“The unclean spirit
doesn't really like this guy, and you have to understand, demons don't like
people,” says Jordan. “They want to torture people; destroy people. Satan, his
angels, and the demonic spirits, would destroy every human being if they could.
They have a very special hatred for humans that is indescribably bitter.”
Even so, demons come
along at the outset as “familiar spirits,” meaning they put up a friendly
facade, introducing themselves in a deceptive manner in order to hook humans.
In Lev. 19:31, God
Himself warns, “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after
wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.”
“These spirits don't
come in like fire-breathing enemies; they get to be friendly with you first,”
explains Jordan. “They come in like, ‘Hey, have I got a deal for you!’ They
want you to come and participate with them in what they’re doing so they court
you, deceiving you. That's why they're called ‘lying spirits.’
“They corrupted the
nation Israel away from the truth into a lie program using supernatural means
of demonstration. You don't do that unless you come in and trick people.”
*****
God warns in Leviticus 20:6, “And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.”
A wizard is always a man, and a witch is a woman, and they are the willing participants and mediums for evil spirits.
The reference to them
going “a whoring,” is not meant in the physical sense of adultery and
fornication; it's spiritual. But it will result in the other.
“Jeremiah talks about
people committing adultery with the other gods—spiritual adultery,” explains
Jordan. “Israel was married to the Lord; they were to be faithful to Him and
when they went after other gods, it was considered that they broke the marriage
covenant they had with God. They were adulteress. That's what the book of Hosea
is about.”
*****
From the beginning of
Israel’s history the nation has been under Satanic attack. His approach has
been to corrupt them spiritually so they can’t be used by God to accomplish His
purpose with them in the earth.
The same attack exists
today against the Body of Christ and that’s exactly what Paul warns about in I
Timothy 4:1: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some
shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
devils.”
“The way he corrupts
is with doctrinal corruption, so that Believers, rather than standing and
living in the identity they have in Christ, live like Israel did, or like the
Gentiles who lived in the ‘vanity of their minds,’ ” says Jordan.
“That’s what
Paul means in II Tim. 2:24 when he says they ‘oppose themselves.’ They've been
caught in snare of the devil; drawn away from the truth and what's right with
the promise of some physical, delightful, experiential thing.”
*****
Demons originate with
the fallen angels, identified as the “sons of God” in Genesis 6, who
“intermingled” with human females in the years preceding the Flood to produce
offspring of giants on the earth who “ became mighty men which were of old, men
of renown.”
These angels, we
learn from Jude 6, left their positions as angels in their “first estate,” or
the habitation God gave them to live and function in up in heaven, and came
down to earth to go “after strange flesh,” thereby corrupting the “seed of the
woman” in fulfillment of a Satanic plot.
From Genesis 3:15,
we’re given the first hint of God’s intention to produce a Coming Redeemer
through the seed of the woman.
*****
With the Flood, some
of Satan’s angels were immediately relegated to chains of darkness in hell, but
others, according to Psalm 82:7, died like men. These were likely the sons of
God, or at least their offspring.
“Their leaders are in
hell in chains of darkness, but their bodies are down there in that deep at the
bottom of the universe (Psalm 136:6, Rev. 20:13), where the lake of fire's
going to be, and their spirits are loose today—disembodied,” explains Jordan.
“Their bodies are down there in the ‘water below the firmament,’ and they're
loose, and have been, and will be until the Second Coming of Christ when
they're all bound up and cast into the pit.”
*****
When the Gospel
accounts refer to them as “unclean spirits,” it’s a reference back to Genesis 9
and the corruption, violence and rebellion they instigated in the earth and
have been committed to ever since.
What we know about
these disembodied spirits, who seek to reside in animals and humans, is they
possess literal personalities, super-human strength, intelligence, emotions and
an affinity for fire, water and high places.
*****
From a passage in
Luke 8, we see a demon has the intellectual capacity to recognize who Jesus
Christ is and, as a result, becomes fearful, crying and falling down because he
knows he’s going to be tormented.
“It’s fascinating that the evil spirit knows what’s going on and has the wisdom to know who Christ is,” says Jordan. “In the Matthew account, he says, ‘Have you come to torment us before the time?’ This shows he knows the dispensational time out there where there’s going to be a war between his side and God’s side—between Satan’s angels and his troops and the Lord and his angels and his troops.”
*****
Acts 16:16 tells of a
“certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination,” showing there’s a
demonic ability to tell the future. In Acts 19:11, we see the evil spirits
weren’t fooled by the exorcists, who were false prophets, showing a capacity
for discernment.
“They are not just
influences, they are real specific, personal beings,” stresses Jordan. “It’s
not some mystical, ‘woo-woo-woo’ kind of thing. These are real creatures just
like you and I are real.”
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