MODERN MYTHS ABOUT SATAN
AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE

by David Kirkwood

Ethnos Press, 166 pages, $7.95

Every so often a volume comes along that misses the recognition it deserves. David Kirkwood's book just may be one of those volumes. (It was first published in 1994 and seems to have gone undetected.) With so much superstition, mythology and even error in print about Satan and demons, it is a very welcome study.

Kirkwood takes on all the unproven and unbiblical clichés thrown around in the world by deliverance ministers. He writes:

"Unfortunately much of what is being taught contradicts what Scripture teaches. Consequently, many Christians are practicing a kind of spiritual warfare that the Bible never prescribes. As I have read some of the popular literature on the subject of spiritual warfare, I am often utterly amazed at how far some teachers have deviated from the Bible" (pg. 9).

Did Adam lose to Satan his lease to control the world? Does Satan control all human governments and natural disaster? Can we pull down demonic strongholds in the atmosphere? What does the Bible say the strongholds are? The biblical answers to these questions may surprise you. What about territorial demons and spiritual mapping? Can a demon occupy a Christian's body? What about generational curses and satanic curses? Does involvement in the occult assure that hosts of invading demons will inhabit the former practitioner? Kirkwood answers all these and much, much more.

The author systematizes and summarizes large portions of the Bible to give us sane, sober and solid guidance through the maze of deliverance errors. It is a welcome relief to the imbalance and extremism of modern–day exorcists. This book can be read straight through or in individual sections.

God gives teachers to the Church (Acts 8:31; Ephesians 4:11–12) and at times gives them specific areas of insight and specialty. Kirkwood's volume is one such work. We hope it receives the wide reading it deserves.

–GRF

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