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 also: Satan fell (as Jesus Himself said) “like lightning” (Luke 10:18).
If all this is to be taken literally, one is made to wonder about the devil’s attachment to electricity.
There are pluses and minuses. Lightning can of course injure or kill, although it also creates nitrogen in the atmosphere, which nourishes plant life. Some people struck by lightning have even 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 negative ramifications and 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. Any exorcist will tell you that spirits can enter our living space via the technology we’re using. Negative words, risque images, and vulgarity, riding those electrical waves, have their distinctive (and sullying) “vibe.”
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.”
Especially when we choose sin, Satan has a “legal right” to a piece of our territory.
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, “like a flash 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, in a way that has not always 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?]
