The children of Israel sinned against God, and God delivered them into the hands of their enemies. Thus, the Israelites became their servants. In addition, because of these Midianites, the children of Israel made themselves the dens, which are in the mountains and caves and strongholds. The Israelites saw that the Midianites, Amalekites, and even the children of the East came up against them, with their cattle in their tents. They came in a multitude like grasshoppers on their camels and destroyed all their increase of the earth, leaving neither sheep, oxen nor asses for them. The children of Israel then became impoverished because of their enemies.
As the Israelites were in terrible afflictions of distress, instead of repenting, they started looking for solutions in a wrong way, by building alters, just like the heathen nations around them. Each family began to build altars. However, their condition got worse even with the altars. After seven years, they cried unto the Lord.
“And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years… And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD”
(Judges 6:1, 6).
When they cried to God, He sent a prophet to them who reminded them of the goodness of God. Yet they despised the Lord by fearing the gods of the Amorites, for who they built altars
“And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour”
(Judges, 6:11-12).
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The Lord is with many believers today but they do not know. Many mighty people of God today are still serving under great bondage. There are much great potential deposited in many believers today but these believers are still living in sin.
One can have all that it takes to succeed and still fail in life. You can be a mighty man of valour and still fail in life.
“Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”
(Judges 6:13).
Believers should try to find out just like Gideon did through prayers, why they pass through difficulties despite the fact that they are born again. The clear point is that miracles will not come our way until the evil altars militating against our spiritual and physical welfare are destroyed. We need to destroy the evil altars and build an altar unto the Lord our God upon the Rock of Ages.
That same night the Lord said to him, “Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. Then build a proper kind of altar to the Lord your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering.”So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.
Judges 6:25-27)
Amputation of Destinies
An altar can be built to destroy an individual, a family, a group or even a whole nation. Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Koliath, the son of Levi; Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and On, the son of Peleth; the sons of Reuben, were under a curse.
“Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch”.
(Genesis 49: 3-4).
The people who were more than two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly; famous in the congregation; men of renown, gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron. Every attempt to call them to order failed and Moses challenged their own prayers on the evil altar standing on the holy altar of God.
“And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them”.
(Numbers 16:15).
When a determined enemy has vowed, and entered into a covenant with evil spirits to kill, if repentance is despised, there must be death. If the righteous person refuses to pray, he may die. That is to say that if repentance is rejected, there must be death when an enemy has pledged to kill and made a covenant with evil spirits to do so. The righteous person may perish if he refuses to pray.
“And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense… “Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah”
(Numbers 16:35, 49).
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This was an attack against Moses and Aaron, the leaders of Israel. Many true believers are dying today because they refuse to pray the right prayers. Abel died through household wickedness because he refused to pray the right prayers. Many are rendered useless, poor, sick and turned to perpetual servants because they refused to fight evil altars and their evil priests.
There was an altar built by King Jeroboam in Israel, which enslaved many lives there. By the powers of that altar, many people’s destinies were caged and amputated. The evil priest, King Jeroboam, ruled the people unchallenged until one day. There came a man of God out of Judah by the word of God. That was the first time the altar and its priest was challenged and put to shame Many Christians have not prayed and given challenge to their family evil altars; and that is the reason why they are living below their divine standard. God is waiting for you to take the lead. Many evil priests cannot repent unless they are challenged. Some altars are raised against a whole nation
“And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams. And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram”
(Numbers 23: 1-2).
Balaam and Balak built altars against the children of Israel when they came out from Egypt. The number ‘seven,’ means perfection or completeness in biblical/prophetic interpretation. The seven evil altars were erected against Israel to make sure that none of them escaped alive.
“And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab… For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations”
(Numbers 23:6, 9).
When they summoned the nation of Israel, the people appeared from the top of the rocks. Balaam saw them but could not harm them. The lives of the children of Israel were too hot for him. Instead of destruction, Balaam saw the blessing of God for Israel. Balak was a wicked king, who was determined to finish a whole nation on an evil altar. He failed the first time but asked Balaam to go with him to another place provided the children of Israel were cursed, even if it required cursing only a few of them. His aim was to curse and destroy all of them but when he failed in the first attempt, he then decided to curse some of them.
“And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from thence”
(Numbers 23:13).
When an individual is called on the evil altar for destruction and the evil priest fails to destroy him or her, the (satanic agents) may decide to summon the person’s womb (if it is a woman), in order to bring the curse of barrenness on her. Alternatively, they can summon one’s eyes, legs, business, certificates, marriages etc. It is very unfortunate to say that many believers’ marriages are on evil altars.
Evil communications corrupts good manners. Nobody can bribe God. You can bribe your pastor to take sides with you to destroy another person but you cannot bribe God. Whenever a man stands with God, prays the right prayers and lives a perfect life of holiness, no power will destroy him or her.
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Prayer Points to Destroy the Bondage of Evil Altars
- Any evil dedication against my life in any evil altar; break and release me, in the name of Jesus.
- Wherever I am being called on any evil altar; blood of Jesus, answer for me, in the name of Jesus.
- Every determined evil priest that has taken an oath to destroy me on the evil altar; fail woefully by fire, in the name of Jesus.
- I withdraw the totality of my life from the bondage in any evil altar, in the name of Jesus.
- Anything representing me on any evil altar; catch fire, in the name of Jesus.
- By faith, I enter into my life’s warehouse, in the name of Jesus.
- Any strongman blocking me from my warehouse, die, in the name of Jesus.
- O Lord, command your angels to release all my blessings to me, in the name of Jesus.
- You, my destiny, jump out of evil prisons, in the name of Jesus.
- Every evil padlock locking my warehouse, break to pieces, in the name of Jesus.