“[Simon the sorceror said], Give me also this power…”  (Acts 8)

“…a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination…”  (Acts 16)

 

In the two (2) passages above we have (What I believe) shows us a man who “bewitched” or tricked the persons around him with his “magic” or sleight of hand.  In the second (2nd) passage, however, we have the real deal.  If one turns to the Old Testament, they will find King Saul engaging the services of a witch in Endor and she, too, was the real deal.  In the times when our Lord Jesus walked on this earth, there had been others that tried to take the mantle of Messiah and present themselves as the promised Deliverer of God’s people.

One problem the fakes cause is the effect of unbelief.  If a “psychic” is proven a fraud and most are, they cause many to disbelieve in the possibility of the genuine article. This is one reason that God put a very high punishment…the ultimate cost upon the false prophet.  In the Old Testament, the false prophet was to be killed if his specific prophecies were not accurate.

Many false psychics research their victim, they scower anything and everything: public records, articles, pictures, yearbooks, and they even will eavesdrop on friends and families. Sometimes they have assistants that help them.  This is how faith healers victimize their Biblically illiterate sychophants.

Some persons have called me psychic and another even asked if I’m CIA. I am neither and even if I were CIA, I would have to kill you if I admitted it.  I have trained myself to observe others and make inferences from small (thought insignificant) details. I quickly tell them I am not psychic but an observer of human nature.  I probably am wrong as many times as I am right and I can look for a book and not find it when it is right in front of me.  I search high and low for my glasses when they are in my shirt pocket.

The point of this article is: The Christ-ian believer must be a skeptic, in order to protect and believe in the real thing. For example, one must doubt a faith healer until or if one experiences his gift for themselves or eliminates every other trick of the trade. Exorcists, before they will seek to perform an exorcism, will have the person, in question, examined by medical doctors and psychatrists in order to eliminate all other possibilities.  There is a Biblical principle, that is given us by the many false religions of the world.  This principle states, one can recognize the false and fake by comparing it to the real and true. For this to work, one must be very familiar with the real and the true.

Is there a possibility of a faith healer? I do believe a person of faith can anoint another person of faith with oil and beseech God to heal, help, give grace, etc. and see the person healed. Can a child of God call upon God and in the Name of Christ, ask Him for a healing and receive that healing, I certainly do.

Do I believe a person has the gift of healing with him all the time and can heal anyone at anytime? This I am highly skeptical of but I cannot rule it out completely.  Is Benny Hinn or the likes of Hinn, the genuine article?  Methinks, Nope. Why not?  A person with that kind of gift would, by necessity, be also gifted with the spirit of humility and the spiritual fruit, meekness. Benny Hinn and his ilk or company of con men have neither. They are all show and that is diametrically opposed to meekness.

Persons like David Blaine and Chris Angel are examples, methinks, of the the girl from Acts sixteen (16).  These two (2), I posit, are possessed by demons. I think most Christ-ians get a bad “vibe” off of these two (2) “magicians.” This is akin to the spirit bearing witness to another’s spirit, we wrote about above. This speaks to John’s exhortation to “test the spirits.” I know some readers and others may think these things we’re writing about, in this article, are silly but these readers and the others “[have] a form of godliness but deny the power thereof.” These are spiritual persons that deny the spiritual. It is sad when a Christ-ian takes the supernatural out of the things of God. Not only do these persons “deny the power thereof” they deny themselves the excitement of their Christ-ian faith.

There is one thing impostors and fakes are scared of and hate. The fakes dread the genuine article.  The prosperity preachers and fa(ke)ith healers hate and dread and run from the genuine article, the real thing. The false prophets in scripture hated the true prophets and wanted nothing to do with them.

This also speaks to why professing Christ-ians or “brothers so called” dislike the real Christ-ian and discord is sewn among the brethren. The fundementalist or legalist despises the person of Christ-ian faith and liberty…not only do they despise them, they fear them. Both recognize the other for what they are and both know this about each other and it causes a schism. This is why fundementalists or legalist and the liberated Christ-ian repel one another or rather the legalists pushes the “Lord’s freeman” away.

An analogy for the above: a King snake and a Coral snake look very much alike to persons. The King snake is non-poisonous but the Coral snake is very poisonous. The markings of the King snake are red, black, and yellow. The markings on the Coral snake are the same, except red meets yellow instead of black.  “Red meets yellow, kills a fellow; Red meets black, don’t turn back. Also the King snake is immune to all other poisonous snakes, and the King snake, in fact, eats other snakes. When the Red Blood of Christ meets up with the color of fear, yellow, in a person that despises liberty, that is a dangerous fellow. When the Red Blood of Christ meets the blackness of sin in a fellow, he becomes the Lord’s fellow.

Godspeed.