popular occulture series #4 the truth about ghosts, spirits, satan, & scripture
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Popular Occulture Series #4
the truth about Ghosts, Spirits, Satan, & Scripture
“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
~ Isaiah 5:20 ~
Popular Occulture Series #4
the truth about Ghosts, Spirits, Satan, & Scripture
POLTERGEISTS • Popular OccultureTRAVEL CHANNEL
“The trio of ghost hunters, comprised of Zak, Nick, and Aaron, investigates some of the most notorious and haunted places in the world. The detailed eyewitness accounts of these paranormal experiences make viewers feel as if they're actually on location with the ghost-hunting team. The interviews with local residents and historical experts add to the chilling nature of the show, explaining the history of the haunted places and some of the horrible deaths that occurred there.”
POLTERGEISTS • Popular Occulture
“This show features research conducted by university students from Penn State. It's particularly spooky because they take a more scientific approach when trying to provide evidence of an actual haunting or to solve some unexplained phenomenon. They film the entire process of their research, including the gathering of background information. They always explain the nature of any equipment used to measure and record paranormal activity, and later show the recorded footage. They also conduct interviews with the owners of the allegedly haunted homes before, during and after their findings.”
A&E
POLTERGEISTS • Popular OccultureSyFy Channel
Jason and Grant may be plumbers by day, but at night they take to haunted locations with their
ghost-hunting team to collect evidence of paranormal activity. After founding The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS), they resolved to
help people understand the paranormal and to investigate any events that may be unexplained, no matter the location. This is the original 'Ghost Hunters' series. Spin-offs include 'Ghost Hunters
Academy' and 'Ghost Hunters International.'
POLTERGEISTS • Popular OccultureDISCOVERY Channel
“This is one of the scariest shows chronicling eerie events that have occurred around America. The show is a
dramatization of real-life events, but the way the stories are told are chilling, often involving suicides or murders that left a psychic impression on the location. Several
people are interviewed throughout the show, discussing the energy they felt in the place and the legends and
haunted history. After the hour is up, you're left with the complete story and a sense of amazement at how the dead can still have such an impression on the living.”
POLTERGEISTS • Popular OccultureTRAVEL Channel
“This show was originally adapted from the British television series of the same name. Paranormal investigators stay overnight at
haunted locations to investigate unusual activity. They feature
mediums and parapsychologists to sense whether there is a
disturbing presence in a particular house or if there is something that needs to be communicated from
the other realm. A historian is also there to provide facts about the location in question in case it reveals additional information
about the unexplained events.”
POLTERGEISTS • Popular Occulture
Other Popular Paranormal TV series:
Celebrity Ghost StoriesThe Dead FilesParanormal WitnessHaunted HighwayMy Ghost Story: Caught on CameraScariest Places on EarthGhost Hunters InternationalHaunted CollectorPsychic KidsParanormal ChallengeSightingsMTV’s FEARSyFy’s Ghost Hunters AcademyAnd many more…
What further proof do you need to see that we are fixated with
the Occult in America?
Most Americans believe in ghosts. Nearly 1 in 5 American adults say they have seen or
been in the presence of a ghost. Almost 30% share a belief
that they remain in contact with someone who has already died. Over 1/3 believe that spirits of the dead come back and that
their presences haunt among us today. According to one study,
people who go to church are a lot less likely to see a ghost.
~ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/30/18-of-americans-say-theyve-seen-a-ghost/
Popular Occulture
A large and growing segment of the population today are inclined to believe or
at least open to the possibility of spectral visitation from a dearly departed loved one. In fact, 18% of Americans claim
to have seen a ghost and often it is something that bears likeness to someone
or something they loved.
Popular Occulture
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
~ Hebrews 9:27 ~
WHAT DOES SCRIPTURE SAY?
Popular Occulture
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you
cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come
from thence.
~ Luke 16:26 ~
There is an unbridgeable chasm between the dead and the living. Hell is an inescapable, permanent abode for all the unforgiven dead. They do not have
freedom of mobility or the luxury of roaming the earth to do self-atonement
or to make house calls.
Jesus clearly meant to communicate to us that the Eternal State of the dead,
whether in Heaven or in Hell, is a permanent accomodation. Our loved ones do not return from the dead to
comfort us, advise us, or commune with us. They remain separated from
influencing the lives of those still living upon earth.
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“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any
thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is
forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their
envy, is now perished; neither have they any
more a portion for ever in any thing that is done
under the sun.”
~ Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ~
The dead do not continue to experience life “under the sun”. That is to say, they do not have any personal contact with the realm of the living. Those who are
deceased do not have consciousness of this realm of the living. (That is not to suggest that they are not conscious at
all; only that they are presently in another realm apart from this one.)
The departed do not retain their riches or their mementos. They do not carry
their vendettas or their obsessions with them to the grave. After death, they are
no more able to cross over from the realm of the dead to life. “Haunting”
therefore is not possible nor desireable.
Popular Occulture
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was
a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father
of it.”
~ John 8:44 ~
Jesus called the devil the “father of lies” – this suggests that Satan spawns
deceptions and lies to delude and persuade people to believe against the
truth. He is a clever and subtle manipulator – distorting and
transforming reality into an innocent, righteous, and innocuous form.
I believe that MANY people (even a lot of Christians) have been duped by the
devil into seeing no harm with the occult portrayals that pervade today’s air
waves and literature.
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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.
~ II Corinthians 11:14-15 ~
Jesus called the devil the “father of lies” – this suggests that Satan spawns
deceptions and lies to delude and persuade people to believe against the
truth. He is a clever and subtle manipulator – distorting and
transforming reality into an innocent, righteous, and innocuous form.
I believe that MANY people (even a lot of Christians) have been duped by the
devil into seeing no harm with the occult portrayals that pervade today’s air
waves and literature.
Popular Occulture
How most people think about the Occult in the media…
If you are not standing against the occult, then you are sympathetic with the occult. If you are entertained by the very things that
God detests, then your heart is far away from Gods.
If you think that certain ideas are only harmful if you believe in them, then you’re
living in a delusion. You don’t believe in idols, right? An idol is really nothing, right? So you can hang out in a pagan temple and enjoy
the ceremonies, rituals, and practices of the pagans around you, and still feel justified that
you’re doing right. Of course not!
Do you really think that you can explain away to your child what God has explicitly
forbidden?
I don’t deny that there is a clear occult/pagan connection, but I’m not actually involved in the occult. I don’t believe in it. I don’t accept it. I can still love God and watch it for entertainment.
The occult connotations are harmless if I don’t personally believe in them. They cannot have any power over me or my children if I do not let them. My children who watch the “Disney-fied” witchcraft are not subject to any harm! We don’t want them to feel left out since other kids are watching them.
I think that its safe if I take time to explain to my children that God is true and these stories are just mythical and fanciful stories of imagination. There’s no way they will become confused.
What is the TRUTH about the Occult in the media…
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“Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a
little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep
sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which
made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It
stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was
before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice,
saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be
more pure than his maker? Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he
charged with folly:…”
~ Job 4:12-18, Eliphaz speaking to Job ~
Satan is trying to feed us misinformation about himself. He uses
fear to induce our submission. He uses lies to manipulate our perception of what is right and wrong. He distorts God’s truth and clear commandments
and exploits it to his advantage. He uses attractive wisdom and appealing
logic to support his dastardly deceptive reasoning.
His accusations of God are subtle and yet devastating and we are gullible
and easily won over by his wiles and tricky tactics.
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1.) Fabrications or Hoaxes
3Possible Explanations
for
PARANORMAL
ACTIVITY
Many of the pictures, videos, and accounts of ghosts and hauntings are contrived by hoaxes or deliberate deception.
Popular Occulture
3Possible Explanations
for
PARANORMAL
ACTIVITY
2.) Hallucinations or Illusions
Many accounts of ghosts can find a natural explanation based on someone under the influence or an optical illusion.
Popular Occulture
3Possible Explanations
for
PARANORMAL
ACTIVITY
2.) Hallucinations or Illusions
Many accounts of ghosts can find a natural explanation based on someone under the influence or an optical illusion.
Popular Occulture
3Possible Explanations
for
PARANORMAL
ACTIVITY
2.) Hallucinations or Illusions
Many accounts of ghosts can find a natural explanation based on someone under the influence or an optical illusion.
Popular Occulture
1.) Fabrications or Hoaxes
2.) Hallucinations or Illusions
3.) Manifestation of demons
3Possible Explanations
for
PARANORMAL
ACTIVITY
Many of the pictures, videos, and accounts of ghosts and hauntings are contrived by hoaxes or deliberate deception.
Many accounts of ghosts can find a natural explanation based on someone under the influence or an optical illusion.
There are real manifestations of ghosts that are in fact demonic apparitions. These are demons masquerading as familiar departed.
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1.) Continuous Existence
2.) Communion of Spirits
3.) Endless Progression
3Principles of
SPIRITISM
Life never ends. The spiritual component of human beings lingers on long after the material is gone.
Spirits are capable and interested in contact with the living.
Spirits are on a quest to self-improvement and greater enlightenment.
Popular Occulture Series #4
the truth about Ghosts, Spirits, Satan, & Scripture