SPIRITUAL WARFARE OCCURRENCES IN THE BIBLE
· Genesis 3:1, 4 – Satan the Serpent
· Genesis 50:20 – Relationship between Evil and Good
· Leviticus 16:6-10 – God’s Atoning Sacrifices
· Leviticus 17:7 – Demonic Sacrifices
· Leviticus 19:26 – Omens and Fortunes
· Leviticus 19:31; 20:6,27 – Mediums and Necromancers
· Deuteronomy 7:25-26 – Idols
· Deuteronomy 18:10-12 – Human Sacrifices, Divination, Fortunes, Omens, Sorcerer, Charmer, Medium, Necromancer, Inquires of the Dead
· Deuteronomy 32:16-18 – Sacrifices to Demons
· 1 Samuel 16:14-16, 23 – Harmful spirit from the Lord
· 1 Samuel 28 & 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 – Saul and the Medium of En-Dor
· 2 Samuel 24:1; 2 Samuel 24:10, 15; 1 Chronicles 21:1 – Numbering of Israel
· 1 Kings 22:19-23; 2 Chronicles 18:19-27 ; Jeremiah 14:14 – Micaiah’s Vision and the Lying Spirit, Lying Vision, Worthless Divination, and the Deceit of their Own Minds
· 2 Kings 6:11-23 – Elisha and his servant – horses and chariots of fire
· 2 Chronicles 7:14 – Repentance
· 2 Chronicles 33:1-13 – Manasseh’s evil but eventual repentance
· Job 1 and 2 – Satan’s Access to God and Attack of Job
· Job 4:12-21 – Eliphaz’s Nighttime encounter
· Job 33:29-30; Job 35:9; Job 37:14; Job 42:1-3,6; Job 42:12 – Job’s Progression
· Psalm 106:36-38 – Idol and Demonic worship connected together and with human sacrifice
· Psalm 115:4-8 – Idols and their futility
· Isaiah 8:19-22 – Futility of Mediums and Necromancers
· Isaiah 9:6 – Names of God
· Isaiah 14:3-23 – Fallen from Heaven
· Isaiah 26:13-15 – Dead described as “shades”
· Isaiah 29:4 - “Like the voice of a ghost”
· Ezekiel 13:17-23 – Magic Bands, Veils, Hunting for Souls
· Ezekiel 28:11-19 – King of Tyre
· Daniel 2:10-11, 17-19, 27-30, 45 – Inability of Demons and Humans to Read Minds and Dreams
· Daniel 4:34 – Nebuchadnezzar and reason
· Zechariah 3:1-7 – The Lord’s Rebuke of Satan
· Matthew 4:1-11—Satan’s Temptation of Jesus
· Matthew 10:1 – Disciples’ Authority to Drive Out Demons, Heal
· Matthew 12:28-30 – Driving Out Demons & “Strong Man”
· Matthew 12:43-45 (also Luke 11:24-26) – Must be filled with God
· Matthew 16:23 – Jesus’ Rebuke of Peter
· Matthew 17:14-20 – Jesus’ Healing of a Boy with a Demon
· Matthew 24:35 – Eternal Nature of God’s Words
· Matthew 26:53 – Jesus’ Access to Angels
· Mark 1:23-28 – Casting Out of a Demon in a Galilean Synagogue
· Mark 1:32-34 – Many Demons Cast Out
· Mark 5:19-20 – God’s Mercy Seen in Casting Out Demons
· Mark 9:28-29 – Demon driven out by Jesus through prayer
· Luke 8:1-2 – Mary Magdalene had seven demons, women with Jesus healed of evil spirits and physically as well
· Luke 10:17-20 – 72 return
· Luke 11:24-26 (also Matthew 12:43-45) – Empty House
· Luke 22:31-32 – Jesus’ Prayer for Peter
· John 13:2 – Devil and Judas
· Acts 5:3-5 – Satan and Ananias
· Acts 5:12-16 – Healed of unclean spirits
· Acts 8:4-8 – Unclean spirits coming out
· Acts 8:9-13 – Simon the magician
· Acts 10:38 - Jesus “healing all who were under the power of the devil” (part of comprehensive gospel presentation by Peter in Acts 10:34-43)
· Acts 13:8-11 - Elymas the magician
· Acts 16:16-18 – Girl harassing Paul and others
· Acts 19:11-12 – God’s power through Paul and handkerchiefs and aprons
· Acts 19:14-16 – Seven sons of Sceva
· Acts 19:18-20 – Repentance, Confession, Burning of Magic Books
· Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
· Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
· Romans 8:1-2 “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”
· Romans 8:15 “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’”
· Romans 8:26-27 “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.”
· Romans 8:31-39 – Security of the Believer
· Romans 10:9-10 “because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”
· Romans 12:1-2 – Bodies offered as living sacrifices
· Romans 12:9, 11-12 “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good . . . Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.”
· Romans 12:19-21 – Do not be overcome by evil
· Romans 13:1-2 – submission to government
· Romans 13:11-14 – put on the armor of light
· 1 Corinthians 5:4-5 – “deliver this man to Satan”
· 1 Corinthians 7:5 – sexual intimacy in marriage and Satan’s temptation
· 1 Corinthians 10:20-22 – pagan sacrifices to demons
· 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 – manifestation of the Holy Spirit
· 1 Corinthians 12:27-31 – roles and gifts within the church
· 1 Corinthians 14:20 – infants in evil, mature in thinking
· 1 Corinthians 15:24-26 “Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.”
· 2 Corinthians 2:10-11 – forgiveness and Satan’s designs
· 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 – god of this world
· 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 “And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”
· 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” NOTE: Paul’s use of “messenger” is the Greek word angelos, which in his 33 other uses of it in the Scriptures it is translated “angel.”
· Galatians 4:3 “enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.”
· Galatians 5:1 “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”
· Galatians 6:1-2 – restore and keep watch
· Galatians 6:7-8 – sowing and reaping
· Ephesians 2:1-7 - former followers of Satan
· Ephesians 2:12-13 – once without God
· Ephesians 4:26-27 – anger and Satan’s foothold
· Ephesians 6:10-20 - the armor of God
· Colossians 2:6-8 – captive to philosophy, deceit, tradition, elemental spirits
· Colossians 2:15 – disarmed and shamed
· 1 Thessalonians 2:17-18 – Satan’s hindering
· 1 Thessalonians 3:5 - tempter
· 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 – the lawless one and Satan’s activity
· 1 Timothy 1:18-20 – wage the good warfare, handed over to Satan
· 1 Timothy 3:6-7 – conceit and the condemnation of the devil
· 1 Timothy 4:1-2 – deceitful spirits and teaching of demons
· 1 Timothy 5:11-15 – young widows and Satan’s tactic
· 2 Timothy 2:24-26 – escaping the snare of the devil
· 2 Timothy 3:16-17 – Scripture’s profitability
· Hebrews 2:14-15 –destroying the devil and delivering the slaves
· Hebrews 13:5-6 – God’s protective presence
· James 1:12-15 – source of temptation
· James 1:22-25 – hearing and doing the Word of God
· James 2:10 – guilt under the law
· James 2:18-19 – demonic belief in God
· James 3:15-16 – earthly, unspiritual, demonic wisdom
· James 4:1 – passions at war
· James 4:3-9 – resist the devil
· James 5:13-16 – confession, prayer, and healing
· James 5:19-20 – turning a sinner
· 1 Peter 5:8-9 – devil is prowling like a lion
· 2 Peter 2:10-13 – blaspheming the glorious ones
· 1 John 1:9 – confession and forgiveness
· 1 John 3:8-10 – children of the devil
· 1 John 4:1-6 – test the spirits
· 1 John 4:10-15 – love and acknowledgment of Jesus as the Son of God
· 1 John 4:18-19 – no fear in love
· 1 John 5:14-15 – ask according to His will
· 1 John 5:18 – born of God, evil one does not touch
· 2 John 9 and 10 – abide in the teaching of Christ
· Jude 1:8-10 – Michael, the devil, blaspheming the glorious ones, and rebuking language
· Revelation 2:9-10 – Smyrna, synagogue of Satan
· Revelation 2:13 – Pergamum, Satan’s throne
· Revelation 2:24 – Thyatira, deep things of Satan
· Revelation 3:9 – Philadelphia, synagogue of Satan
· Revelation 9:20-21 – worship of demons and idols
· Revelation 12:7-12 – war in Heaven
· Revelation 16:13-14 – demonic spirits
· Revelation 18:2 – fallen is Babylon
· Revelation 20:1-10 “And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”