I watched it a week or ten days ago. It's good teaching, thanks.

I think though that most of the spirits we've encountered are simply 'the dead'. maybe twice I have ran into massive more powerful veeery evil presences... once the serpent experience mentioned above somewhere in the oh so deceptively benign midwest USA, and another seemed to come from a catholic church in Richmond VA believe it or not.

The Lord told me last month he was going to start teaching my daughter, I hadn't said anything to her about it though. She does need to know the reality of these things before she gets to high school, there is a lot of it around, the wiccan etc. I guess the new neighbors present a perfect opportunity for that.

Really important to read the bible or those spirits will try to play god with her just like they did with me once. That, I think, is the main thing. They may hate humans, envy the living, but the devil wants to be our god and that is central to the issue of knowing who God actually is. Jesus himself used the word of God to rebuke the devil. The word of God is the sword of the spirit.

Kind of like pilgrim's progress around here... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

Maybe our vacation is over. My daughter's friend and her dad had just come to pick her up to go into town for some fun for the day which is when I saw the thing on her arm, she had just come from that house with the little girl for me to watch for the afternoon, and her friend's dad saw it too and he paled. But we have a good witness there to it. He said his daughter will not helping my daughter babysit that girl anymore after he saw that.

I told my daughter to continue on though and be a presence of the Lord in that house for her. My daughter is not afraid of the devil, her faith is real strong. She has been raised that way since birth, before actually... she has had little encounters all of her life also, mostly before theage of 6 or 7, I think a lot because of my extended family's ungodly associations.

These wiccans pretend a lot of the time that they themselves are very benign but it's not quite true from what I know about it, people I know who have had relatives involved in that stuff.

We help Jesus send their spirit friends back down though... to be embraced by cold mother earth for eternity. It's a living <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> It's extremely rare we expereince this stuff around here anymore, the devil learned a long time ago not to mess with us he's lost quite a few troops here I think. This bunch apparently hasn't learned that yet.

What I learned though after mentioning it to another neighbor is that there is a good size wiccan coven about 10 miles north of us and they are influencing quite a few local teenagers lately. We'll probably have forest fires soon.

Wars. floods, forest fires... always a reason...