The Basilisk Season

This year the basilisk spirit will fall on the evening of July 17, 2022 and ends on the evening of August 6, 2022.

 

This term means “between the straits” or “dire straits”.

Lamentations 1:  1 – 3 (NKJV)

Jerusalem in Affliction

1 How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The princess among the provinces
Has become a slave!

² She weeps bitterly in the night,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

³ Judah has gone into captivity,
Under affliction and hard servitude;
She dwells among the nations,
She finds no rest;
All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.

 

We know the Season of “Dire Straits” as the Season of the Basilisk.

This season is a three-week cycle that begins every year on the 17th of Tammuz extending until the 9th of Av in the Judaic calendar.

 

In order to find out when this comes each year, you need to look up the Jewish Calendar online.

I believe that the reason this Basilisk Season is hitting people strong right now is because on some level the Church has slowed down in consecration, prayers, fasting, and intercession.

Basilisk in History

Throughout history the spirit has sponsored plagues at various times causing great numbers of people to

experience death. During those periods of time in history, especially the Dark Ages, man attempted various superstitions and fables in his attempt to combat this evil spirit and the death that it had brought, rather than applying the blood of Christ and accepting the victory [of the Cross] through His revealed Word. This spirit promotes religious superstition in place of faith. This resulted in Christians praying out of their superstitious imagination rather than the Holy Spirit anointed promises of God. In his address to the Athenians, the apostle Paul described them as being “too superstitious” or “religious as some translations rendered it. Paul presented the truth of the Gospel to replace misguided trust in fables and superstitions. The Lord desires to do the same today.

During this season we need to take extra time to intercede not only for ourselves but for other members of the Body of Christ.

You need to understand that we need each other like never before.

The key to defeating this spirit in this season is using the authority of Christ.

We want to stress the great need for consecration, repentance, and prayer.

Repentance will always bring forth times of refreshing from the Presence of the Lord.

Genuine sorrow that is not merely the articulation of our mouths but the incentives of our hearts will also paved the way for the impartation of righteousness and divine authority necessary for defeating our enemies.

The Scriptures declare that our Savior came into this world to destroy the works of the devil. He has chosen His Church as the instrument through which this victory is to be manifested.

Daniel 9 records the great prophet repenting for his sins and those of his people, leadership and forefathers for not having obeyed the Word of the Lord to obediently walk in His teachings.

Like Israel of old, we have allowed the spirit of the world to invade our lives promoting compromise and spiritual error.

Sincere repentance will touch the heart of the Father releasing the spiritual ‘ammunition’ to defeat Basilisk.

 

Psalm 91 has been given to us as a Scripture of protection, an instrument of war against this evil spirit.

The Church has been given authority over all the power of the enemy… authority and victory in Christ must be rightly appropriated through the Body.

We need to use Psalm 91, the Blood of Jesus Christ, and Michael the Archangel as needed.

 

Psalm 91 (NKJV)

91 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
² I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”

³ Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler
And from the perilous pestilence.
⁴ He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and buckler.
⁵ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
⁸ Only with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.

⁹ Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,
¹⁰ No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
¹¹ For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
¹² In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.
¹³ You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

¹⁴ “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
¹⁵ He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”

 

The Lord has given specific permission to call upon Heaven for the release and activation of the mighty warring angels, including the distinguished Archangel Michael.

Repentance and steadfast faith in the declared Word provides a protection against this identified enemy.

In so doing, our sanctified hearts would then be prepared for the release of the divine authority necessary to defeat this enemy.

The Scripture declares our foot shall be placed upon the scorpion and the basilisk, not because of any strength of our own, but because of the great victory appropriated to us through Christ.

The Church has been given authority to deal with this spirit, yet mankind has perished throughout history because of lack of knowledge concerning this enemy and the appropriate application of our Savior’s triumph over all opposition.

 

In Luke 10:19 the Lord promises that He has given us authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means injure us [from an eternal perspective].

Our Lord in His grace has given us this insight into the plans of the enemy for the purpose of equipping us with the blueprint for success in defeating this adversary.

The more we understand his plans and purposes the more capable we will be to pray with pinpoint precision.

The Lord also has His plans and purposes; plans for welfare and not for calamity toward those obediently following His divinely ordained strategy.

Nothing could be more rewarding for a Christian than to find favor with God by willingly offering ourselves as instruments of righteousness, hating what He hates and loving that which He loves.

 

This can be accomplished, at least in part, by committing ourselves faithfully to this battle both individually and corporately.

Foremost in our preparation for this battle is sincere repentance for our sins and the sins of our ‘fathers’.

If this spirit goes unchallenged by the Body of Christ it can do a lot of destruction.

This evil spirit is accustomed to operating in secret without being detected or obstructed.

Basilisk in Scripture

The word Basilisk is derived from basiliskos meaning “kinglet” or “king” signifying a mythical reptile hatched by a serpent from a cock’s egg. In Scripture, Basilisk is sometimes translated “cockatrice” or “adder”. The Hebrew word for Basilisk occurs in Psalm 91:13, Isaiah 14:29, Isaiah 11:8, Isaiah 30:6, Isaiah 59:5, Proverbs 23:32, and Jeremiah 8:17.

The Scripture declares our foot shall be placed upon the scorpion and the basilisk, not because of any strength of our own, but because of the great victory appropriated to us through Christ. The Church has been given authority to deal with this spirit, yet mankind has perished throughout history because of lack of knowledge concerning this enemy and the appropriate application of our Savior’s triumph over all opposition. In Luke 10:19 the Lord promises that He has given us authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means injure us [from an eternal perspective].

 

So well hidden is the spirit that he did not even require the darkness of night to operate as most evil spirits. He can operate and even prevail in the brightness of the noonday.

This demon prince has authority to release extensive destruction and misery in the earth, especially if unopposed by the Church.

This demon prince is described in Deuteronomy 32:  24, according to the rabbinical writings.

 

Deuteronomy 32:24 (NKJV)

²⁴ They shall be wasted with hunger,
Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;
I will also send against them the teeth of beasts,
With the poison of serpents of the dust.

 

The early rabbis taught that this passage could accurately be rendered “and I will fight against them with flaming demons”.

Flaming demons is real.

 

For the Jewish people, these 21 days extending from the 17th of Tammuz until the 9th of Av represents a notable time of bitterness and destruction. According to the rabbis, the demon prince that prevails during this time is called “ketev” meaning destruction/bitterness.

 

Jewish rabbis regarded “ketev” not solely as a plague, but a demon prince with authority to cause death and destruction through plagues.

 

It was during this precise time that the Lord’s prophecy concerning the destruction of Jerusalem was fulfilled.

On the 17th of Tammuz 70 A.D. the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem.

For three weeks Roman troops ransacked and destroyed the city until the 9th of Av when they burned the Temple [down to the ground- fulfilling Matt.24:2]. In both the Babylonian and Roman captivity, the Temple was destroyed on this agonizing date.

It is reported that during the Holocaust, the Nazis systematically chose the 9th of Av to carry out murderous and other demonically inspired actions against the Jewish community.

The ancient leaders recognized that the righteous must be hidden in the secret place of the Most High during this time of trouble, which they believed was a dress rehearsal for the birth pangs of Messiah.

In Isaiah 26:  17 – 21 the prophet Isaiah speaks of the season where the righteous are directed to hide themselves while wrath and indignation take its course.

 

Isaiah 26:  17 – 21 (NKJV)

¹⁷ As a woman with child
Is in pain and cries out in her pangs,
When she draws near the time of her delivery,
So have we been in Your sight, O Lord.
¹⁸ We have been with child, we have been in pain;
We have, as it were, brought forth wind;
We have not accomplished any deliverance in the earth,
Nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹⁹ Your dead shall live;
Together with my dead body they shall arise.
Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust;
For your dew is like the dew of herbs,
And the earth shall cast out the dead.

Take Refuge from the Coming Judgment

²⁰ Come, my people, enter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you;
Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment,
Until the indignation is past.
²¹ For behold, the Lord comes out of His place
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;
The earth will also disclose her blood,
And will no more cover her slain.

 

Zephaniah 2:3 also prophetically forecasts a season when the Godly are directed to

seek the Lord… seek righteousness… and seek humility and perhaps be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.

 

Zephaniah 2:3 (NKJV)

³ Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth,
Who have upheld His justice.
Seek righteousness, seek humility.
It may be that you will be hidden
In the day of the Lord’s anger.

 

According to these rabbis, the heat of the noonday from 12:00 until 3:00 was a time of extreme activity for this evil spirit.

Basilisk is the exemplification of the devil himself whose primary purpose is death and destruction.

The word Basilisk is derived from basiliskos meaning “kinglet” or “king” signifying a mythical reptile hatched by a serpent from a cock’s egg.

The Egyptians worshiped the spirit as “the Lord and King of serpents to awe all others, nor to be destroyed by any”.

They displayed a crowned Basilisk on the heads of their gods as observed in the Bembine table and other Egyptian monuments.

This demonstrates satan’s attempt to elevate himself above God as an object of worship.

 

Isaiah 59:  5 (NKJV)

⁵ They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

 

Psalm 91:  5 – 6 (NKJV)

⁵ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

 

In Scripture, Basilisk is sometimes translated “cockatrice” or “adder”.

The Hebrew word for Basilisk occurs in Psalm 91:13, Isaiah 14:29, Isaiah 11:8, Isaiah 30:6, Isaiah 59:5, Proverbs 23:32, and Jeremiah 8:17.

In Israel, this term is generally presumed to denote the cerastes or horned viper, a very poisonous serpent, considered one of the most dangerous of all vipers.

Clearly, the spiritual symbolism points to a prince of darkness diametrically opposed to the purposes of God in the earth.

In Daniel 10 we discover the Prince of Persia withstanding Gabriel prohibiting the release of divine instruction for 21 days.

The Lord has given specific permission to call upon Heaven for the release and activation of the mighty warring angels, including the distinguished Archangel Michael.

Basilisk has been delegated the power of death.

The natural physical death resulting from the spirit is derived from plagues, sickness and disease, natural disasters, and even terrorism.

It was believed in mythology that the power of death existed in his breath or even in the glance of his eyes.

 

Few things please the Father more than to see His people in unity:

Psalm 133:1-2… How good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard.

Though often geographically separated, we are united in purpose with one mind and passion… to defeat the enemies of our God.

As one expositor put it, “As the instruments of a great concert under the direction of a concert master, so the Holy Spirit blends together the lives of members of the ekklesia of Christ.”

 2 Corinthians 10:4-6… For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through GOD to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the Will of GOD… bringing every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and BEING READY TO PUNISH ALL DISOBEDIENCE WHEN YOUR OBEDIENCE IS FULFILLED.

Extra notes – Sermon12-SeasonOfTheBasilisk-7-22-12

Source:  http://zionsgate.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/the-season-of-the-basilisk-2011-and-beyond/