Angels do have bodies and they can make themselves visible or invisible. The best way to describe them is the way that Paul describes the new physical bodies that we shall receive when Jesus returns. He describes them as, “It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body” (1 Cor. 15: 44). The physical body in Greek is a called “psychikon” which means that our body is maintained and motivated and empowered by our human spirits (psyche) which also means that it can die. The new spiritual body (pneuatikon) is maintained and motivated and empowered by the Holy Spirit which means that it can never die. Apparently, in the beginning angels could have sexual relationships because the first angels (Nephilim) translated sons of God who sinned had sexual relationships with women (Genesis 6: 1 - 4) with result the had children who were giants. Goliath apparently was one of their descendants. They disappeared with the Flood. Since then, apparently, from what Jesus explained when asked about what will happen in the resurrection, when a woman had married seven times, “In the resurrection, therefore, to which of the seven will she be wife ?” He said, “For in the resurrection they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven” (Matt. 22: 29, 30).
Angels are called “ministering spirits” (Heb. 1: 7, 14). However, the Greek word here means that they “pneuma” meaning they are empowered by the Holy Spirit and they have bodies empowered by the Holy Spirit by which they have an eternal Spirit and body, just like we shall have when we are resurrected from the dead. As Jesus demonstrated, when after he was raised from the dead, they thought that he was a bodiless spirit (Lk. 24: 37,39). He was a physical body who could eat and drink and be touched.
However, there was a rebellion in heaven in which the devil/satan and his army were defeated and sent down to the earth. However being sent down to earth did not mean that they were free to go around having sex with anybody. No! No! No! Peter makes it clear, “For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell (tartarus)and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until the judgment” (2 Peter 2: 4). Tartarus is the temporary hell into which not only the angels sinned were sent but also the place to which the unsaved people who die before Jesus comes back tor raise all of the dead. Also, Jude writes, “And the angels that did not keep their own position but left their proper dwelling have been kep by him in eternal chains in the nether gloom until the judgment for the great day; ; just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise acted immorally and indulge in unnatural lust, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire” (Jude 6 – 7). The fallen or angels that sinned did not turn into demons/evil spirits. They are safely kept in chains in tartarus the temporary hell along with all people who sinned and died. Most people stop reading where Jesus told us they were cast down to earth. There is only one angel who was allowed to live on earth and that was the devil/Satan who was appointed by God to tempt and test His people in order to see if they were ready to do the ministry that Jesus has prepared for them. And, any Baptized with the Holy Spirit can easily “rebuke him” (Jude 1: 9 or “resist the devil and he will flee from you” (Jas. 4: 7).
Demons/evil spirits can be cast out of anybody, house, building, vehicles where they invade and attack, possess, hinder, hurt, kill people. Demons/evil spirits, as I have discovered and which I will be sharing about in my recent book, which my editor is presently working on, are created by evil people and who let loose on the world. They are not the spirits of dead people nor are they from another planet. Any Christian who has received the authentic Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the Signs following, can cast out demons from people or buildings and send them to “the abyss” or “bottomless Pit” which is the temporary hell for demons/evil spirits. demons/evil spirits, although they can make themselves invisible do have bodies which they will make visible often to people in whose homes or places where they live and work. Interestingly enough
I discovered several years ago, that we can see them when we use a digital camera. I have a picture of a black demon attacking a 3 year old girl and I commanded it to leave and to go to the abyss which is their temporary hell until Jesus comes back and then they will go into the lake of fire with the devil, antichrist, beast, the demons/evil spirits and all of those who were not saved. There are demons who attack women and men and children sexually abusing them and raping them: they are called 1. succubus a demon who attacks men 2. incubus which attacks women and rapes them. They seldom make themselves visible. Age or sexual orientation means nothing to them or any other demons/evil spirits. The only people whom they cannot possess are Spirit Baptized Christians, although they can attack and harass any Christian who has been Baptized with the Holy Spirit. But they have to go when we send them regardless of their protests. This was the case with the man called Legion when they tried to convince Jesus to let them go into the swine/pigs. Into the pigs they went and into the sea of Galilee where the pigs all drowned and the 6,000 demons went to the Abyss (Lk. 8: 26 – 39).
All demons/evil spirits can be cast out of any Christian who has been saved and Baptized with the Holy Spirit with the Signs Following (Mk. 16: 17) and sent to the abyss where they are kept until the Day of resurrection when they go into the Lake of Fire.
EVANGELIST/PASTOR GORDON WILLIAMS
Praise the Lord that as we are saved and baptized in the Holy Ghost as we can and should rebuke and send any and all tormenting demons to the abyss!! Too many times we do not realize that is a tormenting demon and put up with their chaos... God's ways are divine order and divine peace....not chaos!! Not everything that is happening in our lives is from God!! If it is contrary to god's word and promises, contrary to what Jesus came and died to give us as his inheritance....it is not God's will!! We need God's wisdom and spiritual discernment to know that many of the bad things that are going on in our lives are simply demons trying to torment us. Also, the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us to rebuke them and send them to the abyss. Yes, they lie, steal, kill and destroy our lives if we are unaware of the wiles of the devil they will have a field day in any area of our lives that we let them. Praise the Lord, we do not have to put up with their attacks....ever never again
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