19. Demonology

CHAPTER NINETEEN

DEMONOLOGY This is a story of an Indian girl at a Bible School, who was possessed with demons. She was from an Indian tribe in New York. She had become a Christian in 1947, and had been a student at the school for two years.

She believes that she became filled with demons at the age of nine when her father, a witch doctor, prayed to the Devil to possess her. If so, she had been filled with demons for many years, but had been normal until recently, when she had attacks and was put into an institution and believed to be insane. But the doctors pronounced her cured in a few weeks and released her. The first signs of her illness while at the Bible School took place when she began to have sick spells during the night, after taking classes in The Doctrine of Christ. She was taken to the hospital several times and her hair would stand on end all over her head. After this had happened a few times, the officials of the school and faculty had a meeting and looked up her record. Then they met with the students and sang and prayed.

After this meeting the demons possessed her, taking possession of her entire body. I was told by the Lord to try the spirits to see whether they were of God.

I did, and a voice (not the girl’s, but from deep down in her throat) answered three times, “No,” that they would not come out of the girl. The girl testified after all was over that she could hear the demons arguing inside of her which one would come out first. The only way she could receive food or water was when I commanded the demons to come out of her. After reading Luke 10:17, we became assured that the demons were under our command.

All of this took thirty hours of prayer. The only people who could stay in the room at this time were the ones who were right with God. As for others who were not right with God, the demons would mock and laugh at them. The demons would not come out of the girl until they had been forced to name themselves. The first one was Fear. When the demons were active, her hair stood straight out from her head just like a huge fan around it, and she did an Indian dance several feet above the bed, coming down once or twice to touch it, and rising up again. Then she would fall limp on the floor, as we all kept praying. We could hear the demons crying over our heads and they would go by in a swish of air. The only thing we could do to keep control was to read the Word. Psalm 91 and Luke 10:17-19 were the Scriptures that helped us the most. When I commanded the demons to come out of the girl, I commanded them to go to the pit so that they would not enter someone else. They knew the pit was horrible and they struggled to keep from going and would say, “Do I have to go?”

I commanded them in the name of Jesus that they must go, and then they screamed and agonized.

God sent a woman to us who discerned that there were many demons in the girl. The demons told many lies. Some of them spoke in the Indian language, and had to be commanded to interpret themselves, and they would lie all the while.

Those in the room could not speak to the demons in Jesus’ name. We were just powerless without Christ and could do nothing, and the demons knew it, and they also know the authority of Jesus. We turned to Philippians 2, and the demons knew of Jesus and His authority and they bowed to Him. In all, there were seventy-nine demons in the girl, and the last one was named Legion. He refused to come out, and would not give his name. The screaming was so loud that it hurt the ear drums of those present, and we could hardly believe it.

All consciousness of time was lost. Sometimes we would sing for what we thought was a little while, but it would be about three hours. Even days passed unnoticed. The demon of Weakness would not speak above a whisper, and when it spoke everyone in the room became very weak. When we realized what was happening, all we could do was to sing the songs of the blood, and praise the Lord. When we did this, the demons would cry, “I must go! I must go!”

It is interesting that while the girl was in the classroom of The Doctrine of Christ, she understood nothing, yet she would get 100 on every examination. She said afterward that during the class hour a veil would seem to come before her eyes so that she could not see the teacher or the blackboard; and she became very mean.

She was asked, after all was over, what she was thinking while all this was going on, because she was somewhat conscious. She said she was thinking of the promises of God. Many were quoted during the course of our dealing with the demons, and much Scripture was read, but she quoted the ones she had been thinking and not one was the same as those quoted in the room. She said she could hear them say inside of her that they had to go because her body belonged to Jesus.

She kept praying all the time, she said. When the last demon, Legion, came out, her strength came back and she got up and took a drink of water and wept before God.

Missionary to the North American Indians Keith Bailey ~ end of chapter 19 ~ http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/

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