2024/06/10

147. Demons

Demons or unclean spirits appear more frequently in the New Testament than in the era of the Old Testament. That is because Jesus, the very "enmity God has placed", appeared as Christ, making it possible for the dead, who had no chance of repentance, to be saved. 

In his letter, Peter wrote: "[Christ was] put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison" (1 Peter 3:18-19). He had learned from Jesus himself that "Satan" was an obstacle to Jesus, thinking not as God does, but as human beings do (cf. Matthew 16:20-28). Furthermore, he sensed from his own experience of exercising the authority Jesus had granted him to cast out demons that demons were not the same as devils and Satan. 

When demons find someone with gaps, they possess him all at once and try to kill him to experience death again. They want to be saved without tasting the "second death" (cf. Revelation 20:14, 21:8). However, the person possessed is alive and never dies, even though he suffers severely in resisting the demons, because he has a soul consisting of God's command "Be!" and the spontaneity responding to it, as well as the knowledge and memory proportionate to man. The demons who encountered Jesus in this situation cried out and fell down before him, saying loud, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you, do not torment me" (Luke 8:28), for Jesus had commanded them to come out of him. 

Here it is written that the unclean spirits "begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss" (Luke 8:31). That is because the knowledge that was attached to their Breath of Life was originally "human accidental information", described in Revelation as "that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world" (Revelation 12:9). The demons who knew that Jesus was the Son of God also knew that that knowledge would be thrown into the "bottomless pit" (Revelation 20:1) and the "lake of fire and sulphur" (Revelation 20:10), where they would taste the second death. 

So, the demons begged Jesus to allow them to enter the swine. Perhaps they were unable to stay before Jesus, the Son of God. Jesus let them, so they went into the swine and drowned together. However, they, who were spirits, could not die again, no matter how much they wished to. They could only wait for Christ to come to their rescue in spirit. 

The spontaneity of a demon is the Breath of Life that God himself breathed into him, and God knows to whom it belongs. And the knowledge that is attached to his Breath of Life and which it is burdened with also belongs to the person. Hence, God planned to save the person's Breath of Life from hell, where it is unable to return to God even after death and wanders through the world suffering. The plan was, as Peter wrote, as follows: God would die, go to the spirits in captivity, draw their Breath of Life by divine spontaneity and divine knowledge, i.e. "I AM", and bring it to his Father in heaven after pulling off the knowledge attached to it. 

As discussed previously, for the two in Genesis, their souls took in the information as their own knowledge and connected with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to satisfy their enlarged desires, which were stimulated by feelings of jealousy. They then jumped over the Tree of Life and connected with the Breath of Life. This process in their brain has manifested itself as an actual behaviour of taking from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and eating from it, which God had forbidden. Since these two in Genesis, the human soul has remained connected to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. So, many people still readily follow their example. But if they die in the same state, the knowledge that satisfies their needs sticks to the Breath of Life and does not leave it, resulting in one more demon being born on earth and wandering about. 

We must not become candidates for demons. To this end, it is essential for us to become able to see the "enmity God has placed". Its works can be seen clearly and soon by anyone with a worldview of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the beginning of the Book of Revelation states as follows. 

"The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John" (Revelation 1:1). 

Maria K. M.