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