Overcoming The
12 Evil Strong Men
Overcoming evil spirits & demolishing strongholds of satan
which fights against the soul of man
Lying
spirit
"I have
heard what the prophets say who prophesy lies in My Name. They say, 'I had a
dream! I had a dream!' How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying
prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds?
They think the dreams they tell one another will make My
people forget My Name, just as their fathers forgot My Name through Baal
worship. Let the prophet who has a dream tell his dream, but let the one who
has My Word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?"
declares The Lord.
"Is not My
Word like fire," declares The Lord, "and like a hammer that breaks a
rock in pieces?
"Therefore," declares The Lord,
"I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly
from Me. Yes," declares The Lord, "I am against the prophets who wag
their own tongues and yet declare, 'The Lord declares.' Indeed, I am against
those who prophesy false dreams," declares the Lord. "They tell them
and lead My people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or
appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least," declares The
Lord.
Jer. 23:25-32 NIV
Lying spirit is a religious spirit. It is a
superstitious spirit.
That is why false prophets prophesy lies in The Name
Of The LORD. Lying prophets dream false dreams because they are under the
enemy’s delusion. They swap dreams with one another and feed on each other's
delusive dreams. Concerning this, The LORD declares:
For there will be no
more false visions or flattering divinations among the people of Israel. But I
the Lord will speak what I will, and it shall be fulfilled without delay. For
in your days, you rebellious house, I will fulfill whatever I say…
Ezek 12:24-25 NIV
The Bible reveals that the antiChrist will use every
kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they
refuse to love and accept the Truth that would save them. One of the evil
strongholds of the antiChrist is a lying spirit.
Even him, whose coming
is after the working of satan with all power and signs and lying wonders
2 Thess. 2:9 KJV
He will deceive many with counterfeit miracles, and
with unlimited seduction to evil. He will be able to do this because he is “the
man of sin” who will perform ‘after the working of satan,’ and his ‘lying
wonders’ will be ‘strong delusion.’ This means, he will have great misleading
influence in the world when his time comes.
All who disregard and refuse the Truth of GOD's Word
will believe 'the lie'—they will believe and agree with the lie of the devil.
And with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received
not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God
shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be
damned who believed not the Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (vv.2:10-12
KJV)
Manifestation of the lying spirit works
accumulatively to the point of amounting to “great deception” or “great
delusion.”
Under the lying spirit is the religious spirit.
A lying spirit deceived the prophets of Ahab as
prophesied by Micaiah. Ahab was enticed to attack Ramoth Gilead where he
perished (II Chron. 18:18-22).
A lying spirit came forward and stood before The
LORD and said, "I will entice him" (v.20).
It said, "'I will go and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets
(v.21).
The LORD then said,
“you are to entice him and prevail also. Go and do so.”
The lying spirit seduces those heading to perdition.
Its aim is to control the mind.
All forms of superstition, falsehood and spirit of
recognition seeking are under the domain of the lying spirit.
God’s judgment is coming on the false prophets, who
operate by ‘lying spirit’
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem
an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also
the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all
of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
Therefore thus saith
The Lord Of Hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with
wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of
Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Thus saith The Lord Of
Hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they
make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth
of The Lord.
Jer 23:14-16 KJV
How to overcome the lying spirit
Jesus said to Pilate: “…I came into the world, to
testify to the Truth. Everyone on the side of Truth listens to Me.” (John
18:37). He came to bear witness to “the Truth.”
Everyone who is of the Truth [who is a friend of the
Truth, who belongs to the Truth] hears and listens to His Voice. All
who love the Truth are Christ's followers, for He came to bring Truth to the
world—a world infiltrated with the lies of satan.
This is why our Lord Jesus Christ prayed to The
Father to sanctify us by the Truth (17:17).
Paul instructed the Ephesian elders to watch out and
be on guard against people who would rise from within their fellowship, to
distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them (Acts 20:30-31).
He warned them through a period of a whole 3 years, night and day in tears
because; such men were under the control of lying spirits.
The lying spirit
strives to distort the Truth in the midst of GOD’s people. And this evil spirit
usually operates through false prophets, false seers, false teachers and false
dreams. It corrupts idle minds and hearts to become opposition against the
Truth.
Paul, in his epistle to
the Corinthians, made them to acknowledge that true spiritual leadership would
not try to get anyone to believe that the Bible teaches what it doesn't.
Anyone who confesses to
be a Christian, but who is lacking in knowledge in the written Word, in an area
regarding spiritual things—can be easily fooled by a lying spirit.
Only the Truth can
confront and overcome the lying spirit.
“... you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you
free."
John 8:32 NIV
And The Son is the
Truth that sets free (v.36).
So if The Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
(v.36)
It is not just knowing
the Bible that sets us free; it is knowing and embracing Jesus Christ—the One
Who is The personification of Truth. He said:
“… I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by me.”
John 14:6 KJV
Lie is the native
language of the devil, while The Truth is the message, the teaching—the
Testimony of Jesus. When you hear the Voice of Jesus you cannot obey the voice
of the enemy.
Why?
Because the two voices
are two different languages. The one is in agreement with the written Word, but
the other is not.