Apostle Paul’s encounter with Jesus is that God showed<br />
Paul how blind he really was spiritually, even though Paul thought he<br />
could see.<br />
I do not believe there is a spirit that is called a “Pharisee spirit.” I believe<br />
this is another threefold cord <strong>of</strong> satan. I believe this is a powerful<br />
stronghold that keeps people in bondage to religion, out <strong>of</strong> revival,<br />
lukewarm, <strong>and</strong> ineffective for the kingdom <strong>of</strong> God. I believe in reality<br />
there are three spirits that make up this religious stronghold.<br />
The first is the spirit <strong>of</strong> pride. Pride blinds people into believing they are<br />
right, when they are in fact wrong. It seems God’s kingdom is made up<br />
in a way that one has to be humble to receive from God. That is why<br />
God used people between the ages <strong>of</strong> sixteen to twentysix to lead the<br />
revival in Wales that changed the world. It took humility to receive<br />
leadership from such a young group. There were some that rejected<br />
this revival, based on being <strong>of</strong>fended by the age <strong>of</strong> the leaders! Then<br />
God moved powerfully through William Seymour in the Azusa Street<br />
Revival. During those days the horrible laws <strong>of</strong> segregation were in<br />
place. The blacks were poor <strong>and</strong> were in the lower class <strong>of</strong> society in<br />
the natural—even though many were in the higher class <strong>of</strong> society with<br />
Jesus. It took great humility to push aside social status, <strong>and</strong> segregation<br />
laws, to go <strong>and</strong> receive from the Lord in an ab<strong>and</strong>oned mission<br />
which was not much more than a barn. Pride blinds people to what<br />
God is doing. It is like having scales on your eyes spiritually. The<br />
Apostle John records the Pharisees <strong>of</strong> Jesus’ day rejected Jesus <strong>and</strong><br />
killed him because they were jealous <strong>of</strong> his success in ministry. This is<br />
pride. The Bible says some scary things about the proud. It says that<br />
God opposes the proud, but gives his grace to the humble in James<br />
4:6. The Bible goes on the say pride comes before destruction <strong>and</strong> a<br />
fall in Proverbs 16:18. This is one <strong>of</strong> the main spirits behind the Pharisees.<br />
The next <strong>of</strong> the three spirits involved in this stronghold would be the<br />
antichrist spirit. I mentioned that Christ can be translated “the holy <strong>and</strong><br />
anointed one <strong>of</strong> God.” This spirit opposes the holiness <strong>of</strong> God. It tries<br />
to make people familiar with the holy things <strong>of</strong> God <strong>and</strong> not have a<br />
healthy fear <strong>of</strong> God. The Bible speaks <strong>of</strong> the fear <strong>of</strong> God being the be