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These are good questions. I can't say anything definitively, but I'll offer you my opinions. Legion may or may not be a reference to a Roman military group. They were pagan in spirit, and worshiped false gods. The demons inspired the Romans to hate the Jews and became God's instrument of judgment against the Jews for their sins.Just random thoughts...
[Mar 5:9-12 NIV] 9 Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many." 10 And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area. 11 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. 12 The demons begged Jesus, "Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them."
Why did they want to go to the pigs?
Do (fallen) angels get disembodied or do they always appear in some bodily form?
Do angels appear plural as one or do they appear individually?
The demons wanted to go into pigs to point out the sins of Israel, since they hated the Jews and wanted to point out their sins and their failure to follow God. They wanted God to appear as a failure in calling them to Himself.
The demons did not need bodies to live in. They just liked to use earthly vessels to justify their presence on earth doing sinful things. They took advantage of sinful human beings to possess them and make them greater vessels of demonic sin. They would take advantage of pigs to expose Israel's sin in keeping pigs for food, which was prohibited by the Law of Moses.
Yes, unclean spirits, or demons, never find complete rest. They wander without a final oasis to settle in. They do not even find rest in a human or animal body. They are purely "seeking" satisfaction to justify their sins.Is a"fallen angel" the unclean spirit in this verse below?
[Mat 12:43 ESV] 43 "When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest but finds none.
Yes, fallen angels are, I believe, demons. They can possess people. They can torment people. They look for a weak, unclean spot to inhabit and to increase the evil, or to express their own evil.Was it an angel tormenting King Saul?
[1Sa 16:14 NIV] Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.
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