Understanding Spiritual Warfare - What is the Goal?

 Imagine the Island of Atlantis.  The island of Atlantis is separate from the rest of civilization.  Atlantis may have been like The Garden of Eden.  All knowledge was under God, aligned with intelligent design.  Sin entered the island.  The island sank.  The goal is The Kingdom of God.  Part of building the Kingdom of God may be putting various concepts, dates, symbols, and so on, in their correct usage. 

What does an upside down cross represent?  The media over the last few decades, the media would have people perceive that an upside down cross was a sign of the devil.  An upside down cross is Peter's Cross.  Saint Peter didn't feel that he was worthy to die like his master. He elected to be crucified upside down.   

I was on /r/Bible over on Reddit one day.  There was a young man with an issue.  His brother kept having dreams of a demon who flayed people.  Flayed people like in the movie "The Silence of the Lambs," where Buffalo Bill, a serial killer, was wearing his victim's skin.  My comment was to give the young man an image of Saint Bartholomew.  It may be that Saint Bartholomew, who was flayed alive, died that way to block out, or replace something.  

Jesus Christ is The Stone Rejected by The Builders. (Psalms 118:22)(Luke 20:9-19)(Acts 4:11)  What is a builder?  A builder may have been a laborer, like a builder of the pyramids or a builder of God's Temple.  A builder may have been an architect. A builder may have been a teacher of religious law, like a priest, building a "World of Perception," shaping how men perceived themselves, and perceived God.  Anyone who was experiencing The Spiritual, they may have been doing particular things.  The Pharisees were teachers of religious law.  Jesus was rejected.  Jesus Christ ended up fitting into a lot of prophecy as the stone rejected. 

There is Bible prophecy in understanding The Stone Rejected.   Someone like Apostle Paul, he taught out of the Book of Isaiah, showing people how Jesus had been fulfilling prophecy.  There were also Pagan builders, and prophecy, that Jesus may have been fulfilling outside of Judea.  Pan, the Greek false god of shepherds, he was said to have died sometime around Jesus' life, prior to his ministry.  This appeared to herald the coming of the Jewish Messiah.  Jesus Christ fits into the Aesop's Fable "The Wolf and the Lamb."  There may have been many other things Jesus fit into. 

In many cultures around the world, there has been a flood story.  There was flood stories in Babylon.  In the New World, Indians had flood stories.  How do we explain this?  The Stone Rejected by The Builders Becomes the Chief Cornerstone. 

These are some examples that may help key someone into Spiritual Warfare, and what needs to be happening.  God bless.  "Show proper respect to everyone, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the emperor." (1 Peter 2)