This article came about from another email question. This is a very fascinating verse in that quite a bit of knowledge is given to us by God on what goes on behind the scenes with demons after they are cast out of a person.
In order to really understand this verse, you also have to look at the two verses that are right above it – verses 43 and 44. I will go ahead and give you all 3 verses below, and then give you some commentary as to what might be going on in this passage.
“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.” (Matthew 12: 43-45)
In just three verses, God is giving us quite a bit of information as to what is going on behind the scenes in the spiritual realm once a demon is cast out of someone. I will break down what God is trying to tell us in this verse under the following caption.
Interpretation
1. The very first sentence tells you right off the bat that you are dealing with a demonic spirit who has been cast out of someone. The verse says – “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man.”
An unclean spirit is a demonic spirit. The fact that it is going out of the man means the demon was on the inside of the man.
And if the demon is going out of the man, then he had to either be cast out of him by another Christian or direct by God Himself. Otherwise, the demon would have never left the man on his own.
Once a demon is able to get on the inside of someone, they usually will not leave unless they are either cast out by God Himself, or another Christian who is acting under God’s leading and authority to cast the demon out.
The next sentence says that the demon then wants to return to the “house” from which he came out of earlier.
The house he is referring to was the person’s body that he was cast out of earlier. After a demon is cast out, this verse tells us that the same demon will then periodically return to see if the person has slipped up in any way in order to give him the legal right to be able to enter back into him again.
2. Demons cannot enter into a person’s body just because they want to. There are spiritual laws that are in operation in the spirit realm and demons have to abide by these laws set up by God.
In order for a demon to be able to enter in a person’s body, they have to have some kind of legal right, some kind of legal permission to be able to do so. I talk about what some of those legal rights can be in my article titled, “Dealing with the Legal Rights of Demons.”
In some of these cases, the person has engaged in some type of sin that has given the demon the legal right to be able to enter into them.
Common door openers that will allow demons to come in on you are drugs, especially the heavier ones, abusing alcohol, any type of occult activity such as witchcraft, Satan worship, ouija boards, along with engaging in any part of the New Age movement.
Not every person who does all of the above will draw a demon into them. A hundred people may play the ouija board and nothing will happen. Then the next person will play it, and they will be the ones who will draw the demons to them. Why it happens this way, no one really knows for sure.
This is why a person is taking a very big gamble every time they engage in any of the above activities. They are taking a chance of drawing demons to them, and if they stay in that activity long enough, then the demons will have the full legal right to be able to actually enter into this person’s body!
And once that happens, this person is going to be in big trouble! Then the demons will have to be cast out either by God Himself, or by another Christian who is acting under God’s authority and power to do the deliverance. The demons will not voluntarily give up their position once they are inside of a person’s body.
Apparently it is much warmer for them on the inside of our bodies as compared to roaming in the air seeking who their next victim is going to be.
Also notice in this verse that once the demon is cast out, he is seeking rest and finds none. The dimension he is roaming about is dry compared to the human body that he was just inhabiting.
This verse tells you right there that demons would prefer to be living on the inside of a person’s body rather than roaming through the air.
In some of the deliverances I have read and studied, demons will state that it is “cold” on the outside, and that they would prefer to stay on the inside of a person’s body.
They have said that it is much warmer and comfortable on the inside of a person’s body as compared to the air which is on the outside of a person’s body. This is why many of them will put up some kind of fight once an actual deliverance starts up.
3. The next sentence is the key. Once the demon returns back to the same person he had originally lived in, he will check him out to see if he has any legal right to be able to enter back into him.
If the demon finds it “empty,” then he apparently has the legal right to be able to enter back into this person. I believe God is using the word “empty” to let us know that people who have demons cast out of them have to become Spirit-filled! They have to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, along with making an attempt to grow in the grace and knowledge of God.
I believe the word “empty” is possibly referring to the fact that the person may not have properly grown in God after the demons were originally cast out of them.
After God makes a dramatic move on you to save you from this type of dire situation, He will expect you to start walking and growing in Him.
God wants that empty space to be filled up with His knowledge, presence, and grace – and the only way that can happen is if you start growing and maturing in the Lord.
Once the demon enters into the person’s body, they will then enter into the person’s soul. If this person is a Christian, the demon cannot enter into the person’s spirit because the Holy Spirit is already residing there. But if the person’s soul has not baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit, the demon can then enter into the person’s soul as well as his body.
This is why it is so important that the person become Spirit-filled after a deliverance so as to prevent this from ever happening again.
When you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit will then move up into your soul area.
And once the Holy Spirit is living up in your soul area, the demon will no longer be able to enter into that person’s soul again. A Christian can thus have the Holy Spirit dwelling in their human spirit, but at the same time have a demon living up in their soul and body area.
Once a demon is up in the soul area, this is how they can temporarily take control of a person’s vocal cords and literally speak right out through that person’s mouth at times.
4. Now watch what happens next. The verse then says that if the demon finds the house empty and in “order,” not only will he enter back in, but he is going to be bringing back with him 7 more demonic spirits that are going to be even more wicked than he is!
This one verse is thus telling you that there are levels of wickedness or levels of evil even among demons themselves. In other words, some demons are going to meaner and more evil than some of the other ones will be.
In some of the exorcisms I have studied, I have seen this phenomena occur over and over again. You can tell when the deliverance minister starts casting the demons out one by one, that some of them are more wicked and evil than some of the other ones are.
The weaker demons will even speak out saying they would easily go without putting up much of a fight, but they can’t because the higher-ranking and more powerful demons will punish them if they do not try to stay in and fight as long as they possibly can.
Satan obviously has to be the most evil of all the demons and probably the most evil of all created beings – including humans. I believe he has disintegrated down to the lowest levels of the dark side and that he has now become nothing but pure evil. I seriously doubt if there is one ounce of goodness left in him due to the long time that he has been cast out of heaven.
I believe there is no saving grace left for Satan and the rest of the fallen angels who rebelled against God long before we humans were ever created.
Also notice in this verse that the original demon now has the legal right to bring back with him 7 more demons. Usually when someone has a demon in them, they usually have more than one. Most of the time, demons will travel in groups or clusters. There is one head chief demon who will run the entire show on the inside, and then rest of the demons will be his underlings who will be under his direct control and authority.
When casting them out, you can either take one of two approaches:
- Bind all the lesser demons to the chief demon and then cast all of them out as one spirit.
- Or cast out each one of the demons one by one.
The first way would obviously be the quickest and easiest, but you have to let God decide which of the two strategies He will want you to go with on any given deliverance. Sometimes God will want you to cast out each one of the demons one by one.
The reason being is that He may want the person to know exactly what kinds of demons were on the inside of them, and then why they were on the inside of them in the first place.
Each demon will have his own function name like “murder,” “hate,” “lust,” etc. Their names will tell you what their functions were on the inside of that person’s body and soul. And as they are coming out one by one by their actual names during an actual deliverance, the demonized person will then understand where all of those negative emotions were coming from in the first place.
This is why the Bible says that the truth will set you free.
5. Now the last part of this verse says that if the original demon manages to get back in and brings back with him more demons who are going to be even more evil and wicked than he is, then that person’s second state is going to end up becoming much worse than what his previous state was. Why?
Because now the person will have at least 7 more evil demons in them than what they had in them the first time around. And these more evil and wicked demons will thus be causing much more torment, havoc and destruction on this person and their life than what the original demons did since they are much more evil and wicked in their actual natures and personalities.
The more evil a human being is, the more horrible of a crime they are capable of committing. And it’s the exact same way with demons. The more evil and wicked the demon, the more oppression, torment, torture, chaos, and destruction he is capable of inflicting upon that person just because he is a more evil and wicked demon.
Deliverance ministers have found out that some of the more evil and wicked demons are those demons who are linked to the occult. That is why it is so extremely dangerous to be engaging in any part of occult.
Bob, one last thing on the last part of this verse. I also believe that God is telling us that if the delivered person goes back to the same former sin they were involved in that drew the demons to them in the first place – then that will be the door opener that will allow the original demon to not only be able to come back into them, but to also bring back with him seven more demonic spirits who are going to be much more evil and wicked than he is.
In other words, if a person gets delivered from demons as a result of engaging in witchcraft, and then that person goes back into it 3 years later – God may end up pulling back His protection on them and the above scenario will then be allowed to take place. And if it does, this person is going to be in big serious trouble. God may not be so willing to cast the demons out the second time around, and the demons will then be allowed to make that person’s second state much worse than what their first state was.
Jesus Himself says that you are better off not knowing that you are in sin as versus someone who knows they are in sin, gets delivered from that sin, and then goes back into that same sin once again.
Demons just hover and wait for people, especially Christians, to trip up and commit any type of door-opening sin so they can either move in and start tormenting that person from the outside, or literally enter into the person’s physical body if they can go that far with it.
Conclusion
I have always found the above verse very fascinating, as God, in just three powerful verses, gives us quite a bit of information and knowledge as to what really goes on behind the scenes with demons. It’s simply amazing how much knowledge and wisdom is actually contained in the Bible.
The key is being able to cut into the verses and read what God is trying to tell you in many of the Bible verses.
God likes to make you seek and search after knowledge, and many of the Scripture verses have to be worked and cut into to really see what God is trying to tell you, to see exactly what the actual knowledge is that is lying underneath the verse. It’s like hunting for buried treasure.
God says that the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.
And in order to be able to find that treasure, you have to seek and search after it, just like you would seek and search for buried treasure that is underneath the ground. Same principle applies.
Ohh this was a very beautiful explanation, I had read that passage a few times, but never took the time to analyze it like that.
all it means is never seek justice because the injuster will come back sevenfold, let god judge and seek justice, for we all will be judge by him and won’t be able to point our figure at anyone because no matter what the lord said love your neighbor as u would yourself and if by chance you forgot to love it was to teach u the truth of god word.
Thank you for the analysis. Am I allowed to emotionally unkind/aggressive/violent TOwards the demons? I am tempted to rage in hatred towards them. Also, do they interfere in my dreams?
I definitely have some spiritually powerful dreams, and sometimes I am scared because I can’t tell if it is God or the other guys talking to me. I often think about how Muhammed was visited by ‘angels’ and believed they were god’s angels….how can we discern God’s messengers/messages from those orchestratEd by the those other ones?
First ask who there lord is (it better be Jesus) and then ask them to confess if jesus had come to earth as a human to die for our sins.
For a message< just make sure it lines up with God's words
For us Catholics there are further tests. One is the presence of the Holy Eucharist. Near it demons are in anguish and/or anger. There are blessings also to drive them away. Exorsists know far more. They have to be as clean spiritually as the driven snow, there are very few, and they are kept well hidden by the church and police.
But we would need to know, God said himself “My people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge”. It just depends on how we react to that knowledge and ask God for understanding and for his complete protection against such things.
Logan.
This is where knowing scripture well comes into play. Try to, in the meantime, to pray that every thought be held captive to the Holy Spirit when you think you may be being deceived.
i dont know if i sent this right so i will do again, i have been born again since 1983, but i have been a drug addict since the early 70s, i thought i could stop but never really did, i have had the LORD on my mind for as long, i have kind of hid from him like a kid at times and i am wondering about the passage in HEBREWS where it talks about no sacrifice for habitual or willingful sins, now i aint copping out but i never seemed to stop even tho i ask the LORD for help, repented of my drug addiction, my wife even died due to them and i havent gotten the message of stopping and i pray to the LORD to fill this empty vessel with the Holy Spirit to help me, does HEBREWS apply to me as being doomed to hell?
Mick,
No, you have not lost your salvation. Go to this article. You are just involved in a heavy addiction, but God can still deliver and restore you. This article will explain all of this for you:
https://www.bible-knowledge.com/god-will-help-you-with-your-sin-areas/
Mike
thank u for the comfort of words and the article, Mike u dont know how i hate what i do, know i sin against GOD and him alone, it really bothers me and i can be by myself crying, literaly crying out for his help, i want so much to be at the marriage feast with the LORD and his angels, and saints, u wouldnt believe a wretched person like me would do these things and still wanting to be with the LORD. One last thing, i would always tell him to take me out of this world so i cant keep sinning, but i wake everyday still here. THANK YOU SO MUCH MIKE, MAY GOD KEEP BLESSING YOU WITH THE WORK YOU DO, UR AN AWESOME CHRISTIAN.
What is this Demons name? What is it called? I need to know ASAP!!!
Logan, we can hate evil but raging against demons is not fruitful.
It is better to recognize how great is our Lord Jesus in His having provided a way out of being a enslaved to sin and driven by these unclean spirits.
It is normal to be angry but we must try to not sin in that righteous anger. I am myself endeavoring to do this everyday in the face of so much evil.
If anyone need exorcise and ask me and I do for free. Matthew 10:7-11, Amen
What if we are dealing with an 8 y.o. she has been through so much. I was told has been diagnosed with multiple personalitied and I heard her say im calling on my friend, my funeral is tomorrow. What do we do?
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:44 KJV)
It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. (John 6:45 KJV)
They shall ALL be taught of God. Whoever has heard and learned of the Father comes to Jesus. Whoever comes to Jesus will be risen up at the last day.
Seek a personal relationship with god and thru that connection you build a real relationship with him you will just change from the inside out it will become easy to do what he has told to do. when the holy spirt fills you from the inside your desires will become his desires. but You must spend time in the word and let him become your best friend…. then it all becomes easy to say to the mountain be cast in the sea…
Do not listen to what a demon has to say because they only know deceptive and subversive talk. A demon can enter a person for committing any sin. If you have been given the task of casting out a demon simply tell it to leave and it will be so. You should seek the strength to cast out every demon that crosses your path, only through the lamb of God can any man become clean. Glory to the father and the son, amen.
This explanation is fairly accurate, but not totally.
People need to know, a child can be born with a demon(s) via generational curse. I personally experienced this with my 2 year old son. He was born out of wedlock prior to me being saved. His mom is into New Age. When she was pregnant, she said she could “feel the baby coming and going from the other side”. When I became born again, I noticed their would be a trembling in the room while changing my son. I felt it in the spirit. Then one day while driving, Holy Spirit put in my heart to cast the demon out of him. I spoke the appropriate words while driving, and 30 minutes later my young son was vomiting, and vomiting.
This happened on another 1 or 2 occasions as lead by The Holy Spirit. Afterwards, all the trembling stopped, and was replaced by peace.
You guy’s bless all of you I just recently got baptized it’s beautiful to surrender mind spirit heart and soul to God in the name of Jesus Christ is beautiful nothing on earth is like it you literally walk on water if the demonics keep trying you have the authority to rebuke until they go and in the name of Jesus they will surrender pray out loud pray at work pray and talk prophetic in their presence as long as the heveanly father hears your prayers the demons Will hear your casting out And in the name of Jesus they will leave as all us prophets prophetess bishops priests popes ministers and blood Christ accepters know God speaks to us he guides the way in the name of Jesus amen
What you have written may be true to some extent, but don’t forget the ‘Big Picture’. In the verses just prior to these ( Vs. 38-42 ) Jesus tells the Pharisees that they represent the entire nation and an entire generation that is showing a lack of faith, and then he contrasts that lack of faith to some from the past that showed greater faith.
Jesus then proceeds into the verses you list here. He finalizes and ties these in with the prior verses with the statement: “That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”
In view of the generation aspect, the “body” is True Religion as practiced by faithful Jews. Jesus came and ‘swept it clean’ by offering his perfect body and cancelling it’s sin. Now the Pharisees have a chance to put faith in Jesus and keep the false religious practices out of True Worship. Jesus knows however, that the Pharisees in general will reject him as the Messiah and as a result will have to suffer the consequences of having a complete variety ( 7 symbolizes ‘Spiritual Fullness’ ) accompany the original ‘lack of faith’ spirit, and with ‘him’ will return many more false teachings and practices which will completely overrun them and destroy them spiritually.
Thomas,
That may be true here in Matthew, but that is not the context when this teaching is given in Luke 11 and “That is how it will be in this wicked generation” is not there. In Luke, Jesus is teaching after casting out a evil spirit and knowing that the people are wrongly attributing his work to “Beelzebul.” So, I think what has been written is true, not just to “some extent.”
I’ve been feeling sleep paralysis these past nights, and this verse to me opened my eyes. I would struggle with lustful thoughts but thanks to Jesus Christ I am now free from that. Now I understand that the devil will not rest until those demons come back into my life. But I know that I am saved because of what Jesus did for me on the cross.
Are you saying that a demon can inhabit a believer that is saved? That a demon can live in the same person as the Holy Spirit?
Aren’t we “sealed with the Holy Spirit”? Aren’t we taught “greater is he that is in me that he that is in the world”?
Yes, I believe the author was saying that your spirit can be saved and sealed in Christ’s death but it isn’t until the anointing of the Holy Spirit that your soul is susceptible.
In John 13 1-17, Christ was washing their feet saying that if they want to be a part of Him then he must wash them. Then Simon Peter said “wash my hands and head too”, Jesus said those who have already been bathed are already clean (except for Judas.) Later in Acts 2, they were baptized by fire and filled with the Holy spirit.
This is the entire 3 part process of a human coming into the newness of life and accepting God’s gift. After the process gets kicked off by the baptism of repentance God reserves the right for your name to be “Blotted out of the book of life” this alludes to the fact that yes you are still susceptible to an evil spirit attaching itself to you.
As a cross reference look at the parable of the Sower and the seed.
@Summer,
Yes Summer, the author is definitely stating that demons can enter anyone, believers and nonbelievers. It’s a common misconception in the church today that demons can’t go into a believer. This false teaching comes from the verse in 1st Corinthians where it says light and darkness can’t dwell together. But the context is marriage, not demon possession. The demons can absolutely be in the same place as the Holy Spirit. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, in the New Testament to say otherwise. Being sealed with the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with where demons can go. It’s a metaphor that we are sealed. It’s not saying that physically no other spirit can get in. And yes greater is the Holy Spirit than the evil spirits, true. But once again, context. That verse is not talking about demon possession. It’s talking about having the ability to stop sinning even if you feel like you can’t. I think what a lot of people are forgetting when they teach these things is that we will always have free will even if we go to church now. You will always have the choice to listen to God’s Spirit or an evil spirit. Our choices decide if an evil spirit can enter. Not our church going status or how many good deeds we do or even what our beliefs are. You can be the pastor of a mega church and still invite demons into your body if you choose to. You can read the bible every day and speak in tongues but still have demons living inside you. God gives us gifts and knowledge but he gives us the choice to have demons too. And we can have it all at once. It’s not one or the other. This is the concept of free will and demons are part of the equation to insure that every day we are alive, there is a tempting option to rebel against God.
Our free will doesn’t end until we die.
It’s Easter morning 2017 and I actually dreamed about looking for a job in a bar as I worked in years ago. In the dream the bar is gone, leaving a clean and well-lit house. When I reach the last room, a man working on cleaning says the bar is gone. I woke and realized that that is I sign that I too have been born again (resurrected) from a life of many many sins. Actually,I have been accepted in a religious order as something similar to an oblate and I am moving 1000 miles away next week. That is why I looked this up, because on waking, tho I am joyous about Christ rising, I realized that I am clean and I do NOT want to bring back my previous arrogant, judgmental, proud overbearing self with this new group. Thank you for this in telligent interpretation. I will mark this site on my computer. PS- was that man cleaning my guardian angel? That works.
My humble thoughts: Day 1 God separated darkness from Light. Day 2 God created an expanse between the waters from above and below, a place where light can exist and where darkness can exist. Day 3 he called forth dry land so we (being of light) can walk in the newness of life apart from darkness. God further gave us the process for separating from darkness. Dying to ourselves and our sinful nature through the blood of Christ, baptism of water and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. We die to our sinful nature and we are raised in Christ. The Egyptian army was killed when the sea collapsed in on them. The evil nature of man was destroyed by the flood. Demons get cast into the abyss, under water. This is where darkness exists. Demons like to reside inside of us because we are primarily made up of water. There they can hide and rest but it not in the abyss where they do not want to be. They do not like to be on dry land because darkness cannot exist where there is light. The dry land is the prophecy of our newness of life and Jesus’s triumph over darkness. I have paraphrased for brevity. To expand upon what I am saying look at the vegetation that grew on day 4 and beyond to each of the days of creation to get the fullness of God’s creation.
Is their such thing of a demon that posseses a person, comes in the church just to make a show ?
if that one demon leaves a person and goes and gets 7 more worse than his self he then we’ll have eight demons read the scripture again carefully 7 plus one is 8
Saying you believe there is no saving grace for Satan is the only spirit of any power and all consequence, the spirit of anti Christ. I asked, can Satan be redeemed, my pastor said if he wanted to. I would simplify your explanation by saying a believer can pray to stand in the gap for heresy and have all ’empty’ places filled with the Teaching of the Holy Spirit. The believer may receive a physical sign confirming his use if his measure if faith, and or hearing and reading of the Word will be blessed.
This article is very informative and I appreciate how it is explaining and helping people know that that verse is talking about demonic possession. If that’s the case however, it is not true that participating in the activities named in the article will open up a Christian, holy ghost-filled for demonic possession. Maybe it should be restated. And unsaved person perhaps might be at risk of such things semicolon but never no matter how much participation they may have had in any of those areas. A Christian that for whatever reason decided to practice witchcraft, or any of those things mentioned in the article is definitely moving against the good Lord, and it’s definitely very much out of order. But he or she cannot be demon possessed.
Can the demon possessed person be invited into the exorcism ” Do you want to be healed from this demon?” and join forces with the authority who is casting out the demon/s
Susan
There are definitely some inconsistencies in this explanation….
1. The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19) therefore anyone who is saved and indwelled by the Holy Spirit cannot be possessed by a demon (as darkness cannot dwell in the same space as light) so this idea of the Holy Spirit living in the spirit and demons in the soul/body is frankly, nonsense.
2. That being said, a saved person CAN give the devil a foothold thus opening the door to torment by demons. I was baptized by the Holy Spirit (and water) as a teen, when I was a young adult I turned my back to God because of a bad divorce and went through several years numbing my pain with alcohol and sex. This gave the enemy a foothold to influence me. During that time I was visited by demons at night, but they would leave, and this stopped after I came back to God and he broke the chains of ungodly soul ties and other strongholds.
3. There is no such thing as demons/Satan having LEGAL RIGHTS, Jesus has cancelled our debt of legal indebtness (see Colossians 2:14). Saying that the devil can gain a legal right to enter our body is like saying a burglar has legal right to enter our house because we left the door unlocked. The biblical term is “FOOTHOLDS”, all in the Bible. Please read it 🙂
Gold Bless
Actually you can give a demon LEGAL right you are completely wrong about this, a occupy object has been in crypto’s with a evil spirits entity and they hold legal ground over that object and as long as your using that object it gives the demons legal ground to yolk and weigh oppression upon your souls saved by Jesus or not, Jesus let’s us do sins and not forever be cursed it does not mean nobody can be legally oppressed they create a vortex of power in these evil heavenly realms other dimensions if you will and when you use said object you get some power from that realm they’ve been working day and night to create.
concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. John 16:11
Satan has already been judged already. If the saving grace was applied to them, they would love their first state, demons know nothing about saving grace and the blood of Jesus CHRIST because they’re spirit…
Love your concept and explaination about the demons however everyone to there own opinion..as for me you have answered and confirmed a lot of things concerning demons have legal rights to come back.
God has begun to bring me into this area of deliverance building me up within for that day when He says now!!..love also how you give the Holy Spirit acknowledgement as this is so important..Thank you for the encouragement..We have a Almighty Powerful God through Christ Jesus who strengthens us.. May God continue to bless you in the ministry..
Everything has been exsplained very well by all parties , except I would like to comment on the demon & God factor I totally disagree with the part saying that a demon can live inside of a person along side of Gods spirit, that can’t be true light and darkness can not co exist together ever!!! I’m saved myself and born again praise our father jehovah God and his son jesus. Deborah. Betha. God bless you all with the truth !! I pray that God will fix that within all of us thought His Holy spirit !
Dont agree..
in the truth light and darkness does not live together as it is two seperste things..one is outward the other inward
yet God protruding forth with light and fire does easily and comfortably live in darkness and hide in it..so it is written.
but yes they are not the same
Interesting read. The majority opinion seems to be that demons cannot enter someone who is saved. This would especially hold true for someone who is spirit filled. The idea that there is a difference between being saved and being spirit filled is another interpretation that is debated. Personally I lean towards the spirit filled interpretation as I have experienced it and believe it has scriptural support especially in Acts.
Your statement that there is no saving grace remaining for Satan and demons is also the majority opinion. However, I disagree. Collosians 1:19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. This “all things” includes all created beings, which includes Satan and Demons. This means that the Lake of Fire is not “eternal” but for an “age” and its purpose is cleansing and reconciliation … as fire and brimstone are cleansing agents. Remember God and the burning bush, God is a consuming fire. The Son of God, creator of all things did not go to the cross only to save a precious few. I don’t claim to fully understand all of this. I do believe God reveals his mysteries on his own predetermined schedule. Be blessed!
Not sure if you really understand the story of the lake of fire I advise you read again all verses about separation of sinners and Satan after white throne judgement. Just my concern
A few items of note regarding your article. To link what is called the “New Age Movement” in with Ouigi Boards, Tarot cards and other forms of “Occult” studies, displays a great lack of knowledge of what the New Age movement is. I believe that the New Age Movement is the movement that represents in total the coming of the Christ, Jesus into the earth again, the Rapture, and the clearing up of some Biblical misunderstandings. It is not an occult path in any way that is evil, (occult meaning magical or supernatural forces, or knowledge known only to the initiates or learned.) It is important to remember that the “Wise Men” as they are called today, were actually men and women of Occult studies, or the Arts and Sciences of Math, Astronomy, Astrology, and the like. And ,that the Essene Sect of the Jewish religions in which Jesus the Christ was born into did indeed practice healing arts using knowledge that was not common to the masses. I would have to agree whole-heartedly with you that the other forms of occult studies you mention are documented to invite demonic influences into a person’s physical body. Another point I’d like to make is that Jesus said that even Satan could be saved if he were to repent. The next item has to do with a very general misunderstanding of the demons and sins. Over and again Jesus refers to the Chakra systems of the body, the 7 Churches named in the bible. Each Chakra is represented as a church to be entered. The sin of man is to be cast out by each person from their own body, St Paul says. I believe this refers to doing what Jesus said to do, to enter into our Holy Temple, (The temple iis the body of the living God) which is our body, and by going inward to where God resides, we meet Him there as is promised. It is there, within, through prayer and meditation that we learn to cast out the demons, or lowest levels of our selves, the seven demons, or the seven deadly sins. These sins are pride, lust, envy, hate, and jealousy, fear greed and lying. these behaviors are choices that lie within us all and can be cast out only by us as we venture into our holy temples within as Jesus taught. Yes, there are demonic influences outside of ourselves, wayward entities cast out from the light who try to attach themselves to humans, but I see often that these two understandings get confused. The New Age movement is a returning to the true message of the Bible in all its glory. The misunderstanding of metaphoric biblical passges for literal meanings is cleared up as we go within as Jesus taught, He meets us there and all becomes clearer as promised. We then learn to take responsibility for our actions, and choose to make a mends by refusing to allow ourselves to be materialistic, greedy and unkind to others. These are the ridding the body of the unclean spirits. God is a completely loving God, and through Jesus the Christ, who is also a sole being of pure love and kindness, by living His example is the surest and easiest way to understanding who the Father, God is, as well as keeping oneself clean of unclean or demonic influences. I just wanted to lend a more panoramic view to this discussion. Thank you.
Please, please show me Scriptural evidence of the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in a human at the same time as a demon, and moving up to the soul area as you call it. I don’t think that you can in any way prove your statement to be true and found in the Bible.
Michael I totally agree with you.
I was really confused about his statement that The Holy Spirit and demon can dwell in a person at the same time.
Without Biblical references I’m gonna, rule it out.
Me too! I don’t see a demon coming into a Christian whether he as fallen into sin or not. God and beelzebub don’t dwell together in the same house no matter how far up the stairs or down the stairs. I don’t think Jesus is speaking at all of a Christian’s state. AND…He is speaking to the Jews, which makes things a little harder to understand as it applies to Christians.
Deliverance was Jesus largest ministry. It took me 19 months to get totally from all the demons I allowed in…And I had been born again, and spirit filled with strong eviden and of speaking in toungues and I wasan ordained minster, and a Jail and Prison Chaplain. Jesus is in the Heart, demons are in the body. I had quenched the Holy Spirit so much, I could barely feel His presence.
Jesus said to Peter, get behind me Satan when Peter told Him he wasn’t going to be crucified. Peter was one of the 12. Judas was most certainly demon posessed. Many today actively invite demons in. They worship satan. I would not think they would allow them to be cast out. The Gaderenes man or men are interesting subjects. The one did not seem to want the legion and was happy to have them gone, and wanted to go with Jesus. Several of the women who followed around had had demons cast out & they stayed out. Interesting subject in an interesting time.
The number 7 is a word that means complete In context of sins affect on the inhabiting be of the human body. The result being without remedy. God is merciful but can bring judgement on that being because of their blasfemy of the Holy Spirit.
I have a friend who started deliverance. She then experienced extremely, excruciating dental pain. Now she won’t continue her work in deliverance. She said she can’t find any place in the Bible where this has happened. Where someone being delivered was caused physical pain. If she can’t be shown in the Bible that someone going through deliverance can be physically attacked, she won’t continue the work. She’s afraid the back lash came from the person doing the deliverance. Maybe they didn’t do it right, or that they were doing something more nefarious like witchcraft while performing deliverance because the guy didn’t use any scriptural verses in Bible while performing deliverance. He has said that he prays through the Holy Spirit while doing deliverance. I wasn’t there to witness it as it was happening so I can’t help with that. I do know that he recommended she watch 3 videos of Win Worley doing deliverance in churches back in the day before he would pray over her. He also said he made a mistake by doing said deliverance while he was extremely tired & worn out from working & he would never do that again. That maybe the backlash she felt was because of that reason. I’m caught in the middle of both people & want to give proper counsel. I don’t want to push her towards something that can cause her to fall further away from God. But at same time, I don’t want to keep her from getting true deliverance. I don’t know either of them that well either. Please help.
Incorrect!
The place where you find demons, read here. MARK 1:38,39,
CHRIST came here to set HIS church straight (HIS people, all people) CHRIST came, and immediately went into the synagogues took over the church meetings and preached the TRUTH, Kicking out demons! Read for yourselves.
When HE returns, HIS church will be 7 times more filthy. All of the Prophets warned the People about the Harlot, the church. And CHRIST came and made all men equal and there was no need for synagogue. So they killed CHRIST. What for?
CHRIST did nothing but preach against the synagogues.
Commerce is a regular thing at/in church events. What was it CHRIST said, about commerce in HIS house?
Who has power to kick out demons? Only GOD, and where did HE go and kick out demons?
Woe to those who are fornicating with the Harlot!
It is CHRIST who sweeps HIS house clean. Only CHRIST can kick out demons.
And when HE returns HIS house will be 7times more wicked!
Read; MATTHEW 6:5-13, HEWBREWS 6:1-6, MATTHEW 7:21-23, MARK 4:18, 19, MATTHEW 6:19-21, MATTHEW 6:24, MATTHEW 16:11,12
Then go to church, and see for yourselves.
Thank you so much for this information. It completely helped me understand and interpret correctly Matthew 12:45! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
I’m so blessed with this article, I read it along with the article that talks about the legal rights demons have to enter a person’s body. God bless you for this eye opener….I’m blessed
Amazing how Holy Spirit speak to us, in God’s words for us to understand his Word…
As I read I get goosebumps and im thinking how many demons, have I allow through menstubation, it is the weakest that I can go to… THE ONLY SIN THAT I FEEL DEMONS KNOWS I CAN’T HANDLE..
I thank God for his amazing love that came through this stripture..
You explained this so beautifully, thank you so much.