Spirit Creatures-How They Affect Us/SPIRIT CREATURES WHO ARE OUR ENEMIES

As we learned in Chapter 3 of this book, one of the angels developed a desire to rule over others and thus turned against God.  Later this angel became known as Satan the Devil.  (Revelation 12:9) During the last 16 centuries after he deceived Eve, Satan succeeded in turning away from God all humans except a few faithful ones, such as Abel, Enoch,  and Noah. -Hebrews 11:4. 5, 7.

In Noah's day, other angels rebelled against Jehovah. They left their place in God's heavenly family, came down to earth, and took on fleshly bodies. Why? We read at Genesis 6:2:  " The sons of the true God began to notice the daughters of men, that they were good-looking; and they went taking wives for themselves, namely, all whom they chose."  But Jehovah God did not allow the actions of those angels and the resulting corruption of mankind to go on.  He brought upon the earth a global flood that swept away all wicked humans and preserved only his faithful servants.   (Genesis 7:17, 23)  Thus, the rebellious angels, or demons were forced to abandon their fleshly bodies and return to heaven as spirit creatures.  They put themselves on the side of the Devil, who became the ruler of the demons." -Matthew 9:34. 

When the disobedient angels returned to heaven, they were treated as outcasts, like their ruler, Satan.  (2 Peter 2:4)  Although they are now unable to take on human bodies, they still exercise a  very bad influence over humans.  In fact, with the help of these demons, Satan "is misleading the entire inhabited earth."   (Revelation 12:9; 1  John 5:19)  How?  Mainly, the demons use methods designed to mislead  people.  (2 Corinthians 2:11) Let us consider some of these methods.  

Next time: Spirit Creatures-How They Affect Us/ HOW DEMONS MISLEAD

From the book: WHAT DOES THE BIBLE REALLY TEACH?