DEALING WITH HIGHER-RANKING DEMONS

 “Demon” is a generic term in the Bible for evil spirits aligned with Satan against God and His people. Like godly angels, they too exist in a hierarchy based on their powers and levels of authority that culminates with Satan at the ‘top’.

Demons are a concrete spiritual reality; and being angelic as they are, even the lowliest one has enough power to cause massive destruction.

However, these levels of authority and power are only relative to each other, NOT to the Believer. In Eph 2:6, the Apostle says God has “raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”

And Eph 1:21 describes the position of where Christ is seated as “Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come”

So, we’re not simply above those principalities and powers, we are “Far above” them.

In an army barrack, there are different levels of authority between a Corporal, a Sergeant and a Warrant Officer. However, all these differences are meaningless to a Major General, they only factor in the type of command he can give to each one.

I’m painting this picture because of the wrong notion many Believers have of demons that some are harder to cast out than others because they are of a ‘higher’ rank.  Yes, in the occult world, the Queen of the Coast may possess very high powers, but if you’re a believer, what has her rank got to do with the price of tea in China?

The scripture never gives us the notion that a Believer is limited to the type of demons that they can command, it only talks of different ways of dealing with each one.

Just like the army General, you may need spiritual wisdom to know how to deal with each spirit, (because of the permissions they have obtained from other human beings through convoluted trickery and manipulations), but that has nothing to do with whether you have the right or power as a believer to command them.

A 1-day-old Christian has a higher authority than Satan himself, (Luk 10:19; Mk 16:18; Eph 2:4-6, etc.). And that means he or she is obviously higher than the Queen of the Coast, Prince of Persia, Beelzebul, ‘An’ or whatever title any demon decides to concoct up.

 “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” –1Jn 4:4.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN