CLOSING DOWN EVIL PORTALS

CLOSING DOWN EVIL PORTALS

I didn’t want it in my neighborhood, but the ads were up: “Webcam models wanted,” with a photo of a young girl dressed in bra and panties, in a compromising position. Here in Vegas that translates: Come in here so we can make you a porn star and more. These vicious portals are like manholes: you don’t want to fall in; they’re way too dangerous!

The building where they were advertising for “models” was painted pink, so we called it the “Pink Portal.” Portals are openings. This one opened to hell. In Dr. Sides’ book Closing Gates of Hell, I read and studied how God instructed his people to be able to close those doors that have made room for Satan and his minions to trap innocent people into a world of trouble.

I’d been able to close one of these places down before, but it took two years and consistent unrelenting prayer. Now I was learning a new way, and honestly I was a little timid. I had to be more involved this time, and I was unsure about it. But I was so determined to see the place shut down that I decided to do whatever it would take. I concentrated my believing on a section of scripture in Ezekiel 21:14-17:

“You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together. The third time let the sword do double damage. It is the sword that slays, the sword that slays the great men, that enters their private chambers.

“I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that the heart may melt and many may stumble. Ah! It is made bright; it is grasped for slaughter: ‘Swords at the ready! Thrust right! Set your blade! Thrust left—Wherever your edge is ordered! I also will beat My fists together, and I will cause My fury to rest; I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

The context of this scripture is that God told Ezekiel to prophesy against Israel because they let evil men influence them to do things against God. God wanted the devilish portals closed down. Verse 15 says: “I have set the point of the sword against all their gates.”

To get current true meaning out of this section, we need to understand “the sword of the spirit is the word of God” (Eph. 6:17). But it’s not just any word. It has to be the exact sharp words the Holy Spirit gives in the situation, a rhema (inspired) word.

I was doubtful about the striking of hands together; it was something I wasn’t accustomed to. But I found out it’s an Eastern custom, the way that a master would communicate to a servant to immediately carry out an order. Hand signals are found in many other places in the Bible too.

God says it’s the sword that slays. These powerful words of God come from the Holy Spirit working in us “both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil. 2:13). And as we speak the words, angels go to carry them out, angels that “excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word” (Ps. 103:20).

“Swords at ready! Thrust right! Set your blade! Thrust left—wherever your edge is ordered!” (v. 16). Thrusting is speaking: thrusting right is to bless; thrusting left is to curse. Do it wherever the Holy Spirit says. Then, as it says in verse 17, the Lord will have rest.

It took a couple of weeks for me to go through Dr. Sides’ book along with the Bible scriptures to glean what I needed. Then the right day presented itself, and I took courage. I asked my best friend Jane to go with me. We parked in the front of the Pink Portal, and I prayed for guidance as I began to speak as the Holy Spirit guided. When I got to the end, I felt led to pound my right fist into my left palm, and then I spiritually applied the blood of Jesus to the place to keep it shut and remove any sin that might want to linger there.

In less than a week, we drove by and saw the place had been re-painted a light neutral gray—no longer the pink portal. The advertisements were abolished: no cars, no people. The building was physically and spiritually totally empty of any evil! Praise God!

God’s will is that we all can live in His grace and peace. Sometimes we are going to have to fight to make that available to those who are being entrapped by the pink portals designed by God’s enemies. There are many types of gateways, not just pornography and human trafficking enticements. A portal can be anything that presents itself as a tasteful, acceptable, or attractive way to keep from carrying out and receiving God’s perfect will for our lives. A portal is an opening, a gate that invites a person into itself. It could be sexual enticement; it could be that third drink that once taken, leads to stupid drunk; it could be irrational fear stopping a person from doing what would be good clean fun; it could be hopelessness or any number of other things that become open doors to sadness and failure.

We can do something to close those hell gates. I know I don’t have all the answers, but I’m willing to learn and grow in this area and have courage to act, and so do you. When we want something badly enough, God gets us to the solutions. Using the keys we learn from the book of Ezekiel is one way to close evil portals for ourselves and others.

Love, Carolyn

QUESTIONS AND EASY CHALLENGES

1. Have you felt spiritually enraged by a devilish portal in your area of influence? A brothel? A meth lab? A house that brings in lots of drug dealers or buyers? A child molester’s dwelling?

2. Name some portals that trap you at times and pull you in?

3. Would you consider doing what I described in this article, even though you may have never done it before?

4. Cite a passage of scripture where God talks about closing spiritual portals or gates.

5. What is the “sword” of the spirit? Cite a couple of scriptures where this word “sword” is used in this sense.

6. What does God tell us the angels hearken to? Where is that found?

7. What causes God to rest? Cite the scripture backup for this.

8. Why do you think Christians don’t ask the Lord for angelic help? What is one little thing you could do to remedy that?

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