So what about Jesus’ teaching in our first quote? Notice how Jesus says that when an unclean spirit leaves a man, it walks through dry (waterless) places seeking rest. The demons within simply can’t remain when the Christ within is in the process of being born.
The Christ within us is the higher spiritual force that drives out the lower desire nature within us.
And why would a demon, who asked to inhabit a pig, throw the body it possessed off a cliff and destroy it anyway? I think the answer is obvious, don’t you? It’s symbolic of the desire for nothing but the carnal nature, which is why the demons begged Jesus to go into the swine. Pigs represent the desire nature within us. But again, this backs up the fact that Biblical demons are the instinctual, habitual impulses in opposition to spirit. As the story goes, the swine then jump off a cliff and all of them are killed. When I brought this to their attention, the other person brought up the example of Jesus casting out a demon into a herd of swine. It sounds a lot like an instinctual, blind and stubborn habit! But isn’t this the exact definition of an unintelligent force? A habit that is so instinctual it has no other choice but to continue on its current behavior? That doesn’t sound like an intelligent being that has any will of its own to me. Would it really continue a battle it knew it couldn’t win? When discussing this point, the other person stated that a demon’s hatred of God was so great that they couldn’t help but to continue their destructive ways. Imagine an intelligent being that knew its ultimate fate was to be defeated by God and thrown in the Lake of Fire in eternal torment. But this doesn’t make sense in the grander scheme of things. I recently had a conversation with someone who was adamant that demons were intelligent, spiritual beings totally separate from us that went around trying to possess people. They can gain strength, especially the longer certain habits are repeated. They are the instinctual, habitual impulses that are in opposition to spirit and our spiritual attempts to raise consciousness. They are automatic forces of the ego on the astral (emotion and desire) plane. Demons, or unclean spirits, make up the evil urges of our lower natures. You have probably heard the expression, “Everyone has their own demons.” There’s more truth in this saying than the beings often depicted in movies, at least from the Biblical perspective. 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 the man is worse than the first” (Luke 11:24-26).
And, when he cometh, he find it swept and garnished. “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. Let’s review verses 24-26 in the eleventh chapter of Luke’s gospel and then we’ll dig into the nature of unclean spirits and find out what Jesus was really talking about. Also known as demons, these entities aren’t the intelligent, self-conscious beings that go around looking for people to possess. Have you ever wondered what Jesus meant when he states that the unclean spirit who leaves a man comes back with seven others more wicked than the first? The early church and Hollywood have given us wrong impressions about unclean spirits.
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