Hartman to you and I fought about this for years. I felt most psychics were charlatans using grief to extract money from vulnerable people. Seriously, I believe that consulting with ghosts or spirits wherever they reside is a spiritual boundary mistake.
While we may believe death is not the end of us, the world after death is none of our concern now. You are Saul! He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams.
So I have called on you to tell me what to do. The Lord will hand over both Israel and you to the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The Lord will also hand over the army of Israel to the Philistines. The spirits of those who die in Christ will be ushered immediately into the. Paradise of God, and upon receiving new bodies, eventually will be transported into the final heavenly home, which Jesus says He is preparing for His people John Christ achieved victory over death when He arose from the grave, and His followers have the promise of an afterlife in Paradise and eventually in the heavenly Home.
However, death is still associated with sadness even for the Christian, because of the trauma of separation. Still, death is a time of grief and sadness. The central focus for us is the resurrection. While we prepare for death, death is not the central focus of our lives. Our focus is on the resurrection. When we approach the borders of death, we are mindful of the fact that those we leave behind will be lonel and will grieve at our passing.
Letting our friends behind is always painful. Hearing the news about a sudden death, or standing by the bedside of one who is dying, is always distressful. But when we arrive in the Paradise of God, the mysteries in our lives will become clear, and God will demonstrate the marvels of His grace that saved us. Even the hard times which we face in this life are products of the kindness of God. Berdene was ready to depart from this life.
Only days before entering into a coma, I had finished reading portions from the Bible and praying with her. Mother was holding my hand.
I just want so much to go, but God knows the timing. People of the world are not ready to depart from this life. They try and crack funny jokes, and kid around with each other. If they do talk about the afterlife, it is mostly about Saint Peter with a bunch of keys.
Sometimes it seems that such conduct is engaged in to hide some of the deep feelings of fear and uncertainty that worldlings are living with.
Those who are genuinely committed to serving Christ can truly enjoy life because death is not a constant dread. We think about it. It is an enemy. It brings sadness. We are not anxious for it. Our reparation for death begins with faith in Jesus Christ, repentance for sin, and receiving Christian baptism. It continues with believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and the work He did for us on the cross.
For the genuine disciple of Christ, death is faced with a sense of anticipation. We look at death-like a prisoner, awaiting release from prison; like a schoolchild, when the end of the term is near; like a migrant bird, ready to fly south; and like a person in the hospital, ready to go home. Medical science can help people die relatively painlessly, but only the Christian message of hope through Christ can help us die victoriously.
None of us knows how soon our lives will be snuffed out. The uncertainty of life and the certainty of death should cause us to make commitments to follow the Lord more carefully, and to bring the unsaved into a right relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ.
While the Scriptures give no definite figures, we are told that the number of angels is very great Daniel ; Matthew ; Hebrews It appears that all angels were created at one time. No new angels are being added to the number. Angels are not subject to death or any form of extinction; therefore they do not decrease in number. No, angels are not glorified human beings. Angels are a company or association, not a race descended from a common ancestor Luke If a dead mans spirit comes into you then you will need exorcisms.
In a Christian exorcism, we ask Jesus to perform the deliverance in prayer and ask the person to repent of sin, so the evil spirits and ghosts will not have any strongholds. No demons are straight from hell and they are fallen angels, they are not evil spirits or ghosts travelling but creatures without bodies and have never had a human body these are called demons.
If we could look through magical glasses that see to the spirit realm, we would see the demons lurking around waiting to get inside a human to cause havoc. Remember the story of the Archangel Michael, leading the legions of the good angels in driving the disobedient angels out of Heaven, and casting them into Hell? Those disobedient angels are the ones who, when given the chance to obey God rather than to follow their own will, chose not to serve their Creator.
Just as the nature of the good angels became fixed when they chose to obey God, the disobedient angels became fixed in their evil. They cannot change their ways; they cannot repent. We call those disobedient angels demons or devils.
They retain the powers that are part of their nature as spiritual beings. But now, rather than acting as messengers to mankind, bringing the good news and protecting us from spiritual and physical harm, demons try to lead us away from the truth.
They want us to follow them in their disobedience to God. They want us to sin, and, having sinned, to refuse to repent. If they succeed in that, they will have won a soul for Hell. Like angels, demons can manifest themselves to us, taking on physical form in order to try to coax us to commit evil. While they cannot make us act against our own will, they can use their powers of deception and persuasion to try to convince us that sin is desirable.
Think of the original sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden , when the serpent—a physical manifestation of the Devil—convinced them to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil by telling them that they would become like gods.
If we are led astray by demons, we can repent, and through the Sacrament of Confession , be cleansed of our sin. However, there is a more troubling phenomenon associated with demons: demonic possession. A demonic possession occurs when, through continued cooperation with a demon, a person essentially invites the demon in by aligning his will with that of the demon.
It's important to note that a demon cannot possess someone against his own will. That is why the demon must use his powers of deception and persuasion, and why the best protection against demonic activity is prayer and the frequent reception of the sacraments of Holy Communion and Confession, which strengthen our resolve to align our will with God's.
One modern work of art that properly portrays the action of demons and the method of demonic possession is The Exorcist, both the novel by William Peter Blatty and the film by William Friedkin. Blatty, a faithful Catholic, accurately portrays the teaching of the Catholic Church by having the young girl, Regan, invite the demon in through dabbling in the occult—in this case, through the use of a Ouija board. Many other films and television shows, however, portray the victims of demonic possession as innocents who are possessed against their will and without their knowledge.
Such portrayals deny the essence of human free will. Ghosts are perhaps the most misunderstood of all spiritual creatures, and the most consistently misrepresented in literature and film. The word ghost simply means a spirit or a soul thus the use of the term Holy Ghost as a synonym for the Holy Spirit , but souls belong exclusively to human beings.
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