Kenneth E. Hagin Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations in this volume are from the King James Version of the Bible. Cover photograph of throne chair used by permission: Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa, Oklahoma Fourth Printing 1994 ISBN 0-89276-520-8 In the U.S. Write: In Canada write: Kenneth Hagin Ministries Kenneth Hagin Ministries P.O. Box 50126 P.O. Box 335 Tulsa, OK 74150-0126 Etobicoke (Toronto), Ontario Canada, M9A 4X3 Copyright © 1993 RHEMA Bible Church AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All Rights Reserved Printed The Faith Shield is a trademark of RHEMA Bible Church, AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc., registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and therefore may not be duplicated. Contents 1 Origins: Satan and His Kingdom.................................5 2 Rightly Dividing Man: Spirit, Soul, and Body...........35 3 The Devil or the Flesh?...............................................69 4 Distinguishing the Difference Between Oppression, Obsession, and Possession...........................................107 5 Can a Christian Have a Demon?..............................143 6 How to Deal With Evil Spirits..................................173 7 The Wisdom of God...................................................211 8 Spiritual Warfare: Are You Wrestling or Resting?..253 9 Pulling Down Strongholds........................................297 10 Praying Scripturally to Thwart The Kingdom of Darkness.......................................................................329 11 Is the Deliverance Ministry Scriptural?.................369 12 Scriptural Ways to Minister Deliverance...............399 Chapter 1 1 Origins: Satan and His Kingdom Believers are seated with Christ in heavenly places, far above all powers and principalities of darkness. No demon can deter the believer who is seated with Christ far above all the works of the enemy! Our seating and reigning with Christ in heavenly places is a position of authority, honor, and triumph—not failure, depression, and defeat. Since the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has the triumph and victory over the devil and his cohorts in every encounter, why. does it seem so many believers are subject to Satan and his deceptions? Whether or not believers are victorious over the devil depends on what view they have of themselves as the Church—militant, defeated, or triumphant. It all depends on how well they understand their position in Christ. The militant Church depicts a body of believers who are not yet seated in heavenly places in Christ and are still "battling" to try to gain the victory over an enemy that hasn't been defeated yet by the Lord Jesus Christ. The defeated Church also gives us a picture of a Church which is ignorant of the fact that they are seated with Christ and that they are supposed to be reigning in life through Jesus Christ. Because they are ignorant of their position in Christ or they've never used the authority they really possess, these believers 5 The Triumphant Church are constantly ravaged by the wiles of Satan and are in a state of continual failure and defeat. But the triumphant Church is the biblical perspective of the Body of Christ seated with Christ in heavenly places far above all powers and principalities (Eph. 1:3; 2:6). The triumphant Church scripturally portrays a Body of believers who not only know but exercise their authority in Christ and therefore reign victoriously in life through Jesus Christ over Satan, a defeated foe (Rom. 5:17). In this age when demon activity is increasing around the world, it is vital that believers know what their redemption in Christ entitles them to. We need to be fully convinced of the authority that is ours because of the victory Jesus has already won for us over all the power of the enemy. The only way we can have confidence in our authority over the enemy is to know and walk in the light of the written Word of God. With that introduction, let's go to the Book of beginnings, Genesis, and start our study by investigating the origins of Satan and lis kingdom. Hints of a Possible Pre-Adamic Kingdom The origin and fall of Satan, or Lucifer, as he was called is made fairly clear in Scripture. He was called Lucifer before his expulsion and fall from Heaven, but Satan after his expulsion and fall. The origin of demons, devils, or evil spirits is not made so clear. Some Bible scholars believe millions of years elapsed between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. And some believe there could have been an original earthly kingdom before the creation recorded in Genesis chapter 6 Origins: Satan and His Kingdom 1. GENESIS 1:1,2 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. The evil spirits that are here on earth now could have been part if that original pre-Adamic kingdom. Many Bible scholars agree that even before the flood, a pre-Adamic kingdom existed, because we know from archeological discoveries that dinosaurs and mammoth animals once lived on the earth. Where did they come from? Maybe those creatures came from a different kind of creation that existed on the earth before Adam—some kind of a pre-Adamic creation. In Isaiah chapter 14, we have hint in Scriptures of a pre-Adamic kingdom. ISAIAH 14:12-14 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I will exalt MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ASCEND ABOVE the HEIGHTS of the CLOUDS; I will be like the most High. Evidently Lucifer had some kind of a throne indicating some kind of authority. Lucifer probably reigned below the clouds and stars because verse 13 says, "... I will exalt my throne ABOVE the stars.” implying that Lucifer's throne was below the stars. If 7 The Triumphant Church Lucifer's throne was below the stars, it could have encompassed and included the realm and domain of the earth. It's possible that Lucifer ruled a kingdom here on earth which existed before Adam but at the same time pre-historic animals roamed this earth. Maybe Satan ruled his kingdom during this pre-Adamic creation, and the evil spirits we now have on the earth were fallen spirit beings from that creation. We don't have chapter and verse for it; but on the other hand, Scripture doesn't refute it either. We do see hints of it in the Scripture. Also, we do know that there are evil spirits here on the earth today. So where did they come from? The other possibility is that evil spirits include those angels that fell in Lucifer's rebellion (Rev. 12:4,9). Man was not part of that pre-adamic creation, for the Bible indicates that Adam was the first man: "And, so it is written, The FIRST MAN Adam was made a living soul..." (1 Cor. 15:45). But some kind of creation could have existed before Adam—even an entirely different kind of creation than we know today. I'm not presenting this theory dogmatically because we don't have enough light on it in the Scriptures to be dogmatic. We can't be dogmatic on matters we can't support scripturally. Sometimes we wish we had more light on the origin of evil spirits, but evidently God told us in His Word what He wanted us to know. Lucifer's Original Position and Fall We can say with certainty that the devil and demons are fallen beings because the Bible says they are. They have fallen from whatever estate they once occupied 8 Origins: Satan and His Kingdom (Rev. 12:4,9). And the Bible does shed light on the origin of Satan, or Lucifer, as he was originally called. Where did Satan come from originally? Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 give us a picture of Lucifer's existence in the beginning as God originally created him and his rebellion and fall. We know that God didn't make Satan as he is today because God made everything in the beginning and it was all good (Gen. 1:10,12,18,21,25; James 1:17). In Ezekiel chapter 28, the Bible describes Lucifer before his expulsion and fall from Heaven. EZEKIEL 28:12-16 12 ... Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, FULL OF WISDOM, and PERFECT IN BEAUTY. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; EVERY PRECIOUS STONE WAS THY COVERING ... the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that THOU WAST CREATED. 14 Thou art THE ANOINTED CHERUB that covereth; and I have set thee so: THOU WAST UPON THE HOLY MOUNTAIN OF GOD; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou was PERFECT IN THY WAYS from the day that thou wast created, TILL INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN THEE. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and THOU HAST SINNED: therefore I will cast thee AS PROFANE out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O COVERING CHERUB, from the midst of the stones of fire. In this passage the Bible refers to Lucifer as a created being, “an anointed cherub," not as a human 9 The Triumphant Church being: "Thou was perfect in all thy ways from the day that THOU WAST CREATED, till iniquity was found in thee" (v.