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Can spirits move physical objects?

NBTT

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My parents have long passed and my sister inherited my mom's diamond wedding ring. She wears it daily. One time she visited us and slept in the guestroom. After returning home she emails us and tells us she forgot it on the guestroom nightstand. We search the nightstand and the guestroom inside out and there is no ring.
Two and a half to three years later after many guestroom cleanings and other guests using the room, I find a ring smack in the middle of the nightstand. I had forgotten about this and called the most recent guest but they diligently check the nightstand whenever they leave and never put or saw a ring there. Checking old emails refreshed my memory about the missing ring. We returned it to my sister to her great surprise and joy.
 
Luk 8:30-33
(30) And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
(31) And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
(32) And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
(33) Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

Here is evidence of evil spirits possessing a man, and going into, into , into the swine.

They possessed the swine, animals have a soul but no spirit, men have a body, soul and spirit.

Are men 3 parts ?

1Th 5:23
(23) And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Meat or objects cannot be possessed by evil spirits because the meat itself does not have a soul nor do objects, it is wrong to make idols, but idols themselves have no power.

But disobedience, and the calling for the dead and so on, does open the door the evil spirits in one from or another, even making idols to other gods opens the doors to evil spirits.

Exo 7:10-12
(10) And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
(11) Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
(12) For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

We know that evil spirits can make things appear, but there is nowhere in the bible that says they can possess things, but I have heard of many reports of things being moved as a result of demonic activity.

Humans can move things, yes ? Can evil spirits move things ? Well they can make things appear, and Satan himself was able to bring Jesus on top of a mountain so to tempt him, but of course Jesus was never possessed by a demon.
 
Two interesting scriptures are these:

Mat 28:2
(2) And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

Mat 4:5-8
(5) Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
(6) And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
(7) Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
(8) Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

Very interesting scriptures, one of an angel from God of course moving a stone, and one from Satan moving Jesus a few different places.
 
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