Altars of the Living Voice of Yahweh Vs.
Demonic Blood Altars of Lucifer
In October 2025, while seeking the LORD, I received a prophetic snapshot of a large, sci-fi-style spiderweb covering my entire region. That web connected to a larger web spanning the entire United States. Each regional web contained a spider’s nest. I knew the Holy Spirit was revealing something unnatural: a glimpse into the spiritual realm and what is at work within the demonic web. I saw a multitude of people literally trapped and suspended in the web. Pulling back the veil on the realities of the spiritual realm startled me, even though I already understood spiritual warfare.
I heard the Lord say that this spider’s nest was the altar of a coven. Then the Lord said:
“The altars of the covens are fully committed to the enemy's plan. The dark webs have overtaken regions and overcome My people because the commitment, sacrifice, and dedication to their altars exceed those of My people. That statement startled me because most of God’s people I know are committed, passionate lovers of the LORD.
During that time of seeking the LORD, He began to give me understanding of the vision of people caught in the web. The web represented a literal network of darkness, weaving its influence through blood sacrifice, perverse occult practices, and precisely targeted demonic incantations directed against those who walk in authority within the Body of Christ.
The people caught in the web represented the spiritual attack being released from the coven’s demonic altar. The coven’s spider’s nest was causing severe mental attacks, oppressive heaviness, suicidal depression, emotional and relational conflict, and Satan-inspired infirmity.
1 Kings 18:30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
FULLY COMMITTED ALTARS
The LORD said, “The only hope for regional and national breakthrough is to repair My altar that is in ruins.” The altars of the covens are fully committed to the plan of darkness. They are not isolated but intimately connected in dark unity, and that unity has cast a web over regions throughout the nation. Their sacrifices are no joke, and most Christians are unaware or live in subtle denial of what is happening in the spider’s nest. We have been in a raging war of contending altars, the altar of covenant versus the altar of covens, and the unity of darkness, the union of covens, has been taking out major ministries and ministers.
The spiritual authority of the Church has been greatly diminished because covenant devotion and first-love fervency have waned. Spiritual adultery has greatly weakened the spiritual authority of His Body.
James 4:4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
These types of scriptures are not preached much anymore for fear of appearing to have a religious, legalistic spirit. They will not make the preacher popular on social media either. Most want you to keep it short and positive, but this IS POSITIVE! This is the PATHWAY to covenant promises. It's covenant fidelity! The LORD is a jealous, zealous LOVER, and He does not want to share His Bride with another nor with the spirit of this present age. To be a friend of the spirit of the age makes us an enemy of God. We are at war, and our Bridegroom King shed His Blood to redeem us from the slavery system of sin. He is worthy of every breath we breathe.
A WAR PARADIGM
A war paradigm is necessary for living victoriously in our time on earth. We must repent and return (teshuvah) to the apostolic worldview modeled by the uncreated Son Jesus (Yeshua) and imparted to His first 12 SENT ONES (Apostles). Most of the first apostolic generation lived with the same resolute focus and walked in the same apostolic measure of Kingdom authority. Their worldview was centered on eternity, and they understood time and space as a period of war for a greater purpose than personal comfort, prosperity, career, or even security.
1 Peter 2:9–11 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. Beloved, I beg you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against the soul.
As a full-time itinerant minister, I travel and encounter some of the most incredible people who love the Lord with all their hearts. Most of God’s people I minister to would never want to live below God’s original design. Yet I see a subtle cultural drift in our Christian worldview away from the apostolic worldview articulated by the Apostle Peter in 1 Peter 2:11. It’s easy to let culture shape the Kingdom instead of letting the Kingdom shape our cultural worldview.
This has allowed a subtle, unseen spiritual epidemic to creep in over the past 75 years. As our nation prospered after World War II, the church began to prosper, and the culture of comfort began to take precedence over the Kingdom mandate to be like our Master and Lord, who laid His life down so others could enter the Kingdom.
Think about the first Apostolic era: they walked with such authority that they literally turned the world upside down in one generation (Acts 17:9). Years ago, the Lord told me that Apostolic authority is released through Apostolic authenticity. Apostolic Christianity is not a leadership paradigm; it’s a lifestyle, my lifestyle. Remember, I am the Apostle and the great high priest of the faith you profess (Hebrews 3:1).
Currently, there is an unseen, unrealized epidemic of spiritual adultery, loving the world and the things in it. A comfort-seeking spirit has fostered spiritual passivity, disengaging the warrior bride from entering into authoritative daily intercession. It’s far more than a prayer issue. It’s a spiritual wholeness issue that prevents us from becoming faithful stewards who can be entrusted with the Living Words of God’s mouth, deposited in our mouths.
1 John 2:15–16 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world.
This verse does not say we don’t love God or the Father. I believe almost all genuine Christians love God the Father; this says the Father’s love is not in us. The Father’s love is what Jesus, the Son, walked in, and he laid his life down. Many will say, well, that was Jesus, but the apostle Paul modeled this in Romans 9, when he says he wishes he himself could be cut off from the Lord so his fellow brethren might know him. Paul modeled this in his life, and along with the apostles, they lived the crucified life, no longer they who lived, but Christ living through them (Galatians 2:20).
The first apostolic era was marked by people consumed by the Father’s love and by spiritual apostolic pioneers who laid down their lives so the next generation could experience the purity and authority of the Kingdom of God. I’ll say it once again. This is not a heaven issue; it’s a manifesting-heaven-on-earth issue. Getting to heaven is all about the blood of Jesus, which unites heaven and earth. This is a maturity and sonship issue. It’s time for the sons of God to ascend in maturity and manifest the Father’s love, which will turn the world upside down once again.
The Lord is raising up a new breed of Apostolic pioneers who will build altars of covenant, summoning His people back to covenant fidelity, the apostolic worldview, and lifestyle. These altars of covenant will burn away demonic webs and destroy the spider nest of covens with the all-consuming fire of God that comes from their mouths, consuming the enemies opposed to the King of the kingdom (Psalm 97:3).
THE CORPORATE ONE: PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT UNTIL THE ATMOSPHERE SHIFTS
In our charismatic circles of Christianity, we often gather for conferences, worship services, and sermons, seeking our personal breakthrough and experience, which are essential to usher in a regional breakthrough. Yet do we know how to contend corporately, as the corporate ONE, in the Spirit, and to release the Voice of the LORD?
We must assess the weight of authority behind our corporate intercession. Understanding how the Kingdom of God and the Voice of the LORD are released is essential. To move forward, we must operate as a mature corporate Bride, deeply aligned with His heart, bearing His burden for humanity, and stepping into our position of authoritative worship and prophetic intercession.
Maturity in Christ brings us to this place of divine stewardship and enables us to release the most powerful and authoritative asset of His Kingdom: His Living Words, His Living Voice.
Romans 8:26–27 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Throughout my years of pastoring, including raising young disciples through an internship program, the heart of everything we did was praying in the Holy Spirit, or allowing the Holy Spirit to pray through us. After my radical conversion on 12/12/1990, the LORD immediately baptized me in the Holy Spirit and gave me an encounter with and an understanding of praying in the Holy Spirit until you feel the atmosphere shift. It is as if you pass through an unseen veil and enter a realm of authority, which I see as the LORD's council.
MOVING FROM OUTER COURT WORSHIP INTO THE COUNCIL OF THE LORD
In those foundational years of raising up the next generation through our college ministry internship, we anchored each morning with hours of worship and prayer. I would always stress: don’t pray in English, but pray in the Spirit until you pass through the veil and the Spirit gives you words in English, words that carry the Voice of the LORD.
The church has been misled by misguided theologians who hold different views on praying in the Spirit or on allowing the Holy Spirit to pray through you. Some say there is no prayer language in the Holy Spirit.
Others say it passed with the first apostolic era. Still others say it was always known languages, meant to speak to people in their native tongue. I cannot go into the different arguments to show the foolishness of these statements, but I will point to Acts 8 and the revival that took place in Samaria.
Acts 8:5–8 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city.
Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ to them, and a great demonstration of the Kingdom broke out in their midst. The paralyzed and the lame were healed, the possessed were delivered, and great joy filled that city. As amazing as that was, it was not the end of the story.
Acts 8:14–17 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
It says they had been baptized only in the name of the Lord Jesus. Think about that: have you been baptized only in the name of the Lord Jesus? Some would call that heretical, but this is clear evidence of a second work of the Holy Spirit necessary to bring the Kingdom of God to its fullness. The early church even sent the two pillar apostles, Peter and John, to lay hands on the Samaritans after a great revival in that region. Allowing the Holy Spirit to pray through you and release the Lord’s living voice is crucial. Speaking in tongues isn’t limited to known languages, as many theologians in the charismatic church are arguing right now. I have an article on that; I’ll share it during these 90 days of watching with the LORD.
The LORD is going to raise up altars of His living voice that not only pray in the Spirit but also sing in the Spirit and offer the high praises of God, binding the demonic king with fetters and releasing the written judgment of Heaven’s court (Psalm 149:6-9). A city can receive the word of Christ, witness the miracles, and still wait for the deeper impartation that comes only through the FULLNESS of the Holy Spirit.
That is where I believe we stand right now. We have abundant outer court worship. What we desperately need is a corporate people who will press past it into the council and come back out with the Voice of the LORD in their mouths.
DECLARATION
I declare that I will not be more committed to comfort than the enemy is committed to his altar. I declare that I am repairing the altar of covenant in my own life, in my family, and in my sphere of influence, and that my devotion will outlast and outweigh anything built in dark unity against me. I declare that I will not settle for outer court worship when the council of the LORD is open to me, and that I will pray in the Spirit until I feel the atmosphere shift around me, my household, and my region.
PRAYER
Father, forgive me for every place I have let comfort-seeking pass for faith and called passivity peace. Teach me to contend corporately, not just personally, and give me ears that can tell the difference between outer court worship and the council of the LORD. Baptize me in Your Spirit the way You baptized Samaria, not only with miracles that draw a crowd, but with the deeper impartation that equips me to carry Your voice. Rebuild what is in ruins in me before You send me to rebuild anything in others. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
QUESTION
Where in your own life has comfort quietly become more important to you than your devotion is to the Lord, and what would it look like this week to pray until you actually feel the atmosphere shift?
Ed Watts · Zion Gate Ministries · Altars of the Voice of the LORD
