Steps to Receive the 7 Worse Spirits
- Do pagan idolatry → Causes you to receive at least one unclean spirit
- Repent from pagan idolatry → Causes the unclean spirits to leave
- Turn back to idolatry (in some form — more on this later) → Causes seven worse spirits to return
Assuming you’ve repented from breaking the 10 commandments, especially pagan idolatry, to make sure you don’t receive seven worse spirits, don’t go back to doing idolatry.
Idolatry Invites the Demonic
But Peter, most benignantly regarding me, lest perhaps that separation might cause me sorrow, says to me: “It is not from pride, O Clement, that I do not eat with those who have not yet been purified; but I fear lest perhaps I should injure myself, and do no good to them. For this I would have you know for certain, that every one who has at any time worshipped idols, and has adored those whom the pagans call gods, or has eaten of the things sacrificed to them, is not without an unclean spirit; for he has become a guest of demons, and has been partaker with that demon of which he has formed the image in his mind, either through fear or love. And by these means he is not free from an unclean spirit, and therefore needs the purification of baptism, that the unclean spirit may go out of him, which has made its abode in the inmost affections of his soul, and what is worse, gives no indication that it lurks within, for fear it should be exposed and expelled.”
— Recognitions of Clement, Book 2, Chapter 71
Peter first lets us know that everyone that has done pagan idolatry — today that is Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Lent, etc. — has an unclean spirit.
Two forms someone becomes a partaker:
- Fear — seen in fearing others and rejection from others that prevents you from stopping to partake in idolatry.
- Love — seen in the emotions that Christians have for ‘Jesus,’ ‘Mary,’ or other figures, and creating emotional ties to objects (crosses, crucifixes, statues, etc.).
“For these unclean spirits love to dwell in the bodies of men, that they may fulfill their own desires by their service, and, inclining the motions of their souls to those things which they themselves desire, may compel them to obey their own lusts, that they may become wholly vessels of demons. One of whom is this Simon, who is seized with such disease, and cannot now be healed, because he is sick in his will and purpose. Nor does the demon dwell in him against his will; and therefore, if any one would drive it out of him, since it is inseparable from himself, and, so to speak, has now become his very soul, he should seem rather to kill him, and to incur the guilt of manslaughter. Let no one of you therefore be saddened at being separated from eating with us, for every one ought to observe that it is for just so long a time as he pleases. For he who wishes soon to be baptized is separated but for a little time, but he for a longer who wishes to be baptized later. Every one therefore has it in his own power to demand a shorter or a longer time for his repentance; and therefore it lies with you, when you wish it, to come to our table; and not with us, who are not permitted to take food with any one who has not been baptized. It is rather you, therefore, who hinder us from eating with you, if you interpose delays in the way of your purification, and defer your baptism.” Having said thus, and having blessed, he took food. And afterwards, when he had given thanks to God, he went into the house and went to bed; and we all did the like, for it was now night.
— Recognitions of Clement, Book 2, Chapter 72
Return of the Spirit
43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits MORE WICKED than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Yeshua Messiah, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Proverbs 26:11,24-26
11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
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24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
25 When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
26 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.
Those that have seven worse spirits will speak nice, smooth words to! It will be difficult to detect if you are not focused on keeping the commandments of God.
Both Peter and Yeshua tell you that if you turn back to the ways of the world, then you will receive seven worse spirits.
The holy commandment is what James calls the ‘royal law.‘
The Royal Law
James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the Lord.
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
This royal law is the same commandment that Yeshua magnified from the law — rebuke sin when you see it.
If there was any confusion that the “royal law” was different from the “holy commandment,” here is the evidence that those are the same.
2 Peter 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy (G40) commandment delivered unto them.
1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy (G40) priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Yeshua Messiah.
It should be without a doubt that the holy priesthood fulfills the holy commandment. However, Peter calls this priesthood another name.
1 Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
There shouldn’t be any question that “commandment” means the same as “law.”
The 7 Evil Spirits
16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
1 — A Proud Look
16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.
Women that focus on outward appearance.
Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
Ephraim (USA) is full of pride.
2 — A Lying Tongue
3 — Hands that Shed Innocent Blood
4 — A Heart that Deviseth Wicked Imaginations
5 — Feet that be Swift in Running to Mischief
6 — A False Witness that Speaketh Lies
7 — He that Soweth Discord Among Brethren
1 Samuel 15-16 (Saul received evil spirit after presmptuous) — show connection with hosea “gilgal” (hosea 4) and turning from the commandment (hosea 5)
assension of isaiah 3