Let me go a little further and ask if you ever in your life attended a pentecostal church?
I will tell you my background.
I was born and raised a Roman Catholic.
I took Michael as my confirmation name. The Great Angel.
I strayed away from the church later while in my teens.
In the course of events I found myself alone and prayed that God put me with true Christians.
Almost immediately I found myself a group of "Christians". It came to me one night that the leader of them had a problem about sex. I had no reason to think it.
I was taught to pray in tongues.
We were witnessing to a group of Christians at a college, when it came to me that what we were doing was wrong.
I stopped associating with them. Though with one I am still in touch to this day. It became that the leader did have a sex problem, and lured many girls to his bed. That was how my friend also came to leave.
I then questioned this praying in tongues. Was I blaspheming God with it?
The only way to answer this question is to "try the
spirits" when they are giving utterance (this isn't about asking the person the question).
I am well aware that Pentecostal churches by and large do not do this and as a result give themselves over to all manner of unclean spirits and even demons.
Whatever church was doing the tongue talking, you first have to wonder what the purpose of the Spirit moving might have been. To help a person of a foreign tongue understand? Not likely. Did it even sound like a foreign language? Not likely. The kinds of sounds I typically hear are "shashashababashabashooogooshogoodoigooodashababashagoogety...." kinds of utterances.
1Jo 4:2
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 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.The IS come in the flesh is important. And spirits are very good at obfuscation. For a check certain ask the spirit giving utterance, "Are you the Holy Spirit in Jesus name, who was crucified, died and was buried, and rose again, ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father."
I became very depressed, I even considered jumping off a bridge.
And unclean spirits know that they don't benefit by killing a host....
I did not want to blaspheme God with this tongue that was in me.
One night I just wept my heart out to God, I asked him to take it away. I really didn't want it. I couldn't trust that it was from him.
Suddenly my whole being was uplifted, and this new tongue just burst from me, and I heard the sound of a chirping bird, as though it were an excited friend coming to see me. I felt this incredible feeling of being loved. It stayed with me right until I went to bed, and I was afraid it would be gone in the morning. It wasn't. Praise the Lord.
..... so they adjust to a more friendly nature so as to encourage the host not to get intervention.
I asked God to show me his truth, only his truth, and to never let me go. I sit down with God, and let God show me. Only God's truth is good enough. No one elses. I find verses of scripture leaping out of the pages at me. Some I might have read many times, and not fully realised them.
The reason you never realized them that way before is because the plain language used to describe the historical events in the old testament is the opposite of what you "realized".
What is "leaping out" at you has already been shown to you to be the exact opposite of that revealed in the Word of God.
Now ask yourself. Is it reasonable that God give you a unique, personal - one man - franchise on truth, that reveals the opposite of what God's people have understood from scripture for 3500 years?
You know, Jesus made a great Prayer, in it he said "That they all be one, even as we are one" It is for us to answer that prayer, for we are divided. After all he has done for us, it would be great to have that prayer answered.
Christ. It is Christ that has made God properly known. We live in the most blessed Age. God's Holy Spirit has been poured out and dwells within us.
But many spend their noses in The Old Testament, and of such are you. You are like the Scribes and Pharisees. For they did not realize Christ.
You have been given the most precious of gifts, and what are you doing with it? Learning from men who have learned from the Old. You have the doctrine of men, who only think they know about God.
Look at Jesus - He knows all about God. It is Jesus that is God's WORD. It is Jesus that has rightly divided The Old Testament, and not men.
You see God as sanctifying war - when war is unholy to God. In your foolish wisdom you consequently tell Muslims that War can be of God. God is a God of peace and Love. This is the God Jesus wants everyone to know and love.
The wrath of God is God handing over to satan. Those that want war will have war. Many will be accounted for the loss of innocent blood.
The Holy lands are said to be Holy. The stained lands testify otherwise.
"You must not kill"
Tell it now now who's side you really are on!
I will pray for you.
The rest is false accusation and innuendo against the brethren in here, that springs from either imaginary conversations that have been milling around and around in your mind, or perhaps they spring from snippets of conversations from other places that you have had, that always just happen to go the same way, as your experience in this forum.
Do you wonder why it is you have to jump from forum to forum, but somehow always meet with the same kind of clueless brethren?
If you review your behavior in here from the beginning, and the escalation of accusation and false witness you have borne after you rejected the Word, you will see how you were increasingly taken over.
Why did I ask if your had a Pentecostal background?
How did I know that you had the brush with unclean spirits so readily?
How did I know what was coming the first couple of times you tried to interdict conflicting points of view by admonishing brethren that they have to pray to understand, rather than simply supporting your view with scripture
in context.
Proof texting and divorcing verses from their to context is another characteristic of Oneness Pentecostalism - indeed it's required to support their heresies.The reason is that I have seen the result of unclean spirits before.
I have two very close elder brethren that have had extensive experience with unclean spirits and have taught me about them, and I have seen an email of one poor gent with MPD do a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde conversion, within 15 minutes of each other, in different emails, speaking two very different dialects (one a smooth sophisticate the other more like trailer trash, from the same email address. The second one declaring "It's too late, you'll never get him" when the intervention had been started on the first in the initiating email.
I attended a service at a oneness Pentecostal church service, that someone happened to invite me to online, right at a time I was learning the above and asking the Lord for a little deeper understanding of "that man of sin":
http://www.beholdthebeast.com/man_of_sin_revealed.htmThe reason I identified the spirit influence almost immediately is not because they are in your
past.
Once a person gives themselves over to, or invites unclean spirits, (and those people you describe probably put their hands to your head or shoulders in "solemn" but joyous ceremony) it is often very difficult, or impossible, to be delieverd from those spirits without intervention from brethren experienced in casting out unclean spirits and demons.
What you described above was likely simply the same spirit transforming, or a new spirit, deceiving you into believing you were finally at peace by filling your mind with chirping birds.
But look at how your wheels have spun right off in this forum, with those birds (metaphorically speaking), chirping in the background the whole way.
The reason some are called "familiar spirits" is that folks not only get accustomed to their presence, but eventually enjoy their company and miss it when they are not around, believing they are in contact with the Holy Spirit (though they get little twinges that all is not well), as some unclean spirits are friendly
most of the time. But at other times they may cause even just light depression.
Neil Anderson who wrote "Bondage Breaker", that I highly recommend you read, estimated that in his opinion as much as 85% of the church may house unclean spirits to one extent or another.
We don't need to look for Satan in Hollywood, or the mosque or even in the world. His work is done there. Look for Satan to be in the church doing what he can to cart off Jesus potential goods.
John wrote about this in the 2 and 3rd chapter of Revelation that showed a church under spiritual attack by 95 AD let alone heresies like gnosticism etc.
The reason that rancor and division follow you from forum to forum is not because of your brethren.
The reason is because of unclean spirits that cause you to behave in the fashion that you have increasingly given yourself over to in this forum.
Perhaps I'm wrong about your housing spirits.
If I am, what do you have to loose by reading "Bondage Breaker"? It's a great book by a great man of God that will help
everybody understand how unclean spirits can influence lives, even if not our own.
Before you allow these spirits to drive you further I highly recommend you pause, take a deep breath, and take stock of just where you've been (in terms of relationships with brethren) ever since
you thought that you had left the unclean spirits behind.
