The horrifying truth about why the "church" can't seem to change.
from Doug Perry, www.FellowshipOfTheMartyrs.com - Sept. 22, 2006

Hi ...  I recently started reading your book on the Red Dragon...I totally agree with what you are saying and the Lord revealed to me this very same thing about close to 2 yrs ago...My husband and I came from Kansas to help a couple in starting a church in Michigan...My husband does music and has been moving towards the more prophetic style like Jason Upton... just real free and singing out the word of the Lord rather than just doing someone else's songs with a rigid format and transparencies with the words up for everyone to be distracted by... During this time my husband and I was doing the music part of the church services...  the Lord alot of times would have me just pray in the Spirit and led me through alot of repentance... It had been a long time since we had been in a corporate fellowship and in the presence of the Lord with other believers.... So as this continued on, the repenting and praying, the Lord started revealing things to me more and more... We went to different places in Michigan while we were helping this couple to start a church... I started to see this one thing in the spirit off and on all over... What I saw was, the only way I can describe it as, if you were to join your 2 hands together clasping them with all 10 fingers layered into each other as one....That is the best way I could describe what it looks like as I was seeing it... I also heard these words along with it, "joined tightly together  so that no air could pass through it" As I kept sensing this in so many different situations and places for several weeks I finally asked the Lord what this was I was seeing one late evening...Then early the next morning I was barely awake trying to  get comfortable in bed and my thoughts went right to that very question again..."Lord what is this?" And He spoke back to me and said "Go look up the scriptures on Leviathan"...So I laid there for a few more minutes trying to muster up the strength to get out of bed to go read my bible...So I got my bible and looked up the word "Leviathan" to see where the scriptures are that speak of it...So I saw that Job 41 was the place to start...In my amplified bible this is what it said...

These scriptures are exactly what I had seen and what I had heard being described to me...I realized that there was a spirit called Leviathan that was ruling the entire state of Michigan...Then the Lord started to teach me some more about it by going through some stuff...I read that chapter quite often because I knew there was more to see and understand and to be revealed about this spirit that the Lord wanted me to know... But like you said in your book this Leviathan spirit has to do with pride...What I learned was that Leviathan is a serpent like dragon...I learned for Christians its character traits are Pride (doing your own thing and calling it being "led by the Spirit" or "following the Lord"), it twists the true meaning and interpretation of the scriptures and character of God...For example, I shared some challenging truths with some Christians on a forum...One lady used the scriptures in part to justify here reason for why she was allowed "by God" to continue on in watching movies that had witchcraft, sorcery, and teachings of false religions in them...She used a partial quote of the scripture "To the pure all things are pure" as if she was so pure in heart that she could see Jesus and the gospel of Christ through movies that were blatantly not boldly confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh which is the antichrist as the bible teaches..Leviathan twists or a better word would be "perverts" the true meaning of the scriptures by causing a believer to think they are walking in the love of Christ by not saying anything to another believer for believing and teaching false teachings or are caught up in following and putting their trust in men as another mediator other than Jesus Christ....Another characteristic of Leviathan is slander...one way this is done through believers is when you are falsely accused of something...Like if you uphold the standard of God's word to other believers because you love them and want to them to get free from satan's deception you are accused of being "legalistic" or "extreme" or "radical"...another characteristic of Leviathan is treachery and betrayal...The bible says in Job 41:24-29 as Leviathan is being described

So even if you use the word of God to speak to those under its influence it will not have any affect on them...Its like you said repentance must come first....My husband and I witnessed first hand a pastor of a church that took the word of a church member that we had been close to who was turned against us and then accused us of horrible things against our children...The pastor called the police on us and reported this serious accusation without letting us know or coming to us to find out what was the truth...So we had a surprise visit from the police with these serious allegations...The police officer came in to talk to us and checked things out and could see it was not true and told us not to worry...But when we called this pastor to confront him on how unbiblical his actions were he laughed...it was like a mocking laugh...it sounded purely evil...That pastor was very religious and under the influence of Leviathan...We have experienced much accusations and problems with that church and its members all because we shared the true gospel with some of their young adults that were looking for more they were not experiencing at their church...but eventually they turned against us because they had  no solid foundation built on Christ but a foundation built on the flesh and men's traditions and false teachings...Needless to say we have seen these young adults since they turned against us and falsely accused my husband and I of having a cult spirit and accused of being controlling when all we did was open our home up for many believers to fellowship...we fed them, we stayed up many of late nights praying for many, we leant 2 used vehicles we had to 2 people because they were without a car from this same church and we paid for the insurance...We just gave what we had...But this spirit hated what we were doing...there were 4 to 5 of us praying deliverance for people quite alot and we were fasting and praying continually...And we were dealing with the false teaching that was very strong in this area concerning the  "covering" teaching, ministers operating in a controlling manner, making alliances with other like men for the purpose of having more influence to spread their false gospel...there were covenants made to cover up the works of darkness for self preservation...alot of manipulation...We paid a price for telling the truth, confronting men in positions of their hypocrisy and operating in a familiar spirit rather than the Holy Spirit when it came to "prophesy"....We dealt with the control and selfish ambition....We prayed with many to get free but they eventually went right back to their bondage....And another characteristic of Leviathan is ministries and Christians banding together to isolate brethren from their fellowship...They think they are working righteousness but they are deceived by the Leviathan...Pride...I have witnessed these things in so many areas and situations...Though I have never seen how it looks I have witnessed its operation and maneuvering around the truth to set its self up above the Lord Jesus Christ....But I wanted to share this with you and I was blessed to read your book...It bore witness with my spirit and it confirmed what the Lord had shown to me and even added more to me...I just wanted to say God bless you and increase you in His way...I have enjoyed your newsletters by email...It has been a source of encouragement to me and I have sensed the Spirit of the Lord in them...I pray that you continue to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might in the Name of Jesus...