Marine Spirits and Water Altars: What They Are and How to Overcome Them

Marine spirits are evil powers that operate from the waters: seas, rivers, streams and lakes. A water altar is a place at the water where sacrifices are offered and covenants are made with those powers. In this teaching they are fallen angels who settled in the waters after their rebellion, and they hold people through covenants that pass from one generation to the next.

This teaching explains where marine spirits come from, what a water altar is, why a marine covenant binds, and how a believer overcomes them. Prayer points follow at the end.

Where marine spirits come from

The water spirit was a high-ranking angel, created by God along with the devil and the other angels. God gave these angels great power and a home in heaven. They were deceived into believing that they had been given all the power that existed, and they joined Lucifer in rebellion.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. (Isaiah 14:12-13)

When they fell, these same powers came into the world to occupy every space. Some settled in the hills, some in the heavenlies and some in the waters. They work with millions of demons, and with men and women in positions of authority, and their one duty is to move people against God.

Scripture shows a power seated on the waters, and a ruler who spoke with her voice:

• "The great whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication" (Revelation 17:1-2).
• The prince of Tyrus said, "I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas" (Ezekiel 28:2). When he submitted to this power, he lost his own nature and began to talk like the one he obeyed.

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (Romans 6:16)

What is a water altar?

An altar is a meeting point between the physical and the spiritual. A water altar is one raised at a sea, a river or a stream, where people meet marine powers, offer sacrifices and receive power. Water spirit altars are one of the types of evil altars.

Water altars are often community altars. Marine powers control local streams and give people laws about them: whether the fish may be killed, and whether the creatures in the water, or the water itself, are to be worshipped. A person can be bound to such an altar through his village or his family without ever going there himself.

Why a marine covenant binds

A marine covenant is as binding as a divine covenant. A covenant is a binding agreement, a legal contract, whether for good or for evil. That is why people who are involved in an evil covenant suffer strange things when they want to get out.

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. (Galatians 3:15)

The most dangerous covenants are covenants with water spirits and blood covenants. Each party is legally bound once the covenant is made, and the covenant transfers to later generations unless it is broken.

What marine covenants produce

• Premature deaths in a family.
• Poverty.
• Late marriage and every kind of marital problem. See deliverance from spirit husbands and wives.
• A lifetime of struggle with nothing to show for the effort.
• Covenants made and renewed in dreams.
• Strange suffering when a person tries to leave.

None of these is proof on its own. Ordinary life has troubles too. When several persist together, especially across a family, pray.

How to overcome marine spirits and water altars

1. Repent and renounce. Turn from sin and from every practice connected with other spiritual powers. The believers at Ephesus burned their books before all men (Acts 19:19).
2. Break the covenant by name. Renounce every covenant with the waters made by you, by your family or by your village.
3. Pray and fast. "This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting" (Mark 9:29).
4. Use the Word of God. It is "quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword" (Hebrews 4:12).
5. Stand in the authority of Christ. "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy" (Luke 10:19).
6. Worship. God inhabits the praises of His people (Psalm 22:3). Where He is enthroned, these powers lose their ground.
7. Do not fight alone. Ask a faithful pastor and mature believers to pray with you.

Scriptures to pray with

• "Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters" (Psalm 144:7).
• "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee" (Isaiah 43:2).
• "Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters" (Psalm 74:13).
• "In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent... and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea" (Isaiah 27:1).

Questions people ask

Are marine spirits in the Bible?

Not by that name. Scripture speaks of spiritual rulers (Ephesians 6:12), of a power that sits upon many waters (Revelation 17:1), and of leviathan, the dragon that is in the sea (Isaiah 27:1).

What is a water altar?

A place at a sea, river or stream where sacrifices are offered to marine powers and covenants are made with them.

How do I break a marine covenant?

Give your life fully to Christ, renounce the covenant by name, and pray with fasting until you are free. A covenant your family made before you were born still has to be broken by you.

Is the queen of the coast a marine spirit?

Yes. She is a marine power whose domain is the coasts and the waters. Read The Queen of the Coast: Who She Is and How She Operates.

See also The Rise of the Water Spirit and Prayers Against Marine Spirits. The subject is taught in full in the book Total Destruction and Dominion Over Water Spirits.