Salvation

Salvation is presented as the indispensable beginning of restoration and every other benefit associated with the Kingdom of God. In the book’s argument, being saved is not merely the conclusion of a religious decision; it is the threshold of a changed allegiance and a new way of understanding trouble. The person who accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior stops serving Satan, described as the god of this world, and begins serving the God of the Word. From that change, restoration is said to begin.

Definition and First Consequence

Salvation is introduced as the condition that must precede restoration. The text directly instructs anyone who is not saved to become saved, asserting that no further benefit from the Kingdom of God can properly be received beforehand. This makes salvation the foundation of the book’s practical program: the reader must first accept Jesus Christ personally, and only then can the promised movement from bondage and loss toward restoration take place.

The decisive change is described as a transfer of service. Before salvation, a person is said to have walked according to the course of the world and under the influence of the prince of the power of the air, the spirit working in the children of disobedience. After salvation, the person is directed away from Satan and toward God. The contrast is therefore ethical and spiritual as well as devotional: salvation changes the governing power recognized by the believer and establishes the basis for subsequent obedience and resistance.

Salvation and a New Spiritual Position

The book connects salvation with being made alive together with Christ by grace. It then describes believers as raised together with Christ and seated together with him in heavenly places. Salvation thus produces a change of position as well as a change of allegiance. The saved believer is no longer depicted as trapped within the limited perspective of ordinary circumstances, but as occupying, with Jesus Christ, a position from which spiritual realities can be seen more clearly.

That elevated standpoint has a practical purpose. As a born-again believer seated in heavenly places with Jesus Christ, the reader is told to recognize the true source of ongoing problems. Failures and insufficiency are not to be assigned automatically to other people or to circumstances. The new position is meant to produce discernment: the believer must learn to distinguish visible human instruments from the spiritual powers that the book identifies as operating behind trouble.

Salvation as the Basis of Spiritual Conflict

The book places salvation within a larger account of spiritual conflict. It teaches that the believer’s struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places. Salvation does not remove the existence of this conflict; it changes the believer’s standing and response within it.

This framework makes recognition of Satan central to the saved life. The text insists that Satan is the source of every problem and calls on the reader to accuse him for his part in trouble. The command is not presented as a private conclusion but as an audible act: the reader is told to say, “Satan, you are at the bottom of my trouble!” Salvation therefore begins a practice of reinterpretation and declaration. The saved person is expected to stop blaming people and circumstances, identify the spiritual adversary, and take authority over him.

The promised result is victory and recovery. The sooner the believer learns to accuse Satan and exercise authority over him, the sooner the doors of total victory are said to open. The devil is then described as having to restore what he has destroyed or stolen from the believer and the believer’s loved ones. Salvation is consequently linked not only to inward conversion but also to an active expectation that losses can be confronted and reversed.

Restoration, Repayment, and Public Practice

The book supports its restoration claim through biblical language about a thief’s repayment. It asks whether God’s Word says that when the real thief is found, he must pay back what he has taken, then cites the rule that the thief must restore sevenfold and give all the substance of his house. Within the book’s application, this legal and proverbial language becomes a promise directed against Satan, the identified thief, and becomes part of the believer’s authority after salvation.

The practical expression of this teaching is a bold confession. The reader is told to begin saying it aloud and is supplied with words that reject blame directed toward God, circumstances, or surrounding people. The confession declares that the speaker now possesses advanced biblical knowledge, places Satan on notice, and announces that the devil’s theft will end. It further claims that Satan is under the believer’s feet and must return everything stolen, with the demanded restoration described as sevenfold, or “seven hundred percent.”

The sequence is important: salvation comes first, recognition follows, spoken accusation gives that recognition an active form, and restoration is expected as the consequence. The book does not treat speech as a detached expression of belief. The confession is framed as an act of notice, accusation, and authority, turning theological interpretation into a prescribed practice for the reader.

Prayer and the Continuing Life of the Saved

Salvation also opens into communal prayer. After the call to make the confession aloud, the book turns toward agreement in prayer and refers to the heartfelt, continued prayer of a righteous man as making tremendous power available. It then invites the reader to fill in a form at the end of the book and mail it to the author for agreement in prayer. The saved person is therefore not left with a solitary declaration; salvation leads into a network of confession, authority, and prayer.

In the overall structure of the teaching, salvation is the beginning rather than the final stage. It establishes service to God, identifies the believer with the life and exaltation of Jesus Christ, and provides the spiritual perspective required to recognize Satan as the troublemaker. From there, the reader is directed toward accusation, authority, repayment, and prayer. Salvation functions as the book’s decisive threshold: without it, restoration cannot begin; with it, the believer is summoned to interpret trouble differently and to act on that interpretation with confidence.