Satan was completely defeated and stripped of all ultimate power at the cross. Today he can only make guerilla warfare that needs us to come against him in Jesus’ name and power. In natural warfare one of the biggest problems is half-won victories in the spirit. Likewise, one of the biggest problems in spiritual warfare is that we frequently stop fighting long before the battle is truly over.
In this section of the story we will continue to look at the Israelites’ conquest of the Promised Land; their failures as well as their successes.
We have occasionally reminded you that the physical in the Old Testament can be understood as the spiritual in the New Testament. No place is this more true than the pictures given us of the walls of the city and the watchmen who stood guard on them.
In the first part of this study, we learned the importance of well-constructed walls and the duty of the watchmen who patrolled them. In Part 2 we will learn how to repair and rebuild our spiritual walls and gates. Many years before the prophet Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of that holy city, an important event preceded him.
Just what does it mean to be saved? A cartoon shows an old-fashioned revival meeting at which the emcee is introducing the evening's speaker. "And now Brother Jones is going to share with us how he was saved...from a herd of rhinoceroses." Maybe this isn't the funniest joke you've ever heard but it has one important quality...lt doesn't leave us questioning what this speaker means by being saved.
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