GHOST BUSTERS - NYOBS 76.11

GHOST BUSTERS

Jesus was the first Ghost Buster, then the Twelve Disciples, now the Holy Spirit within us.

First Word

·         Ghost are believed to be the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear to the living with the ability to assist or harm.

·         There are a number of names given for ghost such as apparition, phantom, poltergeist, haunt, shade, specter, spook, and the list goes on.  

·         The descriptions of ghosts vary widely; many describe ghost as like your “breath” or a vanishing vapor like you would see when you went outside on a cold day and breathed out a vapor or mist.  Others say that ghost forms vary from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to lifelike visions and to even REAL.

·         Do you remember the Movie “The Sixth Sense”, where a young boy who could see and talk to dead people.  His famous catch phrase was, “I See Dead People”. – He said in the movie that dead people walk around like regular people.  They don’t see each other.  They only see what they want to see.  They don’t know they are dead.

·         The question is “Do Ghost Exist” and the answer is YES, but let’s take a slow walk around the block and unpack “What They Are” and “Where They Come From”. – I will use scripture from the Apocrypha as well as Josephus the Jewish Historian to fill in the blanks. Josephus was born the year Jesus was resurrected and while not a Christian, he reported amazing facts about the thoughts of the people surrounding our Lord.

Haunted Houses

·         A playmate of mine hung himself in the attic of his house when I was about 10 years old.  There was talk about how his ghost would remain there and soon the family moved out and the home remained vacant for about 2 years; no one would buy the house believing it would be haunted by the ghost of the young boy.

·         A man died in his home down the street and his house was left vacated and overrun with vines, overgrown shrubbery and deteriorated wood around the windows.  As kids we called it The Haunted House and would try to peek in the windows and ring the doorbell and run. – It remained vacant for about 6 years till a young couple from our church bought it at a bargain. Question: Is there a valid reason to fear purchasing a home where a death has occurred?

·         After a person dies, does the spirit hang around after their death? – There was an unfounded and un-Biblical mindset in the early church that the spirit of the DECEASED HUNG AROUND for three days after their death. – You will note that Jesus waited till after the three days were up before he raised Lazarus from the dead just to prove that his resurrection was indeed supernatural. – Lazarus body was already beginning to rot; it STUNK. As a side note it is also interesting that the “body” of Jesus was in the grave three days.  

John 11:39 – Lazarus spirit has gone and now he stinks.
³⁹ Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time HE STINKETH: for he hath been DEAD FOUR DAYS.

(KJV)

Mortal Immortal Eternal

·         Before we dig into ghost, I would like to define the difference between “Mortal” and “Immortal” to help understand what a ghost can be and what it cannot be.

·         Mortal means that a person or living creature is susceptible to death. – There body can be separated; disembodied from their Spirit. - Example; humans and other living creatures. Immortal means that a person or living creature has the ability to live forever as they were created; body and spirit. – Example; Angels were created immortal – Believers at the resurrection will get a new glorified body that will be immortal.

·         Eternal means a timeless state in which a spirit lives; forever.

·         A Ghost is a created being that has been disembodied from its spirit. – HOLD THAT THOUGHT

Hebrews 13:2 - Some have entertained angels unawares
² Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. (KJV)

Ghost

·         The King James Bible Version is where we find the term ghost mentioned some 108 times, later versions of the Bible use the word Spirit.  The term ghost is used in only two ways;

1.   When someone dies and “gives up the ghost” or

2.   When speaking of the third person of the Trinity; “The Holy Ghost”.

·         This study will address ghost using the term spirit; especially “Unclean Spirits”. – There are four thoughts on what Haunts, Spirits and Ghosts are;

1) Dead People, 2) Fallen Angel’s, 3) The Nephilim, and 4) Demons.

1)  Dead People

·         I want to address dead people first since it’s the most popular belief concerning ghost and is the one that prevents most people from buying a house where a death has occurred. - Some are OK if the death was natural, but freak out if the death was traumatic with suicide, knives, guns or murder in some form or fashion.

·         Question: If the dead have already received their judgment of heaven or hell; why would the dead need a resurrection? – There would hardly be an interest in the return of Jesus Christ if the SOUL of the believer had already gone to the Lord immediately upon death. –

·         The Book says when a person dies their body returns to the earth; dirt, dust along with their Soul which is their mind and emotions. - Their Spirit, the breath of life (Ruah; breath, wind, spirit) returns to God; the one who gave it.  – Not the person, not the body, not the Soul, but the life force that is in us, is what goes back to God.

·         You are judged at death; and are awaiting sentence of either eternal bless and happiness or eternal damnation. - When the Believer dies, his body and soul goes to the grave and his spirit becomes present with the Lord.

·         When a person’s breath departs, at that very same moment, their plans perish, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.  They can't praise nor curse.  Their emotions; their love, their hate and envy have all perished. — The dead know nothing, they are silent in the grave, NOT A WORD TO BE HEARD.  – NYOBS 60.31 - RAISING THE DEAD

·         Bible Sidebar: There were a few special stories of people being raised from the dead as a sign for God’s glory, but eventually their bodies, souls and spirits ALL RETURNED to the grave.

·         There is a story of a man in Hell who wanted to return to his family to warn them and tell them about God, but his request was DENIED! – The Dead Cannot Return -

·         So dead people cannot and ARE NOT the ghostly wispy entities that haunt people or houses today. – Hold that thought -

2 Corinthians 5:8 –The Spirit leaves the body – returns to God.
⁸ We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

(KJV)

Psalm 146:4 – Man goes to the grave – His plans perish
⁴ When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

(ESV)

Ecclesiastes 9:10 - NO working, planning, knowledge or wisdom
¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

(NIV2011)

Psalm 115:17 – The dead cannot praise God – They are silent
¹⁷ Dead people can't praise GOD— not a word to be heard from those buried in the ground. (MSG)

Ecclesiastes 9:5 – The dead know nothing
⁵ For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. (ESV)

Ecclesiastes 9:6 – The dead’s emotions have perished
⁶ Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.

(ESV)

John 5:28-29 – Raised to live or raised to be condemned
²⁸ Do not be amazed at this, for A TIME IS COMING when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
²⁹ and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. (NIV2011)

Luke 16:26-31 – Request to return from the dead was DENIED
²⁶ Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.
²⁷ Then he said, 'I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him (Lazarus) to my father's house,
²⁸ for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'
²⁹ Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'
³⁰  And he said, 'No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'
³¹  But he said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead. NKJV

Job 7:9-10 – HOUSES CANNOT BE HAUNTED BY DEAD PEOPLE
⁹ Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes, those who die will not come back.
¹⁰ They are gone FOREVER from their home — never to be seen again. (NLT)

Communicating with the Dead

·         Since the Book is without error, then we have to ask, what’s going on when people talk to the dead and get information that only that person could have?

·         The Book says in no uncertain terms, to NOT communicate with the dead. – “Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists or wizards or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,  or one who conjures spells, or one who calls up the dead, for you will be defiled by them, they are an abomination. - People should seek God, not Mediums & Wizards.  With that said, if we are told not to, then we must be able to.

·          Necromancy is a form of magic involving communication with the deceased either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge, or to use the deceased as a weapon. - The term black magic or witchcraft may sometimes be used in a more general sense. - Wikipedia -- NYOBS 42.26 - NECROMANCY – COMMUNICATING WITH THE DEAD

·          If it is true that dead people are SILENT in the grave, then WHO or WHAT are people communicating with? - HOLD THAT THOUGHT -

Leviticus 19:31 – Do not defile yourself with Mediums.
³¹ ‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God. (NIV2011)

Leviticus 20:6 – Do not seek Familiar Spirits and Wizards
⁶ And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. (KJV)

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 – Sorcerer, Medium, Spiritist; Abomination
⁹ "When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.
¹⁰ There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
¹¹ or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
¹² For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD. (NKJV)

Isaiah 8:19 – People should seek God, not Mediums and Wizards
¹⁹And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living? (NKJV)

2)  Fallen Angels

·          Next I wanted to address fallen Angles because many commentaries say that fallen angels are ghost or identities that are controlled by Satan to do his bidding.  This is based on the scripture that says that there was a war in heaven between Michael the Archangel and his angles against Satan and his angels.  Satan lost and was cast out of heaven like lighting along with one third of the angels. – NYOBS 07.002 – ESCHATOLOGY; LAST THINGS

·         Well, while this is true, this war doesn’t happen until the last three years of the seven year tribulation period which has not happened yet. – So Satan is still in heaven accusing the believer day and night and his angels are with him.  On top of that, Angels are immortal and retain their created body AND when the angels do fall they are bound in chains of darkness until the judgment. – So angels ARE NOT the ghostly wispy entities that haunt people or houses today. – Hold that thought -

Zechariah 3:1 – Satan stands at God’s throne accusing us

1 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. NIV

Revelation 12:10 – Satan accuses the believer day and night

10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. - For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

Revelation 12:7-9 – War in Heaven – Satan & his angles cast out
⁷ Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,
⁸ but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
⁹ And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Luke 10:18 – Satan fell like lighting from heaven
¹⁸ He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. (NIV2011)

Revelation 12:4 – Satan took one-third of the angels with him
⁴ His tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky, and he threw them to the earth. He stood in front of the woman as she was about to give birth, ready to devour her baby as soon as it was born. (NLT)

2 Peter 2:4 – Fallen Angels are in chains of darkness
⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; (ESV)

3)  Nephilim

·          Nephilim; the majority of the ancient Bible versions interpret the word Nephilim to mean "GIANTS". – The Symmachus translates it as "the violent ones" and Aquila's translation has been interpreted to mean either "the fallen ones" or "the ones falling [upon their enemies]." Wikipedia  - NYOBS 22.30 – GIANTS -- NYOBS 60.02 – ET’s, UFO’s  & PORTALS

• Scripture clearly states that some angels identified as “Sons of God”, left their own habitations and took the women of earth in marriage and had sexual intercourse with them resulting in a hybrid of giants which we call the Nephilim.

·         Daniel prophesized that there would be a mixing of seed in marriage. – Nephilim perhaps?

·         Josephus the Jewish Historian says that the Nephilim’s were hybrids, part celestial and part terrestrial with an appearance that was entirely different from that of men of which we cannot even imagine. – NYOBS 22.03 – JOSEPHUS THE JEWISH HISTORIAN -

·         Apocrypha - Enoch took a petition to God on behalf of some of the Nephilim for forgiveness of their sins, God said the petition would NOT BE GRANTED. – The Nephilim are bound to stay on earth as long as the earth endures. – THEY ARE HERE TODAY -

·         So if the Nephilim which are the offspring’s of the Angels that took earthly women for wives are among us today, they are predestined to hell, and cannot be redeemed; saved.

·         PONDER THE EVIL that’s in the world today, are these EVIL people descendants of the Nephilim’s and cannot be redeemed? – Do we walk side by side with the damned and neither of us know it? – PONDER THAT – NYOBS 29.28 - PREDESTINATION REVISITED

·         God made man a little lower than the Angels; man is mortal and has a soul, Angels are immortal, but do not possess a soul. – So a fallen angel cannot be redeemed, but man can.

·         The Nephilim; the giants were the reason God destroyed the earth with Noah’s flood.  They all died, but because they were hybrids, part celestial and part terrestrial, their damned spirits remained on earth.  - For a fun study, read  NYOBS 60.02 - ET’s, UFO’s & PORTALS

·         Note: We do not know what ANGELS actually look like, nor their offspring’s the NEPHILIM; the Giants. – When scripture says “ALL FLESH” had been corrupted, it gives us reason to believe that even the BEAST of the field also became corrupted. - Black Cats, Black Ravens –

·         Job says that there was some kind of creation or LIFEFORM that existed at the beginning of creation that all “sang together”.

·         Now we are ready to talk about ghost or DEMONS.

Jude 1:6 – Some angels left their own habitation.

6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. KJV

Jude 1:6 – Angels left their assignments for dark missions
⁶ And you know the story of the angels who didn't stick to their post, abandoning it for other, darker missions. But they are now chained and jailed in a BLACK HOLE until the great Judgment Day. (MSG)

Gen 6:1-2 – Nephilim known as “The sons of God”

1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. NIV

Daniel 2:43 – Prophecy - ET’s mixing - marrying earthly women

⁴³ As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay. (ESV)

Gen 6:4 – The Nephilim had sex with the women of the earth

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. NIV

Enoch 12:5-7- ET’s’ - Angels cannot receive remission of Sins

5 Then the Lord said to me: Enoch, scribe of righteousness, go tell the WATCHERS of heaven, who have deserted the lofty sky, and their holy everlasting station, who have been polluted with women.

6 And have done as the sons of men do, by taking to themselves wives, and who have been greatly corrupted on the earth;

7 That on the earth they shall NEVER obtain peace and REMISSION OF SIN. For they shall not rejoice in their offspring; they shall behold the slaughter of their beloved; shall lament for the destruction of their sons; and shall petition for ever; but SHALL NOT obtain mercy and peace.

Enoch 13:1-7 – Enoch petitions God for the Nephilim’s forgiveness

1 Then Enoch, passing on, said to Azazyel: You shalt not obtain peace. A great sentence is gone forth against you. He shall bind you;

2 Neither shall relief, mercy, and supplication be yours, on account of the oppression which you have taught;

3 And on account of every act of blasphemy, tyranny, and sin, which you have discovered to the children of men.

5 And they all became terrified, and trembled;

6 Beseeching me to write for them a memorial of supplication, that they might obtain forgiveness; and that I might make the memorial of their prayer ascend up before the God of heaven; because they could not themselves address him, nor raise up their eyes to heaven on account of the disgraceful offence for which they were judged.

7 Then I wrote a memorial of their prayer and supplications, for their spirits, for everything which they had done, and for the subject of their entreaty, that they might obtain remission and rest.

Enoch 14:3-4 – God said NO

3 Judgment has been passed upon you: your request will NOT BE GRANTED you.

4 From this time forward, never shall you ascend into heaven; He has said, that on the earth He will bind you, as long as the world endures.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 – Deceiving entities cannot be saved
¹³ For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder
¹⁴ for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
¹⁵ So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their END will correspond to their deeds.

Josephus 5.2.3 - Giants appearance was entirely different

3 There were till then left the race of Giants, who had bodies so large and countenances so entirely different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible to the hearing.  The bones of these men are still shown to this very day, UNLIKE to any creditable relations of other men.

Josephus 3.14.2 – After Noah’s Flood – ET’s, Giants in the land

2 They told them also, that they found at Hebron the posterity of the GIANTS. Accordingly these spies perceived that all these difficulties were greater there than they had met with since they came out of Egypt, they were affrighted at them themselves and endeavored to affright the multitude also.

Enoch 15:8 – ET’s spirits shall remain on the earth

8 Now the GIANTS, who have been born of spirit and of flesh, shall be called upon earth evil spirits, and on earth shall be their habitation. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above; from the holy WATCHERS was their beginning and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born on earth.

Enoch 15:9-10 – ET’s oppress, corrupt, fall, contend, and bruise

9 The spirits of the GIANTS (Nephilim), shall be like clouds which shall oppress, corrupt, fall, contend, and bruise upon earth.

10 They shall cause lamentation. No food shall they eat; and they shall be thirsty; they SHALL BE CONCEALED, and shall … rise up against the sons of men, and against women; for they come forth during the days of slaughter and destruction. (Armageddon)

Job 38:4-7 – Beings existed at the creation of the Earth
⁴ Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?
⁶ On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,
⁷ when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? (ESV)

Josephus 8.3.3 – No one can even imagine the shape of Angels

3 He also dedicated for the most secret place, whose breadth was twenty cubits, and length the same, two cherubim’s of solid gold; … but nobody can tell, or even conjecture, what was the shape of these cherubim’s.

4)  Demons

·         Recalling the story of the Demon Possessed Man whose was named Legion because he had some 6,000 demons in him. -  When Jesus commanded the demons to come out, they knew who He was and begged Him to not send them before their time into the “dry” desert or the “bottomless pit” where they would seek rest and not find any.

·         NOTE: Disembodied entities cannot get around on their own, they need a living entity to inhabit; that’s why the demons that were in the man, asked to be sent into the pigs.

·         Jesus complied and sent them into a herd of about 2,000 (moist) pigs which promptly ran down a hill and were drowned in the sea. That would be about 3 demons per pig. – By law, the Hebrews did not eat pork, so this action had a double meaning. – Although the pigs drowned, the demons continued to exist.

·         Now with that said… Demons are eternal; the pigs died, but the demons did not… Where are they today? - Just for fun let your mind wander out to sea, to recall the stories of the “BERMUDA TRIANGLE”… Since 1609 there have been at least 23 recorded disappearances of planes and ships in that area – Could it have been demonic? – PONDER THAT -

·         Where did these demons come from? - NYOBS 17:16 – OTHER FLOOD GAP THEORY

Luke 8:31 - The Bottomless Pit – Destination for Demons
³¹ The demons kept begging Jesus not to send them into the BOTTOMLESS PIT. (NLT)

Matthew 12:43 – Demons need a moist place to find rest
⁴³ When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. (NKJV)  

Mark 5:8-13 – 6,000 demons; 2,000 pigs went into the sea
⁸ For he said unto him, Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out of the man.
⁹ And he asked him, what is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name is Legion; for we are many.
¹⁰ And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. (Dry places)
¹¹ Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of swine feeding.
¹² And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
¹³ And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, in number about two thousand; and they were drowned in the SEA.

Demons the Beginning

·         In order to take you to where demons come from and what they are, I have to take you into unfamiliar territory; a concept that YOU WILL REJECT until you read it for yourself in the Bible. - I won’t spend a lot of time here, because it’s another Word Study all into its own self. I hope you find time to read it. -- NYOBS 17:16 - OTHER FLOOD  GAP THEORY

·         It’s called the Pre-Adamic flood or Satan’s flood or The Gap Theory.  Most pastors know about it, but cannot teach it because their domination feels it undermines the seven day creation story; I think it has no effect. – It has to do with the FIRST EARTH AGE, the one before this one, the one that occurred between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 where God created the earth and then a judgment of darkness came upon the earth and it BECAME without form and void. (DAKE’s annotated reference Bible explains this step by step)

• Every time the sky is darkened, it’s a sign of God’s judgment.  – EVERY TIME. – In the first Flood – EVERYTHING WAS DESTROYED.  – The translator’s literally did not understand how the earth “became” void, so they substituted the Word “hayah” meaning BECAME with the word “WAS”. – In all other 67 translations of the Hebrew word “hayah”, all were translated “became”, not “was”.  So you can say the earth BECAME without form and void. 
• NOTE:  In verse two, this “Lucifer Flood” had already happened. - “and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters”.  Some translations say “brooding” over the waters; pondering
• The Apostle Peter said that the “earth of old” overflowed with water - Jeremiah the prophet recorded that the earth became formless. – The earth did not become formless during the flood of Noah.
• With Satan’s rebellion, God withdrew Himself from the world.  This released all restraints of nature and plunged the world into the judgment of DARKNESS.  Water came from everywhere and flooded the earth.  We believe this to be for thousands upon thousands of years which would account for the age of some fossils that have been found and carbon dated.
• It is believed that this flood completely destroyed everything and this made the world without form and void.  If we use Genesis as a concept of God; that everything He made was good; then we can pre-suppose that the earth was created good and because of rebellion and sin, it became void.
• THE JUMP – This is where we can make the jump in “the gap” between what is said and what is NOT said, and you do this by proving scripture with scripture, precept upon precept.

·         Verse 3 God starts all over again creating the earth.

Col 1:16-17 – God created everything for Himself

16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.NIV

Ps 33:9 – He spoke it into existence.

9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

NKJV

Gen 1:1 – The First Earth Age

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

NIV

Gen 1:2 – The earth became without form and void

2 And the earth was (“hayah” became) without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. NIV

Isa 45:18 God formed the world to be inhabited - not VOID

18 For this is what the LORD says-- he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; HE DID NOT CREATE IT TO BE EMPTY, but formed it to be inhabited

NIV

Gen 1:2 – Judgment - Darkness was over the surface of the deep

2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

NIV

Ex 10:21 – Judgment - So dark it can be felt

21 The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt--darkness that can be felt."

NIV

Jer 4:23 – Judgment – The light was gone

23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.

NIV

Joel 2:31 – Judgment – Sun turned dark

31 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

NIV

Rev 6:12-13 – Judgment – The sun turned Black

12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth,

NIV

Rev 8:12 – Judgment – Sun, moon and stars turned dark

12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

NIV

Rev 9:2 – Judgment – The Sun and sky were darkened

2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.

NIV

Rev 16:10 – Judgment – Plunged into darkness

10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men gnawed their tongues in agony NIV

2 Peter 3:5-6 – The world that was then overflowed with water

5 … the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: NIV

2 Peter 3:5-7 – Ungodly men existed before Adam

5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water

6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.

7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

NIV

Jer 4:23-26 – The people had perished in the first flood

23 I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.

24 I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.

25 I looked, and there were no people; every bird in the sky had flown away.

26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger. NIV

Familiar Spirits

·          Familiar Spirits are supernatural entities believed to assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. - By those alleging to have come into contact with them, they SHAPE SHIFT into numerous guises, often as an animal, but also at times as a human or humanoid figure, and are described as a "clearly defined, three-dimensional form, vivid with color and animated with movement and sound". – The Book calls them DEMONS –  NYOBS 11.16 – DEMONS FAMILIAR SPIRITS -- NYOBS 17.16 - THE OTHER FLOOD – THE GAP THEORY

• A word about Demon Possession – If you take note of all the terrorism and killings that are going on including the Muslim terrorist; this is just plain and simple Demon Possession.
• Good News - An Evil spirit cannot occupy the same space as the Holy Spirit, so someone who is A BELIEVER CANNOT BE DEMON POSSESSED, although they can be harassed.
• Bad News - When you communicate with someone from the dead you are actually communicating with a demon who has assumed the shape, sex and character that you desire to speak with.  Its primary mission is to destroy you – That’s why God warns you to NOT communicate with the dead. -- NYOBS 42.26 -  NECROMANCY; COMMUNICATING WITH THE DEAD

2 Corinthians 11:14-15 - Satan’s servants disguised as light
¹⁴ For Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
¹⁵ It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve

(NIV)

2 Thessalonians 2:9 - Satan has signs and lying wonders
⁹ The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

(NKJV)

1 Timothy 4:1 – Seducing Spirits – Doctrines of Devils.
¹ Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

(KJV)

Speed Read Summary

• First Earth Age God creates the Heavens and the Earth. - He sees that it is good - Gen 1:1
• The angels are created with free will, including Satan; they are immortal. – They are good.
• Living beings created with free will POPULATE the earth; they are eternal – They are good.
• There is NOT a Law that if you sin, you will die. – The created spirits will live forever.
• Satan is given dominion over all of the Earth – But he wants to be worshiped as God.
• Time did not exist - but probably millions of years as we know time would pass by.
• Satan rebels – so does 50,000,000 angels. -  Men’s heart become filled with evil actions.
• God gives eons of time for man to repent; they don’t. God floods the earth; everything dies.
• The earth becomes without form and void – Gen 1:2 – Satan cannot do anything about it.
• God starts over – All of Heaven is watching to see what Satan will do next.
• Time as we know it begins - Satan is unable to give life or create anything, but rules earth.
• The dead without bodies become Satan’s demonic followers; DEMONS – GHOST -
• Second Earth Age begins – This present age – but before Jesus Christ is born. - Gen 1:3
• Everything is recreated or “brought forth” starting in Genesis 1:3 – Man has free will.
• The plan of salvation of man is put into effect.  “The law of sin and death”.
• A mystery is also put into effect.  A new ruler of the earth will come and defeat Satan.
• God put Adam and Eve in the Garden – Everything is put under Adam’s authority.
• Satan is determined he will not report to a man made lower than him; made out of dirt
• God tells Adam “don’t eat of the fruit of the tree of good and evil”, or you will die.
• Satan tricks Adam into eating the fruit – God knew he would – Adam is now a sinner.
• God told Adam to REPLENISH or RE-POPULATE the earth as in the first earth age.
• Adam had twin boys – Satan thinks Able will be the new ruler – Gets Cain to kill Able.
• Satan stirs up the angels to take earthly women as wives; producing the evil Nephilim.
• About 2,000 years passes – Man is hopelessly evil – Heaven is wondering what’s next.
• God gets Noah and his family to build an ark – fills it with pairs of God’s creation.
• God Floods the earth for over a year. Only 8 people survive; saved.  This is God’s remnant.
• The dead beings from the flood all go to hell – They are under the law of sin and death.
• The Nephilim die; Satan accumulates their disembodied spirits to serve him as DEMONS -
• God tells Noah to REPLENISH or RE-POPULATE the earth again.
• Angels are immortal and cannot die, but have no souls therefore cannot be redeemed; saved.
• Man is made a little lower than the angels; he is mortal and will die, but has a soul and can be redeemed; saved IF HE CHOOSES. -  Neither Angels nor Demons can separate us from God. 
• Satan continues to operate with cosmic powers in his invisible kingdom of Spiritual Rulers.
• His Forces of Evil now includes Nephilim with the Demons. – SOME FOLKS CALL THEM GHOST
• That’s why we need Jesus and the Holy Spirit within us. – The original GHOST BUSTERS
• Life is choice driven – The Choices you make on this side of life have eternal consequences.

Ephesians 6:12 – Spiritual forces of Evil in Heavenly places
¹² We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

(NIV2011)

Romans 8:38-39 Angels and Demons cannot separate us from God
³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither ANGELS nor DEMONS, neither the present nor the future, nor any POWERS,
³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to SEPARATE US from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (NIV2011)

In the multitude of counselors,

there is wisdom.

Proverbs 11:14

I am grateful to those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical

information, and scripture verses.  Because of them I can stand on their shoulders

and see further that I otherwise ever could have.

                                                                                                                                     

A Commentary; Critical, Experimental and Practical - Eerdmans

All the Women of the Bible – Edith Deen

Antiquity of the Jews – Flavius Josephus Matthias

Apocrypha – Goodspeed

Baker Commentary on the Bible – Elwell

Bible Almanac; The – Packer-Tenney-White

Bible Commentary – F.B. Meyer

Bible Dictionary – Harper and Row

Bible Dictionary – Nelson’s

Bible Hub.com

Book of Mormon; The – Latter Day Saints LDS

Dake’s Annotated Bible – Dake

English Standard Version Bible – ESV

Expositor’s Bible Commentary – Frank E. Gaebelein

Forgotten Books of Eden; The – World

Illustrated Bible Dictionary; The – Tyndale

Interlinear Greek-English New Testament - Baker

King James Version Bible – KJV

Lost Books of the Bible; The - World

Lost Books of the Bible; The - Bell

Matthew Henry’s Commentary - Zondervan

Missing Books of the Bible; The – Halo Press

Mormon Mirage; The – Latayne Colvett Scott

Mysteries of the Bible – Readers Digest

Nag Hammadi Library; The – James M. Robinson

Nave’s Topical Bible - Zondervan

New International Dictionary of the Bible; The – Douglas - Tenney

New International Version Bible (2011) – NIV

NOTE: The “new” NIV has been corrupted & made gender neutral.  AVOID IT.

Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls – Hugh J. Schonfield

Thru the Bible – J. Vernon McGee

Vincent’s Word Studies of the New Testament – Mac Donald

Who’s Who in the Bible – Paul D. Gardner

Wycliffe Bible Commentary; The – Pfeiffer & Harrison

Wikipedia –

Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible; The – Tenney