THE SPIRITS OF WITCHCRAFT ARE REAL!

ADDITIONAL FACTS

Modern spiritualism is disguised under many names: parapsychology, channeling, occult sciences, clairvoyance, spiritism, witchcraft, wizardry, spiritual healing, hypnosis, magnetic healing, Silva mind control, yoga, mind dynamics, bio­feedback training, psychic phenomena, etc.

Upon first encountering it, people sense that a superhuman power is present; and, fascinated, they dabble with it—until they are controlled by a will stronger than their own. You do not want anything to do with it! Read this:

A young man had lost both his mother and sister by death, and he was encouraged by a friend to visit a spirit medium. She told him his "departed ones" wanted to communicate with him. Soon he was regularly having visits with apparitions, purporting to be his mother and his sister. This continued on for several years. Then he left for Australia, where he was converted to Christianity. Accepting the clear warnings of the Bible about spiritualism, he rejected it outright.

But he could not disentangle himself from the spirits. He asked for the help of a Christian friend, "I cannot get away from those spirits," he told him. "They wake me up three or four times in the night."

So, to provide him with prayerful support, his friend moved in with him; and, each night in separate beds, they slept in the same room.

Soon the strange beings entered the room, as usual, in the middle of the night. First, they would shake his bed, then they would start talking to him. They were usually semi-transparent in appearance. One, he said, looked and sounded exactly like his mother. She would tell him of her affection for him. He would say, "I don't believe you," and turn his face the other way. The voice of his sister would come before him, saying that he was hurting his mother's heart.

Then he would get up, switch on a light, and start reading in the Bible. After a few minutes of silence, the book would be snatched from his hands and thrown across the room, with the words, "You'll read, will you?"

These were not beloved relatives, but devils. Then he would go outside, take long walks, and discuss the situation with his friend. Eventually, the spirits stopped coming. 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous Sherlock Homes mystery writer and one of the world's leading spiritualists says: "The organized spiritualist does not accept the atonement of Christ or the existence of sin" (Wanderings of a Spiritualist, p. 25).

 He predicted that spiritualism, when it has taken over the world, "will sweep the world and make it a better place in which to live. When it rules over all the world, it will banish the blood of Christ!" (Cosmopolitan, January 1918,p. 69).

A young engineering company sales­man boarded a ship at Sydney, Australia. He was to spend two weeks in New Zealand on business. But, on the ship, he met Doyle, who was on a worldwide lecture trip, to stir up interest in spiritism.

The young man told his cabin mate, a preacher, that he was going to talk to Doyle the next day. Although warned that, if he did, he would be caught, the young man laughed and resolutely said he would never become a spiritualist.

But, on his return from the interview the next day, the young man seemed like a changed person. The lies of Doyle and his spirits had won over the young man.

"Doyle told me," he said, "all about several ancestors I know nothing about. He said, because they were powerful mediums, I will be too —if I will join him. And this I am going to do!"

He remained with Arthur Conan Doyle throughout the five-day trip. Arriving in New Zealand, he telegrammed both a resignation to his company and a good-bye to his family. 

It is well-known that Kaiser Wilhelm II, Hitler, and Mussolini conducted the two world wars, through the continual guidance of spirit mediums. It was the advice of devils which resulted in the terribly murderous decisions which were made.

 God will protect from the devils if you will yield your life to Him and trust and obey the Bible. But if you go seeking for the devils, you will be caught and captured.

A young Fijian woman living in Winembuka, about sixty miles from Suva, whose grandfather had been a devil priest, decided she would try to contact the power with whom he communed. This was to be just a bit of fun, or so she thought.

Unknown to her parents, she went to the edge of the village and tried to summon the spirits. Soon  the villagers realized the woman was regularly doing It. Her parents, which were Christian, tried to dissuade her, but she would not listen to them. She said the being she spoke with appeared in the form of a great green snake. But it spoke as a person would.

Eventually, the meetings became so gruesome that she realized she would be destroyed if she continued. She was face to face with a terrible power.

One day, she totally turned her back on it —and refused to go out and talk to the snake. A few days later, she fell to the ground, possessed by demons. In desperation, her family sent for their minister. By the time he and two other ministers had arrived, the girl had been laying on the ground for three days without eating or drinking.

When they tried to speak to her, she would scream at them, as though she were a wild animal. The men prayed earnestly. Then they ordered the evil spirits to come out of her.

Immediately, she turned toward them and glared like a cornered animal. Then she dropped to the floor; and, stretching out full length with staring eyes and frothing mouth, she crawled across the room toward them, slithering like a snake. Then she stopped and went limp.

They bathed her face with water, and she sat up. "Where am I, and why are you here?" she asked. Then they told her what had happened. Turning to her parents, she asked forgiveness for her defiance of their counsel. Then, all together, they thanked God for casting out the evil spirits.

Never, never have anything to do with any form of spiritualism!

We will conclude with this incident: During World War II, a mother received word that her son was missing in action. Although warned by Christian friends not to do so, she went to spirit mediums where, each week, she spoke with her boy. Soon she gave up Christianity and threw away her Bible.

Then one day, her boy came home! He had not died after all! The lying spirits had only appeared to present him to her in the séances.

Few things are more dangerous than making contact with evil spirits, and there are many ways in which this can be done. Cling to Jesus Christ as your Saviour and obey His Scriptures. There is no other way you can be safe in this life. How thankful we can be that Christ is more powerful than the demons!

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