THE SPIRIT OF LILITH & SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME

Lilith was a female demon, possibly an Assyrian goddess of night, worshipped by the Jews during the Babylon captivity. According to Jewish folklore, she was the Queen of Asmodeus, and hated children. A Jewish man who grew up in Israel said that everyone knew she was "Queen of the demons." According to their history, she was the first wife of Adam who was compelled to repudiate her, Eve being then created for him. In the demonology of the Middle Ages, Lilith was a famous witch, and she is introduced as such in the Wal-purgis-night scene on Goethe's Faust. In the 1986 May/June edition of Voices From His Excellent Glory, we printed the following article on "Crib Death".

CRIB DEATH

One day a lady from the audience spoke up and said that the LORD had shown her about crib death. She had been studying on owls and why we should not have them in our homes. The LORD showed her Isaiah 34:14 in the New American Standard; "And the desert creatures shall meet with the wolves (howling creatures), the hairy goat (demon) also cry to its kind; Yes, the Night Monster (Lilith - female night witch - vampire who goes after infants - crib death) shall settle there and shall find herself a resting place." As she studied this chapter and looked up in other editions, the LORD quickened to her heart that the night monster (Lilith) was the cause of crib death. In the dictionary, Lilith is a female night witch, a vampire who goes after infants, especially boy babies. She went on to say that either her sister or a friend was a nurse and had told her that usually this happens to very healthy babies.

Several years ago we had friends who walked in and found their 10-month old baby dead in his crib. Doctors could give no reason for it. Since the Campmeeting another lady who was attending the camp, has gone to the library and looked up everything on this subject. We believe that all of these stuffed toys that are coming in from heathen nations carry many evil powers. In Deuteronomy 7:26, "Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be accursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing."

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear and take precaution by cleaning out your homes and your baby's room of these abominable things. (Night lamps made like an owl, elves, smurfs, fairies, etc., foreign made toys which may have been dedicated to a false god.) Allow the Holy Spirit to show you what may be bringing evil spirits into your house. Break the curses that are inherited according to Galatians 3:13.

Is it possible that this stalker of infants is recorded for us in Isaiah 34:14, "the night monster shall settle there and shall find HERSELF a resting place?" Since our final authority is always God's Word, we turn to the Bible for information that might apply to the mystery of crib death.

The Hebrew word "lil'ith" in Isaiah 34:14 is translated in the king James Version of the Bible as "screech owl," in the New International Version as "night creatures", in the Revised Standard Version as "night hag", and in the Amplified and New American Standard Version it is translated as "night monster".

In Jewish tradition, Lilith was the CHIEF OF THE DEMONESSES, princess of the succubi (female demons who seduce men in their sleep) Talmudic literature and Jewish tradition describe Lilith as the first wife of Adam, but she refused to submit to his authority and was turned out of Eden and replaced by Eve. To take vengeance on Adam, she tried to ensnare the children of Eve.

Wierus and other demonologists reported that she sought to destroy new-born infants and for this reason the Jews used charms and amulets against her and wrote a formula (the names of the angels Sanvi, Sansanvi, and Semangelaf) on the four corners of a birth chamber to drive Lilith away. The word "lullaby" is thought to have derived from an incantation designed to repel her.

Lilith is depicted as a female demon who haunts desolate places in company with such goulish beasts as wild cats, jackals, hyenas, and satyrs. She is named in the cuneiform inscriptions as an attendant of Namtar, the Babylonian god of plagues. Lilith appears on a Canaanite charm, and likewise in post-biblical Jewish literature s the child-stealing witch Lilith of world-wide folklore. She is identified as "the flying one" on the same eighth century B.C. magical plaque which contains the Arslan Tash inscription. A carved stone Sumerian cult plaque shows her as having the feet and wings of an owl, standing flanked on each side by a large owl. Lilith is usually associated with unclean winged creatures and the bedlam caused by the screech owl.

Crib death, or SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), is the major cause of death in infants after the first month of life. Much medical research has been done to find the cause of this silent killer, but the precise cause or causes of these tragic deaths have eluded medical science. All that is know is that the baby just stops breathing, usually after several hours of deep sleep. There is little (if any) sign of a struggle. In fact, it remains a mystery how a healthy baby could die with no sign of illness. Even autopsies have been unable to find the cause of death in most cases.

According to an article in a medical journal, among the infants who face a high risk of crib death are those who have a family history of SIDS,(especially brothers and sisters), seizure disorder associated with apnea (lack of breathing), Hyaline membrane disease, or prematurity. Male children are more likely to die from crib death than females, and the rate among siblings of victims is four times higher than usual.

Crib death is certainly not new in our century. Records indicate that crib death occurred at least as frequently in the 18th and 19th centuries as today, and is recorded as far back as the Old Testament of the Bible. (The account in I Kings 3:19 of a new-born infant dying while sleeping could have been crib death, yet it may have been attributed to "overlaying" by his mother for lack of a better explanation).

Is there a connection between SIDS and the demoness Lilith? The reputation of the Lilith of Jewish tradition would indicate, to those who believe in demons or evil spirits, that she might be the cause of the deaths of thousands of innocent babies.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And take precaution by binding this demon spirit in Jesus name and breaking any inherited curse in the family line according to Galatians 3:13. Jesus became a curse so we don't have to bear it.

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