Did the Devil and his Demons do it?

by Rod P 24 Replies latest jw friends

  • Rod P
    Rod P

    True Story: I used to drive for long trips on the highway a lot. Three-hundred-and-fifty mile trips were not unusual, and night time driving was quite common. One night I fell asleep at the wheel, travelling 55 miles per hour along winding mountainous roads. Suddenly a big hammer hit me with a thump on the inside of my head, and woke me up, just in time to steer the car back on the road in my own proper lane. The hammer was quite audible, and it shocked the heck out of me.

    I have been told more than once that I have a spirit guide.

    Is this experience a sign that Satan and the Demons had taken over? heh heh heh...

    Rod P.

  • tetrapod.sapien
    tetrapod.sapien

    : heh heh heh...

    did you know you would be opening a can of worms with this one? ;)

    my answer would be: no. seemingly supernatural experiences can usually have an equally plausible natural explaination. and, people telling you that you have spirit guids, i guess doesn't make it so. imho, it's not about whether demons and satan exist and are directing certain things, but rather whether ANY supernatural entities exist in the form of any culture that says they do.

  • delilah
    delilah

    My hubby, my father and my brother all drive truck, and every one of them has had similar experiences as yours. It's quite scary really, to fall asleep at the wheel. I definitely don't think the debbil had anything to do with it, but maybe a guardian angel???? along with the sound of an on-coming car's horn, as the hammer you described hitting you upside the head?? In any case, I'm glad you awoke and got into your own lane safely....

    Dee

  • BONEZZ
    BONEZZ

    Yes...but only if you were driving a Gremlin.

    -BONEZZ

  • jaffacake
    jaffacake

    I think Tetrapot has put it well. We don't undrstand so much of what the brain can do. One tendency is to look for the supernatural explanation when it just isn't there. Just my opinion, but I just can't go along with any superstition, either the watchtower variety such as so-called demons, or any other.

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    It could be that your subconscious woke you to consciousness. Most of us aren't very aware of the subconscious, even though it does affect us. However, it is there, and it knows things that we don't know consciously. In this case, it may have known what was going on, then it may have awaken you. It is a simple matter for the conscious mind to enterpret the wakening signal as a hammer up side the head.

    S

  • jaffacake
    jaffacake

    Actually, your story reminds me of similar ones common amongst adventists, when I was one. The Roman Catholics too brought me up on many such examples of guardian angels. My humanist sister who was into spiritism years ago describes similar things and says it is ghosts. It seems that demons or angels or ghosts aren't fussy what religion we are, or whether we believe in God.

    I still go with natural explanations, sorry to be boring - humans need more exciting answers than reality provides.

  • EvilForce
    EvilForce

    The brain continues to function at a high rate until stage 4 of deep sleep. It was probably your sub-conscience mind awaking you to the danger that you were still driving. A sleepy mind and dream state equals weird and odd thought processes.

  • AGuest
    AGuest

    May you have peace!

    You ask: "Is this experience a sign that Satan and the Demons had taken over?"

    I must ask you: why IS it that whenever a "spiritual" event occurs, folks automatically attribute it to Satan... whether it is good or bad? Why do we assume that if a "spiritual" event has occurred that it has to be a "bad" spirit that caused it? Why do we assume that there are only BAD spirits?!! Dear one... God... is a SPIRIT. Christ... "became" a life-giving SPIRIT. Your life was saved, due to an intercession you can't explain... and in return you ask if the spirit was... Satan. Why?!

    I will tell you why: because religion, the greatest false light set up by Satan... part of which is the Great Harlot* and her "daughters"... has never taught you that you can hear God, that you can see God, both through Christ, that God and Christ do hear you and do speak to you and can and do intervene! They can... and do.

    But you have been part of a great conspiracy: your education of regarding what "faith" really is, which miseducation has led you... and most of mankind... to believe that God CANNOT and DOES not... while Satan can... and does... all the time. Why? For the very purpose of leading you not to God... but away from Him... and to Satan. Don't believe me? I ask you, to whom did you imply saved your life? To whom did you attribute such good deed? I know, I know, you're thinking, "I only asked if it might be Satan and company." Dear one, it could have NEVER been Satan and company, for they are God's ADVERSARIES and, therefore, yours and mine!

    Satan, dear one, wants you dead. Eternally. Period. "Skin in behalf of skin... and ALL that a man has he WILL give on behalf of his FLESH." While he may not have helped you fall asleep (your flesh is the culprit there), he certainly wouldn't step in and prevent your demise!

    Rob, Rob, Rob, dear Rob - IF you truly believe that someone intervened on your behalf, then give the glory where its due: to the Most Holy One of Israel, whose name is JAH, of armies, and to His Christ, the very One who more than likely was your "savior" that night. Or... do not give it to anyone, but certainly do not attribute such a wonderful thing as having your life saved... to Satan the Devil. For that truly cannot be... but may, instead, be blaspemy... against the Spirit.

    (NOTE: The Great Harlot is NOT the "world empire of false religion." It is an entity made up of those formerly of the "body of Christ," who received holy spirit as an anointing and symbol of their unity with Christ and so became ONE spirit with him (just as a man become one FLESH with a woman)... who FORSOOK that choosing in order to "fornicate" with the kings of the earth... organized, institutionalized religion. "Uniting" with such "kings," THEY become her paramours, her lovers... and lead her AWAY from her true "husbandly owner," the One who BOUGHT her, with his blood, Christ. Rather than following HIM, and clinging to HIM, and obeying HIS laws, this "harlot" follows after popes, and bishops, and elders, and reverends, hired men, strangers, who seek only to ravage her fleshy parts. And they do, by means of taking her "treasures," spiritual gems, and using these to slaughter their fellow men. Through this, SHE is guilty of the blood of the prohpets, her own brothers - just as those before her were guilty, from Cain who slaughtered Abel, to the Jews who had Christ impaled, to those who persecute and put to "death" the brothers of Christ down to this day.

    Her "daughters" are the religious factions, including Catholicism, Protestantism, Fundamentalism, etc., AND THE WTBTS, ALL of whom were conceived as a result of her fornication and thus have come out of such adulterous relationships. Thus, her children... are illegitimate sons!

    For unless she has been called to peace by God (due to abandonment or abuse), every "woman" who follows the "law" of another "man" while her "husband" is still alive commits adultery. Although a spirit, Christ... lives! And, therefore, any who claim to be his "bride" IN SPIRIT... and yet follows the SPIRITUAL "law" of some other "man"... is a harlot. For he has not forsaken us, nor abused us, just as he said, "I give my LIFE on behalf of the sheep," and "Look! I am WITH you... all the days..."

    I, SJ, have spoken it to you just as I have received it from my Lord, JAHESHUA MISCHAJAH, Son and Christ of the Most Holy One of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whose name is JAH, of Armies.)

    May those with hears, hear what the Spirit and the Bride KEEP saying:

    "Come! Take 'life's water' free!"

    I bid you the greatest of peace, dear Rob, and ears to hear, if you so wish it.

    A slave of Christ,

    SJ

  • tetrapod.sapien
    tetrapod.sapien

    yay, i have seen the light!


    : "Come! Take 'life's water' free!"


    i don't understand what this has to do with the thread. but since you brought it up, i should in all fairness warn Rod: Be sure to use your Brita filter.

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