Know
These Forces
Part One
by Wayne Dailey
Senior
Pastor,
February 18, 1988:
On this date I was in prayer when the Holy Spirit spoke to me:
I want you to know the wicked and evil
forces that fight in this world, striving like the four winds of Heaven. I want you to know that these forces have
only one purpose, and that is to destroy the Church and God’s people.
I want you to know these forces. In
the days to come I will reveal them to you, one by one. You have some pre-conceived notions about
these forces, but I want you to follow these revelations that I give you very
carefully.
I John 4:1-6
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that
confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this
is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and
even now already is it in the world.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.
They are of the world: therefore speak they
of the world, and the world heareth them.
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God
heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth,
and the spirit of error.
February 19,
1988:
On this date the Lord told me to remember the following:
·
The
Vision Of The Fallen Angel - 1961
·
The
Woman Beguiled By Satan
·
Ahab
And Jezebel
THE VISION I SAW OF THE FALLEN ANGEL IN 1961
While in my first pastorate, I laid hands on a woman to pray for
her. She was new to the church and had
been with a ministry that practiced witchcraft.
This woman was bound with an evil spirit and began to pray that she be
set free.
When I laid hands on her everything suddenly became very
dark. As I looked up, staring into the
darkness, I saw an appearance of light that began to glow like it was coming
from behind a dark cloud.
As I watched this happen, I saw a form in a white robe walking out
into the light – and then it began to fall down into the darkness: I could only
see the bright white robe as it fell through space, tumbling end-over-end, way down out of sight.
After I finished praying for the women, I went home, questioning
in my mind what the vision could possibly mean.
Early the following morning, I went to church to pray about the
vision and about the women I was praying for when I saw the vision. While I was praying, God spoke to me
concerning the following Scripture passage:
II Corinthians 11:12-15
But what I do, that I will do, that I may
cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they
may be found even as we. For such are
false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of
Christ. And no marvel; for Satan
himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his
ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end
shall be according to their works.
The Vision The Lord Showed Me Was Of
Satan Falling From Heaven.
The Lord began to speak to me about this women and the church she
had been involved with. The pastor was
one of Satan’s ministers. He practiced
witchcraft and sorcery on the people, and she had become demon possessed. She had become very deeply involved in his
teachings and wanted to be a teacher herself.
The next service, I took time to pray again with her and to cast
the demon out of her. I prayed for her
that she would give her life to Christ and be saved. She also received the baptism of the Holy
Spirit at that time. I have known this
woman now for nearly forty years and she remains free, walking with the Lord
ever since she was delivered.
Have You Been Involved With Witchcraft,
Sorcery, Or The Occult?
Are you bound in these things?
Know there is hope for you, if you accept the truth that you need
deliverance from demon powers. You would
do well to seek out a Spirit-filled preacher who has the power of God in their
ministry to pray for you.
Realize that those wicked demon forces seek to destroy your
soul. Repent, and turn to Jesus
Christ. Seek Him for salvation and
forgiveness of sin.
Acts 19:18-20
And many that believed came, and
confessed, and shewed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts
brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted
the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and
prevailed.
Follow the example of Acts 19, and destroy the things you used in
satanic activities.
People get bound by satanic power when they get into satanic
worship. If you want eternal life you
must destroy all of those things you used in witchcraft, sorcery, or the
occult. Burn those books! Don’t give them away! Don’t sell them to someone else! That would only cause others to get bound as
you did – and would
only add to your sin.
Simon Used Sorcery To
Bewitch The People
Acts 8:9-24
But there was a certain man, called Simon,
which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of
Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: to whom they all gave
heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of
God. And to him they had regard, because
that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
But when they believed Philip preaching
the things concerning the
Then Simon himself believed also: and when
he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles
and signs which were done.
Now when the apostles which were at
Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent unto them
Peter and John: who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might
receive the Holy Ghost: (for as yet He was fallen upon none of them: only they
were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Simon Tries To Buy The Power Of God!
Acts 8:18,19
And when Simon saw that through laying on
of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying,
Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the
Holy Ghost.
You MUST Be Born Again
John 3:3-7
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto
thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the
Confess With Your Mouth And Believe With Your Heart
See Romans 10:8-13
That if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe
in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved. For with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved.
Don’t Be Deceived - Follow The Truth
Matthew 24:4-5
And Jesus answered and said unto them,
Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My
name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
John 5:39
Search the Scriptures; for in them ye
think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.
Turn From Darkness To
Light!
see John 3:15-19
For God so loved the world, that He gave
His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but
have everlasting life. For God sent not
His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him
might be saved. He that believeth on Him
is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he
hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is
come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their
deeds were evil.
THE WOMAN BEGUILED BY SATAN
(LESSONS FROM
THE GARDEN OF EDEN)
Genesis 2:7,8
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul. And the Lord God planted a
garden eastward in
The First Commandment
Genesis 2:15-17
And the Lord God took the man, and put him
into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep
it. And the Lord God commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die.
God Made Eve
Genesis 2:18, 21-22
And the Lord God said, It
is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to
fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the
flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made
He a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Eve
Deceived By Satan
Genesis 3:1-4
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had
made. And he said unto the woman, (Yea,
hath God said), Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We
may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
In Genesis 3: 4,
we see Satan beguiled Eve by his lie: ye shall not surely die!
The First Lie - Questioning
The Word Of God
Satan always tries to cause man to question God’s Word and His
commandments. Many souls are lost every
day because they listen to his lies and believe them.
Through this one lie Satan engineered the fall of man. And as an angel of light he has filled world
with false religions, with multitudes perishing in these heresies.
The Devil Is The
Father Of Lies
John 8: 44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the
lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Satan puts into the heart of man to always question God’s Word and
His commands. You hear people do this in
many ways, such as saying, God doesn’t expect you
to go that far! Those people do it - and
they call themselves Christians!
Genesis 3:4-6
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that in the day
ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was
good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired
to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also
unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
The Knowledge Of
Sin
Genesis 3:7-11
And the eyes of them both were opened, and
they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves
aprons. And they heard the voice of the
Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife
hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the
garden.
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and
said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard Thy voice in the garden,
and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And He said, Who
told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I
commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
The Penalty For
Sin
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Genesis 3:12-13
And the man said, The
woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of
the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord
God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast
done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Other Consequences Of
Sin
Genesis 3:14-19
Unto the serpent:
And the Lord God said unto the serpent,
Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every
beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and
dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: and I
will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel.
Unto the woman:
Unto the woman He said, I will greatly
multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt
bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule
over thee.
Unto Adam:
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I
commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt
thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it
bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of
the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast
thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt
thou return.
God warned Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil - for in the day you eat thereof ye shall surely die! That is the only commandment they were
given. They only had that one
commandment to keep.
What Do We Learn From This Lesson?
The Lord said, I have set a stir in
your heart that will set in motion your thoughts; and you will search and see
the deceptive work of Satan, as he works to destroy the Church and God’s
people.
We have the knowledge of sin and death and also the knowledge good
and evil. We became sinners and were
lost, separated from God. Thus God began
to redeem man from the fall. O, the love
of God toward man!
God Made A Covering For Sin - A Blood Sacrifice
Genesis 3:21-24
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the
Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is
become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his
hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: therefore
the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from
whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at
the east of the
Jesus, The
Giver Of Life
John 10:10,11
The thief cometh not, but for to steal,
and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they
might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth His life for the sheep.
Satan is the enemy of both God and Man, and he seeks every
opportunity to destroy mankind. Whereas, Jesus is the giver
of life. Know these wicked and evil
forces that seek to destroy the Church and God’s people. These evil forces have been with us
throughout history, from the creation of man.
KING AHAB AND QUEEN JEZEBEL
I Kings 16: 31
And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing
for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife
Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served
Baal, and worshipped him.
When Ahab and Jezebel got married it was one of the most wicked
and evil unions in the Scriptures. Two
people, both evil and wicked, joined forces with one great purpose. They turned the northern kingdom of
Ahab Did Evil Above All That Were Before
Him
I Kings 16: 32,33
And he reared up an altar for Baal in the
house of Baal, which he had built in
Elijah Prays For God To
Send Judgment
I Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite,
who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel
liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but
according to my word.
James 5:17-18
Elias was a man subject to like passions
as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not
rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six
months. And he prayed again, and the
heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
The power of prayer is our weapon against an evil government. The prayer of one man can change the course of
a whole nation. Oh, that
men would pray for
Does anybody care? Pray! It will make a
difference.
Elijah Went To Shew
Himself Unto Ahab
I Kings 18:1, 19
And it came to pass after many days, that
the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the
earth.
Now therefore send, and gather to me all
God protected Elijah during those three and half years and King
Ahab never found out where he was. Three
and a half years with out a drop of rain!
Ahab somehow knew Elijah had something to do with the drought.
How Long Halt Ye
Between Two Opinions?
I Kings 18:21
And Elijah came unto all the people, and
said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow
him. And the people answered him not a
word.
The God That Answereth By Fire, Let Him Be God!
I Kings 18:23-25
Let them therefore give us two bullocks;
and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay
it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay
it on wood, and put no fire under: and call ye on the name of your gods, and I
will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him
be God. And all the people answered and
said, It is well spoken.
And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal,
Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and
call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
What a futile effort by these idol worshipers. As you read further, you see where they tried
all day to get an answer – but there was none.
They became violent to appease Baal – but they failed to get an answer.
Ahab and Jezebel led the northern kingdom of
How Vain It Is To Worship Idols
Idols have eyes – but they can’t see.
Idols have ears – but they can’t hear.
Just think, no idol has ever answered anyone’s prayer – yet men
have worshipped them and prayed to them just the same!
I Kings 18:29
And it came to pass, when midday was past,
and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice,
that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
Elijah’s faithful prayer life and dedication to the Lord is
outstanding. His greatest work is here
in this story: where he turns this northern kingdom away from Baalism back to the Lord.
Yes, Elijah knew how to move heaven to respond. He prayed a pray of faith that shut up the
heavens for three and a half years, with neither dew nor rain. God didn’t let one drop of water fall until
Elijah prayed again. Yes, his prayers
shook the very heavens.
Elijah told the people to come near. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that
was broken down, and dug a deep trench around it. After preparing the sacrifice, he had twelve
barrels of water poured on the sacrifice, filling the trench – and then he
prayed again:
I Kings 18:36-38
And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the
evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of
Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in
Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy
word.
Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know
that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt
sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water
that was in the trench.
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their
faces: and they said, The Lord, He is the God; the Lord, He is the God.
We see here what prayer for restoration can really accomplish.
The Church Has Lost It’s Motivation To Pray
Do you pray for the Lord to lead the people back to the old paths
of righteousness?
We need to pray like Elijah prayed. We need to pray for the Lord to restore back
the full power of Pentecost, with the all the gifts of the Spirit in operation.
We should pray for the Lord to give us the gifts of the Spirit,
and for our hearts to be filled with His love as seen in I Corinthians 13.
The fervent prayer of this ministry is that signs, wonders and
miracles be manifested to bring Glory to Christ – and for no other reason. Look in the book of Acts (such as 5:12-16)
and see where God grants, time after time, such answers to prayer.
A Sound Of Abundance Of
Rain
I Kings 18:
verses 41-42
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up,
eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of
Have you ever seen it like this? The wicked get up to eat and
drink – and the righteous go up and pray.
Do we thank God for his faithful ministers like we should thank
Him? Do we hold them up and support them
in prayer?
verses 43-46
. . . and said to
his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea.
And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. And it came to pass at the seventh time, that
he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of
the sea, like a man's hand. And he said,
Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain
stop thee not.
And it came to pass in the mean while,
that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great
rain. And Ahab rode, and went to
Jezreel. And the hand of the Lord was on
Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of
Jezreel.
The End For
Ahab
I Kings 22:
verses 1-3
And they continued three years without war
between
What is this good king Jehoshaphat doing here with this evil king
Ahab?
Jehoshaphat is going to be set up in a trap that will cause him to
cry out to the Lord to save his life – see verse 32.
verses 4-5
And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go
with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of
Ahab Calls For His Lying Prophets
Ahab has four hundred lying prophets who always speak just what he
wants to hear. Here we find them telling
him, Go up! Go up! For the Lord will
deliver it into the hand of the king.
Would the Lord bless this wicked Ahab, who with his wicked wife
Jezebel turned
verses 6-7
Then the king of
And Jehoshaphat said, Is
there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him?
Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides?
verses 13-14
And the messenger that was gone to call
Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare
good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word
of one of them, and speak that which is good.
And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what
the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak.
The prophet told Ahab, I saw all
Do you understand the way lying spirits work? First, they fabricate a lie. Then, they go to work to convince you to
believe that lie.
When the true prophet, Micaiah, spoke the truth, Ahab would not
believe him. But he would believe those
false prophets unto his death – because the Lord would judge him for his wicked
and evil works.
Ahab Dies – Micaiah’s Prophecy Is
Fulfilled
verse 30
And the king of
Jehoshaphat finds himself in a trap and calls on the Lord to save him from
death:
verses 32-33
And it came to pass, when the captains of
the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely
it is the king of
Ahab was more wicked
than any king before him, and
he died for his great wickedness:
verses 34-35, 37
And a certain man drew a bow at a venture,
and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he
said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the
host; for I am wounded. And the battle
increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the
Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of
the chariot.
So the king died, and was brought to
Jezebel was a bad example in every thing she did. She domineered Ahab,
controlling him. She was the tool of the
devil, succeeding where other women failed.
Jezebel’s example shows us why the Lord forbid
the children of
When Ahab married Jezebel, he became an evil king.
The Death Of
Jezebel