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The Spooky Spiritual Realm

What we need to know

What is the “spooky” spiritual realm?

Paranormal – not scientifically explainable

• In the spirit realm there are holy

and unholy paranormal phenomena.

• There is money to be made.
• Conflict in the atheistic worldview.

Examples of the “spooky” spiritual realm?

• Haunted houses
• Consulting the dead to predict the

future – necromancy/ seances/mediums

Haunted Houses

Definition

• The spirit has a relationship to the

house in some way

• Unusual death
• Haunted
• Are the phenomena real?
• Belief in haunted houses

What is going on?

• What type of spirit is involved in a

haunted house – a deceased person or a familiar/territorial spirit?

• Deceased person
• Familiar or territorial spirits

Familiar Spirits Role

• Haunted houses
• Consulting the dead to predict the

future

Familiar Spirits and the New Age Movement

• The new age movement

encourages “channeling” of familiar spirits (or spirit guides)

• “ascended masters” are familiar

spirits with a long from one location.

• Channeling is used to contact

supposed departed loved ones.

The Mount of Transfiguration

• Here Jesus meets with Moses and
• Elijah. There is no evidence that

Jesus called up these spirits but rather something that God

• arranged. This is significantly

different from a medium or channeler.

Expelling Spirits

• Sometimes we inherit familiar spirits in

a house that we buy. What are we to do in these circumstances?

• This battle is to be fought in the spirit

realm by rebuking the demon entity by quoting scripture out loud. We must fully lean on our authority in Christ and not lean on our own strength.

The Authority of Christ’s Name

• The spiritual realm is subject to

the name of Jesus. As long as you concentrate on demons they will show up. If you concentrate on Jesus then He will show up.

Points to Remember

• When a person dies, their spirit goes

directly to Paradise or hell. It does not wander the earth.

• Familiar spirits have vast historic

knowledge of intimate information concerning people, places and events.

• Familiar spirits may imitate deceased

loved ones as they have intimate knowledge about the deceased.

Points to Remember cont’d

• The new age movement promotes

inviting a spirit guide to channel through the adherent.

• Familiar spirits can be expelled

through quoting scripture out loud and leaning on the authority we have as a child of God.