Something to chew over. Not ONE scripture ever says that demons appear to people. Not ONE scripture gives an account of a demon just appearing ...to anyone. The closest the Word comes is the account of Jesus and the apostles casting out demons FROM people and the demon that was summoned by the witch of Endor....a familiar spirit , a demon....not Samuel. Not ONE scripture ever says that the devil has appeared to anyone either. He was first mentioned in Genesis....in the form of a serpent and later , the Word says he can appear as an angel of light. Satan is not omnipresent. He cannot, like God, be everywhere at once....which is why he uses his minions....he demons to oppress and possess. They do everything surreptitiously.....so that they are not recognised. NOT one scripture ever describes these demons appearing in front of anyone. So....here is the question. How come many people purport to see them ? How come I have never seen one ? Am I not spiritual enough to see a demon ? Are only certain people spiritual enough to be able to see them ? What is the purpose of demons appearing to Christians ? There is NO purpose...for does not God say that NOTHING can harm us ? Psalm 91: 9-11 …9 For you have made the LORD, my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place. 10 No evil will befall you, Nor will any plague come near your tent. 11 For He will give His angels charge concerning you, To guard you in all your ways.… LUKE 10:19 19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. So...there is absolutely NO reason or purpose for a demon to appear in front of believers....to terrorise or harm them. They can do neither....for we have all power over them. They KNOW that....which is why they set out to deceive .....to steal ( our joy) to rob ( us of our faith) and to kill ( lead us away from God. to destruction.) This is not done physically...God has never given satan or his demons the authority to kill.....anyone. So...if demons do not appear to believers....surely they would to the unbelieving ? NO WAY. the devil does not want unbelievers to know he exists....for that would cause millions to turn to God. Instead....he convinces unbelievers that he DOESNT exist. The inference being that if there is no devil....there is no God either. Lets get real......scripture either tells us of willy nilly appearances of demons....or it doesnt. In Hebrew, the name Satan means “the accuser”. And the Bible describes him as the accuser of the brethren or the saints of God in Revelation 12:10, “For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night.” The Devil is sometimes, shockingly, behind a pulpit and spewing forth false gospels as he appears as an angel of light, yet he is the father of lies (2 Cor. 11:14). In Ezekiel 28:12-18 you will find God describing him: “Thus says the Lord GOD, You had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz, and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx, and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, was in you. On the day that you were created they were prepared. You were the anointed cherub who covers, and I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created. Until unrighteousness was found in you.” So Lucifer ( who became satan after his rebellion) was created a cherub and he originally was “the anointed cherub that covered” the very throne of God. He was perfect and “blameless”. Reading God’s description in Ezekiel, you see all the precious stones that have ever been created are a covering of his: gold, emeralds, jasper, and so on. He was “full of wisdom and beauty” but his pride lifted up his self-worth and he became “unrighteousness” before God. Satan’s Power and Rank Lucifer was of the highest rank of all angels created; greater in power and rank than Michael and Gabriel. But his pride caused his downfall and he managed to convince about 1/3 of the angels to rebel with him and these rebellious angels became demons. This is explained in Revelation where “…another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems. And his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven, and threw them to the earth” (Rev. 12:3-4). They too are powerful but not as powerful as Satan or as Michael or Gabriel. Satan also convinced Eve to take from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Regardless of what you have read or heard, it was not an apple nor was it even mentioned that it was fruit. We really don’t know what it was on that tree but the fact is Eve and her husband Adam disobeyed God and were cast out of the Garden of Eden, just like Satan was cast out of heaven. What Satan and Demons Look like. So Satan is a cherub angel. What do cherubs look like? If you could actually see an angel, they would frighten you. They are not the chubby little angelic and winged baby-looking creatures you see pictured so often. In fact, not all angels have wings. But a cherub, in particular Satan, is enormous in size, power, and strength. Every cubit is 1.5 feet (18 inches) and so if we formulate the cubits per feet in measuring just how big these demons and Satan are. Satan himself and all other cherubs stand , at a guess, 18 feet tall! However Satan is the most powerful of all beings that God ever created in the universe. Satan and likely, a number of his demons, have wing spans of 8 feet long and under each of their four wings there were what looked like the hands of a man (Ezek. 10:8). They had not only four wings but they had four faces too (Ezek. 10:21)! Imagine how frightened Ezekiel was when he was recording this in Ezekiel chapter ten. Satan and likely most of the demons entire body, including their back, their hands, and their wings were completely full of eyes, including the four wheels they had (Ezek.10:12). Their four faces where faces of a cherub, a man, an eagle, and a lion (Ezek. 10:14). Similar creatures or angels that may have become fallen were likely those that were over the Most Holy. These had six wings and one looked like an ox, another like a lion, one like a man, and another like that of an eagle (Rev. 4:6-8). Satan and these fallen angels are spirit beings and so, thankfully, they can not be seen because they would be terrifying to anyone. Even so, Satan and his demons are subject to God’s sovereignty and can do nothing over and against the will of God and are not allowed to take human lives (Job chapter one and two). Who are these super spiritual Christians who are privy to appearances by demons ? You might well ask. Neither God in the OT nor Jesus in the NT nor any of the apostles, ever told us that we can expect to be visited by demons......visibly. People who say they have seen them....simply have not. They are making it up.....telling porky pies....lies. Blessed are they who find NO need to invent demonic appearances.......like demons sitting on the end of the bed......such nonsense has nothing to do with a true believer.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:57:50 +0000