Question:
In your post “THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT,” you say that evil angels receive the current of life by secondary means, through man and animals. Will they receive it through animals during the one thousand years of desolation of the earth? If evil angels are flesh and blood, they differ from us. How can they go into animals when they assume the form of men? It would not take creative power to change their forms. Cannot these forms be so perfect as to defy detection by known scientific means? Are they not sometimes visible in the form of men among us?
Answer:
What food evil angels or demons feed upon to sustain life, of course, we do not know. That lies beyond our mortal ken. We do not understand that these evil angels are flesh and blood like men. They are substance, but they are spiritual substance. There are various kinds of substances of which we know nothing. It is said of God, “Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire.” We know that fire can enter into material substance and still not be a part of it, and these evil angels may completely possess humanity and draw vitality from them. That, of course, is only conjecture from intimations given in the Scriptures and facts that have come under many’s observation.
It is commonly known that spiritualistic mediums suffer a tremendous drain upon their vitality when possessed by their familiar spirits. When God’s servants are possessed by His Spirit, it strengthens them. According to the records which have come down to us in the Scriptures, the visits of good angels have invariably strengthened God’s servants. Evil angels sap the vitality, power, and intellect of those they possess. One is a channel of life; the other becomes a death leech, so to speak, drawing life from those whom they possess.
It seems clear from Isaiah 34 that there will be animal life on the earth during the thousand years. Only at the end of the thousand years is the earth wrapped in flame. Whether these evil spirits, or demons, depend upon the animals or whether they have some other means of sustenance during that period, we do not know.
Yes, we believe that these spirits can assume different forms; notwithstanding all the deception and sham in spiritualism, there is such a thing as materialization, by which these spirits appear as men or women. Our only hope of being saved from these deceptions is in the truth of God’s Word.
