Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

means, “to exercise dominion against a person.” Oppression is normally considered an attack on the mind. However, there can also be a spiritual oppression. In addition, since Acts 10:38 deals with Christ healing men and women, then oppression is also a physical assault. Oppression is different from possession. In the New Testament the word possessed is found fifteen times in the King James Version, and in each reference except two (Acts 4:32; 1 Cor. 7:30) it refers to a person or persons possessed by evil or unclean spirits. The word possessed in Greek is a long word, diamonizomai , which refers to being exercised or controlled by a demon. In the New Testament, when a person is possessed, there are strange and often violent manifestations that indicate possession. In Mark 5 one man controlled by literally thousands of evil spirits was crying night and day, cutting himself, and had supernatural strength (Mark 5:1–9). Below is a list of the signs from Mark 5 of possession by demons: • He was crying loudly day and night—a sign of mental torment (v. 5). • He was up all night and was not sleeping (v. 5). • He was cutting himself—a sign he was attempting to harm himself or possibly commit suicide (v. 5). • He was breaking chains and could not be restrained— supernatural strength (v. 4). • He was living in tombs and not among the living (v. 3).