“Devils do not
die. They will track you to your grave, and if you die Christless, they will
meet you in another world to accuse you and torment you there also.
In addition to
being immaterial and highly intellectual, spirits gain a distinct advantage by
being immortal. Of other enemies, you may hear at last that "they are dead
which sought [thy] life," as the angel told Joseph concerning Herod Matthew
2:20. Wicked men walk a turn or two upon the stage, then are called off by
death; so end their plots. But devils do not die. They will track you to your
grave, and if you die Christless, they will meet you in another world to accuse
and torment you there also.
These wicked
spirits are indefatigable. When the fight is over among men, even the conqueror
must sit down and catch his breath. His strength has a limit. Other men,
successful by human standards but deprived of their own personal goals, lose their
will to fight and give up in despair. Tertullian said of Diocletian that he
threw down his scepter in a fit of pique when he was unsuccessful at stamping
out Christianity. He could not kill Christ's followers as fast as they were
being born into the kingdom, so at last he gave up altogether and sought some
other fiendish amusement.
But the devil
never becomes dispirited, nor does he tire of doing mischief to the souls of
men. He has not stood still for a moment since he first began to walk to and
fro in the earth Job 1:7. Indeed, God Himself must bind him hand and foot to
stop his feverish activities.
Not only are
devils spirits, but they are extremely wicked spirits. God is
called the Holy One because none is as holy as the Lord. The devil is called
the "wicked one" because he is uniquely evil Matthew 13:9. What
we know of him from Scripture gives us a measure of the height of his
wickedness, and can be used to judge the degrees of sins and sinners among men.
The formula is simple. The more we are like God, the holier we are; the more
like the devil, the more wicked.”
Quoted
material from, ”The Christian in Complete Armour Daily Readings in Spiritual
Warfare” by Gurnall and James S Bell.
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