The Triumphant Church

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Chapter 9


9 Pulling Down Strongholds........................................


Evil spirits like to remain in the locality where they
have established strongholds. The Bible gives us an
example of this in Mark chapter 5 when Jesus delivered
the madman of Gadara. The evil spirits that inhabited
the man didn't want Jesus to send them out of the
country.


MARK 5:9-13
9 And he [Jesus] asked him, What is thy name?
And he answered, saying, My name is Legion:
for we are many.
10 And he BESOUGHT HIM MUCH that he
would NOT send them away OUT OF THE
COUNTRY.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the
mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send
us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave....
Those evil spirits didn't want to leave that locality,
so they asked to go into a herd of swine. Jesus gave
them permission (v. 13).


Strongholds in Certain Regions
We can glean from this passage of Scripture that
demons do like to gang up in certain parts of the world
or in certain countries. For example, in my travels it's
easy for me to discern what kinds of spirits are in a

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