I have personally encountered demon possessed people; people who knew my name and things about me that were impossible for them to know. These were people whom I've never met and said things about me only I knew. They also manifested supernatural abilities that will knock the socks off the people here who deny Satan and his fallen angelic army. Bottom line is this...if you believe that Satan and his demons are not doing their dirty deeds in this world TODAY, then you are already DECEIVED and the serpent of old has blinded your mind and have indoctrinated you with lies.
In Christ,
Grapesicle
John said that Christ came to DESTROY the works of the devil. Did Christ fail?
It is a MEDICAL fact that medication and psycho therapy have cured what you call "demon possession." My wife has worked at a Christian counseling center for 25 years and has seen a lot of the things you have seen and can testify that proper biblical counseling and medications cure these things. Sometimes Christ cures it miraculously in salvation. But if it can be cured gradually with meds and therappy which is has, then it cannot be demon possession.
Christ DESTROYED the works of the devil. He has NOTHING to do humanity today. He has power over no one.
Satan is in the lake of fire!
thinker
I have personally encountered demon possessed people; people who knew my name and things about me that were impossible for them to know. These were people whom I've never met and said things about me only I knew. They also manifested supernatural abilities that will knock the socks off the people here who deny Satan and his fallen angelic army. Bottom line is this...if you believe that Satan and his demons are not doing their dirty deeds in this world TODAY, then you are already DECEIVED and the serpent of old has blinded your mind and have indoctrinated you with lies.
In Christ,
Grapesicle
Amen, and the same modern "psychologists" that tell people its just "cognative this" or "neuro psychosis that" are the same psychotic buffoons who teach people that the "inner spirit-man self" is "perfect and beautiful" and that people should listen to their "inner voice". The same ones are they who teach and believe that mankind is one giant "organic amoeba village" so that they are justified when "the brains" decide to kill the "cancerous" cells that might infect the rest of the "body" of mankind. In effect man has perverted the Scripture so much so that he does not even believe it is possible for himself to be deceived. It is all about control: and if there is a SPIRIT realm and a CREATOR then man is nothing more than PROPERTY either way, (ye are not your own but bought with a price). 
daq,
John said that Christ came to DESTROY the works of the devil. Did He fail?
thinker
It really comes down to whether deep inside one believes that Christ was Deity in the flesh, or not, during his physical ministry. If he was Deity in the flesh then his words are timeless, and outside of our time domain constraints, and so his words would then apply to all generations of all time. And if he was Deity in the flesh before the Cross then the statements made in the Gospel accounts theoretically do not become relevant in us until the first time we read them; for that is when the seed of the Word is sown to us. Also the words of Christ reverberate like "seven thunders which utter their voices" and this is one of the reasons why we, as believers, must continue in our discipleship because each time we understand something new it reverberates throughout ALL of our doctrine like a mild quaking of the earth; and ALL of our doctrine must be unified into one complete, coherent, unblemished understanding. This is the beauty of the Book of the Sevenfold Revelation of Yeshua because it is the final doctrinal standard by which all of the preceding doctrines may be inspected and corrected. This also is why the Book of the Revelation is full of statements combined from the whole of the Scripture deposit of wealth and knowledge in the Word. And this is why the Book of the Revelation is so completely visionary and supernal in its nature yet states; "blessed are those who KEEP THE SAYINGS of this book" for it is the final "index key" sort of speak.
Yet even if one does not truly believe deep inside that Yeshua was Deity incarnate then there is also the following information which also witnesses to the same truth: Yeshua states that he is "IN HEAVEN" while he walked the earth in his physical body. If one believes this statement then there is only one reason why this may be found to be true; and that is because the Spirit of the Father Theou rested upon him from the time of his baptism. And if the Spirit of YHWH rested upon him, and if indeed he was IN HEAVEN during his physical ministry, then again his words and doctrine from the Gospel accounts are OUTSIDE OF TIME.
Matthew 3:16 KJV
16. And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God (Pneuma tou Theou) descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
John 10:30 KJV
30. I and my Father are one.
John 14:8-9 KJV
8. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9. Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
John 3:12-13 KJV
12. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13. And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.Therefore, even if one does not believe that Yeshua was in fact Deity in the flesh; then that one should take heed to the fact that the Spirit of the Theou rested upon Yeshua the Son. And, if so, then his words are ETERNAL, and again, outside of TIME. How then does Yeshua cast out devils from a person who was not yet born? such as all of us here in the present? For this is one of the duties of the High Priest:
Leviticus 16:10-14 RSV
10. but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the Lord to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.
11. "Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house; he shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.
12. And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small; and he shall bring it within the veil
13. and put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat which is upon the testimony, lest he die;
14. and he shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle the blood with his finger seven times.The sprinkling of the blood of Atonement is performed by the FINGER of the High Priest in the Great Day of Atonement and cleansing of the holy-holies and secondary sanctuary or holy place. Who and what is the secondary sanctuary or "tent of the meeting" place? It is the saints and the people of YHWH; the "tent of the mow`ed" or "meeting place" resides with us in the midst of our impurities and uncleanness.
Leviticus 16:15-16 KJV
15. "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering which is for the people, and bring its blood within the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat;
16. thus he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel, and because of their transgressions, all their sins; and so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which abides with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
Luke 11:18-20 KJV
18. If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
19. And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
20. But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.No doubt the opening statement of Luke 11:20 concerns the High Priest, the very
Finger of YHWH, and the Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, ceremonies and cleansing of the entire sanctuary. Therefore what it means is that THIS IS WHEN THE KINGDOM OF THE THEOU HAS COME UPON YOU! For this is the duty only of the High Priest and Yeshua is our High Priest according to the eternal order Melchizedek.
If one believes that Satan was cast out all at once, at a single point in time nearly two thousand years ago; then that one has simply concocted for himself another one of the many forms of the "free ride" without allowing himself true accountability to the Scripture. This is another problem with the "Full Preterist" teaching on "audience relevance" because it basically accomplishes the same outcome whether one realizes it or not; which outcome is an allegorical "escape door" from personal accountability to certain passages of Scripture.
Hebrews 7:17-25 KJV
17. For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
18. For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness (flesh) and unprofitableness thereof.
19. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
20. And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
21. (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
22. By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
24. But this man, (Christ) because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.So the Isaiah 28
"Covenant with Death" was "disannulled" just as stated in Isaiah 28 because those priests were flesh mortals, and mere men, which kept "waxing old", dying, "decaying", and constantly needing replacement when they waxed old, died, and decayed away. This is true because the writer states that the Covenant of the old priesthood was
NOT BY AN OATH. Yet now we have
BY SWORN OATH an Eternal High Priest in Christ Yeshua who lives forevermore to make intercession for anyone who comes to him by faith. Therefore if Satan was cast out long before anyone here was born into the world then
WHY SHOULD ANYONE HERE NEED A HIGH PRIEST?Therefore Satan is cast out ...
But to each in his appointed times ...
Luke 10:17-18 KJV
17. And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
18. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Paraphrased to the disciples: "Yes, I know... I saw it: I was there with you!"...
