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Symbols and Fetishes used in Occult Healing

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African masks, shields, statues, etc are used in Occult Healing. Mask, frequently with an elaborate costume as well, is a way of concealing and submerging your own personality and identifying yourselves with a spirit or other supernatural character in dance or drama. African jujus, (shaped like snakes, hands, figures, and other things are also used. Here are a few other items that are used:

  • Statues of foreign gods; Buddha, fertility; Crystal stones, peeping stones; Black stones
  • Hindu statues of gods and goddesses, snake beetles, etc.
  • Egyptian symbols, art and jewelry

Catholic idols

Statues and articles of images of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, saints, Rosary beads, metals dedicated to saints and holy people, relics (pieces of bone or objects from dead saints). “In almost all countries then, we meet with something in the nature of prayer counters or rosary beads. “. . . including sculpture of ancient Nineveh, mentioned by Layard, of two-winged females praying before a sacred tree, each holding a rosary. For centuries, among the Mohammedan, a bead string consisting of 33, 66, or 99 beads has been used for counting the names of Allah. Marco Polo, in the thirteenth century, was surprised to find the King of Malabar using a rosary of precious stones to count his prayers. St. Francis Xavier and his companion were equally astonished to see that rosaries were universally familiar to the Buddhists of Japan.

Receiving the Power of God

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Paul gives us the central secret of Christian power in (Eph. 6:10:11), “Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power ‘Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” Christians are unconquerable in the Lord and have the protection of his power when they put their spiritual armor on. Victory occurs when confidence is placed in Jesus. That is when defenses against the wiles of Satan are possible.

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When a sinner comes to Christ, he receives power to become a son of God and after Salvation, he can receive extra power from God. (Acts 1:8 and 2:38), describes this extra endowment of power as the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. (Gal. 5:1); (I Pet. 2:11) shows how to clean up lives. Walking in a holy life is the requirement to successfully war against the powers of darkness.

The Discerning of spirits in the End Time Church

Try the spirits whether they are of God (1 Jn. 4:1) “…and Believe not every spirit”. All people are commanded to examine all spiritual things with our critical faculties to see if the Word of God being presented. There are evil spirits that can produce paranormal phenomena therefore we are exhorted by the Scripture to prove the spirits or test the spirits; prove all things; hold fast only to that which is good.victory-in-Jesus
Proving all things requires the use of our reasoning and understanding but we cannot rely only on our intellect. We cannot be swayed by our inward feelings but we can trust the illumination and guidance of the Holy Ghost. Moreover, the greatest principle concerning the testing of spirits are the Scriptures themselves because the Bible is the Truth. (1 Cor. 12:3), “Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit God calleth Jesus accused: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost”. The is the supreme test of discerning spiritual things.

John, said the same thing: “Hereby know ye the spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God,” (l Jn. 4:23).