Only For His Glory - Oplan Dominion - Part 4G- Hierarchy of Hell - Already Defeated” by Dave Bessey

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Are you ready for this shift? Really ready? Revival doesn’t come without pain and change...just this morning Joe Joe Dawson wrote on the “Apostolic Insight” page:

“I believe that as this season shifts, we will see those who are hungry for a move of God experience revival and awakening that will sweep across regions. Those that have opposed and criticized Kingdom ministries and individuals will be silenced and the Kingdom will advance in those regions! Many will move in the Apostolic and the Prophetic and life will return to the people of God. I believe many salvations, miracles, signs, and wonders will breakthrough in this next season. Religious structures in regions are going to be shaken and many who have natural dominion will dwindle and fade. As the shift takes place, revival will come to many ministries, churches, and regions!”

“God is removing man-made programs and replacing it with His Holy Spirit and fire! We are about to experience a powerful move of God and everything will change! We will see the Kingdom come and God’s will be done in our regions as it is in Heaven. Things will move and change and anything that is not from God will be uprooted. The prophetic words that have been spoken over regions, cities and individuals will begin to come to pass. The religious spirits and agendas that you have been fighting for years are being removed and new life and growth will come to your region. God is on the move, so get in position to partner with Heaven to see regional strongholds removed!” J

"Apostolic leaders are called to be agents of transformation in a region. Do not submit to the ruling spirit or traditions-keep pioneering!" Apostle Ryan LeStrange

"If the Church is going to function as a spiritual army in the earth, then the Church will have to understand ranks, authority, order, unity, warfare and discipline..." Apostle Brandon Cornelius Sr.

The enemy we face was not born yesterday. It is a false god and a spirit of the higher echelons of hells hierarchy. We must understand that fighting in the flesh or by ourselves is useless. We fight as an army in and through the Holy Spirit. This is done by intercession and Jesus and the angels fight for us...we rebuke and intercede, they fight along side us and before us. If we were to fight in our flesh we would be defeated over and over again. It is His righteousness that brings victory. Our land would stay as strongholds of hell if we go in our righteousness and power.

When we, the church unite as one, the gates or portals of hell are destroyed and they become portals to heaven, like Jacobs ladder are opened up. We have full access to the throne through Christ. Jesus never loses ultimately, but we need to humble ourselves for the Kingdom to advance.

I will disclose the first echelon principality and power revealed by the Holy Spirit. The enemy we face is a type of "dagon" spirit, along with some other very powerful spirits as co-leaders. Leviathan is a "type" of principaljty. Dagon is a type of leviathan. It tends to function in water areas like the islands of the Philippines. These have the main strongman spirits under their control like jezebels and pythons. We must stop trying to battle these spirits alone in our weak condition without being led by the Holy Spirit. The grace of Jesus and resurrection power through the blood is our power to defeat the enemy through us. It is not the individual, it is the Church corporately that will tear down the gates of hell and advance the Kingdom of God:

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Christ, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed. The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread. Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.” Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up? WHow is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” They said, “Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.” Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.

(Matthew 16:1–20 WEB)

To see how the enemy we face operates let's look at this same principality, exactly the same one the Hebrews faced in the lands against the Philistines. Remember these spirits do not die, they are pneuma spirits. They will spend eternity separated from their creator.

Note: The idolatry of man causes a stronghold for the enemy and eventually the enemy is so entrenched it needs to be supernaturally removed by God. This happened when the "ark of the covenant" was taken by the Philistines:

Here is a brief history...

The Philistine captivity of the Ark was an episode described in the biblical history of the Israelites, in which the Ark of the covenant was in the possession of the Philistines, who had captured it after defeating the Israelites in a battle at a location between Eben-ezer, where the Israelites encamped, and Aphek(probably Antipatris), where the Philistines encamped.

The ark narrative does not include any mention of Samuel; Bill Arnold suggests that it is "in order to celebrate the power of Yahweh's ark." Many scholars put 1 Samuel 4 - 6 together with 2 Samuel 6 and believe that it reflects an old source that was eventually incorporated into the History of David's Rise or into the later Deuteronomistic History.

According to 1 Samuel 4, prior to the battle the Ark had been residing at the ancient sanctuary of Shiloh, but was brought out by the Israelites in hope of victory in the war. The Israelites suffered a significant defeat; Hophni and Phinehas, sons of the High Priest Eli, were killed and the ark was captured. The news of the ark's capture was such a shock to Eli that he fell off his chair and died, while Phinehas' wife died in childbirth as she heard the news, giving birth to Ichabod, whose name means "Where is the glory?" Robert Alter argues that 1 Samuel 4:22 should be translated as "Glory is exiled from Israel," and that the story of the Philistine captivity of the ark is one of exile.Peter Leithart suggests that Israel deserved to go into exile, but the ark did so instead: "Yahweh went into exile, taking on the curse of the covenant for His people, and while in exile He fought for them and defeated the gods of Philistia."

1 Samuel 5 and 6 describe the Philistines as having to move the Ark to several parts of their territory, as mice and hemorrhoids ("emerods") afflicted the people in each town to which it was taken: Ashdod, then Gath, then Ekron. Stirrup points out that the "severity of the punishments increases through the passage": tumours in Ashdod (vv. 6-8), extensive tumours and panic in Gath, which had volunteered to take on the Ark (vv. 9,10a), and tumours on those who did not die and deathly panic in Ekron, which was 'volunteered' to take the Ark (vv. 10b-12). The text explicitly ascribes the plague to "Yahweh's hand" (5:6).

In Ashdod, when the Ark was placed in the temple of Dagon, the statue of Dagon was found prostrate in front of the Ark the next morning; after the statue of Dagon was restored to its place, it was again found prostrate the next morning, and this time its head and hands had also been broken off.

Leithart provides a number of parallels between the Philistine captivity of the Ark and the Plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus. The ark brings about plagues, humbles the gods of the Philistines and returns full of treasure. In fact, the Philistine diviners refer to the events of the Exodus in 1 Samuel 6:6. On the advice of these diviners about how to end the plagues, the Philistines made a guilt offering of five golden tumors and five gold mice (representing the five Philistine rulers). They then placed the gold along with the ark on a cart drawn by two milch cows, who head straight for Israel and do not waver. The ark stops at Beth Shemesh before finding a more permanent home.

The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field. When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

When the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” They understood that Yahweh’s ark had come into the camp.

The Philistines were afraid, for they said, “God has come into the camp.” They said, “Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before.

Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

Be strong, and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

A man of Benjamin ran out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with dirt on his head.

When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out. When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, “What does the noise of this tumult mean?” The man hurried, and came and told Eli. Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

The man said to Eli, “I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.” He said, “How did the matter go, my son?” He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died; for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

His daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to giving birth. When she heard the news that God’s ark was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and gave birth; for her pains came on her.

About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid; for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it. She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel”; because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

She said, “The glory has departed from Israel; for God’s ark has been taken.” (1 Samuel 4:1–22 WEB)

Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.When the people of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact.Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any who come into Dagon’s house, step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, to this day.

But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders. When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us; for his hand is severe on us, and on Dagon our god.”

They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried over to Gath.” They carried the ark of the God of Israel there. It was so, that after they had carried it there, Yahweh’s hand was against the city with a very great confusion; and he struck the men of the city, both small and great so that tumors broke out on them.

So they sent God’s ark to Ekron. As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel here to us, to kill us and our people.” They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.The men who didn’t die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven. (1 Samuel 5:1–12 WEB)

The background for every strategic battle is to take down an enemy with good intelligence about the exact enemy and its capability. We need strength, position, and even more specifics...Type of power and equipment and skill and maturity of the force. In spiritual warfare we are not just called to sit around and wait for the angels to fight. Like David we are called to stand up to goliath and in a Very real sense defeat it! Corporate intercession is how we do this through the "Great Commission". As we advance the Kingdom through discipleship, we are launching the precision guided munitions! Like a JDAM guided by satellite link we advance as the Holy Spirit seizes the victory and Jesus leads us into battle. Dagon will fall and the other weaker demons will follow inline as commanded by our King and as they tremble in His presence. They know their fate. We should also know our destiny as His sons and daughters. We will either tear down the gates of hell, or see our generation stand by as we sit in our four walls and hope someday another generation will reach this world before hell is full. So many are dying with out Christ, and Pew research says that over two billion have heard he gospel. Many thousands are dying every day with Jesus. Can you feel the heart of the Father who wants none to die without Jesus? Where is the love, compassion for the lost?

As we gather corporately and praise our King,we need to begin the Warfare Praise against our enemy to bind it and advance In Jesus name. It should be loud!

Let's read an example of warfare praise:

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day; nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked. Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot. “Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.” (Psalm 91:1–16 WEB)

We must begin our corporate praise and worship In our private time, notice I did not say quiet time. Because we have been quiet long enough. The Church needs to get loud! Roar!

Next up 4H: Tomorrow, we name names and take no prisoners. I will share was revealed here as we advanced with an apostolic hub on campus. The details I hope will loose the remnant warriors to go and take the land.