The Possessed

Modern people are addicted to their possessions. Their entire identity is defined by what they wear and collect and surround themselves with. The car they drive, their residence, their art/music/dvd collections, furnishings, cookware, cosmetics, radio/tv stations they listen to. The possessions are their obsessions. Their obsessions are their addictions. They're possessed by their addictions. They're possessed by their possessions.

   To be possessed is to be possessed by the demonic. Carnal Knowledge. Carnal desire doesn't just refer to the erotic, it refers to the lust of the eyes for possessions. The alternate titles to Dostoevsky's 1871 novel Demons were The Possessed and The Devils. Dostoevsky was an Orthodox Christian. He was well aware of the spiritual reality of the demonic, as well as demonic possession. Demons was a novel about the Russian anarchist terrorists who are the nineteenth century of the anti-Christian anarchist/ terrorists rampaging all over the Western world.

    This is just as described by the Bible regarding the final days. Here is Robert Clancy elaborating further on end times and the place of the children of God in it:

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. — James 4: 7

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. — Ephesians 5: 8-12

The Terror of the Lord: