The 7 Types of Evil Spirits

In almost all of our articles we reveal spiritual issues that talk about different types of evil spirits. These are the demons who are part of the kingdom of satan. The Bible reveals that there are only 7 types of demons, though there are probably millions or billions of these demon entities in the world (some are more wicked than others). The revelation of the classification of evil spirits came to me when I searched the internet for the word pride after having a dream where I was shown the word pride. I found a website called shamah-elim.info which detailed the scriptures that revealed the types of evil spirits, and the Lord confirmed the revelation through many other scriptures and direct experience. A key way to understand spiritual reality is to look at the manifestation in the physical reality. Mankind are spiritual beings with a physical body, so we can see spiritually and physically; and our experiences can be both spiritual and physical. However, the physical is always a manifestation of what is happening in the spiritual. Thus, we can see and understand spiritual things by what happens physically in a consistent way. Jesus told us that we would know the false prophets by their fruits, which is what manifests from them. Good manifests good and evil manifests evil. Before we look at the scriptures that reveal the 7 types of evil spirits we must first understand something about names. When God created the animals He brought them to Adam for him to name them. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof. (Gen 2:19) A name denotes a physical or spiritual characteristic of the thing that is named. But remember that all physical things come from something spiritual, so a name always reveals the spiritual characteristic of something or someone. For example, the serpent is described as the most subtil beast of the field that the Lord God made. So we know that the name serpent means subtil, which means crafty, sly, cautious (slow deliberate moves). When Adam observed the beast that he called a serpent he noticed how he operated and called it serpent, which comes from a root word meaning hissing, whisperer, enchantment, divination. A serpent operates in hidden things, which makes it crafty. The devil entered and spoke through the serpent because that is his character, a subtil whisperer. We can look at the name of something or someone to determine the spirit behind the thing or the person. When the Lord told the children of Israel that He was giving them the land of Canaan He told them that they would have to get rid of 7 nations that lived on the land. The Lord would deliver these nations into their hands but they would have to enter into physical warfare in order to defeat them. The land of Canaan is the land flowing in milk and honey that God had covenanted to give unto Abraham and his seed; however it was now inhabited by 7 mighty nations. God was not going to just hand it over to the children of Israel, rather the Lord would help them conquer the land; for He swore unto His friend Abraham to give it to his seed, if they were faithful unto Him (God). When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: (Deut 7:1-2)

7 Nations to be Destroyed Hittites Girgashites Amorites Canaanites Perizzites Hivites Jebusites

Who are these 7 nations and why did the Lord what then to be utterly destroyed? Cursed be Canaan! After the flood Noah became drunk on wine and fell asleep naked in his tent. Ham, Noahs second son entered the tent and saw Noahs nakedness, and then went out and told his older brother Shem and his younger brother Japheth. This act was a violation of his relationship with his father in that he revealed his fathers shame rather than covering him. When you reveal a persons nakedness you shame them, which in the case of Ham was wrong because Noah was his father (a man who built the Ark to save his family and the animals that God chose). Thus, evil manifested from Ham. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed [be] Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. (Gen 9:24-25) Notice that even though it was Ham who sinned it was his son Canaan who was cursed. Why? Inheritance. We inherit physical and spiritual characteristics from our parents. Most people understand the reality of physical inheritance through the combination of the genetic material between our parents. However, there is also spiritual inheritance from both parents that manifests as spiritual strengths and weaknesses. We know this because Cain and Abel, the 2 sons of Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the Garden, had different relationships with God. Cain had the spiritual weakness of a lot of pride, which led him to have a poor relationship with God, as revealed by the inadequate offering that he gave to the Lord. The rejection of Cains offering by God resulted in him murdering his brother Abel, which is a result of the weakness of uncontrolled anger in Cain. The spiritual weakness of Cain and the spiritual strength of Abel were inherited from their parents. In the case of Cain and Abel, they did not inherit the same spiritual characteristics from their parents, which is the same as how we inherit physical characteristics. Thus, the pride that manifested in the spirit of Adam and Eve when they sinned had a greater expression in Cain than Abel, turning Cain into an unrepentant murderer (like satan). When Ham sinned against his sleeping father, Noah, the Lord revealed to Noah (in a dream or vision) that the sin nature which manifested in Ham would find a greater expression in Hams son, Canaan. We know this because the Lord spoke to His servant Noah and told him how to build the Ark, so Noah knows the voice of the Lord; also the Lord sometimes speaks to us while we sleep. Canaan was cursed because sin is a curse, just like satan (the serpent) was cursed because his pride brought sin into mankind. When God places a curse on someone, such as the curse that He placed on Canaan through Noah, that person and all his descendants must be utterly destroyed, because sin results in death. However, Gods longsuffering nature is that He waits for mankind to repent, and if he doesnt then the death sentence is enacted. While God waits man expands and sin (along with the curse) multiplies. In this we see the wisdom of God; for the 7 nations that the children of Israel were to utterly destroy when they entered the Promised Land were the descendants of Canaan.

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Hittites sons of Heth (Gen 10:15) Girgashites (Gen 10:16) Amorites (Gen 10:16) Canaanites descendants of Canaan who did not differentiate out of one of the sons of Canaan 5. Perizzites a descendant of one of the sons of Canaan who was not prominent enough to be mentioned in the Genesis 10. The father of the Perizzites is not mentioned in the Bible; the first time they are spoken of is in Gen 13:7 as living among the Canaanites. 6. Hivites (Gen 10:17) 7. Jebusites (Gen 10:16) Evil follows Curses When someone sins (disobeys Gods order) then he/she becomes unclean spiritually, causing God to move away from him/her, then he/she is cursed unto destruction. Evil spirits are also called unclean spirits because of the sin within them, and they are attracted to (cursed) people who are spiritually unclean; for unclean is attracted to unclean. Also, unclean spirits are looking for a place to express themselves so they naturally move to people who abide in sin, so that evil can be done through them. The unclean (evil) spirits were good angels created by God to do a specific function for God unto mankind, however they got lifted up in pride and followed their leader, satan, away from God and thus became unclean (evil). We know there are 7 types of unclean spirits because they manifested 7 principal nations from the cursed Canaan through a process of spiritual inheritance. We can now reveal the spiritual characteristics of the 7 types of evil spirits by looking at the name of each nation that they manifested into: Table of Evil Spirits Name Hittites Girgashites Amorites Canaanites Meaning of Name Sons of Heth (terror) extreme fear Clay dweller Mountaineer, Sayer one who has a high position from speech Lowland, trafficker in merchandise Character (evil manifestation) Death, Fear, Depression, Suicide, Deceit, Purposelessness, terrorism Earthliness, Greed, Selfish, fleshy methods, non-spiritual, stupidity Pride, Fornicator, Possessor, Arrogant, Full of themselves, Entrenches unrighteous behavior in peoples mind. Low desires (pleasures), sexual immorality, perversions, homosexuality, non-judgement, spreads evil through pleasure, deceitful affection Small thinking, low self-esteem, poverty, man worship (idolatry), ungratefulness, laziness, carelessness, blood sucking parasite Hedonism (life focused on pleasure), purposelessness, fraud, riches, rape Legalists, unrighteous judges, racism, class distinction, murderers, spreads death (Hittites) and poverty (Perizzites), hate

Perizzites Hivites Jebusites

Villager (belonging to a poor village) Village people (rich village lifestyle) Threshing place (trodden down, and separated)

Note that the above table is not derived exclusively by looking at the name of the nation but also through Biblical scripture, historical events, and direct experience. However, the above table gives a quick summary so that a Believer may be able to discern the kind of evil spirits operating in the spiritual atmosphere of any evil manifestation. Note that in any evil event there are several types of evil spirits working to bring about the evil manifestation; however, we can know which ones are operating in the spiritual atmosphere by looking at the evil manifestations in the people by whom they manifest. We have posted more detailed articles on each type of evil spirit in our archive section.
Green Light Ministry 2012