Chapter 12 - RESIST WICKED SPIRIT FORCES

WICKED SPIRITS - THEIR ORIGIN AND TARGET

Jehovah God made a multitude of spirit creatures long before  he created humans.  (Job 38:4, 7) As explained in Chapter  6, one of these angels developed a desire to have humans worship him instead of worshiping Jehovah.  Pursuing that objective, this wicked angel resisted and slandered the Creator, even suggesting to the first woman that God was a liar.  Fittingly, then, this rebellious spirit creature became known as Satan (resister) the Devil  (slanderer). -Genesis 3:1-5; Job 1:6.

Later, other angels sided with Satan the Devil.  In the days of the righteous man Noah, some of these abandoned their service in heaven and took on fleshly bodies to satisfy their lust for sexual relations with earthly women.  Satan no doubt influenced those angels to take that disobedient course.   It led their fathering the hybrid called Nephilim, who became violent bullies.  When Jehovah caused  the great Deluge, it destroyed corrupted mankind and this unnatural progeny of the disobedient angels.  The rebellious angels escaped  destruction by dematerializing their fleshly bodies and returning to the spirit realm.  But God restrained these demons by treating them as outcasts in spiritual darkness.  (Genesis 6:1-7, 17; Jude 6)  Satan,  "the ruler of the demons,"  and his wicked angels nevertheless have pushed on with their rebellion. (Luke 11:15) What is their goal?

The evil objective of Satan and the demons is to turn people against Jehovah God.  Hence, these wicked ones have been misleading, frightening and assaulting people throughout human history.  (Revelation 12:9) Modern-day examples  confirm that demon aggression is more vicious now than it has ever been.  To entrap people, the demons often use spiritism in all its forms.  how do the demons use this bait, and how can you defend yourself?

Next time:HOW WICKED SPIRITS TRY TO MISLEAD YOU

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