Chapter 2
Spiritual Confrontations
Elijah the prophet had walked a specific road of preparation for addressing one of the main problems he faced with his nation Israel - Jezebel’s demonic wickedness, religious deception, and evil economic control. These problems are still very much prevalent, even today. The new millennium will see these apostolic and prophetic days come into fullness, where the spiritual anointing of governance is in the Church of Jesus to affect whole cities and nations like Elijah did. It has often been prophesied in song,‘these are the days of Elijah.’ David said,‘the Lord shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion (the Church).Rule in the midst of your enemies!’Psalm 110:2.
Since the early nineties in particular, we have seen a rising, a maturing, and a momentum of restoration of the role and office of the prophet and the prophetic anointing on the Church. This anointing and ministry gift also exposes spiritual strongholds, like the principality of Jezebel - in cities, nations, and in churches. It‘roots out… pulls down… destroys… throws down… to build and to plant’Jeremiah 1:10, to make ready for mature building and planting of the Church.
Spiritual confrontations are sometimes strategic, understood and then executed, resulting in great breakthroughs. At other times confrontations can be naively executed in the emerging maturing of the gifts, and in the natural outworking of day to day ministry and life. In whatever way, the devil is fully aware of the restorations that are happening in the Church, and has unleashed strategies to try and control, dilute, and massacre the lives and families of those called by the Lord to bring the breakthroughs.
Worship and music from the House of God that has been nurtured in a restorative apostolic and prophetic atmosphere, is a major tool that God will use in the spiritual confrontations against the devil and his hordes. Sound - opening up the heavens over churches, regions, cities and nations. David declared,‘O enemy,destructions are finished forever! And you have destroyed cities; even their memory has perished.But the