Destiny War: The Battle Between Two Kingdoms

By Steve Ary

This book is a must-read for every believer and a tool to be used by all who see themselves as warriors in God's army.

Destiny War: The Battle between Two Kingdoms is set to change the face of Christianity from culture to Kingdom and to empower God's people over spiritual enemies. The depth of revelation

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: May 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798887386980

Steve Ary

From Evansville, Indiana, STEVE ARY was called out of the depths of darkness and drugs and into the depths of God's Word and glory. Ablaze with the fire of the Lord, Steve dwells in great intimacy with Him. From that intimacy, God has revealed to him a glimpse of how the spiritual realm works, why the enemy has been winning, and what is needed for the body of Christ to charge into battle and win.

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DESTINY

WAR

The Battle between Two Kingdoms

by Steve Ary

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Destiny War: The Battle between Two Kingdoms

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Copyright © 2023 by Steve Ary

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DEDICATION

For Dave Heady, my spiritual father

whom I greatly honor, value, and cherish…

who helped me to develop a love for God’s Word.

For the countless hours he has poured into me

the precious riches and treasures from the Word of God,

the depth of intimacy I have in my relationship with God,

the passion I have for the people of God…

and the passion to help fulfill God’s greatest desire…

that the whole Earth will be filled with His glory.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

First and foremost, I thank God for loving me, seeing value in me, rescuing me from the deepest, darkest pit of darkness and despair, and then pouring into me what He so desires. And I am so grateful for the journey of intimacy He walks with me because I know that without Him… I am nothing.

Next, the most important human being on the planet who deserves my gratitude is my amazing wife, Jennifer, who has been through the fiery school of hard knocks with me, learning along with me by personal experience what it means to engage in spiritual battle for God’s purposes. She knows well the attacks we have endured as the enemy fought fearfully to keep this book from being published. She has proven to be a mighty, loyal, and dedicated warrior as she has fought along my side while we invested years of studying, teaching, and sacrificing so that the body of Christ may be further equipped, empowered, and receive increased authority for the transformation to come. Jennifer has remained faithful on the frontlines of battle with me for years, and for that, I am quite literally eternally grateful. Jennifer, I love you and thank you for everything you have done and continue to do for me while we fulfill our destiny together.

I thank my family, our boys, who have endured the frontlines of battle along with us. I thank them for walking this walk with me, for calling me out when I agreed with the enemy, and for helping me to see the practical side of this revelation. Most of all, I thank you for all of the time you have sacrificed for me in church, in classes, in campaigns, and in daily routines for the work of the Kingdom. I thank you for spending countless hours with us playing the Destiny War board game and for helping me to develop it for family game nights. I love you guys so much and thank you for who you are and for who God made you to be. Always remember that God created you to fulfill your destiny, and don’t ever let anything stop you from doing so. Glorify Him!

To Dad, whom I love so much, and to Debbie and all my extended family who have believed in me no matter what I was going through, who had grace for me and extended their hand of mercy toward me. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.

To those closest to me who have graduated this life: to Mom, I miss you so much. I wish you were here to see and read my life’s work. Thank you for the seeds you planted. It’s going to be worth it all. To my aunt, Janis, thank you for investing in me. You had faith in me way back when I was living in the world, and your investment is finally coming to fruition. And to Wes Myers, thank you for being my friend.

To my Pastor, Tim Simmons, I thank you for welcoming this beat-up old soldier with arms wide open, for loving me back to health, honoring me as one of your own, and for helping me to move from victim to victor. Thank you for getting me back on my feet, for trusting me to pour into your flock, and for seeing and valuing the God inside of me and the kingdom work He is doing.

To all of my students who have invested in the courses and classes I have offered over the years based on the material in this book, all while adding new revelation and editing for the tenth and twentieth times, thank you for your investments, your loyalty, and your love.

To my friends, thank you for being awesome. You truly have been my encouraging and affirming support through it all. To those who have moved on, thank you for the lessons along the way. I never would have been able to write this without you.

And to the readers, you could have picked any book to read, so thank you for choosing this one. And please don’t see this as a work by an established author who has achieved some fantastically impervious level or that it was published because some accomplished person paved the way for me to publication. Not at all. Please know that the extensive revelation in this book did not come easily. In fact, it comes from decades of heartbreaks, betrayals, brokenness, and deep pain. It comes from wounds and tears, and many of them. Therefore, my earnest prayer is that all who read the following pages will soak up the knowledge and wisdom received in the pressure of the winepress and apply them without having to endure the depth of struggle and hurt that it took to compile the revelations into this format. So again, I thank you for choosing this book. Please apply it to your life and walk with the Lord so that you don’t have to go through what I’ve been through to learn these valuable lessons. And then, when you have read and applied it, I encourage you, go back and do it again… and again as a lifestyle. I promise it will be worth it.

And finally, to Trilogy Publishing, I cannot ever thank you enough for seeing value in the fifteen years of study it has taken me to compile this work. I truly believe with all of my heart that this book has the potential to change the face of Christianity and to empower God’s people over the enemy in mighty, mighty ways. I am so very grateful for your acceptance and confidence in Destiny War.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Part 1: Submission and Sonship

Chapter 1: The Battlefield

Chapter 2: Basic Discipleship

Chapter 3: Come and Follow Me

Chapter 4: The Cost of Discipleship

Chapter 5: Men as Dogs

Chapter 6: The Meaning & Purpose of Discipleship

Chapter 7: Spiritual Fathering

Chapter 8: The Power of Agreement

Part 2: The Kingdom of Darkness

Chapter 9: Sleeping with the Enemy

Chapter 10: The Unholy Trinity: Antichrist, Jezebel, & Ahab

Chapter 11: The Origin Story

Chapter 12: Satan’s Generals

Part 3: The Empowerment

Chapter 13: Go and Sin No More

Chapter 14: The Transformation

Chapter 15: Tearing Down Strongholds

Chapter 16: The Trickle-Down Effect

Chapter 17: The Inheritance

Chapter 18: The Sons of God

Chapter 19: The Curse vs. the Blessing

Chapter 20: Returning to the Trickle-Down

Part 4: The Warrior’s Design

Chapter 21: The Kingdom of God Is Within You

Chapter 22: The Body Gates

Chapter 23: The Soul Gates

Chapter 24: The Spirit Gates

Chapter 25: The Glory Gate

Part 5: Ambassadors of Heaven

Chapter 26: The Mystery of Heaven

Chapter 27: The River of Life

Chapter 28: The Recap

Chapter 29: Destiny War

Chapter 30: Let Us Pray

Afterword

About the Author

Sources

FOREWORD

I am so excited that you get to discover one of the kingdom’s best-kept secrets in that of Pastor Steve Ary.

This book, Destiny War, crosses all denominational barriers. It is sure to guide, counsel, and equip men and women for their destinies.

The principles and insights that Steve offers in this book, if applied, will change the trajectory of your life and ministry.

I advise every pastor to share this life-changing book with their congregations, especially if you need honor restored throughout your ministry.

— Pastor Timothy Simmons Sr.,

Bread of Life Kingdom Ministries, Inc.

I spent years in darkness… but it’s okay, I took notes.

— Steve Ary

INTRODUCTION

Fifteen years ago, God gave me one of the biggest revelations of my life, and it has continued to expand every day since. The revelation was about our spiritual enemy, and what I have learned about the spiritual realm since the original revelation has been life-transforming. I believe it is going to be world-changing. I have no doubt that it will change your life too, and it can potentially increase your spiritual authority in leaps and bounds. With this new revelation comes a powerful new perspective on our identity in Christ and our role on this Earth.

The Word of God tells us that we are in a war, a spiritual battle of kingdom against kingdom. Scripture tells us that we wrestle against principalities, powers, and rulers of darkness, that the weapons of our warfare are for the tearing down of enemy strongholds, but do we really know what we’re doing? Are we effectively engaging our enemy in battle? Do we know how to tear down the two types of strongholds? Have we ever even wrestled against a ruler of darkness, much less, a principality? If so, have we ever won?

Are we properly submitted to God’s leadership? Are we effectively serving the King in His kingdom, or are we serving ideologies in our cultural norms? Is it possible that we are unwittingly serving the kingdom of darkness while we hold our position in the kingdom of Light? Do we know how to advance the kingdom of God on the Earth? Are we fulfilling our God-given mandate to disciple the nations?

Is the devil currently winning the war due to our lack of knowledge of the spiritual realm? Do we know his strategies? What is he ultimately trying to accomplish on the Earth, and why? Are we unknowingly giving our spiritual enemy power over us? How much authority should we be walking in? Why aren’t people staying delivered after having gone through the process of deliverance? What if our methods are making things seven times worse than the first?

Why aren’t we walking in miracles, signs, and wonders, or the greater works, as Jesus said in John 14:12? Do we truly understand the kingdom of God, where it originates on the Earth, how it is passed from person to person, and what it means when the kingdom of God has come near to you? If the kingdom of God is within us, how do we let it out? Could this be the key to unlocking the outpouring of the Holy Spirit of the last days, the greatest revival in the history of the world, spoken of in Joel 2:28?

Could the answers to these mysteries and so many more already be written in scriptures we may have overlooked? Could we be reading some scriptures through a worldly lens when God has revealed the answers to these mysteries through a heavenly perspective?

Could it be that the whole purpose for the war between two kingdoms is all about whether you and I will fulfill our individual, God-given destinies? Did you know that while the demons and principalities are much wiser than us, we are far more powerful because of Jesus? And that we can access and harness this power to take back what the enemy has stolen? Would you like to give God the greatest possible glory while here on Earth? Would you like to see it on Earth as it is in heaven? Would you like to be used by God to fill the whole Earth with His glory? Find out how to fight and how to win in Earth’s greatest battle, the Destiny War.

Part 1

Submission and Sonship

Chapter 1

The Battlefield

As each of you know, the world around us seems to be falling apart. All you have to do is turn on the news to see it. Not just world or national news, but also news at the state and local levels. What you will see is that every single day, there is a shooting, a stabbing, a police chase, and a parent murdering his or her child or spouse. You hear of an increase in crack, coke, meth, and heroin. Our friends and family members are being lost to the darkness. And what of the many things that are not reported on the news?

What about the more than sixty-three million babies murdered in the womb? What about incest, rape, and sex trafficking? How about the hundreds of thousands of foster kids molested, raped, abused, aging out of foster care with no one to love them, or those prostituting themselves for money or lost in homelessness? Or the number of women and children physically abused, beaten, or even beaten to death? Or the number of homes that consist of broken families, the number of fatherless children who turn to drugs, alcohol, promiscuous sex, or even suicide? Or the more than 90 percent of prison inmates who have one thing in common… that they come from fatherless homes?

What about the pornography industry that makes tens of billions of dollars every year? Or the skyrocketing hotel pornography sales when Christian conferences stay at hotels? What about the compromising biblical standards of the church to befit a fallen world… where it is more important to be seeker friendly than to be a friend of God? What about the division between believers and the hatred expressed by the body of Christ when Christians simply disagree with one another?

What about the diminishing numbers within the church and the mass exodus of millennials from modern Christianity? Let’s consider also that if you send your children to school for seven hours a day, five days a week and 180 days out of the year for thirteen years, where they are trained and indoctrinated for more than 16,000 hours to oppose biblical history, to oppose biblical science, to oppose Christian beliefs, to oppose Christian morals, to oppose Christian ideologies, to oppose Christians directly, and to oppose Jesus, Himself?

Consider the culture that the secular realm develops. Consider the influence the secular teachings have over our children. Ponder, if you will, the culture of this world where it is considered bigotry or even racist to speak negatively of Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, Brahma, or Gaia, or recognized figures of any other religions, but it is celebrated and encouraged for people in this culture to ridicule, bash, blaspheme, and degrade Jesus Christ?

All of the previously listed things are a direct result of the culture in which we live, a symptom of the overspreading increase of influence of satan’s darkness on the Earth, and a side-effect of our lack of effective influence on our culture. In a nutshell, the Body of Christ is not nearly as effective or as influential as we may think we are. And compared to the advancing kingdom of darkness, the kingdom of Light has been losing the war overall. Sure, we can deceive ourselves into believing we are accomplishing the will of God on the Earth, but a day will come when we must examine our tree by the fruit we bear. What we are accomplishing is not enough for the current culture, and it’s time to assess our approach.

Any good business will comparatively assess its goals and successes honestly to see if its approach is accomplishing what it set out to do. That business will reevaluate regularly for greater efficacy. They will make needed corrections to their approach and routines that are not working effectively, and they will change their direction to befit the need… and all of this is done without abandoning the founding mission, purpose, standards, or principles.

The church should be no different, and I’ll show you why… our spiritual enemy reevaluates, makes corrections, changes his approach, and establishes new routines to deceive us into giving up our authority and influence. If the devil doesn’t change his approach, his approach to our culture will become obsolete. Likewise, if we don’t change our approach, how we influence our culture will become obsolete. Our approach, then, would be like warriors bringing swords or spears to a nuke fight… ineffective… and outmatched… a sure loss.

Now, there are those who see the condition of this world, and instead of doing much to change it, they wait for God to take them out of it. They eagerly anticipate that a rapture will remove them from the mess… so why bother influencing the culture? But while Jesus said that we should pray to escape the things that are to come in tribulation… He never said that we should stop discipling the nations or being the light of the world while we wait.

Rather, He gave us a Great Commission. He told us to preach the gospel to every creature. He said that we should pray — His kingdom comes on the Earth just as it is in heaven. He said that as long as He was in the world that He was the Light of the World, but then He said that we are the light of the World, a city on a hill that cannot be hidden. But we are hidden, aren’t we? We are hidden within the walls of our churches while satan is discipling the nations and transforming the culture to look more like his kingdom than God’s kingdom.

Satan advances his kingdom by deceiving God’s people into giving up our God-given authority, and he does it subtly so that we agree with him without even realizing it. He deceives God’s people into giving up our God-given power, our God-given dominion, and our call and commission to influence. Satan’s greatest weapon on the Earth is convincing us to stifle our influence over the culture so that he can advance his.

How does satan influence the culture? He uses a systematic approach that we call the Seven Mountains of Cultural Influence. Throughout scripture, seven mountains are mentioned a couple of times, and many have assumed these mountains are the mountains of Jerusalem. Some have claimed that they symbolize Rome; others claim they are a reference to the Antichrist’s rule. And in each of these cases, there may be some truth. But a growing understanding in the Body of Christ is that whoever controls the Seven Mountains of Cultural Influence controls the entire culture.

The Seven Mountains of Cultural Influence are government, media, arts, entertainment, business, religion, family, and education. It is said that if you control these seven mountains, you control the entire culture. And right now, I think it should be obvious to everyone that satan has control over each of these mountains in today’s culture. If we are to take our culture back from the enemy, we must learn how to take back these mountains of influence because what we’ve been doing isn’t working. Therefore, we have a job to do. We must fulfill God’s purpose for us on this Earth before we leave it.

Jesus reveals that when we accomplish the work that God has given us to do, we bring Him glory. So, when we fulfill our ultimate destiny (the purpose for which we were created) we give to God the greatest amount of glory possible. I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do (John 17:4).

God’s purpose for us is simple… to bring Him glory, and we do that by doing and being what we were created to do and be. We do that by nurturing intimacy with God and by being obedient to what He calls us to do. If we are teachable, trainable, and open-minded to the Word of God, we can be used by God to influence and transform the culture of this world until the whole Earth is filled with His glory. To do that effectively, we must be discipled… discipled biblically and discipled properly.

Chapter 2

Basic Discipleship

In basic discipleship, you are regularly prompted to keep a relationship with God. You are monitored like a sponsor monitors an addict. You are taught to maintain a routine of spending at least seven minutes with God every day.

While each of those things is vitally important, this book… is not that. It is not basic. It is not elementary, and it is not what you might be accustomed to.

Unfortunately, basic discipleship, as it has been taught… . has not been good enough to advance the kingdom of God on the Earth at nearly the efficacy of satan’s advancement of the kingdom of darkness.

Basic discipleship hasn’t been effective enough. Why? Because once we train people in the basics, we tend to think that we have done our jobs, and we send off the disciples to learn and fend for themselves.

This book, however, is not designed to do the same things. This book assumes that you have a growing relationship with God… that you maintain that relationship with God regularly, and that you protect the intimacy you have with God daily… so that you are not a novice to Christianity as we know it, but rather, that you will take what you have learned and apply it for the greatest possible efficiency and efficacy possible. With such an assumption, if that is not you, this book might not be for you.

Additionally, this book will help you to discern what is from God and what is from the enemy. It will help you to see what the enemy is doing… both physically and spiritually, on the Earth.

With that said, we must recognize the need for deliverance from possession, oppression, influence, or simply from curses and attacks from the enemy. Parts of this book will assist in helping you to begin the process of personal deliverance so that you might receive your deliverance, keep your deliverance, and be more effective for the kingdom of God. Oh, and one more thing… we all need some level of deliverance… even Christians, even leaders, even ministers.

To become effective in the destiny war, we must be discipled out of the influences of the enemy and into submission and obedience to our King.

Chapter 3

Come and Follow Me

In the Hebrew culture, the children were raised on the Oral Law. They were trained to recite the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Torah, or Genesis through Deuteronomy in our Bibles), and they were taught the wisdom of their fathers and their forefathers.

The fathers would instruct and discipline their children in hopes that the children would grow to wisdom and stature that would surpass the accomplishments of the fathers themselves.

The mothers cultivated the character of the children through memorization of scripture, through the teachings of godly virtues in the practices of daily living, through the process of increasing maturity, and through applying increasing responsibility around the home.

Simply put, this family structure was designed to give the children more and greater opportunities to succeed in life and to be effective on the Earth in a way that is pleasing to God and pleasing to their king. Without this concept, we have a warped understanding of authority.

Essentially, the parents would set the children up to expand the family, expand the family business or trade, become a valuable asset to the kingdom, have a kingdom-based mindset, and build a mentally and morally healthy tribe that would be useful for the kingdom of Israel and/or the kingdom of Judah.

Upon bar mitzvah (at around twelve or thirteen years of age), the children would be eligible to become a student of the local rabbi. This was a huge opportunity for the Israelite children, a lottery of sorts, to leave the family business behind them and to enter into a process that could potentially land them either in the synagogue or the temple itself.

Should the children become adults, equipped for service, and serve in the temple, all of their living expenses would be covered by the temple because the portion of the Lord belonged to the priests who were to live off the tithes, according to Deuteronomy 18:1–5 and 2 Kings 12:16. Similar scripture references from the New Testament can be found in Luke 10:7, 1 Corinthians 9:7–10, 1 Corinthians 9:14, and 1 Timothy 5:17–18.

So, the opportunity was a big one… not only to leave the financial struggles and the daily labors of the family business behind but perhaps even to walk, as a rabbi themselves, in one of the highest honors… due to their relationship with God and their understanding of the scriptures. The rabbi’s apprentice would learn to walk in intimacy with God, to serve Him in a respected office of ministry, and to serve the people, teaching them all how to draw near to God.

That was the desire of so many parents — that their child would rise to a place of influence and service that would carry them to greater heights than the family trade would ever take them… but the selection process and the maturing process were grueling.

THE STUDENTS

As the rabbi walked through town or even sat at the temple gate, the children would surround the rabbi in faith and hope that one day they might be promoted to be the rabbi’s student… his apprentice. The rabbi would test the children, asking them to recite the Oral Law. He would tell those who were not able to recite the text, Go back and learn the trade of your father. The children would disperse from the group in disappointment but be returned to their family to learn the trade of their father.

The rabbi would then ask the remaining students questions of wisdom and virtue. If they answered incorrectly or could not answer at all, the rabbi would say, Go back and learn the trade of your father. The few who remained would walk alongside the rabbi as