Little Mermaid movie is coming out. A remake of the Disney animated movie of 1989.
And the movie is based on a fairy tale that was written by Danish author, Hans Christian Anderson
in 1837. Now the idea that mermaids, witches in the water, spirits in the water, is actually not
far-fetched from the reality that spiritual world is real, and there are principalities and spirits
that have their headquarters in the water. We see references of Jesus rebuking the water,
the waves and the sea. We see demons entering pigs and going into the water, and we also see
that in deliverances where demons would say that they are in the water, they live in the water,
in the ocean. And first time that I've heard that from you know a demonic spirit, of course you take
everything the demons say with a grain of salt. But at the same time, as you're beginning to see
more and more references in the Scripture, and then a lot of the ancient cultures have different
references in their mythology, their belief system, about idols and gods that they worshiped.
And these were not fairy tales, for them these were real beings that they worshiped. And we as
Christians understand that these idols, in one sense they are nothing, when you build a statue,
it's nothing. But in the other sense is they represent the real entities that are real in
the spiritual world. And the Bible actually pulls the curtains into the realm of the spirit, tells
us that there are spirits that inhabit places, we call them principalities. There are spirits,
demons that seek to inhabit bodies, to live in a body, and to pretty much perform their functions
through a human body by destroying people, killing people, stealing, abusing and all the stuff. You
know if Satan is called the prince of the air, it's totally possible that he could have certain
parts of his kingdom assigned to different parts of the planet, including an ocean,
including a sea or a water. So the movie Little Mermaid, I didn't watch it, so I read it online,
kind of the biography of what that is. It's pretty much a little mermaid, Ariel who dreams of falling
in love with the human being, and then she is in a underwater kingdom ruled by her father who
prohibits contact with humans. And then she makes the deal with this witch, and the witch pretty
much trades her voice for human legs. One thing leads to another. I guess the witch is fighting
the little mermaid so she doesn't get married, and then she finally overcomes the witch and then
she marries to this guy named Eric. And then you know she finally goes into the sweet sunset, and
her father watches her fall in love and be with this guy Eric. The idea of an underwater kingdom
in the spirit realm and then mermaids is actually not far-fetched. It's not just a depiction of some
author's fantasy. In an ancient Greece, you know the god Triton was actually a merman,
and the sirens were sea creatures with the upper body of a woman and then the tail of the bird. In
Norse mythology, they had a mermaid like creatures known as Merrow, and they were said to inhabit the
waters off the coast of Ireland. The idea that spirits you know occupied the sea is not just
in the ancient Greece mythology, but also in West Africa. They would have a goddess associated with
ocean and fertility, and she would be depicted as a beautiful woman with flowing hair. And is
said to have abundance and prosperity, exhibit that on those who worship her. As I mentioned,
Greek mythology they have that. In Chinese mythology, they would have Mazu. A goddess
in Chinese mythology who's associated with the sea and the protection. That she is said to be
a mortal woman who became deified after saving her family from a storm at the sea. In Africa,
they would have this Mami Wata which is a water spirit revered in many of the African regions,
including voodoo and Santeria. And she is often depicted as a beautiful woman with the long hair,
associated with prosperity, healing and protection. The fact that all of these different
cultures, even currently some of them have these spirits that they believe live in the water,
and they seek to appease these spirits. And I've seen deliverances, we've had demons confessed they
come from the water or that their headquarters are in the water. That they rule in the water
tells us that spirit world is real, and a lot of these mythologies are actually demonic spirits
that rule particular regions, territories, and they have particular assignments given by their
Master Satan. And these people, they knew this, except instead of you know resisting that pull,
they worship those entities, and because of that they came under demonic influence. We
as Christians, we must understand that we don't believe in fairy tales, we believe in what the
Scripture teaches. And the Scripture teaches us, for example the Bible has Deuteronomy 32:16-17, it
says the following, "They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods." Now if those were fairy tales,
why would God be provoked to jealousy? If this is like a Santa Claus kind of a belief where there's
no truth to that, why would God be provoked to jealousy? But these were foreign gods,
the Bible says, "And they provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; with abominations they provoked
Him to anger. They sacrificed," and then it says what? "They sacrificed to demons,
not to God." So these foreign gods were actually demons. "To gods they did not know,
to new gods, new arrivals that your fathers did not fear."
So we see this, Israel would worship gods they didn't know, foreign gods, new gods
and new arrivals. And all of this, if this is just a fairy tale, if this is just, because
some of you maybe you're you know listening to me talking about mythology and the views of Greeks,
and you know maybe some of the African tribes. And others are like, "Man, people just came up with
that kind of stuff." But if you read it, Israel worshiping these idols, and the Scripture says
that God sees it and says that this is wrong. It's abomination. It provokes Me to jealousy. And the
Scripture pulls the curtains and tells us, they actually didn't worship statues. They worshiped
demons that were behind those statues. We see a similar reference in Exodus 12:12. God says:
So God is saying, I'm going to go to war against the gods of Egypt. If you study the
Egyptian religion of the past, you will see they had a lot of gods. And so, many people say, "Oh,
they're just a figment of men's imagination." But figment of men's imagination, yet when Moses came,
these people could do magic. They could do miracles. They could do certain things. They
had power. And so this was not just a figment of man's imagination. These were spirits,
these were gods. And so these gods could occupy territories on the land,
they can occupy territories in the air and they can occupy territories in the sea. We see
similar thing in Daniel 10:13, Daniel 10:20. The Prince of Persia that Michael, the angel of God,
God's top angel would fight against the Prince of Persia. Now God's top angel, Archangel,
he wouldn't have a resistance with a human Prince. But this was a spiritual entity that he was at war
with. The New Testament tells us more, that we are not at war against flesh and blood.
And the Bible just pulls the curtains, but it says, against principalities. So this is not just,
we're not talking about demons here. Demons that seek to enter and inhabit the body. We're talking
about a higher ranking of these spiritual beings that have certain assignments. Principalities,
powers, rulers of darkness of this age and against the spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly
places. So we see almost like these four levels of these spiritual beings that have way deeper
and greater responsibility and authority over the planet given to them by Satan,
and we are in a wrestling match against them. What I'm saying is this. Is that the idea that
spirits and principalities can occupy the sea, and mermaids and all of that that we see in Hollywood.
And all of that actually is not far-fetched from the reality of the spirit realm. There are evil
spirits that are responsible for assignments of killing, destruction. Some of them responsible for
territories, and some of them are responsible for the air, some of them are responsible for the sea.
Gregory Boyd, in his book "God at War," explores the concept of divine conflict in the Bible and
how it pertains to the spiritual realm. In fact he actually uses certain names of spiritual entities
that are mentioned in the Bible. Including the Yam, the god of the sea; the Leviathan, sea
monster; Rahab which is a sea dragon and Behemoth, which to be understood as representing these evil
entities. They represent powers of chaos and evil in the world. He has, and I would encourage you
to read the book, he uses different scriptures to pull the curtains of the spiritual realm. In
the Old Testament those things are mentioned there, and we read those names, we're like,
"Yeah, these are like some creatures. This is like a fantasy world, this is not real." But this
stuff is actually real. These were evil spirits that occupied, you know sea monsters overseeing
or ruling in the sea, ruling in the ocean, ruling in those things. So I personally think that these
are territorial spirits, living and having actual place or headquarters in the actual waters. And I
don't see that it contradicting the Scripture that evil spirits can take over territories; they can
take over the sea, and the ocean. And a lot of times, what would happen is the sailors of old,
you know they would actually recognize that. In some Pagan traditions, mermaids were associated
with fertility, prosperity and they were believed to bring good luck to fishermen and sailors. And
there were sometimes seen as protectors of the sea, and the guardians of the souls who drowned
in the sea. In some cultures these principalities or demons, they were believed to have the power of
control over the oceans and weather. So the reason why people worship them is because they wanted to
have favor, almost like a green light, a passage through the ocean so that they don't drown,
and if they do drown, so that they their souls will be guarded. Now we know that all of that
is witchcraft. We know that all of that is demonic, and we know that God is the ruler
over the seas and over the oceans. That God has all the authority. Jesus says all the authority is
given to Me. But we still know that this authority being given to Jesus does not mean that all the
principality, all the demons, all the curses are over. Not yet. They are defeated but they
are not gone, because when Jesus will establish His kingdom and when heaven will come on earth,
we'll see then, there will be no more night, there will be no more curse. But until that time,
the curses, the demons, the principalities, though they're defeated, they're not gone.
They're not dead. The Bible tells us that Jesus is above every principality. That He is above all
the demons. That He is above all the dominions and Powers. All things were created through Him
and for Him. We see that He is seated above all of that in Ephesians 1:21. We see that Jesus,
we're in Him are complete and He's the head of all principality and power. Colossians 2:10. We
see that principalities cannot separate us from the love of God, Romans 8:38. And we see that the
wisdom of God is made known to the principalities through the church, in Ephesians 3:10. We see that
Jesus triumphed and disarmed principalities and powers, and we see that we have a wrestling match
against the principalities and the powers. And so we will a lot of times come in conflict with them,
where they will try to resist and sabotage God's purposes in our life, these principalities. But
the good news we have is that we have the green light from Jesus to travel on the sea, to travel
in the air, to travel on this planet. Jesus has given us the authority to spread His kingdom
in the enemy occupied territory, and so that's what we're doing. We don't engage directly with
principalities and territorial spirits, but they could have a wrestling match with us, and we have
the power of the Holy Spirit to keep doing God's will and no weapon formed against us will prosper.
And so sometimes, we actually during deliverance are dealing with a sea spirit, who is either sent
from a principality of oceans and seas, and all of that stuff, to do its dirty work through a human
being. Or sometimes it could be the principality itself that left its domain and seeks to harass a
person, and once we remove that principality that person becomes delivered. So I just want you to
be aware, the spiritual world is real. There are territorial spirits, there are principalities,
and there are powers, that are dominions, and that are hosts in wicked places that control areas and
territories. That's why some territories have like a high divorce rate. Some territories have
a high drug use. Some territories have like a very stronghold of you know abuse or sexual immorality,
and so and these principalities, they control strong men, they control those areas. And they're
not just limited to the land, they're also most likely headquartered in the water and in the sea.
So when the Hollywood creates movies or Disney makes movies about mermaids and all of this stuff,
this is not just fairy tales. I do believe that there are spirits and powers live under the sea,
as well under water, and we have to be very careful. Should Christians watch stuff about
mermaids and witches? No. I think we should stay away from that kind of stuff, and we should watch
things about God, and things that glorify Jesus and things that have a good storyline.
But it does not desensitize our children toward witchcraft and toward the marine spirits. Those,
that's what they are, they are marine spirits. And so we have nothing to do with marine spirits
or to accept them as just a fairy tale. It's not just a fairy tale. The marine spirits do exist.
Sea spirits do exist. This is not just the Greek mythology. This is not just African mythology.
This is not just that stuff. We see in the Bible, you know Leviathan, all these sea creatures,
sea monsters. This stuff is real, but Jesus is greater. He rules above all of that,
and we were given assignment to go into all of the world. Including the people who live on the
water and those who maybe one day will live in the sky, to preach the good news to them
because the Lord has given us the authority on the earth to rule and reign with Him, and to advance
his kingdom in the enemy's occupied territory. So these principalities will seek to stop us but we
have to keep on going. They cannot stop us. Gates of hell cannot prevail against the church. We will
move forward. We're not given clear direction to dethrone them, remove them from their place of
rulership, because they will lose their influence over those territories if we win more people for
Jesus Christ. So our assignment is given to cast demons out of people, not out of territories,
and to preach the Gospel, do deliverance, heal the sick, make disciples, plant churches, build strong
families. And then to await the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will then make everything
right on this planet, and finally dethrone all of the evil and restore this earth. To not only an
original position that it was supposed to be in, but better state that we are all looking
forward to. So these are just a few cents of mine concerning this topic of marine spirits,
mermaids and sea spirits. So God bless you. If you are tormented by a marine spirit, maybe a
sea spirit or some kind of a Leviathan spirit, there's freedom and deliverance for you. In the
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