Demoniacal Activity in Later Times

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Appendix

from War On the Saints
by Jesse Penn-Lewis

Scriptures Referenced in This Section:
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Mk. 9:29 π 1 Tim. 4:1-3 π 2 Tim. 3:16

See [1.6], [1.13].

From "Spirit Manifestations" by Sir Robert Anderson.

The Gospels testify to the activity of demons during the ministry of Christ on earth; and the Epistles warn us of a RENEWAL OF DEMONIACAL ACTIVITY in the "latter times," before His return. "All Scripture is God-breathed" ( 2 Tim. 3:16 ); but it would seem that sometimes the revelation was made with special definiteness, and this particular warning is prefaced by the words; "the Spirit saith expressly." And it relates not to any new development of moral evil in the world, but to a new apostasy in the professing Church, a cult promoted by "seducing spirits" of a highly sensitive spirituality, and a more fastidious morality than Christianity itself will sanction. ( 1 Tim. 4:1-3; top )

The Gospel narrative indicates that some demons were base and filthy spirits that exercised a brutalizing influence upon their victims. But the Lord plainly indicated that these were a class apart. ( "this kind" - Mk. 9:29; top ) They were all "unclean spirits," but in Jewish use the word akatharios connoted spiritual defilement. That it did not imply moral pollution is proved by the fact that the Lord Jesus was charged with having a demon, though not even His most malignant enemies ever accused Him of moral evil. It was only by prayer that these filthy spirits could be cast out; whereas pious demons acknowledged Christ, and came out when His disciples commanded them to do so in His Name...


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