From Australia, reader Mike Bull responds to my earlier post:
I recently heard a pastor from southern India speak, and it sounds like ‘enchantment’ is still as powerful as it ever was (although, despite his hair-raising stories, it seems the best Satan can do to the saints in India at the moment is intimidate). Perhaps the reason we don’t see it in the West is because with overt ‘magic’ Satan blows his ‘naturalistic’ cover.
Also, I think the change in government in Revelation is total by chapter 19. The angels, as OT angelic Nazirites, cast their crowns (ie. offer up their glorious ‘hair’) before God (the way John the Forerunner’s head was presented to Herod?) because their OT battle is over. All that remained to do was mop up on the way out. At the end of time, Jesus Himself will offer up the kingdom (His ‘hair’ – the governing elder-saints) to the Father.
Nature could still be governed by the angels, but underneath the government of the ascended saints [see attached]. Although her dominion is progressive, the church is now definitively ‘Mother Nature’, the New Creation. The seventh bowl was poured out into ‘the air’ and disempowered the corrupt mediators – the powers of ‘the air’. The firstfruits church met the Lord ‘in the air’, between heaven and earth as a new mediator/firmament.
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