Who Invented Modern Spiritual Warfare

John examines how ideas about deliverance ministry and spiritual warfare changed from the early Christian emphasis on Christ's authority into increasingly elaborate systems involving deliverance specialists, territorial spirits, spiritual mapping, prophetic intelligence, intercessory networks, and cultural influence. He traces that progression through the Latter Rain movement, the healing revivals, the Shepherding Movement, the Third Wave, and the New Apostolic Reformation, asking where these teachings came from when their detailed mechanics cannot be found in the Bible. The discussion also explores the cross-pollination between religious teaching and popular culture, including exorcism stories, occult revivals, The Exorcist, Dungeons & Dragons, the satanic panic, Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness, and changing cultural ideas about witches and supernatural conflict. John argues that this evolving mixture helped create a mythology of organized demonic territories and supernatural warfare that eventually expanded from individual deliverance to spiritual mapping, strategic warfare, the Seven Mountains Mandate, and attempts to influence entire cultures. ______________________ Weaponized Religion: From Christian Identity to the NAR: Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735160962  Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCGGZX3K  ______________________ - Support the channel: https://www.patreon.com/branham  - Visit the website: https://william-branham.org