How We Evicted the Misanthropic Demon; Physical Blindness Evaded: A Spirit Journey
72November 1st, 2009 - Our Hike to the Observatory
The metal rod was no longer part of the bear.
Still, Richard didn't seem to quite realize his liberty, and stared off mutely toward some unknown point. I laid a hand on his shoulders and asked again if he wouldn't like to go somewhere. He looked at me as if he'd just awakened, then looked at his paws and almost smiled.
I asked him where he thought we should look for the "rampage" being (I had been unsure, because of the "rat gnawing" from the inside, whether to look for the enemy inside or outside this meadow and forest), and he started off across the meadow, full of purpose. I walked beside him, with a hand on his back. I wasn't sure he would like this, but every time I removed it he stopped and looked at me, and resumed only when I put my hand on him again. By the time we neared the other side of the meadow, we were quite companionable, and I felt as if we could have many adventures together. [Richard, I hope we do, and thanks for being my playfellow; it's not often I get such a chance to let my guard down and be absolutely real.]
Before we reached the trees and mountains in front of us, we lifted up together and flew into the pale blue skies above the mountains. When we reached a certain point, we seemed to enter another place - at first, a glaring circle appeared, like a glass lens in the sun. As we neared it, it became a sort of observatory room, with a large round window hole - completely open. We stood looking out onto spaces among the stars.
I saw among the various shades of blackness fantastic groups of color, and swooping lights (more like angels or other beings than UFO's), and planets and living beings. The colors were the most defining aspect of everything, as the shapes often did not come clear.
What We Saw
Good Overcomes Evil...Every Time
We Meet the Demon
I saw nothing that seemed to resemble the feeling I was after - the presence of the "rampage" being - and asked the Lord if this was the right place to be looking. It obviously was the opening of the bear's Heart Core, which I sought. The Lord answered, "Just keep looking. Wait." So we did, still side by side.
Eventually, a black, winged spirit, with a broad, snarling face abruptly filled the window frame. The description that comes to mind is "English bulldog," thought I can't say why, as the demon was not specifically dog like. He hovered just on the other side of the window frame, looking hideous, but saying nothing. Beyond him - behind him, and to both sides - was an army of dark spirits of various sorts. I don't know how many - not thousands, probably, but plenty. I looked this demon in the eye, and felt his challenge. Yet I knew that if I just cut him down, another would take his place faster than I could form a thought. So I commanded all of them to be bound in Jesus Christ's Name. This was done - each was bound with cords. I then prayed the Lord to send some of His holy angels to haul these demons away. I assume they were taken to Christ for judgment or instructions. That seems to be the typical course, but I did not feel right asking that to be done, and I didn't see where they were taken. Regardless, it was done, and it was a magical sight, seeing so many angels come in the Lord's strength to clear the heavens of these demons.
Immediately, while the angels were still escorting the demons from the site, the bear hugged me in a great fit of gladness and triumph, grinning for the first time since I'd seen him. It was almost a bone crushing experience, as I don't think he knows his own strength. That was also the first time I've seen a bear caper. [Smiles.]
When he released me, I fell to studying the doorway, to see how we'd best close it to future attacks. I saw no door or screen of any kind. It occured to me that the door may be a pocket type. Immediately a grey plate metal door began sliding slowly closed, from between two layers on the left of the frame. But something felt wrong. I could see that this door, once closed, would make an invisible seal in the frame, and that it would be extremely difficult to open again. It also felt as if it were made out of foreign materials, and didn't belong here. It felt fabricated, almost makeshift. This indeed was true, the Lord confirmed (though He didn't say who was responsible), and I commanded the door to be gone. It was, blink, like that. In a moment I realized that a plexi-glass type barrier had appeared over the opening, and it was the true door. The bear looked relieved. He smiled, just because he could, and looked ready to act free. But he looked like he had a long ways to go to sort things out, and wasn't about to run off on his own.
I smiled and asked if there was somewhere he wanted to go.
He instantly said, "My grandma's." Accordingly, we thought ourselves across the mountains (we were suddenly outside in the open air again, instead of in the observatory), but I couldn't properly make out the landscape, and so left him to do his visiting alone.
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LiftedUp,
I, too, have rarely seen much battling between demons and holy angels, but I know what the Word says in Daniel about the angel sent to the prophet - how he was hindered on his way by those who stand against God. I know, too, how the Bible states that the devil and Michael fought over Moses' body.
Not that I *want* to see much outright fighting. I prefer to watch the enemy calmly escorted away, as was done in this segment of story.
well no faith walk for you. I can get rid of so many pages in my bible now.
the bible does not say how the devil and micheal fought over the body of moses. There is one reference in the new testament and that's it. The disputation of the body of moses; which by the way is not his body but the body of believers, 1 Corinthians 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; were not we baptized into christ, comes from the pseudopigrapha book, The Assumption of Moses, uncanonized and not fit for instruction and not bible, so i know you do not know how the bible states. The reason Gabriel was hindered is because its not the angel gabriel here, its the priest gabriel, sacrifices had to be performed even during long battles and until micheal relieved gabriel of his priestly duties, gabriel was bound to the temple. How do demons and angels battle? they are both immortal, they cant be wounded, killed or imprisoned, perhaps this is why you RARELY see battles between the two lol.
binding demons in jesus name is not scriptural either. jesus never bound any demon, he just told them to go away. The binding of the strong man is just jesus saying a stronger man is here but in no way did he set a principle or a doctrine for binding spirits. This whole thing sounds like a fabrication of a dream conjured by your imagination and it is full of non scriptural and unbiblical events and actions and i have to wonder why you published it with the word lord in it.
Brotheryochanan, I believe there are a few things you and I might get along on. For instance, the King James Version.
However, I'm not sure why you bothered leaving such a lengthy and seemingly venemous comment on this hub. Make that two comments.
But first things first: Jude 8-9 - "Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee."
Where's your fight with that?
And as to what happened to Moses' body: Deuteronomy 34:5-6 - "So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."
Once again, where is your fight with this? If you have one, it is not with me, but with the Author of these perfectly canonical, KJV Scriptures.
As to the Gabriel talked of in Daniel referring to a human priest (as I understand you), instead of an angel of the Lord, review these verses: Daniel 8:15-17 - "And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision."
This seems to be an angel to me. Number one, where else in the Bible have you noticed a human falling down before another human in fear, when they had done no wrong? Second, where else have you noticed a man calling another human "O son of man"? I haven't. This is a term seemingly reserved for spirit beings addressing mortal men.
Next, we continue with the verses I had originally referred to, in the above comment: Daniel 9:20-23, 10:5-6, 12-14 - "And while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God; yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. And he informed me, and taked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding. At the beginning of they supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloveed: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. ... Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. ... Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before they God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now am I come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days."
Just from a straight, cursory reading through these few chapters of Daniel, you'd have to be pretty whacked out to come away convinced that this "man" said to look like polished brass and beryl, with a face like lightning, is a mere human priest. Not to mention the fact that this Gabriel flies. When you or some priest you're aware of learns to do that, let me know. I might be interested in taking lessons.
I do have one quite serious question for you. Where do you get off claiming that because it's just one verse (in Jude) that it doesn't matter in light of the rest of the Bible? By the way, go ahead and rip up your Bible to your heart's content. I'm reasonably sure it's not going to effect my daily walk with the Lord, as I intend to keep mine intact...minus the pages in Genesis that keep to themselves, since my barely-crawling nephew got hold of the Book. He tasted and saw that the Word was good. Wasn't it King David who said God's Words were better than honey? :)
Until we meet again (if we ever do), I'll keep right on sharing what the Lord has given me to say. You needn't spend your time reading it.
I wish you had have read my post before you clammored on.
1) the body of moses. where else in the bible does it say that the devil had this disputation with the body of moses. NO WHERE. NONE. There is one occurrence of this wording. I mentioned the body of moses was not the body that god buried. I also mentioned that gabriel was a priest, and if you want to go to the temple called 'heaven' a priest called a 'cloud' will take you there. Its all true. If you know about the jewish religion they had a mimicry for all of gods 'things'. There is a gabriel angel and a gabriel priest. You failed to notice the word man in this nice quote from your response "MAN Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning" You seem to forget that even though the majority of the scripture says we are in a vision does not the description of the man depict vision language. Gabriel the priest sitting nearby and daniel still in the vision? Gabriels flight was done by god to get him there quick as 3 weeks had already gone by. It says man over and over again.
Here's my question to you.. how does an angel get prevented?
This is how i answer to jude, the book concerned with false teachers and bad doctrines.
We must always back up scripture with another verse, two at least to make a proper witness. This is no coincidence that this verse is only mentioned once. You can not look at one verse of scripture and go, okay thats doctrine and good for reproof. If this is the way you go about it then you might as well remove that obstinate statement, the lord has given me to say.
How could I possibly have known what to reply if I hadn't first read your comments? I did read them, several times. You really should learn to use punctuation correctly to help yourself be understood.
You remind me a great deal of one of my brothers-in-law. If I had to narrow down the things I learned from this brother to just one thing, it would be this: He thought he was right, everyone else he knew was wrong, end of discussion. He's since broken off fellowship of any sort with most of the people he's known, because he can't get them to agree with his drivel.
So, allow me the pleasure of beating my head against the brick wall of your brains, and repeat:
"And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man." I'm not sure why I'm spending the energy on this reply, but please notice the phrase, "as the appearance of a man." This seems to indicate that what Daniel was seeing was most likely not actually a human. (Of course, there are some humans to whom this phrase could be applied, who happen to be women. ;) )
Also allow me to reiterate: If you choose to disbelieve or remove Jude from your copy of the Scriptures, that is not my problem. Send me your address and I'll send you either an X-Acto knife, or a black Sharpie marker, according to your preference for removing the offending text from your presence.
Now for your question, How does an angel get prevented?
I'm not sure. But I choose to believe what the Bible says about the matter. You seem to be approaching a form of angel worship when you assume that they are powerful enough to avoid any and all entanglements, predicaments, and fights. Angels are not Almighty God. They are created beings, who are neither omniscient, omnipresent, nor all-powerful. They are more powerful than we humans are, but that's not saying a whole lot, especially considering those of us who are unredeemed.
Anyway, you stay baptized unto Moses in your cloud or whatever you said, as you choose, and I'll stick with being baptized into Christ, and we'll see who has the better results at the end.
I really am not interested in hashing this out any further, as you're unlikely to change my mind and I'm unlikely to change yours, so if I publish any more of your comments, will do so strictly for the amusement of my readers.
Consider yourself forewarned. If you're that insistent on your views, you can put your energy into your own hubs, and amuse your own readership.
Hello Butterflywings, I must say u truly have a gift, and sometimes, humans get caught up all on the scriptures,which do not misunderstand I believe in the bible, but I also see it as a reference,( not every thing is in there, not too mention all the changes the bible has went through) what you encountered doesn't need to be beleieved true or not by anyone it happened to you and you acted upon it. So great work, God works in mysterious ways and we are the followers of such a great leader.
Keep writing your work inspires and I love to read and learn the new.
Our world is changing before us we are evolving in ways no one understands, issue humans do not like change...
I love picking up the bible reading your findings and understandings, even taking notes.
Keep up the great work!!!!
Daisy, I am not generally disheartened when other people don't believe my experiences, but I am gladdened that you do believe!
I am also glad that you enjoy my writings. Still, I would caution you, please, to check what I say against the Scriptures, and to take them fully in context and, by and large, at face value. I trust what I have learned, but I am not always sure how it comes across to someone else, so I encourage you to always go to the Source, and make your own discoveries, as well as learning from mine. Thank you for your kind remarks.
LiftedUp 2 years ago
Lovely. A few times I have seen the Lord display His power in this way, as He sent His angels to escort a demon or group of demons to Himself, or to their judgment. I often wonder what experiences Frank Peretti has had to write the books he writes, but in my experiences of the Lord's work, there are never any battles between His angels and the enemy's forces when the angels come to do the Lord's bidding. However, we know, according to God's own Word, that such battles will take place at the end of our times. I am so glad the Lord is in control!