We live in times when wars are not only fought on battlefields or in the chaos of social media, but within every human being.
The spiritual battle is not an archaic metaphor, nor a rhetorical device of the ancient Church Fathers; it is a tangible, urgent, and permanent reality that defines the destiny of the soul and the world.
The most well-known passage about spiritual warfare in the Bible is Ephesians 6:10-18. In verse 12, Paul says:
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, and spiritual hosts of wickedness" (Eph. 6:12).
This statement, too uncomfortable for modern thought, remains valid. Paul clearly assumes that we are involved in a "struggle." However, this conflict seems to be only in the realm of the physical world, that is, people and circumstances. But he mentions that "it is not against flesh and blood"; it is, in fact, a much deeper battle.
Today, this situation is disguised as relativism, lukewarmness, and cynicism. Demons do not always appear with horns; sometimes they come with progressive discourses that empty truth of meaning, or with a spiritual hedonism that anesthetizes the soul amid a false peace.
Quoting the priest Gabriel Calvo Zarraute, although we may use the term cultural battle, which is of Protestant Lutheran origin Kulturkampf, limiting this conflict to the cultural realm is not seeing the full picture. The chaos we face not only has ideological or political dimensions, but it is also, in reality, a spiritual war.
Behind the discourses of progress, sustainability, and social justice, operate globalist elites led by figures like George Soros and Bill Gates, who, through their powerful foundations, have funded a series of projects that mostly align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda.
