Do Real Evil Spirits just say BOO!?

© 2016 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Many of us think of Halloween as a fun time of joking about monsters that go “boo!” in the night. Children masquerade as witches, ghosts, goblins, and other evil spirits. We’ve been taught that these are all just figments of imagination left over from superstitions of less civilized times.

But are we right? If so, we would have to toss aside God’s Holy Word, the Bible, which describes people who were actually possessed with powerful and sinister evil spirits. Those possessed could do nothing to deliver themselves.

In the following Biblical account, Jesus and His disciples had just entered the country of the Gadarenes.

“…there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea” (Mark 5:1-13).

This same Jesus who delivered the demoniac is God the Son. He died and rose again to save His people from their sins.

Should we joke about something Jesus took so seriously?

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