Spirits can be described with adjectives (of what they do)
Spirits can be described with adjectives (of what they do)
The Bible mentions diverse spirits. It is possible for the expression "demon" to be used interchangeably with the expression "spirit" (Luke 10:17 & Luke 10:20), and so it is possible for a spirit to describe a demon.
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Many spirits are described with an adjective next to them. For example: "spirit of jealousy", or "spirit of apathy". These adjectives are important as they describe something regarding that spirit.
Many spirits are described with different adjectives:
Here are examples of spirits with different adjectives attached to them:
"a spirit of jealousy" (Numbers 5:14).
"a false spirit" (1 Kings 22:22).
"a lying spirit" (2 Chronicles 18:21).
"a spirit of deception" (Isaiah 19:14).
"a spirit of deep sleep" (Isaiah 29:10).
"spirit of apathy" (Isaiah 61:3).
"a spirit of sexual sin" (Hosea 5:4).
"Mute and deaf spirit" (Mark 9:25)
"a spirit of infirmity" (Luke 13:11).
"a spirit of slavery" (Romans 8:15).
"a spirit of stupor" (Romans 11:8).
"a spirit of dreadfulness" (2 Timothy 1:7).
The adjectives can describe what a spirit can do:
The adjective attached to a spirit can describe what a spirit can do to a human.
For example, it is possible for a spirit to be described with an adjective such as "mute". If such a spirit would enter a human, the human could become mute (which means that the human could not speak anymore). But if that "mute spirit" is cast out from the human, the human could be able to speak again. For example, it is written about Jesus that "He-was casting-out (a) demon, and it was mute. And it-came-about, the demon having-gone-out, (that) the mute (man) spoke" (Luke 11:14).
The adjective attached to a spirit is not necessarily describing the spirit itself.
For example, a "mute spirit" is able to cry out!
The reason why a spirit described with an adjective such as "mute" can make a person to be mute is not because the spirit itself is mute. For example, Jesus "rebuked the unclean spirit, saying (to) it “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you — come out-of him and enter into him no-longer”. And having-cried-out, and having-convulsed (him) greatly, it-came-out" (Mark 9:25-26). Here the "Mute and deaf spirit" (Mark 9:25) is described as "having-cried-out" (Mark 9:26). This would indicate that the adjective "mute" here would describe what that spirit could do to others instead of what it is itself.
A "spirit" which told the truth said that it "will be a lying spirit".
For example: "the LORD said, ‘Who will deceive Ahab king of Israel"? (2 Chronicles 18:19), "Then there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will deceive him.’ And the LORD said, ‘By what (means)?’ And he said, ‘I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in (the) mouth of all his prophets.’ And He said, “You will deceive (him), and will prevail; go forth, and do so.’" (2 Chronicles 18:20-21). The "spirit" here said that it "will be a lying spirit in (the) mouth of all his prophets", which was the truth. Thus this "spirit" would have become a "lying spirit" not by itself being unable to tell the truth, but by taking on the task to be a spirit that would be in the mouth of the prophets of that time in order to lie to Ahab so as to deceive Ahab. It is also important to notice that the spirit was simply described at first as "a spirit" before taking on its task to be "a lying spirit".
Several adjectives can be attached to one spirit.
Usually a spirit can have one adjective attached to it as for example a "lying spirit" (2 Chronicles 18:21), but a spirit can also have several adjectives attached to it, as for example a "Mute and deaf spirit" (Mark 9:25). This particular spirit may even have been described as a certain kind of demon, when it was then said that "This kind can come-out by nothing except by prayer" (Mark 9:29).
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