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Saturday, March 24th, 2012

THE RAGE AND WICKEDNESS OF EVIL SPIRITS

When evil spirits act in a rage, they act as a combination of the maddest, and most wicked persons in existence, but all their evil is done with fullest intelligence, and purpose. They know what they do, they know it is evil, terribly evil, and they will to do it. They do it with rage, and with the full swing of malice, enmity and hatred. They act with fury and bestiality, like an enraged bull, as if they had no intelligence, and yet with fun intelligence they carry on their work, showing the wickedness of their wickedness. They act from an absolutely depraved nature, with diabolical fury, and with an undeviating perseverance. They act with determination, persistency, and with skilful methods, forcing themselves upon mankind, upon the Church, and still more upon the spiritual man. (Jessie Penn-Lewis; War On The Saints, Chapter 2)

For many years my mind was closed shut against the reality of evil as something intelligent, having personality. As God began showing me the truth of their existance – I began to do what MANY Christians have done, I treated them like a past tense enemy – something Jesus took care of on the cross. As my experience and the Bible showed me something more, I began to see how many well meaning Christians treated them as some kind of “allegory” or worse as pests of temptation. Or even worse – as something their pastor or church takes care of, nothing they themselves should deal with.

Think of how you would react and deal with a problem of ants in your home. Think and feel it. They are annoying pests. Definately something to deal with – but not anything to panic about – right?

Now, think and feel how you would react and deal with a brutal, vicious serial killer in your home. Think and feel it. Notice the difference. Notice how different your “enemy” has become. That is the difference between our understanding as a whole in the Christian church in regards to Satan and his demons, versus the reality of what we are facing.

Yes, Jesus “took care of them all” on the cross – including sin and death – and yet not one these things have been ‘erased’ from our human experience. Through the FINISHED work of Christ on the cross can we also overcome as our Lord overcame. If we are willing and humble enough to let the Holy Spirit lead us and teach us.