Names of the Spirit, continuing on with

We need to hear what Isaiah said as quoted from the Lord's own mouth in chapter 29 and we'll pick up the flow with verse 1:

1-12 “Woe to Ariel, to Ariel (the ancient symbolic name in Hebrew for Jerusalem as the capital of all Religious and governmental, political activity, a seller of merchandise and stories as a talebearer as slanderer), the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
It shall even be as when an hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and, behold, faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion (the spiritual mountain of God, as a pillar).
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered. And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he says, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he says, I am not learned.”

The sealed book is the Bible and more exactly the Old Testament and much of the New because of the familiar spirit given to the world through Israels Judaism which has become religion, idolatry.

Isa 29:13-24
“Wherefore the Lord said, For as much as this people draw near with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent shall be hid.

Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase in joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. But when he sees his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.”

Isa 66:1-4
“Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those hath mine hand made, and all those have been, saith the LORD: but to this will I look, to the poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. He that killeth an ox he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, swine's blood; he that burneth incense, he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.”

From here we can turn to Hosea chapter four, to again hear the warning of God against the people of Israel and the judgment that is to come after the Messiah being God's visitation (as the end of days or as the ever lasting, the forever or for ever, one).

Hos 4:1-11, 12-19
“Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: will I change their glory into shame. They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD. Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.”

Now I must say that I had no idea of taking this course in this study on spiritual names or titles of spirits. But for our benefit we must come to grips with the “spirit of religion” the familiar spirit, the spirit of the world, the spirit of this present darkness, the prince of the power of the air, which is religion. The exposure of this deceptive spirit dates back to before the days of Noah and the writings of Enoch and Jasher to name but a few such books, though Moses in his account of Genesis on does reveals evil spirits but in limited form.
We know from all that has been uncovered of human history and the accounts of scripture do reveal a form of religion, ie...paganism, of all imaginable colors and forms. Is it any wonder that these same religious artifacts have or holds such sway over fallen mankind. It is deviously, dark, and very subtle in its deception of man. The Lord calls it whoredom, fornication, harlotry, and many other such descriptive words as record by John in his account of the visions shown him and recorded in Revelation. The nation of Israel had fallen prey to it back before its first captivity, while in Egypt and was unable to shake from its hold. Its power within the religionists of Judaism and its related government were but puppets because of their strong reliance on being God's chosen people. They counted themselves above the norm of humanity as a set apart people, as heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and therefore all others were but inferior dogs, swine and lowlifes to them. It was into this mindset that God came as promised but not in the way that Israel was led to believe He would come. They were looking for a national King and Government that would rule them and set them free from all others. They were to be a “superpower” in their own eyes and thinking, failing to see or hear what God's intentions were.

It was into this atmosphere that both John the Baptist and Jesus his cousin game. John as the prophet before the day of the Lord, who was to make way for the King and His kingdom. And Jesus in His lowly invisible entry as a son of man, though He was heralded by angelic beings. Later He was to go to John to fulfill all righteousness. As the righteous one and John was assigned the roll of witness (Isa. 40:3-4, John 1:15, 5:33) to His being a Prophet of the Highest order (Deu. 18:15, 18; Acts 3:22, 7:37). When he saw the dove lite upon Jesus and remain upon Him after His washing into His own baptism of priesthood through John's own transferring of title to Him in righteousness by this act. For John was born into the line of Aaron's priest's under Levi's heirs Elizabeth and Zechariah as a Nazarite (Lu. 1:15) and therefore a priest even above all others as the end of the line. Jesus as the end of the line of David (Mat. 1:1-17) through both His mother (Is. 7:14, Luke 3:23-38) and Joseph (Luke 1:26-27). Both John and Jesus had their encounters with the religionists of their day and both revealed just how far down into paganism they had fallen. As they called them snakes in the grass with the poison of asps under their tongues and whited sepulchers full of dead mans bones referring to the serpent in the garden and thereby identifying all such religionists as of the devil and dead to God.

Even Paul after his conversion and subsequent baptism by both water and the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of all Truth, the Comforter, ie...the ontological essence of the risen Christ revealed the depth of sin found in religion and God's judgment of it. In Romans the first two chapters (1:18-2:20). We find and can label them as 1:18-1:32 Immoral and Amoral man, 2:1-16 moral man, 2:17-3:20 Religious man, and we pick up on God's activities through Christ with the mystery of Grace in Christ, 3:21-8:39 (with 9-11 being Paul's revealing of Israel's past, present and future, as a parenthetical but be careful as there are things within which apply and overlap to us as well) 12-16, as our Gospel. Form His second ascension on mankind has been in the enigma of the interim, between His first and second coming, as God revealed His ontological dynamics in the person of Christ. Paul does not spend much time dealing with what can be called evil spirits, he does not label those who opposed him as religionists but does call them Judaizers and Hellenists which were those who oppose God's activity through the spirit of religion, the familiar spirit of Isaiah.