There is a SPIRITUAL component to the end times that the US government officially DENIES.
The United States may be the ONLY country which spends a LOT of time and money and other resources convincing its citizens that the demonic is nothing more than a scary bedtime story.
As famed horror writer Anne Rice once put it:
“And no nation or tribe to my knowledge has not acknowledged that there are many invisible beings, and that they divide into good spirits and evil spirits, according to how they benefit man.”
—Anne Rice, Witching Hour [quoted in Demons, Exorcism and the Demonic: Invisible Beings]
OF COURSE, Ms Rice conveniently forgot to mention the good old U.S. of A.!
The USA (as befits a nation which has challenged the basics of God’s Word from the beginning) has assigned the demonic a part in the ‘scary story’ section.
(One cannot do battle against those entitities in which one does NOT believe.)
Aiding the mis-steps have been those ‘famed Bible teachers.’
The Bible tells us that demons are fallen angels who joined Satan in his rebellion against God and who were defeated and cast out of heaven along with Satan (Revelation 12:7-9).
—What Does the Bible Say About Demons?
OF COURSE, the Bible is COMPLETELY silent about demons being ‘fallen angels who joined Satan in his rebellion against God’ BUT, the churches of Satan will help out in ANY way they can.
IN FACT, God’s Word tells us that the fallen angels are in CHAINS until the day of judgment.
” And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”
–Jude 1:6
“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment”
–2PETER 2:4
So according to God’s Word, the fallen angels were NOT out roaming around, seeing what mischief they might get into: they were in CHAINS, in DARKNESS, awaiting the day of their judgment.
SO, fallen angels are NOT demons–although they can perform evil deeds for all those who plead with them–such as Satan, the dragon BEFORE the battle of Armageddon.
” And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.”
–Revelation 16:13-14
Demons are evil spirits, created by God for His purposes. The reader (who has been RELENTLESSLY misled that demons are servants of SATAN) can KNOW this, as God’s great end times army is composed of little more than demons.
“A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?”
–Joel 2:2-11
Q: What kind of soldiers are NOT injured by falling upon a sword?
A: The soldiers who make up the demonic army of God Almighty!
Demons (the Bible calls them ‘devils’) are in reality, EVIL (unclean) SPIRITS. We are told as much in Mark 5.
“And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.”
–Mark 5:1-12
In Mark’s fifth chapter, the entity within the possessed man is called both ‘an unclean spirit’ AND ‘a devil.’
What does all of this mean for the end times?
The battles of the believer will NOT ONLY be against flesh-and-blood, but against the demonic as well, BUT particularly Satan (the dragon).
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”
–1PETER 5:8
The spiritual component will be VERY apparent during the battles of the last days–and there will be NO ‘bystanders’ in such a time. ALL must choose a side.
To all who do NOT believe in spiritual beings, woe to you as you find out differently in the days before Jesus returns.
To all who DO believe in spiritual beings: GET READY!
One will need to keep all of his wits about him when the demonic comes calling.
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DOES the reader suspect that beings he cannot see have some influence in his life?
It is not YET too late–although time is surely running out: there is still a LITTLE time to change direction (repent), place your faith (hope) for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.
DOES the reader believe he is saved?
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DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?
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THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. ”
—1 Corinthians 15:1-8
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”
-–Romans 1:16
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[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: March 24-26, 2023.]
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