God does not speak through spir­its or through dead people.

By David Cox
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2Th 2:9–12 Even him, whose com­ing is after the work­ing of Satan with all power and signs and lying won­ders, And with all deceiv­able­ness of unright­eous­ness in them that per­ish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delu­sion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had plea­sure in unrighteousness.

There are var­i­ous reli­gions, reli­gious groups, and philoso­phies that seek doc­trine, guid­ance, infor­ma­tion or help from ghosts, spir­its, celes­tial beings, or dead peo­ple. This spir­i­tual help that they offer us is a trick of the Devil and his demons so that we do not seek the direc­tion of God.

Visions are not of God

We admit[1] that God did use visions and rev­e­la­tions in time past to com­mu­ni­cate with human beings. But it was accord­ing to the plan of God, and God does not use these visions and rev­e­la­tion today when we have the Scrip­tures to teach us.

But accord­ing to Hebrews 1:1–2, even though God spoke in times past through angels and prophets (with visions and rev­e­la­tions), now he has spo­ken (past, fin­ished, and done) through the tes­ti­mony of his Son, Jesus Christ. No prophet, vision­ary, nor spir­i­tual man can be more impor­tant, informed, or wiser than the Son of God. What is impor­tant here is that God gave us a unique rev­e­la­tion in the form of the life and the teach­ings of Jesus Christ, that ended all other types of visions and rev­e­la­tions out­side of Christ. This rev­e­la­tion (his birth, his teach­ings, his exam­ple, and his death and res­ur­rec­tion) form a tes­ti­mony or rev­e­la­tion that can­not be bested or changed, some­thing that noth­ing is more impor­tant that the mes­sen­ger of Christ, and some­thing noth­ing can be added to it.

Rev 22:18 For I tes­tify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are writ­ten in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are writ­ten in this book.

God does not now use angels to speak to us.

The word “angel” means mes­sen­ger. The angels are mes­sen­gers between God and man. Even in the Bible God used angels very few times, and it was very restricted. Paul says in Gal. 1:6–9 that we should reject any mes­sage dif­fer­ent from this rev­e­la­tion even though the very same Paul or an angel from heaven brings it. But the bad angels are very astute in pre­sent­ing them­selves to human beings as “angels of light” in order to deceive them with their infer­nal deceptions.

2Co 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advan­tage of us: for we are not igno­rant of his devices.

2Co 11:13 For such are false apos­tles, deceit­ful work­ers, trans­form­ing them­selves into the apos­tles of Christ. 14 And no mar­vel; for Satan him­self is trans­formed into an angel of light.

Jesus clearly warned us in Mat 24:24 that false christs and false prophets will come with signs and prodi­gies in order to deceive, and if it were pos­si­ble the very elect. His atten­tion is spe­cially directed against the believ­ers. Spir­i­tual beings that come in visions are the works of the devil.

God does not use the spir­its of dead human beings to speak to us.

Sim­ply put, God put an end to the life and activ­ity of every per­son when they die. Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judg­ment.” Every­body goes to his judg­ment at death.

Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16:19–31) both died, and in that their com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the liv­ing abruptly ended at that moment, and each went to his own des­tiny, wait­ing for the final res­ur­rec­tion. The rich man wanted to return to the earth or at least com­mu­ni­cate some­how with his fam­ily so that they would not come to the hor­ri­ble place where he ended up, but God made it clear that com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the liv­ing is quite impos­si­ble, being pro­hib­ited force­fully by God so that it can­not hap­pen in any way, shape, or form (16:27–31). The only mes­sen­ger back to the liv­ing was Jesus Christ and the tes­ti­mony of Scrip­tures (“Moses and the prophets” 16:31).

Ecc 9:5–6 For the liv­ing know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, nei­ther have they any more a reward; for the mem­ory of them is for­got­ten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now per­ished; nei­ther have they any more a por­tion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

The dead have no more to do with any­thing in the land of the liv­ing; nei­ther with any other liv­ing human being. The dead will never return to appear or com­mu­ni­cate with the liv­ing.

Job 7:8–10 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. As the cloud is con­sumed and van­isheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave[2] shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, nei­ther shall his place know him any more.

So God put bar­ri­ers so that those in hell and par­adise can­not cross from one to the other (Luke 16:26), equally God made it impos­si­ble that a dead human being return to com­mu­ni­cate with the liv­ing. This sim­ply is pro­hib­ited by God. What does “nei­ther shall his place know him any more”? This means that the liv­ing will not be able to com­mu­ni­cate with the dead either. (Luke 16 presents a com­mu­ni­ca­tion between those in Par­adise and hell, but it is not pos­si­ble between the liv­ing on earth and the dead in either place.)

So what is this com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the dead then? The Bible clas­si­fies all com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the dead (or attempts at that) as witch­craft (necro­mancy), and it is never seen as actu­ally com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the dead human beings, but rather with demons. When appar­ently dead human beings appear, these are really just demons act­ing like these loved ones.

To try to com­mu­ni­cate with the dead is witch­craft, an abom­i­na­tion to God

Lev 19:31 Regard not them that have famil­iar spir­its (medi­ums), nei­ther seek after wiz­ards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God. 20:6 And the soul that tur­neth after such as have famil­iar spir­its, and after wiz­ards, to go a whor­ing after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his peo­ple. 27 A man also or woman that hath a famil­iar spirit, or that is a wiz­ard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

God placed the death penalty on any­body who tries to invoke the dead. It is witch­craft, and it is an abom­i­na­tion to God. This means it sim­ply is impos­si­ble, it does not work, and nobody can make it work.

There is no help out­side of God.

We should under­stand that God is the only real per­son that can help us. Psa 27:9 “thou hast been my help.” Psa 33:20 “Our soul wait­eth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.” Psa 40:17 “But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thin­keth upon me: thou art my help and my deliv­erer; make no tar­ry­ing, O my God.” Psa 54:4 “Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.” While Satan con­tin­ues to seek our wor­ship­ping him in place of our wor­ship of God, his tricks include the appear­ance of spir­i­tual guides. This comes in the form of sup­posed human beings, and spir­i­tual guides (angels of light). The two are deceiv­ing demons.

Psa 60:11 “Give us help from trou­ble: for vain is the help of man.” Even though if it were pos­si­ble for the dead humans to actu­ally help us, God says that this help of man is vane; it has no real value 2 Tim­o­thy 4:3–4.

The Bib­li­cal Alternative

Isa 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have famil­iar spir­its, and unto wiz­ards that peep, and that mut­ter (this is speak­ing in tongues): should not a peo­ple seek unto their God? for the liv­ing to the dead? 20 To the law and to the tes­ti­mony: if they speak not accord­ing to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Seek­ing for help and guid­ance from crea­tures and ignor­ing the help of the Cre­ator is the oppo­site of what is cor­rect and proper. God has given us great help through the Scrip­tures (“the law and the tes­ti­mony”), and out­side of them we have noth­ing of sub­stan­tial help for guidance.

We should under­stand that the only form of obtain­ing help form the spirit world is through pray­ing to God and ask­ing him for help accord­ing to His will. We can­not force God to do our will, because at its essence, this is witchcraft.

1Sa 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offer­ings and sac­ri­fices, as in obey­ing the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is bet­ter than sac­ri­fice, and to hear­ken than the fat of rams. 23 For rebel­lion is as the sin of witch­craft, and stub­born­ness is as iniq­uity and idol­a­try.

God declares that rebel­lion to His holy will and being stub­born against doing His will is like idol­a­try and witch­craft. We have to under­stand what is impor­tant is not what appears super­nat­ural (like a phan­tom, or dead human spirit, or a medium being used by appar­ently a dead human being, or even an angel), but the impor­tant is the Word of God that should be what guides our lives. This is the only author­ity that we should allow to dic­tate to our lives, and the only author­ity that we should seek.

Groups that use spir­i­tual guides: Jung (psy­chol­ogy), Alco­holics Anony­mous, Theos­o­phy, Mor­mons (angel Moroni), Catholics (Vir­gin Mary), Edgar Casey, Pen­te­costales, and many oth­ers. This should be a red warn­ing flag when some­one speaks of visions of spir­i­tual beings, even if they are sup­pos­edly dead human beings reappearing.

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[1] We see the angels of God that com­mu­ni­cated the mes­sage of God to men, but apart from the trans­fig­u­ra­tion of Jesus (which was spe­cial); we do not see dead human beings return­ing to earth. The case of Samuel’s appear­ance in 1 Samuel 28 is not very clear in that it per­haps was Samuel or per­haps a demon deceiv­ing Saul. The story does not clearly say. The point here is that God denied com­mu­ni­ca­tion and rev­e­la­tion to Saul because of his sins. This is the weighty point against the appear­ance being Samuel, instead being just a deceiv­ing demon. It is inter­est­ing that in 1 Samuel 15:35, that it says that “Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death.” If God denied him this, why would he revoke his com­mand later?

[2] “Seol” in the OT is the place of the dead, be they saved or unsaved. This is then con­sid­ered like “death”..