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Angels

Spiritual beings, often called “messengers” created by God to serve Him.

Demons

Angels that disobeyed God, followed satan, fell from holiness, and now are actively opposed to the work and plan of God.

Angel points

1\. Angels were created.

2\. Angels are spirits.

3\. There are a large number with a rank and order- like a military

4\. Angels are smarter and more powerful than humans

5\. Angels have a will, a thinking mind, and emotions.

6\. The Hebrew word for angel is “mal’ach” and the Greek word is “angelos.” Both of these words mean “messenger.”

7\. Angels carry out God’s plans.

8\. Scripture indicates that angels were created before the Earth

9\. Angels are not created in the imago Dei.

10\. Angels are frequently called by other terms

take away from angels

1\. Do not worship them!

2\. Do not pray to them or seek them or assume their authority.

3\. Do not trust them over God’s word.

4\. Do not slander or challenge Angels or any celestial beings!

satan

found 52 times in scripture; means “the adversary or the opposer/enemy”

devil

accuser/slanderer (literally: to throw something into your path so you trip on it)

what sin brough Satan’s downfall?

pride

demonization

The effect of a demon upon a person

what is Satan’s purpose?

to obtain power to be like God, but he has none of the attributes of God and is not God, so he feels he must usurp God by attacking all of God’s creation.

Spiritual Warfare

the spiritual struggle between the Kingdom of God and the Domain of Darkness.

four spiritual warfare principles

1\. Spiritual Warfare begins with understanding your positional authority in Christ.

2\. By conversion, Christ’s authority is bestowed on a believer over all, even strongholds and demons.

3\. Spiritual Warfare starts defensively.

4\. Spiritual Warfare is also offensive.

Prayer

accessing God’s power and attention to the situation.

Demonized

transliteration of the Greek word daimonizomai. This is what word is used to mean a demon is working within someone.

Demonic Oppression

is a term Christians use to express the idea a demon is attacking them from the outside.

Possessed

from the KJV, a translation of daimonizomai, but seems to imply a demon owns it’s host or completely controls them. For this reason many people find this term unfavorable.

Occult Practice

Seeking supernatural power outside of God’s power seems to be a way to give authority to demons in your own life.

Major Sins

habitual sins or strongholds creating sins like unforgiveness or preying on the vulnerable, etc. seem to be either a cause of demonization or at least a correlation to it.

how demons are cast out

1\. The Authority of Christ.

2\. The Holy Spirit does the evicting.

3\. Faith

4\. Prayer

5\. Confession

Eschatology

the study of “last things”

Preterist

Almost all of Revelation was completed in the 1st Century before the Fall of Jerusalem in 70AD.

Historicist

Revelation has been and is in the process of being fulfilled over history.

Idealist

Revelation is strictly figurative, it is just a narrative that can be applied to any situation that shows good defeating evil.

Futurist

Revelation is a prophecy of mainly future events that have yet to take place.

Pretribulation

or “pretribulation rapture” means you believe there will be a rapture for Christians before the time of tribulation described in Revelation.

Posttribulation

or “posttribulation rapture” means you believe there will be a rapture for Christians after the time of tribulation described in Revelation.

midtribulation

rapture happens in the middle of the tribulation

Premillennialism

the Millennium reign of Christ is a very literal 1000 years which will happen after the Great Tribulation in the future.

Amillennialism

millennial is figurative, and God gradually pushes forward over the Earth, then the return of Christ

Postmillennialism

the Millennium is a figurative time period that takes place when most of the world is Christian and become a more peaceful and fulfilling place.

Postmillennials don’t just view God’s kingdom as spiritual, but as physical, on Earth.

rapture

will be caught up