Stopping the Devil From Using our Head and Hands
March 8, 2015
MF Blume
1 Samuel (5:1) And the Philistines took the ark of God, and
brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. (2) When the
Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of
Dagon, and set it by Dagon. (3) And when they of Ashdod
arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to
the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him
in his place again. (4) And when they arose early on the
morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground
before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of
his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was
left to him.
1Sa 5:4 YLT …and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of
its hands are cut off at the threshold, only the fishy part hath been
left to him;
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"Philistine" means IMMIGRANT.
One immigrant we do not want to have in our land is THE DEVIL and his evil spirits.
The god of the Philistines was a FISH GOD.
- It looked like a fish but THE HEAD AND HANDS were HUMAN HEAD AND HANDS.
- Those two parts did not look like a fish but like a human.
- It was like a FISH took the head and hands of a human and used them for itself.
THIS IS LIKE THE DEVIL.
- The way that the devil takes over your life and brings death and
destruction is by USING YOUR HEAD AND HANDS like they were his own head
and hands.
- He lies to our MINDS in our HEADS to get us to do wicked things with our HANDS.
But when Jesus saves us, we are born again and must LEARN we are saved and the devil cannot use our head and hands any more!
When the Philistines took the ARK into their false god's temple, IT REPRESENTS Jesus going in to destroy the power of the devil.
SO BOTH OUR LIVES AND THE DEVIL must be taken care of to set us free.
TWO VERY IMPORTANT ASPECTS of our lives are represented as HUMAN HANDS AND HEAD on Dagon.
- The Bible speaks much of WHAT WE KNOW and WHAT WE DO as a result.
- KNOWING is represented by your head.
- DOING is represented by your hands.
- If you EXPECT to do something in your mind then you will likely find a way to DO IT with your hands.
Rom 6:2 KJV God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:12 KJV Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Rom 6:14 KJV For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
But we have to understand this, because the instinctive way is to think we have to sin.
- And that’s an example of how our MINDS can be mistaken.
Israel was in a backslidden state where the spiritual leader, Eli the High Priest, had eyes that were dim.
- Paul spoke in Eph 1 about eyes of our understanding.
- Dim eyes represent lack of spiritual understanding and revelation.
- We are like ELI when we don’t have a revelation of this.
- Spiritually, our offspring represent products of our lifestyle, and are unruly.
We become defeated in our lives.
- Sin takes over our lives and we do wrong things, even though we hate them and really do not want to do them.
- They begin controlling us.
- BUT WHEN THE WORD COMES and LIGHT of TRUTH SHINES, THE DEVIL'S POWER IS DESTROYED.
Eli had two sons who were wicked and adulterous.
HOPHNI's name means FIST FIGHTER.
PHINEHAS' name means MOUTH OF THE SERPENT.
- These boys committed adultery and fornication with women of the "church".
- They forced offerings to be given rather than accept offerings.
- The meaning of the names of the two sons represents the state of many Christians.
Look at how it all started that day.
1 Samuel 4:10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten,
and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great
slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
(11) And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas, were slain. (12) And there ran a man of
Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his
clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
This messenger from Benjamin is very significant.
- He is like PAUL the apostle who was also from the tribe of Benjamin (Phil 3:5).
- Paul taught us about how we can defeat the devil's power over our own flesh.
Not only was ELI dim-sighted and had sons who lived like devils, fist
fighter and mouth of the serpent, but he was VERY FLESHY (fat) and was
called AN OLD MAN.
- Lots of flesh represents lots of LUSTS OF THE FLESH in our lives.
- All of that flesh represents fleshliness and carnality that defeated people have ruling their lives.
This message from this man of Benjamin told Eli that the ark was taken
and his two sons were killed -- and it caused the OLD MAN TO DIE.
When they heard the ARK OF THE COVENANT was taken by the enemy, it
represents how JESUS CHRIST WAS TAKEN BY THE DEVIL and crucified.
- Jesus died, and it was the devil's biggest mistake.
- Just like they took the Ark and it destroyed their idol.
- Jesus Christ's death was what destroyed the power of the devil.
Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through
death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the
devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject to bondage.
But it also deals with our lusts and flesh
Galatians 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
When we were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ into Jesus Christ's death WE DIE WITH JESUS.
- We become part of his destruction of the devil.
- We need to understand it and have faith in it.
Paul preached the cross in Romans 6 and told us we're crucified with Jesus.
Romans 6:6 KJV Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with
him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should
not serve sin.
AND IT SLAYS THE OLD MAN!
Like Paul's message, the message of the man of Benjamin killed the OLD MAN.
KNOW THIS and get victory!
In our story, not only did the PHILISTINES (the devils) have to be dealt with, BUT THE OLD FLESHY MAN IN ISRAEL died as well!
You are the spiritual leader of YOUR LIFE.
- When Eli had these sons who were very wicked, it represents our lives that PRODUCE wicked things.
- These boys represent our wicked works.
- THEY HAVE TO DIE.
- IF WE ARE fleshy and carnal and produce works of the flesh like
FIST FIGHTER (HANDS) and MOUTH OF THE SERPENT, (HEAD) and are
blind and have no word of God.
- THE DEVIL USES YOUR HEAD AND HANDS if you SPEAK LIKE A SERPENT AND FIGHT WITH PEOPLE.
AFTER A BENJAMITE GIVES A MESSAGE THAT SLAYS THE OLD MAN, WE READ ABOUT
THE ARK IN WAYS THAT PARALLEL THE THREE DAYS OF THE WORK OF THE CROSS.
1Sa 5:1-5 KJV And the Philistines took the ark of God, and
brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod. (2) When the
Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of
Dagon, and set it by Dagon. (3) And when they of Ashdod
arose early on the morrow (DAY TWO), behold, Dagon was fallen upon his
face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and
set him in his place again. (4) And when they arose early
on the morrow morning (DAY THREE), behold, Dagon was fallen upon his
face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon
and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only
the stump of Dagon was left to him. (5) Therefore neither
the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on
the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
If the devil and sin ever had a TEMPLE it would be a tomb since he had power of death!
- When Jesus was crucified, HE WAS LAID IN A TOMB.
DAY 1- Ark is put into temple of Dagon.
DAY 2 - Dagon is seen fallen down on face before the ark.
DAY 3 - DAGON IS SEEN fallen down again with head and hands broken off on the threshold!
JESUS WAS THREE DAYS IN THE TOMB, and arose the third day!
1Sa 5:7 KJVR And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they
said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his
hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
It's the hand of God upon us (our old man) and DAGON, THE DEVIL!
The THIRD DAY the head and hands of DAGON were broken off.
1 Samuel 5:4 ...and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands
were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to
him.
Literally it was ONLY THE FISHY PART that was left.
1Sa 5:4 YLT And they rise early in the morning on the morrow, and
lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of
Jehovah, and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of its hands are cut
off at the threshold, only the fishy part hath been left to him;
When you are carnal, and led by the flesh and ruled by sin, THE DEVIL USES YOUR HEAD.
- If you do not THINK spiritually and have your MIND RENEWED with truths of the Bible, THE DEVIL HAS YOUR HEAD.
- HIS thoughts are in your mind.
- If we do not understand in our minds the truth, we will THINK WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH SIN.
- The devil owns your MIND and you think the way he wants you to think.
- Especially when SELF is too alive, and we cannot think of anything more than what so and so said or what so and so did to us.
- THE DEVIL HAS A HUMAN HEAD AND THAT HUMAN HEAD IS OURS!
And if the devil has your HEAD, he HAS YOUR HANDS.
- Your hands represent your actions and what you DO.
- When your MIND is on SELF and you are defending yourSELF and you
serve and worship yourSELF more than even God, then you are going to DO
A LOT OF THINGS that are wicked and sinful.
- THE DEVIL HAS YOUR HANDS!
You need to go back to the place where Jesus laid.
- Go over in your understanding the fact that you were crucified with Christ.
- Sin has no more dominion over you other than WHAT YOU ALLOW IT TO HAVE.
- So, realize you do not have to let it rule you and claim the blood that set you free from it and stop it from ruling you.
Just because Israel was God's people did not mean the Philistines could not conquer them and defeat them.
Similarly, just because you are a Christian and Jesus Christ won the
war for you does not mean the devil cannot take over your MIND and
ACTIONS when you let the OLD MAN rule and do not pray and do not deny
self and you let the light go out in your life, and don’t learn
truths like this.
KNOW speaks of your HEAD.
Rom 6:9-11 KJVR Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead
dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. (10)
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he
liveth unto God. (11) Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to
be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
But YOUR HANDS are involved here, too.
Rom 6:13 KJVR Neither yield ye your members as instruments of
unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that
are alive from the dead (a matter of the head that KNOWS one is dead to
sin and alive to God), and your members (such as hands) as instruments
of righteousness unto God.
Notice that the MARK OF THE BEAST is on THE HEAD AND HAND. FOREHEAD, right HAND.
When you BREAK THE NECK of the OLD MAN with the truth by learning the
work of the cross, that is when the glory of God's power goes to work
and the DEVIL gets his neck broken and LOSES YOUR HEAD!
When you affect the old man with the cross, you affect the DEVIL!
- He uses your old man and YOUR mouth and YOUR hands.
- SO LET THE OLD MAN DIE!