Demonology Pt.3
EPHESIANS 6:11-17
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (Wiles = trickery, deceit, to lie in wait, the charms of cunning arts)
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
PROVERBS 25:28
28 ¶ He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
The opposite to having on the whole armour of God is to have no defence at all - like a broken down city with no walls. And we know by this scripture that much of that is caused by a person that does not rule over their own spirit by the word. As Christians we must all learn to rule over our spirits by the word of God.
Demonology Pt.3
There is so much talk today about mental health.
Some very “successful” fashion designer woman the other day committed suicide, in worldly terms she had everything to make her happy; popularity, plenty of money, she was worth many millions of dollars, but yet she suffered from mental health to the point of committing suicide.
**The reason that mental health is on the rampage is because that unbelief of the word and sin is on the rampage. People of the world are totally ignorant about the many demonic spirits that they expose themselves to and give access to because of what they are doing and viewing and feeding their spirits on.
***The sin and the literature and the entertainment of this evil age that we are living in has all been carefully designed by Satan to align and condition the people’s minds in order to give demon power unrestricted access into their hearts and lives.
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E-8 Many times you see them in different forms. Here recently I seen one coming from a woman, that looked like a bat with great big hairs hanging under its legs, and so forth, its wings come right out, right straight up. They're evil spirits. And many times it's someone looking ever so beautiful on the outside, could only look on the inside and see what that is. We're dominated by spirit…
Look at the example of a young teenage girl who looks at these fashion magazines of these skinny models showing off, if they are not carful they can quite easily find themselves giving access to an anorexic demon that will torment them and try and starve them to death. And that anorexic demon doesn’t just stop at tormenting them; it also torments their family and their loved ones by putting everyone through the pain of what that demon is doing by trying to destroy a loved member of their family.
**So we see that visual exposure over a period of time can influence and changed a young girls thinking in a way that will prepare her to receive an evil spirit later on in life, this applies to boys as well. So the devil is into “grooming” his victims well before he strikes, and he does it through charm and trickery and also by cunning arts.
In the old days, young girls used to play with baby dolls, now its “Barbie” (a fully grown skinny woman), and they call it a doll to trick the parents into buying one for their children to prepare them for demon spirits to access them later on in life. And it’s not just the young girls that the devil designed Barbie to influence, it’s the young boys also, it teaches them to not be satisfied with anything less than these unrealistic images, so many of them will never marry or be satisfied in marriage because they have been trained by the devil to think in a wrong way and look for the wrong things – their minds have been perverted and changed from the ways that God intended for things to be.
Many psychologists and health professionals acknowledge the fact that Barbie dolls can be mentally unhealthy for young children.
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Despite being 59 years old, Barbie has a long-standing reputation for setting unrealistic beauty standards. Her long legs, skinny waistline, and perpetually tiptoed feet have been criticized time and again for contributing to unhealthy body image in the young girls who play with the Mattel-produced “doll”.
II CORINTHIANS 3:18
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
So the devil also uses images to change people by his spirit of what they behold, so we must be very careful what we look at because there are spirits that can come through images. ***This is what idols are also about; it is an image that you behold that has a demon spirit behind it.
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112 You notice how a little girl, she goes to a doll, because she... that's her nature, she's a--she's a coming mother. She will be mother someday if she lives and everything. You know, her nature. That's the reason a little girl likes a little doll, she wants to take care of it; 'cause after all, she--she's a little, potentially, a--a--a little mother.
*So we learn from this that evil spirits can gain access into people by the prolonged exposure of supposedly innocent toys because of the image that that toy is portraying.
So this is another way that channels can be opened to give access to allow wrong spirits to enter into people.
Opening scripture:
PROVERBS 25:28
28 ¶ He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
One way to allow the devil access into your spirit is by being slack in ruling over your own spirit by the word.
***By that we mean that we must not allow ourselves to be controlled and ruled over by our emotions when our emotions oppose the word of God. When you listen to your feelings and believe and obey the things that they are telling you that is contrary to the truth of the word, and you fail to be the boss and rule over those feelings by the authority of word and let them boss you around like naughty children, then you will become like a city that is broken down and without defensive walls, and then you will become unprotected against the enemy entering in.
*If Satan can deceive a person by their own false reasoning to disbelieve the word and believe Satan’s lie, then that will open a pathway for a spirit of unbelief to enter into that person as what happed to Eve at the beginning.
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Another way that an evil spirit can enter into a person is by unconfessed sin. That sin can also be manifested down into your children as we leant from the father with the boy who had become insane - we found out that it was a sin that the father had previously committed that had caused his son to become demon possessed.
So when a person sins and then refuses to repent of that sin, then that can allow a spirit of torment access that person.
Case study.. This is the woman that had suffered metal torment for 10 years before she came to Brother Branham for private council.
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E-28 So I said, "Sister, let's talk a few minutes." I said, "Let's just take a little trip."
She said, "Oh, no, I can't take a trip."
I said, "Just a moment, mentally," I... just to get her mind started. And when we started talking, just a few moments, I seen a little car running like that, little one-seated black car. I said, "Was you ever in an accident, sister?"
Said, "No, no, I never was in an accident." And then, just then, here it come across the room again.
I said, "I see a little car. And, oh, a train almost hits it." And she started screaming then. And then, of course, the vision done started; there was no way of stopping it then. See? So she... It said, told her, said, "You was in a little black car, and you was with a blond-headed man. And you were coming back from being out and doing wrong, and the train almost hit you." And It told her about her husband; she'd just gotten married, and her husband left and went overseas. And she got lonesome, and she started running around with some boy, and he was... She was out with him one night and broke her marriage vows. And on the road home, she... they almost got hit by a train. And when the vision left, the woman was laying on the floor, just screaming the top of her voice. And my wife come running to the room. And she wanted to know what had happened.
She got the girl up, and she said, "Oh, Reverend Branham, don't you dare to tell that to nobody."
And I said, "Sister, the only thing you can do is go and confess that to your husband and make it right." I said, "There's your trouble."
She said, "I have confessed that to God, Brother Branham."
E-29 I said, "It wasn't God you sinned against. You was a married woman; you sinned against your vows." And I said, "They might pour oil on your head by the gallons. They might pray, and stomp, and kick devils; it'd never make a bit of different. You got unconfessed sin, he will stay right there, till that thing is made right. I don't care how many prayers of faith or anything else, it'll stay right there." See?
And she said, "Well..."
And I said, "You a Sunday school teacher?"
And she said--she said, "Well, Brother Branham, that'll break our home up."
I said, "Now, sister, only thing I know, that's the truth; nobody knows that but you and God alone and that boy."
She said, "That's right."
I said, "You told your husband, that you was out with a boy, but never confessed it all."
E-30 She said, "That's right." She said, "But I can't tell him," said, "I've got three children, Brother Branham. It'd break my home up." She said, "My husband's a deacon down there in a church," and said, "if I'd ever tell him that," said, "if it'd break our home up."
I said, "Well, there..."
She said, "Well, that isn't what's bothering me."
I said, "Oh, yes, it is. It's way back in that subconscious there, still cut a streak." I said, "There's where it's at, right there. That's right."
And she said, "Well, I--I just can't tell him. It'd break my home up."
I said, "Well, only thing I can do, sister, there's what He said. You knowed whether anybody knowed about it or not." So I... Wife, I was going to the next room.
She said, "Oh, don't leave, Brother Branham."
I said, "Well, sister, you go get your husband and make that right."
I said, "I just can't do it."
E-31 I happened to look, and standing by her side was black-headed man, kind of wavy hair, over to the side like that. And he turned his back, and he had wrote on... he had a Chevrolet sign wrote on his back. And I said, "Isn't your husband a tall man with black wavy hair?"
She said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "He works for a Chevrolet company."
Said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "He has the same thing to confess to you." That's right. I said, "He works in a garage, and day before yesterday, he was with a black-headed woman, that works in the garage; she was wearing a pink dress; they was in a green Chevrolet car, and she broke his broke marriage vow to you, and not only that, but he's done it before."
Said, "Not my husband. He's a deacon in a church."
I said, "No wonder, Brother Johnson's church is not prospering with such as that." I said, "That's it."
And she said, "Not, my husband." She resented it. She believed him. She said, "Not my husband."
I said, "Look, lady, you'd better go and get your husband; you all get these things straightened up, 'cause that's all I know now. I'm just His servant." And I walked out of the room.
My wife come back in a few minutes, she said she went over to the phone and she called him. Said, "Those women are taking her back down." So said, "What do you think will happen?"
E-32 I said, "Well, that's up to them, I don't know." But I said, "you never know, no matter how much you scream, how loud you scream, how much you pray, that devil's got a legal right to stay right there, and he will stay there too. That's right. He's got a right to stay there. Not only that, but if you supposed to have done something and didn't do it, he has a legal right of disobedience. So there's what it is. Combing that person, you find out just where that cause is. Then you know where to start for the cure. See? It's unconfessed sin, many times. So you watch what you say, stomping this one out and stomping that one out. See? That's right. See? Faith will move. But not when he's got a legal right. Satan knows what his rights is, and what he--he hasn't got a right to. That's right. Clean yourself up before God and come before Him pure and holy; ask then. See? And now, search your life out.
E-33 Then after while here they come back. She went and got him, and he come up the road in a car. So they stopped and got up, and she said, "Honey, I got something to confess to you." And she told him what it was. And he said, "And you know, wasn't you out?" She knew the woman, said, "Wasn't you out?"
He said, "No."
Said, "You was at a certain place, at a certain... He said, "Where you been?"
And he said... She said, "I've been up to Brother Branham's."
He took, he said, "Honey, that's the honest truth." And he said, "I'll tell you what," said, "frankly," now It told about him when he was in France, and so forth; and he said, "I started it, I'm the guilty one." Said, "I was the one who start... Said, "If you'll forgive me, I'll forgive you. We'll clean ourselves up before God, and walk over there, and take our little children and live like Christians ought to." There they confessed their sins to each other and to God, and got right with God.
E-34 When they walked back up on the porch with their arm around one another, tears rolling down their cheeks, I said, "Now, now, Satan will leave. Now, something will take place." And the woman's perfectly normal and well from that minute on. See? There it is. Laying way back in her soul, you see, but if... Things that you've maybe forgot about, but they're laying there. See? And so forth... My, so many things, friends, that I've seen our Lord Jesus, thousands of those things right on the platform.