Territorial Spirits by C. Peter Wagner

Author:C. Peter Wagner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

The City Itself

A key city! A powerful fortress of seemingly impregnable walls! An invisible sign seems to say, “God’s people, listen up. You shall go no further. Stop!” If Jericho could be taken, what encouragement it would bring to the children of Israel and what a message it would send to the other cities of Canaan! Think of it! It would be like taking New York, Miami, or Los Angeles, even San Francisco. What a blow to satan’s kingdom! But what joy it would bring to the camp of the redeemed!

Our attitude toward winning a city has been basically to gather at the church for a prayer meeting and bind the devil until we’re blue in the face. I believe there is an active side to warfare as well as a passive one. As an old sage once said, “It’s time to vitalize the legal.” In other words, put feet to our covenant rights and promises.

Only after the Hebrew nation had built a memorial altar, had been circumcised and had kept the Passover, was it time for them to move on the city.

And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets. And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days. But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times. And the seventh time it was so, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: “SHOUT FOR THE LORD HAS GIVEN YOU THE CITY!” (Josh. 6:12-16).

This was far more than human conflict. Jehovah God Himself was waging war against satan and his hosts! The Canaanites were devoted to idolatry, divination, necromancy, witchcraft, charms and familiar spirits. The children of Israel would be the instruments of God’s judgment upon these wicked, perverted people,

When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. For these nations

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