From the time I was a teenager, I foresaw images that had flames comprised of demons. I built a fire and shot pix to use as a resource to finally work on my paintings.....do you see what I see? The shoulders? The 2 eyes & flame across the middle of the face?
How about the next one? The mask of "Tragedy" rising from the flame? I have an uncanny ability to see subliminal images...perhaps I knew they were there all along....
Most people find it easy to believe in angels & even ghosts... but, demons? the devil? "Now you're talking just, plain crazy," they say. I say, "Just because you don't believe in something, doesn't mean it can't hurt you." The Bible is clear that the devil exists. Jesus calls him, "The father of all lies". Why wouldn't he have himself caricaturized as a harmless, red, cartoon guy? Angels are perceived as pretty girls in long, white dresses. The Bible repeatedly states they are either messengers or strong & mighty warriors, armed and waiting... waiting for us to ask God to give them power to fight on our behalf. We have to pray. We just have to ask.
I once saw a John Walsh video in which he asked children,"What does a stranger look like"? Even tweens described them as a stereotypical bad guy / villain with pointy teeth & dark, slitted eyes.....Is that true? No, strangers are people we haven't met. Most "successful, bad guys" blend right in, appearing nice and "normal". That is the secret to not getting caught... they fit right in.
Paul writes,"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, & the dead will be raised ...& we shall be changed."(I Cor. 15:52). This is as when we wake from hours of sleep & it seems that only seconds have passed. That doesn't leave room for ghosts. Our adversary, Lucifer, stalks & hunts us. He watches ~ for the right moment & the right means. He knows all of our favorites as well as all of our weaknesses. Demons wouldn't appear to us as a child sees a "bad guy". We would know & avoid them. They may appear as pretty girls in long, flowing dresses or the images of loved ones who have died...or even as balls of light. They would appear harmless, "cool", or even helpful.
So many people are quick to believe in conspiracy theories. The biggest one of all has been documented over thousands of years, by disconnected people from all walks of life & is written off as a fairy tale. That is how he works...disbelief. If we don't believe, than we don't guard our self against it.
An active force of evil IS truly real. I say again:
Just because you don't believe in some-thing, doesn't mean it can't hurt you!
