Does The Invisible Enemy want us to know about spiritual warfare?
The lukewarm milquetoast Church seems to indicate not.
But will he just give up if we do in fact start to learn about spiritual warfare?
Or will he conclude that the cat is out of the bag and instead go to the other extreme?
Instead of suppressing it, magnify it way out of proportion?
Start a controlled opposition movement to teach us lots and lots about spiritual warfare, but in a highly selective and distorted way that leads us like sheepdogs to a lion den into fights far beyond our current experience and combat proficiency?
If we have identified a negative entity serving as as a territorial spirit in the Kingdom of Darkness over our county or town, should we rush into single unarmed combat with that entity?
Did that entity obtain such a high rank and responsibility in the Kingdom of Darkness by accident, or by fearsome qualifications?
Will that entity take lightly that we rushed into combat with him?
Or will that entity immediately exploit any existing deficiencies in our Armor of Light to wreck our life and try to kill us through isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, insanity, etc?
Are there homeless people who got that way because they tried to do the right and heroic thing for their community but got smoked in the attempt?
If we feel called to an emphasis in spiritual warfare, would it not be wise for us to ask God to put us through basic training, then advanced infantry school, then an occupational specialty school?
Knowing that the powerful class of demon-gods and evil spirits that hold this dark world in bondage will exploit any deficiency in our Armor of Light, would it not be wise to diligently seek to be placed on the potter's wheel until our armor is resplendent and whole?
God is not the author of confusion.
Shall we not entreat Him to supervise our combat education and keep us out of battles that we are not ready for?