Understanding Familiar spirits; Part 1.
'Spirit', grammatically speaking, should not be represented in plural. But for the sake of our focused writing today, we know that the Bible mentions the word 'spirit' in the plural where applicable. Therefore, because the references to our subject in situ are pluralized, I shall refer to the topic in the plural: 'Familiar spirits'.
Familiar spirits are strangers. When both Prophets Samuel and David had been inspired of God to have insightful knowledge of 'strangers', they both had concluded:
“As soon as they hear of me, strangers shall obey me and submit themselves unto me. The strangers shall fade away and be afraid out of their hiding places” |Cf. 2 Samuel 22:44–45 & Psalm 18:44–45.
These strange beings, though innocuous—looking, are no less harmful! They are entirely demonic. The truth is, at some point in your human existence, you will encounter them. Therefore, you need to invest effort in learning about their activities in human lives — and know how to cause them discomfort so as to be able to dislodge them at appropriate times!
So, don't let life get so busy that you know little to nothing about these dubious, demonic characters and Satan’s agents!
The Bible offers peculiar insights into their characters in stories recorded in 1 Samuel 28 and Acts 16. We will consider these as a combo:
In the story related to us in 1 Samuel 28, we see a distressed King Saul as a major character. Soon, the deceased holy prophet of God, Samuel, would be dragged into his drama. So, let me summarize very succinctly what we see the Scriptures teach generally in the Bible about familiar spirits, with this story as our foundation:
"Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunnem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her ..." | verses 3-7a
You would do well to read the entire chapter for a fuller understanding.
Familiar spirits present themselves as friendly, coy, shy spirits who can do you no harm, whether in your dreams or in actual life. In reality, we know that they are demonically inspired and very dangerous.
Familiar spirits are very intelligent demonic beings that would feed off your fears, agitations, or even contaminating pride.
Familiar spirits network and gather super-secret information about you; sometimes they can be overtly inquisitive. So, you who are generally talkative and/or verbose would easily get caught in their nets.
King Saul could have banned familiar spirit consultations, visits to mediums, and the occult under the influence of Prophet Samuel's during his lifetime! But now, the witch - whom King Saul would consult - had relocated to a more remote city called Endor. Familiar spirits can therefore easily relocate across geographic boundaries and realms.
Familiar spirits can ‘see’ into the spirit realms and even soothe—say. (Soothsaying is the demonic perversion of divine prophecy; soothing saying — derived from ‘soothing’ or lessening the pain of a sore — does cater to saying what folk like to hear, catering to their senses and making them relaxed; as opposed to hearing prophecies which are divinely ordained words from Heaven which may hurt a while to effect the changes desired by GOD!
Familiar spirits do mainly manifest via mediums. Mediums are the demonic, human intermediaries between humans and Satan. They are the exact opposite of human agents—intermediaries of God! So, beware: every human being possesses the possibility of being either an agent of God or an agent of the devil.
Witches, warlocks, wizards, sorcerers, magicians, the secret orders of Freemasonry, psychics, the occult - and the like operate via familiar spirits. Indeed, anyone manifesting the fruits of the flesh should undoubtedly open the door to the manifestations of familiar spirits |Galatians 5:19—21.
In Acts 16:16-23, we see the manifestation of a familiar spirit of divination in the young lady who had given an unnecessary, salty introduction of Apostles Paul and Silas. She was hired to make illicit monetary gains on ordinary, everyday innocent Roman citizens until the Apostles cast the stranger spirits out of her. Then, those pimps retaliated by getting the government officials and city council to arrest Paul and Silas - and beat them up and lock them in jails under the most extreme conditions. I hope you realize that those illegal rings of the world of pimps, drug lords, sextortionists, prostitution, and human trafficking are being racketeered by the most wicked principalities of familiar spirits!
Consequently, we understand that familiar spirits are manipulating spirits ready to bewitch those without the knowledge of the Truth — to lead them astray!
Familiar spirits may often camouflage and thus parade the corridors of power so that they may be able to possess a wider range of influence over a geographical extent and the people. Thus, they would become illegal territorial principalities and gatekeepers of the destinies of men! This only occurred because God-fearing people gave up their custodianship/stewardship of the Earth | Read Genesis 1:28.
Familiar spirits will open the doors and invite in lying spirits to accost them in leading many astray via soothsaying! (If they invade a church, or are in leadership of a church/ministries, they will soothe—say and lead many astray, deliberately deceiving them to think it was the Holy Spirit’s prophecies! And if any filled with the Holy Spirit dares shine the light of the Truth, such will be severely punished, bound, restrained, silenced, or expelled from such organizations. Such influence Elymas the sorcerer possessed over the Roman Governor Sergius Paulo’s, until the apostle of light had cursed him with blindness!) | See Acts 13:6-12.
Familiar spirits will do everything to remain credible! But they are not! The pitiable witch at Endor had conjured the spirit of the late Prophet Samuel to address the troubled King Saul. Samuel had prophesied his inevitable death on that day!
In Part 2, we will discuss how to successfully, terminably deal with familiar spirits. Be sure to read and share!
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