Angels, Demons and the Nephilim 3

De: Keith Baldwin

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Angels, Demons, and the Nephilim III surveys the New Testament, from the Gospels through the Book of Acts, with a focus on these enigmatic beings. In Books I and II, their origins, their interest in dominion or its usurpation, and their relation to the kingdom of God were outlined and studied. In the Gospels, the gods of Canaan fade into the background, and it is Satan himself who comes forward to challenge Israel’s Messiah. What of the gods of the nations that we encounter in the Old Testament? They become the Principalities and Powers in the New. Their strongholds of deception imprisoned the Jews under the vassalage of Rome, and fomented internal bondage by their own factions, legalism and spiritual sickness. And, as we all know, many of the Jews had been taken captive by unclean spirits.

Only the Truth could set them free.

An immense but mostly overlooked subplot in the Old Testament involves the eradication of the giants by God’s people – the Seed War. Books I and II give this theme, for the first time in print, its due consideration. Although the giants were physically eliminated, a new category of spiritual being proportionately arose. The New Testament calls them demons, the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, Rephaim and Anakim. (This is proven in Book II.) When we open our New Testaments, they explode onto the pages. The Savior focused a great measure of His ministry expelling them. But He warned the nation that if He swept clean their spiritual house, a sevenfold possession would occur should they refuse Him.

We all know the passion of Christ, the beatings, the lictor’s stripes, that cruel cross, but we often miss the story of our Savior’s journey into the invisible realm – three days and nights into the heart of the earth. Just what occurred there? Book III presents that journey. When the Savior is gloriously resurrected, He leaves the Twelve with a promise of the Spirit. Angelic protection accompanied that promise.

The book of Acts transitions the programs of God from Law to Grace. The Seed War transitioned from corporeal giants to the incorporeal demons, while in Acts the gods now manifested through the Roman and Greek pantheons. Both realms were stirred, animating men to oppose the Savior’s resurrection power, now manifested in believers. This raises SO MANY questions!

-How has Satan’s policy of evil changed?
-What of the tactics of the demons? And the fallen angels?
-How does the equipping of believers for spiritual warfare differ today from Times Past? What about angelic guardianship?
-What does God’s Word to us, the Body of Christ, have to say about these things for the Dispensation of Grace?
-Angelology and demonology have been mired in stale “orthodoxy” and certain unbiblical traditions. What saith the Scripture, rightly divided?

Book III completes the historical survey upon which we can best understand the doctrines revealed to and through Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles. The historical foundation was thereby laid. Those doctrines and their application are the themes explored in Book IV.