Spiritual Warfare

by Richard Ing

Overview

In his powerful examination of spiritual warfare, Richard Ing discusses the rulers and hierarchies of the demonic kingdom. For instance, he reveals the Jezebel and Ahab spirits that plague today's churches, destroying even the most effective ministries through controlling women and passive men.Discover how to overcome Satan's insidious tactics by learning the techniques and strategies available in your full arsenal of weapons, including:

• The proper use of binding and loosing
• The anatomy of a deliverance
• Satan's legal rights
• Spiritual war games
• Winning spiritual strategies

Victorious spiritual warfare is possible only as the Holy Spirit empowers individuals in the body of Christ.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780883689172
Publisher:	Whitaker House
Publication date:	07/01/2006
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Richard Ing has been married to his first sweetheart, Beatrice, for over fifty years. They have four children. Two are attorneys and two work for the State of Hawaii. Pastor Ing was born and raised in Hawaii, where he resides today. He was a civil engineer before graduating from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. He recently retired from law practice after forty years. He also owned several businesses, including a real estate firm, collection agency, travel agency, and newspaper.
Pastor Ing was an Episcopalian and a Baptist in his youth but backslid when he embraced the fraternity life in college. At the age of thirty-five, he began to seek God again, but a book entitled All Paths Lead to God led him to try many different religions, although he continued to pray to Jesus Christ. When he was forty-five years old, he and his wife were meditating in a Shinto temple when the head priestess tapped him on the shoulder and asked if he “used to go to a church with the cross—Jesus God.” She claimed that Jesus appeared to her moments earlier and told her that Mr. Ing and his wife belonged to Him and to send them to Him right away because time is short. That very night, Mr. and Mrs. Ing went to pray for a heart patient who was going to have open-heart surgery the next morning. Two days later, they received a phone call informing them that a miracle had occurred because the next morning the presurgery exam found that her heart was perfect!
Pastor Ing became born again in a deliverance ministry a few months later. He threw himself wholeheartedly into reading the Bible, serving, and praying, and became an elder in eight months. Two years later, he had a vision in which he was in a company of soldiers dressed in combat uniform and packed into a small building. He recognized it as a training hall he sat in when he took basic training in the U.S. Army. He saw himself walk down the steep steps to the front where he stood behind a wooden podium facing the troops. He then heard a voice say, “Son, I want you to teach My army!”
When he began teaching spiritual warfare and deliverance in Fiji, Vanuatu, and other countries, people would often see angels and white horses. Pastor Ing has given many small (two to three hundred attending) crusade meetings in the remote provinces of the Philippines, where God would deliver and heal many and thousands came to the Lord.
In 1998, as he was teaching at a Bible college in one of the northernmost provinces of the Philippines, the entire class suddenly fell to the ground and one of his workers had a vision of a huge rice field stretching out as far as the eyes could see. The stalks were so full of grain that they almost touched the ground, but they were still green. The rice then turned into people in white robes. The worker opened her eyes and saw a huge angel standing on the stage with a scroll in his hands. He announced that a great revival was coming to that area. Many smaller angels were flying under the ceiling.
Dr. Ing found out later that many have prophesied that the last and greatest revival of all time would start in the northern provinces of the Philippines. Three years later, Dr. Ing revisited the Bible college and his wife and three other members saw the same angel with two smaller angels on his right and two on his left. Since then, Dr. Ing has concentrated on the Philippines and made more than forty-five trips there.
He is the senior pastor of Light of the World Missions in Hawaii and in the Philippines. He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree besides a juris doctorate and bachelor of sciences degree, and is the vice president of New Covenant International Seminary and Bible College, with over two hundred affiliated Bible colleges around the world. Dr. Ing operates a Bible college, Mission House, and Vocational Training Center in the Philippines, along with four churches. He has lectured on spiritual warfare and inner healing multiple times in Fiji, Vanuatu, India, mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sarawak, Bulgaria, Philippines, Guam, Mexico, Switzerland, and on the U.S. mainland. He also lectures on house church restoration for the end times. He will be the first to tell you that he is unworthy, having been a Peter for so long, and only through God’s grace and mercy has he been given the privilege of seeing and experiencing the power of God in action.

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Chapter 1 Can Christians Have Demons?

To deliverance ministers, the question, "Can Christians have demons?" is not even worth pondering. Experiences with thousands of deliverance sessions leave no doubt in my mind that Christians not only can, but do have demons. One famous teacher, Frank Hammond, says, "The question is not whether Christians can have demons, but rather, can I ever find a Christian without a demon?" People stand up during services and declare, "I don't have a demon!" Yet the demon of Pride is manifested all over their faces. I suspect that most opposition to deliverance comes out of either fear or pride. People who fear demons and the very thought of the devil don't want to be involved. To disguise that fear, they advance an array of doctrines or Scripture to prove either that demons do not exist, or that Christians cannot have them. If their fear is too great, no amount of persuasion will convince them otherwise. Pride comes in when a denomination or church has officially adopted a "no demons in Christians" stance. It's difficult to change doctrines or positions once you have taken a public stance. No one wants to admit errors in doctrine if it will threaten his reputation. "Face" becomes more important than truth. Occasionally, a church sits on the fence by declaring that Christians cannot have demons but conceding that demons can cling to the outside. A number of Scriptures are used to support the argument that Christians cannot have demons living in them. Some quote 2 Corinthians 6:14, which says, "What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" Actually, the Bible does not say it cannot happen. It merely says it should not happen. Jesus supped with publicans, and saints fellowship with unbelievers so that the light can defeat the darkness. Some saints reason that demons cannot live in the body because it is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19). But we find that the temple in Old Testament days was divided into three main sections: outer court, Holy Place, and Holy of Holies. In Moses' tabernacle, anyone could enter the outer court, even foreigners. The Holy Spirit dwelt in the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies. Similarly, I believe that the Holy Spirit dwells in our spirits or hearts (Eph. 3:17; 2 Pet. 1:19), the demons in our bodies. In Acts 5:3, Peter said to Ananias, "why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?" In Ezekiel, the prophet dug a hole in the wall of God's temple and found a door through which he entered. He saw "every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about" (Ezek. 8:10). Demons existed in God's temple. Others claim that when we become Christians, we are cleansed of all demons. The Bible does not say that. It says that our sins are washed away by the blood, but does not mention demons. It is true, however, that demons cannot "possess" us. Unfortunately, the King James Version of the Bible uses an incorrect word. The correct word in the Greek is "demonization," or having demons. Possession implies total control. Demons cannot possess us, but we can possess demons. A quick fix for the issue is the contention that demons can only cling on from the outside. However, the Bible does not say that Jesus and the disciples "brushed off," "rubbed off," or "chased away" demons. Instead, the Bible consistently says, "cast out." "Cast out" clearly indicates that demons were "in." To get something out, it has to first be in. Theological arguments must give way to experience. Even scientists are known to abandon pet theories when actual experiences do not support them. Over 99% of the people I have delivered have been born-again tongue-speaking Christians, including many charismatic pastors. If you do not believe that Christians can have demons, I suggest you attend a number of deliverance sessions. Don't pass judgment until you have investigated the matter thoroughly. It is important to know the truth in these end times. If demons can reside in the human body, then they need to be cast out!

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Can Christians Have Demons? 2. Satan's Kingdom Exposed 3. The Kingdom of Babylon: Jezebel and Ahab 4. Satan's Rights 5. Knowledge and Discernment 6. Binding and Loosing 7. The Blood of Jesus 8. Drying Up the Enemy's Waters 9. The Gates 10. Preparing Yourself to Deliver 11. Preparing the Person to Be Delivered 12. Anatomy of a Deliverance 13. Leviathan 14. The Spirit of Antichrist 15. The Spirit of Mind Control 16. The Spirit of Murder and Violence 17. The Spirit of Death and Hades 18. The Hawaiian Religion 19. A Tsunami ComingAppendix AReferences