All Saints Day Traditions, Ghosts, and Prayers for the Dead

As kids we used to enjoy visiting the North Public Cemetery during All Saints Day because of the huge clan reunion, food, fun, and carnival. We stayed there from 5 pm to 3 am the next day. We lighted candles, gathered melted candle debris from our candles as well as from those lighted on other tombs, and said prayers for the dead.

Now that we're grownups (and now that I know the truth from the bible), we still visit the cemetery (this time in Himlayang Pilipino) to see how the grave site is, the maintenance, and to reminisce times with our departed parents--but not to pray for them. 

Save the Dead?

People think that not praying for the dead will mean their suffering in Purgatory or in hell. They think their prayers would somehow promote the souls of their dead loved ones and be saved from suffering. There's nothing like that in the Word of God. God's Word says the kind of life you lived in this world determines your final place in the hereafter. Nothing more, nothing less. And you and your family cannot make amends for your sins through prayer after you die. You die, you get judged, and then you get sent to your eternal destination. Period. That's it.

Ghosts Might Haunt You If You Don't Come Visit

Some fear that not visiting and praying for the dead in All Saints Day will cause the ghost of the dead to haunt them. Spirits or souls of the dead cannot come back to earth to haunt us. Ghosts are evil spirits impersonating our dead loved ones. Demons are very familiar with the ways of people, watching them from birth to death. So they can easily impersonate people and make it appear that they have come back from the dead as ghosts. These demons are called familiar spirits.

The only way you can fight ghosts and demons is if the Spirit of Jesus Christ is in you and rules you. It's either you are ruled by the devil or ruled by Jesus Christ. You cannot be neutral. So surrender your life to Jesus Christ fully now, accept him as Savior and Lord, study His Word deeply daily and make his Word your daily life. We can teach you have this as your everyday life through a Jesus style discipleship. If this is your desire, please email us at hisgroup2005@gmail.com. 

There was a time when the spirits of Elijah and Moses appeared to Jesus on the mountain of Transfiguration. That was a different case. The disciples Peter, James, and John didn't feel scared and Jesus, the Truth, talked to them as the real persons Elijah and Moses. Can this still happen today?

Yes it can. Nothing is impossible with God. But remember that the spirits of Elijah and Moses were not ghosts to scare Jesus off. They didn't ask for "help" to render them justice or revenge. They were not restless spirits who cannot cross over to the hereafter and are trapped in this world. Those things are a lot of garbage, invented by demon worshipers or those deceived by devils.

Elijah and Moses appeared to Jesus to discuss details of the cross--which was Jesus' glory. God may send a saint from heaven or an angel to discuss about His will and glory to mortal holy servants of God on earth. But this doesn't happen on a regular basis. And it can only happen when Kingdom spirit dimensions are brought over to earth, so that heaven was on earth at the moment, and Jesus, Elijah, and Moses were clad in Kingdom lightning-like apparels and incubated in a dimension outside of earthly realms while on earth.

Ghosts are different. They are demons out to scare and deceive people.

Can you see in the dark? If you can through the eyes of the Holy Spirit, then demons cannot deceive or scare you.

Ghosts and Spirits Roaming Around on All Saints Day

All Saints Day is a celebration of remembering our dearly departed. It's a rich Catholic tradition dating back to the 4th century and was originally held in May and then transferred to November. In the Philippines, this is celebrated with picnic at the cemetery right where the loved one is buried. The picnic is more excitingly held at night.

But, are there really ghosts and spirits roaming around on All Saints Day? Believe it or not, All Saints or no All Saints, ghosts and spirits roam around us and in every nook and cranny. even in crowded and happy places like malls. These "ghosts and spirits" are NOT the spirits of dead people but are really demons and evils spirits. They are everywhere, even in churches--yes, even in Christian churches.

These ghosts and spirits are not afraid of or hurt by crosses or "holy water" or church buildings. For all we know, they might even be using "holy water" for taking a bath, if they do take baths. 

As for ghosts and spirits appearing or haunting during All Saints Day, yeah it's possible. Because demons and evil spirits deceive people by scaring them into believing that spirits and souls of dead people come back to earth to live with us again. Dead people cannot come back to live with us again, physically or spiritually. Once you die, you either go straight to heaven or hell. No purgatory. And the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ, the Way, Truth, and Life.

No human soul or spirit can loiter around a while here on earth to be a ghost or spirit. Thus, when you go visit your dead loved ones at the cemetery, their souls are not there waiting for us--though its possible they may be seeing us from where they are--from heaven or hell. This is not impossible if God permits it. But to be sure, they cannot go back to be with us here on earth.

So, the next time you feel a ghost or scary presence at home or anywhere else, All Saints or otherwise, count on it, it's a demon. Angels may also be felt, but the sensation is not fear but assurance.

So, can you see in the dark? I hope now you see this.

Mind Master?

Being able to do "tricks" with mind control is sometimes plain tricks but sometimes can also be demonic if it uses the occult. Especially if the mind master claims to be able to talk to the dead and act as a medium. The bible forbids all this. When someone does them, he or she is demonic, no matter how innocent-looking or nice he or she may be.

One who masters the mind using the occult is not really powerful. He only shows that he is a slave of the devil and will end up in the end in hell with the devil. In the book of Acts in the bible (chapter 16), there was a servant girl who was able to predict the future accurately through a demon. The girl even attested that Paul and his companions were "true servants of the most high God." But Paul was not deceived by the "seduction" or deception of the demon inside her. He rebuked it and the girl was set free. Any occult practitioner should be set free from the devil.


Many are amazed by a show of occultism--like mind reading, mind mastering, seance, talking to the dead, occult magic, and the like. These are all demonic and anyone who believes, supports, or loves them courts God's ire and condemnation. God sends all of them to hell. So, watch out if you love watching them (like on TV or live shows) or is a part in any way in them (like hosting a TV show about it), or if you admire such performers. You are selling yourself to the devil. Many today are beguiled by movies on them. Beware!


If you'r into the occult in any way and want out for good, simply renounce the practice in Jesus' Name (shout it aloud--"Occultism and you devil, I renounce you all in Jesus' Name!). Surrender your life fully to Jesus Christ. Say everything verbally, not just mentally. Then repent from all sins, receive Jesus into your life and heart as Savior, Lord, and King. Then study the bible (New Testament first) and fully obey and submit to all the Christian teachings.


Believe that the Blood of Jesus cleanses you from all sins and everything demonic. It also covers you for protection. Jesus Christ alone can save you. If after you surrender your life to Jesus the devil still tries to attack you, don't fear. Just stick it out with Jesus Christ and seek help from a true servant of Jesus Christ. A true servant can help you win in the spiritual warfare. He or she will teach you how to use God's Word, Name, and spiritual weapons against the devil.


The occult is not a joke. It is dangerous. And a TV program on it can send a lot of watchers into the hands of the devil without them knowing it. It's not always obvious when you fall into the devil's trap spiritually. You may look and feel okay, but your spirit's gradually being enslaved and dragged to hell. Even hosts and guests in TV shows that feature and support the occult--like occult mind masters--will fall into the devil's trap. And it may affect their children and their children's children several generations.


The genuine mind Master is God. He alone can really accurately and truthfully read minds. He alone is powerful, almighty God. And God anoints his true servants to sometimes discern other people's minds and hearts, using prophetic gifts of the Holy Spirit like the gift of prophecy and discerning of spirits, doing that for God's glory. Prophets of God, or God's prophetic servants who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and believes in the Trinity, can see through men's hearts and minds to convict them of sins or direct them to God's will. They are led by the Holy Spirit.


So, how can you differentiate between the occult and the true and supernatural servants of the one, true, supernatural God in the bible?


Simple. These servants have surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ, lives out the bible and does everything according to God's Word, does everything in Jesus' Name, are led by the Holy Spirit, and does everything for holiness and God's glory. Occult workers have none of these.


Occult magic is no fun. It is demonic and you will forfeit your soul. It's best to get out of the trap as early as now. 


So, get out now while you may. Surrender to Jesus fully, before it's too late.

For more spiritual wisdom:

God's Flesh
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Kingdom Specifications

Good Friday is Talisman Day?

In Philippine occult parlance, Good Friday of the Holy Week is supposed to be a great day for talisman hunting or adding power to one you already have. So, quacks and witches are supposed to be in cemeteries or mountains during Good Friday for this purpose. Their favorite mountain is said to be Banahaw.


Days do not decide or endow supernatural power, evil or good. Power and authority only comes from God. Even evil power is power the devil stole from God--and which God allows in the meantime. Evil power is allowed by God to test the hearts of men, even to test the faith of His people.


The devil has no power.


Jesus announced with finality: "All authority under heaven has been given me." You see that? He said "ALL." That means the devil has no power. He can only have or do what God permits him to. Only God is powerful; there is no other.


But do not underestimate quacks and witches. They have power over people who are not living right now in God's spiritual and supernatural Kingdom. If you're just a religious person attending your church faithfully, being active there--even your "Christian" church--quacks and witches can easily play tricks on you, even deadly tricks. But you should not fear them if Jesus Christ is living in you 100 percent. Christ living in you means you're living daily in God's Kingdom under God's sovereign power and protection.


Christians who do not believe in holiness and perfection in Christ will have grave trouble fighting the occult. They are not spiritually equipped and have no way of discerning demonic activities happening right under their noses. I've seen how even pastors are deceived by demonic activities, playing right into the devil's plans, because all they know is their denominational programs, doctrines, and activities.


A lot of deceived born again Christians do not believe that demonic rituals for evil power are still alive and effective especially against them. They laugh at the notion and dismiss it with their focus on worldly church activities--like their church programs. So here is the scenario: while quacks and witches get real evil power that can destroy spiritually naive Christians, these naive Christians get nothing but spiritual garbage from their denominational religious programs and activities.


I sigh at the sight of so many Christians thinking that being active in church gives them spiritual power.


God Looks for Believers Who Will Really Believe His Supernatural Ministry


Now here's God. He's spirit. He's supernatural. He's been looking for believers who genuinely believe His Word--His supernatural Word--to use them for displaying His real signs and wonders, just as Jesus did them, and even greater works. But He sees so few who really seriously believe His Word. The rest are just active church members and propagandists. So few are seriously living the Jesus LIFE, having the Jesus character, and spreading the pure spoken Word in the bible with signs and wonders and healing and miracles.


If anyone is as serious as Jesus is about God and His Word, God gives him tremendous supernatural power, the same one the Holy Spirit used to resurrect Jesus from the grave. That power is more powerful than 100 million nuclear bombs detonated altogether. That power makes quack and witch power seem like a toy and renders folklore about how Good Friday is Talisman day a mere laughing stock.


The problem is, even Christians belittle or ignore God's supernatural power in believers. They sneer at the truth that Christ in you is the hope of glory. They're just satisfied that Christ in you can be used to expand your church denomination and get more tithes and offering.

White Lady Fuss

What really is a White Lady? In the Philippines, it's supposed to be a female ghost always wearing white and who either needs help or is out for vengeance. Like in the video below, white ladies suddenly make themselves seen on camera, videos, or make a scene by popping out of nowhere, go past floating in the air, and then disappear without a trace. Scary?

It looks and sounds scary, and if you don't have a strong faith in Jesus Christ you'd get carried away easily--and deceived, too. White ladies are nothing more than evil spirits or demons appearing as lady ghosts. White ladies are NOT spirits of human beings who once walked and lived with us in this world but who tragically met violent accidents or were brutally killed and now seek justice or redress. Nope. That's all a big lie. 

Once you die, violently or otherwise, your soul and spirit go straight to God for judgment. After God sees you, you either go to heaven or hell. No purgatory or a middle spiritual dimension or place for further resolution or remedies or gradually paying for sins. Those are all lies. Your spirit and soul cannot remain on earth as a "lost spirit" or "ghost" seeking redress and haunting places to find someone to communicate with. These are all mumbo jumbo. 

But They Use Mediums to Solve Crimes!

Some seek the help of mediums and through a seance talk to the ghost of a crime victim who reportedly tells the truth and solves the crime. And sometimes, the facts gathered through such seance are accurate. 

The above are all demonic deception. The devil can give half truths, as Satan gave Eve in Eden half truths. Ghosts are really evil spirits or demons out to deceive people with weak or no faith. Most very religious people are actually faithless. They're easy targets for deceiving demons, just as people who have no religious beliefs at all. 

So who can be safe from ghosts or deceiving spirits? No one, except those who have fully surrendered their lives to Jesus, repented of all sins, and now live the Jesus LIFE daily through God's Word--in other words, Jesus really lives in them. They are not religious; in fact, they have no religion. They are true believers of Jesus Christ. 

What to do if there's a White Lady?

So, what should we do if there's a white lady or something like that? Simple:

• Do not panic. It's just a demon. 
• Repent of any sin in you.
• Pray to God for protection in Jesus' Name.
• Ask God to cover you with the precious Blood of Jesus Christ.
• Rebuke the white lady, or any evil spirit, firmly in Jesus' Name.

However, if you're a fake, the above will not work for you. You should be a genuine believer of Jesus Christ who meditates His Word daily and lives out the Jesus LIFE everyday--or, in other words, it's Jesus Christ living in you. 

Only Jesus Christ in You

Only Jesus Christ in you can rebuke devils and hurt them and make them scram like retreating dogs. If you have not surrendered your life 100 percent to Jesus Christ, you're easy prey to white ladies and other evil spirits. You're easy to fool. 

What Harm can White Ladies Do?

If you do not have Jesus Christ 100 percent in you, white ladies and other evil spirits can easily possess you. Possession is not just acting weirdly as we see it in horror and exorcist films. It can be like what happened to Judas--Satan entered him and yet he looked normal and harmless--but he betrayed Jesus for money. 

Possessed people are also those who are deceived by demons on matters of white ladies and ghosts, believing that they are spirits of dead human beings seeking help. They refuse to believe the bible and find it hard to totally surrender their lives to Jesus Christ and repent of all sins. If you are a psychic or one dealing with spirits and think that demons are a good source of hobby or income, beware of demonic possession. You're an easy target, if not already possessed or owned by the devil. 

If Jesus is not in you and you meet a white lady (or she's haunting your house), seek the help of a genuine Jesus believer. And I'm NOT referring to some guy who claims to be born again and is active in a born again church. I mean a real, genuine Jesus believer who is all-out for Him, living His life.


Genuine born again experience, as Jesus described it, is when you're like the wind (or people who hear the wind), blowing wherever it wills. People hear the sound of it but can't tell where it came from or where it will go. 

What is a Manananggal or Aswang?

A manananggal or aswang in Philippine horror parlance is an extraordinary human being who turns demonic creature at night time and is supposed to prey on humans for flesh or blood. The truth about them is that, they are indeed demons or humans under demonic curse.

The video below is supposed to be manananggals caught in video. Manananggals are said to be creatures that have their upper bodies separated from their lower bodies (waist down) during midnight and grow wings so they can fly and hunt down their prey. They reportedly leave their lower bodies somewhere secret and go back to it before sunlight. 

There is only one way to fight them, and that is through the Blood of the Lamb, or the precious Blood of Jesus Christ. It is not true that they can be warded off through the use of salt or garlic. Manananggals' lower bodies should be filled with salt to fight them off, say people who are supposed to be familiar with them. But in the spiritual realms, material things do not count. It's a spiritual battle. The victims may be humans (flesh and blood) but battling is done in the spirit. 

Demonic creatures can neither be hurt by what they call "holy water" or a crucifix, or a church building, or any religious equipment. Demons and other demonic creatures can only be hurt by the following:

1. People who have Jesus Christ in their lives (Jesus is in their bodies) and enjoying a healthy and living relationship with Him. They are empowered by the Holy Spirit who is in them.
2. People who meditate the Word of God everyday and live it out daily. 
3. Evil spirits and demons are hurt by the spoken Word of God. 
4. They are hurt by the Blood of Jesus covering a believer.
5. A fierce rebuke in the Name of Jesus Christ. 

But Garlic, Tawas, and Crucifix Methods Seem Effective! 

Why is it that evil spirits sometimes seem to be hurt by what quack doctors or Albularyos do to them during a quack treatment?

This is part of demonic deception. They act like they're "hurt" by these treatments to spread the notion that albularyo and tawas methods are effective. This way, gullible people would easily believe them and help spread the belief to others. Most religious people are victims of this. 

The garlic, tawas, and crucifix methods seem effective and even fool a lot of foreigners. The possessed victims do seem to get well. But they get well only for a time, and they often look well only because they are under the power of the quack treating them. Often, the quacks put them under their spell so that the victims become dependent on them. 

Jesus Christ: KING of Kings!

Jesus Christ delivers you from demonic activity for good. "If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." The New Testament is full of true stories where victims of demonic activities and influence are set free by Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

People who want to be set free from any demonic enslavement should surrender their lives to Jesus willingly and repent of their sins. They may seek the help of true Jesus believers (sometimes this is needed), or simply believe Jesus Christ all-out. 

Can Priestly Rituals and Latin Prayers Really Help?

Priestly rituals and Latin prayers are garbage. Christ never used them, neither did His apostles in the New Testament. They may look effective, along with other religious priestly tools, but these are all zero in the spirit realms. 

Sure Protection

To protect yourself from any demonic creatures or attacks (and even protect your immediate family), you should fully surrender your life to Jesus, repent of sins, and live Jesus' LIFE daily by meditating and living out His Word everyday. But don't just surrender your life to God out of fear of demons. Surrender to God because you trust Him and love Him with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.  

They Say All Saints Day is When Ghosts Roam All Around Us

All Saints Day, they say, is when ghosts roam all around us. They add that the souls of our dear departed visit us and join us in our daily living these last days of October leading to the eve of All Saints Day.

In fact, they say, their souls are right here with us at home, in the rooms they used to occupy, in the seats they used to sit in, and using their plates and glass and spoons and forks. And sometimes, in intense moments, they tend to suddenly appear to us so that some people claim to see grandpa or grandma standing there or sitting here or walking in the garden.

Tradition also says these souls prepare themselves to meet us when we go to the cemetery to visit their tombs. They wait for us there at the gate of the cemetery and happily welcome us as we approach it. They stay with us as we keep vigil on their tombs and fellowship there and eat snacks. They are said to even listen to us as we talk and are glad to see their grand children again.

Well, these are all great to hear about and endears us more to our dead relatives. But none of them is true.

Here's the WHOLE Truth about It ALL!

The dead can NEVER go back to join the living. Once you die your soul and spirit is taken to God for judgment. Then you're sent to either heaven or hell. Period. And there you stay, permanently, without having any breaks or vacations to go back to earth and spend time with your family during All Saints Day or All Souls Day or Halloween. That's what the Holy Bible says. That's the whole truth about it.

The dead, however, see what's happening on earth. They see what's become of us and what kind of people we're turning out to be in our lives. They see that but they can't relate or communicate anymore with us. 

In the revealing story about the Rich Man and Lazarus in the New Testament (told by Jesus Himself), the rich man, after being sent to hell, saw his brothers' need to know about the reality of hell. So he asked Abraham to be sent back to earth to warn his brothers. 

Here, the truth is shown that, first, dead persons, while in the afterlife, are aware of what's happening on earth, specifically the spiritual conditions (spiritual needs) of those still alive. Second, they can NEVER go back to earth because of the big gap that separates them and the living. 

Thus, during All Saints Day, souls of the dead are NEVER back home or back to their graves waiting for us to visit them. And it's okay if we don't get to visit them on All Saints. That's not their concern anymore. Their concern is our spiritual condition. Whether they're in heaven or hell, their concern is to have us warned about the reality of hell.

Of course, they can NEVER go back here to warn us. We have preachers and people who share the Word of God truthfully with us to warn us. That's enough warning. We don't need the dead going back here to tell us the truth.

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