HOLY GHOSTS!--MORE HOLY GHOSTS!--THE SPIRIT WORLD!       GP620-622        27/1/74

         1. THE CHURCH TRIES TO MAKE GOD SO BIG, SO HIGH & MIGHTY, THAT HE'S ALMOST TOTALLY INCOMPREHENSIBLE, so that you can't even understand His system or means of communications or how He works or His government. How much have they ever explained to us about the spirit world or how God works or how things are organised there?
         2. Everything God created, all the VISIBLE creation, is in some way an ILLUSTRATION of something SPIRITUAL. (Rom.1:20) So therefore the spirit world is not so terribly different from this present existence that we can't even comprehend it. Otherwise, when we got ushered into it we would be completely lost!
         3. We are going to be much the same as we are now, except that we're going to have supernatural bodies. We will look like we do now, just as Jesus did after His resurrection.--He could even eat & drink & they could feel Him & touch Him as well as see Him, & yet He was in a miraculous supernatural body, His new resurrected body! (Lk.24:36-43)
         4. DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT GOD IS SITTING UP THERE HAVING TO RUN THE WHOLE SHOW BY HIMSELF? Is He, by His one Holy Spirit, teaching everybody all kinds of different new languages & giving all kinds of different gifts? Is He doing it all directly, or through agents?
         5. How does God give a gift of tongues? How does He give a gift of interpretation? How does He give a gift of wisdom or knowledge of certain things? How does He give all these various gifts of the spirit--healings, miracles & so on?--Why can't these gifts come through separate spirits of God?
         6. I believe by my own personal experience that I received the gift of tongues by receiving my guardian angel, Abrahim! (Maria: That reminds me, the Lord said last night that you have the spirit of Abrahim, the spirit of Moses & the spirit of the Psalmist David!)
         7. That's why some of these Psalms God gives us sound like David, because DAVID is singing them, he's giving them! That's probably why some of the wisdom He gives me in lecturing sounds like Moses, because it is Moses speaking! Look how that perpetuates the wisdom & the talents & the gifts that God has given each individual! Those marvellous talents & abilities are not lost & gone forever, way off in some Heavenly places. They continue to minister!
         8. THIS MAKES IT VERY SIMPLE, HOW GOD OPERATES & HOW HE GIVES ALL THESE GIFTS & different languages to millions of people throughout the World: It's through the angels & the departed spirits of the departed saints!
         9. This makes the explanation of how you can receive a gift of tongues so simple!: God lets another spirit speak through you in another language, the native tongue of your particular individual guiding spirit who is assigned to you personally.
         10. The so-called baptism of the Spirit is therefore not only the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but a sudden yielding & surrender to one of these holy spirits of God. So along with the Spirit of God we receive specific spirits who have these specific gifts. How about that?
         11. I HAVE THE WISDOM OF THE AGES & THE SAGES & ALL THE PROPHETS & ALL THE KINGS & ALL THE GREAT MEN OF THE PAST AVAILABLE TO HELP ME!--It's almost like God's got a great library of saints & angels, spiritual helpers, all of them on call. You just put in your application: "I want such-&-such a volume.--I need So-&-so."--And He, the Great Librarian, sends him right out! We have at our disposal the wisdom of the ages & the sages, the wisdom of all the kings & all the prophets that have ever lived!
         12. What a collection He's got by this time!--What a great company!--What a great cloud of witnesses! "Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses!" Paul saw them! Isn't that great? PG, GBT!
         13. (Tongues:) "O, behold how they watch with joy the words & the deeds of thy father & his children!" TYJ! It was just like the whole crowd broke out in a great smile, a great laugh! We're finally getting the point, finally catching on how the Lord works! Wow!
         14. APPARENTLY THEY ARE ON ASSIGNMENT. They don't just drift around in space with no place to go & not knowing what their specific duties are. Because obviously Abrahim was assigned to stay with us all the time.
         15. All that time he was living with the Gypsies he spoke his own language, ancient Romani. He didn't have to know much English, & obviously he hadn't learned very much. But since he's been with us, he has literally been learning English! He speaks it much much better now.
         16. But why didn't the Lord at the same time give me a spirit with the gift of interpretation who could have interpreted clearly in beautiful English what Abrahim was saying? Maybe He didn't have a spirit available who was capable! He would have had to use some departed gypsy or departed Englishman who knew both languages well & who was at the same time a saint & whom He could trust to do a good job of it.
         17. That's why I didn't get some sudden pure gift of the interpretation of Abrahim, because the Lord wanted to let Abrahim himself work at it.--Isn't that thrilling to realise how real it all is in the spirit world, & how Abrahim is still learning?
         18. ABRAHIM'S SUPERVISOR IS DEFINITELY AN ANGELIC SPIRIT. Abrahim was a human being, but this other spirit was never a human being. He is Abrahim's angelic overseer.
         19. I believe he is the one who speaks like the very Voice of God in some of the revelations I've had, & who bypasses Abrahim altogether sometimes. Abrahim is assigned to me in constant communication & always at my right hand, like my sergeant or first officer.
         20. But this other superior spirit is like the company commander. He's top brass, something completely out of Abrahim's class. He's like a commissioned officer from Above. The non-coms come up from the ranks. They were one of the men--like Abrahim. The commissioned officers come down from the top & from the military academy & are appointed by the President Himself.
         21. (Maria: I wonder if Abrahim's superior could possibly be the Archangel Michael?) My Mother prophesied he was our archangel! (See ML No.115.)--That's probably who it is! It's just like Michael only speaks directly to me on the most important of occasions. When I get those pure beautiful prophecies in beautiful language that are obviously not Abrahim, it's like I've been summoned before the superior officer & he speaks to me in person, not just working through the sergeant.
         22. There are definite differences & spiritual levels & classes & grades of authority in the spirit world, just like in the Army. There are different kinds of spirits, not only good & evil spirits, but amongst both the good & the evil there are various grades & levels of command & authority.
         23. ANOTHER THING PEOPLE JUST DON'T REALISE IS THAT THE SPIRITS IN THE SPIRIT WORLD ARE STILL VERY MUCH LIKE US in their feelings & their emotions & desires & choices & opinions & preferences & all these things.
         24. In the spirit world you may have the SAME CHARACTERISTICS & some of the same problems you have now, but you'll be better off & in more direct communication & obey better because you'll be under more direct control.
         25. "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." (2Co.5:8)--It will be like you're in the presence of the Lord all the time! When you're almost able to see God all the time, you'll be afraid not to obey Him!
         26. ARE YOU UNDER GOD'S CONTROL NOW? If so, the spirit world will not be too strange for you, & the transition from this life to the next will not be too great a change. You'll still be God's child & in His care & accustomed to doing His Will, which is absolute & unquestioned in that world.--And you'll enjoy it, as now!
         27. But if you are stubborn & disobedient & selfish & used to having your own way & doing as you please instead of pleasing God & others, the spirit world is going to be rather difficult for you, as there everyone does as God pleases, whether they like it or not!
         28. So, "beloved ... TRY THE SPIRITS whether they are of GOD"! (1Jn.4)--Particularly your own spirit! "Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh (your flesh!) is of God!" We hope you are of God, have Jesus & hear His truth!--If so, you are one of us! TYJ!


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