Communicating with God’s World of Spirit – its laws and its purpose | Pastor Johannes Greber

- 137 - I Samuel 30: 7-8: ‘David gained new strength through his trust in the Lord, his God, and said to Abiathar, “Bring me the ‘ephod’ (breastplate of judgment)!” When Abiathar had brought the ephod to David, David asked the Lord, “Shall I pursue this band of robbers? Will I overtake them?” He received the answer, “Yes, pursue them. You will surely overtake them and save the prisoners.”’ God will allow only those to inquire of Him who put their complete trust in Him and who rely on Him for help. However, God will reject all those who commune with the Evil One, and who seek help from the spirits of the abyss. Ezekiel 14: 3: ‘These men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before them: Why should I let them consult me at all?’ It is not those whose hearts are divided – who today turn to God and tomorrow to Baal, who today attend church and devote tomorrow to wickedness – who will receive answer from God. This was true in olden times and it is true today. God has drawn a true picture of such people through the mouth of the prophet Isaiah: Isaiah 58: 2-9: ‘They ask of me day after day, and desire to know my ways; as if they were a people that practiced righteousness and had not forsaken the law of their God, they ask for righteous judgments from me and impatiently await a revelation from God. “Why do we fast,” they say, “and you do not see it?” ... This is righteous fasting, as I like it: loosing unjust bonds, bursting the bands of the yoke of servitude, freeing the oppressed, and breaking every yoke. Is it not so that when you share your bread with the hungry and you take the unfortunate homeless into your house, when you clothe those whom you find naked, and you do not withdraw from your countrymen – then your light shall break forth like the dawn and your healing shall make speedy progress? Then if you ask, the Lord will answer.’ God transmitted His messages in many different ways to the faithful who sought His counsel for their concerns. The story of Saul relates how this first king of the people of Israel received answers from the Lord, as long as he remained true to God. On the day before the battle of Gilboa, Saul, who had been deserted by God’s spirit because of his disobedience, ‘asked of the Lord’, but the Lord did not answer him, not in ‘dreams’, not through the ‘breastplate of judgment’, and not through the ‘prophets’. (I Samuel 28: 6) This indicates that on previous occasions Saul had been answered in ‘dreams’ or through the ‘breastplate of judgment’ or through the ‘prophets’. What your Bible translators render as ‘dreams’ is a spiritual seeing, a vision, an act of clairvoyance or clairaudience, through which a person is told the truth. Such visions can be sent only to those who have mediumistic powers. The spirit world therefore, in deciding how to deliver its messages, must take into account the abilities of the recipients. When use was made of the ‘breastplate of judgment’, God’s answers were given in collaboration with a medium, as I have repeatedly explained to you. As for the ‘prophets’ who figure so frequently in the Bible as bearers of messages from God, they were ‘speaking mediums’, who often received God’s answers by clairvoyance and clairaudience and then passed them on.

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