Priesthood & Kingship Corruption Strategies of the Kingdom of Darkness

One of the themes that runs throughout Scriptures is kings and priests. We are kings and priests, just as Jesus is our King of Kings and our High Priest. All the Old Testament kings and priests were a foreshadow of our ministry in these. In fact, when we say Jesus is the King of Kings, it’s not referring to the kings of the tribes we have today. It’s referring to us, who will rule with Him in the age to come. Thus, the fullness of our kingship and priesthood is yet to be fully revealed (in the age to come).

The first king and priest is, of course, Adam. His priestly ministry was to fill the earth (make the rest of the earth like Heaven on Earth, Eden). His kingship mandate was to have dominion over the earth. To have dominion is to rule. However, there are certain things Adam took lightly that landed us where we are today. First off, your priesthood powers your kingship. Adam lost his dominion because he corrupted his priesthood. Let’s see how the enemy corrupts either of these.

Corruption

When I use the word corruption, I’m not referring to the political meaning we all know. 2 Peter 1:4 says there is corruption in the world and the magnet that pulls us into this corruption is called lust. Lust is the perverse form of love, for love is the magnet that draws us into more of God. That lust, when explored extensively, is lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life. There is no sin in this world that does not start from this point. That is why James says “each one is tempted when he is dragged away, enticed and baited [to commit sin] by his own [worldly] desire (lust, passion)” (James 1:14 AMP).

After this post, you will now realise why we are not seeing a full-blown revival in many areas. It is the one strategy of the devil that confuses people into thinking he is on the same level as God in terms of power. It is this strategy that stops the flow of the Holy Spirit, not because He is not all-Powerful, but because His eyes cannot see evil, as Habakkuk says. If we can fully consecrate ourselves as a people, there is nothing that can stand against us.

The Devil is a Lawyer

Nope. I didn’t make a mistake in the heading. The devil is a liar. Yes! He is also a lawyer. Back in the days when no evil was found in him, he was the cherub that covers. Have you seen the Ark of the Covenant? There are two cherubs and God sits on the Mercy Seat in between the two cherubs. Well, one of them was Lucifer. What cherubs do is that they protect the Glory of God against (you guessed it) corruption. They make sure that God’s eyes do not see evil. The cherubims protect His Glory with jealousy as the seraphims protect His Holiness. These are the only two kinds of angels that minister to God face to face (they even cover their own face as they minister). They are the highest ranking angels in the hierarchy of angels.

This is why when Adam and Eve were sent out of the garden, God put a cherubim to guard the garden of Eden and the tree of Life. The corruptible and the incorruptible should not mix. If you remember the story of Korah, I can boldly tell you a cherubim was involved. The main goal of the devil was for Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and then go and eat of the tree of Life. That would have meant eternal and total separation from God. So God stepped in right on time and sent them out, putting a cherubim between the corrupted and the incorruptible. If you are reading this and you want to see the Glory of God in ways that have never been seen, remember this; DON’T JOKE WITH GOD!

When iniquity was found in Lucifer and he was demoted, he not only corrupted his gifts and talents; he corrupted his role. His new role is what gives him the name Satan. Satan is not a name per se. It’s a title which means Accuser. So now, when you corrupt God’s Glory in any way or form, Satan rushes into the court of Heaven to accuse you before God, the Judge of all. Since God has judged him and He is a just God, God should judge the one He accuses in the same light. This is how he got one-third of the angels to fall with him. He deceives you. You fall. He asks God to judge you. Because he understands how priesthood and kingship works, he is using it legally to his advantage.

If you followed very well, you would realise that this was the teaching of Balaam. “I can’t curse them because God has blessed them. However, if you can get them to sin, God Himself will curse them”. It worked. 24,000 Israelites died in one day. So it’s not that God is losing and the devil is winning. We humans are the ones choosing the camp of the devil. Do you get it? Hell was made for the devil and his angels (all those who are corrupted). During the flood, God destroyed all the families that had become mutated. Only Noah’s family had no sexual or blood relations with the fallen sons of God who had slept with the daughters of men. On the Great and Terrible Day of the LORD, the Glory of the Lord shall cover the earth and that Glory shall destroy the corruptible so that only the incorruptible will remain.

Next week, I will show in Scriptures how God reacts to the corruption of the Priesthood and the Kingship and how the devil uses it as a tool to get as many humans to be destroyed together with him. Once we understand this, it will give us more confidence to anchor ourselves to the horns of the altar where we will be preserved from corruption. This strategy is the deadliest to me, because at the end of the day, it is the wrath of God that destroys you and not even the devil.