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- And the great dragon was thrown down, the age-old serpent who is called the devil and Satan, he who continually deceives and seduces the entire inhabited world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. Rev 12:9 AMP
Where exactly?
In human beings
- “Now when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, it roams through waterless (dry, arid) places in search of rest, but it does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it arrives, it finds the place unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and make their home there. Matthew 12:43-45 AMP
- For Jesus had been saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” Mark 5:8 AMP
Effects of evil spirits
Torment
- Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented and terrified him. 1 Samuel 16:14 AMP
Illness
- When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering [around them], He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again!” Mark 9:25 AMP
How to drive them out
And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.” Mark 9:28-29 NKJV
COMMENT: One who has been living a lifestyle of Prayer and Fasting, can just command and make evil spirits leave. See
- When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering [around them], He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again!” Mark 9:25 AMP