{"id":2031,"date":"2022-03-02T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2022-03-01T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:20:23","slug":"02-mar-2022-identifying-the-ruling-spirit-in-the-land-revelation-28-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/2022\/03\/02\/02-mar-2022-identifying-the-ruling-spirit-in-the-land-revelation-28-11\/","title":{"rendered":"02 Mar 2022: IDENTIFYING THE RULING SPIRIT IN THE LAND &#8211; Revelation 2:8-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"tie-dropcap\">O<\/span>ne of the seven churches identified in the book of Revelation is the church at Smyrna. Being a godly church, they raised the standard of godliness and faced persecution.<\/p>\n<p>The church at Smyrna was the local church in that city. Smyrna was a city established by the Roman Emperors as their summer resort city. During summer, the Roman Emperor leaves the capital and goes to Smyrna for a vacation, just to relax and enjoy. The elites of the Roman Empire also flocked to that city for vacation. Smyrna was a city full of sin and iniquity because the elites came there with all their sins. Also, in those days, there was something called \u201cEmperor Worship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons the early Church was persecuted was because they refused to worship Caesar and call him \u201cgod.\u201d To the Roman Empire, Caesar was lord, but the Church said, \u201cJesus is our Lord.\u201d As a result of the persecution, the Christians were fed to lions. Smyrna was at the centre of \u201cEmperor Worship,\u201d so, anything done in that city was noticeable.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One of the major keys to mastering spiritual warfare is identifying the ruling spirits in the land you find yourself in, just like intelligence gathering for an army against their enemies. The ruling spirits in the land always face the churches in that environment. If a church is going to change a community, the Church must first find the ruling spirit and the ruling attitude in that community and operate in the opposite spirit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In essence, there must be a line of demarcation between the Church and the city.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote-simple\">\n<p><strong>PRI\u00c8RE:<\/strong> Lord, help me to identify the ruling spirits in the land I find myself in per time in Jesus\u2019 name. Amen.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"tie-padding  has-padding-left has-padding-right\" style=\"padding-left:5%; padding-right:5%; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0;\">\n\n\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>LA BIBLE EN UN AN :<\/strong>\nLeviticus 25:47-27:13; Mark 10:32-52; Psalm 45:1-17; Proverbs 10:22<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ne of the seven churches identified in the book of Revelation is the church at Smyrna. Being a godly church, they raised the standard of godliness and faced persecution. The church at Smyrna was the local church in that city. Smyrna was a city established by the Roman Emperors as their summer resort city. During [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[302,301,297,298],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march","tag-land","tag-rule","tag-spiritual","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritmeat.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}