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Whatever counterfeits may have existed before or after Jesus are just that, demonic counterfeits.
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Was Justin the first to assume that false gods were demons?Justin lives!
Leviticus 17:7
17:7 They shall no more offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations." '
Deuteronomy 32:16-17
32:16 They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.
Psalms 106:36-38
106:36 They served their idols, Which became a snare to them.
106:37 They even sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons,
106:38 And shed innocent blood, The blood of their sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
1 Corinthians 10:20
Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to Demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with Demons.
Revelation 9:20
But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship Demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
Robin