People Are Inviting Demonic Influence: How to Close the Spiritual Doors They’ve Opened

Spiritual forces cannot invade humanity without cooperation from humankind.

A powerful truth is the realization that Jesus was not on earth in the Old Testament narrative, but today, because of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, we have an atmosphere reset for us to work in. As the Ekklesia, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, we stand as a restraining force to all the wickedness that eagerly desires its day.

Citizens of the ancient world were far more susceptible to the evil schemes of fallen angels, having no mediator, no Savior, no Jesus. Today, we operate within a vastly different scope of authority. Nonetheless, evil wants to rise, and even with Jesus and the Church on earth, deception is propagated by nefarious powers, and sadly, has an audience willing to listen like sheep puppets that will cooperate with these vile forces, giving them as much access into our natural world as they can acquire. Both comparisons we are about to look at ultimately lead toward the opening of the abyss.

Opening the abyss spoken of in Revelation 9 will be far more evil than any human can imagine, and it is possible that humanity will be responsible for it, even if inadvertently, through rogue science experimentation that attempts to tamper with, or even breach, the veil between our natural realm and the unseen.

The Original Dark Tower

Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them” (Genesis 11:1-6).

Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.” And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar (Genesis 10:8-10).

Babel, with its evil leader, Nimrod, was both a prototype system of the beast and the first version of the man of sin—the Antichrist. What they were constructing in Genesis 11 in that valley of Shinar was likely a massively high ziggurat. Not only was it built to reach remarkable heights, but its operational design was something far more sinister.

Lucifer Had High Ambition

Going high above the clouds was an aspiration of the main fallen angel, Lucifer, who said, “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (see Isaiah 14:14 KJV).

We can only speculate on all the possibilities the Tower of Babel was meddling with. From a place of conjecture, many believe that the Tower of Babel was likely a place of access, opening the realm of the spirit to the natural, acting like a portal, and ultimately allowing any evil beings entrance to our natural domain, with humanity being used to permit them.

Weaponized Pawns

Nimrod and his followers from the valley of Shinar were likely weaponized pawns attempting to give the earth over to the evil forces behind the veil. What these ancient people were setting out to accomplish through what some speculate was occult worship and alleged mad science was the eventual opening of the bottomless pit in Revelation 9:11. Forbidden knowledge was given to Nimrod and his followers by these watchers—also known as the sons of God, or angels who came down to cohabitate with women in Genesis 6.

If the people of Shinar had opened a spiritual gateway to usher in vile dark forces, it would have rendered the ancient world defenseless to the reign of those watchers and their offspring. Evil beings would rule humanity, let out of the spirit realm, and operate in the natural world. These vile forces would have had full rein of the earth because humanity, like Adam before them, would be the ones who gave their entire world over to complete and final darkness. Had God not intervened, all humanity would have suffered from the open portal at the first dark tower.

Consider Nimrod, their leader, who became a mighty man. Some suggest Nimrod became a mighty man because he was potentially a Nephilim and the original version of the Antichrist. This conclusion is based on the Hebrew word gib·bōr, which means mighty men or giants. We see this same Hebrew word in Genesis 6:4, which says, “There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”

Nimrod is what I call the anti-Adam, the devil’s first attempt at bringing about the man of sin, well before his time.

The Anti-Adam

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD” (Genesis 10:9).

[Nimrod] said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach. And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers (Antiquities of the Jews, Book 1, Chapter 4).

Nimrod, whose name means we rebel, ruled Babylon and was the instigator of the famous Tower of Babel, as described in Genesis 11. As I previously stated, Nimrod was the first representation of the Antichrist, and he became a mighty hunter. In a sense, Nimrod was attempting to replace Adam, the original son of God. Some consider Nimrod to be the first world ruler, a perversion of what Adam was assigned to do.

Nimrod was responsible for leading the construction of the Tower of Babel. According to Josephus, the motivation for creating the Tower of Babel was to protect humanity from another flood. Further, according to Josephus, Nimrod “persuaded [his subjects] not to ascribe [their strength] to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their courage which procured that happiness.”

If what Josephus suggested about Nimrod was true, then Nimrod could be classified as a godless, humanistic anti-Adam. Adam, the original son of God who was to rule the garden and subdue the earth, was also referred to in the Bible as the first man, or Adam. Jesus is the last Adam (see 1 Corinthians 15:45).

By referring to Nimrod as the anti-Adam, I am saying he carried the original spirit of Antichrist and raised himself to pervert the purpose of God on the earth through rebellion. Rebellion against God is one of the primary purposes of the Antichrist.

Ever since the fall of man, there have been many false religions and ungodly belief systems that attempt to usurp the God of heaven and do things as they wish rather than serve and surrender to the Creator. Much of this is due to the nefarious activities of those mutinous fallen angels who acted according to their will rather than in alignment with God’s will. That same spirit has flooded the earth, and we face it today—the spirit of Antichrist.