King Saul had a reprobate mind, and the Lord turned him over to the devil. The Lord can send evil spirits of destruction to people. When the Lord says Move! Demons have to obey God. They had to obey Jesus when He was here. King Saul had failed God and disobeyed Him again and again, claiming all the while that he was doing the whole will of God. He had whatever he needed to be a godly leader, but he became lifted up, spit in the eye of God one time too many.
The Lord allowed a spirit of madness to come upon him. That was the only way Saul could find peace for a time. David played and played, but the day came when Saul sought to kill David, and David fled. Finally Saul committed suicide. With the whole mind leeched by the devil, taken over by him, you can go insane. When a sinner repents and is forgiven, why does God allow persecution by the devil? Why did God allow the devil to persecute Jesus Christ?
You are a person of choice. After you become saved, you still are free to serve God or to go back to the devil. You have to prove yourself, and how you handle persecutions is a great proving ground. God allowed Jesus to be persecuted so He, as our example, could show us how to be victorious. The Lord gives you an opportunity to go on with Him, and He gives you all the power you need to serve Him, all the love you need.
Will you make a fit subject for Heaven? The Lord is very careful about His Heaven. You will not enter Heaven unless you have proven yourself a fit citizen for that holy place. You are on proving ground. The devil came around, and they did whatever the devil wanted them to do. But if you are really saved, your soul has been purged; and the testing times help purge your mind. Not everyone takes on the mind of Christ the moment he or she is saved, although it is offered to all who are born again.
It takes people a period of time before they take on the mind of Christ. When God created Adam, the first living soul, He meant for that soul to live forever.
Adam became a living soul with the life of God in him. God gave him God-life. God will not destroy the body with no consideration for the soul at stake, a soul that came from the breath of God and will live forever either in Heaven or hell. Adam would never have been sick, never have had an ache or pain; he would have been young and healthy today after six thousand years had he not sinned—and it would have been the same for Eve.
Use the knowledge that God has given about Himself to understand Him more. God did wipe out other life on Earth before the creation of Adam and Eve. The time between the first verse of Genesis when the earth was created and second verse where the earth is without form and void is possibly millions of years. Bones of cave men have been found, but they were men without souls; and because they had no souls, they had no eternal life.
They were like any animal. Research has found in examining the skulls of prehistoric man that they had but a small capacity for the brain. Never has another civilization fallen from grace but ours. If so, Jesus would have had to have died for their redemption, for the Bible tells us that there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved Acts That holds true for all human beings with souls.
The physical body takes on death because it is of the earth and therefore not eternal. If He had, it—like the soul—could never die; the soul will exist eternally in either Heaven or hell. Partaking of His divinity, becoming born again, means you will live with the Lord forever as long as you keep that divinity working in you here on Earth.
Understand the way, the greatness of God. What are hell and its devils like? Hell is a place of destruction and torment, and its devils an extension of Lucifer himself, beings punished severely if they fail to carry out his wishes. Jesus said, Hell,…the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm [the soul] dieth not, and the fire is not quenched Mark , Jesus spoke of the rich man who died, and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame Luke , Those with blinded spiritual eyes declare there is no burning hell. Every real born-again person, saith the Lord, born of the Spirit of God, believes there is an eternal burning hell because they believe what Jesus said.
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me John Jesus is truth, life. How much power and influence can Satan have over a child of God? As much as he is allowed. You have the privilege of saying No to the devil and the No is final. The Bible says if you resist the devil he will run from you. Resist him with the Word of God. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you James If you open your door to him instead of to Jesus, the devil will be right there.
Can the devil appear to us any time he wants? He can come, but you have the power through the blood of Jesus to put him to flight. The Bible tells us that God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it I Corinthians The Lord tells the devil to move, and he has to move.
Why does God allow Satan to perform counterfeit visions, to allow people to think they are seeing Jesus or one of His manifestations? Adam, remember, as head of the whole human race, delivered mankind into the hands of Satan. As long as mankind remains in a world ruled by Satan, he will try to deceive in every way he can. But God has provided protection through the blood of His precious Son Jesus to all who yield wholly to Him.
The Lord tells you to take everything to His Word. Any visions you may have must be able to stand the word test.
The Lord has told you that the devil is the arch deceiver, a liar and the father of lies. He steals; he has come to rob you, but you do not have to allow it, for you have protection in the Word of God and the blood of the Lamb.
The devil could give you a vision that may be close to the real vision, but something will be out of place; one or more things will be changed. God will never allow the devil to duplicate one of His visions one hundred percent. Any vision you have must be checked thoroughly. Examine everything in the vision; it all is important. If drapery, a window, are in the vision, observe them. Is a picture on the wall? Examine it, every detail. A chair? Note the style and design of the material.
The Holy Spirit will help you remember. If the vision is from God, you will meet it one day in living reality.
I study the visions of the Lord all I can during the time He keeps that vision before me. I then wait for what I saw in the vision to take place in reality.
The Lord said if you wait, the vision will be fulfilled if it is from God. Take any supernatural manifestation to the Word of God and wait for the Holy Spirit to verify that it came from God. Run to God with it. No discrepancies will be found in a vision from God when it is fulfilled. A dream is not a vision.
A person could go to bed with a full stomach and dream almost anything. The Lord has used dreams with His people in the past, but He has always confirmed the dreams when they were awake. Books that interpret dreams are meaningless.
We had fun with them when we were children, but none were true. Someone thought he had enemies because he dreamed of a snake. If you are a child of God, you have enemies no matter what you dream. Does the devil perform miracles? Certain kinds of miracles the devil can perform on the elements, but he cannot heal. Healing is giving life. Satan has counterfeited healing, caused people to tell lies and fake miracles.
The devil is the one who afflicts, but he can withdraw his afflictions and let a person think he is healed. Psychic healing is not real healing, but a product of devil possession. The devil is all death. He cannot, I say again, heal. The devil does not pay me a lot of visits to manifest himself as a person, but when the Lord came to me and said I would have to surrender my wife Angel, the devil stood in the shadow of the room.
The Lord said that Angel was not my source of power; He was. He was preparing me for her death. It was the only time the Lord had ever visited me and the devil was there, too. Standing as tall as a man, dressed in black, black, the devil had no light about him. I was amazed that the devil was there. That was many years ago, but recently as I was preparing a message for the people.
Suddenly the devil was right at my shoulder by my writing desk, talking to me. I was shocked. Healing is giving life and the devil is death. The sincere in heart, the Bride, will believe! The Holy Ghost took me over; when I looked around, no devil was there. The Lord had walloped him good. The devil is shaken over these messages. We have power over the devil, and we must know we have it in the greatness of God.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever Revelation That is the fate of Satan.
Two supernatural powers are at work in the world, and God wants you to understand them. It took me a long time to understand about Lucifer and his demons, how they operate undercover to deceive men, women, boys and girls. Whereas the first ten verses in this chapter speak about the ruler of Tyre who was condemned for claiming to be a god though he was just a man , the discussion moves to the king of Tyre starting in verse Some have suggested that these verses may actually be dealing with a human king of Tyre who was empowered by Satan.
Perhaps the historic king of Tyre was a tool of Satan, possibly even indwelt by him. In describing this king, Ezekiel also gives us glimpses of the superhuman creature, Satan, who was using, if not indwelling, him. Our text tells us that this king was a created being and left the creative hand of God in a perfect state Ezekiel And he remained perfect in his ways until iniquity was found in him Ezekiel b.
What was this iniquity? The sin that corrupted Lucifer was self-generated pride. Apparently, this represents the actual beginning of sin in the universe—preceding the fall of the human Adam by an indeterminate time. Sin originated in the free will of Lucifer in which—with a full understanding of the issues involved—he chose to rebel against the Creator.
Isaiah is another Old Testament passage that may refer to the fall of Lucifer. We must be frank in admitting that some Bible scholars see no reference whatsoever to Lucifer in this passage.
The devil. That Lucifer was ordained a cherub was no small honor. As a creation of God, we know that Lucifer was created good Genesis ; Ezekiel Instead, Lucifer wanted more. Lucifer became so consumed with pride over his God-given splendor that he became corrupt and violent, no longer willing to serve under God Ezekiel ; Isaiah This sense of superiority led Lucifer to use his free will to scheme to be greater than God , and to assemble an army of angels to help him carry out that plot Ezekiel ; Isaiah ; Revelation , Revelation Pride tops the list of sins that God hates Proverbs Rather, pride in the Biblical sense refers to being so obsessed with yourself that your mind never turns to God and your heart never seeks Him Psalm As punishment for his disobedience and the grave dishonoring of his angelic post, God cast Lucifer out of heaven by hurling him and his army of fallen angels to Earth Isaiah ; Ezekiel ; Revelation and condemning them ultimately to hell Matthew Satan has been using his wisdom and wile to rob humanity of eternal salvation since his own fall from grace.
Demons are no less dangerous than Satan, as Scripture describes them as spiritual forces of evil Ephesians who can deceive, torment, and cause believers to do evil themselves 2 Corinthians ; 2 Corinthians ; Luke
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