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Main Idea: Jesus is the only one who has the power to heal Eden
Sub Point 1: Demons are a perversion of Eden
- Demons are the spirits of dead giants
Where Do Demons Come From? – Michael Heiser
1 Enoch 15:1-12
The Lord Gives a Prophecy to Enoch
15 And answering, he said to me, “The true man, a man of the truth, the scribe.” Then I heard his voice say, “Be not afraid, Enoch, a true man and scribe of the truth. Come here and hear my voice. 2 Go and say to those who sent you (the fallen watchers), ‘It is necessary for you to ask about the people and not the people about you. 3 Why did you leave behind the high, holy, and eternal heaven? Why did you go to sleep with the women and be defiled with the daughters of humans, taking for yourselves women like the sons of the earth, making and begetting for yourselves giant children? 4 And you were holy, living, eternal spirits. But then you were defiled with the blood of the women, and with the blood of the flesh you brought forth children and you longed for the blood of men, just as any of those of flesh and blood do, those who die and are destroyed.’
5 “Because of this I gave women to them in order to be impregnated and procreate children by them this way, and so that all work is not forsaken in them upon the earth. 6 You were living eternal spirits and not dying into all the generations of the age. 7 And because of this I did not make wives available for you; but the spirits of heaven, their dwelling is in heaven. 8 And now the giants who are born from the spirits, even the strong spirits of flesh upon the earth, their dwelling will be on the earth. 9 Evil spirits went out from their body, for they came from the higher places, and the beginning of their creation and foundation is from the watchful holy ones. They will be called evil spirits. 10 And so for the spirits of heaven, their dwelling will be in heaven, and the spirits that are born upon the earth, their dwelling will be upon the earth.
11 “The spirits of the giants were doing unjustly, destroying, attacking, and wrestling with each other and thrown together upon the earth, the hard spirits of the giants. They are making courses and no one is eating, but they are fasting and thirsting and stumbling spirits. 12 These will rise up against the children of men and women because they have gone forth from them.Rick Brannan et al., eds., The Lexham English Septuagint (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012), Enoch 15:1–12.
Jubilees 10:1-6
And in the third week of this jubilee the unclean demons began to lead astray †the children of† the sons of Noah, and to make to err and destroy them. 2. And the sons of Noah came to Noah their father, and they told him concerning the demons which were leading astray and blinding and slaying his sons’ sons. 3. And he prayed before the Lord his God, and said:“God of the spirits of all flesh, who hast shown mercy unto me,
And hast saved me and my sons from the waters of the flood,
And hast not caused me to perish as Thou didst the sons of perdition;
For Thy grace has been great towards me,
And great has been Thy mercy to my soul;
Let Thy grace be lift up upon my sons,
And let not wicked spirits rule over them
Lest they should destroy them from the earth.4. But do Thou bless me and my sons, that we may increase and multiply and replenish the earth. 5. And Thou knowest how Thy Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, acted in my day: and as for these spirits which are living, imprison them and hold them fast in the place of condemnation, and let them not bring destruction on the sons of thy servant, my God; for these are malignant, and created in order to destroy. 6. And let them not rule over the spirits of the living; for Thou alone canst exercise dominion over them. And let them not have power over the sons of the righteous from henceforth and for evermore.”
R. H. Charles, ed., The Book of Jubilees or The Little Genesis: Translation, trans. R. H. Charles (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1902), 78–80.
- Jesus is taking the fight outside Israel spreading Eden
- Demons turn gardens into deserts
- The options we have: let Jesus heal us, or push Him away
- We are “deputized” for service under the authority of the King of Eden
I hear the Holy Spirit saying…
I live this truth out by…