Spiritualism. Sure it's Real, But Not the Kind of Real they Think It Is.

Another guest on Coast-to-Coast radio last night got me writing another blog post but I hope I get to the end of this subject soon. I just don't want to inspire anyone to get involved in this stuff, so I don't want to name names and give websites and that sort of thing.

Last night's guest is into spiritualism, mediums, seances. All these people by the way, or most of them, seem to be ery nice ordinary people, not weirdos or anything like that. It's not the people I object to, I just think they are sadly deceived by the subject that has enthralled them. She got involved in her pursuit of this kind of information by an experience of a seance in which the supposedly departed person who was contacted by the medium gave information that only that person could have known. This is a common experience that hooks people into these things. 5their main question is whther it is real or not and the contacted spirit's giving personal information answers that qquestion for them.

These are all people who don't beliee the Bible of cou5rse. Christians know better, or they shoujld. If they are well taught biblically they should. the dead do not communicate with the living, and for the reincarnationists, THERE IS ONE LIFE TO LIVE AND THEN THE Judgment. I'll hae to track down the scripture references later. Mediums are forbidden in the bible, also witches who comunicate with demons. they all communicate with demons. It is not departed people who speak in seances but demonic impersonations of them. And demons can have all sorts of personal information about the people they are impersonating.

People who get involved in occultic and paranormal practices always want to prove that it's real, that there is really life after death and so on. Near0death experiences prove that there is life beyond this life for instance.

The guest gave interesting information about the origin of spiritualism, in the "burned-over" district of upstate New York, where a couple of sisters claimed to be in touch with the spirit of a murdered man who was buried under their house. It spread from there all over the world. It became what the guest called a religion that threatened to displace Christianity. And there were other occultic and spiritistic occurrences in that same district at the same time. Mormonism got its start there, and Seventh Day adventism, and Shakerism and the Onieda Colony and even the Suffragette Movemment.

Why isn't the Bible enough to convince people that there is an afterlife? that we are immortal souls? there are supernatural doings galore in the Bible, and yet people prefer these demonic manifestations and if they contradict the Bible that becomes the truth to them. AThere's a lot of evidence of the suprnatural in the Bible, there's a lot of evidence of demonic activity in the Bible. Jesus cast demons out of many people. Paul was followed around by a girl who was demon possessed until he cast the demon out of her. But people bbelieve the Fox sisters who talked to a dead man buried uner their house rather than Jesus or Paul. Joseph Smith believed the fallen angel Moroni and denounced Christianity.

It's the fallen angels that concoct the UFOs and the stories of ETs, that olead people to talk to dead relatives that they impersonate, thta invent religions and go to great lengths to denigrate Jesus Christ and the Bible. People don't understand that this world is fallen ,t hat we are fallen creatures. tHIS YOU LEARN FROM THE bIBLE AND NOWHERE ELSE. Sorry about the capitals, again I don't know what I hihit. In this fallen world which is the result of Adam and Eve's eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil against God's comman forbidding it, we have lost the faculty that communicated with God. We can communicate with demons but not with god. We have to be regfenerated,m born again, to be able to commmunicate with god. Satan is the Prince of this world as Jesus called him, he and his devil horde are all around us, are the "god's of the idolatrous religions etc. you can only learn this from the bible which is the Word of God.

I would l8ike to think if people on Coast-to-Coast heard this they'd give up their dangerous dabblings with demons and get saved, but that's up to God.

A Fake Jesus From the Paranormal Aficionados

Another guest on George Noory's Coast-to-Coast late night radio show, tells of having had a near-death experience in which he went to a place engulfed in a beautiful golden light and suffused with a feeling of love and peace and so on. As so often happens when people have such experiences he took it as a revelation of what happens to people after death, lost his fear of death and spent the rest of his life pursuing things related to the "other side.
O dodm t jear a;; tje sjpw bit a[[aremt;u je beca,e a sprt pf guru of the paranormal with a sort fo Buddhist flavor, has had many encounters with entities or spiritual beings, some of whom he takes as teachers. He described a hierarchy of such beings with "masters" at the top. He mentioned a Yeshua ben Joseph, or Jesus son of Joseph, obviously an impersonaation of Jesus Christ and of coruse he accepts the impersonation as the truth and dismisses the biblical revelation. "son of Joseph" means of course that this Jesus was not the Son of God as we are told in scripture Hed is. He is. He also mentioned a "Mary" and a "mary Magdalene," whom he described as very powerful. Insinuation she's more powerful than the Jesus entity.

Their personal experience will loo9m larger in their minds than claims for the Bible as the source of all truth.
God gave us the Bible to protect us from the delusions of our own fallen minds and th4e "helpful" ministrations of the deminoic entitles whose objective is always to mislead us in the direction of Hell. Satan did just that to Eve and that was the beginning of what we call the Fall, the Original Sin that changed the created wolrd that had been perfet and in which all life was immortal, so that disease and death reign over us, and the demon hordes who followed SWatan are the "gods" of all the cultures in the world. You learn this from the Bible and nowhere else, but of course if you are listening to the demons themselves you'll get a very different story. And it's a story that plays to our human pride so that it's hard to give up. Those near-death experiences tell us we don't need to be saved from anyuthing, we're good enough as we are so we can expect to go to such a blissful paradise when we die. None of this bloody sacrifice of God Himself who came in human flesh to die in our place, none of this business about how we are all sinners at odds with THE God who made us, fit only for an eternity of Hell. Naa, that's all just scare tactics mae up by a priestly class or some such, to control us or something like that. TAhe story varies but it's always a stroy that discredits the Bible. they don't bother discrediting other religions because they can't save us, only Christ's death on the cross can save us. So they spend a lot of time denigrating the Bible. that's a clue you might want to notice. Mohammed is no threat to them, Hinduism is no threat to them, Catholicism is no threat to them, buit Biblical Christianity IS a threat to them.

But on go these "investigations" into the paranormal, wanting to find out whatit's really all about, while all the time we have the answer in the World of God He gave us. tHERE MAY BE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF SPECIES OF FALLEN ANGELS, BUT THERE'S NO REASON TO THINK ANY OF THESE EDNTITIES THAT SO CAPTIATE THE OCCULTISTS AND PARANORMALISTS WER EANTYH8ING BUT SUCH FEMONIC BEINGS OR FALLEN ANGELS. oR COURSE i GET THIS FROM THE bIBLE. tHOSE ARE THE ONLY OPTIONS SUGESTED THERE. oH AND THE nEPHILIM, i DON'T KNO HOW TO FIT THEM IN BUT THEY HAVE TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AS WELL, THOSE HYBRID HUMAN-ANGELS, REALLY HUMAN-DEMONS DESCRIBED IN GENESIS 6. THERE MAY ALSO BE DEMON-ANIMAL HYBRIDS. THE "EXPERIEMTNS" SOM ufo ABUCTEES TALKS ABOUT COULD DESCRIBE A GENETIC OPERATION TO RECREATE SOME OF THOSE THINGS OR COME UP WITH SOME NEW ONES. i DON'T KNOW BUT i DO KNOW THERE IS NO REASON TO THINK any OF THESE ENTITIES FROM THE "OTHER SIDE" ARE ANYHTHING BUYT FALLEN SPIRITUAL BEINGS WE LEARN ABOUT FROM THE bIBLE.

oNLY THE TRUE jESUS CAN SAVE US. All the dabbling into occultie and paranormal things these poor misled people are doing is only going to destroy them. ,brt>
Sorry about the capitalizing. I don't know how I do that but it's a mistake.

Remembering the Bomb Years Part 2 Video of veterans used as guinea pigs

Just heraing bits and pieces of what happened during the bomb test years, to people and even animals who were downwind from the explosions, and there wree hundreds of them detonated above ground before they realized it might be safter to do it underground, mak4es me wonder what ort of government we have after all. It's one thing to know about our wonderful Consti5tution and so on, but that has no power to stop fallen human nature from doing some pretty dastardly things.

I mentioned before that I grew up in Nevada in those years, was taken with my fourth grade class out to the edge of town where we could watch one of the bomb tests, and I spent a lot of my childhood worried about being surrounded by radioactive particles in the air and that sort of thing. It seemed after all that we all survived it just fine, but in recent years I've been reviwing some rther severe sicknesses I went thought and one of my b5rothers too and thinking maybe we should have atgtribted them to the bomg tests. We didn't, we assumed they were just normal sigknesses. I don't think so any more.


Anyway, here's a video of some veterans who were used as guinea pigs during a test shot, placed in a trench about a mile from Ground Zero. ythey were forgidden to spoeak about their exper4iences for sixty years so this is the breaking of their silence. They seem more struck speechless at the memory than anything else. Fourteen thousand men were put through that experience. Amazing what they did to us. >br? >br?

Some Liberal Lies, Delusions and Manufactured Misinformation

If there isn't a book out there documenting all the liberal lies and delusions and countering them with accurate accounts, there should be. It's the popping o f such bubbles of delusion that has led many to walk away from the Democrats. Their testimonies can be found t the Walkawau Ca,[aogm websote/ :pts pf ;oes abpit Trump in particujlar, a dissection of those could easily fill a book. Lies, delusions, insinuations, manufactured false impressions which disappear when shown in their true context./ But we're awash in lieral lies and delusions of all kinds these days, lies about race and racism, lies about the economy, about inflation, lies about COVID and its treatments, etc. etc..

Larry Elder is particularly good at collecting information about common jliberal beliefs and showing how they're wrong. Here's one about the liberal belief that Conservatives are greedy and selfish and liberals are more generous:

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And here's one about common beliefs about slavery, gun control and the minimum wage:




Is poverty the cause of crime?


Here's an interview he did with Heather MacDonald about systemic racism among cops. The statistics don't bear out that opinion. The Tony Timpa incident was mentioned, in which a white man was killed by cops under exactly the same circumstances that George Floyd was killed.

The Fear of the Lord Teaches the Wisdom of Preserving Life and Health By Avoiding Sin

God's Law is one of my revolving topics these days and although I haven't been researching itrelated conceptsw have been turning up here and there, mostly in sermons I'm listening to. I listen to sermons because I want to be inspired and strengthened in my faith. Ideally I'd like to find a sermon or maybe a new preacher I'm not familiar with who teaches in a way that takes me deep into a devotional state of mind. Spurgeon does that at times. But then I often find myself objecting to this or that comment the teacher makes and that's very disappointing. I don't want to be in the position of finding fault with a teacher I appreciate and when it happens I want it to go qaway. But sometimes it raises anissue I've been thinking about anyway and then I have to follow it out and that's happened a few times lately with issues related to the topic of God's Law.

These are my favorite teachers I'm talking about, teachers I love, teachers who do inspire and educate me. I hate disagreeing with them. Who do I think I am? I can hope I'm wrong, but meanwhile I have to pursue this thought that got raised.

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom," or sometimes it reads "knowlege" instead of "wisdom" I'd pretty much orked out what that meant, or so I thought. Fearing the Lord means fearing the consequences o violating His commendments, His Law. the wages of sin is death. Although Christians are under grace and saved for et unbelievreermninity, in this life we are told we are just as subject to the consequencesw of sin as any unbeliever. The unbeliever has Hell to fear and we don't but we do have temporal consequences of sin which can be pretty painfujl.

That's how I think about fear of the LOrd, an it's hard to think of it any other way. But then I heard a teacher say it really means worship. It does? And another teacher said the book of Proverbs, which is all about the fear of the Lord, the consequencea of sin and the wisdom of obedience, is not about Law. It's not? These are bot5h teachers I love.

Isn't the message of fearing the Lord that if we do fear Him we will avoid committing the sins that bring painful consequences and pursue a path that leads to life and health? Is't that what the book of Provervs says oer and over again? Do this and and life. And isn't that the same the Mosaic Law says? Do this and live.
\THIS ISN'T lAW IN THE HUMAN WORLDLY SENSE. tHIS IS lAW ON THE LEVEL OF lAW, EMBEDDED IN THE STUFF OF THE UNIVERSE, INEXORABVL, INERADICABLE, INESCAPABLE. (this was not supposed to be capitalizI hit something I swhouldn'te and now it's too big a project to undo it, sorry.)

I got on this topic when it hit me that the "knowledge" of Hosea 4 is this same kind of knowledge, whthat, or god says that His people are destroyed for edge. Sin destroys. All sort of things may be instruments of uction but it's sin that is the reason for all destruction. If we were sinless we coudln't be hurt by anything. Jes couldn't die because He w. that's why He was able to die fo, in our place. And why do we need saving?: Beause of the Law. It's all aboutut the Law. We always at odds witht e Lw which condemns us and condemns us and condemns us. ,br>
Am I wrong about this? I keep thinking thta oen't under the Law if we belong to Jesus, but nevertheless the Law is holy and s prepecutally and exactly ahout pause. I thnink we often slighbecause we . No, I don't hink it is legtreat it with respect.

A Voddie Baucham Sermon I Needed to Hear

wHAT A SERMON! i'M RUNG OUT AFTER HEARING IT. this is Vodie Baucham on Romans 8 abd ge;s tajeb ut yo frin a oiubt if vuew u gavebp;t geard before: how dare we question God about His sovereign will. Who do we think we are? The topic is election. The arrogance of the created being in asking the Creator how He could choose some and not choose others for salvation. He doesn't miss a beat, he doesn't miss a relevant point, or so it seemed to me. This is the right answer to all those who dare to judge God, and it's the answer to all of us who complain about our lot. T

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John MacArthur on the Antichrist System of the Popes and Roman Catholicism

This sermon by John MacArthur simply showed up at You Tube and it's a very thorough discussion of the Antichrist nature of the papacy so I want to be sure it gets posted here. I think it's a few years old but I can't find a date on it, maybe that's just because I can't see well enough but I don't kbnow when he preached it whatever the reason. It's a powerful and very pointed teaching, MacArethur does not mince words. Catcholicism is destroying people by their false salvation and Catholics need to learn this so they can escape.


The abomination of the elevatio of Mary by the Popes is shown in quotes from a book by Pope John Paul. The lie that Peter was the first Pope is described after Mary is discussed toward the end of the sermon.

I'm just happy I found this video. I've heard lots of good teachings on the subnjeject of the papal Antichrist, but Mac Arthur does a particujlarly good job of it.

Catholics need this teachinjg about over so they can save themselves and leave this abomination of a false church.