Spiritual TRUTH: 12 Facts Every Christian Must Know About The Spiritual Realm

SPIRITUAL TRUTH: 12 Facts Every Christian Must Know About The Spiritual Realm

Scripture
1 Peter 5.8
“Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”
Are humans alone in the universe as intelligent beings? The Church has always believed and taught that the answer is no: the universe is in fact filled with many kinds of intelligent, other-worldly beings that we call angels. And they are up to all sorts of amazing things!
Here are 15 important things for all Christians to know about the Spiritual Realmfrom another realm:

1) Angels are absolutely real
Angels are not just a pious fiction or a superstition: they are absolutely, positively real – as a real as you and me and anything else. They are actively involved in our world and play a crucial role in human history.

2) Every Christian has a guardian angel
The Catechism quotes St. Basil saying “Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.”

3) Demons are also very real
All angels were originally created good, but some angels made a choice to disobey God. These fallen angels are called “demons.” Hell was originally prepared as a place for demons.( Matthew 25.41)

4) There is a dramatic spiritual war going on for human souls
The choice to fall away from God was irrevocable for demons. But humans, at least as long as they are alive on earth, still have a choice. Angels and demons are engaged at this moment in a dramatic spiritual war, battling to influence human souls either toward or away from God.
Satan tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and demons continue to tempt human beings away from God today.

5) St. Michael the Archangel is the leader of the Lord’s angelic armies
St. Michael is a faithful angel who leads good angels in spiritual battle against fallen ones. His name literally means “Who is like God? ,” which represents his faithfulness to God when other angels rebelled.

6) Satan is a leader of the fallen angels
Like all demons, he was originally a good angel who chose to turn away from God. As a creature, he remains finite and subject to God’s providence.
In the Gospels, Jesus resisted Satan’s temptations (Matthew 4, Luke 4), called him the “father of lies,” a “murderer from the beginning” (John 8.44), and said Satan came only to “steal and kill and destroy” (John 10.10).

7) Any involvement with the occult or demonic forces is gravely sinful
Demonic forces are nothing but evil and humans should have nothing to do with them. Any involvement in the occult – whether it be divination, horoscopes, clairvoyance, mediums, etc – even if with “good” or “innocent” intentions, is gravely sinful and highly dangerous.

8) Exorcism remains an active practice of the Church
In the Gospels, Christ and his Apostles regularly make explicit battle against demons, often exorcizing them from possessed individuals. The Church continues this act of spiritual warfare for the good of souls.
A minor exorcism is included in the baptismal rite. In the case of demonic possession, priests with special permission from their bishop can perform solemn exorcisms.

9) We can also engage in spiritual battle through prayer and other spiritual practices
The Our Father prayer, given by Christ himself, includes a request to “deliver us from evil.” The Church also encourages the use of the Prayer to Saint Michael . Written by Pope Leo XIII , it calls for the final imprisonment of Satan to hell. Fasting has also been traditionally used as a spiritual weapon.
But the best way to aid the fight against demonic forces is to simply live a holy life following after Christ.

10) Many saints have engaged in explicit, even physical, battles with demons
Beating them up, appearing as terrifying beasts, making dreadful sounds, even setting things on fire; you can read the incredible stories of St. Anthony the Great, St. Padre Pio, St. Gemma Galgani, St. John Vianney, and St. Teresa of Avila in this article.

11) Satan was definitively defeated by Christ
In his passion, death, and resurrection, Jesus definitively defeated the powers of Satan. This fact is progressively manifested in the history of the Church until the Second Coming of Christ.

12) Christ is the King of the whole angelic world
Jesus Christ is the King of the Universe, and that includes the spiritual realm. Angels were created by Christ at the beginning of the world to be his servants. Even demons, who have chosen to disobey God, ultimately remain under the control of God’s providence.

13) Warfare between the Physical & Spiritual realms happens in our minds
When you want to do something bad, there is always a voice reminding you of what is good and what is evil. Well, that’s a spiritual warfare between the two realms happening right there. The clean spirits will advise you to refrain while the unclean spirits or the spoiler will want you to proceed with the wrong did. But at the end of the day, you have the power to make a decision. Always remember that every decision you make has consequences in both the physical realm as well as the spiritual realm. So, if you choose to do wrong, the unclean spirits and the spoiler will win, and if you don’t, the clean spirits will win. If you understand that this war is happening in everyone’s head and that it's bigger than random thoughts, then you will learn to do better. There is always a good side and a bad side in every person. The unclean spirits usually want to push us into doing bad things so that they can take away from God’s kingdom. When you find yourself in such a dilemma, which you will sooner than you think, you need to get in touch with the spirit realm in prayer as advised by God in the Bible. The spoilers from the spiritual dimension are working overtime to disrupt the relationship you have with God. Therefore, you should be fully aware of that or else you’ll fall victim of these unclean spirits operating from the spiritual realm. Never give the spoiler dominion over you and always pray to keep him and his agents in the spiritual dimension and away from you and yours.

14) Spirits from the spiritual realm prey on your ignorance
The spirits from the spiritual realm aren’t interested in winning fair and square. In the end, your soul burning up in the hell is a win meaning that they don’t care about the means, just the outcome. It is therefore important for you to always seek revelation through researching about different kinds of spirits from their spiritual realms. I know that this sounds like fiction from a novel (only that it isn't from a novel but reality). When you get to read specific novels or the Bible, you will get to see how these spiritual entities from the spiritual realm deceive people into inviting them into their lives. These people usually can’t discern the different spirits. And since they are usually blinded mostly by greed and ignorance, it is usually difficult for them to them to resist the temptation. And that is how the spirits from the spiritual realm find their way into the physical realm. And the shift from spiritual realm to the physical realm is usually very hard to reverse, though not entirely impossible. Thankfully, if you get to read the Bible, you will fully understand the spiritual realm, and both the clean spirits and the unclean spirits usually find their way out. Through the holy spirit, you can also fully understand and differentiate between the clean and unclean spirits which will give you power over them. You will also learn how to dispel these unclean spirits back to the spiritual realm effectively. You can develop a sharpened mind so that these spirits from the spiritual realm can’t trick you and end up crossing over to the physical realm at your expense. And it all starts with accepting that you know nothing about spirits as well as the spiritual realm altogether.

15. The devil stole authority in the physical realm from mankind
God gave man authority over Earth (physical realm) meaning that the spiritual entities only got control from man. The devil did so through deceiving Adam and Even into the eating the fruit of knowledge, contrary to what God had instructed. The revelation they had did come at a steep price — one that humanity is paying for to this very day. Within the spiritual realm, there is a place for evil forces. From this evil spiritual realm is where the devil and his army operate from. In Layman language, the part of the spiritual realm reserved for unclean spirits is what we refer to as hell. The devil acts as the prosecutor of God’s people and those found guilty will end up in hell with him (Job 1:6 and Revelation 12:10).