I don’t doubt that there are spirits –
angels and demons – among us. I have seen a few spirits. Maybe we all have,
unknowingly:
Be not forgetful to
entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13:2
In two instances I saw the spirits of
people I had known – one looked like himself and was sitting where he would be
expected to be (if he were still alive), the other I saw come out of her body
in the moment of her death. I have also had some interesting experiences with
stranger ghosts. One of them happened while I was driving on Highway 99 in
Sherwood, a man hit the windshield of my car – I heard the sound and saw his
face on my windshield in front of me. I slammed on the brakes to check out the
situation only to discover there was no man, no blood, and no damage to my car.
But on the side of the road stood a small white cross which, I believe, marks
the death place of the spirit I saw hitting my car.
Growing up, I heard stories about people
who encountered demons. One young man had been lying on his bed listing to
AC/DC – a band that was forbidden due to the belief that it was a devil worship
band – he closed his eyes and when he opened them, he saw demons walking over
his stomach and all over his bedroom. Another young man revealed a similar story
of demons in his bedroom when he had been looking at pornography. I heard many
such stories of people who were heading in the wrong direction actually seeing
demons and being scared back on to the straight and narrow.
But, I believe there are demons among us
that most of us don’t see or sense. Though I once met a woman who said she
could see demons attached to people. The demons had different agendas – some lust,
some greed, some depression, etc. Please don’t read that list to imply that I
think depression is a sin or a sign of demon possession – I’m not asserting that.
I do think it’s possible that some forms of depression may be spiritual.
Several years ago, I read
Frank Peretti’s books This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness. These
are novels – fiction – but like the Left Behind series which fleshed out the
way one Bible Scholar/Theologian interpreted the Book of Revelation, Peretti’s
novels are biblically based fiction – story lines and particulars that are
possible – who knows.
Have you read these books? If you are
interested in spiritual warfare, I recommend these two books. I would love to
hear from any who have had experiences with spirits.
