...of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand...having done all, to stand; stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breast-plate of righteousness; and your feet shod...

...is apt to find lodgment in the memory forever. The verse that here calls for interpretation reads: "For we are not contending against flesh and blood,...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." This is one of the passages that have seemed to justify scholars in regarding Paul as a mystic. It...

...Satan himself will plague us. Paul the apostle put it even more clearly when he said in Eph. 6:12, "We are not contending against flesh and blood, but...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." As Christians we know of the reality of these powers. However, in saying this we must not go to the...

...spirits behind the scenes (Dan. 10:13, 20-21). Paul plainly teaches that the Christian warfare is not "against flesh and blood, but against the principalities,...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:12). Responsible exegesis cannot limit this to hostile earthly power structures or dehumanizing...

...well: Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood,...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places [Eph. 6:11-12]. Satan is no longer a messenger and servant of God — as in the Old Testament — but...

...opposition, but with an unseen, hellish host. Another New Testament writer was to voice the same idea: "For we are not contending against flesh and blood,...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph.6:12). Probably it is this eschatological context, this interpretation of Jesus' ministry in terms...

...demons, and our contending is against these, as the Apostle said—not against flesh and hlood, hut against the principalities, against the powers, against...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 45 So the mob of them is great in the air around us, and they are not far from us. But the difference...

...which appears to have been one of his favorite Scriptural quotations [800] ; namely, Ephesians 6: 1 2: "For we are not contending against flesh and blood,...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." This conception is obviously parallel to the Jewish myth, underlying the Hekhalot, of the human invasion...

...died on the cross for our sins he defeated Satan, but until he comes again in glory we have to contend "against the principalities, against the powers, against...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph 6: 12). There is a spiritual realm which, though it may not be perceived by the physical senses,...

...wherever we find it. With Jesus, and in his might, ourselves protected by him, "we are. . .contending against . . . the principalities, against the powers,...spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Eph. 6:10-17). We must not forget that there is a battle to be waged against evil, and that faith...