Bible Question: Can a family member come to you in spirit to tell you something is going to happen or has already happened? |
Bible Answer: Dear tray, If you mean a family member who has died has come to you in spirit to tell you something, it is very unlikely. There is a thing known as a "familiar spirit," and it is a demon who poses as someone familiar to us and in only one instance that person may have come back from the dead, and God left a curse on the seeker, who knew that by the Laws of God, he was not to seek a conference with those dead. [Lev. 20:27; 1 Sam. 28:7-17]. The devil can come to us as a "spirit of light" [2 Corinthians 11:14]. But if you mean a "spirit" such as an angelic being, yes. But we are to test the spirits: 1 John 4:1 "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try [or test] the spirits whether they are from God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." --to me this means test spirits, persons who say they are speaking from God and even ministries. John goes on to tell us how to test them: 1 John 4:2-3 "Hereby you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God, And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist." In other words, if the spirit will not admit that Jesus is the "Anointed One" [meaning of Christ] who was sent from the Father, he is not a spirit sent from God. I hope this is helpful to you. |
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