Author Description

A yoke is an instrument of bondage; it bounds an entity either for good or for bad. Spiritual yoke is either with God or with the devil, and it will invoke either blessings or curses over the life of the individual(s) who is yoked. Until a yoke is broken, the yoked are usually in servitude and made to do what the entity they are yoked to want them to do. Believers are supposed to be permanently yoked and in servitude to the Lord but set free from ungodly yoke and bondage. The two animals "beast of burden" work much more effectively than one could because they are able to pool their strength and pull in the same direction. They can work together to pull loads that one animal could not handle alone. Animals yoked together cannot stray far from each other because the yoke restricts where they can travel. The culture of the Israelite illustrates this better. They lived as shepherds and when an ox is being freshly used for irrigation and agricultural purposes, it is always yoked together with another ox skilled and experienced in agricultural works having been used for a while. This is necessary so that through it the apprentice ox learns several agricultural principles like tilling, bearing burdens and works of irrigation they are used for. Demonically yokes are used often used figuratively in the Scriptures to suggest severe bondage, afflictions, and subjection [Leviticus 26:13]. They generally constitute all that the devil does with and in the lives of those under his captivity. In the New Testament the word "yoke" is also used to denote servitude [Matthew 11:29 Matthew 11:30; Acts 15:10; Galatians 5:1]. When the devil put on a man, the instrument of yoke, the individual involved is harassed, repressed, depressed or even oppressed inflicting harm until freedom or liberty is attained by the Spirit and the word of God. In the scripture above, God said Esau could not be free until he makes a conscious effort to stand against the yoke and break its dominion, power and aut