THESIS 82: THE SPOILING OF THE POWERS

The civil officials which persecuted the Early Church were dominated by demonic powers,[282] but the powers were ordered by God.[283] Christ spoiled the powers, making possible the fulfillment of the Great Commission.[284]

Exposition

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm)

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

282. 2 Corinthians 11:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:18 + Acts 17:8,15

283. Romans 13:1

284. Colossians 2:15; #55; cf. Matthew 28:18-20

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