Powers and Principalities

These next few posts are just to highlight some connections - or maybe parallels is a better way to put it - between the way the folks from Qumran and the early Christians thought of the world.

For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against cosmic powersof this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. - Ephesians 6.12

On that day the congregation of the gods and the congregation of men shall engage each one another, rsulting in great carnage. the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness shall fight together to show the strength of God with the roar of a great multitude and the shout of gods and men: a day of disaster - War Rule

The weapons and the nature of the battle may sound different, but the war is one and the same.

Or is it?