Among the various weapons that Satan has to deceive God’s people, Spiritualism is one of the stongest. Satan has powerful tools with which he preaches not only to adults but to children and youth as well. Why is it that the hearts of many have grown cold and there is such moral decay? Why do young people reject God's voice and adults prefer worldly things? The answer is simple, the limited amount of time we spend reading the Bible, praying, and listening to sermons is woefully insufficient to combat Satan and his teachings. That is because Satan’s methods of preaching are much more appealing even if his objective is to destroy us?
The Internet
The Internet is a double edged sword. It has vast amounts of information available to anyone, anywhere in the world! (I therefore take advantage of this tool to preach the truth!) There is an exorbitant amount of websites depicting the different beliefs about the immortality of the soul. Anyone falsely searching guidance on how to communicate with the spirits and beyond sadly can find it.
Music
Any music that is not meant to elevate our minds to heavenly things and lead us God is an instrument of the enemy. Many people have been possessed by evil spirits simply by listening to music. This is easy to see because our hearing is a direct avenue to the mind.
Nowadays Satan will not cause people to throw themselves on the ground with foam coming out of their mouths, speaking in a deep tone, in a different language and demonstrating supernatural strength. Every human being who does not realize that their body is temple of the Holy Spirit will instead allow evil spirits to dwell within them. Scripture tells us,
When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.*1
In our days a person may be sitting alongside you on the bus or walking next to you at the park being completely controlled by the enemy and we would not even realize it. When we look at some people in history who have committed the most heinous crimes, superficially they seemed normal. What a terrible thought, the last state becomes worse than the first when we allow the enemy to dwell in our hearts instead of the Holy Spirit. That is why I emphasize that as harmless as some music may seem it opens our hearts and allows any evil spirit to enter it.
Movies and TV
Perhaps the most disastrous tool that Satan has is the television. With this he preaches to children, youth and adults. Television is the perfect way to open our homes to the enemy when used improperly. Through movies and popular TV shows the delusions of spiritualism are preached in our own homes. Just to give some examples of this:
- Ghost Hunters
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
- Charmed Harry Potter
- Legion
- Ghost
- Pokemon
- Ben Ten
- Paranormal
- Medium
Such elements of spiritualism are found in almost all popular TV shows and movies. As a result spiritualism seems normal to us. If from childhood we are exposed to the fact that you can communicate with the dead or that if a person was good they are in heaven or if they were bad they are in hell, how can the word of God enter our hearts? Will the 15 minutes allocated to reading scripture and praying through the day compete with the hours we spend watching TV?
We cannot hide the consequence of sin. The soul who sins shall die*2 because the wages of sin is death.*3 The Bible is clear on this point, all who break God’s law are condemned to die. But Christ arose from death and in him we have hope of eternal life. When Christ comes at the sound of the trumpet the dead will rise, clothed with immortality.*4 The apostle Paul emphasized:
For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable. But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming.*5
JESUS IS COMING!
1 * Matthew 12:43-45
2 * Ezekiel 18:4
3 * Romans 6:24
4 * 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Corinthians 15:53-55
5 * 1 Corinthians 15:16-23
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