TOPIC: Demonology (01)
Good morning, welcome to another day made for you of the Lord.
I hope you’ve been occupied with the true major things God has purposed for you and not the minor that takes away the perfect will of God for your life.
In any case, God will continue to guide you in Jesus name!
Shall we get into the day’s lessons on demons please…
Belief in the existence of evil spirits has prevailed among all the known peoples of the world from the earliest times of which we have knowledge.
Among primitive and savage people these spirits are thought to be the departed ghosts which
have come back to annoy the living.
Those professing to see demons have seen them in human forms, as well as animal and
hybrid forms of various sorts; ordinarily demons are invisible spirits.
Jesus accepted without demur belief in the existence of demons and the Gospel of Mark tells
many stories of Jesus casting out demons.
Some question whether demons and spirits exist today; I strongly believe they exist.
THE ORIGIN OF DEMONS
The Bible is rather hazy in answering this question, and several answers are presented for our
consideration; the first of the following theories is generally accepted now.
1. When Satan sinned against God in Isa. 14:12-20; Ezek. 28:11-19; some say that he did not sin alone but was the leader of a group of angels. When Satan fell he and his angels were cast out, and these fallen angels have become demons.
In Matt. 12 :26, Satan is presented as a king over a kingdom of lesser devils.
2. Some see in Gen. 6:1-6, angels coming to earth and co-habiting with women. The offspring were giants and some say that these became demons after death.
Others explain this passage as the intermarriage of the godly line of Seth and the ungodly line of Cain. If this were so, what would cause the children to be giants, superhuman beings? Gen. 6:4.
The same expression, “sons of God” occurs in Job 1:6 where the “sons of God” came to
present themselves before the Lord. The sons of Seth certainly did not have access to the heavenlies, inferring thereby that these were angelic beings.
3. A third explanation is that demons are the spirits of a pre-Adamite race that perished between the first two verses of Genesis 1; and is described in Jer.4:23-26 where it says, “. . . there was no man. . .”, inferring that there had been men there at one time.
Until next time, keep believing, keep holding on, and the God of peace Himself shall keep you perfect and whole until His perfect day in Jesus name!