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Demons
principally live in the air above the earth, since their prince, that is,
Satan, is “the prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2). It’s in the
air that is above the earth that we find the four categories of demons, which
are the principalities, the powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world
and spiritual wickedness in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12).
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Some
demons live under the earth, and even under the sea; there are several
testimonies of former wizards which confirm this.
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Some
demons live in the bodies of some human beings, in
this case we speak about demon possession. Since, according to the Scripture,
demons can enter animals as well (Mark 5:11-13),
we conclude that some demons live in certain animals.
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Some
demons live in arid places, for Jesus said that when an unclean spirit goes
out of a man, he goes through dry places seeking rest (Matthew 12:43).
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Some
demons live in pagan temples. Among the pagan temples filled with demons are
the Catholic places of worship, where idols are worshiped (know this, that behind every statue or image of the Roman
Catholic Church there is at least one demon). I know two testimonies: the
former of a brother (who died many years ago) and the latter of a sister (who
is still alive) to whom God revealed the presence of demons in the Roman
Catholic places of worship. Furthermore, Lester Sumrall in his book Alien Entities tells us something which
confirms that pagan temples are places where demons live or manifest
themselves. Here are his words: ‘One time I visited a Buddhist temple in China. It was
called the Temple of Ten Thousand Gods. What are these gods? I talked to the
head priest there about them. In the center of the temple was a great Buddha,
perhaps 20 to 30 feet high, made of bronze, very expensive.
I called the priest over and through my interpreter asked, ‘What can this god
do?’ (Sometimes it is nice to be ignorant.). The priest looked at me and
said, ‘Right now, nothing’. I said, ‘Well, what do you keep it here for, if
it can’t do anything?’ He replied, ‘Do you see down in front? We bring in
food, rice and vegetables, and then we bring in the candles. We light the
candles and then I begin to pray. The god is off wandering around someplace.
When I pray, he comes into the image here. Then he can do things. We have all
kinds of testimonies of what he has done’ He showed me a hole in the back of
the statue and said, ‘This is where the spirit of the idol goes in and out’
(Lester Sumrall, Alien Entities. A look
behind the door to the spirit realm, printed in the USA by
Whitaker House [PA], 1995, page 24).
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Some
demons live and manifest themselves in private houses where people involved
in occultism lived. In his book Death
of a Guru Rabindranath R. Maharaj tells us some strange incidents which
took place in the house where his grandfather Nana had lived. ‘Nana died when
I was still very young. My mother and I then shared his bedroom. His rum shop
and dry-goods store downstairs, and the large living quarters upstairs, still
echoed with Nana’s heavy, angry footfall long after his death. At such times
his spirit could be felt brooding within that fortresslike mansion he had
built of solid concrete. Those who do not believe in the occult forces underlying
the universe may consider this to be rank superstition or hysteria. However,
we heard his footsteps stomping back and forth in the attic, and often just
outside our bedroom doors when we had retired for the night. Visitors, too,
experienced these things. There was hardly a guest who spent the night with
us who was not attacked physically by unseen hands or did not see sudden
apparitions. Some relatives would never stay overnight again after one such
experience. But those of us who called that house our home had no choice but
to remain there. Nana had been heavily involved in Hindu occultism and was
critical of those who merely philosophized about their religion without
learning to use the supernatural forces. As I grew older, Ma confided in me a
secret that she had kept in her heart for years and had shared only with Aunt
Revati: that Nana had sacrificed his first son as an offering to one of his
favorite gods. This was not an uncommon practice, but it was never spoken of
openly. Nana’s favorite deity was Lakshmi, consort of Vishnu the preserver.
Goddess of wealth and prosperity, she demonstrated her great powers when Nana
rose at almost one leap to become one of the most powerful and wealthy men in
my native Trinidad.
When the small frame shack that Nana had built for his family and business
mysteriously burned down, he had replaced it with a huge house that became a
landmark on the road from Port of
Spain to San Fernando. No one
could guess where the money had suddenly come from – or where he had acquired
the gold that he stacked in the large safe sunk into a thick concrete wall of
the new house. Not many of the hundreds of thousands of emigrants from India and their
descendants had been able to accumulate wealth so easily and so suddenly. We
all believed that powerful gods had helped him. In turn he had given his soul
to them. Lutchman Singh Junction, where I lived, had been named after Nana.
It lies on the main road south of Port of Spain. Among
the large East Indian population in Trinidad,
Nana was recognized as one of the Hindu leaders, a man who had mysterious
supernatural powers that none could deny or cared to meddle with. It was common
knowledge that spirits guarded the more than one million dollars in gold
coins that Nana had buried on one of his many properties – no one knew just
where – at the beginning of World War II. Few would dare to defy the spirits
by seeking that buried treasure, and there was not a
obeah man who had been able to learn the secret location using even his most
potent sorceries. Those priceless gold coins, worth many times as much today,
remain hidden still. Nana prized occult power even more highly than money.
His strong iron safe contained one object he wouldn’t sell at any price – a
small white stone from India, possessed
of spirit powers both to heal and to curse. It would draw the venom out if
held over a snakebite, so reliable witnesses
reported, although I never observed that particular feat myself. One of my
uncles told me how, out of curiosity, he had once cautiously opened the door
of the private room containing Nana’s safe …. To be greeted by a giant snake
that guarded not only the money and papers but other secrets of the room that
were only speculated about in whispers. Whether the snake was real or a form
taken by the spirits, as some have suggested, I myself saw that huge,
brightly colored reptile lurking under the house long after Nana’s unexpected
death of a heart attack at the age of 63’ (Rabindranath R. Maharaj with Dave
Hunt, Death of a Guru, Hodder and
Stoughton, Great Britain, 1986, pages 22-23).
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Some other
demons live in private houses where certain crimes have been committed. Lester
Sumrall tells us an incident happened to him which
confirms this: ‘Once I was staying in the home of a fine Christian gentleman
in Denver,
Colorado.
It was a large house, and the guest room in which I slept was in a back
portion of the house, away from the area where the man and his wife were
sleeping. One night about 2:00
a.m. I was awakened. There in the door I could see
the silhouette of a woman. The room was dark, but I could plainly see her
standing there. I could distinguish her features. She was fair of face, a
Scandinavian type, with long blond hair and blue eyes. She was dressed in
night clothes and was carrying a pistol in her hand. I immediately knew what
it was I was seeing, and what had caused it to appear. Someone had been
killed in that room at some time in the past. The next morning I confronted
the owner of the house. ‘Sir’, I said, ‘Someone was killed in this house’. ‘No’.
‘Oh, yes. Someone was killed in this house. I’m further telling you that you
have had problems here’. We looked at each other. I said, ‘Go talk to some of
the neighbors who have lived here a long time. Ask them what happened. I’m
telling you, a woman died in this house’. The man went to the neighbors and
asked them, ‘I just bought this big beautiful home a few months ago. Who
lived there before me?’ The neighbors answered, ‘A Swedish doctor’. ‘Why did
he move away?’ ‘His wife shot herself in the back room and she died’. That
was the same room in which I had been sleeping. The man came back to the
house, amazed. When he asked, ‘How did you know that?’ I replied, ‘I saw her
there’. ‘What did she want? he asked. ‘The spirit of
suicide is in this house’. Then the man broke down and told me the truth. He
said, ‘The first time in my life that I ever thought of committing suicide
was in this house. I had been told by that spirit four or five times that the
best way out of this was to take my life’ (Lester Sumrall, Alien Entities, pages 42-43)
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Demons
live in cities; some cities are particularly full of demons.
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Demons
live in certain mountains, rocks and trees, which are inhabited by evil
spirits; the heathen know very well these places for they go there to worship
these demons.
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