Demons (Evil Spirits)

1. Child of God, you are spirit with a physical body. Your task is to fear God and keep his commandments (Eccl 12:13, Mt 22:37-40). Demons are also spirits but without physical body. Their objectives are to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). In a first stage they try to keep you away from the Lord. If that does not work, they do anything to make you ineffective at serving the Lord.


2. To express themselves, demons need a physical object or physical subject, preferably your soul (mind) and your body. Demonic mapping is mentioned in the Bible several times. For example, in Ex 7:10-12 it is described how demons perform black magic through an Egyptian. Note that humans are not able to perform magic. In Mt 8:28-32, Jesus allows the demons of death to map themselves on pigs. Eventually, these pigs commit suicide.


3. Demons have a personality, such as awareness (Mk 5:6-9), emotion (Jm 2:19), knowledge (Mk 1:23-24, Acts 19:15), and will (Mk 5:12-13).


4. To achieve their objectives, demons deceive (1 Tim 4:1-2), defile (Tit 1:15), despair (2 Tim 1:7), drive (Lk 8:29), enslave (Rm 8:15), and entice you (Jm 1:14).


5. Demons manifest in various ways, such as
   • Death (Hebrews 2:14-15)
   • Disease (for example, epilepsy in Mark 9:17-18)
   • Divination (Acts 16:16)
   • Familiar (Deuteronomy 18:10-11 and 1 Samuel 28:8)
   • Fear (2 Timothy 1:7)
   • Jealousy (Numbers 5:13-14)
   • Heaviness (Isaiah 61:3)
   • Infirmity (Luke 13:11)
   • Liar (1 Kings 22:22)
   • Magic (Exodus 7:10-12, Exodus 7:20-22, Exodus 8:6-7)
   • Prophecy, false (Zechariah 13:2-3)
   • Perversity (Isaiah 19:14)
   • Seduction (1 Timothy 4:1)
   • Sleep, deep (Isaiah 29:10)
   • Sorrow (1 Samuel 1:15)
   • Treason (Judges 9:23)
   • Whoredom (Hosea 4:12)
   
   
6. Can demons map themselves on whomever or whatever they want to?

   Demons are bound to space. They are not omnipresent (Job 1:7). As long as demons have no legal rights, they cannot not share space with us and hence, cannot access our minds.



7. Are demons able to read and manipulate our thoughts?

   Demons communicate with each other by pure thoughts while we humans do the same by physical means such as tongue, paper, gesticulation, electronic communication etc.

   Even if demons are not mappend onto us, they may inject thoughts into our minds (John 13:2). We are free to accept or reject these thoughts. Once accepted, they produce (negative or positive) emotions until we act according to the demons' voice against God's will, giving the demons legal rights to map onto us. At this stage, the demons are able to read (at least partially) our minds, to further explore our weakness until we act according to the demons' personality.

   A practical example is telepathy within the field of parapsychology where thoughts are transferred from one person to another. In this case, at least two demons are involved. One demon, mapped onto the sending person, continuously reads the transmitter's mind and broadcasts the thoughts. The other, mapped onto the receiving person, collects and transfers this information to the receiver's mind.