The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

There is yet another illustration of a Religious (and familar) spirit some have labeled it the Jezebel spirit: Spirit of Python/Divination and Witchcraft

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been set forth, crucified among you? Galatians 3:1

The ultimate purpose or goal of the spirit of Python is to crush and destroy the vision, dreams, and hope of individual Believers and of the Church. Uses 'voices of the past', discouragement, hopelessness, surrender.

For I know the thoughts ( plans or purposes ) that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law (the Word of God), happy is he. Proverbs 29:18 YOU CANNOT KEEP IT....without Loving Christ First and PYTHON crushes that.

And it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy: Joel 2:28-32; Acts 2:17-18

For the gifts and callings of God are without repentance (irrevocable, without repentance of Him). Romans 11:29

If the spirit of Python can crush your hope, your visions, and your dreams you will not have the intensity you need to 'press on to the mark of the high calling of God in Christ.' (YOU ACCEPT THE CRUSHING BY DECEPTION) This evil spirit wants to destroy God's plans and calling for your life. Python wants to rob you of your drive, motivation, and fight, and replace it with discouragement, hopelessness, and apathy. This is why Paul tells us to press on in our course of studies to show our selves approved of God in 2Timothy 2:15.

True to it's name sake, the spirit of Python wraps itself around it's victims and suffocates the life out of them. This is true whether the victim is an individual, a family, a business, a church, a community, or even a nation. The spirit of Python loves to 'play' with it's victims by squeezing them until their almost dead then releasing its grip some what, then squeezing again, time and time again. Ultimately bringing death. This is why one sees individuals, families, businesses, churches, and communities that always seem to be on a roller coaster ride. Up one moment, down the next, success and prosperity today, failure and devastation tomorrow, only to rise up again, only to fall again. Each time they fall, they sink lower than ever before.

When the spirit of Python is working, there is no real communion or fellowship. There will be isolation, cliques, and special interest groups. There is no real sharing or rejoicing, but lots of agitation,strife, contention, and a high level of defensiveness. People will become fearful, weak, and weary. The people become so cynical they don't enjoy anything or anyone, including themselves.

Python seeks to break down God's plan and purpose of the local church by destroying the divine order of authority. It is always undermining the authority of the church, constantly causing havoc for those in leadership. There will be no commitment to the Church or the Pastor. Doubt and unbelief will soon enter in; and people will begin to question their calling, their position, and their vision. People controlled by the spirit of Python will wander from church to church, never becoming rooted, never established in a local body.

The spirit of Python is the source of witchcraft and divination. Divination, the art of obtaining secret knowledge, especially of the future, is a pagan counterpart of prophecy. Python spirit is a diviner, false prophet, a giver of false prophecy. Careful comparisons of scripture will reveal that inspirational divination is by demonic power, whereas genuine prophecy is by the Holy Spirit of God. The biblical attitude toward divination is distinctly hostile. In Deuteronomy 18:10-14, the prophet of Yehovah is contrasted with diviners of all sorts and is set forth as the only authorized medium of supernatural revelation.

There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination (qecem - witchcraft, divination, the casting of lots or magical scrolls), or an observer of times (anan - magic, enchanter, sorcerer, soothsayer), or an enchanter (nachash - magic, to prognosticate, a spell), or a witch (kashaph - to whisper a spell, to enchant, to practice magic, witchcraft, sorcerer), Or a charmer (cheber/chabar - to join by means of a spell, to fascinate, charm), or a consulter with familiar spirits (shaal/owb - to inquire, ask, or converse with an evil spirit or demon, a necromancer, a ventriloquist, conjurer, medium), or a wizard (yiddeoniy - one who practices witchcraft and sorcery, a knowing one, conjurer, magic, enchant), or a necromancer (darash/muwth - one that seeks, ask, consults, and worships the dead, a medium, ventriloquist). For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord your God does drive them out from before you. You shall be perfect with the Lord your God. For these nations, which you shall possess, harkened to the observers of times (anan - magic, enchanter, sorcerer, soothsayer), and to diviners (qecem - witchcraft, divination, the casting of lots or magical scrolls): but as for you, the Lord your God has not suffered you to do so. Deuteronomy 18:10-14

Stand now with your enchantments (cheber/chabar - to join by means of a spell, to fascinate, charm), and with the multitude of your sorceries (kashaph - to whisper a spell, to enchant, to practice magic, witchcraft, sorcerer), wherein you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail. You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers (habar/shamayim - study of the stars and planets to predict or foretell future events, horoscope), the stargazer (chozeh - the study and worship of the stars, a seer), the monthly prognosticators (yada/chodesh - the study and worship of the moon, to study the moon for the purpose of foretelling future events), stand up, and save you from these things that shall come upon you. Isaiah 47:12-13