With Jesus, Satan tempted Him to turn the stones into bread, throw himself from the top of the temple, and to gain all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. Mental: With Eve, Satan made sin look attractive and caused her to question God’s goodness and reasonableness and also God’s commands.Physical: Satan attacked Job’s health, his crops, his animals, and his family.There are two different types of spiritual attack shown in the Bible–a physical attack and an attack of the mind. There are four different stories in the Bible about Satan influencing or interacting with people.We’ll go into these more in depth on the podcast, but I’ve listed the Scripture passages below so you can read these on your own. Examples of Spiritual Attack in the Bible We’ll discuss those things on today’s episode of the Christian Habits Podcast, but I’ll also include the information below in case you don’t have time to listen to the podcast. I’ve since studied spiritual attack and discovered there are many things we can do to be successful in spiritual warfare. When I first started writing, I noticed that I’d often get attacked at different stages of the process–especially when I was beginning something new.
20 As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:43 - 14.7MB) | Embed 19 Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid I am the first and the last, 18 and the living One and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades. 16In His right hand He held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword and His face was like the sun shining in its strength.ġ7When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. 15His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters. 14His head and His hair were white like white wool, like snow and His eyes were like a flame of fire. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands 13and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe reaching to the feet, and girded across His chest with a golden sash. 10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet, 11saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”ġ2Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. The Patmos Vision 9I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. Amen.Ĩ “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” 7B EHOLD, H E IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood- 6and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father-to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Message to the Seven Churches 4John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. 3Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it for the time is near. 1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, 2who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.