Having Fellowship with Devils

Our world is on a downward spiral. Demon activity is exploding. Satan’s last fling is being prepared and the entire world will be his playground. By the time Satan has finished his last ditch effort to be God, the world will be a wilderness. John the Revelator saw the vision of the end and stated, "So, he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns." (Revelation 17:3a).

How will Satan take our world with all of its wealth, technology, and capacity for good down, down, down until it is nothing but filth, corruption, and sorrow? The answer is ultimate deception and it has already begun.

Right Now, the World is Having Fellowship with Devils
Satan has manipulated the world system of education, entertainment, business, and even most Christian churches into a state of thinking where almost every activity is "fellowship with devils." When false doctrines of psychology and corrupt theology are the method and message, those present are fellowshipping with devils, not the God of the Bible. Our world is neatly divided into two camps. Our God operates within the principles of Holy Scripture, while the enemy, Satan, and all his subordinates operate in all other areas of our world outside of the Holy Bible. The truth of Scripture is the dividing line. Our God is the Sovereign God of the Heavenly Kingdom (invisible at the present) and Satan is the god of this world. That’s very simple, but absolutely true. The only safe people in our world are those living in and by the Word of God.

Devils are Spirits
Devils are spirits under Satan’s control that used to be heavenly angels. They were cast out with Satan and now serve him wholly. Just like Satan, they go about like "a roaring lion seeking whom they may devour." (I Peter 5:8). They are spirits, but are constantly looking for a body to possess. They can do great damage in their invisible form, but even greater damage in a visible body. Jesus told of a demon that when cast out was looking for a place to inhabit and then returning to the body it had possessed before. "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out. And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first." (Luke 11:24-26).

Devils are unhappy when they must exert their darkness without a personal body to use. This truth helps us understand why they go about as a roaring lion, seeking whom they may devour. A demon will spend a long time influencing a person’s life, waiting for the moment they can either obsess or possess them for the greater harm to that person and others. Whether the demon is invisible or visible, they are constantly trying to have fellowship with you. It is by fellowship that they can communicate to your mind and heart their ideas. Satan always starts with an idea in your heart or mind.

Apostle Paul Warned of "Having Fellowship with Devils"
Let’s look at the incredible statement when the apostle spoke of this possibility, "Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? What say I then? That the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?" (I Corinthians 10:18-22).

He addressed the Gentiles (heathens) as making sacrifices to devils (another worthy subject) and warned them that they were actually having fellowship with devils in the process. He then stated that no one could drink from both tables (God’s and Satan’s) at the same time. This truth is overwhelming in view of what we can see occurring in our world. Whatever you are involved in that is outside the truth of Holy Scripture is inside the area of Satan’s control. Anything he controls places every participant in the fellowship of devils. Satan uses this world system and everything in that system’s control to talk his language and have fellowship with those involved.

Example: Watch the news on Friday and Saturday and you will constantly get a message of where you should go for entertainment, what you should spend your money doing, and, especially, where you should spend the coming Lord’s Day. On special holiday weekends, the entire news and entertainment world will have you feeling how desperate you need a few days off and where the best place to spend those days is. They will never tell you that this is the rest wherewith He makes the weary to rest (Isaiah 2812). They represent the opposing kingdom. Do you get the picture?

Devils Can Manifest Themselves in Many Ways
It is life or death, heaven or hell, at stake and every person that wants to serve God must learn the many ways Satan seeks fellowship with them. The devil is a trained strategist and will use every possible way to communicate his evil thoughts into your heart and mind. Satan and his devils are religious and love to quote the Bible out of context. They especially love to twist the literal Words of God and give them allegorical or other non-literal meanings. They use little careless statements, such as, "It really means this instead of what He actually said," or "This is an allegory and should be interpreted this way," or "That was a cultural style in that Scripture and it does not mean that today." Such methods are nothing but slick ways that devils have fellowship with unsuspecting people.
Let’s discuss some of the more apparent methods of devils seeking to draw you into their fellowship and influence.

The devil and his devils (demons) love to use instruments that go straight to the mind. Satan’s work always begins with an idea and to get unlimited access to your mind or the minds of your children is his prime activity. The Holy Bible said, "Keep thy heart (mind) with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." (Proverbs 4:23). Never has a generation been so open to Lucifer as he uses every possible communication link to the human heart. If a person has no sense of how Satan uses books, television, and other such tools; they are sitting ducks to his onslaught.

Books
The public library has become a hotbed of filth. Pornography is available almost everywhere your child might possibly go. Books in many homes have been carelessly purchased. Sales catalogs give visual induction to crude dress and vulgar suggestions. It is almost like Satan has become the main owner of every publication outlet. When you read a book or even look at lewd pictures, you are "having fellowship with devils." Those thoughts or suggestions can linger in your mind for days, months, and even years. There is no such thing as an idea that does not have consequences, either good or bad.

Television
There is not one media outlet on the face of our earth that has done more damage. The television set has become one of Satan’s surest methods for fellowship with humankind. The language is so crude that no one can spend time with their television and not learn how nasty the TV personalities have become. If you say, "I’m going to turn it off if I hear a curse word," then your children are going to be subjected to at least one curse word a day or 365 words in a year. Sounds like a good education from the devil’s point of view.

When children are placed in front of television for the Saturday morning cartoons, they are having "fellowship with devils" for hours. Almost every cartoon and children’s program is built around heathen ideas, occultic themes, or psychological mind games. It is insanity to subject our children and young people to television.

Games and Toys
I visited the Toys R Us store a few days ago and felt like I was in the devil’s playroom. Children are being readied for the beast of tribulation right out of hell. What is happening in public schools is not an accident. Devils have been free to have fellowship with our children and those children are now acting out what they have learned. It is the natural process of learning.

Video Games
Probably the worst invention for child manipulation in the history of the world is video games. These kids stand and fight with perverted creatures until their excitement for war is overwhelming to their young, tender minds. When they go home and stab their parents to death, they are simply acting out their war games. The creators of these games have bragged of how they would change the gods of America and they have accomplished their goals. Everything a child does that is not Biblically pure is unclean.

No one should underestimate the effect of any book, visual material, game, comic book, or toy on the minds of children that spend all their free time in those methods of communication. Everything we communicate with is filled with ideas. Those ideas in an open mind are going to produce something good or bad. The parent is responsible to protect a child’s mind just as surely as they protect their body and even more. We should also protect our own mind and refuse any idea that might be "fellowship with devils."

Music
The language of the inner man that we call the soul is music. The quickest way to corrupt any idea or standard of a given culture is to change their music. It does not take more than one generation to change a culture from the western idea of the Judeo-Christian lifestyle to the Eastern idea of paganism. The church world in America is probably 60 to 75% pagan at this very moment. The largest religious meetings in our nation use rock music to draw the crowds. To even think of a big crusade without entertainers is now out of the question.
Satan is actually "fellowshipping with the youth of America" through music. As often as not, that music is religious, but creates the exact same emotions in the crowd. When devils arrest a child or youth with music, they usually have a lifetime convert. That music becomes a fixation of their heart and mind and they cannot live without it.

Dress Habits
Many public schools of America are going back to modest uniforms to help regain control of their students. No one doubts that shabby and immodest dress helped bring the public schools to their destruction. Put a beautiful dress on a young girl, fix her hair in a feminine and beautiful fashion, and give her a ladylike pair of shoes; and she will most likely act ladylike and will even sparkle in the process. Dress her in a shabby looking outfit and she will act out her outfit. I have never seen it fail. It is amazing that now the churches are practicing the same destructive dress style as the one that helped destroy public school. Could I dare suggest that devils fellowship with people by the way they dress? Apostle Paul suggests that very thought. He said, "In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works." (I Timothy 2:9-10).

Reading carefully the apostle’s words will show action following conduct. He said, "which becometh godliness with good works." Good works always follow good habits.

Bodily Adornment
Bodily adornment always follows a downward spiral. The youth that use modest adornment just ten years ago are absolutely bored with those trinkets today. The new thing is tattoos, body marking, rings in various parts of the body, and self-mutilation of the worst kind.

"Christian tattooing" is now an exploding idea. There are hundreds of self-proclaimed "Christian" tattoo shops. I called to ask some questions at a local (secular) shop and found out something very interesting. "Yes," they said, "we do a lot of Christian tattoos, but we do an equal amount of tattoos for other religions, also." From the report it was clear that the idea is equally promoted by the pagan religions because indeed it is a pagan practice. Devils actually use the tattoo trends to communicate that the body is not sacred but a means of self-satisfaction.

The dress idea continues to communicate fellowship with devils, especially in the cross-dressing trends. The Bible utterly forbids a mixture all the way back to Moses’ writings in the Torah. You cannot find any five books of the Bible on a higher level of communication from God than the Torah. God was calling His people out of Egypt and trying to get Egypt (world) out of them. He stated to Moses by the Holy Ghost, "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God." (Deuteronomy 22:5).

The Jewish sages have documented that the heathen temples commanded the women to worship the male gods in male attire and the men to worship the goddesses in female attire. The gods of Satan are devils (fallen angels) and demanded the women to corrupt themselves by wearing men’s attire. The goddesses did the exact same thing to the male worshippers. It is the perfect picture of "fellowship with devils" when we allow the "god" of the world to dictate our dress and lifestyle. The Bible is our standard alone for all of life’s choices.

Friends
The Bible also deals with our friendships and partners in business and, especially, our choices in marriage. Holy Scripture is abundantly clear that born-again believers are forbidden to be "yoked together" with unbelievers. Any relationship between persons automatically unites them in spirit. It is impossible not to be affected by anyone in which we unite together for joint activity. Our Heavenly Father has clearly forbidden an admixture in His kingdom. The Jewish people were taught in their Torah not to mix animals in labor that were incompatible or strands of cloth that had a different degree of texture or shrinkage (Deuteronomy 22). Our Father will always have a pure kingdom.

Apostle Paul taught this great truth in his second Corinthian letter. He stated, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you." (II Corinthians 6:14-17).

This is plain truth clearly stated. There has been a multitude of shipwrecks when this great truth was ignored. It is often missed when studying a passage as this that "fellowship with devils" occurs. Every individual is body, soul, and spirit. Our spirit is either dead in sin or alive in Christ. Whichever is the case, the reality of this fact will be manifest with those we fellowship. A born-again Christian in dealing with an unsaved person on a "yoked together" basis will be constantly having "fellowship" with another spirit besides the Holy Spirit that controls the saint of God. Of course, the multitude of professing Christians that are unsaved will pay this no attention because there will be no conflict in spirit. There are a host of other areas where "fellowship with devils" will occur. You must learn to discern truth and abide in truth totally.

Making Room for Satan
Satan has been cast out of his chosen position when he rebelled against His Creator. Since that moment he has been a vagabond, roaming, convincing, scheming for a place to manifest his dark deeds. The Bible says that he is the "prince of the power of the air." (Ephesians 2:2) This very statement shows him as a roamer, floater that has nothing but air in which to dwell and unite his kingdom of devils. Satan has no place, but you can make a home for him and his devils right there in your life, home, or business.

The Scripture states, "Neither give place to the devil." (Ephesians 4:27). Until you give him your life or home, all he can do is "cast his snares" or "set his traps" to catch you. He operates completely outside your person and can only throw his darts and try to make you fearful, doubtful, disobedient, or cause you to outright sin and open the door to him. Bible-believing saints must learn to keep every door closed to Satan and his servants. The Bible and the Blood are our standard over which the devil cannot pass.

Apostle Paul spoke of people whom Satan has taken at his will. He said, "And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will." (II Timothy 2:26). The picture is of someone that fell for Satan’s game and in his acts of disobedience Satan made him his captive. It is easy to understand how many people fall into sin or acts of unbelief and in their state of open sin lose all defenses against devils. Their condition becomes dark and unclean, but not hopeless if they will listen to the truth of God’s Holy Book and recover themselves. Satan has no defense against truth and the sacrifice of the Blood of Jesus Christ.

The Devil and His Devils are Defeated
This is the happy part. The devil has been totally defeated by the cross and the resurrection. He is out on bail until the Heavenly Attorney, the Holy Ghost, can complete the preparation for trial. The church must finish its business, the nation of Israel must be redeemed, and then the Heavenly Court will be called in session. Satan is on a leash until the court date and no one has to be afraid of his dark power.

This paragraph above is to let you know just how complete the victory against Satan has been accomplished. Jesus Christ has paid the price by which the usurper will be cast out and forever judged to the Lake of Fire. Until the court is held and the judgment ensues, we must live in the completed victory of the cross and never trust in our own powers. Our victory is complete in the Son of God. The letter to the Romans says it clearly. "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement." (Romans 5:8-11).

It is imperative that those who claim His name as Savior begin to live in the victory of the finished work. Satan and his hordes are relentless fighters, but they have no power but what you give them. By the shield of faith we can quench all the fiery darts of his defeated kingdom. "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." (Ephesians 6:16). That shield of faith is not faith you muster, but the faith in the great truths of faith. "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." (Hebrews 11:6).