We know from the Bible that the devil is “prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2).

We also know that evil spirits operate in “high places” (Ephesians 6:12).

Pertinent too: Satan fell (as Jesus Himself said) “as a bolt of lightning” (Luke 10:18).

If all this is to be taken literally (and we certainly do that with Scripture), one is made to ponder the devil’s attachment to electricity—and our own.

For when it comes to electricity, there are pluses and minuses.

Lightning can injure or kill, for example, but it also creates nitrogen in the atmosphere, which nourishes plant life.

Some struck by lightning have had a spiritual awakening. It’s up to all of us to discern as far as the effects of electricity in our lives.

But there’s no question about the negative ramifications of our electrical grid and in the ether, a virtually palpable frenzy of energy when a television or radio is turned on.

The same goes for the moment a computer or cell phone is powered. You can nearly feel the atmosphere shift.

Any exorcist will tell you that spirits can enter our living space via the technology we’re using. Negative words, risqué images, and vulgarity, riding those electrical waves, have their distinctive and negative “vibe.” And rock-and-roll music: Its fruits?

Ditto for a movie theater: spiritual grit or worse can attach to the viewer and return home with a person, one reason, perhaps, that the Apostle Paul instructed us to “pray without ceasing” (and Saint Padre Pio refused to attend a theater).

Especially when we choose sin, Satan has a “legal right” to a piece of our territory.

Consider the current wizards of electricity, and one goes to high-tech. What has technology wrought? Has it improved us spiritually? Or is the devil in control of the internet, social media, mainstream broadcast, podcasts, and cell towers?

As far as electricity, which in large part was associated with men such as Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison (men who dabbled also in the occult), it has made evil more accessible than is often advisable and delivers it instantly—yes, “as a bolt of lightning.” It has transformed the modern world, sometimes for the better (witness countless improvements, from home heating to medical technology), but sometimes, perhaps too often, perhaps the majority of times, in a way that has not redounded to mankind’s benefit here or in the hereafter.

[resources: Pray Like A Warrior]

[Footnote from The New York Times: “Since 1992, more than 3,600 wildfires in California have been related to power generation, transmission, and distribution, according to data from the U.S. Forest Service. Some of the most destructive fires have been traced back to problems with utility poles and power lines.”]

[Footnote: Will electricity run out, creating an apocalypse?]