I'd always wondered about that. It seems one method they used was also the Name of Jesus—in a way. More specifically, they cast them out by the authority of the Spirit in Scripture given through members, or a certain member, of the Messianic line.
Lilit, Reseph, Deber, Ketev (sp?), and Mot in the quote above are names of ANE gods. These things were understood by the Jewish masses. Unlike us, they were well aware of the cultures and deities of the various nations, how they manifested themselves, and where they were referenced in the OT.
One striking similarity to modern experiences is in "The Terror by Night," a proper noun, wherein the experiences with this class of entity parallel what we describe today as 'sleep paralysis,' or 'a terrifying presence.' That description starts here. But if you skip ahead, you miss about 10 minutes of some needed exposition.
All in all, an excellent lecture, by Michael Heiser.
So there's a lot more songs [of Solomon] in the Septuagint version…than there are in the Masoretic text version. And that's because, as we move to the Dead Sea Scroll material, that's because the Jewish community [that copied and used the Dead Sea Scrolls]…[is] the community that would have produced the Septuagint…[and they] knew of lots of other psalms, and we are going to focus on one of those that shows up in the Dead Sea Scroll material that is actually, not only interesting, but references…Here's the key thought…references what we just read in I Kings 4, about the songs and the…I'm going to use a very suggestive word here…the utterances of Solomon.
Okay, so this is 11 Q. Okay, 11 Q, Psalm scroll. And the abbreviation is AP superscript 'a'. In numbers it's 11 Q5, column, 27, for those of you who have Dead Sea Scroll stuff, you can go look this up, but I'm going to read you parts of it.
So this is a psalm about David. So we read here at the beginning. This is line two.
David, son of Jesse, was wise and a light like the light of the sun, and learned and perfect in all His paths before God and men.
And then we have a blank.
And the Lord, Yahweh, gave him a discerning and enlightened spirit, and he wrote Psalms, 3600, and songs to be sung before the altar over the perpetual…
Then there's a gap in the text. Line 9:
and all the songs which He spoke were 446, and songs to perform over the possessed, four of them.
So you actually have a reference in this extra psalm [in the Dead Sea Scroll text] to David composing songs to perform over the possessed. The total, again, of all of this was 4050…
Now the word translated ‘possessed’ is, more literally, someone who has been assaulted…someone who has been…accosted.
Again, the implication is by…some external force, but it's just an odd line:
…songs to perform over the possessed [or over the assaulted] four of them.
And the last line here:
…and all these he spoke through the Spirit of Prophecy, which had been given to Him from before the Most High.
So God gave him these…songs….
One of the biggest evidences of Messiah, would be His authority over the 'demons.' (pagan gods as far as the Hebrews knew them).Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, "Can this be the Son of David?" - Matthew 12:22-23 ESV
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All of these ideas …. are interconnected in the Old Testament mind as part of the Messianic profile: the Messiah will have power over the Terror of the Night [Lilit]. The Messiah will have power over the Terror of the Day [Reseph]. Again, nighttime demon, daytime demon. The Messiah will have power over pestilence, Deber; destruction, Ketev, both of them are buddies of Mot, Death in Hosea 13:14.
Lilit, Reseph, Deber, Ketev (sp?), and Mot in the quote above are names of ANE gods. These things were understood by the Jewish masses. Unlike us, they were well aware of the cultures and deities of the various nations, how they manifested themselves, and where they were referenced in the OT.
One striking similarity to modern experiences is in "The Terror by Night," a proper noun, wherein the experiences with this class of entity parallel what we describe today as 'sleep paralysis,' or 'a terrifying presence.' That description starts here. But if you skip ahead, you miss about 10 minutes of some needed exposition.
All in all, an excellent lecture, by Michael Heiser.
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