In these two instances, thespiritof the Antichrist is pointing to false prophets (teachers) of the Antichrist. We are instructed to be cautious about believing spirits described as false teachers. False teachers have existed since the beginning of time, and there are false teachers today. It wou...
The angel with the key shows that God has the power and authority over Satan to bind him into a prison that He has prepared for him. The bottomless pit is the abyss where the evil spirits are held. Learn More The Book of Revelation 19:21 ...
Eph. 6:12 –“For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.” Col. 1:16 –“For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and...
The Rose: Every night, when we gather for family dinner, we pray“The Rose,”which is a family-friendly, loose adaptation ofSt. Ignatius Loyola’s Examen. I have always appreciated the way the Rose allows us to hear about aspects of each other’s day that we otherwise wouldn’t. (Note...
Furthermore, to check unbridled spirits, it decrees that no one relying on his own judgment shall, in matters of faith and morals pertaining to the edification of Christian doctrine, distorting the Holy Scriptures in accordance with his own conceptions, presume to interpret them contrary to that ...
In addition to the seven horns, he also has seven eyes, which are none other than the seven spirits of God, which go about the earth overseeing human actions. It agrees with such things that ‘the seven eyes of the Lord are going out into all the world’.Three features of this scho...
“When he has quitted his body and the difference between virtue and vice is known he cannot approach God till the purging fire shall have cleansed the stains with which his soul was infested. That same fire in others will cancel the corruption of matter, and the propensity to evil.” Gre...
Napoleon called ‘impossible’ a ‘beast of a word.’ So it is in practical life,-and no less so when glibly used to discredit well-attested facts. We neither aspire to the omniscience which pronounces that there can be no possession by evil spirits, nor venture to brush aside the testi...
and there was considerable approbation among the evil spirits. But Satan himself said, "Thou hast done small service, for man has a conscience, and his conscience teaches him better; he knows that there is a God, he knows that there is a difference between sin and righteousness, he knows ...
God created man, male and female, after the image of God with reason, and the law of God written in the heart (also known as the conscience); and He gave them a command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. With the power to obey and the possibility to ...