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 nearl 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 the earth, and took fleshly bodies. Why? We read at Genesis 6:2: "The sons of the true God began to notice that the daughter of men were beautiful.  So they began taking wives all whom they chose." But Jehovah God did not allow the actions of these angels resulting in 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 rebellions 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.

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:(; 1 John 5:19) How? Mainly, the demons use methods  designed to mislead people.  (Read 2 Corinthians 2:11.) Let us consider some of these methods.

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