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<font size="3"><b>(From: “Visions Beyond the Veil” by H.A. Baker)</b></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Chapter
7.A. THE KINGDOM OF THE DEVIL</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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 <b>“with mere flesh and blood but with despotisms,
the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world”
(Weymouth Ephesians 6:2).</b> Both Old and New Testaments teach the
reality of a Kingdom of darkness and the reality of demons.</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Demons</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">Among these unusual revelations were those of the</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Demons
the Children Saw</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>What
the Demons were Like</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">The demons seen are best described as resembling the
demon idols in Chinese temples. According to the Bible (<b>“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) </b>and according to
the Chinese much idolatry is demon worship. Making idols of the demon
type is an attempt to reproduce the likeness of<b> </b>demons that
have been seen.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">The large, big-eyed, fierce-looking demons are the ones
to be feared as having power to bind and take captives to hell.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>The
Principalities and Powers of the Air</b></font></p>
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<font size="3">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:</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">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.</font></p>
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<font size="3">The hosts of <b>evil spirits on earth</b><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>
</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">are very different
from the devil's </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>angels</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
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.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">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.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The boy who saw a
Christian die also saw</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">What
Takes Place When the Unconverted Die</span></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">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.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">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</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">A
Boy Dragged from Adullam to Hell</span></b></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">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.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">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.</span></font></p>
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<font size="3"><span style="text-decoration: none;">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 -” </span></font>
</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><font size="3"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">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.</span></span></font></p>
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