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Continued: Feature Articlenations, listed in the table of nations inGenesis 10. And Amalek is one such case.We read about the origins of Amalek– although some scholars dispute ittechnically – In Genesis 36:15-16 wherewe first see Amalek, and then he resurfacesagain in the book of Exodus. Nowlet’s look at Deuteronomy 25:17-19.“Remember what Amalek did to youalong the way when you came out fromEgypt, how he met you along the way andattacked among you all the stragglers atyour rear when you were faint and weary;and he did not fear God. Therefore it shallcome about when the LORD your Godhas given you rest from all your surroundingenemies, in the land which the LORDyour God gives you as an inheritance topossess, you shall blot out the memory ofAmalek from under heaven; you must notforget.Get Rid of AmalekAs seen in the rebellion of King Saul,the reason God got rid of him and replacedhim with David, was because he failed tokeep this portion of the Torah. He would notget rid of Amalek. Let’s look at 1 Samuel 15:But Saul and the people sparedAgag......that is, Amalek......and the best of the sheep, the oxen,the fatlings, the lambs, and all that wasgood, and were not willing to destroythem utterly; but everything despised andworthless, that they utterly destroyed.Then the word of the LORD cameto Samuel, saying, “I regret that I havemade Saul king, for he has turned backfrom following Me and has not carriedout My commands.” And Samuel wasdistressed and cried out to the LORD allnight. Samuel rose early in the morningto meet Saul; and it was told Samuel, saying,“Saul came to Carmel, and behold,he set up a monument for himself, thenturned and proceeded on down to Gilgal.”Samuel came to Saul, and Saul saidto him, “Blessed are you of the LORD!I have carried out the command of theLORD.” But Samuel said, “What thenis this bleating of the sheep in my ears,and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”Saul said, “They have brought them fromthe Amalekites, for the people spared thebest of the sheep and oxen, to sacrifice tothe LORD your God; but the rest we haveutterly destroyed.” Then Samuel said toSaul, “Wait, and let me tell you what theLORD said to me last night.”...and he told him. Moriel Quarterly • June 2007It’s amazing to me how people will actuallygo against the Bible, against thingsspecifically written about in the Bible, andcall it “serving the Lord” or God told themto do it. The Holy Spirit will never leadsomebody to do something contrary to theWord of God. Never. Yet I see people allthe time telling me, “God showed me.”I know a woman who told me Godshowed her not to be committed to anychurch. That’s what she said God told herto do. I know somebody else who prays tothe dead, who prays to Mary, who praysto get people out of Purgatory, and saysGod told them to do it. God will nevertell somebody to do those things. It’srebellion. It’s sin, and God will judgeit. Nonetheless, this is what happens.They were to blot him out andSaul wouldn’t. So David comes andhe has to fight the Agagites. The problemis this: if you do not fight and blotout Agag, Agag will always come afteryou. You’ve got to get rid of Agag.Now I’m not suggesting we do whatthe Puritans did, and we go out and wekill all the Roman Catholics – that’s crazy.They were taking an Old Testament motifand applying it to a New Testament legislation.It was totally wrong. Cromwell wasdead wrong. It was terrible, what he did.Nonetheless, the principle is true. There’sno place for compromising with an Agag.If you do, he’ll always come after you.He Always Comes After YouNow the book of Esther tells us directlysomething about Haman. Haman,we’re told in the book of Esther, was adescendant of Agag (Est. 3:1). Hamancame directly from Amalek. If you don’tget rid of Amalek, if you don’t get rid ofAgag, he’s going to come and get you.Once again, it doesn’t much matter ifyou call him “Amalek”, it doesn’t muchmatter if you call him “Agag”, it doesn’tmuch matter if you call him “Haman”, andit doesn’t much matter if you call him “SaddamHussein”. It’s all the same. Do youunderstand? The spiritual forces in backof it – the principality, is always the same.Let’s look at the book of Esther 3:2.All the king’s servants who were at theking’s gate bowed down and paid homageto Haman; for so the king had commandedconcerning him. But Mordecai neitherbowed down nor paid homage.There are Evangelical Christian ministerswho’ve genuflected and kissed thePope’s ring. That directly comes fromthe emperor worship of Pagan Rome.There are Christians who’ve done that.There can be no compromise with anAgag. Let’s deal with this subject.There Can Be No CompromiseJudges 2:1.Now the angel of the LORD came upfrom Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “Ibrought you up out of Egypt and led youinto the land which I have sworn to yourfathers; and I said, ‘I will never break Mycovenant with you, and as for you, youshall make no covenant with the inhabitantsof this land; you shall tear downtheir altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me;what is this you have done? Therefore Ialso said, ‘I will not drive them out beforeyou; but they will become as thorns inyour sides and their gods will be a snareto you.’’That’s what happens when you compromisewith these demonic religionsand the principalities in back of them.You look at this country and see what’shappening. George Carey says he’s a bornagainChristian – he’s the Archbishop ofCanterbury. Over 2,000 evangelical Anglicanclergymen signed a petition askinghim to stop the inter-faith worship in CanterburyCathedral, to stop meeting with thePope, with the Dalai Lama (who is worshipedas god by the Tibetan Buddhists),with African witch doctors, with Zoroastrianpriests, with gurus, with Hindu Brahmanpriests, with God knows what else, it’sall demonic. And he respects all religions.What do you have in this country?More so-called Christians are becomingMuslim than Muslims are being calledChristians. “They’ll become a snare toyou and a thorn to you” (Judges 2:3).God has these Muslims and Hindus inBritain for one reason: it’s a lot easierfor people from a Muslim backgroundto be saved in a Christian country thanit is for them to be saved in their own;they kill them in most cases -- particularlyArab countries. There’s a battle goingon. Is the church in this country goingto reach the Arabs for Christ, or arethe Muslims going to Islamize Britain?Now remember the story – I’ve mentionedit several times, and it has to be saidover and over because there’s still peoplefollowing this stuff. In August of 1990,John Wimber, Paul Cain, and the KansasCity Prophets predicted revival wouldcome in October of 1990 to Great Britain.And all these people from the Charismaticchurches like St. Andrews Chorleywood,and Holy Trinity Brompton, and thepeople from the house churches – the followersof Gerald Coates – were all hyped
up to hear John Wimber and Paul Cain.Now remember Deuteronomy 18,Jeremiah 28, etc.: if somebody predictssomething in the name of the Lord thatdoesn’t happen, they’re a “nabiy sheqer”– they’re a false prophet. We don’t stonethem to death any more as the Torahdecrees, but the sin is no less serious.In the three years since the great revivalof John Wimber and Paul Cain,more mosques have been built in Englandthan churches. That is what’s happening.They’ll Become aThorn to YouIn Church of England schools it’s onething to teach about another religion, butthey’re engaging in social engineeringbased on New Age philosophy. They’retrying to take children at the most impressionableage (according to “EducationalPsychology”), ages 4 to about 11,and convey to them there’s a commonlegitimacy for all religions, all leadingthe same way, etc. They’re not teachingabout other religions, but are promotingall religions. If they honestly taught aboutother religions they would teach them thatother gods are demons (1 Co. 10:21) andJesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life,no one comes to the Father but by Him(John 14:6). But in schools – includingchurch schools funded by the state – ifyou say that, you’re considered a racist.I have corresponded with an Anglicanvicar whose parish has an evangelicalschool in London, in Walthamstow.They got rid of him because he beganreading the Quran in the church services,even though he is a professing evangelicalwho said he doesn’t consider Hinduismto be demonic. I wrote back to himquoting 1 Corinthians 10 and Deuteronomyand he wouldn’t or couldn’t dealwith it. They’ll become a thorn to you.I was assaulted by a gang of Muslimsat Speaker’s Corner in London. About 40of them attacked me and kicked the ladderout from under me. The only thing Iasked was, “If Allah is with you to giveyou victory in a jihad – holy war – thenhow come after six jihads 120 millionMuslims can’t beat 3 million Jews?”They took it personally. I also asked them,“How come you’re always carrying onabout what people are doing to Muslims,how come when King Hussein of Jordan– a Muslim himself – killed 20,000Palestinians during Black September in1970, nobody said a word?” They didn’tlike that either. So they attacked me.For those who don’t believe in freedom,don’t believe in democracy, don’tbelieve in the right to expression or opinion,they should go back to the Muslimworld where there are none of these freedoms.But instead, they come here andriot in front of the British Parliament – thebastion of British democracy, born outof the influences of biblical Christianity,on the foundation of the British government– and want to kill Salman Rushdiefor writing his book, The Satanic Verses.Muslim scholars have known aboutthe “Satanic Verses” for centuries.They’ve known that Mohammed saidthese three Arabian idols Lat, Uzza, andManat were actually birds of intercessionand he erased it. Muslim scholarshave known that for centuries. The onlything Rushdie did was to take somethingthat was known by Islamic scholars, totake it off a shelf of an Islamic library,and make it the title of a book. That’s allhe did. They’ll become a thorn to you.They’ll riot in your streets. They’ll tryto take over your schools. They’ll tell you,you can’t practice your religion. They’llmake laws where they can build mosquesall over this country, be funded by theirgovernment, but won’t allow you to builda single church in their country. And yourown government will kneel down and licktheir boots. They’ll become a thorn to you.I can take you through neighborhoodsin London where you can see Hindu temples,Sikh temples all over the place, morethan there are churches and more people gointo them. I can show you churches in Londonthat are boarded up and later re-openedas mosques. That’s what is happening.Here in Manchester on OxfordRoad is a gothic church: “The IslamicAcademy”. It used to be achurch. They’ll become a thorn to you.When you begin compromising,they become a thorn to you. Yousee that in Judges 2. That’s what ishappening in this country right now.Again, this is not against Muslims,it’s against Islam. The schoolsfinanced in the city of London, influencein the British government, influencein the Christian school system– all of it – they’ll become a snare to you.How to Fight ItNow what do we do about thisstuff? How has God ordained to fight it?Here’s one way that I wouldn’t recommend.Every time a bus of Christianpilgrims comes from the Bible Belt (partsof Midwestern America), they come toMount Carmel and Haifa and they surroundthe high place and they say, “I bindyou! I rebuke you, Satan! We cast thisTomb of the Bab, the Persian Gardens, intothe Mediterranean in the name of Jesus!”Continued: Feature ArticleWell, sorry to say, it’s still there. And thenthe next day, another bus of people arrivefrom Texas and does the same thing.How did Paul deal with it? Lookat the 17 th chapter of the book of Acts:Now while Paul was waiting for themat Athens, his spirit was being provokedwithin him as he was observing the cityfull of idols. So he was reasoning in thesynagogue with the Jews and the GodfearingGentiles, and in the market placeevery day with those who happened to bepresent. And also some of the Epicureanand Stoic philosophers were conversingwith him. Some were saying, “What wouldthis idle babbler wish to say?”......etc., etc., etc. And they took him andbrought him to the Areopagus, andthere he begins to preach the Gospel.If you’ve ever been to Athens, youcan stand on Mars Hill where the Areopaguswas and you can still look up and seethe ruins of the Acropolis, the Temple ofAthena. You can stand right where Paulwas and see where these demons, the idolsthat vexed him, were standing on MarsHill. You can stand right there to this dayand see what was vexing Paul’s spirit.What did Paul do about it? Did hedo his somersault, “I bind you! I rebukeyou!”? No! He preached theGospel. He preached the Gospel.I believe in prayer, in praying againstthese influences, that’s no problem.But when people go on with this “binding”and “loosing”, I don’t even thinkthey know what they’re talking about.Doing Our PartLet’s look once again at Daniel 10.Now as we’ve already read, verse 13...“But the prince of the kingdom of Persiawas withstanding me for twenty-onedays...OK? Now earlier in the chapter, in verse3 it reads...I did not eat any tasty food, nor didmeat or wine enter my mouth, nor did Iuse any ointment at all until the entirethree weeks were completed.“Three weeks” is how many days?How long was the prince of Persiawithstanding God’s messenger beforethe breakthrough came? Twenty-one.These things are principalities. They’repowerful, demonic forces. They’ve beenaround for centuries. Michael the Archangelhad to fight against them. It took theangels of God weeks to break through.Do you think that some clown fromTexas (God bless him) is going to comeJune 2007 • Moriel Quarterly
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