Demons are the undetected false gods of our modern idolatrous culture and living.
Modernist scholars hardly knew what to do with them; if the world gets better and better, as they thought, demons must be consigned to the past; better yet, get rid of them as superstition and myth. This same modernist scholarship, however, emphasized at least that Jesus is the best example of right religious insight and adjustment. But Jesus Himself believed in the reality of Satan and demons. This was not a matter merely of accommodation on His part to the temper of the times, for he corrected the prevailing theological errors of His contemporaries. If He merely pretended to cast out demons, can He be defended against the charge of pretension and deception? He spent forty days in the wilderness, tempted of Satan and victorious over him; indeed, He represented His whole ministry as the rout and doom of Satan and his hosts, and He casts demons out by the power of His word. Under the pressures of the time in which we live, men speak against wide areas of the demonic in modern life, although they shy away from the reality of Satan and demons. Jesus reminds us that the world is under the sway of Satan and his hosts, and that we need supernatural rescue.
--Carle F. Henry
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