The Tribune

By Kevin L A Ewing

kevinewing@coralwave.com

“When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goes he, and takes with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.”

– Matthew 12:43-45

IT IS customary for the average person to read the pages of the Holy Bible and not take note of who is speaking, who are they speaking to, what is being said and how what is being said ought to be applied to our daily lives.

The above scripture provides some very important, but much overlooked knowledge as it relates to the invisible forces that challenge us daily, otherwise known as demons, evil spirits, unclean spirits.

Unclean spirits or demons are spirits without a physical human body. As a result of this they are illegally trespassing on earth. They seek the use of a physical body to legally participate in earthly matters. This is why Satan had to use the body of a serpent to achieve his objective with Eve. The reality is most folks will tell you that the most powerful part of their being is their spirit, however, the most powerful part of your being is your body as long as you are on the earth. Again, this explains why demons/evil spirits are always seeking and fighting for a body to possess.

As a quick example, do you recall in scripture when Jesus was delivering a certain man from a tormenting evil spirit which possessed him? Well, prior to Jesus casting these evil spirits out of the human body, they literally begged Jesus to send them into the bodies of the pigs that were near by. Amazingly, Jesus granted their request (Matthew 8:31).

To prove to you just how powerful your body is and just how much it makes you legal on this earth, consider the moment you die – your spirit is evicted from your body and by extension evicted from the earth. This explains why scripture clearly says that the dead have no more portion in the earth (Ecclesiastes 9:5-10).

With those brief facts, the above scripture clearly says to us, “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man.” So this is empirical evidence that evil spirits have the ability to traffic in and out of a person’s life.

However, they cannot do it at will, there must be a legal, spiritual reason or cause for it according to Proverbs 26:2. Secondly, we are told that this evil spirit walks into dry places. In order for anything to walk it would suggest it has legs, so evil spirits have legs. Thirdly, scripture goes on to say that once it’s evicted from its human host it goes about seeking rest, therefore it is restless until it inhabits a body, in particular a human body. We are further advised that its quest is to obtain rest, but it is unable to achieve rest. This evil spirit says to itself, “Let him return unto his house”, which means his former human host. Now this statement of the spirit is very interesting because it is now being revealed that spirits can reason and assess situations, thus further suggesting that they have a degree of intelligence.

Scripture further informs the reader that when this evil spirit returns to his former host, he discovers that he has no legal grounds to reenter his host. However, he does not give up like most of us as believers of Jesus Christ would do. Instead, he resorts to the spiritual law of unity found in Genesis 11:6 and Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. Amazingly, this evil spirit has concluded that not only would he require team work to achieve his mission, but whomever he chooses must be of greater power. Well, the scripture concludes by saying that these clever and persistent spirits achieve their objective by fully possessing this person and that the last state of that man is worse than the first.

The bottom line is this: evil spirits are spirits without a body, While we as human beings are spirits with bodies. We are more powerful than they are on the earth because such power has been assigned to us via God, according to Genesis 1:28 and Psalm 8:4-6.

Both scriptures speak about our dominion over the earth, but Psalms makes it unequivocally clear: “God has given us dominion over the works of his hands (these works include evil spirits). You have put all things under his feet.”