Not everyone can smell the odor of death. I guess I am a person who is very sensitive to the odor. When I lived in New York City for three months in 2002, I made my way through the streets towards Ground Zero. A sick feeling came over me as I smelt that odor once more and I ask the guy I went with, “Do you smell that”? His response was, “Well, I didn’t do it”! “No, Mark, do you smell death? (more…)

Parents and step-parents need to understand that the most powerful learning tool is what they (parents and step-parents) do and say in their role as an authority–that is not only the speaking of words, but by their actions and attitudes. A driver cuts in front of you (more…)

Yes, we may have a deed or a receipt, but God holds us responsible for that property He has given us to use and also how we treat the property of other caretakers.

When I was a boy we rented a lot of houses and we always, always, upon vacating the houses put them in much better shape than when we moved in– even if they were filthy and poorly kept upon our original entrance.

I ask my dad about this one day after spending hours of working on and cleaning a rental house that was a shambles when we move in to it. He told me that this house did not belong to the so called owner, but rather to God and then explained what I call the “truth of ownership act”.

When people disrespect the property of others it also shows a disrespect for God the owner of all things. I know of a person who borrowed several items from a neighbor and later became angry at the neighbor. He threw a heavy item over the fence instead of taking it to him. The item could have been easily damaged. He was also seen doing other things to the neighbors house and property.

It was not long when a person driving through the neighborhood saw one of the children of that man. The child was seen disrespecting the property of another homeowner. I guess children do learn what they see and quickly pickup the attitudes of adults. I wonder in five or ten years if that man’s children will disrespect the property that he is the caretaker of–if no, they learned it from him.

God owns it all! At best we are only caretakers! I guess some people never ask themselves the question, “Am what I am about to do right or wrong?”

It was considered the most shameful and disgraceful form of capital punishment by the Romans and was reserved for assassins, rebels, and slaves that turned criminal.

There were three types of crosses. There was one that was in the form of an X another was built like a capital T. The other type which is mostly seen today looks more like a non-capital t or t.

Surprisingly most crosses were only a about ten feet in length. This meant that the criminal’s feet were less than two feet from the ground. Paintings and movies that show Jesus hung high in the air gives the wrong idea of reality.

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Paranormal State (PS), Ghost Hunters (GH) as well as other groups need to read scripture (the Bible). Even though they have tidbits of scripture here and there, they fail to look at what scripture says related to the world of the spiritual and how that world works. Instead they use a great variety of what they think might be spiritual. They use American Indian, Mystic, Wicker, Readers, Mediums, etc in coming up with things that are spiritual. I am surprised that they haven’t used more animals—perhaps mice or toads.

PS still cannot understand that when people die there are two places prepared for them, one good and one not so good. One place is prepared for those who have a personal relationship with Jesus, the Messiah, also known as the Christ. The other place is prepared for those whose who have rejected the Love of Jesus and His Sacrifice on Calvary.

PS as well as Ghost Hunters (GH) also continue failure to understand that spiritual beings are eternal, intelligent and have wills. Since God (God, His Son being Jesus, the Messiah) created humans a little less than the angels, it is an obvious step that that they are eternal and intelligent. PS and GH act as if spiritual beings are ignorant and somewhat limited entities. Whereas they do have certain limitations based on what God and Satan place on them however, they are still above man who is tragically flawed by his sinful condition.

The spiritual entities that they attempt to gather research material on, is worthless due to the fact that they fail to understand the very nature who they are dealing. The demonic spiritual beings, who imitate individuals that have passed on, lead these so called investigators along as they desire.

PS and GH continue to fail to understand that these entities are eternal. They have seen from their creation the history of heaven and the universe. They are intelligent and communicate with one another. They have seen the history of individuals such as a parents, grand parents, and great grandparents and beyond. These entities not only have watched and watch people, but can understand and locate physical/material locations/items. They can be very accurate if they so desire about the pasts of others if allowed by their chain-of-command.

They are intelligent. They (collectively) know every language, read and gather information (technical and otherwise) and use it to their advantage. They can understand cameras, recorders, digital voice recorders, motion detectors, electronics as well as computers—even read over one shoulder and learn what one reads or writes. The entities lead PS and GH as well as other groups around. And being that they hate mankind and are masters of deceit as well as drama they use anyone they can. These spiritual entities continue to manipulate people to include those on PS and GH and those these groups attempt to help.

One must understand that knowing Jesus Christ, being reconciled to Him by the blood he shed on Calvary is not a religion—it is a relationship. Rejecting His or and the failure to give oneself to Him is saying “no” to God. Doing nothing towards having a relationship with God is the same as saying “no” to God. God seeks to know you personally through His Son, not through religion. Jesus Himself said, “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.” Jesus was either a lunatic, a liar or who he claimed to be, “Lord.” To me He is Lord!

Who is He to you? See http://www.needhim.org/

Never in my life have I had a recurring dream of any type. But for over a two month period the same dream returns. Sometimes there is a little more added, but it is always the same. The dream is this. I dream that I am in a large city in the United States when an explosion takes place. The explosion throws to the ground knocking me out. Upon awakening I find myself among the rubble and overlooking sixteen blocks of destruction in which eight blocks where the center of the explosion takes place are totally vaporized. Death and destruction are immense.

I help a lady get out of the rubble and we move away from the city center. After the lady is safe and I am alone, I ask God why? Then I understand that this is the beginning of the last days. It is the beginning of the time when the Church in the United States needs radical preparation for the coming days. It is a time when the Church in the United States will be increasingly pressured to comply with social and governmental pressures or come under the greatest persecution that it has ever experienced. It is a time that the church in the US will be sifted. It is a time that you and I will be forced to take a stand, for, or against, the Lordship of Jesus, the Christ.

The shocking and often ignored words of Jesus found in Matthew 10:34-39 will become a harsh reality. “Do not think that I have come to bring peace, but a sword….” These words that so many overlook will need to be reexamined. Prophecy will need to be reexamined.

Can you radically pledge:

I pledge allegiance to Jesus Christ the Lamb

With all my faith, with all that I am

By myself, or with others I will stand

I desire to follow His commands

I pledge allegiance to Jesus, my Lord, my Lamb.

His return is imminent–Are you ready! It is my opinion that we have at most ten years. Will you be taken with Him or will you be left behind.

Please note that this is my opinion related to the return of Jesus for only the Father knows the exact time.

By Texas Ron Linebarger

I have heard it from various people that satan’s greatest victory is, that he has convinced humanity that he and his hoards of demons don’t exist, or the effects of their activities are actually left over energies of those who lived before us. The claim is, that they are harmless, but people fail to realize that satan can, and does, by the use of his authority, place limitations on spirits under his command (Principle of Authority - Matthew 8:5-13, Matthew 12:22-37). There will be a time that satan releases them to do his bidding openly and not in a covert manner. This will take place as time unfolds according to scripture.

If a war does exist (and it does) in the spiritual realm between good and evil and satan’s spirits are under his authority, then he commands them as he wishes. However, like man, his spirits have a will, and despite his authority, some will choose to not obey him all of the time. It is at this time when man comes under the greatest threat.

Endangered, means more than just having his or her physical body being buffeted (Physical Attacks, Acts 19:13-19). However; satan’s struggle with God and man relates to satan’s will versus God’s will (for the lives/souls of mankind). God desires that every man, woman and child have a personal relationship to Him. And to do that is to accept his Son, Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, and Jesus’ self sacrifice on the cross for the sins of mankind. This means accepting Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice for sin, to repent of sin and to make Him the Lord (the ultimate boss) of one’s life.

This means more than having some religions experience or feelings. A relationship with the Messiah does not mean being religious, being Catholic, Baptist or anything else—it means to have a personal relationship, knowing God on a personal level though His Son, Jesus (Knowing Jesus Christ Personally, Luke 13:23-27, John 14:6).

When one calls upon demonic spirits, taunts them or attempts to open communications with them then they can have negative influence on family members in various ways to include problems with anger, rebellion, depression, dependence on drugs, unhealthy focus on death, the occult, suicide, sexual aggressiveness as well as other problems.

Satan is well pleased that many people have taken up intellectualism, psychology, science and even various mystical religions as their focus on life. he loves it! he would rather them do anything else and focus their attention on anything else rather than trying to understand what the Bible tells the world about dealing with sin and becoming reconciled with God. Jesus, the Christ, the Holy One of God, is the bridge between the broken relationship between God the Father and mankind (bridge, reconciliation: John 14:6, John 10:9,10, Ephesians 2:14-20, 2 Corinthians 5:16-21).

The term belief or believe in English is one that is used broadly. To just say a person believes there is a God is not a personal relationship with God. I believe that Paris Hilton exists, but I don not have a personal relationship with her. Neither, do I know her. The Biblical understanding of belief or believe relates to personal and growing knowledge of Jesus, the indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit and God’s Word. It relates to the giving of oneself to Jesus which is life changing. It is relational.

When one purposely attempts to intimidate, talk or call on spirits who have rejected God that “stands with satan” he exposes himself willfully to evil and those around him to evil. If this person is a person in authority like an employer, a parent, a teacher, a judge, a military general, etc., then those under their authority are more open or susceptible to satanic attack or influence. A Godly authority acts as a hedge against satanic spirits.

These attacks may be considered minor and could even seem like some type of psychological problem and there are psychological problems that are not caused by satan or his spiritual host, but rather chemical imbalances and physiological issues; however, there are attacks that are directly related to satan or his chain-of-command.

We can quite easily list figures who were influenced by satan and his spirits. Those like Adolf Hitler, James Manson, Vlad, the Impaler of Transalvania, Ed Geen, Ted Bundy, Charles Starkweather, to name a few, whose names stand out in history. There are more, many, many more!

I once watched a ninety-five pound woman throw around eight grown men that weighed between one-hundred and fifty and two hundred and fifty pounds like they were pillows (Acts 19:13-20). She had stood up during a church service and started cursing the pastor, God, Jesus, the church, etc.” It took eight men over twenty minutes to subdue her. At that, the men had their clothes torn; they were beaten and bruised, clawed to the point of bleeding. Later, her past revealed that she had no genetic history or signs of past mental problems. She had, however been involved in the occult. Only, through fasting and prayer of others was she returned to her senses and relieved her condition. She had never been to that church before, nor was she a staged actress. I personally witnessed this.

I can hear it already. “She must have had some type of seizure or fit.” Or, “her ‘fight or flight’ gland kicked in adrenaline, and this is where her strength came in to play.” Or, “some type of drug made her this way.”

When death takes a loved one, many of us feel a sorrow that is so deep. I have lost a sister and a father. I wish I could see and talk to them again while I live my life on this earth. I miss them so very much. They were both so dear to me. I wish…., but scripture tells us about what happens after death. God’s word tells us that there is a place for those who know Jesus as Lord and a place for those who reject his Lordship (Luke 16:19-31). If the living do not have access to the spirits of the dead…if they don’t, then who are these supposed contacts that Paranormal State and Ghost Hunters International claim to have contact???

Mankind fails to understand that the enemy of God is also his enemy which is satan and his spiritual beings. Satan and his spiritual beings were made above man (Psalms 8:4-5). They are powerful, intelligent with capabilities which extend beyond that of man and, that we have limited knowledge of, and fail to understand everything about them. We usually are not conscious of their appearances, movements, battles, communications, influences, chain-of-command, etc. Our physical world demands our attention and our consciousness. That is a weakness of mankind even if one comes to know Christ Jesus, the Messiah. Jesus tells disciples that the spirit of God is willing to work with men (those who know Him), but the flesh is weak (Matthew 26:40-45).

There are those that claim to see, hear, and to even have conversations with the dead. There are people that are sensitive to spirits, but they do not speak to spiritual guides or the spirits of the dead rather they direct their conversations to spirits that belong to satan. Evil spirits are eternal in the same sense as man, but they are powerful, intelligent and they are capable of living around humans and remembering their history and their words. These Imitators, or Pretenders are spirits that imitate the history, words, and actions of the dead. These evil spirits were created by God, but are those who joined satan in his rebellion against God.

They live around us and have since the time when Adam and Eve when were kick out of paradise. They walk where we walk and go where we go. They are around us while we sleep and eat. Whatever we do, they see it and being that they were made above us in God’s hierarchy, it is an adequate assumption that that they have excellent memories and can recall and pass along information which they acquire. Because of their longevity many have seen all of our history. Even God’s Holy Angels watch us (Reference to God’s Angels, Hebrews 12:1-3). They have viewed our fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, other relatives and the generations that came before them and have or can access accurate accounts of their lives through other demonic beings. They can also imitate those who have passed on. Our physical lives are short compared to theirs spiritual lives. These spirits surely have no need to sleep.

Because of satan’s intelligence and knowing he is in a war, he will use whatever strategies are necessary to try to win the war. satan is not beyond using man’s own concepts of psychological warfare. He and his spirits know how to camouflage themselves working towards satan’s desire to be covert in the greatest war of all time and space. His major goal in dealing with mankind is to thwart individuals having them to reject God’s final sacrifice for the sins of mankind in Jesus Christ. That is, to thwart or undermine a person having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ by accepting Him as God, reconciling the world to Himself through Jesus.

One of my relatives wrote the book “Psychological Warfare.” It is by Paul Anthony Linebarger or Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger. This book I am told is still used by the Central Intelligence Agency today in their training. One might find it interesting!

If satan cannot keep one from accepting Jesus as Lord, then he and his warriors will do everything possible to insure that the person who has found Christ as Savior will not grow spiritually into a warrior. This is the second worse thing that can take place as far as satan is concerned. he and his, will try to influence that spiritually born-again person who knows Jesus to take their focus off of Him and their own spiritual growth in order to stunt their spiritual growth.

His preference however is to thwart God’s ultimate goal which is God’s desire to fellowship with mankind, who greatly loves. satan does not want to relate to man, but to enslave him due to his hatred of the Creator and mankind which God created. And if man or woman chooses to open their lives/wills to evil, then demonic possession and negative influence are possible. Someone trying to coax or anger spirits to speak or attack them might wish that they had not made that attempt. Trying to contact the spirits of the dead is to contact one of the Imitators or Pretenders. This is just one way to open oneself up to satanic attack or satanic influence.

If you have not looked at God through the eyes of spiritual warfare then it would be to your advantage to do so after submitting your life to God through His Son, Jesus. You might wish to go to http://www.needhim.org. satan and his demonic spirits are alive and well on planet earth whether one sees them or not.

More to come.

We think of Star Wars. Images appear in our minds about the Dark Side versus the Force. Good against Evil! Darth Vader stuff! We see these movies as fiction and understand these fictional episodes as a series of great, epic movies. Yet, we fail to understand that there is a real war of good and evil that goes on around us every day. This war concerns a spiritual reality and yet relates to our physical reality.

There is a war between good and evil that takes place around us twenty-four hours a day, but due to its spiritual nature it is rarely seen or felt by our senses. We pay little or no attention to this spiritual warfare due to our physical world where we live, work and play. The physical world is our focus and draws our senses into its reality.

A young man serving the Prophet Elisha in ancient Middle Eastern text called the Bible, 2 Kings 6:8-17 sees the city where he and the prophet are surrounded by the enemy in their horse pulled chariots. He fears for his life and the destruction of all that live there. The Prophet tells the young man not to be afraid that “there is more with us than those who are with them (the enemy)”. Elisha then prays for the young man’s eyes to be opened spiritually. His young man, his servant then sees that the hills that surrounded the city are full of (God’s angel warriors) horses and chariots of fire.

In the New Testament, seven Jewish exorcists traveled about attempting to cast out evil spirits in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is found in Acts 19:13-17. The evil spirit in the possessed man speak to the seven men, attempting to do the exorcism, “I recognized Jesus and I know of Paul (the apostle Paul), but who are you?” The man indwelt and physically empowered by the evil spirit attack all seven men and overpowered them, so they fled the house bloody, wounded and naked.

The cable programs Paranormal State and Ghost Hunters International in pursuing occasional effects of spirits and supposed human ghosts can open up pathways which allow mayhem, evil activities, illness, mental illness and endanger themselves, their families, workers on the sets, technical support people, directors, editors, script writers, and others. Even if they view, “what they come in contact with” as scientific abnormalities that are somehow generated by physics are other means, it will not matter. That is part of satan’s broader war plans.

Evil spirits come with various strategies and power. They are not ignorant and some have extreme power and capabilities. They follow the orders of their supreme commander satan and he commands and limits their activities. There are other heavenly limitations in which they must also abide. Sooner or later “these investigators” will come across a evil spirit or spirits that are greatly offended with their interference or intrusion while they are amidst a spiritual battle with God’s angelic beings or due to their general hatred of mankind and will find themselves on the receiving end of evil.

One must realize most humans remain unaware of evil spirits and how they can influence people and control some people. This is part of satan’s broader plan. These “paranormal investigators” put themselves and others at risk. I would not walk into the middle of the Iraq War during a battle and try to do an interview with an enemy combatant. Neither, would I let a rabid Great Dane into my home. These “investigators” are doing the equivalent. Some individuals will pay a very terrible price.

I will be writing a series on this spiritual war, satan and his subordinates. Every two to five days I will publish on-line, my comments related to this warfare and its players.

What do you think about the war? Some think it might exist, but yet do not know what it is about. Others sometimes look at a battle thinking it is the war and miss the war. Others say there is no war and this is the reason there is so many religions. Others, toy with evil spirits thinking they are not spirits rather human ghosts or spirit guides hoping to learn and investigate looking beyond life into death, but do not realize they intrude into battlegrounds not of the dead, but of angelic beings.

Your comments are welcome.

Texas Ron Linebarger