Were Ancient Demons Actually Parasites? – Could this explain everything?

A new idea is going around social media that parasites are demons. Yes, you heard me right. And today we're going to be looking at what the Bible says about this idea. Christina, do you want to read the post for us?

Yeah. Okay. You may think I'm crazy for thinking this, but I don't care. What if, what if parasites are demons? The Bible talks about helping the place where the worm never dies. And parasites are so evil that they can literally wrap around your spine or go into your brain and change your thoughts, personality, cause disease, wreck the body's natural defenses and make it turn in on itself. And then I think about how Yeshua said some demons can only be cast out with prayer and with fasting and fasting has been known to kill parasites and the frequency of prayer as well. Then I also think about how Satan shape shifted into a snake in the very beginning. And the snake and worm are very similar, cursed to slither on their bellies. Many studies also show that pretty much all diseases can be traced back to parasites. I also think about the demon possessed man full of many in the Bible and when Yeshua went to cast them out, they were thrown into the pigs. The most parasite contaminated meat we have and we're told not to consume. What do you think?

All right, so really interesting ideas. You know, I think when you look at the Bible and you look at nature, of course God is the creator of nature and within nature there's many forgetting about this topic. Right. Even there's many lessons that we see in nature. And we see God even use nature to teach us spiritual things. He equates himself to be the lion of Judah. Of course, in the Garden of Eden we see Satan was equated to us like a snake. And so, you know, there are many such lessons. But I do think that in this case it does seem like this connection between the physical and the spiritual is taken a little too far to mean the very same thing. In fact, instead of a symbolic lesson that is to be perhaps learned from a connection, it's rather that this symbolic and the spiritual is the very same literal thing.

Right. And the first thought that comes to my mind is, okay, so I understand why people have drawn a connection between parasites and demons. The way they attack the body and they attach to a host and you know, can affect your appetites, you could say physical appetites if it's a parasite or spiritual appetites if there's a demon. Like I understand how people can see there's a connection.

Sure.

And why they might ask the question, well, maybe the Parasite itself is the demon. But the issue I have with that is this parasites are limited to the physical, whereas demons are spiritual. We have in Ephesians 6, verse 12, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil and the heavenly places. So while again you can see how there's interesting connections, like you even brought in a moment ago God, the attributes of like the lion. And we had the line of Judah, but God is not a literal lion. We have this element where there's similarities, you can say symbolic similarities, but I believe that's where it stops, that parasites are again, limited to the physical and demons are spiritual. And the reason why I say this is because to believe that parasites, to believe that, okay, to believe that demons are parasites means that I can take a pill, I can take some papaya seeds, some black walnut, some, you know, maybe skip eating for a day and bye bye demons, right? I don't even need to technically pray. I don't have to go for God, to God for deliverance of this demon, of the parasite, because I can technically get rid of it on my own. You know, parasites, there are pills that can, you know, take an ivermectin. There you go, no more demons. Right? But I'm, I'm being serious. When we say parasite is a literal demon, then we also make it so that we can rid ourselves of demons without God, devoid of God. And that very thought process is contrary to scripture.

Yes, but some people may also say to you, well, I believe in prayer, I believe in fasting. And like in the post it was mentioned that prayer and fasting got rid of demons. And so pray and fasting get rid of parasites. So obviously it must be the same thing as well. Now of course, prayer and fasting is something that helps with getting free from, delivered from demons. But prayer and fasting helps with our trials. It helps with when we feel far from God. It helps with just about anything in life because it's just good for us. And so what you mentioned is our battle is not against flesh and blood. A parasite is flesh.

Right. It's in the physical.

Yeah, that's what flash is. Flash. Flash means that it is a physical, fleshly, created being or thing like our bodies or a parasite. So when we think about all of this, right on your line of thinking with so how do we deal with a parasite then is, you know, some people may say, well, yes, it's ideal with it in spiritual means, that's fine. But that in of itself is not evidence that a parasite is a literal demon and a literal demon is a literal parasite. And it's the same thing. Can a demon cause a sickness? Yes. We see in the Bible that demons caused many types of things, like even being lame, you know, so but does the demon always cause sickness? No, because Yeshua told the blind man, his disciples about the blind man, that when they asked, you know, why is he blind? Was it because of his sin or was it his parents sin? He said no, it's for the glory of God to be manifested. In that case it was not.

There was no sin connected.

There's no one's fault in that way. You know, I think that the danger is, is when we make a conclusion. Like right, when you have a parasite, you have a demon.

Right?

When you don't have a parasite, of course, then you don't have a demon. And if you therefore then ate something that was dirty, if you had your dog which had parasites lick you in the face, if you then suddenly you go to a doctor and he diagnoses you with a parasite and of course now, oh my, I have a spiritual condition now I have demons living inside of me. Well, your dog also could have licked you and you got a parasite and.

In which case your dog has demons. Darn it, we knew it. No, maybe it was the cat. Couldn't have been the dog.

So I think there are some very interesting ideas with how a parasite infects a host.

Absolutely.

How it feeds off of know what the host feeds. In other words, if, if someone eats the parasite is going to feed and live all.

And it can make us crave things.

And it can, yeah. Change our appetites, things like that. It's on. So these are all very interesting ideas and they can perhaps teach us about like how demons operate in a natural, from a natural perspective. I, I think that's interesting.

Yes. Are we now saying that we can deliver ourselves of our own power or of the power of herbs or medication without God, that we can deliver ourselves from demons? That sounds pretty dangerous.

Yeah. The post mentioned that it is the frequency of our prayer that affects the parasites. As if like the frequencies is causing is a physical, you know, frequency is a physical thing in this world.

Right.

That is, that is affecting the parasites. Now you know, again that is a very physical. Actually it's not my prayers frequency, it's God that delivers us from anything. So you know, the other thing that happens is that we start asking then now how do you get demons. And how do you get parasites? Because if I can get a parasite because my, my dog licked me in the face, right, and the dog had parasites, or I ate something that was contaminated or I touched and somehow, you know, that means I can get demons just by accident. Like I just stumble into a demon and I get my demon.

Right, right.

Verse. While the Bible talks about demons being something that is. I mean, of course they're real, but you get them through spiritual involvement with the darkness and that opens a door. Door where a demon can come in. It's a spiritual, a sin issue, not just a. An accidental stumbling into something that happened.

Exactly. And just to read what Paul says in First Corinthians, chapter 10, Consider the people of Israel are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar. What do I imply then? That food offered to idols as anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice, they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. He's speaking of idolatry here. There is a connection between worshiping another God, being involved in something that is otherwise lifting up false gods. Right. As idolatry. Demons, you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons, you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of. Of demons. Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? And so what he's making a very strong point here is that like you mentioned, your dog looked you in the face, oh no, you have a parasite. Was there sin or idolatry or any open door that you gave to the enemy in that moment, or was it an accident when we eat contaminated sushi, when you swim in a lake that had it was contaminated with a parasite. Lots of other things. Touching door handles with someone who, you know, previously touched with unwashed hands. There's many examples of ways that we can come into contact. Even walking on the dirt, you can get parasites. There's a whole lot of crazy, easy ways that we can come into contact with parasites. But when we say parasites are demons, that we are now getting demons by accident and not through again, through sin, through idolatry, through opening up the door to the enemy, through giving him authority, we get into really dangerous and kind of weird grounds that we can just accidentally, willy nilly. Yeah, get a demon.

Yeah. And that means that every time that you're sick, if you have a parasitic infection that oh, I have a demon, or if someone else, I hear someone else has a parasitic infection, it's like, oh, they have demons. I wonder what sin they've been up to.

Right, right.

And it causes this, this attitude that's of discernment, that is really unbiblical. Then we start judging them on a spiritual level because of this physical disease or issue they have. But we have biblical examples like Job, who was a righteous man yet who was sick. We had Moses who had some kind of a voice impairment or stutter or something. We had the blind man, like I mentioned. And of course then the treatment of the parasite is something that we go after and we think that it's the same thing as treating a demon, whereby going off with medications or physical treatments of whatever kind. And then we think that it's a trip treating a demon, while in reality, if you want to treat a demon, you have to repent of your sins.

Yes.

You have to come to God for deliverance.

Yes.

And you have to sometimes get prayer by others.

Yes.

To as Yeshua caused our demons out of people.

Yeshua says in Matthew 12:28, but it is by the spirit of God that I cast out demons. Then the kingdom of God has come upon you. He's making it very clear that demons are cast out by the spirit of God. We cannot take God out of the equation. When Yeshua said, get out, be gone to those, you know, those evil spirits. Well, why didn't he just give him a papaya seed tincture that would have done the exact same thing.

Jesus thought it to be a requirement that he cast out the demon.

Right.

So he, he of course said prayer fast. Some come up not but by prayer and fasting, but he still cast out the demon. That was how the deliverance came. And so in the same way today, literally casting out a demon is something that's unfortunately very much lacking. And so we seek to rather treat demons with all these other ideas instead of doing what the Bible says to cast them out.

This is Luke, chapter 10, 17, 20. The 72 returned with joy, saying, lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name. And he said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, but that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Another point I'm going to just mention really briefly that was made in the post is that because parasites are worm like that they are like the serpent Satan in the garden who was cursed to wriggle on his belly. And that's why, or at least one reason why parasites must or can be demons because they wriggle like Satan the snake. Okay, just briefly, not all parasites are worms. Actually there are ones that are protozoa, fungi, arthropods, and there's also types of parasites that are ectoparasites that hang on the outside like, okay, so fleas, lice, ticks are ectoparasites also, even barnacles that will suck the nutrients through the skin of its host through. And they're definitely not worm shaped. So just briefly to mention that connection that was drawn in the post doesn't actually hold. If you actually look at the way nature is and the different types of.

Parasites, we're basically trying to take one species of a parasite, one certain type of parasite and to equate that to, well, look, so that we can say like this is Satan.

Yeah, yeah, the worm.

I think we can conclude with this that, look, the idea of a parasite is like the idea of a demon. And there is perhaps a spiritual lesson there for us all that don't give them the food that they want. Don't live in fear, don't live in sin, because those are the things that demons live off of. Change your diet spiritually and then make sure that you put all your trust and faith in God, that God would be the one to direct you, to deliver. You do not do it on your own, do not try, you cannot. And deal with spiritual issues by spiritual means.

Yeah, and the last little thing I'd mention is why do we have parasites in this world? Like they're so. Like they have nothing good, no redeeming quality about them. You know, Paul writes In Romans chapter 8, 22, and he says this, for we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. And that is the thing in this groaning world. Parasites, ticks, lice, mosquitoes at these are ugly reminders of what sin has done to this world. That there is now death, there is now sickness, there is pain because of sin. But we have this hope in Christ and Yeshua that when he returns, it will no longer be sickness, death or pain. He will wipe away every tear from our eyes and the parasites will be gone. All these things.

When Adam and Eve fell, creation fell with as sin entered the world, the whole world system got corrupted. Nature itself got corrupted by the fallen nature of man. It wasn't just mankind that fell. And so when Yeshua comes back, he's restoring the spiritual things and the as we know it the physical things exactly.

Amen there will no longer be any curse on creation as it says in Revelation 22 verse 3 no longer will there be anything occurring cursed but the throne of God and of the lamb will be in it and his servants.

Will worship him yeah and we read of course about how the behavior of the animals change how you know the wolf will lie with the lamb and.

So forth oh to look forward to.

That day the baby will put its his hands into a nest of a viper and still be fine right they'll play with snakes basically right because creation.

Will be redeemed back to what it was meant to be before the fall.

Before sin amen so let's look forward to that guys thank you for joining us we hope this was an interesting idea discussion for you to think about comment below what you think do you think parasites or demons we'd love to meet you there talk with you further blessings to you Angelom Sam.