Your skepticism is shared by me, that is why I spent 20+ years studying neuroscience to understand the anatomy & physiology of the spiritual awakening process.
You read and cite scriptures but do not embrace and experience them.
You can read a thousand books on how to ride a bicycle, but not understand the process until you get on and ride. Your intellectual words are like the Pharisees prayers. I don’t mean to criticize, but to motivate you to experience that which you read and study.
The Bible is accurate. Your interpretation is not.
I answer with Jesus’ words.
Would Satan cast out Satan? A house divided against itself will not stand.
I post the following excellent question received by private message.
“When you said, I turned to Michael and said. There he is. You can get him. Michael replied, Its not time yet.
Did Michael reply to you audibly, in an internal voice (which was clearly not your own), or did you have an overwhelming sense that such was his response?
I ask because I am working hard to make sure I hear what the Lord and His Messengers are saying and to make sure I am proceeding correctly (and not coloring what I hear with my own imagination).
My reply.... first, your concern is legitimate. I recently helped a famous person who wrote several books and lectured frequently on messages he received from Jesus. When he finally realized that the voice was an imitator spirit, he ended up devastated and in the hospital for an extended period.
Learning discernment is most important. The evil imitators are very good at faking that they are of the Light.
Nothing is more important than your own spiritual growth. Always focus on your own self first and growing in Christ. If you do not do this, it’s dangerous.
Secondly, evil cannot imitate Love. Love is of God. When you feel the Loving Radiance of God, you can always trust the accompanying message. (Not human love though)
When you are born again, you begin to perceive directly from your consciousness external to your physical body. It is the awakening spoken of in the Bible as we have been asleep. (Such as in Matthew 13 when the enemy planted the weed seeds).
Jesus was teaching us how to transcend self. Everything he taught was toward this goal. This is how you do the things He did and more. This is how you experience Jesus at all times. Like the lightning in the east is seen in the west, you see the messiah.
Use the Bible as your guide book. It is the truth.
Ask the Holy Spirit into you. Keep asking and give gratitude always to God for sharing it with you. It is your protection and the source of your strength and discernment. The greatest sin is to reject the Holy Spirit as it will guide you to Jesus and God.
So in answer to your question, I hear physically and through an all knowing experience. You learn to recognize the radiance of different angels just as you know different people by the sound of their voices..
As long as you radiate God’s Love,, you are protected.. if in doubt,, radiate more Live and your enemies will flee.
Many people doubt the transcendent perception, so I demonstrate it by telling strangers of events in their lives. Or I will walk many feet from them and touch a sin in their soul and it knocks them off their feet.
Or I have them imagine a large object in the room and I will walk over to it. I feel their thoughts manifest. They are physical to me. But not them.
Im honestly not seeing sound doctrine displayed in your account. Golden cleansing swirls by the spirit? How does this square with direct words from the Lord in John 14:1-6?
1Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. 2In My Fathers house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. 4And you know the way where I am going. 5Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way? 6Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.
Now that recourse is quite a line employed in order to negate reproof of your unScriptural doctrine. Sounds akin to Gnosticism or Swedenborgism with their esoteric understanding that contradicts what it actually taught in Scripture using self-evident rules of interpretation (context, grammar, etc.)
I answer with Jesus’ words. Would Satan cast out Satan? A house divided against itself will not stand.
No, but he can imitate both the possessed and the "delivered" and thus mock the lost exorcist he is using. You can read the accounts of with doctor exorcists.
The Bible is accurate. Your interpretation is not.
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But I’m sure your interpretation is accurate, isn’t it?