Deportation Requires Identification

I learned some new stuff about demons.

For years, I’ve been telling people demons are for everyone. You don’t have to be epileptic or clairvoyant; we all have them. Demons infect our flesh, and they manifest in things like unbelief, hatred of Jesus, sexual perversion, gluttony, anger, and addiction. Name a character fault, and there are demons associated with it. Greed, cowardice…anything.

The book of Enoch says demons are the spirits of bastard creatures killed in the flood. Angels camed down, assumed flesh, allowed themselves to be seduced by women, and spawned giants. God killed the giants, and now they’re stuck on earth, working in people. They want bodies so they can satisfy their carnal desires through them, and so they can hurt human beings, make us Satan’s soldiers, and lure us to hell.

I don’t know if all demons come from this source. After all, demons are extremely numerous. They seem to outnumber people by a wide margin. Derek Prince has opined that a pre-Adamic race may have ended up like the giants. Genesis mentions a lot of events, and there is no clear mention of a pre-Adamic race, but we know Genesis doesn’t mention everything that ever happened in the early days. The fact that something doesn’t appear in Genesis doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

Prince cast a lot of demons out of people. He said one demon protested over and over. Prince described it a certain way, and the demon kept saying, “That’s not my name.” It resisted for a while. It eventually left because Prince persisted.

Jesus asked demons who they were. We don’t know that he did it every time he cast demons out, but he may have. In one case, he asked what a demon’s name was, and the demoniac said, “Legion, for we are many.” This shows that there is precedent for asking a demon to tell you its name.

It makes sense that we would need to use demon’s names. The supernatural is full of symmetry. When we serve God, we can’t just refer to him as “God” all the time. We have to be specific. We have to use the name of Jesus. The world is full of false religions in which people address “God” yet are actually speaking to other spirits.

You can see evidence of this truth in the way modern people respond to the name of Jesus. Most people don’t complain when you praise or invoke “God” in public, but try saying “Jesus,” and you bring a hailstorm of persecution on yourself. When you say Jesus, you’re supposedly discriminating against non-Christians. In truth, you are discriminating against them, and it’s right to do so. Jesus was completely intolerant of other religions. He is the only way to God. It’s Jesus or hell. No third possibility.

If God requires us to use his name in our walks, then it makes sense that we would need to use the names of other spirits when we humble and defeat them.

God gave me the names of a couple of spirits during the last 24 hours. One was “sexual defilement,” and the other was, “reviling.”

You may say those aren’t names. They’re descriptions. Well, what is “Yehoshua,” which is the full name of Jesus? It’s a description. It means, “Yahweh is salvation,” more or less.

It may be that a demon’s descriptive name is like a last name. Maybe a demon has a more specific name, like Barney, but his description, like a last name, covers him and his whole family. In the military, people give valid orders using ranks and last names. You don’t have to say, “Forward March, WILBUR,” in order to have authority.

A few months ago, God told me there was such a thing as sex without defilement. That’s interesting, because society teaches us to love a very defiled type of sex. In God’s plan, sex is supposed to be an event filled up with intimacy, love, and surrender. The world’s version of sex isn’t like that. It’s about body parts which are shaped just the right way, or weird actions that heighten selfish animal arousal. It’s about choking yourself by hanging yourself in a closet while you pursue solitary sexual activity. It’s about aggression and humiliation. It’s about physical pain.

You can’t have intimacy, love, and surrender while you’re beating someone with a whip or cutting off their air to get them excited. San Francisco sex, as I would call it, isn’t loving or unselfish. You can’t have intimate, loving bondage.

It shouldn’t surprise me to find out I’ve been dealing with a spirit called sexual defilement, after all I’ve been exposed to.

Anyway, I spoke defeat to it and cast it out. I renounced involvement with it. I could feel it filling with dread as I spoke, and I could tell when it left. Now I have to keep it out.

As for “reviling,” it refers to verbal abuse. I got tons of this when I was young. Most of it came from my dad and my sister, but even my mother fell into it. I internalized it, verbally abusing myself silently every day, and I also abused others.

The Bible says you can’t inherit the kingdom of heaven if you’re a reviler. If I want the kingdom of heaven inside me, I can’t give rulership to a reviling spirit.

Today I fought it just as I fought sexual defilement, with the same basic result.

The Bible lists a bunch of things that will keep you from inheriting the kingdom of heaven. Covetousness, for example. Cowardice and unbelief are also named. If your flesh rules you, Satan rules you, because demons serve Satan, and your flesh will generally choose to be ruled by demons, not the Holy Spirit.

I knew I had to get rid of demons, but I didn’t understand that I needed to ask God to tell me their names. Now I have more power to fight.

It may be that a demon is more likely to return if you didn’t use its name when you cast it out. You have to repent if you want to stay free, and you can’t repent unless you know what you’re repenting of.

I just learned that Catholic exorcists have rules they follow, and one rule is that they have to ask demons what their names are.

There is so much wisdom out there, and our ancestors threw it away. Life would be so much better had they preserved it and passed it on. As it is, I have to get a great deal of it directly from the Holy Spirit, because preachers are ignorant and/or dishonest.