WHAT IS AN ALTAR?
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Bishop Shelton Bady
What is an Altar?
- An Altar is a place of spiritual sacrifice.
- It is a place of contact with the spirit world.
- It is a place of communion with God or gods.
- It is a place of invocation.
- It is a place of servicing and activating covenants.
- It is an entry point of spirits into the earth.
- It is the launching pad of spiritual operations to attack.
- It is a place of fellowship.
(20) Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird,
and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:20 (NKJV)
(21) And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, I will never again
curse the ground for mans sake, although the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth;
nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. (22) While the earth remains, Seedtime
and harvest, Cold and heat, winter and summer, And day and night shall not cease. Genesis 8:2122 (NKJV)
Effects of satanic altars
- Satanic altars oppose God and His grace in people’s lives.
- They result in endless struggles and suffering.
- They cause limitation and frustration.
- They cause open doors for evil spirits.
- They delay the program of God in people’s lives.
- They cause unsolvable mysteries.
- They cause unending problems, prolonged afflictions.
- They cause a trend of divorce, poverty, backwardness, barrenness, untimely death,
shame, disaster, etc.
- Satanic altars are raised to stop people’s progress.
- They are raised to kill, destroy, and truncate destinies.
Three times Satanic altars were erected by Balak to curse Israel.
(1) Then Balaam said to Balak, Build seven altars for me here, and prepare for me here seven
bulls and seven rams. Numbers 23:1 (NKJV)
(14) So he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and
offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Numbers 23:14 (NKJV)
(29) Then Balaam said to Balak, Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven
bulls and seven rams. (30) And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on
every altar.
Numbers 23:29-30 (NKJV)
(19) God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said,
and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? (20) Behold, I have
received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. (21) He has not observed
iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, And the
shout of a King is among them.
Numbers 23:19-21 (NKJV)