06/07/2026
Shabbat Sermon 6/6/26
Kingdom Preparation
Spiritual Warfare – Pt 28
Warfare Truths
Shabbat Shalom, y’all. We are continuing with this series on spiritual warfare, so we’ll jump right in. What does Yahweh's Word say about giving up our place of authority?
We are living in very critical times. In fact, Yahweh has chosen you and I specifically to be born for this time. We could be living back 100 years or 1000 years ago, but Yahweh has chosen for us to be here today in 2026. There is no randomness with Yahweh. No such thing as “luck”. Everything is for a reason. King Solomon stated in
Eccl 3:1,8 "There is an occasion for everything, and a time for every activity under heaven: … a time for war and a time for peace.”
We are currently living in the time of intense spiritual warfare, but sadly, most Christians are not even aware of it. It seems that their heads are buried in the sand either by choice or by deception. Spiritual warfare is not being taught in the vast majority of Christian churches, and that means that millions of Christians are unprepared for the soon coming terrible spiritual warfare in the Great Tribulation.
When we began GSA and drove into the town of Glenwood, one of the first things I noticed was the Masonic Lodge. So on a somewhat regular basis I would bind Satan and the spirits associated with it. Some people, especially those who are Masons, will take offense at that, so I will explain by giving a short summary of Freemasonry. I will lay the groundwork of the reasoning for this latest endeavor into spiritual warfare.
Freemasonry has been in existence for centuries. It is an secret fraternal (men only) society, and they believe that the principles and precepts of Freemasonry have deep esoteric and kabbalistic meanings. There are 33 degrees or levels that a Mason might attain, with requirements for each one. Freemasonry is most often looked at as an organization that contributes to society in a positive way. The Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas is one example. I presume that Freemasons are solid men from their communities with good intentions. The publicly stated aim of Freemasonry is Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
There is a very famous Mason who spent much of his life in Arkansas just a few miles from here: Albert Pike. In the mid 1800s Albert Pike moved from his home in New England to Arkansas. He lived in different areas before settling on a farm near Langley, Hopper, Norman and Caddo Gap, all within 30 miles from here. Pike was a school teacher, a lawyer and a member of the Masonic Lodge. He was awarded the Masonic rank of the 33rd degree.
He had served as a liaison between the Cherokee tribe and the US government in Oklahoma, and during the Civil War he was appointed as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army with 2500 Cherokee Indians under his command. He was directed to join in the battle in Pea Ridge near Forrest City, and in that battle some in his regiment of Indians ended up scalping and mutilating some Union soldiers. Pike was quite a racist and his wife’s family owned slaves.
Steven Hager, writer on the website “TheTinWhistle.com” states: “Pike’s racism rivaled Hitler’s and he was a founding Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.”
In 1858 Pike was a signatory of a Little Rock circular urging the expulsion of free Black residents from Arkansas, leading to the state’s infamous 1859 expulsion law.
Pike also wrote the Masonic manual, Morals and Dogma which gives some descriptions of the higher Masonic degrees along with his philosophies.
Steven Hager again writes, “Morals and Dogma, is filled with the most blatant thefts [plagiarism], lifting freely from a wide variety of sources without bothering to re-phrase a single word, all to create the illusion of his encyclopedic knowledge of the occult and Eastern spirituality. Most of the stolen [plagiarized] material came from one source, Eliphas Levi, a Rosicrucian (a German secret society that began during the Reformation). Levi also created the modern Tarot cards.”
PIC Eliphas Levi
“Pike was one of the most physically and morally repulsive individuals in American history. Weighing well over three hundred pounds, his sexual proclivity was to sit naked astride a ph***ic throne in the woods, accompanied by a gang of prostitutes. To these or**es he would bring one or more wagonloads of food and liquor, most of which he would consume over a period of two days until he passed into a stupor.
Pike was well known as a practitioner of Satanism. Portraits show him wearing a symbol of the Baphomet around his neck. He discovered that the Baphomet was originally a symbol of Lucifer, the hermaphrodite [TRANS] god of pagans. Pike wrote, "the true and pure philosophic religion is the belief in Lucifer...."
Pike and Freemasonry are guilty of blasphemy
Freemasonry does not claim to be a religious organization, but in his book Pike spoke religion much. Here are a few quotations.
Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
“All religions have owed all of life that they have had, and their very being, to the foundation on which they were reared; the proposition, deemed undeniable and an axiom, that the Providence of God rules directly in all the affairs and changes of material things. The [religious] structure itself will be overthrown, when, in the vivid language of a living writer, "Human reason leaps into the throne of God and waves her torch over the ruins of the Universe."
“Shortly before his death, Jacques de Molay, the Chief of the Templars, organized and instituted what afterward came to be called the Occult, Hermetic, or Scottish Masonry. The legend of Osiris was revived and adopted, to symbolize the destruction of the Templar Order, and the resurrection of the Temple, of KHÜRÜM ABAI [Hiram Abiff], the Master.”
In the Bible Hiram was the overseer for building King Solomon's Temple and the Masons highly exalt him. Pike considered the Masons to be an extention of the Knights Templar. Osiris was an Egyptian god, a Nephilim. According to their tradition he was murdered and dismembered by his brother Set. However, his wife Isis who was also his sister found his body parts except for his phallus and reassembled them. To this day during the Presidentlial Inauguration in Washington DC several 33rd degree Masons assemble in the Lodge 1 mile north of the Capitol and perform a ceremony called “The Raising of Osiris” or “The Raising of Apollo.” A pagan prophet of Apollo (the Greek version of the Osiris) predicted the return of this deity at a future date, when men would be mingled together with the gods, which Daniel 2:43 refers to. Yet, Freemasonry is supposedly not religious. It is not only religious, but Freemasonry is very deeply into pagan idolatry, unbeknownst to the masses.
Pike also says in Morals and Dogma
“The triple triangle is peculiarly sacred, having ever been among all nations a symbol of the Deity. Prolonging all the external lines of the Hexagon, which also it includes, we have six smaller triangles … always the symbol of the generative power of the Universe: the Sun, Brahma, Osiris, Apollo, Bel, and the Deity Himself.”
Freemasonry is Guilty of Idolatry
All Masons are encouraged to help others and give to their communities. However, it is a secret society. There are a number of punishments if a Mason divulges Masonic secrets, and those punishments escalate depending on a member’s Masonic degree. The punishments range from having their tongue ripped out, to be disemboweled or to have their skull sliced off. What can anyone think of a secret organization that has these punishments? Is it godly? Could a true Believer in Yahshua be joined with them? Okay, here is a real doozy.
Masons say that “the true name of God is Jahbulon. That name is a composite of three terms: Yah (I AM), Baal (lord), and On (strength), representing three aspects of deity.” Freemasonry is supposedly not religious, yet they have named some god as Jahbulon, a combination of Yah and Baal and On? We know that Yah is the personal name of our Heavenly Father that they have appropriated. “Baal” is the pagan Canaanite Sun god, and “On” is another pagan god. This is all idolatry. Do the lower degrees know this stuff? No, of course not. And they would even deny it, but the 33rd degree holders know.
Freemasonry is Sacrilegious and Blasphemous.
Albert Pike’s life was filled with immorality, in spite of his writing about being moral. Without going into details his farm located near Hopper and Langley was a place of his moral debauchery.
Yahshua gives us a pattern, a template for how to do spiritual warfare in a local area where moral debauchery, covenant breaking, bloodshed and idolatry has ocurred in
Matt 16:18-19 "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against her. And I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. And whatever you bind on earth shall occur, having been bound in Heaven. And whatever you may loose on the earth shall be, having been loosed in Heaven."
Awhile back I preached on this from the viewpoint of Yahshua taking possession of the Keys to Hades and Death. Today we’ll look at this from the spiritual warfare angle that you and I must participate in. Yahshau spoke those words at the base of Mt Hermon in Bashan where 200 angels of Yahweh disobeyed and left their appointed position and came to cohabit with human women.
Jude 1:6 "and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling."
After Yahshua spoke those words to the disciples He took Peter, James and John to the top of Mt Hermon where He was transfigured and He let the 3 men see Moses and Elijah. He was essentially announcing to Satan that He would be re-establishing His control beginning at the place where the very first rebellion against Yahweh took place.
Okay, we’ve seen how the Freemason Albert Pike lived a life of moral debauchery, covenant breaking, idolatry and bloodshed right here in Arkansas. The Bible speaks of how the ground actually cries out because of the shed blood and debauchery.
Ezek 35:6 "therefore, as I live” — this is the declaration of Yahweh Elohim — “I will destine you for bloodshed, and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, IT WILL PURSUE YOU."
We are to hate bloodshed. I fully realize that the things I have described happened over 100 years ago, but that does not matter. Because the Southern Kingdom of Judah did not obey Him and let the land rest every 7 years for 490 years Yahweh sent them into 70 years of captivity. We have a responsibility here to cleanse our land of the effect of bloodshed, immorality, covenant breaking and idolatry.
There is a spiritual famine in our land. The Gospel of the Kingdom is only being preached by relatively few. Yahshua stated in
Matt 24:14 "And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world for a witness to all nations; and then shall the end come."
The spiritual famine is to be blamed on Satan and those he has influenced throughout history to do his bidding. He has motivated people to start wars for the purpose of bloodshed. The shedding of blood gives him and demons spiritual power. Any area that has been used for the shedding of blood has a demonic influence there to this day. The same thing goes for immorality, idolatry and covenant breaking. Those 4 sins specifically bring a demonic influence that actually influences the ground. Look at these verses.
Gen 4:10 “And He [Yahweh and Cain] said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the ground.”
The time after bloodshed is irrelevant, whether sooner or later. That is not figurative speech. There is no way to “scientificly” measure that, but if Yahweh says it then it is true.
2Chr 36:20-21 "Then the ones who had escaped from the sword, he carried away to Babylon where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia, To fulfill the Word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of the desolation it kept the Sabbath to the full measure of seventy years."
On CNN news back in 1996 they told the story about a man who won a lottery. However, he and several of his friends had an "agreement" that if any of them won a lottery, they would split it with each other. Well, after this guy won all that money he changed his mind, and kept it all. So, his friends sued him. It went all the way to the state Supreme Court, and "the Supreme Court ruled that a ‘verbal agreement’ can NOT be enforced". A legal document would have been necessary.
Our land has a satanic legal agreement against it. It has been cursed by despicible wicked actions in the past.
Eph 4:26-27 "’Be angry, and do not sin.’ Do not let the sun go down on your wrath, neither give place to the devil."
Many demons are in people because the demon has a legal right to be in them. That right stems from things like unforgiveness, having played with a ouija board, dabbling into witchcraft, reading horoscopes, hating someone, holding grudges, shedding blood, immorality, breaking covenants or idolatry. The Apostle Peter and all of the disciples forsook Yahshua during His trial because they had opened the door to Satan by unforgiveness. Demons also can have “rights” to a physical location.
Luke 22:31-32 "Then Yahshua said: ‘Simon, Simon! Indeed Satan has asked for you (plural) so as to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you (sg) so that your faith not fail completely; so you, when you have recovered, strengthen your brothers.’ "
People can open a door to Satan by doing those things, and a land also can become cursed because of the same things. Our land has a satanic legal agreement against it. It has been cursed because of despicible wicked actions in the past and even the present. There have been a tremendous amount of bloodshed with over 60 millions abortions done in the USA. Many people have been murdered in Arkansas and every other state. Native Americans have had treaty after treaty broken by the US Government. The Trail of Tears is located not far from here. Idolatry is rampant here with Satan worship by Albert Pike and others, Baal worship by Hilary Clinton and others. Immorality and divorce are out of control, if that is even possible. Arkansas has one of the highest divorce rates in the U.S., with 23.27 divorces per 1,000 marriages. The divorce rate is nearly 67% higher than the national average. That has brought heartache and chaos especially to hundreds of thousands of children plus wives and husbands.
Reclamation!
So, what can be done? Are we to just ignore it and go on? Are we to just wring our hands in despair? No, Yahweh’s plan is for us to reclaim this land in His name. We have the wonderful message of hope, freedom, and liberty. Look at what Yahweh said to Paul in
Acts 26:17-18 “I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to Yahweh, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.”
By acknowledging the sins committed and then cleansing our area the Kingdom Gospel message will be able to go out in the power of the Holy Spirit. It will turn Satan’s power and authority over this area to us in Yahweh’s name. We reverse his power and authority by confessing those sins and casting out the demons that have had a stronghold here. We must personally separate ourselves from accursed things and make confession for the wrongs done in our land. But I must explain that this not confession for personal sin. This is to identify past sins and confess and acknowledge that they happened here. For example Daniel prayed in
Dan 9:4-5,16 "And I prayed unto Yahweh my Elohim, and made my confession, and said, O Yahweh, the great and dreadful El, keeping the Covenant and mercy to them that love Him, and to them that keep His Commandments; We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Thy precepts and from Thy judgments: 16 O Yahweh, according to all Thy righteousness, I beseech Thee, let Thine anger and Thy fury be turned away ...”
Daniel was not confessing his own sins. It is impossible to confess and gain forgiveness for the personal sins of another person. But to do this type of confession is an Acknowledgment Confession or Identificational Confession. It turns away the wrath of Yahweh. When we pray in Yahshua’s name and confess that those evil deeds done here were wicked and wrong, cast out the demons associated with those sins and claim Yahweh's forgiveness, then we will see the Gospel of the Kingdom begin to advance and take root.
I yearn to be under the shadow of Yahshua’s wings, under His protection and authority because nobody can conquer Him. I know Satan is going to be conquered, but I don't want to be under his authority even right now. Nor do I want this land to be under his authority. It has been for way too long, and nothing good has ever come out of it. His demons will continue laughing at us as we are in pain and suffering while Yahweh mourns.
Yahweh has raised each of us up for this time. You or I could have been born 1000 years ago, but we are here in these last days, and that is not accidental. Yahweh has planned it. Yahshua stated in
Matt 24:14 "And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world for a witness to all nations; and then shall the end come."
Are we just to live our lives, have a job, eat, sleep, have fun, go to church, retire and then die? Is that Yahweh’s purpose in life for you? No, we each have a responsibility.
Matt 28:18-20 "And Yahshua came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son. And the Holy Spirit teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the age."
Do you want to see your loved ones respond to the Kingdom Gospel? Do you desire to see this area changed from rejecting the Kingdom Gospel to accepting it? I do. It won’t be easy, but it is necessary. If not you, who will go? If not now, when?
Be a Berean
Until next Sabbath, Shabbat Shalom.
