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The focus of the scriptures in our study has to do with the spiritual realm. There is a physical realm we can see and feel and hear, but there is also a spiritual realm. In fact, there is often a spiritual battle behind the things you see in the physical realm.

Those with spiritual discernment understand that there are dark spiritual forces at work behind what is happening in the world today. There are tectonic shifts happening in the world that will lead to cataclysmic events of the latter days.

Paul wrote in Ephesians 6:12, “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.”

Jesus is preparing His church for victory. In that same chapter, Paul wrote, “Be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.”

Though Satan is strongly influencing the world today, he is a defeated foe. However, though he is defeated, he keeps fighting and will fight to claim many lives until the end.

On June 6, 1944, when 155,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches at Normandy, it was the single greatest invasion in world history. From that point forward, Hitler knew the war would be lost. It was only a matter of time. Yet he kept fighting to the bitter end, refusing to acknowledge defeat. The enemy of your soul also knows the war will be lost, yet he fights to the bitter end, destroying as many as possible in the process.

One of the great truths of the scriptures is that God is master over the spiritual realm. By the authority in Jesus, He cast out of legion of demons.

And though this world is messed up, Jesus will return to set things right by that same authority. At the end of the age, He will set foot on the Mount of Olives and enter Jerusalem to shepherd the nations with a rod of iron. He will set things right because there is so much that is wrong in this world that the world thinks is good…

Isaiah 5:20, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; we substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”

I was thinking of a lighthearted example. When I was growing up, we had our own slang expressions, but they made sense; words like, “hunky-dory,” or “gee-whiz,” or “holy smoke,” or “groovy” and “far out!” Those sayings make sense.

But today, things mean the opposite of what they say. If something is good, it’s ‘bad’ or ‘wicked,’ or ‘sick,’ or ‘killer.’ If something is cool, it’s hot. I’m confused.

Jesus will come to set things right. The world system will be destroyed, nations will be defeated; in other words, when Jesus returns, the world will be under new management.

But it’s also personal. When Paul wrote about the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places, he also said to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might; and to take up the full armor of God that you may be able to resist in the evil day; and having done everything to stand firm, to stand firm, therefore.

In our story in 1 Samuel, the enemy of Israel, the Philistines have gathered in mass in battle array to attack Israel in the Jezreel Valley. The same valley in which the battle of Armageddon will take place in the latter days.

When King Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled within him. He had no strength and he had no courage. He had no faith because he had not been walking with God for a long time. This story is insight into the victory in spiritual warfare that God wants you to have. It will come down to this; the soul within you must be strengthened in the Lord to stand firm in the evil day.

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