Question?

[adolph7mqz]

What does it mean when a Bad Spirit is afraid of you and calls you number 7?

[Richard Amiel McGough]

What does it mean when a Bad Spirit is afraid of you and calls you number 7?

That you have an excellent imagination, but that you need to work on your discernment between imagination and reality?

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When I was in High school,
I went to a friends house and they were playing with the Wika/Quija Board.
They claim that it was not responding to any questions B4 I arrived.
I told my friends to stop playing with it and for us to leave.
Then, it started moving and said that it did not want me there and for me to leave!
my friends asked why, it claimed that I was #7 and my faith in Christ.
Then, one of my friends started Chokeing, being with the church I quickly responded got a Cross
and said the Saint Micheal Prayer and she was able to breath again.
This is just one of the many stories in my Life.


So, what does it mean that I am "7" or "#7"?

your Brother in Christ, Adolph

[Richard Amiel McGough]

When I was in High school,
I went to a friends house and they were playing with the Wika/Quija Board.
They claim that it was not responding to any questions B4 I arrived.
I told my friends to stop playing with it and for us to leave.
Then, it started moving and said that it did not want me there and for me to leave!
my friends asked why, it claimed that I was #7 and my faith in Christ.
Then, one of my friends started Chokeing, being with the church I quickly responded got a Cross
and said the Saint Micheal Prayer and she was able to breath again.
This is just one of the many stories in my Life.


So, what does it mean that I am "7" or "#7"?

your Brother in Christ, Adolph

Hi Adolph,

In that context, I would think the number 7 would be a symbolic way of saying that you were a Christian and the "evil spirits" didn't like that. In the Bible, the Number 7 is strongly associated with the idea of making a promise or a covenant. In Hebrew, the word "seven" (sheba) is a pun on the word meaning "to make an oath" (sheba). We see this in the story of Abraham making an oath:
Genesis 21:27 So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven (sheba) ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 Then Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?" 30 And he said, "You will take these seven (sheba)ewe lambs from my hand, that they may be my witness that I have dug this well." 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba (well of sheba), because the two of them swore (sheba) an oath there.

I talk about this in my article called The Number Seven and Scripture (http://biblewheel.com/Topics/seven.asp). So from a Christian perspective (using Christian presuppositions), I would say that the "evil spirits" were using symbolic language to say that you were protected by the "oath" or the "covenant" of Christ.

That's how I would have explained things when I was a Christian. And I still think it is a good explanation for folks who hold to the underlying assumptions of Christianity. But I don't hold those assumptions any more, so how now do I explain your experience? The simplest way is to note that you began with Christian presuppositions (as is evident from the fact that you said you were a Christian and you prayed the St. Michael prayer) and Christianity presupposes that the Ouija board opens people to evil spirits. So I would expect folks with those presuppositions to unconsciously move the board to manifest those presuppositions. And since the number 7 is popularly known as "God's number" it makes sense that they would move the board to give that message.

But if you really think that there was something authentically "spiritual" going on, there is another explanation. It is possible that there is a "collective unconscious" like Jung studied, and that playing with Ouija board taps into that kind of thing. This would mean that you were tapping into the "deep mind" we all share and up came some scary stuff that was encoded in universal archetypes like the number 7. If this doesn't mean anything to you, don't worry about it. It takes a lot of years to get a perspective on what's really going on in psychology, spirituality, our own mind, and the collective mind. And nothing is really certain so we must always remain skeptical.

All the best,

Richard