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this is true. Watchman Nee in The Mystery of Creation, and G.H. Pember in Earth’s Earliest Ages,
suggest that demons are members of a pre-Adamic race on the original earth who joined with Satan
in his rebellion. When Yahweh judged these rebellious creatures, their punishment was that they were
disembodied. That is to say, their flesh was destroyed and they were left as wandering spirits without
a home. This is a great source of vexation to these creatures, which explains why demons are always
seeking another body to inhabit.

Matthew 12:43-45
“Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and
does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it
finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes, and takes along with it seven other spirits
more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse
than the first.”

When Christ cast out the legion of demons from the man at Gadara, the demons begged permission
to enter into a herd of swine. To be left without a body to inhabit is unbearable to them.

These same men argue that angels, including fallen ones, have their own bodies and do not need to
inhabit others. They may do so on special occasions at need, such as when Satan entered Judas, or
when he appeared to Adam and Eve in the form of the serpent, but we read elsewhere that Satan and
his angels have their own ethereal bodies. The fallen angels are able to take on human form and
cohabit with women as recorded in the sixth chapter of Genesis. That angels can assume human form
is revealed in numerous places throughout the Bible. In Genesis we read of the angels Yahweh sent
to Sodom and Gomorrah, and how they were mistaken as men so that the Sodomites wanted to have
sexual relations with them. In the New Testament the apostle Paul writes:

Hebrews 13:2
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without
knowing it.

The angel Gabriel spoke of angelic members of Satan’s forces withstanding him in the book of
Daniel. We read of Satan appearing before Christ in the wilderness and tempting Him. We also read
of Satan and his angels warring with the archangel Michael and his angels in the book of Revelation.
Satan and his angels have their own bodies, and are able to appear as men in the same way as the holy
angels. A case could be made that demons, also referred to as unclean spirits, are quite distinct from
fallen angels.

Where many have likely become confused in conflating Satan and his fallen angels with demons is
that in many of our popular English Bibles, the Greek words “diabolos” and “daimon” are both
translated as “devil” or their plural form as “devils.” These are very different Greek words. A careful
study of these words will also show that diabolos is ALWAYS used as a reference to Satan, and is
NEVER used as a reference to an unclean spirit. Similarly “daimon” is ALWAYS used as a reference
to a demon, or unclean spirit, and is NEVER used as a reference to Satan, or to a fallen angel. By
rendering both of these words into English as “devil(s)” confusion has resulted.