Spirit Creatures - How They Affect Us - HOW DEMONS MISLEAD

 

To mislead people, the demons use spiritism. The practice of spiritism is involvement with the demons, both in a direct way and through a human medium.  The Bible/Jehovah God condemns spiritism and warns us to keep free from everything connected with it. (Galatians 5:19-21)  Spiritism does for the demons what bait does for fishermen.  A fisherman uses a variety of baits to catch various kinds of fish.  Similarly, wicked spirits use different forms of spiritism to bring all sorts of people under their influence. 

One type of bait used by the demons is divination. What is divination?  It is an attempt to find out about the future or about something unknown.  Some forms of divination are astrology, the use of tarot cards, crystal gazing, palmistry, and the search for mysterious omens, or signs, in dreams.  Although many people think that practicing divination is harmless, the Bible shows that fortune-tellers and wicked spirits work together.  For instance, Acts 16:16-18  mentions  "a demons of divination " that enabled a girl to practice fortune-telling. But she lost this ability when the demon was cast out of her.

Another way that the demons mislead people is by encouraging them  to inquire of the dead. People grieving over the death of a loved one are often deceived by wrong ideas about those who have died. A spirit medium may give special information  or may speak in a voice that seems to be that of a dead person. As a result,  many people become convinced that the dead are really alive and that contact them will help the living to endure their grief. But any such "comfort"  is really false as well as dangerous.  Why? Because the demons can imitate the voice of a dead person and give a spirit medium information about the one who died.   ( 1 Samuel 28:3-19) Moreover, was we learned in Chapter  6, the dead have ceased to exist.  (Psalm 115:17)  So "anyone who enquires of the dead" has been misled by wicked spirits and is actibg contrary to the will of God.  (Read Deuteronomy 18:10, 11; Isaiah 8:19)  Therefore, be careful to reject this dangerous bait used by the demons. 

Wicked spirits not only mislead people but also frighten them. Today, Satan and his demons know that they have only "a short period of time" left before they are put out of action, and they are now more vicious than ever. (Revelation 12:12, 17)  Even so, thousands of people who once lived a daily dread of such wicked spirits have been able to break free. How did they do this? What a person do if he is already involved in spiritism? 

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