LETTERS - H
The 'Hellish Torch' of Harry PotterShared by: Lurlene (Note: Temcat did not write this, or research HP to this extent. I present it here-- as if even half of it is accurate, HP is a worse threat than we even have thought!) CommentsAround the world people are letting the vanguard of the anti-Christ into their homes and into the hearts and souls of their children. Please send this warning out to everyone you know and care about! "The Immaculate Conception as Perverted in the Pagan Harry Potter Books", An article by Lurlene Tyranna Shores. It was with fear and a great sense of shame and guilt that I touched the cover of a Harry Potter book for the first time, and then forced myself to sit through the movies. For weeks I had prayed and asked for guidance, and I hope it was God's will that I did, and saw with my own eyes what is foisted upon the eyes and minds of our children. I have heard many bad things about these books and movies, there would be countless instances of witchcraft, cursing, brewing of drugs made by boiling alive babies pulled from the earth, sexual congress with goats and many more things not fit for young readers' and viewers' eyes, but what I found was much worse still than I had feared. Please do not let your children read these books or watch these movies! I will now tell you why: The antagonist in the Harry Potter books is a man called Tom (parody of the Trinity, more about that in the next paragraph) Marvolo (marvels - miracles) Riddle (referring to the Divine mystery), a man who is three as one, in the spiritual shape of an old man (Voldemort –meaning flight of death, a direct reference to the plagues over Egypt), in the body of the young man who lives in the diary (Bible), and as the spirit that guides (as in the first book when he fights the witches for a stone—the Sorcerer's Stone—that grants immortality and is in defiance of the punishment for the fall). This Tom Riddle is clearly the God of Christian tradition as other Christian critics of Mrs. Rowling's books have pointed out. When Potter first sees Tom Riddle the Son, Tom is described as strangely blurred around the edges, suggesting a halo (p. 330). The reason why Mrs. Rowling calls Jesus Tom is simple. In England, the saying "every Tom, Dick and Harry" is highly popular and in this case alludes to the omnipresence of God in our world. This is another attempt to confuse us by presenting a false, mixed up trinity: Tom, the Father; Dick, the Spirit (better known in the series as the ghost Sir Benedict de Mimpsy Porkington, affectively called Nearly-Headless-Dick by the children); and Harry, as the Son, the false Christ. Later, Tom the Son will remark that he and Potter are very alike (p. 340), causing more confusion in the heart of the reader. Lucius Malfoy (meaning of bad/wrong faith, again this is misleading!), a respectably dressed family man with the pale hair and ethereal looks of an Angel, representing the Angel Gabriel of the Annunciation (Luke 1:31, but with the name of the fallen one in order to confuse Christian readers) gives the girl of a humble home, Ginny Weasley, the diary of Tom Riddle. It is not hard to realize this diary, containing the life history of our Lord, Tom the Son, represents both the message that she is to become the Divine vessel, and the Christian Bible, the very base of our faith. The Angel Malfoy, with modesty that befits his kind, does not touch the revered and frightened girl but puts the diary in the girl's cauldron, representative of her womb. The innocent Ginny confides in the diary, asking it questions, and the diary advises her, guides her, like the Holy Scripture. About the diary she says, I'm so glad I've got this diary to confide in ... It's like having a friend I can carry around in my pocket (p. 335). Isn't this the way we wish our children would think about the Holy Scripture? Ginny continues to ask Tom for guidance, until she, under the malevolent and seductive influence of the anti-Christ figure, Harry Potter, bearing the mark of the beast on his front, rejects it and it falls into his hands. The little girl writes Potter a poem: His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, He is truly divine, the hero who conquered the dark(sic) lord. Once more a blasphemous attempt to turn the tables around and represent witchcraft, a dark force Christianity has faced and fought since the dark ages, as benevolent, and make God out to be something dark and fearful to us. The terms green eyes and pickled toad should be enough to raise the alarm bells in the mind of any true Christian, but our children are not always well versed in the Divine truth of the Bible and defenseless against this sort of Satanic indoctrination. Ginny, like our own children, is captured by Potter's serpent-like green gaze, and maybe his tongue; Mrs. Rowling gives away in the first book that the boy can talk to snakes, and considering what we already know about Potter, we should not put seducing an innocent girl into original sin past him. Like our own children, it is a lure she cannot resist, and one the Virgin Mary never had to face. In this second book in the series, Mrs. Rowling, who for many years studied Satanism and Kabbalah in France and several other secularized old world countries, represents the Immaculate Conception by Ginny of Tom as rape, of the mind but also of the body, and the Annunciation as a fraud committed against the virgin girl meant to be the bride of the anti-Christ figure Potter. She does this inversion of our ancient truths without blinking an eyelash, and according to some is a representative on earth of the ancient demon Lilith, who was rejected by Adam as a wife for her forwardness and her refusal to take a wife’s place. Before the conception of Tom Riddle, the Son, is completed, Potter pierces the Bible Ginny holds with the fang of a serpent-like poisonous monster, burns it, and reclaims his unconscious bride (the scene bears resemblance to the one in Rosemary's Baby since Ginny is also wearing a black robe and her legs are uncovered) while Tom is denied becoming flesh to save the world from Potter and his followers. A phoenix, favourite symbol of Freemasons like Hilary Clinton, a bird born from fire and with feathers the color of hellish flames, red, gold, orange and yellow (not coincidentally also the colors of Potter's house in the school) comes to Potter's aid. Not surprisingly, Ginny weeps silently after being 'rescued' by Potter, for deep inside she knows that now she will face a fate worse than death, and that she is lost (p. 350). The movie ends with Potter and his mentor, a master in the Satanic art of shape shifting, humiliating the Angel of the Annunciation. In a particularly distasteful and lewd display, Potter tries to tempt the rightfully furious Angel by raising his pant leg and showing him his nude ankle. In this way the Harry Potter books contribute to the hidden gay agenda. When this temptation is refused, he has a malignant house spirit who embodies all the evils of stem-cell research, curse the angel down. In the book Blood in Vein, notorious Satanist Brian Hodge puts the blasphemous words, “There are many gods. There are many sons conceived by rape.” as an answer to the question, What of your being the Son of God? into the mouth of Jesus (p. 271 of the paperback). This is common practice among Satanists, representing God as one of a multitude so we will lose direction, and perverting the birth of our Saviour in rituals where they invert crosses, spill the blood of roosters, have goats rape virgins, and eat newborns. And we now see that they will stop at nothing. Throughout every next book in the series, Our Lord Voldemort/God tries to smite Potter and, according to Mrs. Rowling, every time he fails, reinforcing gullible readers' confidence in the power of evil. Potter's godfather, the ancient Egyptian demon Sirius (better know to us as Satan, or Potter's [GOD] i.e. true father, historically Set) who also takes the shape of a large black dog, and is described as both beautiful and violent by Mrs. Rowling, appears in three of the books and returns physically to the underworld when Potter turns sixteen and is no longer in need of his protection. One wonders if the infernal nuptials of Potter's mother Lily, also named after Lilith, and this dog will be described in any of the following books. Nothing good can come of this. Our country is now beleaguered in the Harry Potter merchandize, colorfully, festively almost announcing the arrival of the anti-Christ. The worst product available to corrupt our youth was Potter's vibrating broomstick, now taken off the market under pressure of Christian parents because it taught young girls how to abuse themselves and awoke their interest in the sins of the flesh. This is damage that cannot be undone. Our own President and his wife have let this evil into the White House and have boasted Harry Potter themed Christmas decorations! The Vatican, not coincidentally located in the centre of Europe, has sided with the Satanists and proclaimed Harry Potter harmless; once again the Catholic Church forsakes the Christ and sides with those who would pull us down with them into eternal damnation. It may be already too late to save our world, but we can save our souls and refuse the ticket for a one-way trip to hell Potter provides. It is never too late to cancel your trip. God bless you and be with you always.
To Temcat Subject: Hinds Feet Book/Spiritualism This is quite long, might want to print it out for research later. I'm going to cut and paste something I wrote to some friends in this email. It is what I believe is the truth behind that famous book: Hinds Feet in HIgh Places by Hannah Hurnard. I have been all over the Internet trying to find info, but all I find is the positive about what a wonderful Christian book it is, except for one place, and I have his article inserted below. . I have to say that right now, I am seeing the effects of subtle spiritualism taking hold of family and friends. My sister, has not read this book, but has been deceived by the New Theology, and who dwells on the LOVE of God, not much else, has expressed the same sentiments as found in an example of one of Ms. Hurnard's later books. Two weeks ago my sister had an experience in which she almost drowned under a raft while on a floating trip. She is a very sweet SDA, but is worried about the salvation of her two non practicing adult children. While under the boat, thinking she was going to drown, the Lord gave her a revelation "that just before a person is about to die in a tragic accident, the Lord will give that person a CHANCE to make a decision for Him." BECAUSE AS SHE EXPLAINED TO ME: "HE LOVES US SO MUCH THAT HE IS GOING TO DO EVERYTHING HE CAN SO SAVE US."I am going to copy & paste a few statements from another book of Ms. Hurnard's here first, the reason I do that is because so many SDA's are expressing those same sentiments. Here is an excerpt from "Eagles' Wings", in which we are assured of universal salvation for all, which is very close to the "love gospel we hear so much of these days.". The character, Aletheia ("truth") makes these discoveries:"All her [Aletheia's] unacknowledged doubts and questions arose again concerning a God who called Himself Love and who brought myriads of souls into existence without being able to prevent them from condemning themselves to an eternity of hopeless darkness and suffering, lost to Him forever.How could He possibly love them , if He let this happen to them? How could He possibly be good, if He brought them into an existence where it was possible for them to separate themselves from His love and joy and goodness forever?”"Oh, how terrible and hopeless to be a God who loves goodness and cannot save His own creatures from preferring evil. If he did not call Himself a God of Love it would be different. A devil might create living souls capable of tormenting themselves forever. Oh, what agony to love the souls brought into existence enough to go to the cross in a last supreme effort to save them and not be able to do so. To proclaim, ‘I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Myself,’ and to be unable to do it! To find that the Devil is stronger than Goodness and could gloatingly and triumphantly succeed in damning at least ninety percent of God’s creatures, leaving only a pitiful ten or even smaller percent to respond to His love — a handful of souls for Him to rejoice over for ever and ever, while all the others were tormented in hell. Oh, what hopelessly bitter Bad News this was. How could she ever believe in and trust such a God again?”But then a "Good Shepherd" comes to enlighten Aletheia, assuring her: “ ‘God is an infinite ocean of Love and Goodness. In Him there is no wrath at all. What men call His wrath and judgment is the inexorable determination of the love of the skilled surgeon to heal the sickness and suffering of a beloved son....'" Aletheia comes to her epiphany at last: “‘He is the Saviour of all men!’ (1 Tim. 4:10). The words burst forth in passionate triumph from the lips of Aletheia. ‘Oh, how blind I have been! He is lifted up and nailed to the cross with us. As Jesus revealed when He hung between the two thieves and murderers, He will “draw all men unto Him.” Linda here: Now, Hinds Feet seems OK at first glance, but, it is a very subtle introduction into false theology. Her later books revealed what she was really into: Spiritualism. Here is a copy of an email I sent to the friend who gave me that book to read, and who has held this book up as a wonderful book to read: Dear Louis, I started reading the book you loaned me by Hannah Hurnard HINDS FEET IN HIGH PLACES. I had resisted reading it for years, in fact I had read the first chapter and it made no sense at that time. This time as I went through the first couple chapters my heart was skipping a beat, for it expressed my innermost sentiments exactly (that should have been a clue to me). I was thinking to myself: Linda, you have come a long way, now you can finally read this book, this must mean I’m having a deeper religious experience! (foolish of me)As I continued reading I read on page 83: "It was very early morning, and high above them, hanging in the sky over the silent expanse of desert, was a YOUNG CRESCENT MOON AND THE MORNING STAR SHINING LIKE A BRILLIANT JEWEL CLOSE BESIDE IT." WHAT! That is a satanic symbol. Then on page 87 she takes us inside the GREAT PYRAMID. What is going on here? Why does she have to use a pyramid? I have been in that great pyramid in Egypt. It is all satanic. Something is WRONG. I decided to read the biographies about her, and re-read the introduction to her book.I compared her experience to Ellen White's. Ellen's was different. She never resisted the spirit as a child etc....Hannah not only resisted and had no inclinations to be spiritual, but when she was finally converted this is what she said about her conversion experience: She then believed "God called for a sacrifice": "She was to be the sacrifice." "God wanted HER mouth" She must agree to "be HIS MESSENGER". "at once her heart was filled with peace and joy". Louis I stopped reading. Something is wrong. The above yellow highlighted areas should alert us. I went on the Internet searching. Somehow I believe this book is full of VEILED spiritualism. But I cannot put my finger on it. Then I found this information below. This is from a Pentecostal minister whose son went to this Mt. Zion School. Shocking Events At Mt. Zion School of Ministry Going to Mt. Zion School of Ministry? BeWarned! Page 2 of 6 7/21/2006 In 1998 my son concluded two years at Mount Zion School of Ministry and received a two-year diploma. While he was attending, I definitely felt something was odd but couldn't put my finger on the problem. Problem? What could possibly be wrong? Dave Wilkerson is the sponsor and founder of Mt. Zion School of Ministry! We sent our son with utter confidence and trust. Unfortunately, we had no inkling of what was truly happening at Mt. Zion.What Happened at Mt. Zion School of Ministry? The administration of Mt. Zion was putting forward perverse New Age Theology. These teachings undermined: 1. Salvation though faith in Jesus Christ alone 2. Divine Healing as provided for in the atonement1 3. Empowerment for service through the Holy Ghost Baptism [Obviously he is a pentecostal] Rather than being built up with sound Biblical doctrine, Mt. Zion students were lead into a mystical world of monkish introspection and scourging of their inner selves. They were taught that only through a long process of breaking and or physical (sickness) can a believer be properly equipped for ministry.Personal sorrow and suffering were depicted as the only means to attain holiness and full unity or fellowship with Christ.2 Ultimately, students were informed through their chapel devotional guide that every human affection must completely be removed and destroyed as a sacrifice to God. When this work is achieved inner sorrow and suffering will supposedly vanish away!3 I later discovered that Dave Wilkerson also puts forward SOME of these ideas in his book Hungry For More of Jesus.4NOTICE : Not every teacher at Mt. Zion promoted the above Theology. Nonetheless, every student was exposed to and strongly inseminated with these above doctrines. When my son gave a talk about "victory in Jesus" his message was disallowed and another had to be submitted.Implementing Truth? -- Oh Dear! These bazaar teachings at Mt. Zion were clearly exemplified when my son initiated, with some faculty resistance, a love offering to pay for a fellow student's emergency tooth extraction. This student was suffering with two seriously decayed teeth and did not have the resources to pay a dentist. A week or so after the collection was gathered the students were informed that it was a sin to interfere with God's dealings. The students were told, that by giving help, we hinder the suffering that God has willed and thus, a needed lesson will not be learned! Reader, please remember that the above approach to suffering is a fundamental tenant of many heathen religions but not Evangelical Christianity. It was certainly not consistent with our past image of David Wilkerson and his ministry! Nevertheless, this was not an isolated case at Zion. The prayer of faith was not part of the Zion experience. Rather, when a student sought for healing prayer, suffering in body and soul were magnified as God's tools for our betterment. Prayer was only offered after an extended talk that explained that God might be doing something through this physical problem. If this troubles you and sounds unbelievable than check below and read our book review of Dave's Hungry for More of Jesus. Polluted Wells We have told you the good news and from here things get much worse. At Mt. Zion School of Ministry President Catherine Logan stayed the course upon two books. First, the Bible (good! very good!) and secondly, the writings and spirituality of Hannah Hurnard. In David Wilkerson's Bibleless graduation speech he twice stated that Catherine was no Theologian but explained that she was deeply spiritual. What Dave failed to say or perhaps realize was that Catherine stands toe to toe with Hannah Hurnard in both message and spirit. In my son's first year President Catherine used Hannah's Hinds' Feet on High Places as the chapel devotional guide. We discovered that Hannah's writings were not just another book at Zion but were described by Catherine as "inspired by the Holy Spirit." Hannah's book Mountains of Spices was also used the text in a class during my son's second year. Unfortunately, the Hinds' Feet message was not restricted to chapel during one year but was made a part of all that President Catherine emphasized and imparted.The Spawn of Satan So, who is Hannah Hurnard and what exactly does she teach? By the end of her life, Hannah Hurnard established herself as an extreme heretic of the first order, who, put forward a smorgasbord of extreme New Age Theology including, open rejection of the Gospel, Hyper Necromancy, Universalism, Pantheism, Reincarnation, and much more. Her final book The Inner Man, is only available though New Age book suppliers.My Christian bookstore could not trade with these sources. Nevertheless, Hannah's Hinds' Feet remains very high on the Christian, best sellers book list. Having a "flowers and spice" approach, Hinds' Feet simply appears to be another "girl thing" book. Actually, Hinds' Feet contains some very hurtful Theology but you must read carefully and listen to what is being said, rather than what is being felt. Remember that every feeling must bow to the Word of God!Hannah's fall from the truth was no fall at all. A malevolent spirit controlled her before she ever started writing. In her first book Hind's Feet she introduces several extreme New Age teachings but dresses them in flowers, nature, lovely animals and a idealistic romance with the Shepherd. She wrote of a long journey to the High Places or Kingdom of Love. In her last book The Inner Man she confirms that this climb to the High Places depicts our exodus from Physical consciousness to inner "mysticism" or soul world awareness. She says that this process of passing from one world to the other is called dyeing to self and is only achieved through our personal sorrow and suffering.In Eagles' Wings Hannah contradicts the Fundamental Gospel of salvation through faith in Jesus and the repentance of sin. Hannah's brand of spirituality is only achieved through personal sorrow and suffering. Conversely, we know that if our personal sacrifice could save us than the shepherd might just as well be Buddha and if Christ's blood brings our Salvation than nothing else will suffice! Remember, the method of salvation that we preach is just as important as the name that we follow! There are many false Christs in every century.About "Suffering unto Holiness:" This link is included so that the reader may learn the views of this writer. Far, Far, Far Out! Talking to the Dead In Hannah's The Inner Man she declares that our awakening to the unseen world is a wonderful liberation. She says that we are then free to travel about in the spirit and to congregate with other kindred spirits. We are also told that we may converse with the dead in spite of Scripture's prohibition, because, she said that Jesus has approved this practice and he acts as the medium between the dead and the living. Hannah asserts entering this mystical world awakens us to new inner powers. She says that our mind cannot only read thoughts but our mind can alter the physical world around us. Through positive thinking Hannah ascribes powers to us that belong only to God in heaven. All of this occurs after we have earned the high places via sorry and suffering. (Note that my son recounts one occasion when the President of Mt. Zion described her communication with a departed loved one.)Consider how that all of these Satanic teaching began with a supposed righteous journey up to the Kingdom of Love. Was this an innocent journey or one of the great deceptions of the 20th Century? The end of the matter has not yet been told. How many well meaning Christians are drinking from Hannah's well and in the process are drinking from a cup of demonic deception? How many are seeking holiness through their own sacrifices rather than Christ's Cross and are thus trusting in an anti-Cross? How many place their inner revelations above the Scripture and by so doing are following another Christ? May God save us! Will he find faith when he comes?Certainly some of the New Age ideas that we have catalogued above were not taught at Mt. Zion but whenever we find such extreme deception we must not fail to heed the warning bells and look more carefully for connected dangers. We have reviewed some of Hannah's writing below. Hinds' Feet, Mountains of Spice, and Dave's, Hungry for More of Jesus were books used at Mt. Zion. These books have serious problems that we will cite. However, some earnest believers will maintain that the teachings found there are just fine. For those in doubt we recommend a look at Hannah's extreme New Age writings. In these books we are given the full and sinister meaning of Hannah's most popular books. Linda here: I got this information from: http://www.geocities.com/asterisktom/hurnard.html andhttp://home.i-plus.net/thorpe/Zion/Mt.Zion.htm TEMCAT'S COMMENTS ON HIND’S FEET BOOK:YES YES YES! I fell right into that one a few years ago-- before I was born again! It is SOOO subtle - I had forgotten about it as it was several years back I read it- The effect on me was that at first I thought it great- you know- the 'new light' feeling that Satan gives us when we get into his sneaky spiritualism--CS Lewis stuff is the same-- you always feel there is a great breakthrough just around the corner- but it keeps receding before you. You feel as it you just get into it a bit deeper and a wonderful new experience will be yours- but really there is nothing there-- like all spiritualism-- it is nebulous, misty--empty--meaningless BUNK! I actually do not recall if I ever finished reading it as I began to sense the hollowness of it all part way through. The SCARY thing was that the book was given to me when I was visiting in a conference SDA church!! (By a lay person- not the church itself) I threw it into the trash a short time later. It never dawned on me that SADs are still reading it! There is a famous picture and I can't recall the title-- but it shows a bunch of people frantically chasing after a beautiful woman in a bubble - they are rushing forward- eyes fixed on this delusion--when ahead is a cliff and they are going to crash to their death!
"Godly Trust" is considered one of the 8 laws of health. It is our tendency in these modern days to separate our physical life from our spiritual life and from our mental, emotional and social life. But in practice it will not work - We are created a multifaceted being, and we can never have one side of us functioning perfectly and ignore the other sides. We have to cultivate all three, and so, although the intents of the producers of this course are to provide you with useful, practical, health information that is proven effective, and although not "religious" in scope, we realized that we must deal with spiritual issues as they are indispensable to real health! There is more than one type of spiritual force active in this world. One side is true, and is God’s side, the other side is false and is designed to trick and destroy as many as it can. I am going to place here some Bible texts to illustrate what I am saying. 1 Corinthians 11.13-15: For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 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. 1 Timothy 4.1: Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Revelation 16.13,14: And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Revelation 13.13,14: And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. Matthew 24.24: For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Mark 13.21-23: And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not: For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things. I have listed quite a few texts here but I want you to be aware of one main point, directly from God’s word, devils can work miracles! Everything that shows itself to be supernatural or to have real power is not always from God as so many believe. Jesus Himself has warned us that devils and evil spirits can and do work miracles and although it has become unpopular in the churches to "believe in the devil", it is obvious Jesus did and so I feel we should take heed of his warning. "O.K.", so you say "what does this have to do with my health??" It has much to do with it as in the days we live in we are being inundated with many ‘Health Practices and Practitioners’ that do not operate under the sanction of what God has shown us in His word. Because the Bible has always proven itself to be true and because even the so-called scientific medical field is always going whole hog into various things, only to discover them useless and dropping them to go all out after something else, I prefer to avoid practices related to things expressly condemned by God’s word. So what are the types of things we are warned about being devilish? I will list some: Hypnotism and trance-type meditations—- All trance states whether self induced or induced by a therapist, are an open invitation to demonic invasion and interference. Have nothing to do with any of them! Some advocates of meditation and visualization techniques claim that the Bible talks about meditation. Yes it does but it does not refer to any of the mind altering practices going today under that name! Bible meditation is to read the bible and think over carefully what you read, letting the Holy Spirit help you to understand and apply it to your own life. We pray to God by talking to Him directly in our minds, not by blanking out our minds and waiting for ‘God’ to tell us something - this is like opening a bank vault and hanging out a sign- "Help Yourself" - You are wide open to demonic aggression! Faith-healing where there is a very emotionally exciting atmosphere and people are selected from a crowd and ‘healed’ randomly. Note: God does sometimes heal people in answer to the prayer of faith but it is a quiet, private type prayer as described in James 5:14,15. God wants us when we become sick, to examine our lives and correct the bad habits that have caused or contributed to our disease and to use the simple remedies He has approved and then to pray and trust Him to do what He sees best. This ‘demanding healing from God in mass meetings, with no change of life involved, is a satanic delusion and many thus ‘healed’ become devil oppressed and deceived. Healing is good, but should never be sought at the price of one’s soul! ‘Touch for health’, ‘healing touch’ and such techniques are not natural massage therapies! They involve the use of powers that for centuries were recognized as witchcraft. You will find many who practice these things have what they call a ‘guardian angel’ or a ‘guide’ of some sort that helps them with this work and gives them information. Even those who think that the powers they use are from their own mind or body, or from some cosmic energy field are no less dangerous. The power comes from what the Bible calls ‘familiar spirits’ and comes under the heading of devils working miracles. These satanic practices are even now accepted by the medical and nursing people! Unfortunately, it does not change the fact they are dangerous deceptions. Also, any one who tells you that they are in touch with departed spirits, long-dead doctors, or ascended masters, or devas, nature spirits, avatars or such, or aliens from outer-space— have nothing to do with any such thing! The Bible clearly tells us that- "the dead know not anything." Ecclesiastes 9:5 and that those who are dead are asleep until the resurrection day: John 11:11-25. Therefore this is clearly a deception of the enemy. God will not lie and so He or His angels will never work through a source forbidden by His word. Please realize that many things have SOME truth in them as the devil couldn’t fool anyone with a lie that was all false– evil is a parasite and must connect itself with some truth to survive! The sad thing is that many ‘New Age’ health practices are a mixture of truth and error, having some good points but then leading into practices and beliefs that are false. As any one knows, poison in a bottle marked poison is not near as dangerous as poison mixed with food and sitting in your ‘fridge. Satan can and sometimes does tell the truth but God never lies! Yoga is a great example. Some of the yoga exercises do improve health and most of yoga diet principles are accurate but the belief system is entirely satanic! Whenever you hear terms like; chakras, reincarnation, kundalini, tantra, and mantra, auras, visualization or talk about cosmic energy - turn around and get out of there! The little truth in Yoga is not worth the risk of deception. Learn your truth from pure sources that don’t contradict the Bible! Deuteronomy 18.10-12: There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee. Psychic healing, charms, crystals, pendulums, astrology and astrological herbalism, shamanism, energy field manipulations, rebirthing, hypnotherapy regressions, any and all these things are not natural healing! Even modern psychiatry with its mind-altering drugs and manipulations is not free from danger. It is wise to avoid any therapy that tends to make you dependent on a person. True therapy will teach you how to help yourself not make you helplessly dependent on the therapist! True natural healing conforms to the 8 laws of health, uses simple, natural methods and simple remedies. The use of natural nutrition, water treatments, proper massage, simple herbal therapy, rest, sunshine, pure air and exercise are all remedies that God approves. They may take effort and time but they do their work well and are safe. We also lay aside homeopathy as its claims are not in harmony with natural law. Even though often not harmful in itself, it leads one to look for health in a little drop instead of by changing harmful habits. So then, what do we really mean by "Godly Trust"? We mean trust in Him, in the wisdom He has put in your body, in the wisdom He has put in the Bible, and in the wisdom he has put in natural foods and remedies. Trust Him enough to leave alone the things He has warned are dangerous. Trust Him to lead you right when you pray to Him and seek His will.
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