Demons and Fallen Angels

Demons are disembodied spirits that are at work virtually everywhere in the world today. They are evil in nature, and are obedient to Satan, their ruler. In the Bible they are also known as "evil spirits" or "unclean spirits".

There are a number of theories about their origin, but the Bible doesn't make it absolutely clear. Many believe they are fallen angels who fell when Satan, formerly Lucifer, rebelled against the Lord God in heaven. This theory has the problem that demons seem to be earth-bound spirits that walk, and cannot fly, unlike angels. There are fallen angels, who presently occupy positions of influence and authority over the earth in a kind of Satanic hierarchy, and are referred to in the Bible as "principalities and powers" (Ephesians 6:12). Earth bound demons are the "foot soldiers" in Satan's kingdom, and they are the ones we deal with on a day to day basis, whether we realise it or not.

Some speculate that demons are the spirits of former inhabitants of earth who rebelled against God - possibly the results of the offspring of fallen angels and women in the days before the flood (see Genesis 6). The Bible doesn't tell us and we don't have to know. What matters is to know how to deal with them, and overcome them, as they are everywhere, and they enjoy making our lives miserable, if they can.

It may be that when God judged the snake in Genesis 3 and said it would crawl on its belly that this translated into a loss of power for many fallen angels. Its impossible to say with total biblical authority.

Characteristics of demons

They have all the characteristics of personality. They are evil, malicious, deceptive and never to be trusted. We can see that demons possess the following:

Mind

"Now there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, saying, "Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did you come to destroy us? I know who you are - the Holy One of God!" (Mark 1:23, 24)

Demons have knowledge and are able to come up with things to say. The knowledge that demons have explains the source of knowledge at work with "psychics" and other occultists. It explains the knowledge of past events and places that supposedly confirms the false doctrine of reincarnation.

I remember one time while in the U.S.A. a young man I was with suddenly turned to me with only the white of his eyes showing, and a strange voice said to me , "I know who you are". Demons have knowledge.

Will

"When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' " (Luke 11:24)

I remember as a child saying things to myself like "What will we do now?". It was as if the demons in me were having some kind of conference. Demons are self-willed beings who seek to impose their will on the will of man.

Emotions

"You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe - and tremble!" (James 2:19).

Demons definitely fear God and God's power. On the other hand, they have pleasure in seeing people suffer. Anyone who is that way is so because they identify with the demons in them.

Identity and Self-Awareness

"Then He asked him, 'What is your name?' And he answered, saying, "My name is Legion; for we are many."

Demons usually operate in groups. They know who they are and they know their names and functions. Sometimes demons change their functions.One spirit said, "I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets." (2 Chronicles 18:21).

Sudden and major changes of events can cause some demons to change their function or activity. Most of the time, however, they continue with what they have been able to do successfully in the lives of people.

Capacity to Speak

Many of the above examples reveal the capacity of demons to speak. Sometimes they use a human mouth to speak through, but most of the time, they operate by planting their thoughts in the minds of people. The subtlety of this is that they usually do this in such a way as to suggest that the the thought from them was really from the person himself! For example, a demon may cause the thought to come in your mind, "I don't feel like praising God", or "I wonder what is on T.V.?".

Summary

Demons are real. Their activity accounts for many of the things that are happening today.

Demons are spirit beings with the principle characteristics of personality. Some are stronger than others, but all of them are totally corrupt and evil in nature. They never do any good. Any apparent benefit obtained through them via occultism is always just something to gain trust so they can do you and others far greater harm in the future. They are unsatisfied beings who desire to use and abuse you. They don't feel satisfied without a body to inhabit and through which to express their evil natures. God, on the other hand, is the source of goodness and life and who desires to give of Himself to you, and see you grow up to become like Jesus Himself.

Don't allow demons to get the upper hand in your life. Let us do all we can to destroy their influence by drawing near to God and letting God fill us and show us the way.

Comments

I'm free in Jesus name.

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you." (Luke 10:19).

Demons vs Evil Spirits

I have studied demons, possession and exorcism from a number of differing viewpoints for about thirty years. I have been attacked, oppressed, and influenced by them to varying degrees, though never "possessed". at least I DON'T THINK SO. I don't think so, becasue I think I have been divinely protected at least to some extent since I was fourteen and answered my first altar call. Yet and all, despite shortlived bliss and happiness in Jesus in my teens, I managed to screw my life up just as bad as any other person born in the 50s and enticed by all the occultism rampant in the USA since then. I usually explain that I took a very circuitous route to the cross.

Demons are real. Evil spirits are real, and ghosts are real too. Seances work, and the spirits of the dead can be called up. Of this, I have firsthand knowledge, and it is also demonstrated scripturally with the account of Saul's little tryst with the witch of Endor, and the ghost of Samuel. God is merciful to have spared my worthless hide until I was led by the Holy Spirit into the truth of my sins and convicted to repentance.

I have read extensively on the subject, but I must recommend, for someone seeking the rest of the story, the Book of Enoch. While this book was left out of the Bible, Christ, and 1st century Jews recognized it as scripture. I have to give it a lot of credence, and personally feel that keeping this book out of the Bible was a satanic coup, and also that its rediscovery in these last days is at least part of the prophecy imparted to Daniel about the increase of knowledge in the last days.

Enoch gives the names of the twenty angel chiefs who participated in the taking of daughters of men and explains that there were two hundred in all who rebelled. He explains tha these angels were enchained after the flood until the judgment and that the spirits of their dead offspring, the Nephilim giants, would roam the earth, as being neither angel nor human, they were irredeemable EVIL SPIRITS.

SATAN/LUCIFER is NOT among this group of rebellious angels or "Watchers". He is still roaming freely. Other fallen angels as well are not enchained. So today, when humans encounter these principalities and powers, they are dealing with the spirits of dead nephilim or fallen angels. These can usually manipulate their environment and humans. They are the likely source of most "poltergeist" activity, as well as more serious demonic oppression and possession.

Ghosts, the spirits of dead humans, for some reason, have not entered Sheol, or Hell, nor Paradise. The New Testament seems to indicate that upon death, the human spirit is either accepted into Paradise immediately, which is kind of a staging area for the saved believers, or sent to Sheol, a staging area for souls awaiting judgment who were not saved or did not accept the testimony of Jesus Christ during His time there after the crucifixion and before His resurrection. The question is WHY are they not in either place, when humans seem to have no choice to avoid Sheol if they are not saved, and would certainly not abandon Paradise if they were?

The best answer I can come up with is that these humans still had the bloodline of the Nephilom within them. Not all Nephilim died in the flood and examples of giantism and extra digits - 6 toes and fingers- persist to this day. Someone who has Nephilim DNA in them would still be redeemable, but if they did not accept Christ, upon death, would suffer the same fate as the direct offspring of the unholy unions, i.e., to roam the earth. But the fascinating thing about them is that while they appear all over the planet, they seem oblivious to the world around them and the living. They seem to just repeat the motions they went through in life, and you may walk through a few of them every day. Demons and evil spirits, conversely, deliberately interact with people when given the chance.

The moral of the story is DO NOT MESS WITH ANY KIND OF NECROMANCY, but if you encounter a communicating spirit, realize that it is NOT Uncle Fred, but an evil spirit or demon that had had thousands of years to observe us and could imitate Uncle Fred well enough to fool anybody not in possession of this knowledge. If it actually was the spirit of Uncle Fred, it might walk by and disappear, but it will not try to communicate with you or influence its environment.

Regarding voices: the evil spirits and demons are always raising a cacophany of blasphemy, and if you are hearing it, you need to cry to Jesus to silence them and rebuke them in the name of Jesus. Even though they may be yelling READ YOUR BIBLE, remember that the apostles themselves were harassed by demons proclaiming that these were men of God until they were silenced. Hopefully you can get some sleep. ALSO - DO NOT USE HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS or anything chemically similar, because this will open the portals in your mind to receive their rantings. Don't ask me how I know.

I pray this informatin is useful to someone out here and invite you to write me if you would like further dialogue at warpspeed@cableone.net.

God Bless-EP

fallen angels (demon) awiting judgement, bound in chains

concerning article stating not all demons are bound, might I suggest the binding is of a spiritual nature; they can never repent and be saved as we can, that is their binding, never to partake of Gods grace. They are all most active in trying to prevent God`s word from being carried out, eg the Holocaust; without the Jewish people, scripture would be meaningless. Sometimes you come across people who seem to be bound in darkness, who love evil, under the influence in many cases, perhaps all, of dark (bound) forces. Just a thought, or maybe perception. . .

I have voices who are cruel to me

they tell me im going to hell and to read my bible and go to church or else i will have to go to hell could they be demons??

RE: I have voices who are cruel to me

First of all I have never heard of cruel voices telling people to get saved. Not in the Bible and it is totally out of Character for God.

Also may I point out God doesn't talk to people in many voices. He speaks only as ONE Being.

Second thing is you will not suffer from either reading your Bible or going to a good Church that is not of course led by a False Shepherd/Pastor. Unfortunately Satan has put some evil men and women in the church teaching a false gospel to lead people astray.

The GOOD NEWS is that if you SEEK God the Bible tells us you will find Him and you will be saved. How do you get saved. In the book of Romans it says the following:-

RO 10:9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

Praying that the Lord will enable you to come to repent and know Jesus died for your sins to bring you forgiveness and eternal life in Heaven. Amen

Here is the EXTRA GOOD NEWS. When you do this Jesus says you will not be able to be decieved and when you go looking for a church to attend you will know the difference between someone preaching God's Truth and a Preacher who is teaching LIES.

2TI 3:10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11 persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. 12 In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, 13 while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Thanks for the advise melody cat

I have been struggling with voices for a while thanks for the advice

Demons

There are no demons who are afraid of God just humans kk

Demons Are Afraid Of God

Demons are afraid of God .....They recognize Christ as the Savior of the world while not all men do ....Now there was a man in their synogogue with an unclean spirit. And he cried out , '"Leave us alone ! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? did you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God"....Mark 1:23,24

Demons also know that their time is short here on earth and they know their destiny...
When He had come to the other side to the country of the Gergenesenes there came to Him two demon possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way. And suddenly they cried out saying, "What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?' Mathew 8:28,29

When the name of Jesus who is not only the Son of God but also God is used in deliverance demons must submit to God.....They fear God and what He can do and will do to them....

Demons versus evil angels

I would like to know if Angels, bad angels ever inhabit a humans body?

Angel are not meant to ...

Angels are not meant to inhabit human body, they are the ministering spirits sent by God to help his ministers/children in time of need. On the other hand, bad angels or Demons because of their evil and controling nature, likes to inhabit human body ( a body that Christ does not live in) to perfom their evil act that they will otherwise would not have been able to perfom without a human body.

demons

I used to care for my adoptive grandmother, who saw people no one else could see. My adoptive father and the rest of the family just assumed that she went senile, but my husband and I always felt that the beings she saw were real. I sensed that they were demons, since they always frightened her. It seemed to me like they were waiting to take her away. They never said anything to her, but just stood around. Sometimes she would see someone next to me. It was always frightening for me when she would tell me that she could see a man right next to me. She had been Christian as a child, but rejected Jesus Christ in her old age. I wish I had told her what I eventually felt--that the beings she saw were demons, waiting to take her to hell unless she repented. God gives us so many signs that He is real and the hereafter is real, but we can be so blind! I have read about NDEs where people remember to call out to Jesus while in hell and are rescued by Him. I sure hope that she did and is already in heaven, at His side.

Demon(s)?

Are demons still with us today? Or is Satan the only one prowling around like a roaring lion? How do we work around Jude v:6? Why is Satan the only demonic or fallen angel exposed as the worm in Rev?

Demons are all over, but Satan is not

Satan is a limited creature who can only be in one place at a time. He relies on his network of evil spirits and human servants to get his works done.

Jude 6 refers to certain angels which are bound in hell awaiting judgment. Not all of satan's angels are in this category. Only certain of them fell into this judgment. There are way more demons than there are people, especially at that time.

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I came to this site to seek knowledge!

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