Part II of GOD’S PREPARATION FOR THE GLORY, THE FIRE WITHIN
AND THE FIERY DARTS WITHOUT BY ROBIN KIRBY-GATTO
APRIL 14, 2011
God has been showing me that there are certain attacks whereby we do not engage the enemy but rather enter the stronghold of God, the rest of God, and it is the Lord’s battle not our battle. It is in the place where the enemy comes in like a flood and what we looked at in the prior section was that the enemy comes in like a flood through an attack that is of divination, manipulation and control. I have already done the section on Jezebel, consisting of the spirit of Jezebel and how to discern the operation of the spirit of Jezebel and how to overcome the assignment of Jezebel for you and others. Jezebel works with this attack of divination, which is also known as Python, identified in Acts 16 and we merely look at the divination operating in the woman that was taunting Paul, whom Paul cast the divination spirit out of the woman but there is still further revelation on the spirit of divination from Acts 16 we will look at. The spirit of divination, Python, works cooperatively with the Jezebel spirit and as a result with the two spirits working cooperatively against the anointing of God it opens up the door of pride which leads to the attack of Leviathan.
Recently an intercessor friend of mine who is a prophet talked with me about her prior work years ago in a ministry that had been effected by the spirit of Jezebel. She stated she and her prayer warriors in the church had cried out for deliverance and began using their authority in Christ Jesus to hit the attack of the spirit of Jezebel but before they could effectively begin to come against Jezebel Python had come in and began to get support from the Jezebel spirit in order to operate. My friend, who is highly accurate in hearing God and has worked in deliverance ministry over 15 years with individuals, ministers and ministries, stated “Python eats Jezebel’s lunch.” She said that the Python spirit was more powerful than Jezebel due to the power that the spirit gets from what Jezebel has been doing, which is to control and manipulate all those within her control (we are talking about a spirit not a person and using a female gender due to the Jezebel in the bible being a prototype of the spirit). When the ministry is then under the control of Jezebel then Python moves in, which truly gets strength with many who are deceived into thinking they are doing the will of God when they are doing the will of satan and his minions in bringing evil works from the invisible into the visible. The reason it was in the visible is similar to faith. We have faith to believe and hope for things we don’t see and they do not manifest in the visible realm until they have been pulled into the heart and soul of the believer who with Holy Spirit will cooperate to pull them from heaven to earth. Likewise, someone that is operating under divination and manipulation of the python spirit ends up pulling on the iniquities in the person’s (persons) heart(s) that it manifest what is already within their heart to bring about the evil work of satan which in turn hatches a vipers egg, releasing the viper in the spirit realm through a yielded vessel that begins attacking the anointing, Christ in us the hope of glory, and tries to get the anointed vessel under submission to the system of python or gets rid of the anointed vessel. People under the influence of python come together believing the lies of the enemy regarded the anointing and as a result it is a brooding bed for Leviathan to enter in, which in turn creates such chaos and tribulation that my friend stated it starts “a civil war.” The enemy is intended on bring division and strife in ministries to stop the flow of Holy Spirit which in turn stops the anointing of God in the person(s) and or ministry. God showed me this in His word and brought me back to a saying Holy Spirit gave me a long time ago when I had gone through great persecution and was warned by Holy Spirit in a detailed dream with the exact persons who would be involved and the exact persecution I would go through. Had I not been given over to the love of Christ Jesus, then I truly would tell you I would have thought I was doing what they thought I was doing which was operating in Jezebel. However, God had warned me exactly two weeks before the set of events occurred and as a result my husband and I had enough time to pray about God first averting the attack for all involved, even those whom would be given over to satan’s plans and also myself to have strength to walk out the discrediting and persecution that was to come. Before, I knew it every detail of my dream began to occur and my husband looked at me in the midst of it with his mouth dropped open knowing what was going to come because it would not be something that would be brief but take 2-3 years to walk out.
Recently, Holy Spirit gave me another dream a couple of weeks ago, because new level new devil, going higher then more fire! When He gave me the dream I knew I would be going under another attack and it was time to prepare and be prayed up and Worded up (in the Word-Bible). As a result all the details of the dream have already been playing through but I know the end of the dream and what Holy Spirit has promised me from the Father, Abba. The reason I am getting into these details is because it is necessary for you to understand that the spirit of Leviathan-Python comes against you to destroy the anointing of Christ in you, which we know that it cannot, but with that said it is still the attack of the enemy to come against the anointing of Christ in us by whatever and whomever the enemy can use. God showed me that “people see what they want to see” and if there is any iniquity within their heart then people see the evil within their own heart and put it on the vessel walking in the anointing and that anointed vessel then becomes a prey of the enemy within this brood of vipers. It takes many people who are given over to the spirit of python to bring about an attack of Leviathan. This attack pulls on the pride within a person’s heart whereby they truly believe they are doing the work of God and believe that it is the anointing they are operating in against the anointed vessel but it is not the anointing it is the slime of satan they have convinced themselves that it was the anointing. Rick Joyner proves this point in The Final Quest. I usually try to read the Final Quest series 3 to 4 times a year because it is anointed with the fullness of God’s Holy Spirit and opens our eyes to seeing how the devil operates in the Body of Christ, the church overall. In his book he begins the series off where the Christians begin attacking someone else and gather around the person stabbing them thinking that it is God telling them to spiritually stab the person but it is slime on them by devils that are riding these Christians and they are deceived unable to tell the difference between the anointing of Holy Spirit and the lies of satan. We will see this clearly in Acts 16, which is an entire chapter describing how Python operates in deception but also how it operates through control, Jezebel-religion-python, opening up the door to come against the anointing. When it comes through a person who is given over to it then it is a distraction but when it operates in a group it then becomes a brood of vipers coming together giving power to Leviathan bringing about an attack on the anointed vessel, the firebrand of God, making them a prey since they have jilted the system of Python operating.
A firebrand is from Song of Solomon and Zechariah 3. In Song of Solomon God’s word states “let him kiss me with the kisses of your mouth.” (Song of Solomon 1:2) and here kiss means to touch and to attach with weapons. The root word of kiss means to kindle with fire. So a firebrand is a worshiper, devoted one of God, who loves Him with all of their strength, mind, soul and heart. Zechariah 3:2 shows the high priest Joshua who satan had contended with God for his soul and God told satan that Joshua was a brand plucked out of the fire. Joshua was plucked out of satan’s fire and filled with God’s anointing, God’s fire. Therefore, a firebrand is an abandoned lover of Jesus Christ who walks out the word of God, a devoted servant, a friend of God!
THE ATTACK OF THE FIREBRAND
The main chapter demonstrating this attack of the brood of vipers is Acts 16, however, to see the actually hatching of the vipers eggs are demonstrated in Psalm 55 through 59. Moreover, we will conclude with Isaiah 59 demonstrating the fullness of this attack against God’s anointing and the preparation for which is to bring in for God, God’s Glory!
Acts 16
16As we were on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who was possessed by a spirit of divination [claiming to foretell future events and to discover hidden knowledge], and she brought her owners much gain by her fortunetelling.
17She kept following Paul and [the rest of] us, shouting loudly, These men are the servants of the Most High God! They announce to you the way of salvation!
18And she did this for many days. Then Paul, being sorely annoyed and worn out, turned and said to the spirit within her, I charge you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her! And it came out that very moment.
19But when her owners discovered that their hope of profit was gone, they caught hold of Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the forum (marketplace), [where trials are held].
20And when they had brought them before the magistrates, they declared, These fellows are Jews and they are throwing our city into great confusion.
21They encourage the practice of customs which it is unlawful for us Romans to accept or observe!
22The crowd [also] joined in the attack upon them, and the rulers tore the clothes off of them and commanded that they be beaten with rods.
23And when they had struck them with many blows, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.
24He, having received [so strict a] charge, put them into the inner prison (the dungeon) and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the [other] prisoners were listening to them,
26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the very foundations of the prison were shaken; and at once all the doors were opened and everyone's shackles were unfastened.
27When the jailer, startled out of his sleep, saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was on the point of killing himself, because he supposed that the prisoners had escaped.
28But Paul shouted, Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!
29Then [the jailer] called for lights and rushed in, and trembling and terrified he fell down before Paul and Silas.
30And he brought them out [of the dungeon] and said, Men, what is it necessary for me to do that I may be saved?
31And they answered, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ [[d]give yourself up to Him, [e] take yourself out of your own keeping and entrust yourself into His keeping] and you will be saved, [and this applies both to] you and your household as well.
32And they declared the Word of the Lord [the doctrine concerning the attainment through Christ of eternal salvation in the kingdom of God] to him and to all who were in his house.
33And he took them the same hour of the night and bathed [them because of their bloody] wounds, and he was baptized immediately and all [the members of] his [household].
34Then he took them up into his house and set food before them; and he leaped much for joy and exulted with all his family that he believed in God [accepting and joyously welcoming what He had made known through Christ].
35But when it was day, the magistrates sent policemen, saying, Release those fellows and let them go.
36And the jailer repeated the words to Paul, saying, The magistrates have sent to release you and let you go; now therefore come out and go in peace.
37But Paul answered them, They have beaten us openly and publicly, without a trial and uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now thrust us out secretly? No, indeed! Let them come here themselves and conduct us out!
38The police reported this message to the magistrates, and they were frightened when they heard that the prisoners were Roman citizens;
39So they came themselves and [striving to appease them by entreaty] apologized to them. And they brought them out and asked them to leave the city.
40So [Paul and Silas] left the prison and went to Lydia's house; and when they had seen the brethren, they warned and urged and consoled and encouraged them and departed.
Here starting in Acts 16:16 There is a slave girl that is following Paul and Silas and from appearances she is lifting them up stating they are the men of God. However, after days of being tormented by this spirit of divination Paul casts out the devil from the slave girl. However, she was not lifting Jesus up, but rather she was lifting Paul and Silas up stating that these men were the men of the Most High God who could tell you the way of salvation. The spirit of python (divination) that was operating was trying to get at Paul’s ego; it was trying to bring in pride, whereby divination/python would have a foothold in which to operate in Paul and restrain or stop the anointing of Jesus Christ in Paul and Silas. However, Paul discerned the spirit operating and that it was not there to lift up the Lord Jesus but rather to lift up man and divert attention away from the Lord and put it on Paul and Silas. Therefore, Paul discerns and casts that spirit out.
When the spirit of divination starts attacking you it will begin by initially lifting you up and trying to see if it can get a hook in you by creating some pride whereby you agree with the spirit of python/divination and allow pride to creep in thinking it is you doing the ministry, it is you praying, it is you preaching, it is you who is doing the work. That is what satan wants. He wants us to look at our good works and us doing God’s work so that a foothold will be able to operate in the area of pride in our souls. However, it is a place whereby we have to know that the only thing we boast in is God and the only thing we boast about ourselves is in our weaknesses. (2 Corinthians 12:5). Therefore, since Paul discerned the spirit and stayed humble he was able to cast the spirit out of the slave girl as Holy Spirit led him. By appearances then the python spirit was operating in one person. When that attack of the enemy doesn’t work to get you to fall into pride then it will come against you with a brood of vipers in which fiery darts of the enemy comes against you so that the testing of your faith which is more precious than gold will be seen in you when the manifestation of Jesus Christ is revealed (1 Peter 1:6-8). Jesus in us is lifted up and not we ourselves. We exalt and lift Jesus up, where He is increasing and we are decreasing.
Since the python spirit did not operate against Paul and Silas in the slave girl then the vipers that attacked Paul and Silas were the magistrate and the rulers and people of the area since it affected their system, attached to mammon. Likewise the system of religion is attached to mammon, which works with Jezebel and Python in time and anything that disrupts the system then turns and attacks the anointing because it has brought to light things hidden in darkness; it has become a threat to the system. As a result Paul and Silas look like the trouble makers when all they were doing was exposing the demonic operating in a system. Likewise, when python is operating in a ministry it will attack people that are truly operating in the anointing of Holy Spirit and it believes that those persons are the corruption to the system, to the ministry. The persons given over by pride to this spirit of python then turn into a brood of vipers and begin bringing havoc on the person exposing the system. The rulers stripped them and beat them. I can tell you the comparison to this with my own life. At one time when the python spirit attacked me it literally said through a willing vessel, that the anointing should be “stripped off” of me and I should be pulled down from my pedestal. However, the funny thing was I didn’t put myself own a pedestal because I had just finished removing the flogger of religion from my back and began loving myself! This is key because the whole purpose of python is to bring intimidation, control and hatred. It is to create a civil war, to create hate in order to come against the anointing. That is why it is imperative with those firebrands who are being struck by the python spirit to those given over to it to ask for God’s grace to forgive those given over to its influence and to fill you with a love for those who wrongfully persecute you.
The strategy Paul used in getting out of this attack of Python which went from one slave girl to an entire city, turning into a brood of vipers, Leviathan was that they entered into the stronghold of God as in Psalm 91:1-7. They are the devil chomping on their every end. They had satan coming against them attacking them falsely accusing them, bring falsehood and evil against them. They began to praise the Lord! They entered into the very center of God that they broke out in a joyous praise. Some people believe that it simply is just praising the Lord and say “praise your way out!” That is incorrect; praise first has to find its way inside of you and break its way out! Just as Paul and Silas were put in the inner core they had to break out of the inner core of the jail from the inside out not the outside in. Likewise praise has to break from within us and only only only only ONLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY is a supernatural act of God that comes forth because we ENTER THE STRONGHOLD OF GOD!!!!!! When we have entered GOD then from that position praise is a natural response, a product from that intimacy that it breaks out of us and delivers us from the attack. When Paul and Silas got victory in praise it took the bondage off of others that were held captive. The earthquake came forth and it shook everything that could be shaken!!! Everything that was not of God, which was captivity itself!!! The earthquake shook satan’s kingdom!!!! Then Paul saw the prisoners released and eventually salvation come from the very ones who were to guard him and ensure for the leaders operating under python that he would stay in bondage. However, when they were saved and their eyes opened to the anointing, CHRIST JESUS, everything changed!!! The python spirit tries to shut down the anointing in a firebrand however all it did was make the firebrand, PauL and Silas, turn into the stronghold of God (Psalm 91) and the anointing INCREASED effecting the entire area!! The very pit created for them was where the enemy was lured into!!! The magistrate told the jailers to release Paul because he became to big of a problem for them to contain. Then Paul’s response is we were publicly humiliated and we are not leaving here until we are publicly absolved. When python spirit operates the only way to rid the ministry of that spirit is through public exposure! Therefore, the magistrate comes into the jail and tells Paul to leave because they can no longer tolerate the anointing of Christ in Paul to continue to wreak havoc on the kingdom of darkness.
The Psalms 56-59 all identify areas in which demonstrate people given over to the python spirit operating with others, creating a pit of vipers. However, God promises to deliver you from this attack in Psalm 91. Simultaneously with deliverance God’s greater purpose is to bring Him glory because the ultimate process of the python spirit attack, the brood of vipers is to have the shield of faith increase in you so that you can quench all the fiery darts of the enemy and walk in a GREATER ANOINTING of Holy Spirit!!!! Going from GLORY TO GLORY!!!! 2 Corinthians 3:18!!!!!
THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE ANTI-CHRIST SPIRIT WHICH IS BEHIND PYTHON IS TO STOP THE LOVE! 16 MEANS LOVE AND MARRIAGE COVENANT! THE POINT AT WHICH THE SPIRIT OF PYTHON IS OPERATING STARTS AT ACTS 16:16! SATAN IS TRYING TO STOP THE LOVE OF GOD FROM FLOWING!
That will come tomorrow!! TO BE CONTINUED ONE MORE TIME…LOL
(EXCERPT FROM PRINCESS WARRIORS BY ROBIN KIRBY-GATTO COPYRIGHT 2011).