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Revelation 4:6–8 depicts four living creaturesÂ
that surround the throne of God. They are there as representatives of what we might call theÂ
animal kingdom; a lion, a calf, and an eagle. But none of them make noises that express theirÂ
animal nature. All of them alike proclaim the holiness of God in pure and beautiful speech. ItÂ
is important to understand that there is an order in God’s creation. Man was created in the imageÂ
and likeness of God to exercise authority over the animal kingdom. Y
ou can see that in Genesis 1:26.Â
Man is, in fact, the highest order of the creation described in the opening chapters of Genesis.Â
This has a bearing on the way the Holy Spirit blesses us. He uplifts those whom He blesses. HeÂ
will at times cause an animal to act in some ways like a human being, but He will never degrade aÂ
human being by causing him to act like an animal. I have a certain amount of experience inÂ
this area because I’ve encountered animal spirits many times in Africa. I recallÂ
one particular deliverance service that I held in Zambia with about seven thousandÂ
Africans present. When I had finished the teaching and began to command the evil spirits toÂ
manifest themselves and come out of the people, there were all sorts of animal spiritsÂ
that were let loose. By animal spirits I mean evil demonic spirits that enter humanÂ
beings and cause them to behave like animals. The first thing that happened was that aÂ
man with a lion spirit tried to charge me, but someone trippe
d him up and he did not reachÂ
me. You need to know that the reason that Africans in this part of Africa have so many animalÂ
spirits, is because many of them are hunters of animals. They have this superstition that in orderÂ
to hunt an animal successfully you have to get the spirit of the animal in you. So a man tends toÂ
have the spirit of the animal which he seeks to hunt. For instance the man who is hunting a lionÂ
will get a lion spirit. There are many others. We dealt with spirits of wild
boars that causedÂ
people to burrow in the earth with their noses like a wild boar rooting for something. ThenÂ
there were many snake spirits. These were mainly in women, and when they were manifested the womenÂ
were flat on their bellies, slithering around like snakes. All these I actually witnessed myself.Â
There was one other spirit that I did not witness, but I heard about from the missionary coupleÂ
who organized the meeting. Later I met the lady concerned. She was a very sweet Christian la
dy,Â
a school teacher, but her husband was an elephant hunter. When she came to the missionary couple forÂ
deliverance, they commanded the elephant spirit to come out. Immediately she dropped on her handsÂ
and knees, crawled out through an open door, put her forehead up against a small tree, and beganÂ
to try to push it down. Wasn’t that remarkable? Perhaps some well meaning Western Christian mightÂ
have said, “Our sister is pushing a tree down for Jesus.” But that was not the explanation. TheÂ
elephant spirit in her was causing her to do what elephants regularly do which is push downÂ
trees with their foreheads. As soon as she was delivered from that spirit she no longer hadÂ
any urge to push down trees with her forehead. In the West we sometimes tend toÂ
speak about the people in Africa as unsophisticated and to considerÂ
ourselves more sophisticated. However, I think in this realm of animal spirits, it isÂ
we in the West who are unsophisticated and the Africans who are sophisticated
. They’veÂ
lived for generations with such spirits, but until the gospel came with the powerÂ
of the name of Jesus and the word of God, they had no way to deal with them. Thank GodÂ
that many of them now know how to deal with them. Another example of which various reportsÂ
have been given, is people behaving like dogs. I am a dog lover, but I think dogsÂ
should be kept in their rightful place. I do not believe that the Holy Spirit ever causesÂ
anybody to bark or to run around like a dog or to do
the other things that dogs do. Where suchÂ
manifestations of animal spirits have occurred, there are certain steps that we need toÂ
take. We cannot tolerate or encourage such manifestations, nor can we merelyÂ
sweep all this under the carpet and go on as if nothing had happened. InÂ
Matthew 12:33 Jesus instructs us, “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruitÂ
bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.” Wherever there is bad fruit, it comes fromÂ
a bad tre
e. It is not enough to get rid of the bad fruit, we must also cut down the badÂ
tree that produced it. If we fail to do this, the bad tree will go on producing moreÂ
bad fruit. Undoubtedly the tree that produces animal behavior of this kind isÂ
some form of occult of pagan practice. For instance there are frequent manifestationsÂ
of animal behavior in some parts of Africa and India. To cut down the tree requires thatÂ
the leaders responsible identify the problem, confess it as sin, and repent of
it. No whereÂ
in the Bible is there any ground to suppose that God will forgive sins that we are not willing toÂ
confess. Somebody has said, “The confession must be as wide as the transgression.” If leadersÂ
have tolerated these things in the presence of their people, then in the presence of theirÂ
people they need to confess it as a sin and cancel it. Otherwise, if the bad tree is notÂ
cut down it will go on producing bad fruit.
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