123. SPIRIT WORLD
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Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray Thee, open his eyes that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha (2Kg.6:16,17).
1. We've got the benefit now of a tremendous army of departed saints, men of God, great men of wisdom, administrators, kings, prophets, psalmists and many others whom God can call on to give us whatever we need.
2. Are you exercising your power to release spirits?--The power of Jesus' name! "Whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven: and Whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven!" (Mt.18:18)
3. You can time-travel right now in the spirit!-Backwards in memory--or forward in prophecy!
4. In your mind you can go either back or forward in time and you don't have to have a time machine. It's just so simple!
5. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against spirits of evil in the atmospheric heavens! (Eph.6:12)
6. If you can believe in the Devil, then you can also believe in God! If there's a Devil, there must be a God!
7 The spiritual world abhors a vacuum! If you reject the Spirit of God, the evil spirit goes and collects evil spirits even worse than before, and your latter state is worse than the beginning!
8. God sends around the little spirit children to entertain the babies and amuse them!
9. This material World is the fantasy, the dream world, the nightmare world, the sham, the imitation, the illusion, the hallucination, which will pass away, but the spirit world is the reality which will never pass away!
10. We can pray for the departed saints and they pray for us and we all love each other! They still need prayer because they still have a lot of work to do, a hard job trying to help us and getting us to do what we're supposed to do!
11. We believe in transcendental meditation, going form one World into the other in the Spirit.
12. Apparently different countries have different spirits that God has put there to rule them, both good and bad, according to what they deserve.
13. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses!" (Heb.12:1.) Imagine how much they must jump up and down and shout when you do the right thing!--Everytime you win, everytime you make a goal, everytime you win a soul!
14. When you inspire faith in the Spirit World and the supernatural and the spiritual, you're inspiring faith in the God Who created it all.
15. That body is not the real you!--It's just the physical house you live in! The real you is the spirit inside!
16. The spirits still have a certain freedom of operation, but they are apparently under much stricter, tighter control than man.
17. We are not alone in this fight! The Lord is fighting for us, and right now the Archangels are battling the devils in a constant great war!
18. Do you want to travel? Do you want to take a trip? Just dream away with the Lord! He can take you anywhere!--And not only in your dreams!--But right here and now if you want to go & it's His will!--Just ask Him to make your dreams come true!
19. If you love Jesus, you're a holy spirit. And one of these days, when you die and go to be with the Lord, you'll be a holy ghost!
20. You're the greatest show on Earth and all Heaven is watching you!
21 There is no past, no present, no future to the Lord! It's all one great Eternal Now.
22. Spirits in the spirit world are still very much like us in their feelings, emotions, desires, choices, opinions and preferences.
23. What's the tunnel for?--To get you safely through all the darkness of this Earth to which the forces of evil are confined, and shoot you like a rocket to get you where you're going, protected by the Lord!
24. Some stars are actually spirits, and there are positive and negative stars. This is exactly what science is finding out.
25. In some ways we're even more important than the angels! God didn't send His Son to die for the angels, He sent Him to die for us! We're going to judge angels!
26. "All things are possible if thou canst believe the words of your father!" You can even go back in the past and change the future!
27. Better to be alive in the next world than dead in this one!
28. The good ghosts love you and the bad ghosts are afraid of you!
29. My life is just like a tape which the Lord can run backwards or forwards, stop it anywhere He wants and play it to show me the past and the future!
30. There is nothing new under the sun! Everything man ever invented is nothing but a cheap imitation, a poor plastic counterfeit, or a simple illustration of the realities of the Spirit.
31. In the Spirit World there is no possibility of your lying or deceiving anybody, because everybody knows exactly what you're thinking and what's actually no your mind.
32. The next World is not going to be too much different from this one--only better! After all, how could God make a World much more beautiful than the one He has already made!
33. It's not very easy for a ghost to help human beings, because people are scared of ghosts. So God has to use you.
34. Behind all the physical nations and the physical appearances and kings and powers, there are spiritual powers who are struggling against each other.
35. We'll never know full reality until we are fully in the realm of the spirit.
36. All good inventions are inspired by the Lord from His Spirit World, & all bad ones from the Devil and his demons.
37. Our daily lives and the World's future are being influenced by the battles in the Spirit World between the Lord and His angels on one hand, and the Devil and his angels on the other.
38. God also uses departed human spirits as His agents, angels or messengers.
39. What's happening on the surface is nothing but a little physical manifestation of the real action. Where the real action is is in the Spirit World, and it's in full control.
40. In the Spirit World there is no time, it's one great Eternal Now!
41. A halo is like a spiritual crown, it's a source of your power, like an antenna. It's a crown of power, a crown of revelation, a crown of authority the Lord has given you, like your guardian angel.
42. The children that have died that I have known, when we have seen them in the Spirit, were older, full grown, but beautiful! The old people that I have seen in the Spirit that have died, looked younger and in their prime!
43. Who wants to go around sight-seeing? It's just such a waste of time to see junk and old ruins and wrecks! The thing that thrills me is touring in the Spirit! Then you really see things you've never seen before!
44. You're nothing but a Christian in the realm of the Spirit! God doesn't see your colour, your nationality, or your sex or any other damned fleshly characteristic!
45. All spirits are subject unto you, both good and evil!
46. You can have your genie at your command, year heavenly angel who will do what you want done, your own personal messenger to help you carry out the work of God!
47. At night, human spirits become inactive and silent, but then the spirits of the spiritual world are able to become much more active and communicate much more easily!
48. Not all voices are of God, and you must "try the spirits" to make sure that what you're hearing is of the Lord.
49. We're happy now in our work!--And though we'll have work to do there, we'll be even happier as we carry on the business of the Universe, traveling around from one planet to the other, one star to the other, one galaxy to the other!
50. The Devil is under God's control, and all of the spirits are under God's control, and they have to do whatever He says!
51. The Spirit World is all around us, up, down and all around--and even in us!
52. What is science?--Knowledge! What is the supernatural, the spiritual, the miraculous?--It's just God's science with which man is not familiar!
53. Thank You Lord for Thy many counselors and the multitudes of spirit-helpers Thou hast given us at our disposal and our command.
54. There is a terrible battle being waged in the Spirit World, with great noise and clashing of arms and shouts and screams against us and what we're doing for the Lord!
55. I always love to see the garden filled with birds! It's almost like a sign from the Lord, because they're His little guardian angels, His little protecting spirits!
56. Birds are a sign of the presence and blessing of the Lord, symbolic of His good spirits.
57. Let me crawl into your eyes, and my brain will become your brain, and we'll take a spirit trip together!
58. Angel-speed is what I need!
Just think it so and off I go!
59. Spirits have different stations, but they all have limitations.
60. The Devil will not be running Hell!--He'll be one of the inmates! God is the Jailor of Hell, the Warden!--The Devil and demons are His prisoners!
61. Everyone who has Jesus in his heart is a medium--someone whom a spiritual power can possess and use to communicate things which normally under their own power they could not do!
62. I do not feel any age yet. There is no age to the spirit.
63. In the same way in which the righteous can have the help of good spirits according to their righteousness, so the evil can be afflicted with evil spirits according to their wickedness!
64. We are getting into serious days in which the work of the Enemy is going to be more and more manifest and more and more supernatural, more miraculous and more active as he wars against us.
65. It's just as possible to catch diseases in the Spirit as it is in the physical, in fact, even more so.
66. You and I today belong both to time and eternity! We have one foot in Heaven and one foot on Earth!
67. If you're spiritually sensitive, that's all the more reason you have to be especially careful what spirit you're hearing from!
68. If things aren't fair in this life, they certainly will be in the next.
69. We'll have all kinds of exciting work to do in the next World, and we'll be even happier, with lots of mobility, accomplishment, progress, variety, travel, freedom, messenger work and other thrilling work.
70. The angels were never human, so they are some kind of energy body--like a star or like a halo or like a flying saucer, a circle of energy or power. They are personalities, in a sense, but they are like energy or spirit.
71. Everything the Devil does is an imitation of what Christ does, the Devil has never thought up anything new.
72. The Devil is under God's control--only man is out of control and can defy God!
73. Many of the ancient idols represented actual demon spirits. That is why God didn't like the idols, because of the spirits they represented.
74. The Devil is God's employee, just God's Executioner, God's prosecuting attorney.
75. The Enemy is the Lord's Executioner, the Lord's High Executioner, but he's not as high as the Lord. He brings about many of the judgments of God, but the Lord won't let him touch us unless He has some reason for it.
76. Not even the Devil is omnipresent. He can only be in one place at one time.
77. All day long and even at night in your sleep you're receiving the Lord's communication.
78. Thank God for His Heavenly Beings--His Ministering Spirits and Angels who are watching over us continually and helping us all the time.
79. The Devil is not like God, he doesn't know everything, he only knows what God's already said and already done. He knows what God has publicly predicted that He's going to do, like prophecies etc., so he knows the course of history and what's going to happen. But we can read it too, so we know as much as he does about that. But he does not know God's every move and what God's going to do next.
80. The Lord chose to come and be born as a man--a clear-cut case of pre-existence and choice! If the Lord can do it, why can't we?
81. Certainly the Spirit World is very very close--it's right here & now & all around us! We're probably sitting in it right now without knowing it!
82. The laws of physics tell you that two things cannot occupy the same place at the same time, but the spirit can! Because it's not physics, it's not physical, it's spirit and spiritual!
83. God is so great and beyond our comprehension, so He uses both the angels and the ministering spirits of the departed to minister to us more intimately, more personally, more directly. They're His instruments in the next life helping us in this life.
84. Do you realise what a big job it must be for those in the Spirit World just taking care of all the people who are dying? That's enough to keep almost everybody busy up there!
85. Did you know that the spirits have discussions and they debate about things? Not everything is totally all fixed and settled in the Spirit World, in fact it's very much like this World really. (1Ki.22:19-22)
86. There's a separation of some kind between us and the Spirit World, across which normally spirits are not usually allowed to pass except for certain specific purposes.
87. The day is coming when time shall be no more and we shall live in the World of the Eternal Now where there is no past and no future, only the present.
88. In the Spirit, it's like the past, present and future are all one. The kingdom of God now is the Kingdom of God later.--The Eternal Kingdom!
89. Thank God for His angels, who are watching over us continually, even your personal angel, whose job is you!
90. An angel travels in a wheel, disc, halo, ring or "flying saucer" of light! God was traveling in a wheel when Ezekiel saw Him. (Ezk.1) Apparently it's some form of power not only for other things but also for spiritual travel.
91. As a spirit you still have personal choice and desires. Look how the angels desired the daughters of men. They literally lusted after them because they were so beautiful, made love to them & had gigantic children! (Gen.6:1-4) So apparently the spirits are still learning.
92. In the Spirit World & Millennium 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.
93. The Spirit World is not so terribly different from this present existence that we can't even comprehend it or can't even understand it.
94. 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.
95. There are UFOs! They are spirit beings and they do appear and people have seen them. Technicians have scientifically tracked them. They have appeared as "signs in the sky" to unbelieving man. (Dan.6:27; Lk.21:11,25; Acts 22:6; Rev.15:1) That's the way certain angels travel. Their speed and manoeuvrability are so great that only a spirit could survive such courses!
96. The Spirit World is all so real and down to Earth, more realistic than some would have you believe.
97. There are definite differences and spiritual levels and classes and grades of authority in the Spirit World, just like in the army. There are different kinds of spirits, not only good and evil spirits, but amongst both the good and the evil there are various grades and levels of command and authority.
98. Everything in the Spirit World seems to move so slowly and so beautifully, almost like in slow motion.
99. What else are dreams but your imagination, in a way, guided by the Lord?--Or if you have nightmares, by the Devil!
100. The study of spirits and spiritism can be dangerous, leading to more interest in the Devil and his devices than the Lord and His.--Just don't be altogether ignorant of them!
101. It's a common favourite tactic of the Enemy to start his attack by building up sentiment against others and laying a net for others in hopes of catching us in the same net, not really specifying who he's really after, until he gets governments and peoples all stirred up over a certain kind of issue and all in the frame of mind to stop it and clamp down on it, persuading governments to make certain regulations under which our enemies then can attack their real enemy, God's children.
102. If we could see the crowd of spirit helpers around us, then we'd really behave ourselves!
(See also No. 56, 57, 72, 73A, 75A, 80, 102, 195, 206, 224, 261, 262, 271, 273, 275A, 279, 296, 298, 301, 341, 365, 368, 554, 614, 615, 616, 620, 621, 622, 623, 624, 686, 710, 711, 713, 723, 760, 794, 795, 796, 818, 820, 945, 948, 980, 998, 1237, 1261, 1262, 1264, 1278, 1304, 1369, 1403, 1404, 1405, 1408-1415, 1420, 1421, 1423, Gen Series, 1430, 1476, 1477, 1479-1484, 1513, 1541, 1606.)
103. Gen.20:6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
104. GEN.24:40a And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way.
105. EXO.3:2 The angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
106. NUM.22:23,30,31 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way. And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay. Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
107. 1KI.22:19-22 I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
108. 2KI.6:16,17 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
109. 2KI.19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
110. 2CH.32:21 And the Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
111. JOB.1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
112. PSA.34:7 The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
113. PSA.68:17a The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them.
114. PSA.78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
115. PSA.91:11,12 For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
116. PSA.103:20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
117. PSA.104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
118. ISA.14:12-15 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
119. ISA.37:16 O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
120. DAN.3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
121. DAN.10:12,13 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
122. DAN.10:18,19 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
123. DAN.12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
124. MAT.4:11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
125. MAT.26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
126. LUK.1:19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
127. LUK.4:5-7 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
128. LUK.9:29-31 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
129. LUK.10:18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
130. LUK.17:20b,21 The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
131. LUK.22:43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
132. LUK.24:30,31 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
133. JOH.5:4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
134. ACT.5:19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth.
135. ACT.12:7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
136. ACT.27:23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
137. 2CO.4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
138. 2CO.11:14,15 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
139. EPH.6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
140. HEB.1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
141. HEB.11:16,10 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
142. HEB.12:1a Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.
143. HEB.13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
144. 1PE.3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
145. 1PE.3:21b,22 By the resurrection of Jesus Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
146. 1PE.4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
147. 2PE.2:4 God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.
148. 1JO.4:1-3 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
149. JUD.6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
150. JUD.9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
151. REV.12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
152. REV.12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
153. REV.22:8,9 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
(See also JOB.4:15-19.)
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