Spiritual Warfare and Territorial Spirits (~5.5 MB) - Moriel Ministries

altars. It was the beginning of the Phoeniciancoast where Molech worship waspracticed, where people would mutilatetheir children in worship to Molech. It wasalso a center of Ashteroth worship. It wasa high place where there were temples tothe gods of the Eastern Mediterranean.Ashteroth is a female deity worshipedby the Canaanites –on Mount Carmel.Now today it’s the same territorialspirits. Remember at Gerasenes, whenJesus cast the demons out into the swine,they said, “Don’t send us out of the region”(Mk. 5:10). They didn’t want to leave theirprincipality like the princes of Persia,the gods of Egypt, they were territorial.You can read an account of what happenedin Cambodia during the bloodbathof Pol Pot, an absolutely demonic manifestationif there ever was one, and, I believe,something that tells us what the world isgoing to be like when the Antichrist comes.Things like the Holocaust and the bloodbathof Pol Pot in Cambodia, those thingspresent as clear a picture as anything ofwhat is going to ultimately happen to thewhole world when the Antichrist comes.Frightening, isn’t it? Enough to makeus really want to be ready with Jesus.Again, the missionaries and evangelistsand Cambodian Christians had encounterswith these demons. And they would actuallyspeak from the Buddhist tabernacles,“We don’t want to leave. We wear the redscarves. We’re the rulers of these areas.”The Example of MountCarmelToday Mount Carmel is the center of theBaha’i cult, the Tomb of the Bab. It is their“Mecca”. Baha’is from all over the worldgo there to worship at the Tomb of the Bab.On this same mountain is a witch’s coventhat meets in Elijah’s Cave. In the sameplace where Ashteroth was worshiped,today you have “Our Lady of MountCarmel.” These demonic apparitions ofMary, counterfeits that you see in Knock,Ireland and Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, inGuadalupe, Mexico, Lourdes, France,Fatima, Portugal, etc., are the same apparitionsthat are in Israel on Mount Carmel.Carmelite priests had this practicewhere they carried a particular statue ofMary from her summer home to her winterhome twice a year. If you know Mary at allwell, you know she doesn’t like the coldweather. And they put a gown on her, anembroidered gown with a gold crown, andcarried her up and down the mountain singing“Ave Maria.” And there was Gregory,a friend of mine, a charismatic Catholic,worshiping this idol with the rest of them.“No man can serve two masters”(Matt. 6:24). “Come out of her, My people”(Rev. 18:4). Jesus didn’t say we’renot one of His people, but because youare one of His people, get out of Babylon.And if you’re involved in a false religionlike Roman Catholicism or FreeMasonry and you’re a Christian, get outof it. The Holy Spirit will never lead youto sin. He is the Spirit of holiness. And bypracticing idolatry, you’re sinning. To tellsomeone to stay a Free Mason or a RomanCatholic is no different than tellingan alcoholic to keep drinking after he getssaved, to tell a homosexual to keep beingone, to tell a prostitute to keep working thestreets. Likewise, to tell someone to continuein a religion that prays to the dead,which practices idolatry, is no different.So, Mount Carmel today is thetomb of the Bab and Our Lady ofMount Carmel. It doesn’t matter if youcall it “Ashteroth” or “Lady of MountCarmel”, it’s the same principality.The same pattern is seen with the ShiahMuslims. To commemorate the Battleof Kabalah, they hack the little children’sheads open, the sons. You see them draggingthe little Arab boys to the Mullah– the clergymen – who have a hatchet.And the little boys are screaming, “No,mommy! No, mommy!”, and these guysare hacking their heads open to let thembleed profusely. This is the same locationwhere Molech worship was practiced.They do it to commemorate the martyrdomof Mohammed’s grandson Ali in theBattle of Kabalah, around the 8 th Century.The whole idea of the flagellationrituals that came into Roman Catholicismwith the monks and nuns flagellatingthemselves, that was something thatthe Crusaders saw the Muslims doing, andthey brought it to the Christian world. I justtalked to an ex-Roman Catholic nun theother day at a Pentecostal church up nearWigan who used to practice the same thing–beating themselves with these whips totry to get rid of their sins. You have to denythe sufficiency of the cross to justify it.It Doesn’t Matter What It’sCalledSo instead of Molech worship, it’sShiah Islam. Instead of Ashteroth, it’sOur Lady of Mount Carmel. It’s Baha’iinstead of Baal worship. It doesn’t matter;it’s the same thing. It may be ongoingunder the guise of Baha’i or Islam or RomanCatholicism or rabbinic Judaism, butit’s still a center of false religion, and itstill reflects the same idea: the headshipof territorial spirits. And it’s still going on.This country is going back to what itwas in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon England:folk religion. Germany went back to whatit was. And unless there’s a revival inGermany, it’s still going to revert back towhat it was. That’s why you see neo-Nazismrising in Germany again. In Japan,it’s the Shogun mentality; Israel, it’s rebellion;Italy, it’s endemic corruption andthe political instability it causes. It doesn’tmatter what you call it, it’s all the same.The Case of AmalekIsrael’s battles with Amalekare also revealing as seen in Exodus17, starting in the 8th verse:Then Amalek came and fought againstIsrael at Rephidim. So Moses said to Joshua,“Choose men for us and go out, fightagainst Amalek. Tomorrow I will stationmyself on the top of the hill with the staffof God in my hand.” Joshua did as Mosestold him, and fought against Amalek; andMoses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the topof the hill. So it came about when Mosesheld his hand up......that’s when he prayed...Continued: Feature Articlethat Israel prevailed, and when he lethis hand down, Amalek prevailed.A very important principle in spiritualwarfare, the first one is always prayer.But Moses’ hands were heavy. Thenthey took a stone and put it under him,and he sat on it; and Aaron and Hur supportedhis hands, one on one side and oneon the other. Thus his hands were steadyuntil the sun set. So Joshua overwhelmedAmalek and his people with the edge of thesword.Then the LORD said to Moses, “Writethis in a book as a memorial and recite itto Joshua, that I will utterly blot out thememory of Amalek from under heaven.”Moses built an altar and named it TheLORD is My Banner; and he said, “TheLORD has sworn; the LORD will havewar against Amalek from generation togeneration.”Reading through the Torah, the Jewswere always warned to get rid of Amalekthat was also known by another name:“Agag”. You can call the United Kingdomthe UK or you can call it GreatBritain, it doesn’t make a difference.You had this idea in the ancient worldthat comes into our Bible, that the nameof a patriarch or the founding member of atribe, a clan, a people, or a nation becomesa metaphor, or a general term, for the wholenation and its descendants. For instance,Israel is often referred to as “Jacob”. Nationsof the Middle East are often referredto by the names of those who founded thoseJune 2007 • Moriel Quarterly