These are some of the most common demons that attack the church (trust me there are plenty more):
The spirit of religion: the church of Ephesus had left their first love Rev 2.4 they were a perfectly sound church in all their ways. During the birth of the church theybwere baptizing in water, laying hands on the people for the baptism of the holy spirit. Magnifying God in tongues, casting out demons and healing with prayer cloths. Yet still being so close to God the devil sent in an army from the division of religion and what this did was to dull the senses of the church and filled it with traditionalism. What this caused was people were no longer being healed delivered or baptised in the holy spirit. This sounds very familiar to the likes of today's church. It has been put into a trance. A loveless routine of religious works has replaced the passion of God and the Holy spirit.
The spirit of itimidation: the church at Smyrna endured persecution and many members of it's church suffered martyrdom (in other words killed for being followers of Jesus Christ). Now, with this type of threat a result of following Jesus no wonder people got scared. This is an old tactic of satan used to scared Christians into not following Jesus. Remember the incident when Peter denied Christ three times, this was because of intimidation and the fleshes natural reaction to defend it's self no what the circumstance.
The spirit of compromise Rev 2:12, 14-17): Pergamos was the capital city of the province in Asia and it's also the seat of one of the seven churches as mentioned in Revelation. This city is a very historical city full of literature and art.This city had false god that was a snake . This city had a lot of influence in culture from Greece thus the dirty of a snake and many others to me this sound like many city's in america to me a make direct correlation to NYC full of many influence and city dominated by Satan and his demons. Imagine our Christian churches serving and trying to work in this type of environment. The churches inn these places have become comfortable with the sin around them. Not all churches but yes the majority. We as a church must not allow this compromise to occur. Because of of this situation paul penned Ephesians 6. To rid this demon , first we must recognize the conflict , two we must repent of compromise. Some other issues this church had was problems with doctrines and discipline problems.
PS. More to come in the future
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