How Demons Influence Men

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Satan and fallen angels or demons are at war with with true Christianity, Israel,and God himself. Though they are of great power, God limits their actions andmovements by his (Holy) Spirit. Even prior to testing anyone, (Read the books ofJob and Daniel!) they must first attain permission from God. God has built a hedgeor wall between them, and believers or his people. As Christians, nothing canseperate us from God! Neither height, nor depth, nor things to come, nor anycreature, can seperate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lordand Saviour. Remembering that we ourselves, either by sin; through the lusts and

pride, can seperate us from him. We can be our own worst enemy. That is why wemust pray always and live righteously before God.These evil ones have only theypower we give them. Satan can impede but never stop a Christian. Now, God will,can, and has; forgiven all manner of sin through the powerful name of the LordJesus Christ. (Colossians 3:17, Mark 16:15-17, and Acts 2:38) These sons ofperdition, can attempt to entice us to sin by wine, women, and song. Either bythose influenced by it or by one's own over indulgement in such. Ordinarily,people are not possessed by devils unless they fall to excess. Demons, when oncethey have been able by means of opportunities afforded them, to convey themselvesthrough base and evil actions, into the bodies of men, if they remain in them along time through their own negligence, because they do not seek after what isprofitable to their souls, they necessarily compel them for the future to fulfilthe desires of the demons who dwell in them. We must continue to live 100% for

God by faith, never giving place to the Devil, to remain completely victorious. AsChristians, should one depart from the living God, and be twice dead, as spoken ofin the book of Jude, the wicked ones will attempt to return. When the uncleanspirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, andfindeth none. Matthew 12:43 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whenceI came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.Matthew 12:44 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits morewicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of thatman is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.(Matthew 12:45) Nimrod, the son of Cush, who is recorded as "a mighty Hunter,before the Lord", in Genesis. It was he who was set up as king and seen as abenefactor to all mankind. He was also known as the, "god of fortifications". Inother words, after the flood, he eliminated all the fearsome creatures

(Dinosaurs?) and developed cities, and in gratitude, easily crowned king of allthe peoples under his control. There was one language until (The Tower of Babel,which was built in rebellion against God. Obviously, Nimrod wanted to make a namefor himself. He made it or gained it, not through the tower, but in the religioussystem that he created. His "triad" system, spread to all cultures in one form oranother. This happened by means of God, and his dispersal of all mankind, via theconfusion of the languages.) he urged men to throw off the shackles or restraintsof God. Men had just recovered from a terrible flood, brought on by evil actionsand left many fearing God. According to the religious system which Nimrod was thegrand instrument in introducing, men were led to believe that a real spiritualchange of heart was unnecessary, and that so far as change was needful, they couldbe regenerated by mere eternal means. "Looking at the subject in the light of theBacchuanalian orgies, ( To be driven mad by wine; also to include a certain type

of music. Music that was used to induce a certain state of mind or being. Such asPythia's, a priestess of Apollo who is Apollyon, a Greek oracle at Delphi, thatoften went into a ecstatic state and had her prophecies interpreted by a priest,which were used to avoid calamities such as death. The drug Ecstasy or "E", asit's street name is called, produces the same effect as the music. Basically, itwas a means of putting oneself into a trance; so as be overtaken by a spirit.) asit is evident that he led mankind to seek their chief good in senual enjoyment andshowed them how they might enjoy the pleasures of sin, without any fear of thewrath of a holy God". John Williams, the well known missionary, tells us that,according to one of the ancient traditions of the islanders of the South Seas,"the heavens were originally so close to the earth that men could not walk, but



were compelled to crawl" under them. "This was found a very serious evil; but atlength an individual conceived the sublime idea of elevating the heavens to a moreconvenient height. "For this purpose he put forth his utmost energy, and by thefirst effort raised them to the top of a tender plant called teve, about four feethigh. There he deposited them until he was refreshed, when, by a second effort, helifted them to the height of a tree called Kauariki, which is as large as thesycamore. By the third attempt he carried them to the summits of the moutains; andafter a long interval of repose, and by a most prodigious effort, he elevated them

to their present situation." For this, as a mighty benefactor of mankind, " thisindividual was deified; and up to the moment that Christianity was embraced, thedeluded inhabitants worshipped him as the 'Elevator of the heavens'" Now, whatcould more graphically describe the position of mankind soon after the flood, andthe proceedings of Nimrod as Phoroneus, "The Emancipator," than this Polynesianfable? While the awful catastrophe by which God had showed His avenging justice onthe sinners of the old world was yet fresh in the minds of men, and so long asNoah, and the upright among his descendants, sought with all earnestness toimpress upon all under their control the lessons which that solemn event was sowell fitted to teach, "heaven," that is, God, must have seemed very near to earth.To maintain the union between heaven and earth, and to keep it as close aspossible, must have been the grand aim of all who loved God and the best interestsof the human race. But this implied the restraining and discountenancing of all

vice and all those "pleasures of sin," after which the natural mind, unrenewed andunsanctified, continually pants. This must have been secretly felt by every unholymind as a state of insufferable bondage. "The carnal mind is enmity against God,"is "not subject to His law," neither indeed is "able to be" so.So long as the influence of the great father of the new world was in theascendant, while his maxims were regarded, and a "Holy Atmosphere", surrounded theworld, no wonder that those who were alienated from God and godliness, felt heavenand its influence and authority to be intolerably near, and that in suchcircumstances they "could not walk," but only "crawl,"--that is, that they had nofreedom to "walk after the sight of their own eyes and the imaginations of theirown hearts."

From this bondage Nimrod emancipated them. By the apostacy he introduced, by the

free life he developed among those who rallied around him, and by seperating themfrom the holy influences that had previously less or more controlled them,hehelped them to put God and the strict spirituality of His law at a distance, andthus he became the "Elevator of the Heavens", making men feel and act as if heavenwere afar off from earth, and as if either the God of heaven "could not seethrough the dark cloud," or did not regard with displeasure the breakers of Hislaws. [Leading people into the presence of the gods] Then all such would feel thatthey could breathe freely, and that now they could walk at liberty. For this, suchmen could not but regard Nimrod as a high benefactor.

Now, who could have imagined that a tradition from Tahiti would have illuminatedthe story of Atlas? But yet, when Atlas, bearing the heavens on his shoulders, isbrought into juxtaposition with the deified hero of the South Seas, who blessed

the world by heaving up the superincumbent heavens that pressed so heavily uponit, who does not see that the one story bears a relation to the other? In thePolynesian story the heavens and earth are said to have been "bound together withcords," and the "severing" of these cords is said to have been effected by myriadsof "dragon flies", which, with their "wings," bore an important share in the greatwork. (WILLIAMS) Is there not here a reference to Nimrod's `63 "mighties" or"winged ones"? The deified "mighty ones" were often represented as wingedserpents. WILKINSON, vol. iv. p. 232, where the god Agathodaemon is represented asa winged asp". Among a rude people the memory of such a representation might verynaturally be kept up in connection with the "dragon-fly"; and as all the mighty orwinged ones of Nimrod's age, the real golden age of paganism, when "dead became



Daemons or Demons". (HESIOD, Works and Days), They would of course all alike besymbolised in the same way.[The serpents were Nagash in Hebrew or Naga in sanscrit. This has a very clearconnection with music which Nimrod used to lead people into the presence of thegods who descended at the temple on top of the Tower of Babel. The word lagash isquite identical and is something like speaking in tongues.]

If any be stumbled at the thought of such a connection between the mythology of

Tahiti and of Babel, let it not be overlooked that the name of the Tahitian god ofwar was Oro (WILLIAMS), while "Horus (or Orus)," as Wilkinson calls the son ofOsiris, in Egypt, which unquestionably borrowed its system from Babylon, appearedin that very character. (WILKINSON) Then what could the severing of the "cords"that bound heaven and earth together be, but just the breaking of the bands of thecovenant by which God bound the earth to Himself, when on smelling a sweet savourin Noah's sacrifice, He renewed His covenant with him as head of the human race.This covenant did not merely respect the promise to the earth securing it againstanother universal deluge, but contained in its bosom a promise of all spiritualblessings to those who adhere to it. The smelling of the sweet savour in Noah'ssacrifice had respect to his faith in Christ. When, therefore, in consequence ofsmelling that sweet savour, "God blessed Noah and his sons" (Gen 9:1), that hadreference not merely to temporal but to spiritual and eternal blessings. Every

one, therefore, of the sons of Noah, who had Noah's faith, and who walked as Noahwalked, was divinely assured of an interest in "the everlasting covenant, orderedin all things and sure." Blessed were those bands by which God bound the believingchildren of men to Himself--by which heaven and earth were so closely joinedtogether.Those, on the other hand, who joined in apostasy of Nimrod broke the covenant, andin casting off the authority of God, did in effect say, "Let us break His bandsasunder, and cast His cords from us." To this very act of severing the covenantconnection between earth and heaven there is very distinct allusion, thoughveiled, in the Babylonian history of Berosus. There Belus, that is Nimrod, afterhaving dispelled the primeval darkness, is said to have separated heaven and earthfrom one another, and to have orderly arranged the world. (Berosus, in Bunsen)These words were intended to represent Belus as the "Former of the world." But

then it is a new world that he forms; for there are creatures in existence beforehis Demiurgic power is exerted. The new world that Belus or Nimrod formed, wasjust the new order of things which he introduced when, setting at naught allDivine appointments, he rebelled against Heaven. The rebellion of the Giants isrepresented as peculiarly a rebellion against Heaven. To this ancient quarrelbetween the Babylonian potentates and heaven, there is plainly an allusion in thewords of Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar, when announcing that sovereign's humiliationand subsequent restoration, he says (Dan 4:26), "Thy kingdom shall be sure untothee, when thou hast known that the Heavens, do rule."

Thus, then, it appears that Atlas, with the heavens resting on his broadshoulders, refers to no mere distinction in astronomical knowledge, however great,as some have supposed, but to a quite different thing, even to that great apostacy

in which the Giants rebelled against Heaven, and in which apostacy Nimrod, "themighty one," * as the acknowledged ringleader, occupied a pre-eminent place. Inthe Greek Septuagint, translated in Egypt, the term "mighty" as applied in Genesis10:8, to Nimrod, is rendered the ordinary name for a "Giant". Ivan and Kallery,in their account of Japan, show that a similar story to that of Atlas was knownthere, for they say that once a day the Emperor "sits on his throne upholding theworld and the empire." Now something like this came to be added to the story ofAtlas, for Pausanias shows that Atlas also was represented as upholding both earthand heaven. Now in ending, let me say this. Even as the Ark was built (By faith,as he was moved by Godly fear.) by Noah, to the saving of himself as his family.Though, God himself shut the door of the Ark, on the day of the flood. One must by



faith, be baptized into Jesus name, after we repent and turn totally to God.Knowing that water alone saves nobody. Rather, it is our action of faith inobedience, to the command of God for our baptism. (Mark16:16, Luke 24:47, andRomans 6:4, among many others!) Even as Christ our example in all righteousness,did so in Matthew 3:12-17. Without following the instructions of God, Noah wouldof drowned. Naaman, (In 2 King 2:1-15) was healed when he obeyed by belief to theinstructions of the man of God, to be baptized seven times in the Jordan River.Today, we walk by faith, just as back then, and not by sight. God bless us all in

Jesus name.

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