Confronting the Queen of Heaven by C. Peter Wagner

Author:C. Peter Wagner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9781585020164
Publisher: Wagner Publishing
Published: 1999-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THREE

The Challenge of the Queen of Heaven

One of the first responsibilities I had when I took the position of coordinator of the International Spiritual Warfare Network in 1990 was to visit the different regions of the world and meet with those who understood at least something about strategic-level spiritual warfare and who were attempting to practice it to one degree or another. Since so much of this was new to me back in the early 1990s, I most frequently took the role of a listener and a learner. It didn't take long to begin to recognize that one discernible pattern from continent to continent was frequent references to the "Queen of Heaven."

So I began to ask questions about the Queen of Heaven. The Bible tells us that if we are ignorant of the wiles of the devil, he will then take advantage of us (see 2 Cor. 2:11).

What are the wiles of the Queen of Heaven? By now I was beginning to realize that she must be one of the most important principalities under the command of Satan, but what was her modus operandi? For years all I could get were unrelated bits and pieces, but I had no question that some day God would show us the answer. I now believe that one reason we did not arrive at an international consensus is that God knew we were not yet ready and that He Himself was directing the timing.

The Reconciliation Walk

When Doris and I did our prayer journey to Turkey in August 1997, we had no inkling that it would be anything more than our field participation in the Praying Through the Window III initiative. We expected to pray God's blessing on the Turkish people and come home. We had taken vacation time to do this, so we also planned a couple of days of vacation on the same trip. We had not given any particular thought or prayer to issues relating to the Queen of Heaven before we left. We had sensed, however, that we should make a hotel reservation in Izmir in order to pray in Ephesus and Pergamum.

But on the way we planned to stop in Istanbul for a few days in order to encourage and to pray with the intercessors who were participating in the Reconciliation Walk. I now see that the Reconciliation Walk was a principal factor in God's timing for a confrontation with the Queen of Heaven.

The Reconciliation Walk, a vision of YWAM's Lynn Green, is the most massive prayer expedition of the decade. The design is very simple: mobilize Christian intercessors to walk every known route of the First Crusade with only one agenda item: repenting (or apologizing) to Muslims and Jews for the sins which our Christian ancestors committed against them in the First Crusade 900 years ago, and in the subsequent crusades.

Asking Forgiveness for the Crusades

Our collective Christian memory of the medieval crusades is very dim. We tend to think that they are ancient history—long gone and forgotten. We

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