Spirit Creatures-How They Affect Us

SPIRIT CREATURES WHO ARE OUR ENEMIES

To what extent did Satan succeed in turning people away from God?

As we learned in a previous article, 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 16 centuries after he deceived Eve, Satan succeeded in turning away from God nearly all humans except a few faithful ones, such as Abel, Enoch, and Noah. -Hebrews 11:4, 5, 7.

(a) How did some angels become demons?  (b) To survive the Flood of Noah's day, what did the demons do?

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 that the daughters of men were beautiful. So they began taking as wives all whom they chose.  But Jehovah God did not allow the actions of these angels and 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 had put themselves on the side of the Devil, who thus became "the ruler of the demons." -Matthew 9:34.

What happened to the demons when they returned to heaven?  We will consider what with regard to the demons? 

When the disobedient angels returned to heaven, they were treated as outcasts, like their ruler Satan.  (2 Peter 2:4) Although they are not unable to take on human bodies, they still exercise very 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 used methods designed to mislead people. (Read 2 Corinthians 2:11.) Let us consider some of these methods.

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

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