When John Bunyan wrote his Holy War he was conscious that he was engaged in a spiritual warfare of cosmic dimension involving the entire universe. The Apostle Paul advised the Christians at Ephesus that 'we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.'1 The World War slogan was 'Know your enemy.' The enemy is easily discernable in the frontal attack but not when he comes in disguise. When the enemy looks the same as the friend it is easy to be taken in and close inspection is necessary to discern him in his true colours.
When John wrote The Revelation there was plenty going on in Rome. 'They were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage.'3 He was awakened to the spiritual realities of our life situation by 'a great voice, as of a trumpet'4 so that he would be equipped to rouse the slumbering bondmen concerning the cosmic war that was already raging. Only the alert would survive and it was necessary to be vigilant to discern the true foe.
From the earliest ages it has been the strategy of the powers of darkness to provide a substitute for the seed of the woman promised in Genesis 3.15 and to develop an alternative apostate system of imperial and global dimension. Things are no different today. We have crossed the threshold into a new millennium of spiritual warfare. Impenetrable mists shroud the battlefield as we go forward into the dark unknown. Evil presences are all around and without the truth that sheds light upon our situation we will never make it to the dawn. Where we might ask is the light to show us the way? It is the daystar that heralds the dawn but in what quarter is the spiritual morning star to be found and what is his message for today? In this book the development of the apostasy in the early ages of man is traced and the implications for our present age are then presented. The true Gospel is distinguished from the Ancient Apostasy and the conclusion addresses those courses of action necessary in order to survive the Cosmic War.
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