Chapter 3.13
Ghost Busters
Jesus was the first Ghost Buster,
then came the twelve Disciples,
now the Holy Spirit within us
First
Word
Ghost are believed to be
the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal
that can appear to the living with the ability to assist or harm. There are a number of names given for ghost
such as apparition, phantom, poltergeist, haunt, shade, specter, spook, and the
list goes on.
The descriptions of ghosts vary widely;
many describe ghost as like your “breath” or a vanishing vapor like you would
see when you went outside on a cold day and breathed out a vapor or mist. Others say that ghost forms vary from an
invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to lifelike
visions and to even REAL.
Do you remember
the Movie “The Sixth Sense”, about a young
boy who could see and talk to dead people?
His famous catch phrase was, “I See Dead People”. He said in the movie that dead people walk
around like regular people, but they don’t see each other. They only see what they want to see; they
don’t know they are dead.
The question is “Do
Ghost Exist” and the answer is YES, but let’s take a slow walk around the block
and unpack “What
They Are” and “Where They Come From”. I will use scripture from the Apocrypha
as well as Josephus
the Jewish Historian to fill in the blanks. Josephus was born the year Jesus was
resurrected and while not a Christian, he reported amazing facts about the
thoughts of the people surrounding our Lord.
Haunted
Houses
A
playmate of mine hung himself in the attic of his house when I was
about 10 years old. There was talk about
how his ghost would remain there and soon the family moved out and the home
remained vacant for about 2 years; no one would buy the house believing it
would be haunted by the ghost of the young boy.
A man died in
his home down the street from me and his house was left vacated; overrun with
vines, overgrown shrubbery and deteriorated wood around the windows. As kids we referred to it as The Haunted House and would try to peek in the windows and ring the
doorbell and run. It remained vacant for
about 6 years till a young couple from our church bought it at a bargain. Question: Is there a valid reason to
fear purchasing a home where a death has occurred?
After a person dies,
does the spirit hang around after their death? There was an unfounded and un-Biblical mindset
in the early church that the spirit of the DECEASED HUNG
AROUND
for three days after their death. You
will note that Jesus waited till after the three days were up before he raised
Lazarus from the dead just to prove that his resurrection was indeed
supernatural. Lazarus body was already
beginning to rot; it STUNK. As a side note it
is also interesting that the “body” of Jesus was in the grave three days.
John 11:39 –
Lazarus spirit has gone and now he stinks.
39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith
unto him, Lord, by this time HE STINKETH: for he hath
been DEAD FOUR DAYS. (KJV)
Mortal,
Immortal, Eternal
Before
we dig into ghost, I would like to take a moment to define the
difference between “Mortal” and “Immortal” to help understand
what a ghost can be and what it cannot be.
Mortal means that a person or living creature is susceptible to
death. There body can be separated; disembodied from
their Spirit, example; humans and other living creatures.
Immortal means that a person or living
creature has the ability to live forever as they were created; body and spirit,
example; Angels
were created immortal.[1] Believers
at the resurrection will get a new glorified body that will be immortal.
Eternal means a timeless state in which a spirit lives; like
forever.
A Ghost is a created being that has been disembodied from
its spirit. HOLD THAT
THOUGHT
Ghost
The
King James Version Bible is where we find the term ghost mentioned some
108 times, later versions of the Bible use the word Spirit. The term ghost is
used in only two ways;
1)
When someone dies and “gives up the ghost” or
2)
When speaking of the third person of the Trinity;
“The Holy Ghost”.
This study will
address ghost using the term spirit; especially “Unclean Spirits”. There are four thoughts on what Haunts,
Spirits and Ghosts are;
1) Dead People, 2) Fallen Angel’s, 3) The Nephilim, and 4) Demons.
1)
Dead People
I want to address dead people first since it’s the
most popular belief concerning ghost and is the one that prevents most people
from buying a house where a death has occurred.
Some are OK if the death was natural, but freak out if the
death was traumatic with suicide, knives, guns or murder in some form or
fashion.
Question: If the dead have already received their
judgment of heaven or hell; why would the dead need a resurrection? There would hardly be an interest in the
return of Jesus Christ if the SOUL of the believer
had already gone to the Lord immediately upon death.
The Book says when a person
dies their body returns to the earth; dirt, dust along with their Soul
which is their mind and emotions. Their
Spirit, the breath of life (Ruah; breath,
wind, spirit) returns to God; the one who gave it. Not
the person, not the body, not the Soul, but the life force that is in us, is
what goes back to God.
You are judged at death; and are awaiting
sentence of either eternal bless and happiness or eternal damnation. When the Believer dies, his body and soul goes
to the grave and his spirit becomes present with the Lord.[2] When a person’s breath departs, at that very
same moment, their plans perish, there is neither working nor planning nor
knowledge nor wisdom. They can't praise
nor curse; their emotions, their
love, their hate and envy have all perished. The dead know nothing, they are silent in the
grave, NOT A
WORD TO BE HEARD.[3]
Bible Sidebar: There were a
few special stories of people being raised from the dead as a sign for God’s
glory, but eventually their bodies, souls and spirits ALL RETURNED to the grave. There is a story of a man in Hell who
wanted to return to his family to warn them and tell them about God, but his
request was DENIED! The Dead Cannot Return; so
dead people cannot and ARE NOT the ghostly
wispy entities that haunt people or houses today. HOLD THAT THOUGHT
Communicating
with the Dead
Since the Book
is without error, then we have to
ask, what’s going on when people talk to the dead and get information that only
that person could have?
The Book says in no uncertain
terms, to NOT communicate
with the dead. “Do not turn to mediums
or seek out spiritists or wizards or one who practices witchcraft, or
a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one
who conjures spells, or one who calls up the dead, for you will be defiled by them,
they are an abomination. People should seek God, not Mediums &
Wizards.[4] With
that said, if we are told to NOT communicate with the dead, then we
must be able to.
Wikipedia:
Necromancy is a form of magic involving
communication with the deceased either by summoning their spirit as
an apparition or raising them bodily for the purpose
of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover
hidden knowledge, or to use the deceased as a weapon. The term Black Magic or witchcraft
may sometimes be used in a more general sense.
If it is true that dead people are SILENT in the grave,
then WHO or WHAT are the people
communicating with? HOLD THAT
THOUGHT
2)
Fallen
Angels
Next I wanted to address fallen Angles because many
commentaries say that fallen angels are ghost or identities that are controlled
by Satan to do his bidding. This is
based on the scripture that says that there was a war in heaven between Michael
the Archangel and his angles against Satan and his angels.[5] Satan lost and was cast out of heaven like
lighting along with one third of the angels.[6]
Well, while this is true, this war doesn’t
happen until the last three and a half years of the seven year tribulation
period which has not happened yet. So
Satan is still in heaven accusing the believer day and night and his angels are
with him[7]. On top of that, Angels are immortal and
retain their created body AND when the angels
do fall they are bound in chains of darkness until the judgment.[8]
So angels ARE
NOT the
ghostly wispy entities that haunt people or houses. HOLD THAT
THOUGHT
3)
Nephilim
Nephilim; the majority of
the ancient Bible versions interpret the word Nephilim to mean "GIANTS". The Symmachus
translates it as "the violent ones" and Aquila's translation has
been interpreted to mean either "the fallen ones" or "the
ones falling (upon their
enemies.)"
Wikipedia
Scripture clearly states that some angels identified as “sons of God”,[9]
left their own habitations and took the women of earth in marriage and had
sexual intercourse with them resulting in a hybrid of giants which we call the Nephilim.[10]
Daniel prophesized that
there would be a mixing of seed in marriage[11]… Nephilim?
Perhaps.
Josephus the Jewish
Historian says that the Nephilim’s were hybrids, part celestial and part
terrestrial with an appearance that was entirely different from that of men of
which we cannot even imagine. (You need in your library the book, Antiquity
of the Jews by Josephus the Jewish Historian.)
Apocrypha: Enoch took a petition to God on behalf of
some of the Nephilim for forgiveness of their sins, God said the petition would
NOT BE GRANTED. The Nephilim are bound to stay on earth as
long as the earth endures. THEY ARE HERE TODAY. (I include
scripture from the Book of Enoch in the Apocrypha because chances are you do
not have it in your library yet.)
So if the Nephilim which are
the offspring’s of the Angels that took earthly women for wives are among us
today, they are predestined to hell, and cannot be redeemed; cannot be saved. [12]
PONDER THE
EVIL that’s in the world today, are these EVIL people descendants of the Nephilim’s and
cannot be redeemed? [13]
Do we walk side by side with the damned and
neither of us know it? PONDER THAT
God made man a little lower
than the Angels; man is mortal and has a soul, Angels are immortal, but do not
possess a soul. So a fallen angel cannot be redeemed, but man
can. The Nephilim; the giants were the very
reason God destroyed the earth with Noah’s flood. They all died, but because they were hybrids,
part celestial and part terrestrial, their damned spirits remained on
earth.
Note: We do not know what ANGELS actually look
like, nor their offspring’s the NEPHILIM; the Giants. When scripture says “ALL FLESH” had been corrupted, it gives us reason
to believe that even the BEAST of the field
also became corrupted. Black
Cats, Black Ravens
Job says that there was some kind of creation or LIFEFORM that existed at
the beginning of creation that all “sang together”. Now we are ready to talk about ghost or DEMONS.
Enoch 12:5-7- ET’s’
- Angels cannot receive remission of Sins
5
Then the Lord said to me: Enoch, scribe of righteousness, go tell the
WATCHERS
of heaven, who have deserted the lofty sky, and their holy everlasting station, who have
been polluted with women.
6
And have done as the sons of men do, by taking to themselves wives,
and who have been greatly corrupted on the earth;
7 That on the earth they shall NEVER obtain peace and REMISSION OF
SIN.
For they shall not rejoice in their offspring; they shall behold the slaughter
of their beloved; shall lament for the destruction of their sons; and shall
petition for ever; but SHALL NOT obtain mercy
and peace.
Enoch 13:1-7 – Enoch petitions God for the Nephilim’s
forgiveness
1 Then Enoch, passing on, said to Azazyel:
You shalt not obtain peace. A great sentence is gone forth against you. He
shall bind you;
2 Neither shall relief, mercy, and
supplication be yours, on account of the oppression which you have taught;
3 And on account of every act of
blasphemy, tyranny, and sin, which you have discovered to the children of men.
5 And they all became terrified, and
trembled;
6 Beseeching me to write for them a memorial of supplication, that they might
obtain forgiveness; and that I might make the memorial of their
prayer ascend up before the God of heaven; because they could not themselves
address him, nor raise up their eyes to heaven on account of the disgraceful
offence for which they were judged.
7 Then I wrote a memorial of their prayer and
supplications, for their spirits, for everything which they had
done, and for the subject of their entreaty, that they might obtain remission
and rest.
Enoch 14:3-4 – God said NO
3 Judgment has been passed upon
you: your request will NOT BE GRANTED you.
4 From this time forward, never shall you
ascend into heaven; He has said, that on the
earth He will bind you, as long as the world endures.
4) Demons
Recalling the story of the Demon
Possessed Man whose was named Legion because he had some 6,000 demons in
him. When Jesus commanded the demons to
come out, they knew who He was and begged Him to not send them before their
time into the “dry”
desert or the “bottomless
pit” where they would seek rest and not find any.[14]
NOTE: Disembodied entities cannot get around on their
own, they need a living entity to inhabit; that’s why the demons that were in
the man, asked to be sent into the pigs.
Jesus complied and sent them into a herd of about 2,000 (moist) pigs which promptly ran down a hill and
were drowned in the sea; that would be about 3 demons per pig.[15] By law, the Hebrews did not eat pork, so this
action had a double meaning. BUT… although the pigs drowned, the demons continued
to exist.
Now with that said… Demons are
eternal; the pigs died, but the demons did not… Where are they today? Just for fun let your mind wander out to sea,
to recall the stories of the “BERMUDA
TRIANGLE”…
Since 1609 there have been at least 23 recorded disappearances of planes and
ships in that area; could it have been demonic?
PONDER THAT
Where did these demons come
from?
Demons the
Beginning
In order to take you to where demons
come from and what they are, I have to take you into unfamiliar territory; a
concept that your Belief System WILL REJECT until you read it for yourself in the Bible.
I won’t spend a lot of time here,
because it’s another Word Study all into its own self.
It’s called the Pre-Adamic flood or
Satan’s
flood or The Gap Theory. Most pastors know about it, but cannot teach
it because their domination feels it undermines the seven day creation story; I
think it has no effect. It has to do
with the FIRST
EARTH AGE,
the one before this one, the one that occurred between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2
where God created the earth and then a judgment of darkness came upon the earth
and it BECAME without form
and void. (You need in your library a copy of DAKE’s annotated reference Bible which explains
this step by step)
Every time the sky is darkened, it’s a sign of
God’s judgment; EVERY TIME.[16] In
the first Flood EVERYTHING WAS DESTROYED. The translator’s literally did not
understand how the earth “became” void, so they substituted the Word “hayah” meaning BECAME with the word “WAS”. In all other 67 translations
of the Hebrew word “hayah”, all were translated “became”,
not “was”. So you can say the earth BECAME without form and void.
NOTE: In verse
two, this “Lucifer Flood” had
already happened “and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters”. Some
translations say “brooding” over the waters; pondering. The Apostle
Peter said that the “earth of old” overflowed with water. Jeremiah the prophet
recorded that the earth became formless. The earth did not become formless during the
flood of Noah.
With Satan’s rebellion, God withdrew
Himself from the world. This released
all restraints of nature and plunged the world into the judgment of DARKNESS. Water came from everywhere and flooded the
earth. We believe this to be for
thousands upon thousands of years which would account for the age of some
fossils that have been found and carbon dated.
It is believed that this flood completely
destroyed everything and this made the world without form and void. If we use Genesis as a concept of God; that
everything He made was good; then we can pre-suppose that the earth was created
good and because of rebellion and
sin, it became void.
THE
JUMP: This is where we can make the jump in “the gap”
between what is said and what is NOT said, and you
do this by proving scripture with scripture, precept upon precept.
In Verse 3, God starts all over again when He creates the 2nd
earth age.
Colossians 1:16-17 – God created everything for
Himself
16 For by him
were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible,
whether they be thrones, dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things
were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is
before all things, and by him all things consist.
NIV
Psalms
33:9 – God spoke everything into existence.
9 For He spoke, and it was done; He
commanded, and it stood fast.
NKJV
Genesis 1:1 – God creates the First Earth Age
1 In the
beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
NIV
Genesis 1:2 – The earth became without form and
void
2 And the earth was
(“hayah” became) without form, and void; and DARKNESS (Judgment) was upon the face of the deep. And the
Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
NIV
Isaiah 45:18 God formed the world to be
inhabited; not VOID
18 For this is
what the LORD says-- he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned
and made the earth, he founded it;
HE DID NOT CREATE IT TO BE EMPTY, but formed it
to be inhabited
NIV
Genesis 1:2 – Judgment; Darkness over the surface
of the deep
2 Now the earth
was formless and empty, DARKNESS was over the
surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
NIV
2 Peter 3:5-6 – The world that was then
overflowed with water
5 … the heavens
were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 WHEREBY THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS,
BEING OVERFLOWED WITH WATER, PERISHED:
NIV
2 Peter 3:5-7 – Ungodly men existed before Adam
5 But they
deliberately forget that LONG AGO by God's word
the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water
6 By these
waters also
THE WORLD OF
THAT TIME WAS DELUGED
AND DESTROYED.
7 By the same
word
THE PRESENT HEAVENS AND
EARTH ARE RESERVED FOR FIRE, being kept for the Day of Judgment and
destruction of ungodly men.
NIV
Jeremiah 4:23-26 – The people had perished in the
first flood
23 I LOOKED AT THE EARTH, AND IT WAS FORMLESS AND
EMPTY; AND AT THE HEAVENS, AND
THEIR LIGHT WAS GONE.
24 I looked at the
mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
25 I LOOKED, AND THERE WERE NO PEOPLE;
EVERY BIRD IN THE SKY HAD FLOWN AWAY. (So they were once there)
26 I looked, and
the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the LORD,
before his fierce anger.
NIV
Familiar
Spirits
Familiar Spirits
are supernatural entities
believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice
of magic. By those alleging to have
come into contact with them, they SHAPE SHIFT into numerous guises, often as an animal,
but also at times as a human or humanoid figure, and are described as a
"clearly defined, three-dimensional form, vivid with color and animated
with movement and sound".[17]
The Book calls them DEMONS
A word about Demon Possession; if you take note of all the terrorism and killings that are going on
including the Muslim terrorist; this is just plain and simple Demon Possession.
Good News; an Evil spirit cannot
occupy the same space as the Holy Spirit, so someone who is A BELIEVER CANNOT BE DEMON POSSESSED, although they
can be harassed.
Bad News;
when you communicate with someone from the dead you are actually communicating
with a demon who has assumed the shape, sex and character that you desire to
speak with.[18]
Its primary mission is to destroy you; that’s
why God warns you to NOT
communicate with the dead
The Take Away
There
are four thoughts on Hauntings, Spirits and Ghosts
1) Dead
People; when
a person’s breath departs, at that very same moment, their plans perish, there
is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom. They can't praise nor curse; their emotions, their love, their hate
and envy have all perished. The dead
know nothing, they are silent in the grave, dead, dead; NOT A WORD TO BE HEARD, so they ARE
NOT the ghostly haunts of today.
2) Fallen Angel’s: angels are
immortal and retain their created body AND when the angels
do fall they are bound in chains of darkness until the judgment. THEY ARE BOUND TODAY
So angels ARE NOT the ghostly wispy entities that haunt
people or houses today.
3) The
Nephilim; the
Nephilim are identified with the “sons of God”; special angels who left their
place of assignment in heaven and came to earth to corrupt the human race and are
bound to stay on earth as long as the earth endures. Their OFFSPRING’S hybrid demonic bodies were destroyed in the flood, but their demonic spirits
remain as minions in the service of Satan.
4) Demons; immortal
disembodied spirits from the first earth age are active minions of Satan.
JESUS CHRIST is the original Ghost Buster, casting out EVERY KIND of demon; healing and freeing mankind from
oppression and possession. He first gave that authority to the Twelve
Disciples to do the same thing, then next He sent the Holy Spirit to give every Believer the gift of being a GHOST BUSTER.
If you see or hear something esoteric, it’s not a friend, it’s a demon.
Luke
9:1 – Jesus gave DISCIPLES authority to cast out demons
1 One day Jesus called together his twelve
disciples and gave them power and
AUTHORITY TO
CAST OUT DEMONS and
to heal all diseases.
(NLT)
Mark
16:17 – Jesus gave BELIEVERS
authority cast out demons
17 These miraculous signs will accompany THOSE WHO BELIEVE: THEY WILL CAST OUT DEMONS IN MY
NAME,
and they will speak in new languages.
(NLT)
1
Corinthians 12:9-10 – Holy Spirit gives POWER over demons
9 The same Spirit gives … to
someone else … the
gift of HEALING.
10 He gives another person the POWER TO PERFORM MIRACLES…
(NLT)
[1] Hebrews 13:2 - Some have entertained angels unawares
[2] 2 Corinthians 5:8 –The Spirit leaves the body and returns to God.
[3] Psalm 146:4 – When man goes to the grave, his plans perish --
Ecclesiastes 9:10 – The dead have NO working, planning, knowledge or
wisdom -- Psalm 115:17 – The dead
cannot praise God – They are silent -- Ecclesiastes 9:5 – The dead know nothing -- Ecclesiastes 9:6 – The dead’s
emotions have perished -- John 5:28-29 – We are raised to live or raised to be
condemned -- Luke 16:26-31 – Request to return from the dead was DENIED -- Job
7:9-10 – HOUSES CANNOT BE HAUNTED BY DEAD PEOPLE
[4] Leviticus 19:31 – Do not defile yourself with a Medium -- Leviticus 20:6 –
Do not seek Familiar Spirits and Wizards -- Deuteronomy 18:9-12 – Sorcerer, Medium and Spiritist are an abomination to the Lord -- Isaiah 8:19 – People should seek God, not
Mediums and Wizards
[5] Revelation 12:7-9 – There was a war in Heaven and
Satan & his angles were cast out
[6] Revelation 12:4 – Satan took one-third of the angels with him -- Luke
10:18 – Prophecy; Satan fell like lighting from heaven
[7] Zechariah 3:1 – Satan stands at God’s throne accusing us -- Revelation
12:10 – Satan accuses the believer day and night
[8] 2 Peter 2:4 – Fallen Angels will be in chains of darkness
[9] Genesis 6:1-2 – Nephilim are known as “The
sons of God”
[10] Jude 1:6 – Some angels
left their own habitation; their assignments -- Genesis 6:4 – The Nephilim had sex
with the women of the earth
[11] Daniel 2:43 – Prophecy; ET’s mixing and marrying earthly women
[12] 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 – These deceiving entities cannot be saved
[13] Josephus
3.14.2 – After Noah’s Flood there were ET’s, Giants in the land -- Enoch 15:8 – ET’s spirits shall remain on the earth --
Enoch 15:9-10 – ET’s oppress, corrupt, fall,
contend, and bruise -- Josephus 8.3.3 – No one
can even imagine the shape of Angels -- Josephus 5.2.3 -
Giants appearance was entirely different
[14] Luke 8:31 - The Bottomless Pit is the Destination for Demons -- Matthew 12:43 – Demons need a moist place to
find rest
[15] Mark 5:8-13 – 6,000 demons; 2,000 pigs went into the sea
[16] Exodus
[17] 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 - Satan’s minion servants disguised themselves as
light -- 2 Thessalonians 2:9 -
Satan comes with signs and lying wonders
[18] 1 Timothy 4:1 – Some will give heed to Seducing Spirits and Doctrines of
Devils.
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