Battling the Trans-Mundane

article submitted by Medic252

I took a walk tonight. It was foggy, and I remembered an old story I read once by Larry Niven, in which the protagonist has a talk with a stranger in a bar (on a foggy night) about how maybe it isn't just water droplets in the air; maybe parallel realities also came close at these times. One dimension, right next to another, merging every so often, usually with no visible effect to those living within the two universes. The protagonist then goes outside into the fog, can't recognize the area, and is promptly picked up by the Thought Police, who can tell he has no idea who or what they are...

Scripture tells us clearly that there are "principalities and powers" that are present here on Earth, and gives a good many examples. Angels, who make up at least part of these principalities, etc., appear regularly. Some of those angels are in open rebellion to God, and they have powers and territories of their own, it would seem. The angel Gabriel, appearing to Daniel, speaks of being delayed by a battle with the Prince of Persia; he further informs the prophet that when he departs, he must fight the Prince of Greece. These are not earthly rulers such as Xerxes or some other king; these are spiritual enemies, being fought on a spiritual plane. These are as close to us as the moisture on a foggy night.

From time to time, we humans can still run into these sorts of beings. The subject of this blog is our encounters with these principalities and powers, not so much to compare war stories as to offer support for one another. We fight an enemy that is already defeated, but will not surrender. Our enemies in the spiritual realm will continue to try to weaken us, to divert us, to grind us down. They cannot do anything that God does not allow, so we should be in regular prayer about our own status in the Spiritual Wars. Since the enemy we face is (so far) unable to transcend the spiritual, then only spiritual weapons will work. For Christians, spiritual weaponry consists of the whole armor of God as described in Ephesians 6. Prayer is our launcher. God hears our prayers, if we pray in fervent faith. Prayer is the thing our enemy wants us to do least of all, because prayer not only weakens his influence on us, it strengthens us to continue the battle.

I have read all my life about UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot, monsters of various types and forms, and all manner of the strange and bizarre from history and contemporary sources. I saw my own share, in a long career that was split between the military and nursing. The Earth has always had unexplained things, or at least since man has been able to write about it. As far as I can tell, all these things are of a sufficiently nebulous nature as to possibly allow for them being from an extra-dimensional source, especially considering their abilities to disappear or change shape rapidly. Spiritual forces appear to be of an extra-dimensional nature, with Christ able to walk through walls, angels appearing out of nowhere, a burning bush that was not consumed, and other examples in Judeo-Christian writings, as well as similar reports in the literature of other religions. (Just because it's a non-Christian religion, that doesn't mean spirits aren't working within it...) Medieval rabbis, using just the Torah, deduced the existence of 10 dimensions around 1000 AD. Recently, physicists have come to similar conclusions. If they are right, and we have been told that as believers we can expect spiritual battle, then we Christians shouldn't be too seriously shocked when we see it cross over into our lives. If these forces exist in a dimension that usually isn't discernable to us, then they could have played their games with us from just out of reach, for millennia.

Remember, your first and best weapon against any sort of paranormal manifestation is prayer. Spiritual warfare requires spiritual weaponry. Call in an air strike from God, if you ever encounter anything trans-mundane, remembering that He Who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. Resist the enemy, and he will flee.