Demonology
MARK 16:16-18
16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
MATTHEW 17:15-21
15 Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Jesus is telling us how this kind of spirit will go out of a person – it is by prayer and fasting. We learn from this story that different spirits require different methods to get them to go out of a person.
Demonology (study from the message of the hour in conjunction with the scriptures)
It’s a paradox that in this day that we live in, that a person can appear fairly normal and intelligent (according to the culture and lifestyle of today) and yet be totally insane.
And we know that insanity is an evil spirit that has taken possession within a person – but how did that person get into that condition in the first place?
REVELATION 3:17
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: This is directly spoken of this age that we are living in now – so a people living in this condition of wretchedness and blindness that thinks that they are rich and have need of nothing are obviously in a very disturbed mental condition. So how did they come to be in this condition?
In the late 1940’s and 1950’s brother Branham saw many things take place in the spirit world that we with our normal vision have never seen.
We know that he was born with a special gift that allowed him to see into that realm of the spirit world.
And so God has placed many experiences and the telling’s of events in the recorded sermons of the message of the hour over the years relating to that unseen world of the spirit realm. And so by this we can learn and have knowledge into that dimension the same way that the prophet came to know it by his experiences.
We see how that many prophets throughout the bible were able to see into this spirit world realm.
II KINGS 6:15-17 … is when Elisha and his servant were surrounded in Dothan by the army of the king of Syria.
15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.
17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
**So this is the spirit world that we all are living in every day yet we can’t see it with our natural eyes, but it is important that we understand it because this is what actually influences and controls the things of the natural world that we live in.
EPHESIANS 6:10-15
10 ¶ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
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:
Our battle is not predominantly in this physical world, but it is in the spiritual world.
***The greatest battle ever fought is fought in our thinking, and so the bible is telling us the different types of weapons and protection that we will need to deal with the enemy. But through lack of knowledge the people perish.
Story No:1
We want to see in this story why that psychology will never work against the devil. I have seen many people in the message try to deal with problems in their life by psychology and fail over and over because they don’t truly realise that they are dealing with spirits, and evil spirits do not respond to phycology, they only respond the faith in the word, that is why we must deal with these things by the way the word tells us to deal with them, then we will see the results.
FAITH.WITHOUT.WORKS.IS.DEAD_ CLEVELAND.OH TUESDAY_ 50-0822
E-32 Sometimes... This is the first tent we ever had. In a big auditorium used to have a room for the maniacs. I'll tell you a little story...?...
I walked into a room not long ago, there's about fifteen insane cases laying there, crying, beating their heads and screaming and everything...?... go in there. And as we shut the door, I looked, and there set a fine looking young lady setting there. Looked like it'd be an idol for any man.
I said, "Howdy do?"
And she said, "Howdy do Brother Branham?"
I looked down. I said, "Which, where's your patient?"
She said, "I'm a patient."
"A patient?" I looked at her. I couldn't detect anything just right, so I thought I'd set down and talked to her.
She said, "Are you kind of startled?"
I said, "Yes, ma'am...?... with these people here."
She said, "Well, Brother Branham, I want to give you my story."
I said, "All right."
E-33 She--she begin to talk. She said, "When I was a little child...?..." Said, "But I got out with a bunch of girls one time and smoked. They got me to smoking, and they got me drinking. Went out with a bunch of boys. I become a professional drunk. I've been so drunk." And said, "When I begin to drink, smoke, and I begin to be a prostitute on the street," selling the morals of her life. And she said, "They taken me up and put me in the Good Shepherd's Home." And said, "When I heard the sermon in there..." And said, "Of course, while I was in there I had to do right." Said, "When I got out, I went right straight back to it again."
And said, "Then the law picked me up and give me a two years in a woman's prison." And said, "Then I come out again." And said, "They advised me to... Some people said I ought to go to church, a different church, the Protestant people: and told me to come to this Protestant church." And--and said, "I did. And I went and joined the Protestant church." And she called the name of the church. And she said, "I'd go right back out and have the same desires that I ever had." And she said, "I've tried. I've prayed. I've cried, Brother Branham." She said, "I've done everything that I know how, and tried everything that anybody ever told me." But she said, "I just can't keep from doing it."
E-34 I said, "Look, sister," and I begin to feel what was wrong. I said, "You don't want to do that. As--as pretty a woman as you are, you expect someday to be married and have a husband and babies like all real women do."
She said, "Yes, sir."
I said, "You couldn't be like that. You know you'd be miserable to yourself, a disgrace to your children, and, oh, I... What all you would be."
And she said, "That's right."
I said, "You don't want to do that, do you, sister?"
She said, "No, sir."
I said, "There's something that makes you do that, isn't there?"
She said, "Yes, sir."
And I said, "Oh, as old fashion as it may seem, it's the devil on you, sister." I said, "Now, your doctor might not want to believe that, and so forth. But it's a devil that makes you... It forces you to do that against your will."
She said, "That is right." She said, "I always thought that was right."
E-35 I said, "Now, look, if you will believe in the Lord, and will pray, God..."
She said, "I've done that, brother."
I said, "I'm not talking about what you have done. I mean now. And you just do as I tell you to do, and you'll be free from that."
She said, "Well, can you free me?"
I said, "No, ma'am. Only Jesus Christ can free you."
She said, "Well, I've already come to Him to give my life..."
I said, "Sister, just a moment. Will you... You just do as I tell you. Will you?" She said... I said, "Let us pray now."
And we got down and prayed. And she was crying. And she raised up a few minutes. She said, "But, Brother Branham, I'm--I--I--I'm going to go out tonight." And she said, "I--I'm going to try my best."
I said, "No. You'll go right straight back again." (See?) I said, "It's not over."
She said, "But I have con... I've done all that I knowed how to do."
I said, "But it's not yet, sister. It's got to be something to pull that nature from you and change you."
And she said--she said, "Well, I prayed. I've cried." She begin to cry and started out.
E-36 So I got down to praying with her, asked God to make that demon turn her loose. And while I did that, and laid hands upon her, laid quiet there with her head down like this for a few moments. Directly she turned around, and she looked at me, and great big velvet eyes. She said, "Brother Branham, it's something's happened to me."
I said, "Now, it's over." That's right. "Now, it's over."
She said, "I just feel... Well, I don't know."
I said, "There isn't enough devils in the world could upset you right now, if you'll just go on like you're going now." That's been a little over a year ago. The woman is married tonight with a lovely home, never drink from that time, or had no desire to drink, or to smoke or anything. What was it? There was no medicine she took. But by the supernatural divine power of the transformation of her soul through the power of Jesus Christ took her and took away all the desire and iniquity. And if she would die tonight, her soul is quiet as anybody else. That's right.
Well, she comes out in her marriage to live and married to the Lord Jesus, Who redeemed her. And the God...
E-37 Listen. She was a character, on the police courts and...?... records and everything, gun moll. Now, notice. But tonight, she's a lovely woman, to be a mother, settled down to a good God-saved Christian. What a difference. What did that? Where everything, where the law failed, where'd the houses of the correction fail? Where'd medical science fail? The Blood of Jesus Christ took up and can't fail.
Why? By faith. Why, the power of God that would change a prostitute to a saint, a drunkard to a--a righteous woman... Why that, by the same power will take any cancer, deaf, dumb, blind, crippled... For the same Blood, from the same Man, on the same day, atoned for your healing that atones for your salvation. Is that the truth?
That is why psychology doesn’t change a person on the inside if there is a spirit involved. People don’t know that what they are dealing with many times is an evil spirit that has come into the person because that person aligned themselves up with the wrong things, and all the amount of trying to be a good person through psychology won’t overcome and get rid of that spirit.
We are to overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony by our confession of the promise of God.
REVELATION 12:11
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.