Are Demons Real Or Fictional? (2)

What do you believe? Are houses haunted by ghosts? Are they the spirits of the dead?

The plain truth is: No! If you believe the Bible, it says that the dead know nothing (Ecclesiastes:9:5). They do not live on as ghosts or phantoms. In fact, we'll discuss more about this in just a moment. But it points to a major problem: Its an undeniable fact that most Christians take their values and their beliefs from other people - from someplace else and not the Bible. How about you?

There are powers that want you to believe that false, annual celebrations, misidentified as Christian, are perfectly fine to observe. Moreover, they want to convince you that theres nothing harmful about Halloween. In fact, that demons are simply myths. But what about their influence? If you look around, you can certainly see that sinful influence is everywhere in our chaotic world.

People are swayed to follow fraudulent, destructive ways. Therefore, try to discover how you can stand up against demonic deception through the very power of God.The fact is, you shouldnt believe in ghosts! They are not spirits of dead people. If you're a Christian, you should know - it just isn't true.

Your Bible says if you think ghosts are spirits of dead, youre mistaken. Why? All ghosts, without exception, are actually demons. Theyre spirit all right, but not what many think. Theyre not earthbound human spirits, they're not haunting spirits of the dead. Your Bible says they are demonic spirits.

So what are evil spirits? What exactly are demons? 

Well Scripture says they're wicked angels whose only task is to deceive and to harm. Demons are evil spirits that are opposed to God. They're opposed to God's people. In fact, theyre opposed to you. They're sinful. They're rebellious. They're fallen angels.

In fact, we learn a lot about angels in bits and pieces from various Bible passages. And those passages tell us that God created angels with free will - they had the freedom to choose between righteousness or evil. Lucifer, who became Satan - chose rebellion. Yes, the devil does really exist and he also convinced a whole host of other angels, to turn against God.

In the book of Revelation a dragon symbolizes Satan. And it tells us the story of Satan's initial rebellion. Revelation:12:4 says, "His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven."

Were told that those stars are symbolic of angels (Revelation:1:20). So imagine it! Satans evil influence caused one-third of the entire angelic creation to follow him in wickedness.

Now those defiant angels - those spirits who rebelled are called sinful angels. "For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned…" Thats what 2 Peter:2:4 says (NABRE).

The Bible also refers to them as demons or evil spirits. And they've combined their forces to continuously and relentlessly oppose God and try to undermine Gods purpose for humanity. And so, now they're bound to this earth and they devote themselves to their goal of deceit, disorder and destruction in the lives of all people.

To be cont'd. 

God bless you all.