Many evil taskmasters exist in our lives as personal demons who simply come because we gave a place of rulership to the bigger kings. They taught us how to acquiese, so it became acceptable, even advisable.

Kings are ideologies we place on pedestals or thrones. And putting a king on a throne gives it a place of rulership in the kingdom of our life.

The other day, I mentioned 3 of these ideologies as the main ones I see in our current society. And I called them The Beast.

The book of Revelation says the Beast is “having seven heads and ten horns”. I don’t believe the numbers are as important as they are allegorical. Presenting a few leaders with slightly more branching off. Those branches are what I call personal demons. They stem from the main ideologies.

Humanity has always placed ideologies on pedestals. So, The Beast has always been around. Predominantly in the form of politics, religion, and medicine.

These are the kings, the ideologies, the “thoughts” or demons, that when allowed to roam freely inside our inner kingdoms, they bring seven more.

It begins when we are children and are taught great reverence and respect for these main 3. Our church, then our country, and finally our wellness procedures. They are sacrosanct, placed on pedestals of worship in which no one dares touch them with aspersions. Then they are actively celebrated, often.

This typical human behavior has come through history and displays itself larger than life, still today. Look at the big churches in mainstream Christianity and the ideologies it supports and teaches. Politics is right up there on the platform with the Pastor. It is as much a part of church as the Bible. Medicine is next as churches show up in full force to “Run for the Cure” etc.

These 3 aren’t kings in people’s inner kingdoms because they chose them freely, but because they were indoctrinated early in life and told that allegiance to them would provide the basis of a good, fulfilled life. But it was always a lie.

The degree to which we give these 3 the thrones in our inner kingdoms, is the same degree that our inner Temple is compromised by their Abomination of Desolation which happens when the voice of our own Spirit is silenced, and dethroned by them.

As a side note, who is supposed to be sitting on our inner throne? The answer, of course, is Jesus. And we are supposed to be sitting beside him. That is a pretty defined rulership which leaves no room for ideologies or personal demons to have any space as co-rulers. It seems to indicate that with us and Jesus there, we simply, by our very nature, exclude all else. I AM is all.

Anyway, when we idealize these 3 kings and give them space on the podium, this is the Beast who kills not only the body but also the soul. It comprises the great harlot whom the kings of the world worship and brings allegiance. And of course they would and always have, because this is the center of all the worlds riches and power. This is Babylon, the whore, who sits on many waters and makes the kings of the world drunk with her abominations. They always have.

It isn’t new. It began as the manifestation of evil within us from our inner tree of Good & Evil which is always weighing and analyzing God and his love, and finding it too ethereal and unseeable. His rulership isn’t “in our face” concrete and seeable. So, our solution has always been the grasping of a more concrete form of rulership which can be controlled and seen. And it always takes the form of political, religious, and medicinal solutions and then institutions. After all, these are the 3 main areas of our life on earth. Politics govern our lands and ownership, thereby our food. Religion governs our need to control the spiritual and be righteous in our own eyes, therefore our confidence. And medicine is our intended solution to keep us alive, even possibly finding all the cures for death so we can be immortal.

The 3 kings overflow with promises of controlling these frustratingly uncontrollable areas of life. And we’re taught that if we believe and support them with our whole heart and soul, then their expert solutions, leadership, and rule will keep us from perceived victimization of life guided by an invisible and uncontrollable love from a God we can’t see. He’s simply not concrete and logical. And they are.

Ironically, it is the surrender and trust of an invisible love from an invisible God that frees us to obtain all the things we think those 3 kings possess. But they were lying ideologies our analytical brains birthed in the Garden. And we gave them our inner thrones.

We tossed ourselves out of the Garden. And the only way back in is to kick them off our throne and begin sitting on it with Jesus.

Thank you for letting me share these insights into our inner kingdom. Go ahead and pick up your rusty crown and put it on. It will be polished again.

Faith