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An Unseen Battle Over Every Soul, September 3
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Ephesians 6:12
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We do not understand as we should the great conflict going on between
invisible agencies, the controversy between loyal and disloyal angels.
Over every man, good and evil angels strive. This is no make believe
conflict. It is not mimic battles in which we are engaged. We have to meet
most powerful adversaries, and it rests with us to determine which shall
win.
Could human beings know the number of the evil angels, could they
know their devices and their activity, there would be far less pride and
frivolity. Satan is the prince of demons. The evil angels over whom he
rules do his bidding. Through them he multiplies his agencies.... He
instigates all the evil that exists in our world.
If Satan sees that he is in danger of losing one soul, he will exert
himself to the utmost to keep that one. And when the individual is aroused
to his danger, and, with distress and fervor, looks to Jesus for strength,
Satan fears that he will lose a captive, and he calls a reinforcement of his
angels to hedge in the poor soul, and form a wall of darkness around him,
that heaven’s light may not reach him.
But if the one in danger perseveres, and in his helplessness casts
himself upon the merits of the blood of Christ, our Saviour listens to the
earnest prayer of faith, and sends a reinforcement of those angels that excel
in strength to deliver him. Satan cannot endure to have his powerful rival
appealed to, for he fears and trembles before His strength and majesty.
At the sound of fervent prayer, Satan’s whole host trembles.... And when
angels, all-powerful, clothed with the armory of heaven, come to the help
of the fainting, pursued soul, Satan and his host fall back.... The great
Commander in heaven and earth has limited Satan’s power.
Around every tempted soul there are angels of God, ready to lift up
the standard of righteousness, if the tempted one will only show a spirit
of resistance to evil. Each may be an overcomer. Christ has in our behalf
withstood the fiercest temptations of the enemy.
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