Posted on 11/01/2025 5:11:37 AM PDT by vespa300
The ministration of holy angels, as presented in the Scriptures, is a truth most comforting and precious to every follower of Christ. But the Bible teaching upon this point has been obscured and perverted by the errors of popular theology. The doctrine of natural immortality, first borrowed from the pagan philosophy, and in the darkness of the great apostasy incorporated into the Christian faith, has supplanted the truth, so plainly taught in Scripture, that “the dead know not anything.” Multitudes have come to believe that it is spirits of the dead who are the “ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.” And this notwithstanding the testimony of Scripture to the existence of heavenly angels, and their connection with the history of man, before the death of a human being.
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Furthermore, God has expressly forbidden all pretended communication with departed spirits. In the days of the Hebrews there was a class of people who claimed, as do the spiritualists of today, to hold communication with the dead. But the “familiar spirits,” as these visitants from other worlds were called, are declared by the Bible to be “the spirits of devils.” (Compare Numbers 25:1-3; Psalm 106:28; 1 Corinthians 10:20; Revelation 16:14.) The work of dealing with familiar spirits was pronounced an abomination to the Lord, and was solemnly forbidden under penalty of death. Leviticus 19:31; 20:27. The very name of witchcraft is now held in contempt. The claim that men can hold intercourse with evil spirits is regarded as a fable of the Dark Ages. But spiritualism, which numbers its converts by hundreds of thousands, yea, by millions, which has made its way into scientific circles, which has invaded churches, and has found favor in legislative bodies, and even in the courts of kings—this mammoth deception is but a revival, in a new disguise, of the witchcraft condemned and prohibited of old.
She adds the following which is why at virtually every funeral, the departed is placed in heaven as some kind of diembodied spirit...regardless of what the Bible says and regardless of how they lived their lives.....:
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If there were no other evidence of the real character of spiritualism, it should be enough for the Christian that the spirits make no difference between righteousness and sin, between the noblest and purest of the apostles of Christ and the most corrupt of the servants of Satan. By representing the basest of men as in heaven, and highly exalted there, Satan says to the world: “No matter how wicked you are; no matter whether you believe or disbelieve God and the Bible. Live as you please; heaven is your home.” The spiritualist teachers virtually declare: “Everyone that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?” Malachi 2:17. Saith the word of God: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.” Isaiah 5:20.
Marked as cultic spam from a false prophetess.
Houdini did his best to destroy the spiritists of his day proving them to be frauds and charlatans.........
“Can Our Dead Speak to Us?”
Biden has for years.
I like how she uses the phrase “Pretended communication” with the dead.
Because it is “pretend.” It’s fake. It’s a counterfeit. It’s a deception of Satan. That is why we don’t pray to saints, or pray to Mary who is dead awaiting her resurrection. THat is why we don’t pray to any human being we believe is in heaven. There are 3 humans we know that are in heaven.
Enoch, Elijah, ....both translated alive. And Moses who was taken up after God put him to death but then clearly resurrected his BODY and took him to Heaven. Read the book of Jude........there was even a dispute over his BODY. And Jesus met with Elijah and Moses at the transfiguration to receive comfort since the disciples had fallen asleep. God probably sent them to comfort Christ as Calvary lay ahead.
Que the “absent from the body present with the Lord” text that is surely coming...
Paul is comparing this vile body corrupt body with the new one he gets .......not at death, at the resurrection. Let’s read all of Paul. In Thessalonians, he writes the dead come up from their graves to join the living who are saved and together go to meet the Lord.
Death is not a friend.
Que the Lazarus folks who take a parable to be literal. The rich man and Lazarus is a parable unless you believe people in heaven can talk to people in hell and a drop of water will quench your thirst. etc.
Now the actual Lazarus who was raised from the dead......he didn’t say a single word about being in heaven.
There is not a single word from any human being raised from the dead about their being in heaven as a spirit or otherwise. Why? Because they were dead. Asleep.
There is no natural immortality. We have conditional mortality. The first lie about natural mortality was told to Eve.......and she bought it. Hook, line , and sinker.
And most Christians believe it today. We don’t die...we just live on as a spirit. We never die. A lie from Satan.
Mary is dead. There is no saint in heaven. It’s all a lie. Immortality comes at the 2nd coming, at the ressurection to those who died in the Lord.......
Yes he did. I was watching a story about that a few days ago. I was not aware of it.
You know what’s really really interesting?
This is also related to the doctrine of a oven that God puts people in where they will be cooking alive forever with no end. Another lie due to bad Bibles scholarship.
But here’s the interesting thing. Every Christian believes Jesus took our punishment for sin.
If that’s true...and the punishment for sin is to be in a Microwave forever.......How come Jesus isn’t in his Oven ?
That was my punishment?
The false Sabbath and spiritualism. The 2 great end time errors that deceive so many. And they can’t answer these questions. If we study the Bible......it’s better.
In this chapter...an amazing chapter about the belief in spiritualism.....she writes that Satan is preparing the world for this grand end time masterpiece of deception.
She quotes the Bible of course.....she was a Protestant. The best Bible commentator I have ever read too.
Her words:
Satan has long been preparing for his final effort to deceive the world. The foundation of his work was laid by the assurance given to Eve in Eden: “Ye shall not surely die.” “In the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:4, 5. Little by little he has prepared the way for his masterpiece of deception in the development of spiritualism. He has not yet reached the full accomplishment of his designs; but it will be reached in the last remnant of time. Says the prophet: “I saw three unclean spirits like frogs; ... they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” Revelation 16:13, 14. Except those who are kept by the power of God, through faith in His word, the whole world will be swept into the ranks of this delusion. The people are fast being lulled to a fatal security, to be awakened only by the outpouring of the wrath of God.
Wow....what a statement. She says except those who are kept by the power of God....”The whold world will be swept into the ranks of this deception. The people are fast being lulled to a fatal security TO BE AWAKENED ONLY BY THE OUTPOURING OF THE WRATH OF GOD.”
God has always taken spiritualism seriously. In the OT anyone who sought to communicate with familiar spirits was to be put to death.
Today , millions pray to Mary, to saints, who they believe intercede for them, etc. I wouldn’t pray to a dead person. I only pray to God in the name of Jesus....We are going to see more and more spiritualism and people claiming they communicate with the dead and others claiming they died and saw heaven or something else.
It all makes God out to be a liar. Only God is immortal......1 Timothy 6:16
This is what those who believe in Spiritualism, that the dead can speak to us.....are opening themselves up to in the last days as Satan will work wonders including “lying spirits”
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Many will be confronted by the spirits of devils personating beloved relatives or friends and declaring the most dangerous heresies. These visitants will appeal to our tenderest sympathies and will work miracles to sustain their pretensions. We must be prepared to withstand them with the Bible truth that the dead know not anything and that they who thus appear are the spirits of devils.
Well, Samuel spoke to Saul
___Just wow.
I want to party with you, V.___
Sounds good but after the Sabbath ok? Thank ya bruh.
___Well, Samuel spoke to Saul____
Actually, Saul “perceived” it was Samuel. The witch of course wouldn’t know the difference between a lying spirit and the actual.
If it was really Samuel, the Bible wouldn’t say Saul “perceived” it was Samuel. Let’s read the whole story. This “Samuel” even asked Saul....”Why did you bring me UP?”
So whereever Samuel was....a witch was able to bring him UP?
Witches can contact the dead? And the dead like Samuel a prophet of God is “below” somewhere?
I think we need to study more and let the Bible interpret itself. The judgement comes at the end.....not at death. In Daniel we see the Judgement scene in chapter 7. All are judged then punished. We even see the 2nd resurrection in Revelation...that’s the bad one. It’s collective....all come up for final punishment at once.......Nobody is in hell now.
I wonder why people don’t read Daniel and Revelation.
Verse 14 in the story of the witch of Endor:
And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul PERCEIVED that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
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(1 Samuel 28:14) And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, An old man comes up, and he is covered with a cloak. And Saul saw that it was Samuel, and he bowed his face to the ground, and prostrated himself.
perceived
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A primitive root; to know (properly to ascertain by seeing);
[[Multitudes have come to believe that it is spirits of the dead who are the “ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.”]]
Satan has blinded the masses for forever practically. Man has an inherant curiosity which the evil one capitalizes on by deceiv8ng yhem into thinking that they can communicate withthe dead. Th3 efil one and his cohorts are lying spirits who walk around like lions seekong whom they may devour, and anyone fiddling around with spiritism is a ripe candidate for them as the person’s mind is given over to evil things.
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