For several years now I have contemplated the power of live music in public places that embraces the extremes in the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It is the anointing that breaks the yokes of spiritual imprisonment. "If this gospel be hid, it is hid because the god of this world has blinded the eyes of those that are perishing.
3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 2 Cor 4:3-4
Spiritual warfare is all about removing the "veil." History tells us that veils are removable evidenced by the literal millions of salvations taking place on the earth.
The most powerful conversions have come through visitations of the Lord. Let me sight one example. Saul on the road to Damascus. The Bible records that great light shone around him and it happened "suddenly." It is the suddenlies of God that cause the greatest disturbances in the spiritual realm. The enemy does not have the time or wherewithall to counter strategize. Jesus suddenly showed up in the temple and read from the book of Isaiah (Luke 4:18), he read a simple passage and said "today this scripture if fulfilled in your hearing." V21 There is something very powerful about the "timing of God." When it comes it tends to end old things and start new things." Everywhere God came onto the scene be it Adam and Eve through the Apostles, the old ended and the new started. This is a premise to spiritual warfare and a Visitation of the Lord. Thus in my mind Torn Veil must now become "Visitation" in name and in action.
Verse 22 says that ALL bore witness to a 30 second reading of the scripture and then "marvelled at the gracious words." Previous to this time period and for a time frame of 400 years, there had been NO Prophet raised up in Israel until John the Baptist. Hearing gracious (anointed and timely words) was absent in Israel.
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