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I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,” says the Lord. Evil is both greater than we are and part of. Yet Ignatius’s language is useful because it recognizes the reality of evil. Psychology gives us other names for what Ignatius called good and evil spirits. Talk of good and evil spirits may seem foreign to us. So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. Discernment of spirits is a way to understand God’s will or desire for us in our life. And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.” Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.

The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful For people who are trying to live a life pleasing to God, the good spirit strengthens, encourages, consoles, removes obstacles, and gives peace.
