It is not something so outrageous that it could not have happened....that the children in Israel might have had some pagan custom where once a year they dressed up as idols or some sort of demonic spirits.... and begged food or delicacies in the public square. It didn't happen....but it could have.....sometime in Israel's Old Testament past. So....what do you think that Jesus would have said about that....or Paul.....or Jeremiah? Well I'm not even going to waste your time with speculation for we all know what the response would have been. So....how can we get away with it so easily today. I know more Christians who have fun with the dark celebration of Halloween.....than Christians who will have nothing to do with it!
Part of it....I fear....is that I don't think we believe in demonic spirits anymore! We are proficient in teaching of all the demons that Jesus cast out....it makes for good Bible study.....but we think that has nothing to do with reality.....at least not the reality of today. So when there is a mass murder....and the person is heavily involved in the occult....or in any of the other atrocities in our daily news that should have evil spirits written all over them....we instead assume there has to be a chemical imbalance somewhere in their brain.....for it could never be demonic.....and even if it was.....we're just not going to talk about it.....because we have enough trouble today with unbelievers thinking that we are weird....without demons and the devil coming into the picture.
Demonic spirits are mentioned in 19 of the 27 books of the New Testament....if I remember correctly. Was this a common occurrence throughout the Old Testament.....or was the demonic heightened because it was the time of the first advent? And if that would have been the case....would it not then be plausible that with the return of the Lord Jesus so near....that the demonic might be heightened once again?
In the same vein.....what happened to all the false prophets? They were everywhere in the Old Testament....and warned of in the New Testament.....but they're about as hard to find today as a Republican Senator who sees something wrong in what happened on January 6 of this year....or is that we just refuse to address this issue also?
Note: I've recommended this John MacArthur video a number of times in the past. The title is....Beware Of False Prophets.....and it was broadcast on his program.....Grace To You.....on May 8 , 2015.....forty days before Donald Trump came down that escalator.
