Before we get into the matter of spirit possession, which is where we left off in part 6, I want to impress upon you the odds we face.
We have learned that when Satan was cast to the earth, he took with him fully one-third of the hosts of heaven:
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth . . . (Revelation 12:3-4.)
Think of it! One out of every three children of God who existed in pre-mortality, sided with Satan against God and were cast to earth, never to obtain a physical body.
Let’s look at it another way.
It has been estimated that between twenty and thirty billion people have inhabited this earth since the beginning of time, although no one can know for sure, short of revelation. Of course, this doesn’t include all those yet to be born.
But let’s be really conservative. Say there were a total of 21 billion people who were originally slated to come to earth. Of these, seven billion were cast out of heaven to earth, never to obtain a physical body, leaving fourteen billion souls who would be allowed to progress into their second estate.
Currently, there are seven billion people on the earth. Given this scenario, there are seven billion evil spirits here also, who want nothing more than to destroy and make miserable (like themselves) those who kept their first estate. That’s one evil spirit for each person in mortality.
Do you think Satan would have so much equanimity as to assign only one of his minions per soul? If you do, think again.
Consider this: Who does Satan hate the most?
If you answered Christians, you’d be correct. If you answered those who follow Jesus Christ, Satan’s dreaded enemy, you’d again be correct.
So, do you really think Satan would assign, say, one of his followers to an aborigine in the Outback of Australia and just one to you, a follower of Christ? Or do you think he might pull off, oh, a hundred of his best fellows from the Outback and reassign them to you? If you said, “Yes,” you’d likely be correct.
Nevertheless, even under such foreboding odds, we have been given this promise:
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. (James 4:7).
And that is our advantage.
all you folks are simply getting held up in translation and interpretation.
please try to remember were all “on the same side’
clarification will be given once you wake up dead.
keep peace in mind, not inflicting your viewpoints and wills on those unwilling or misunderstood of it.
and there I go “inflicting” my viewpoint,.
I guess you really cant escape it….well food for thought.
FRIENDS remember that even “satan” used the scriptures to tempt Jesus.
Thank you for your comment, Leighton, even though it was not apros pro to the discussion. Read all 13 parts of the series and then comment. Perhaps you will have something useful to say by then. Thanks, again, and have a great day. 🙂
If preaching has to be done , then by God’s Grace, let it be of the Lord’s Spirit ,by his spirit and in the Holy Spirit.. All the assumptions imposed in any preaching is not of the word of God..
Cutting the story short, anything said in teaching or teaching the word of God, let it all come from God and not of earthly knowledge or assumptions.. Where you don’t know , don’t say a thing, Where the Lord God almighty and by his spirit instructs you to say or write something ,then do so accordingly…
Be blessed of Christ’s everlasting love
Regards. J .M
Thank you for your comment, Jesus. The first thing you have to realize here is that I’m not preaching: you are and have been preaching and passing judgments on me. You have no authority to do so. You also have no authority to judge another’s “assumptions”, as you call them. I am simply pulling together scriptures, using the Bible in its entirety, so that the average reader can understand them, seeing as the “preachers” won’t often touch these Biblical subjects. I’m not asking anyone to believe what I write about; I am only setting the table. If you don’t wish to partake of the table’s offerings, don’t try and refuse me the ability to set the table.
I will do as I have been doing. You have no authority to judge what is of the Spirit and what is not of the Spirit, just because you may not agree with what I write. If you don’t like what I write and what I propose from the scriptures, that’s fine, but don’t throw around fancy-sounding judgmental words like you have the authority to do so. I have as much right to take from the scriptures things people don’t ordinarily talk about nor understand as does anyone else, including your esteemed self.
Don’t tell me what I can and cannot talk about. The Bible speaks of these things and so I will speak of these things. Just because you apparently don’t believe all that the Bible teaches, don’t try and put shackles on me to keep me from trying to bring forth these mysterious subjects from the dark out into the light.
Thank you again for your comments. You’re honest in your appraisal of my work, at least I think you are. And I appreciate that. However, I don’t need anyone to attack the messenger, thank you very much. If what I write offends your sensibilities, the simplest solution is for you to not read them, not to try and put me in my place.
Have a great day!
(,,,,”So, do you really think Satan would assign, say, one of his followers to an aborigine in the Outback of Australia and just one to you, a follower of Christ? Or do you think he might pull off, oh, a hundred of his best fellows from the Outback and reassign them to you? If you said, “Yes,” you’d likely be correct.”)
So now the native Australian is inferior in your eyes ?
Did Jesus die only for a certain few race on earth ?
Be very careful my fellow human, how you chose to put your words across least you become the very enemy you hate …..Christianity is not about where you come from or race ….
For those asking questions ! Only the spirit of God knows the deep things of God… Therefore ask God and he is faithful enough to answer everything honestly …..May the peace & love of God be upon us all… J.Mubaira
Thank you for your comment, Jesus. However, you are putting words in my mouth. I said nothing about race nor inferiority. That came from your mouth. Satan is the great Anti-Christ. Naturally he is going to assign more of his evil spirits to Christians than aborigines or any other non-Christian group of people. He doesn’t have to turn aborigines nor any other non-Christian group away from Christ to begin with, so why waste his minions on them? I am careful about how I put my words across. Remember, those were your words, not mine. Also, I don’t choose to hate. You brought that subject up as well. And as far as only the Spirit of God knowing the deep things of God, you are mistaken. (2 Corinthians 2)
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
So, by this we can see that God reveals his deep things to his servants, even as you say. And that is what this blog is all about: revealing the deep things of God, according to what’s in the scriptures.