The Kingdom of the Devil

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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September 9, 2010



   *(From: “Visions Beyond the Veil” by H.A. Baker)*


 *Chapter 7.A. THE KINGDOM OF THE DEVIL*


 No careful observer could have been with us during those weeks of the
mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit and doubted that there are two Kingdoms
in conflict. As surely as angels minister and the Holy Spirit leads to a
real Kingdom of light, so surely do demons hinder, while the devil presides
in a realm of evil spirits in a Kingdom of real darkness. One Kingdom was
made as certain to us as the other. Man was clearly revealed as the battle
ground.


 The Bible teaches that there are “the lower ranks of evil spirits and the
higher” (Romans 8:38 Weymouth), and that our conflict is not *“with mere
flesh and blood but with despotisms, the empires, the forces that control
and govern this dark world” (Weymouth Ephesians 6:2).* Both Old and New
Testaments teach the reality of a Kingdom of darkness and the reality of
demons.


 *Demons*


 We have related how demons were cast out of one man and how the larger
demon was seen to rush about the room in great anger, finally seizing upon
an unguarded school teacher, who was looking on, and throwing him to the
floor. In this instance two boys saw this big, black, man-like demon enter
the man of his possession. Several children saw the cast-out demon, chased
out of the room by a Spirit-filled young man, take temporary refuge behind
some small trees in our court. This demon and the accompanying one about
half his size were seen by children who were praying with closed eyes and by
some whose eyes were open. But all saw the same things at the same time. The
appearance of the demons was the same to each individual.


 In the Adullam Rescue Home we had a young girl who very evidently was open
to demon activity. She said that before coming here she was subject to
“fits,” or spells of unconsciousness. A short time after she came she and
some of the other girls went for a walk outside the city. On the way back
one of the new girls who was half-blind and half-witted lingered behind and
lost her way. The older girl, having gone to find the one who was lost, was
returning home with here when she saw three demons before her, a few steps
away. One was “as tall as a door” and was accompanied by two others about
the size of a boy twelve years old. All these demons were dark in
appearance, with big eyes and awful faces. The two smaller demons being
apparently subject to the large one, obeyed and followed him. The girl was
frightened at what she saw. The large demon, coming near, seized her by the
head. She became dizzy and almost unconscious. She could scarcely walk. She
could hardly see the street and had to be led home by the other girl whom
she had gone to seek. Upon reaching home she was better for a time. A little
later, while we were at supper, some one came in saying that the afflicted
girl was in her room unconscious. We found her prostrate on the floor,
breathing as if in a peaceful sleep, but we could not awaken her. After
praying for her we all assembled in the regular evening prayer meeting. Soon
the girl came in perfectly well.


 She said that she seemed to be bound by chains and dragged by demons
farther and farther down a great dark road, while all the time she was
silently praying; then she suddenly realized that the Lord had set her free
and she was able to rise. At once she became conscious, and her mind clear.
As she sat on her bed alone in the room, she saw the three demons whom she
had met on the street now in the room. But now she felt no fear, for she
knew that the Lord was Conqueror. Accordingly, she drove the demons out of
the room in “the name of Jesus.” As they reluctantly receded step by step,
she following in the name of Jesus until she drove them along the walk out
of the large Chinese door at the entrance of our compound. In the several
succeeding months that she was here she had no more “fits” or unconscious
spells.


 I have given these two instances somewhat in detail, because the effect of
demon activity in both cases was so evident that any kind of an observer
could have told that something supernatural had taken place. We might tell
of many instances of demon activity that have come under our observation the
last few years, but these two are sufficient in this connection; we want to
tell something of the demon activity in connection with the special
outpouring of the Holy Spirit.


 When there were manifestations we did not understand we kept praying and
trusting the Lord, but decided not to interfere unless we clearly saw
something that was harmful or sinful. After eight weeks of wonderful
manifestations of the Holy Spirit, we were most thankful that we had allowed
such liberty among the children. We saw how marvelously the Lord had led
them, and things we did not understand at first, proved to be part of the
Lord's plan in giving us some of the most wonderful and precious
revelations.


 Among these unusual revelations were those of the


 *Demons the Children Saw*


 While some of the children were having a blessed time in the Holy Spirit,
others went to sleep when they tried to pray. Those under the anointing
could often see demons by those who were drowsy and could not pray through.
They saw demons coming in through the open window or the door. Sometimes
they saw demons lazily reclining under the table or upon a couch that was in
the room. Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the children, with closed
eyes, in the Name of Jesus would rout the demons out of their places and
follow them until they went out of the door or window.


 They frequently followed these demons out of the room, opened a front or
back door to the compound, and chased the demons off the premises. When
demons appeared on the scene they were often seen by several persons at the
same time.


 Some of the children had seen demons before. We found that in spite of all
our teaching about the Lord they were still so afraid of demons they dared
not go to their rooms alone at night, and they covered their heads when they
slept. Through these revelations, however, the children found that the
largest and fiercest demons were unavailing against the smallest child
covered by Jesus' blood; so that, for the first time, we had a happy lot of
Chinese children who had lost their fear of demons, were not afraid in the
dark, and were not afraid to sleep with uncovered heads. You may wonder


 *What the Demons were Like*


 The demons seen are best described as resembling the demon idols in Chinese
temples. According to the Bible (*“But I say that the things which the
Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would
not that you should have communion with demons.” 1 Corinthians 10:20) *and
according to the Chinese much idolatry is demon worship. Making idols of the
demon type is an attempt to reproduce the likeness of* *demons that have
been seen.


 The children saw demons as “high as a door,” with pointed chins and warty
heads. There were others of different appearance too, some half this size.
There were smaller ones two or three feet high and little ones a few inches
high, following the larger demons about.


 The large, big-eyed, fierce-looking demons are the ones to be feared as
having power to bind and take captives to hell.

*The Principalities and Powers of the Air*


 The hosts of the powers of the air and their works of darkness in
co-operation with demons on earth were seen by various Adullam witnesses,
whose testimony is as follows:


 The government of the hosts of evil is in mid-heaven. Here are thrones from
which the devil's angels exercise their Satanic government over the earth.
These rulers of darkness vary: some are larger in stature than others; there
is variation in dress, crowns, facial expression, disposition, and
authority. In all respects they are as devilish in appearance and acts as
the hosts of Satan are expected to be.


 These rulers of evil are in constant contention among themselves, each
resenting the authority of those higher in power, each jealous of the other
and covetous of the seats of highest rank. Those in higher rank hold their
positions, not by consent of the lower orders, but solely through their own
superior fierceness and power. Cliques and individuals are in constant
conflict and quarrels.


 All have crowns that represent various orders and ranks. All desire to sit
on the thrones above and supervise the work of evil on earth, rather than
descend on delegated duties to further the demonical powers below.


 Those of highest rank sit on thrones in the mid-heavens, ruling over
innumerable hosts of evil spirits, from whose number delegations are
constantly dispatched to earth to entice its inhabitants, to withstand the
forces of righteousness, to strengthen weak places in the demonical forces
of earth, and to bind and to drag the souls of evil men to hell when they
die.


 Although these wicked angels fly in high heaven to the very gates of the
New Jerusalem, and although they descend to earth and fly in its air, the
center where they congregate in countless numbers is in the region of the
thrones of authority in the mid-heavens. Here evil hosts of wicked spirits
of all sizes fly hither and thither or move about more deliberately. A
certain halo surrounds the wicked angels of higher rank. All are similar in
some respects: all have wings, all have crowns, all belong in the heavens.
The delegated messengers go to earth only temporarily. Their evil errand
finished, they again return to the heavens.


 The hosts of *evil spirits on earth** *are very different from the devil's
*angels*. These on earth do not have wings; they can walk and run rapidly;
and they move freely but apparently do not leave the earth. They vary in
size from a few inches to ten feet in height, wear gaudy colored clothes of
many stripes, and have fancy caps of various shapes and colors; some, on the
other hand, wear rags or filthy garments.


 Some of these demons on earth have very little power and are of a rather
harmless order. Others, however, are large in stature, fierce in appearance,
and have great power. These on earth withstand the work of righteous men and
the work of angels among men. In one of their conflicts with an angel,
earthly demons of highest rank, assisted by others of lower rank, gathered
about the angel, trying to strike him with clubs, swords, and other weapons.
Through faith and praising the Lord, the angel so withstood this onslaught
that no blow fell upon him nor could an evil hand touch him. The demons of
less power, standing at a little distance and watching the conflict, upon
seeing their companions unsuccessful in their attack, besought the powers of
evil in the heavens to send a re-enforcement of the devil's angels from the
air. In response to this entreaty a detachment of ten angels were sent down.
As these approached the earth the demons below clapped their hands in joyous
welcome. When the wicked angels from above reached the scene of conflict
these less powerful demons, receding a distance, stood in respectful
quietness in the presence of the Satanic delegation from above, who now took
up the conflict with the angel. These forces the angel also withstood with
praises and faith, until suddenly the Glory of God descended and entirely
routed all the hosts of evil.


 The boy who saw a Christian die also saw


 *What Takes Place When the Unconverted Die*


 When one man who did not know the Gospel died, his soul, after being
liberated from the body, wandered about unhindered from place to place on
earth, until one of the devil's angels, descending from the sky with chains,
bound him and forced him down to hell. The death of a professing Christian
who had known the Lord, but had not truly repented, was still more terrible.
When this man was dying, demons by his deathbed waited in fiendish delight
for the liberation of the soul of this hypocritical, one-time professing
Christian. The demons began to bind him before he was entirely out of the
body, and completed the binding of their captive the minute he drew his last
ungodly breath. The hypocrite did not enjoy one moment of freedom to wander
about the earth. An object of ridicule to his demon captors, in terror he
was at once dragged and pushed into hell.


 One such ungodly man was the special sport of demons who, having bound him
in chains, dragged him along on the earth, again and again jerking him up on
his feet only again to drag him down and haul him along like a dead dog.
After furnishing amusement for his captor the man was dragged down the dark
road to the infernal regions. There was


 *A Boy Dragged from Adullam to Hell*


 Because he had been so bad he was discharged as errand boy by an officer in
the army. After seeing him begging on the street for several days we took
him into the Adullam Rescue Home. He promised to reform, made an outward
showing of decency, heard the Gospel for a considerable time, and professed
repentance. Different articles disappeared from the Home, but the thief was
not found until this boy was caught on his way to sell the stolen plunder.
We then put him out of the Home.


 After several months of beggar life, during which time this boy repeatedly
promised to reform if only we would allow him to return, we gave him another
chance. The Lord also gave him another chance, for there were manifestations
of the Holy Spirit and supernatural revelations sufficient to make the way
of life clear to the most simple. This boy himself had anointings of the
Holy Spirit, when the Lord dealt directly with him about his sins and showed
him the better way. In spite of all this the boy ran away and joined a
street gang of beggar-thieves. A few months later he fell and broke his arm;
infection set in, and he was about to die when he was picked up by a
hospital worker. In the hospital he was so hopelessly disobedient that he
was thrown out and was soon in a dying condition on the street. Coming to us
with promises of repentance, we pitied him and took him in once more.


 Day by day he neared the end of the way. The night before he died I was
awakened by un-earthly shrieks that sounded like uncanny howls of some wild
animal or of some fiend. The next day when the boy died I was away from
home. As he lay in death throes, delighted, awful hellish demons gathered
about him. When his soul was leaving his body the boy seeing his captors,
wept, yelled, shrieked, and cried at the top of his voice in wildest terror:
“Mr. Baker, help! help! help! O, Mr. Baker, come quickly! Mr. Baker, Mr.
Baker, Mr. Baker! Help, they are all about me with chains! They have come
for me. Help, help, Mr. Baker, help! Oh, oh, oh, help! help! help! They are
binding me with chains. Help! help! Oh, oh, oh, help! Oh - h - e - l -”



 *NOTE**: *Perhaps the clearest lesson from the above is to see the
distinction between demons on earth, and Satan's angels from mid-heaven.
When Lucifer was cast out of heaven by God for pride, he took one third of
the angels with him. They are fallen angels, not demons. It helps in our
Christian warfare to be aware of this distinction.



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