Spiritual Beings

Exploring the supernatural realm and non-human spiritual entities revealed through Scripture. This category examines angels, demons, Satan, and other celestial beings—their nature, origins, roles, and interaction with the material world and humanity. Includes studies on spiritual warfare, God's sovereignty over all spiritual powers, and how believers relate to and understand the invisible realm that surrounds us through faith in Christ.

11 posts
Spiritual Beings

Jinn or Fallen Spirits - What Islam and the Bible Teach About the Unseen

Both traditions affirm a real, invisible order of beings with a chief adversary who tempts, deceives, and faces judgment. On the surface, jinn and demons look like one category with two labels. They are not — the two accounts differ at the root, in what these beings are.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
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Part 2 - Ministering Spirits and Unseen War - What Angels Actually Do

This two-part series works through what Scripture actually says about them, passage by passage, and where the popular picture has drifted from the text.

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9 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
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Part 1 - Burning Ones and Four Faces - What Angels Actually Are

This two-part series works through what Scripture actually says about them, passage by passage, and where the popular picture has drifted from the text.

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11 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Spiritual Beings - A Series on the Unseen Creation

The Bible assumes a populated universe. Alongside the world we can see, Scripture describes an entire order of created beings — messengers, burning ones, living creatures, archangels, thrones, dominions, rulers and authorities — made by and ranked under God.

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1 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
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Where Did Demons Come From?

Most people assume Satan fell and took a third of the angels with him, and that those angels are the demons. It is tidy, and it is not what Scripture says. The answer comes from somewhere unexpected — four dense verses before the Flood that most readers skim on the way to Noah.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The End of the Demons - Chains, the Abyss, and the Eternal Fire

"Have You come to torment us before the time?" The demons do not ask whether they will be judged — only about the schedule. They believe the sentence is already passed. Scripture agrees: chains now, the abyss at the appointed hour, and a fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Territorial Spirits - The Gods of the Nations and the Rulers and Powers

Paul's stack of terms in Ephesians 6 is usually read as rhetorical intensity. Every one of them is a jurisdictional word, inherited from a thread running back through Daniel to a passage in Deuteronomy explaining where the gods of the nations came from and what claim they had.

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

How Jesus Cast Out Demons

The Capernaum crowd was not amazed that a demon came out — exorcists were a known quantity. What stopped them cold was how: no incantation, no ritual, no appeal to a higher power. Two words. The Gospel exorcisms are Christological claims, not case studies in method.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Goat-Demons, Azazel, and Lilith - The Bible's Strange Words for Demons

Scripture never defines "demon." What it gives instead is vocabulary — goat demons, the scapegoat and the name in the lots, desert creatures, the night monster — words that English translations routinely render in ways that hide what is actually going on.

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Even the Demons Believe

James reaches for the sharpest illustration available: the demons hold correct doctrine about God's oneness, and shudder. Right belief without works is not a lesser grade of faith — it is the kind of faith Scripture credits to beings who are certainly not saved.

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5 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The Fall of Satan - Origin of Evil

The existence of evil in a world created by a perfectly good, all-powerful God raises fundamental questions. While the Bible doesn’t provide a philosophical treatise on theodicy, it presents a consistent narrative about the origin of evil, offering both intellectual coherence and pastoral guidance.

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21 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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