Principles of Internal Warfare

It is God, through the Apostle Paul that takes the warfare from Israel eternally to an internal warfare.


Recently God reminded me of something He spoke into my spirit when terrorism broke into the visible realm through Al-Qaeoda and like organizations.

    “ The enemy’s tactics will be that of the terrorists from now on and unless we learn those tactics and plan our strategies with them in mind, we will not be able to win our personal wars, nor our corporate wars over our areas and territories that God has assigned to us, our inheritance”.

As we study their tactics we see a lack of respect for any type of life. Children, women and innocents are used as human shields in order to further their end purpose of controlling by fear the populations they try to subvert. Force and cruelty, intimidation and avoidance are used. All of these have spiritual parallels as we look at the internal war.
Jesus made a statement that we have kept in the future to our own peril.

    John 14 1-2 Let not your heart continue to be agitated. Be putting your trust in God. Also be putting your trust in me. In the house of my Father there are many dwelling places. Indeed, if it were not so, in that case I would have told you, for I go to prepare a place for you.

From G3306; a staying, that is, residence (the act or the place): - abode, mansion.

This passage has the following repercussions.

1. You are the dwelling place of God. He said that The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit would come and make their abode in us. Although we do not understand all the ramifications, it is clear we are His dwelling place. We individually are, Father’s House.
•     Another scripture that seems to indicate a duality at least is:

Luk 11:36 KJV  If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

Luke 11:33-36 No one, having lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under the grain-measure but upon the lampstand, in order that those who are entering from time to time may see the light. The lamp of the body is the eye. When your eye is in single focus, sound, and fulfilling its function, also your whole body is well lighted. But when it is pernicious, also your body is full of darkness. Be constantly scrutinizing yourself therefore lest the light which is in you is darkness. Therefore, assuming that your whole body is well lighted, not having any part full of darkness, the whole shall be full of light as when the lamp by its bright shining illuminates you. Wuest Translation

•  G3313   μέρος  meros  mer'-os                     From an obsolete but more primary form of μείρομαι meiromai (to get as a section or allotment); a division or share (literally or figuratively, in a wide application): - behalf, coast, course, craft, particular (+ -ly), part (+ -ly), piece, portion, respect, side, some sort (-what).

2.    Moving on that premise, we see that in us, there are many dwelling places. Some of them can be dark, according to the above passage.


3.    If we individually are the Temple of the Holy Spirit/Ghost

•     a.    1Co 3:16  Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?   17  If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

•     b.    1  Co 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?        

•     c.    2Th 2:4 KJV  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

    The pattern of the Temple is found in Solomon’s Temple. When we read its description we find there are many rooms within it, all dedicated to the worship of God and those things pertaining to it.
    In the days of the apostasy of Israel, before the captivity, the Temple went through periods where most of it was filled with that which was not of God. When godly kings came to the through, in the cycles of restoration, they cleansed the Temple and rededicated all the rooms to the worship of God. All uncleanness was taken out and disposed of.
    This same process must go on within when Jesus comes back into the Temple which He created. As the process proceeds, each room is taken back, cleansed, and the light brought into it to expose anything of the kingdom of darkness that is there. It must be carried out, just as the priests cleansed the Temple of old. Depending on the depth to which one has allowed the enemy into the life, depends on the length of time to cleanse the Temple. Obviously there are multiple applications of these principles.


When we look at Jesus comment on the power of the revelation of Jesus Christ moving through the church there is a factor that many fail to realize: Gates Don't Move. This means that if the Gates of Hell are not going to prevail against the church, the church has to be assaulting hell. The enemy has been making inroads in the life of the Christian because Christians are in a maintenance mode. We do not know how to do a number of things that God must teach His soldiers.

1. Convince them that they are called to be soldiers.
2. Teach us how to work together as an army instead of be warriors. Warriors do not necessarily move together as a unit.
3. Show us how to move and flow together as one unit, much like the Roman Turtle formation and other formations built on the same type of principles. This formation made it impossible for those on the walls of the gates being assaulted to stop the battering of their gates and their eventual fall.

   

   Roman Turtle

   After 45 years of observing the "church at war" I have come to the conclusion that it is time for retraining. We have all these specialists and special emphasis, but they are working in competition with each other, instead of working together. Each tries to do the same thing or reinvent the wheel, thereby wasting precious spiritual, soulish and natural energy that could be spent learning to work with one another and how to move together against our real enemy as one. 

There are gates within that allow the enemy access to our lives. These then become access point through which he can reach others around us, if we do not learn the power of the revelation of Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God that will destroy not only the Gates of Hell, but the devil himself in our lives. Jesus came to destroy him that had the power of death, the devil.

Heb 2:14 KJV  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Dear Lord, can you bring your army together. Help us stop the competition within your troops. Help us to honestly learn and believe that we have a common enemy. Help us recognize the gates of hell that allow the enemy access within our own lives instead of going after everyone else. Then Lord, help us to lay down the differences that do not matter and come together under the banner of the power of the cross and the blood of Jesus.


More on the gates of hell in the next blog writing.