{"id":21590,"date":"2018-12-20T14:36:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=21590"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:26:10","slug":"21590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/21590\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nAt Christmas, among other things — in the midst of a main message of peace and joy; eternity awaits! — is also the reckoning with ghosts of things past — as well as those that are present.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMore souls are released on Christmas Day, it has been said (in certain private revelations), than on All Souls’ Day. Remember this Tuesday, during Mass. The veil is thin.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAs such, in this season, spirits tend to be more manifest — unfortunately, including unpleasant ones. They have their effects. We have previously noted that among the effects of evil or disincarnate spirits are electrical ones.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThis is borne out by reports, starting with a London newspaper, that during police interrogations this week of the world-famous “Christian” healer and spirit medium “John of God,” frightening paranormal phenomena occurred. He has been accused of assaults on five hundred women.\r\n\r\n \r\n
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\"Joao<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n\r\nAs the London\u00a0<\/a>Mail<\/a><\/em>\u00a0relayed<\/a> yesterday, “Unexplained incidents ranging from a \u2018bizarre\u2019 computer crash to wiring on electrical appliances suddenly \u2018short circuiting\u2019 appears to suggest supernatural forces were at play during the interview.\u00a0The mysterious problems unnerved cops but didn\u2019t deter them from collecting the testimony from faith healer, Jo\u00e3o Teixeira de Faria, who is known as Jo\u00e3o de Deus \u2013 John of God on Sunday night in Goi\u00e2nia.”<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nCops are pretty hard-nosed types, but even they can be rattled, such as when, as happened with John, the printer in the interrogation room began to print without told to do so and that refrigerator “blew up.” When a detective turned on the air conditioning, which was on the same extension cord as the refrigerator, the fridge exploded — causing those in the room to scream.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nContinued the newspaper, “Detective Karla Fernandes, responsible for coordinating the task force investigating the allegations, claimed that as the spiritual guru began to speak, strange things started to happen.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“She said: ‘Suddenly the computer that was being used to transcribe the suspect’s answers to the allegations seemed to have a life of its own and the commands on the keyboard wouldn’t work.\u00a0When the clerk tried to enter the medium’s statement, the keys locked on a specific letter and ‘OOOOOOO’ was recorded continuously on the screen for a few seconds.'”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAt first bemused agents put the incident down to a “faulty computer.” That bemusement soon turned into fear.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWhen it comes to the supernatural, there are always ways of rationalizing them — attributing them to natural causes. Sometimes they\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0due to natural causes. Often — more often than “rationalists” may realize — they are not.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThrough the years, we too have seen refrigerators develop sudden electrical problems, electrical pumps burn out, internet service to mysteriously go out, lights to burn out (or turn on mysteriously), cars to experience electrical issues (some major), air conditioning to blow a capacitor, and so forth, in association with proximity to people in need of spiritual deliverance.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMost involved in spiritual warfare — certainly exorcists — record the same.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMore to the point, some involved with the arrest of Faria or the reporting of it took to prayer when a police clerk was run over by a car on the way to transcription and a news photographer lapsed into unconsciousness.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe eerie phenomena is one issue. But more to the issue is the fact that:\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n1)– “John of the God” has Catholic pretenses. In his healing room are pictures of Jesus of Divine Mercy.\r\n\r\n \r\n
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SSeee way in back<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n \r\n\r\n2)– It shows that because someone “heals” doesn’t mean it is of God at all.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn the case of John, many have allegedly been cured of cancers, other ailments, and psychological distress. One of his patients: former President Bill Clinton. Devils can heal. Spirits can be imparted. He performs also “psychic surgery,” does “John,”\u00a0 like the famous Brazilian occult healer, Arigo (who himself died in the car accident).\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThat’s a third point: South American is rampant with “channelers” and “psychic surgeons.”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe devil can heal — but his healings are temporary. And in the end, the “patient” ends up worse off than before.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSo it is that we always admonish people to pray and fast before letting anyone, even healing priests, lay on hands.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBelieve yes; Christ healed this way; so did His disciples. The Lord told us to do the same. But undertake it only in the total atmosphere of humility and holiness, after fasting, or stay clear.\r\n\r\n
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