Recently as I was in prayer, the Lord showed me a faceless figure wearing a high priest’s attire, but it wasn’t the High Priest. I immediately knew it was a representation of the demonic pharisee (religious) spirit.
This figure was holding a conductor’s baton and was using it to orchestrate or direct the plans of the enemy — plans of chaos and confusion that bring division and disunity, among other things.
It was almost as if I could see sabotage shooting out from the baton. It caused some to be spiritually blind. Others to be spiritually deaf. And others to turn on each other because they were surrounded by a swirl of lies.
But the baton was thin, weak, and fragile.
I began to take authority over the pharisee spirit. I broke it’s power, releasing the Lord’s mercy and declaring His blood speaks a better word. As I did, the baton snapped. So easily and so quickly! No longer could the enemy conduct his plans. No longer could he sabotage the people of God by orchestrating chaos and confusion and infighting. People got their spiritual sight back. People got their spiritual hearing back. Suddenly, as the lies lifted, they came to themselves and were reconciled to each other.
We must rise up in our God-given authority to break the baton! At first glance, it seems so overwhelming and so powerful. It seems as if nothing can stop this conductor. But he is a cheap counterfeit. He has no authority! The baton is no match for the BLOOD of our true High Priest, Jesus!
Hebrews 8:6 NLT
But now Jesus, our High Priest, has been given a ministry that is far superior to the old priesthood, for he is the one who mediates for us a far better covenant with God, based on better promises.
And here’s the amazing thing — we are part of this priestly ministry as we are a "chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy" (1 Peter 2:9-10 NIV).
The pharisee spirit of the enemy is just a counterfeit of the true royal priesthood established by God. No longer do we have to be enslaved to the law or religion. Instead, we are part of the Lord’s holy symphony. You are an instrument of righteousness in His glorious orchestra, releasing the sights and sounds of Heaven throughout the earth!
Rise up, Royal Priesthood! Break the baton with the blood! Our great High Priest has won it all!