As I mentioned to you previously, my mother as a small child, had some pretty weird experiences that neither she nor her mother could explain.
Visitaions at her bedside from a nun. (She was not Catholic, but later attended a Catholic school)
The creepy thing was that the nun who appeared at her bedside was a teacher at the school she later attended.....the nun recognised my mother and said she knew her well, but my mother had never met her before, except in this spiritistic form a few years before.
During wartime in England where my mother was raised, my deceased great grandmother appeared to my grandmother, telling her that the bombs dropping all around would not fall on her house or harm her...and sure enough they survived the night with homes all around them, obliterated.
My grandmother was quite spiritistic and brought a ouija board into our home when she came to live with us.
We all gathered around the table allowing the pointer to take us where it might.....we thought it was harmless fun when the spirits predicted something would happen on the 8th of September.....we all laughed and said that I was probably going to be married on that date....but my father died very suddenly on that very day with no warning. He just dropped dead.....leaving us in shock because he was only 52.
We tried to burn the ouija board but it would not burn, so we threw it in the trash and began to wonder about those spirit entities that were around us, seemingly waiting for an opportunity to deceive us or to pull us into their world. Who were they and what did they want from us?
That is one of the things that sent me on my own journey of discovery into God’s word.
We are all entitled to our opinions, but God has given us warnings about communicating with “the dead” for good reason. If they were the genuine spirits of lost loved ones, then why would God forbid communication with them? Deuteronomy 18 states that even inquiring of the dead, let alone speaking with them, is forbidden as something “detestable to God”.
If they were demonic spirits impersonating the dead, they would know everything about those ones and could use that knowledge to deceive, as we often hear people say that the spirit knew things only that person would know.....they make it their business to know. Deception is their art form...their craft.
Since the Bible is God’s primary communication with fallen humanity, we need to heed its warnings because those who are against us are way more powerful and devious than we are. They know what heartstrings to pull for the desired result....hostility often results when those things are challenged.
You mentioned a “demon haunted world” as if that could never be a possibility.....yet the Bible tells us that is exactly where we live for now. Demonic activity has been the bane of our existence since the beginning, but God has not permitted the devil’s rulership here just for his own entertainment......the reason why satan rules the world was admitted by the devil himself when he tempted Jesus....
Luke 4:5-7....
“So he brought him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in an instant of time. 6 Then the Devil said to him: “I will give you all this authority and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7 If you, therefore, do an act of worship before me, it will all be yours.”
Jesus did not refute his claim, but simply quoted God’s word in his reply. If world rulership is truly under the control of the devil and his minions, (1 John 5:19) by God’s permission, then we are certainly living in a world that is “demon haunted”......can we not see it with our own eyes?......the level of evil sometimes beggars belief, and is often describes as “inhuman”....that means “not human”....so who else is manipulating mankind to levels of wickedness that they would not normally go to?
To let our guard down and assume that this is not true, argues with all that the Bible says about the demons and their agenda....and why God even permitted their existence in the beginning.....why did he not just eliminate the rebels and start again? If we don’t explore these things, we will never see the big picture.
luke 10:21....
“In that very hour [Jesus] became overjoyed in the holy spirit and said: “I publicly praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have carefully hidden these things from wise and intellectual ones and have revealed them to young children. Yes, O Father, because this is the way you approved.”
Why would God “hide” things from those who are “wise and intellectual” and “reveal them to “young children”? What is there about ‘intellectuals’ that can inhibit the operation of God’s spirit in them? Their pride usually......and their looking down on those whom they view as intellectually inferior.....like intellectual toddlers who know nothing.....maybe the babies know more than you think.
We all need a wake up call.....but some of us are sound sleepers....
Proverbs 3:5-7...
“Trust in Jehovah with all your heart and do not lean upon your own understanding. 6 In all your ways take notice of him, and he himself will make your paths straight.
7 Do not become wise in your own eyes.”
At the risk of being a “Bible-verse popcorn machine”.....I will leave you with that.....FWIW.
Peace to you...