Professor Hot AF <| sep |> It is indeed horrific what was done . People sometimes are mightily deluded . I ' ve been recently looking at some Kenneth Copeland ministries audios , and there ' s interesting teaching by Terry Mize about the believer ' s authority . He ' s dealt with mad mobs , murderintending soldiers , and deranged inviduals in his mission work . There ' s a whole area there of authority we have in Christ over all the work of the enemy Satan , few christians have any knowledge of it , and even those who do seem to have a partial understanding . Kind of wish someone was teaching the Pakistani christians about these things . I ' ve used such things in a rudimentary way with a couple of psychopaths I ' ve encountered in the past . Basically Terry Mize was standing and declaring the promises . So some hitchhiker in MexicoGuatemala turned out to be an escaped convict , and was intent on robbing and murdering him . But he was saying to his face you can ' t kill me , I ' m a servant of the Lord and such like , knowing his authority . Eventually in that case the felon did fire of his gun point blank into Terry but the bullets although fired and replaced with a new set , didn ' t go where they were directed . At the end the felon left , Terry gave him some things to help him , and had prayed for his mother or grandma who was ill . He also working in another country , where there were frequent army attacks on christian villages and an intended attack in the night , drew a line round a village and declared it to be behind the blood of Christ , and the intended violence didn ' t happen . What did happen though was that a temple belonging to the religion that was causing the persecution , outside the blood line was burnt down , and supernaturally it would seem . I ' ve also heard of evangelists in India , facing hindu zealots intent upon murder , being able to bring probably temporary blindness on them , rather like happened on some occasions in the OT , and of course a couple of times in Acts . Also zealots being restrained in some supernatural way , unable to move forward to do their evil intent . Also some being knocked to the ground by the Holy Spirit , and perhaps encountering in their own thinking the person of God and his true revelation . We also have power over the various wicked spirits and fallen angels who birth false religious systems according to Ephesians . Not sure how that works though . One would definitely need some very safe spiritual protection to take on those entities . Probably better to have a christian gideon army of intercessors there .