Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

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Well if you've got a Bible open up to the book of Nia Maya

or find it on your phone.

Today's question is, what is the air war

and the ground war of spiritual warfare?

We're going right through this great Old Testament book of the Bible. We're taking a chapter a week.

This week we're in chapter 8. So here's catch you up on the story for those of you

who are new. So God has sent two of his best men, Ezra Nehemiah,

on this very incredibly important mission

to go to the city of Jerusalem,

which had been attacked and abandoned,

for 141 years to secure the city and to get the church, the temple

open so the Bible could be taught so that the choir and the band could take the stage, that people

could be saved, that people could be saved, that revival could come,

that emotional processing and healing would come to the people of God

through the word of God.

Well, in addition to God working through these two leaders, they were met by Satan's counterparts,

and these are two guys, San Belat and Tobias.

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