DOCTRINES
DEMONS
25
OF
CHAPTER 12
DOCTRINES OF DEMONS
1.
THE DECLARATION.
We believe that the closing days of this dispensation will be marked by a flood of `isms' which will captivate the
carnal Christian and the unsaved, and that these `isms' are most surely of Satanic origin. We believe it is our first
duty to `preach the Word', `instant in season and out of season', and to spend little time in combating error other
than by direct and positive truth.
The solemnity of the days in which we live, however makes it imperative that we should give no uncertain sound
with reference to errors that are spreading rapidly in the earth.
2.
SCRIPTURAL GROUNDS.
`Now we beseech you, brethren ... that ye be not soon shaken in mind ... as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let
no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first (the
apostasy), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition ... whose coming is after the working of Satan
with all power and signs and lying wonders' (2 Thess. 2:1-9).
`Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart (apostatize) from the faith, giving
heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils (demons); speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience
seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to
be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth' (1 Tim. 4:1-3).
`This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection,
truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high minded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from
such turn away' (2 Tim. 3:1-5).
` ... the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned
unto fables (myths)' (2 Tim. 4:3,4).
` ... Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness' (2 Cor. 11:14,15).
`And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and
that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? (for the living, should it seek
unto the dead?). To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is
no light in (morning for) them' (Isa. 8:19,20).
`Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are
gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come
in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and
this is that spirit of antichrist' (1 John 4:1-3).
` ... no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is Lord, but
by the Holy Ghost' (1 Cor. 12:3).
3.
A FEW WORDS ON ONE OR TWO `ISMS' THAT ARE ABROAD TODAY.
Spiritism
One doctrine that is necessary, according to the teaching of Spiritists themselves, before Spiritism can be
accepted is that the soul is immortal. Another necessary doctrine is that the dead are in reality not dead, but living
upon another plane. Anyone who accepts the teaching of Scripture concerning the dead, that they `know not
anything', that there is `no device nor wisdom in the grave', and that the dead are asleep until the resurrection, are