ON DEMONS AND ANGELS

 When I was with a good friend, discussing obtuse behaviors, I said to him that a person had not one demon but many. She was a young lady that I knew well whose family were satanists. She was beautiful and attended our church, but she had “multiple personalities,” according to those who knew her, and was ugly inside according to her husband. She would go wild sometimes as if something fierce was guiding her.

My friend, a religious man, said, “I don’t believe in demons” to which I replied, “I do.”

Do you believe in demons? Do you believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, as scripture says, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16).

Do you, reader, believe in angels yet not demons? Jesus believed in demons, and you do not… Is Jesus a liar?

A man brought out his son, who he called a “lunatic” (Mat 17:15; YLT [1]). The disciples were not able to heal the young man, but “Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the lad was healed from that hour” (Mat 17:18; YLT). They asked why He was able, but why they had failed. Jesus reminded them of their little faith, and then revealed why, “This kind doth not go forth except in prayer and fasting” (Mat 17:21; YLT).

To be honest the KJV uses the archaic “devils” for demons. Since, the angel Lucifer is the “Devil,” devils are those of the Wicked One, and Cain was the first specific “devil” because he was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

The Devil (Satan, Lucifer, Beast, Baal, etc.) is the nature, or inner being of Lucifer, the angel who fell into darkness (Isa 14:12-13).  In psychological Jungian terms, “Lucifer” was the persona of that angel and the “Serpent” the shadow inside. As I have written many times, “serpent” is just one translation. At a basic level, nahas (Gen 3:1) in the Hebrew means “image” where translated “serpent.”

It seems that sinners are demons, but they are not. Cain was what is considered a natural born man, but inside he was  something else. That inner being was of the Wicked One and was the spirit of Lucifer in him. Cain was demonic in nature. So was the young man who was thought to be a lunatic who Jesus healed. The young man was thought to be either epileptic or vexed (confused). Let me add to that a modern term — “paranoid,” or obsessed with suspicion.

However, the young man had within a demon, devil, dark angel, or a shadow of the evil one; whatever you choose to call him. Just as Satan entered Judas (Luke 22:33), fellow angels of Lucifer/Satan can enter anyone who enters unto temptation, being at the wrong place at any given time.

Theoretically, demons cannot enter anyone who have faith in Jesus. If they get confused or go where they should not, they submit themselves to invisible beings.

Right now, scoffers are scoffing! “Invisible beings?” they laugh as if I am crazy. The scoffers also thought Jesus to be crazy, many of the Jews said, “He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye Him?” (John 10:20). To the Jews, the boy was thought to be a lunatic and they thought that Jesus was as well. They even accused Jesus of having a devil in Him. The Jews firmly believed in both lunatics and devils; they just could not discern between them.

The girl with the devil described at the beginning of this commentary, was the same. The psychotherapist, and even the preacher, thought her to be a lunatic with multiple personalities; that her thoughts were confused.

I told the preacher that she had demons in her because she exhibited many in her behaviors. Subsequently, they said they prayed out her demon, to which I added, “She has many demons!” Yes, I am a “lunatic” as the world sees it because I believe in demons.

Like they perceived Jesus as being a lunatic and even mad, at the same time, others thought that Jesus had a demon inside of Him (Mat 17:22).

With the young man, they had failed for two reasons: (1) They had little faith, and (2) they were confused. It was them who were paranoid because they did not know with whom they were dealing — evil spirits or craziness.

Many people are treated as psychologically impaired and are never healed because they may have demons in them… like the young girl at the beginning. Psychologists attempt to fix “paranoid” people because they cannot see who is eating at them inside. Yes, “eating!” to wit, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet 5:8).

Devils are not eating away at your flesh but battling against angels for the soul that is the invisible, spiritual image within you. They are not zombie-like flesh-eating dead people, but Satan-like soul-devouring angels sucking the life, or Holy Spirit, out of you.

Paul in his letter to Peter and young converts stated that they be vigilant because of the Devil inside them. He was not speaking to sinners but converts to Christianity who had the Holy Spirit residing in them. They would be vulnerable to losing their Spirit and gaining a parasitical demon if they failed to understand with whom they were dealing. No wonder, Christians should not enter unto temptation; they would be lunatics themselves if they exposed their souls to invisible creatures.

With that said, demons want you to scoff at demons. They want you to not believe in them! Disbelieving that they are real is insobriety and unvigilant. If you do not believe in demons, then you, even as a Christian, may be in danger of falling to the wiles of devils.

Demons are nothing but rebellious angels. Most people believe in angels but fail to believe in demons. Demons are like people; there are both good and bad people and there are both good and evil angels.

That a third of the angels rebelled is not explicit but implied in symbolism, speaking of the great red dragon it is written, “His tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the Earth” (Rev 12:4). The implication that stars in this case are not red-hot celestial bodies but beings in another realm… “the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken” (Mark 13:25).

Of course, that may be speaking only of a future event and not in the beginning. Regardless, Lucifer had many angels that rebelled with him, and they are “demons” or “devils,” depending on the translation.

Angels are thought of a beautiful heavenly creatures and demons as hideous ones. They are of the same kind just as human beings are of the same kind. The difference between demons and angels are within; the former beings have darkness within and the latter light. Speaking of the Creation, it is written, “God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness” (Gen 1:4). That applies to all things, not just the physical world but the invisible things.

It was God that divided the demons from the angels after light was created. Light is goodness and darkness evil.

There was not too Creations in any respect. Angels were created before mankind… the spiritual world was created before the foundation of the world: 

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: ⁴ According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. (Ephes 1:3-4)

 Theologians take that to mean that God divided the good from the evil by some unknown standard and some were destined to be Christians and others predestined to perish. That standard would be good for some and evil for others, but all things were created as translated “very good” (Gen 1:31), or literally, entirely beneficial.

Neither man nor angels were created evil but wholly good. Something happened to both kinds to degenerate them. Since mankind was degenerated by the angel, Lucifer, in the Garden of Eden, then angels degenerated some time before that.

Forget the translation of “day” for Creation. God could have done that, but did He? Scriptural evidence, as well as the Book of Enoch, divides the Creation into ages and eons. [2] The scriptural evidence is that angels had time to be created, live, and rebel. Would that be in one day? Not so! Angels were part of the one Creation in the first “phase” and it would not be in one calendar day; and there was not even the Sun — the solar clock.

When God divided the light from the darkness, that would be dividing the angelic kind from the pre-existing souls of mankind. It would not be dividing the souls of men and women into the “saved” and the “damned” as Calvin proposed. It might be, however, God dividing the rebellious angels from the righteous angels when God would judge the angelic world.

Angels and man are of different kinds. They may look alike but have different substances. Angels are androgenous (Mat 22:30) and invisible, whereas mankind has gender and of two substances, one visible (the body) and the other invisible (the soul).

Because the Holy Ghost of Jesus has a “bodily shape” (Luke 3:22) which was the shape of the Spirit of God, then it would indicate that the shape of the human soul is in bodily shape. Sacred writings do describe the soul as the extent of the human body but of a different substance.

Adam’s shape was molded empty then filled with the Glorious Spirit of God (Gen 2:7). “Death” appeared to be when the Spirit of God was replaced by the spirit of the Devil, Lucifer — the Beast, or the “Serpent.” The spirit of the Devil is “iniquity” (Psalm 51:5) — depravity or evil.

Each person born would be shaped in iniquity, according to King David. The vessel within — the soul — would be empty but destined to sin and be filled with the spirit of the Wicked One, as was Cain.

With the first sin, entered the spirit of the Wicked One. Thereafter, the soul has contents prone toward evil that rebirth drives out (John 3:7). Hence, everyone has sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom 3:23), no longer having the Genome of God within but of the Wicked One. “Born again” is engendering again from above (Strong 1890), ostensibly from Jesus in Paradise.

Does everyone born a natural birth have demons? It seems that Catholics believe so since pedobaptism is an exorcism of demons from the infants. Nobody knows for sure, but it is obvious that some people do have demons.

What criteria Satan has for that is unknown but with Job we might get some indication. Job was a righteous man, important, and prosperous. He sanctified his sons to the Lord. Then came Satan with “its” demons (remembering that Lucifer is androgenous): 

⁶ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. ⁷ And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (Job 1:6-7)

 The “sons of God” in scripture refers to created angelic creatures whether good or evil. Since, those angels were with Satan, then they would have been demon angels. They presented themselves.

The invisible creatures manifested themselves in some manner and became visible. In the Books of Adam and Eve as well as the Book of Jasher, angels can present themselves in bodily shape — as beautiful men or women and such. They are what would be called today “shapeshifters.” Perhaps they presented themselves as men to Job but within them were demons.

Satan chose Job, hoping that he could be changed from an upright to a fallen state (apostasy). Therefore, whose soul obtains a demon depends on the situation. If only one-third of the angels fell, then there are a limited number of demons. Satan selected Job to be filled with demon spirits, but before they could enter him, the Spirit of God would have to be emptied from the soul of the man.

The Book of Job is about Satan’s attempt to overthrow the existence of the most upright man that he could find. Perhaps the most upright is one criterion for possession… or on other occasions, the man or woman who could influence the most to fall away from God.

Who would you think of as candidates for that? Well, Judas got the chief demon, Lucifer called, “Satan.” He was the “Antichrist” for that occasion because his was the Chief of Demons. There have been many Antichrists but there can be only one at a time since Satan is not omnipresent but comes and goes as indicated in Job. He brought his demons, perhaps, to fill the sanctified family of Job. He killed all of them, did he not?

It is not revealed but to get to Job, he got to him through his family. Job had seven sons and three daughters, and they were swept away in a wind:

 ¹⁸ While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, “Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: ¹⁹ And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. (Job 1:18-19)

 They were dealing with Satan and his demons, so think esoterically. The unholy demons came in a similar manner as the Holy Ghost in Acts chapter two. His seven sons died. Remembering that death in the lexicon of God is receiving the spirit of the Wicked One, it appears that demons entered their souls and they died.

With that said, God did not kill Job’s sons with a mighty wind, but the great wind from the “wilderness” came out of another realm and imbued the seven sons, killing them. Job’s seven sons would have to die for Satan to have Job. Demon possession of his sons was Satan’s way of getting to Job.

Say any given man is upright. How would Satan get to the man with the Holy Ghost of Jesus in him? He cannot get in with the “Comforter” within him, so Satan would still get to the righteous man through his sons or daughters. Perhaps that is why so many righteous men and women, because God is not a respecter of persons, have sons or daughters that may be demon possessed.

Demons, as we learn from the man of the Gadarenes, can host-hop, going from host to host as God commands. Could it be that the young girl who had multiple demons (from earlier in this commentary) was demon possessed by many demons to infect the church that I attended? The church no longer exists so perhaps those “roaring lions” devoured the church one by one until it was gone. The women only prayed out one demon, this leaving many others free to roam.

I fled from that organization. Did God protect me? Perhaps.

Where would anyone expect to find demons. With Job, it was with the most righteous. My bet is that demons focus on the church to destroy it. They cannot destroy the universal invisible Church to which all Christians belong, but the faux visible church would be where demons go. They cannot get into God’s true Church because it is guarded by the Holy Ghost of Jesus. One by one, we see the branches of the false church fall like dead tree limbs.

The real Church has one baptism, one faith, and one Christ. How best to infiltrate with demons? By another baptism, another faith, or another false Christ!

In summary, demons(devils) are as real as humans are and for those who do not believe in demons, just what is it that you are living in safety from?

 “Death” is when demons enter people, not when the flesh dies. The soul dies before the flesh of those who are not sober and vigilant. How better to get into the soul of a person than the denial that demons exist? What better way to get in than feeling that you are secure or that you have been dunked in the baptismal? How better a way than believing that infant baptism exorcises those demons?

Angels of all types shapeshift. Some angels have extremely unusual shapes. Isaiah, for instance saw “the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly” (Isa 6:1-2.

Seraphim, singular “seraph,” is the highest order of angels in Christian eschatology (fifth in the Jewish). Isaiah wrote of Lucifer as a serap nahas serap (Isa 14:29)… translated as serpent, fiery, serpent.

Nahas means “image” as well. Hence, the serpent is the fiery image of the seraph, Lucifer. Therefore, Isaiah described the actual form of Lucifer, but there are good seraphs as well with the same form. Only their inner image, serpent-like vs. goodly separates their appearance, but evil angels often appear to be good in sacred literature. In other words, the average Christian fails to understand the powers with which he is dealing!

Adam had that trouble as well with his conflicts with Satan in sacred literature. He was fooled about all the time and God had to save him and Eve. [3]

Both good and evil angels most often appear as regular beings, humans as they appear. Paul wrote, “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (Heb 13:2).

I say, “Be not forgetful to avoid those strange strangers: for thereby some have entertained demons unawares.” Those who are not sober and vigilant may have entertained demons, or more likely been entertained by demons!

There came two angels to Sodom at evening (Gen 19:1)… and later the homosexual men of the city asked; “Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them” (Gen 19:5). They wanted to know them carnally. Those two angels looked like men and ate and drank during the evening meal (Gen 19:3). They were just like men.

They shapeshifted to do the work of God and that was to reveal the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah. Those were good angels and men wanted to enter them, but they could not enter the men. Good angels never enter humans; they only guard righteous men such as Lot from the workers of evil.

On the other hand, evil angels (demons) do enter men and women. The seraph, Satan, entered Judas Iscariot (Luke 22:3). Of course, that was the chief demon, Lucifer, who did not shapeshift himself, but his invisible substance entered a human being. Judas, for some laxity — for the love of money and notoriety —(avarice), although an apostle and follower of Christ, lost his way.

Jesus, followed by all twelve of his apostles, including Judas, encountered “certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils” (Luke 8:2). Jesus drove them out just as He would legions of them with the man of the Gadarenes.

Although good angels do not enter a person, devils (demons) certainly can and will. Mary had been impure. Apparently, men with demons had not STDs in a social away but “spiritually transmitted diseases.”

Mary had had carnal knowledge, it seems, with demon-filled men. Demons may be best passed along via carnal knowledge. Fornication has a two-fold meaning: against another human and against God. It makes sense that demons are passed along through carnal knowledge; no wonder the flesh of others is so imperative to avoid in Christology; it can be the vessel for carrying demons!

Since angels cannot enter Christians and Christians do not become angels but saints, what spirit enters Christians? It is written, “The Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off” (Psalm 37:38).

Saints are not the seed of the wicked; not the “verile semen” of the wicked (Strong 1890). The wicked are those who retain original sin in their genomes and practice the art of wickedness. Saints are those who have the verile semen of God — His Genes — within them and have been born again.

Saints are the faithful ones (ibid). Faith can be operationalized as trust over time. Those who trust God continually — endure to the end (Mat 10:22) — they shall be preserved. Hence, eternal security is contingent on enduring faith, trusting God always in all things.

Saints are “in Christ” who preserves them. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Rom 8:1). Walking after the Spirit is ergonomic since the Spirit of God is in Christians who are filled with the Holy Ghost. It is easier to walk with the Spirit without getting lost than merely following at a distance the Spirit of God.

The point is that nowhere in scripture do Christians have any angel in them except one — The Angel of God (Exod 14:19). The Angel of God is the Word, or pre-incarnate Jesus. He is the only “angel” that ever enters anyone in the sense that angels are beings in another realm and the Holy Ghost of Jesus is the Almighty Angel in that realm.

If you prefer, Christians walk with the Angel of God in them since ghosts scare people, albeit angels are welcome!

The Angel of God can be manifested as a man as well. Jacob wrestled all night with a “man.” (Gen 32:24). Jacob said, after being marked by the Man, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved” (Gen 32: 30). Jacob wrestled with the Angel of God who was in the form of a Man and somehow Jesus got into Jacob for his name was changed to “Israel” and Jacob’s flesh was marked by God. Israel became “Jesus” so to speak and were God’s chosen and peculiar people (Deut 14:2) because the genes of Jesus had entered Jacob as the Angel of God overshadowed him.

Christians have the same experience as the Angel of God overshadows them. They too are engendered from God (born again) and the genes of Jesus are imbued into them as they were with Jacob. We too become chosen and peculiar people (1 Pet 2:9) when we trust Jesus.

Therefore, the Angel of God is the only angel of virtue that fills the soul of any human being.

Being confined to one place at a time, Satan can only enter one man at a time. He entered Cain, he entered Nimrod, he entered Pharoah, he entered Judas, he entered Caiaphas, he entered Simon Magus, he entered Nero, and he has entered many powerful people including popes and Hitler’s throughout history. There are many Antichrists (1 John 2:18) but most certainly one at a time due to the confines that God puts on angels. In the end, somebody powerful will be entered by the demon angel, Lucifer, and become the Antichrist.

Since Satan is limited, his devils must assist him. Demons still appear in the physical world but most often, they do not shape-shift but simply enter the souls of decadent people.

Infants are special exceptions. Babies are born with souls empty but with the genes of the wicked one; that which David called “iniquity,” They have the propensity to sin in their genes from original sin. They sin in the respect that they are instinctive from the archetype, the Serpent.

Their sin is essentially that they exist with the same instincts as the beasts. However, contrary to Catholic beliefs, they are not born with demons in them to be exorcised with baptism. They are most assuredly born with souls empty of any spirit. They are “vessels” waiting to be filled, and they will remain empty until they sin knowingly as they turn against God.

Babies grow into self-perceived gods. “Born again” is when they repent and trust Jesus who somehow overshadows and perhaps wrestle with them awhile, as He did with me, to correct their genes with His own.

If that does not happen, God does not preserve those who are not His, then demons can certainly enter in. It is likely that you are not special to Satan, and therefore a demon is sufficient.

Some are more special to him, and many demons enter in as they did with the women in the examples previously.

Mary Magdalene had carnal knowledge with many as a harlot and many had entered her. Perhaps the reason was for her to add Jesus to her conquests. Jesus, never bowing to temptation, changed the woman, removed her demons, and the power of her flesh was gone.

If God is not in you; then demons can enter in. Usually, they will not be ugly demons, but just as in sacred literature, demonic spirits in women such as Mary Magdalene and in men.

Spiritualists call demons that have carnal knowledge with men, an “succubus” and a demon that have carnal knowledge with women “incubus.

Those women surely had several incubi engage in sex with them. Perhaps that is how they got demons in them and why fornication is a sin against oneself, as it is written, “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body” (1 Cor 6:18). Why so? That may be the portal wherein demons enter into the person.

So, there we have a summary; demons are not as portrayed in horror movies, but beautiful angels that hedonists welcome into their bodies, but also evil spirits that the innocents allow in even without consenting.

We are not to worship angels, and neither are Christians transformed into angels. We are the mere “vessels” for carrying either the Spirit of God or demon spirits; the choice is yours. However, they get in by the unawareness of people. Demons want you to dismiss them as mythological and to deny their existence is even better.

Indeed, if you believe in angels, and you are required to believe in the Angel of God, how can you dismiss demon angels? Because you do not believe, does not make them unreal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Young’s Literal Translation only where indicated.

[2] See my book, Adoil Come Down: Arkhas Came Out.

[3] The Books of Adam and Eve and Their Conflict with Satan also called the First and Second Books of Adam and Eve.