Demonic Altars vs. God’s Altars: Exposing the Enemy’s Plan to Counterfeit God’s Power
Excerpted from Returning to the Ancient Paths.
God is bringing us back to the holy altars.
Altars are established when God chooses to make a memorial, which is a place of remembrance or an access point. An altar is sacred. When you encounter the Lord and set up an altar, you must connect yourself to it.
The Lord your God is in your midst, a victorious warrior. He will rejoice over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy (Zephaniah 3:17 NASB).
God’s plans for each of us were established from the beginning (Ephesians 1:4). When I was at the Assemblies of God college, I had an encounter where the Lord called me by my new name, which is written on a white stone (Revelation 2:17). In Heaven, we will all get a white stone with our new name on it. Mine was handed to me in this vision, and it said “Victory” on it. I was told I was a victorious warrior, which is why I ended up naming our ministry Warrior Notes. It is the writings (notes) of a warrior.
When the Lord sent me back from Heaven, He told me that I could not fail. No one had ever talked to me like that before; they all told me I would fail. From the time I was born, people seemed to make it their assignment to ensure I did not succeed at anything. I share this to encourage you because many identify with this. I noticed that different altars were established in my life at various times. For instance, I received my captain’s rating in a fighter jet. A civilian flying a military jet is unheard of, but the organization that owns it and rented it to me was called Victory Aviation.
The Lord commonly uses these types of signposts. Often when the Lord has spoken to me, I look at my clock, and the time is 4:44 a.m. or 4:44 p.m.—this happens all the time. I am not superstitious; I am supernatural! This happened often with Kathi and me, and 444 became her favorite number. We have even been able to incorporate it into our ministry in different ways—as an altar and a memorial of His promises to us. I share this because altars are not necessarily the rocks you get at Home Depot to build.
The Lord wants to establish anchors and make memorials so you can always revisit them. I always look back at that visitation when the Lord initiated Warrior Notes. Before I wrote my first book, I had created a movie script based on the vision that I was shown. The movie was about a group of teenagers. When one of the boys woke up, he found a diary on his desk. When he looked through it, it had everything that had previously happened with his group of friends, including dates and times.
The diary that the teenager found included comments, such as, “I stepped in and stopped them from getting hit when they were on their bicycle,” and “I prevented this from happening, and I gave their parents money.” A warrior angel assigned to them had accidentally left this journal behind. These notes were left on this kid’s desk so he could access them.
You saw who You created me to be before I became me! Before I’d ever seen the light of day, the number of days You planned for me were already recorded in Your book (Psalm 139:16 TPT).
The movie goes through this whole story of these kids, but it is really the end-time scenario for Warrior Notes. The boy thumbs through the journal and reaches the present day, and the journal tells stories that have not happened yet. He started to know things before they happened, so the kids got together and started evangelizing, going from town to town. The Lord said this would be the next generation coming up. He told me to train the kids to walk in the Spirit supernaturally. At the end of the movie, the boy is in Heaven, and he hands the book back to the angel, saying, “I think this is yours.”
The angel replied, “No, it’s yours,” and it had the boy’s name on it. It was his book, and the angel was just making those events come to pass.
Joyful are people of integrity, who follow the instructions of the Lord. Joyful are those who obey His laws and search for Him with all their hearts. They do not compromise with evil, and they walk only in His paths (Psalm 119:1-3 NLT).
When negotiating the movie deal, the producer wanted me to change many aspects of it, so I said no and turned down a big contract. This happened with my book as well; they wanted to change some of the content. I would have been working with a well-known producer for the movie and publisher for the book, but I will not mention their names. The Lord said, “No, you’ve got to find someone who won’t change all the content.” Initially, I self-published and did not do the movie, turning down millions of dollars.
Concerning the movie and book, a group of angels appeared to me and said, “Do not let anyone touch these. Your Father in Heaven handed these to you because He trusts you. No man shall touch these.” After I wrote the book, I got on TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) and then on Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural! One of the producers who worked for Sid had been watching TBN when I was on.
The Lord spoke to him, and he told Sid, “This guy is the real deal,” so that’s how the call came. That is also how I connected with Destiny Image and with Harrison House. They did not want to change anything; their vision was to keep it authentic—how the Lord delivered it. We are overwhelmingly blessed today because of the integrity of Warrior Notes and because we stayed on our path.
Meeting with the Lord
But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, “You should know the Lord.” For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know Me already (Hebrews 8:10-11 NLT).
The Lord told me to create altar time; a time to worship, respond to the Lord, and stand before Him, even in homes. If you notice, the altar time in churches has almost disappeared. The Lord instructed me to go back to giving people that intimate time at the altar together. Brother Hagin told us in class that, as a pastor, he would have altar time. He asked everyone to come up and meet with the Lord after the sermon. At Rhema, they had little half benches up front for the altar time, which I want to bring back.
Brother Hagin said that giving people time to respond at the altar drastically reduced the need for weekly counseling. When they approached him, asking to talk, he told them to come back after service, saying, “We’ve got to get going here.”
On the way out, the people would say, “I don’t need to talk to you anymore. The Lord talked to me.”
I thought, That’s perfect. That is how it should be. I want to educate people that truth is applicable so they can meet with God and hear from Him. You do not need a prophet; if you seek one, you may get a non-prophet.
Responding to the Lord Through an Altar-Time Experience
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh (Hebrews 10:19-20).
A prophet in the New Testament is supposed to confirm what God has already said to you. In the New Testament, we are prophets, priests, and kings of the Most High God. Remember that Jesus brought us back to a state that is better than Adam (Romans 5:12-19).
When I was in Heaven, I saw how Jesus opened a new and living way for us through His blood. We can go right into the holy of holies where Jesus is. You do not have to go through a priest, king, or prophet. Nobody is at the door; it is wide open, and you just walk in unannounced.
There is a well-known photo of John F. Kennedy in Life Magazine. His son, Junior, is playing with a little red fire truck under the desk where his dad is sitting. That little boy did not have to have permission to enter the Oval Office. He was just enjoying playing in his father’s presence while his dad was working. I was so impressed by that. It reminded me of our access to the throne of our Father.
Exposing Counterfeit Altars
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places (Ephesians 6:12 AMP).
Many strange supernatural occurrences happen in northern Kuwait and Iraq, because that is the former location of ancient Babylon. The people who lived there at the time, led by Nimrod, attempted to build a tower to contact the heavenly realms, so the Lord had to give them different languages to bring confusion and scatter them (Genesis 10:8-11; 11:1-9).
Spiritual gateways were created through these towers, which explains these strange events. These towers were not designed to reach the heavens; they were attempting to make contact. They created ungodly portals to illegally contact the heavens. These gateways allowed access to parts of the earth and other realms where humans were not permitted.
When the Egyptians settled where ancient Babylon was, those pyramids were already there. They tried to build other pyramids, but they were inferior; they did not know what they were originally used for. We cannot build pyramids today because these beings, referred to as the mighty ones, built them supernaturally. Nimrod was one of those mighty ones. He was, in Hebrew, a hāyâ gibôr, one of the heroes of old.
When the Lord scattered the people who tried to build the tower in Genesis 11, Nimrod fled east and changed his name to Gilgamesh. You can read about him in The Epic of Gilgamesh. He was the first freemason and a type of antichrist. Freemasons put his initial G for Gilgamesh inside their compass symbol. This is not common knowledge because the enemy likes to remain hidden in darkness.
The impact of spiritual warfare in the systems of our world has become predominant so that you can now see the manifestation, but it has always been there. I believe that the son of perdition mentioned in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 is the disembodied spirit of Nimrod, who will influence the figure of the antichrist. He was a hybrid giant like Goliath (1 Samuel 17:4) and is now disembodied. Jesus was driving out these evil disembodied spirits, and now you are called to drive them out. As previously mentioned, the angels that left their abode and caused all this are chained (Jude 1:6).
Now in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him in their midst, it came out of him and did not hurt him (Luke 4:33-35).
Believers must only promote what the Bible says. It is important to note that Jesus was not driving out angels who were chained during His earthly ministry; these were unclean spirits, the same ones that are bothering you today. Demons are the disembodied unclean spirits of that generation that were hybridized and did not make it onto Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6:1-7). That’s why the dinosaurs did not make it either—they were hybrid creatures.
The images of Greek gods that you see are based on interbred creatures that once existed. God was so upset with this level of wickedness and corruption that He destroyed the whole earth in Genesis 7.
