Dealing With Demons - Part 3
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An honest look at the Scriptures one must come away and declare, "Demons are Real".
Mark 1:32-39 (NLT) 32 That evening after
sunset, many sick and demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus….34 So Jesus
healed many people who were sick with various diseases, and he cast out many
demons. But because the demons knew who he was, he did not allow them to speak….39
So he traveled throughout the region of Galilee, preaching in the synagogues
and casting out demons.
Mark 3:14-15 (NKJV) 14 Then He appointed
twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach,
15 and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
Luke 4:33,35,41 (NKJV) 33 Now in the
synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried
out with a loud voice, …35 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet, and
come out of him!" And when the demon had thrown him in their midst, it
came out of him and did not hurt him. …41 And demons also came out of many,
crying out and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" And He,
rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the
Christ.
Check out these verses all dealing demons or evil
spirits. Matthew 4:24; 7:22; 8:16, 28, 31, 33; 9:32,
33, 34; 10:8; 11:18; 12:22,24,27,28; 15:22; 17:18. Mark 3:22; 5:12,15, 16, 18;
6:13; 7:26, 29, 30; 9:38; 16:9, 17. Luke 7:33; 8:2, 27, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 38;
9:1, 42, 49; 10:17, 11:14, 15, 18, 19, 20; 13:32. John 7:20, 8:48, 49, 52;
10:20, 21. 1 Corinthians 10:20,21; 1 Timothy 4:1; James 2:19; 3:15; Revelation
9:20; 16:14; 18:2.
If all Scripture is profitable (2 Timothy 3:16) and
Christ is our perfect example, why did the Holy Spirit move upon the authors of
this sacred manuscript to allow such enormous coverage of this special
ministry? The Apostle Paul gives the answer, "That
the man of God may be perfect [complete], thoroughly furnished unto all good
works" (2 Timothy 3:17). These Scriptures are the sounding of an
alarm that demons were active in the ministry of Jesus Christ and will be
active in the latter days of the church.
Prophetic
Evidence. Is there additional Scriptural support that
demons will be active in the last days? Jesus said to the Pharisees, " . . . Behold, I cast out devils [demons], and I do
cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected" (Luke
13:32). The time measurement of "a day" is used here. How long
is that day? The Apostle Peter reflects the length of God's day by stating, "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that
one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day" (2 Peter 3:8). Therefore, the length of a day could be
interpreted as a thousand years. With that in mind, what was Jesus really
saying in Luke 13:32? He was emphatically declaring that "I cast out devils, . . . to day and to morrow"
(or for the next two thousand years), and on the third day (the millennial
reign) I shall be perfected. Jesus was saying that the church in the twentieth
century would still find it necessary to cast out demons, a fact we have
judiciously ignored. Could it be that the established church has erred, not
knowing the Scripture (Mark 12:24)?[1]
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