The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist.

Origin of consciousness
Fat acid rhetoric
Promulgate me mentally
Twisted to make no deity

Something more
Something more

Interpret reality
Sell to me no absolutes
Moral relativity
This world is false

Something more
Something more

I have a soul
Of not flesh and bone
It has a spirit
That cries out to know God

Your speculation seems so vague
It does not reveal
What’s real

Don’t pacify spiritual
Teach me to be me in Christ
Origin of consciousness
Spiritual

I am not what meets the eye
I am not what meets the eye
I am not what meets the eye
I am not what meets the eye

–Living Sacrifice, “Something More”–

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Satan himself may put on
the appearance of an angel of light.
–2 Corinthians 11:14 (Mace’s NT)–

His appearance was like lightning,
and his clothes were white as snow.
–Matthew 28:3 (NIV)–

He makes his angels winds
and his ministers a flame of fire.
–Hebrews 1:7 (ESV)–

 To another discerning of spirits.
–1 Corinthians 12:10 (KJV)–

I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
–Jesus in Luke 10:18 (NIV)–

I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; 
they came out of the mouth of the dragon, 
out of the mouth of the beast 
and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
–Revelation 16:13 (NIV)–

These signs will accompany those who believe:
In My name they will drive out demons; 
they will speak in new tongues.
–Mark 16:17 (NIV)–

⁶ One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. ⁷ The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.” ⁸ Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” ⁹ “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. ¹⁰ “Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. ¹¹ But now stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.” ¹² The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
–Job 1:6-12 (NIV)–

¹⁷ Then Micaiah answered, “I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd, and the Lord said, ‘These people have no master. Let each one go home in peace.’” ¹⁸ The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he never prophesies anything good about me, but only bad?” ¹⁹ Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left. ²⁰ And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?’ “One suggested this, and another that. ²¹ Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ²² “‘By what means?’ the Lord asked. “‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,’ he said. “‘You will succeed in enticing him,’ said the Lord. ‘Go and do it.’ ²³ “So now the Lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you.”
–1 Kings 22:17-23 (NIV)–

¹ Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. ² After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. ³ The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” ⁴ Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” ⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. ⁶ “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” ⁷ Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’” ⁸ Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ⁹ “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” ¹⁰ Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’” ¹¹ Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.
–Matthew 4:1-11 (NIV)–

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Athanasius, The Life of Antony (Paulist Press, 1979).

Gabriele Amorth, An Exorcist Tells His Story (Ignatius Press, 1999).

—. An Exorcist: More Stories (Ignatius Press, 2002).

Francis MacNutt, Deliverance from Evil Spirits (Chosen Books, 2009).

Herbert Thurston, Ghosts and Poltergeists (Burns Oates, 1953), “The Exorcism of Haunted Houses.”

John Wimber, Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987), ch. 6: “Healing the Demonized.”

Daniel Jennings, The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley, ch. 2.