The following was first posted November 6th, 2017:
Doesn't it seem odd how there appeared to be a lot of demons around when Jesus walked the earth....but today....with more people in the United States than there was in the whole world 2000 years ago....that the demonic is hardly mentioned outside of certain fundamentalist churches....and never in the media unless some mother is arrested supposedly trying to cast a demon out of her child. I have to wonder if Christians today even believe in demonic activity....for if they did then how could they so nonchalantly be involved in sorceries in the form of entertainment? (Halloween in two days is considered clean fun)
Have you ever been stunned as I have in looking at photos of some mass murders in America where the perpetrators of these deeds often display wild eyes and vacant stares....sometimes even hideous smiles? We usually ascribe their actions to some kind of chemical imbalance in the brain and then tack a psychology label on them.
Forty years ago there were Christian books on the market that warned of both occult influences on the young and also of mind vacating drugs that can essentially serve as an invitation to the demonic. I read the books at the time....they made sense to me....still do....so for over thirty-five years now I have tended to check the newspapers for reports that the mass murderer was either heavily involved in the occult or with mind-altering drugs whether illegal or doctor prescribed. What most often seems to happen is that these details do come out in the affirmative.....but mysteriously not until months or even years have passed.
It's been proposed that demonic activity is higher in some ages than it is in others, so it was quite natural to be intense when Jesus Christ walked the earth. I think that that is a fair assessment and also that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in judgment would see even more evil in this world....in the form of violence. Whether one believes that Jesus Christ is at the very doorstep or not....one has to admit that it must not be far off....or at the very least hope that our Lord's return is near....we can agree on that can we not?
The occult and drugs were both part of Hitler's Nazi regime. How could Stalin not have been demon possessed? It is my contention that this is what we are dealing with in much of the news of today that stuns us in its violence and evil. So what are we to do? We are to go to God's Word that is given to us.....live in the Bible......every word of it.......every day......hold everything up to it......apply it to everything.......defend with it....wield it as a sword.
Paul spent two years in Ephesus that supported and celebrated the occult worship of Artemis
and magical arts. His ministry generated hate and violence towards 'the Way' much the same as whatwe are experiencing in America today. In writing to the church at Ephesus while awaiting his
martyrdom in Rome he was inspired to write this: "...be strong in the Lord and the power of His
might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand."
Doesn't it seem odd how there appeared to be a lot of demons around when Jesus walked the earth....but today....with more people in the United States than there was in the whole world 2000 years ago....that the demonic is hardly mentioned outside of certain fundamentalist churches....and never in the media unless some mother is arrested supposedly trying to cast a demon out of her child. I have to wonder if Christians today even believe in demonic activity....for if they did then how could they so nonchalantly be involved in sorceries in the form of entertainment? (Halloween in two days is considered clean fun)
Have you ever been stunned as I have in looking at photos of some mass murders in America where the perpetrators of these deeds often display wild eyes and vacant stares....sometimes even hideous smiles? We usually ascribe their actions to some kind of chemical imbalance in the brain and then tack a psychology label on them.
Forty years ago there were Christian books on the market that warned of both occult influences on the young and also of mind vacating drugs that can essentially serve as an invitation to the demonic. I read the books at the time....they made sense to me....still do....so for over thirty-five years now I have tended to check the newspapers for reports that the mass murderer was either heavily involved in the occult or with mind-altering drugs whether illegal or doctor prescribed. What most often seems to happen is that these details do come out in the affirmative.....but mysteriously not until months or even years have passed.
It's been proposed that demonic activity is higher in some ages than it is in others, so it was quite natural to be intense when Jesus Christ walked the earth. I think that that is a fair assessment and also that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in judgment would see even more evil in this world....in the form of violence. Whether one believes that Jesus Christ is at the very doorstep or not....one has to admit that it must not be far off....or at the very least hope that our Lord's return is near....we can agree on that can we not?
The occult and drugs were both part of Hitler's Nazi regime. How could Stalin not have been demon possessed? It is my contention that this is what we are dealing with in much of the news of today that stuns us in its violence and evil. So what are we to do? We are to go to God's Word that is given to us.....live in the Bible......every word of it.......every day......hold everything up to it......apply it to everything.......defend with it....wield it as a sword.
Paul spent two years in Ephesus that supported and celebrated the occult worship of Artemis
and magical arts. His ministry generated hate and violence towards 'the Way' much the same as whatwe are experiencing in America today. In writing to the church at Ephesus while awaiting his
martyrdom in Rome he was inspired to write this: "...be strong in the Lord and the power of His
might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand."
