The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

means is that demons, according to ancient definitions, are tied to the family line of the one possessed. This is because devils fathered demons, at least spiritually. They were the ones whom the fallen sons of God sired by the daughters of men. Rebel apostate angels invaded the planet and set up a godlike village that became the center of their rule. After doing so, they chose young women to impregnate to rear up seed to themselves. Paul rebuked the Corinthian church for perverting the Lord’s communion supper as a throwback to their heathen ways. Using the guise of culture, tradition, and family ties, the same ancestral devils that they had always worshipped their heathen gods with, return with a new twist. They could still do what they had done, only now the demon would agree to a name change. He would allow them to think they were communing with the Christ using the same emblems and sacraments they held dear as handed down from their forefathers. Paul saw through the tactic and said that what they resorted to was tantamount to worshipping and fellowshipping with demons. 1 Corinthians 10:20. Based on our Savior’s teachings, demons were responsible for the deformities, mutations, maladies, and afflictions of humans. Devils are spiritual authorities, territorial princes over the demons who minister to them and obey their words. Some, for limited periods of time, appear attractive. This is a seductive tactic. Psalm 106:37; Deuteronomy 32:17; Matthew 9:33; Luke 8:29; 2 Corinthians 11:15; 1 Corinthians 10:20–21; 1 Timothy 4:1; Revelation 9:20, 16:14, and 18:2. 368. Demonic Oppression—The state of a spirit-filled believer being weighed down and superficially manipulated by an unclean spirit. Typically, such oppression arises from illicit contact with immorality, carnality, and pseudo spirituality. See Isaiah 61:3 for the “spirit of heaviness.” See the activities of spiritual oppression in Hosea 4:12–18 and 5:4. Simon the sorcerer, after his initial conversion to Christianity, is an example of this. He remained oppressed by his former powers and exposed it by asking Peter to let him buy the powers of the Holy Spirit. Generally, demonic oppression stems from a believer’s return to some carnal activity or state of existence of their pre-Christ life. Doing so courts the return of the pre-salvation spirits (demons) that have populated their family line. This is the basis of the Lord Jesus’ admonishment to those He freed to go and sin no more. The cessation of the sin or state of existence that necessitated His divine intervention in the first place was the condition for maintaining their deliverance. John 5:14 and 8:11.