The Word speaks about the ransomed of the Lord and the everlasting joy, that will crown their heads (Isaiah 51:11). This is good to know when we are in spiritual warfare. Galatians 6:9 reminds us that we could easily become weary with well-doing, but in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. Let us not faint, but instead believe that the Lord will show us exactly the principalities and powers we are to judge. It is through the Church that the Lord is going to manifest His wisdom and triumph over all the powers and principalities (Ephesians 3:10). This will happen in our time; it has already started. While we are praying for this, it would be very good for us to realize that we must not usurp the prerogatives of God and judge people.
When you are praying for the Lord to deal with certain situations, remember the instructions of the Lord in the days of Joshua when Canaan was possessed by the Anakim (the Nephilim). They were to be totally destroyed. Many may not understand that. It may seem quite inhuman that even the little children were to be destroyed. If you think that was inhuman, then you must also accept the fact that the flood was inhuman. God dealt with the Nephilim in Noah’s time by drowning them. The Nephilim saw the daughters of men and went in to them and bore children by them (Genesis 6:4). Those were the giants, the men of renown in ancient times. In Joshua’s day, again it was the giants that came forth from this type of union. Those giants were not just naturally tall men; today we would call them sons of Satan. Today the Nephilim again are endeavoring to make an invasion against the people of God. They are trying to position themselves in the Church and bring corruption, so that God will turn away from His people and destroy them. That must not be. Therefore we must vigorously oppose any invasion of the Nephilim spirit.
When God saw the corruption from the Nephilim in the antediluvian world, He was grieved that He had made man. He said that man had corrupted his ways, and there was such corruption that He was going to destroy all flesh. He preserved only Noah and his household to start all over again (Genesis 6:6–8). There is no question that this is the history of what happened. In fact, it is interesting to note that various cultures of the world have legends about a Noah and a great flood that destroyed all life.
In the days of Joshua, the giants again had to be utterly annihilated. They were the ones who came on so strong that they made the Israelites feel like grasshoppers (Numbers 13:33). Their hearts melted and they did not go in to take the land which was their possession. Satan had positioned his people there so that God’s people would draw back. Today the dragon stands before the woman who is bringing forth the manchild, ready to destroy whatever is born. Therefore, as sons come to the birth, this is their most vulnerable moment. This is the time when God’s people are most susceptible to the assault of the enemy, when they can really lose out. We must pray, because we want to be caught up in authority to rule and to judge and to take dominion. If we do not, then we can easily become the prey of the dragon that is ready to consume the manchild as soon as it is born (Revelation 12:4). This is not a fairy tale; Satan is ready to destroy you. Therefore, set your heart to pray.
Some people say that we can hate the devil, but we should not hate any human individual. However, there is a point that is irrevocable. When Satan brings forth a Nephilim, it is the closest approach he can make to bringing forth a son. God can bring forth many sons in whom His very presence comes forth, because God has the quality of omnipresence. Satan, however, does not. He is perhaps cunning and wise beyond anything we can understand, but he is not omnipresent. Satan cannot possess five, ten, or a thousand people at one time. But God can fill everyone through the mystery of omnipresence, a faculty and an attribute which God has, but which Satan lacks. Satan has been trying to attain it for centuries, but he does not have that quality. He comes and goes in people who are so open to him, through withdrawal or rebellion, that he can come at a strategic moment to accomplish his purpose.
Satan can come and go. This occurred in the story of Judas Iscariot. Sitting with Christ at that last Passover, after Christ had spoken to him, Satan entered his heart. Even though he had healed the sick, ministered to cast out devils, and walked as an apostle of the Lord, he went out that night to betray the Lord. Satan could have done that many times, and he probably did, in previous years. In John 6:70, Christ said, “Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?” Jesus said, concerning those that the Father had given Him, “I lost none but the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled” (John 17:12).
This does not mean that Judas Iscariot knew what was going to happen or that he understood what he was doing. In his mind he may have rationalized and thought he was pressuring Christ into a position where He would have to manifest His authority and kill all the Romans and set up His Kingdom. After he took the money and saw what was happening to Jesus, he cried out in full realization, “I have betrayed innocent blood,” and he threw the money down in the Temple. Then he went out and committed suicide (Matthew 27:4–5). What probably happened was that Satan left him after he had betrayed Jesus, and Judas came back to the full realization of what he had done. Satan no longer cared about Judas after he had accomplished his purpose through his life.
This is the way it is with Nephilim. Satan can come and go, but he cannot possess a person totally because Satan has other things to do. However, at strategic moments Satan himself can enter into an individual who is dedicated to be his child. That individual may not even be consciously dedicated. I do not believe Judas was, because after he betrayed Jesus, he was overcome with deep remorse when he realized what he had done. Hebrews 10:38 says that if a man shrinks back, the Lord shall have no pleasure in him. The spirit of the antichrist, the son of perdition, the Nephilim spirit, the false Christ, the false prophet—all are part of one picture: Satan’s effort to try to destroy what God is bringing forth in this end time. What should we do? We must stand against it and pray against it. Unless we prevail, we will not fulfill the first phase of what God wants to do in redemption.
Let me illustrate this for you. Christ came to minister for three and one-half years, and it was fitting and proper in the mind of the Father that at the end of that time He should be delivered up for us all. He should pay the price on the cross by the shedding of His blood for every one of our sins. Now Christ is coming forth again, not in the flesh of one individual, but in a many-membered Body. Among all those who walk with God, the Nephilim spirit will try again to bring forth the Judas spirit in order to hinder, to betray, and to destroy. Nevertheless, another picture is ordained by God. Christ is coming forth in His people, to be glorified and to be admired in all them that believe. We are to prevail over the Nephilim spirit, not submit to it. Christ is not coming forth in us to be crucified a second time; He is coming to be glorified in us. He is coming to be admired in the believer. He is coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah to rule, not as the Lamb to suffer. It would be folly to believe that Christ is coming forth to be crucified again. If that were true, it would mean that every one of us would have to be crucified.
Christ has reached the state of omnipresence. However, He did not have this quality when He laid aside His divine attributes to be born as a man. He was born in the form of a servant and He died as one individual. However, He told His disciples, “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper shall not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.” John 16:7.
Jesus also said that He and the Father will make their abode in us (John 14:23). He was saying that after His crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension to the Father, His spirit would once again be universalized. Then He would dwell in each one of us as perfectly and completely as He was dwelling in the body of the Nazarene. This means that Christ is coming forth in us now. We see Christ in each other. Maybe He is in prison and we have to set Him free, so that He can take over. Maybe He is naked and we have to clothe Him. Maybe He is hungry and we have to feed Him. We minister to the Christ that is coming forth in one another; and, of course, Satan hates that.
The Nephilim spirits today dominate and control. They control political and governmental situations, areas of finances, of the arts, and of the sciences. They control the occult world. They control areas in every realm. Should they? No! Think of the futility and the anguish of war.
How wonderful it will be to live in the generation that will see war no more, an age where every sword will be beaten into a plowshare. It will be wonderful to go on with the presence of Christ until, as He comes forth in us, He slays the antichrist, the son of perdition, with the breath of His mouth and the brightness of His coming (II Thessalonians 2:8).
When you intercede about this, remember that it is not a human work you are doing. You are but a channel for the Lord to come forth to destroy the work of the enemy. It is not for your sake as a human being, but it is for the glory of Jesus Christ, so that all that He died for can come forth in reality until the kingdom of this world becomes the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (Revelation 11:15). It is the Christ within us that is crying for the Kingdom to come forth in this earth. This gives rhyme and reason, full meaning and purpose, and the right motivation to your intercession and worship.
Be realistic in your values. At any cost, the people of God must break through to the fulness of Christ’s authority. Do not make a league with the Nephilim spirits. Destroy them! If you leave them in control, they will continue to plague you. Joshua was so filled with faith that at one time he faced five kings. Never forget that he destroyed thirty-two nations, each of them mightier than the Israelites. When five nations conspired against him, he destroyed them all. During his battle with the Amorites, he made the sun stand still so that his army would have a longer day and more daylight (Joshua 10:13).
Like Joshua, we too must see the impasses in our time broken. There will be millions saved in this generation, and yet multitudes will be slain at the feet of God’s remnant. It seems bloodthirsty, but you must be realistic about it. If the people of God do not go in and take the land, millions will be lost and only a few thousand saved. The Nephilim must be brought down or the casualties in the Kingdom of God will be great. The quicker this is done, the better. The slain of the Lord will be many (Isaiah 66:16), but those who will be preserved will be many, many more. This is a type of conservation. In other words, to destroy the enemy is the most economical step you can take. It seems bloodthirsty, and it is. But the source of a disease must be stopped before an epidemic destroys everyone.
We are in a day of grim spiritual warfare. Paul wrote in I Corinthians 5:6 that if someone with a destructive spirit remains in the Body of Christ, he will contaminate it like a little leaven that leavens the whole lump. If he is set outside, God will deal with him. If he stays inside and the church does not deal with him, the church will bear complete contamination. Such a spirit will run rampant through the church. Let us not allow the Nephilim spirit to harass us. It is a day of victory. It is a day of release. It is a time to deal with the things that harass the people of God. Satan is raging because he knows his time is short. But by the grace of God, it is going to be shorter than even he realizes.