Spiritual Ability
With strong faith, one can see what ordinary people cannot see and one can hear what ordinary people cannot hear.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: (Matthew 5)
In old days, say 2,000 years ago, there must have been many who could see and hear what spirits did and told. They should have easily understood what the Lord Jesus Christ meant in His teaching, since His teaching was almost related to spiritual matters.
But as time went by, this ability to see and hear spiritual matters was lost. With development of material civilization, people did not need spiritual ability to see and hear spiritual matters. Products of the material civilization gave people more convenience, amenity, and pleasant sensation. Material civilization came to satisfy desire of people. People did not have to have strong faith to get spiritual satisfaction but had to have money and wealth to buy products of the material civilization so as to satisfy material desire.
In this trend, as the material civilization has developed so much, people have lost the ability to spiritually see and hear spiritual matters. Although authors of the Gospels seem to have the spiritual ability to spiritually see and hear what various spirits did and said, readers have lost the spiritual ability so that they cannot understand what the Gospels tell.
So, when the authors of the Gospels wrote that Satan had done something against the Lord Jesus Christ, today's readers should take it is as a figurative phrase. The truth of the fight between the Lord Jesus Christ and Satan cannot be understood by such readers of the Gospels.
In the spirit world, as Swedenborg wrote, what a spirit wishes would soon be realized. Nothing is impossible in the spirit world. But anything that is not realized through faith in and love to the God is meaningless in the spirit world. So, those who want material things even in the spirit world should go to the hells spontaneously. But, those who want truth and love of the God should come close to Heaven.
Those with the spiritual ability even in this human world should be able to see various evil spirits in addition to holy spirits working in the human world. Without being contaminated and debased by the material civilization, such people with strong faith should be able to see the real spiritual situations in this world. They should naturally ask the Lord Jesus Christ and the God to save them from Satan and evil spirits.
Only those with the spiritual ability can understand this theory. Those without such ability should neglect this theory as a trick statement.
But, even without strong faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His God, some honest and pious people might have such spiritual ability. You cannot judge people based on whether they belong to Christian churches or not. The spiritual ability others have cannot be easily seen from the outside.
So, you should not be proud if you can only see value of money and wealth, which every servant of Satan can. In other word, the spiritual ability to see the difference between evil and holy should be more valuable in the spirit world where everyone goes after death in this world.
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Matthew 5, King James Version
3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.