Beloved, this message focuses on one area, which is not very clear to many people. Soul traders are those who buy and sell the souls of men. Ezekiel 13: 18 says, “And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?”
That scripture is telling us that people could use some powers to hunt for souls of men. The book of Micah 7:2 says, “The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.” Again we are here reminded of the practice of catching the souls of men with a net. As we can see in the book of Nahum 3:4, a nation could be enslaved in this evil trade: “Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.”
One of the wonderful characteristics of the kingdom of Babylon is portrayed in Revelation 18:10-13 thus: “Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more. The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble. And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.”
THE CREATION OF MAN
The creation of man in the Garden of Eden was a wonderful thing. It was so wonderful that the Bible says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. If you take a look at the brain of man with its complexity, you will agree with the Bible that God fearfully and wonderfully made man. The creation of man took place in three stages: Firstly, the Lord Himself made man with His own hands, which is not the case for any other creature. He formed man out of the dust of the ground. Then He breathed the breath of life into his nostrils and a spirit-filled being was created. That part of man called spirit is what makes man to become a living soul. With the soul, man became a distinct being. Without the soul, everybody will just be practically the same. It is the soul that distinguishes between individuals. God through His breath imparted His Spirit into man. The spirit inside you is your real self. It is that part of you that has the ability to know God intimately. It is what is called the God-conscious part of us because God is a Spirit. The spirit is the conscience and the policeman of the heart. The body is the container in which we live and it is world-conscious. It is only aware of what is happening in the physical. Without this physical body, you cannot be earth- bound. The difference between spirit beings and human beings is that men have bodies through which they can express themselves, while spirit beings are bodiless. The soul is the seat of intellect. It is the seat of the will that manifests your need through a determined faith; it is the seat of your emotions. Now, you can see that man is carefully and wonderfully made. The real you, whatever your name is, is your spirit, which is invisible to the physical eyes. It is amazing and yet true that other spirits can summon a specific spirit out of the body. Sometimes, what some people refer to as dreams are not. They are records of actions happening in the spirit world. But because the soul was there, the person could see what was going on. If the spirit that is called out is prevented from reentering the body, death occurs. God gave that spirit a soul. The soul is that part of you which makes you an individual. With the soul you can exercise your will. The personality of a person is a reflection of the soul through the physical body. That is why two people cannot be exactly of the same personality. It is the soul that makes the difference. That soul actually came in when the spirit entered the body of man. So, the soul belongs to the spirit not to the body.
When a man dies, his spirit will retain the soul or the personality. The spirit that is the real you, takes the soul along with it. As a Christian when you die, your physical body will be discarded, but will be resurrected to a spiritual body on the return of Jesus Christ. Then your soul will go with your spirit man either to heaven or to hell. So, the soul is the central part of man.
Within the soul is the mind, the source of knowledge and intelligence; the source of affection and consciousness. Because of its position, the soul can swing to either side of positive or negative thoughts. Many seem to have given up their souls to the world and have become worldly and spiritually useless. The soul is so important that Jesus says, “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his own soul. With what can a man make an exchange for his soul.” So, the soul is very important. If it were not, there would not have been anything like soul trading. There are powers that traffic in men, just as people traffic in drugs.
THE SLAVE TRADE
A long time ago, there was a horrible thing called slave trade. Some white men came to Africa to capture men, and carried them away to Europe or America to work in sugarcane plantations. The condition in the ship they used to carry them was horrible. They had no toilet facilities. Any deceased or sick slave was thrown into the sea, in order to avoid diseases from spreading to the others. And at the farms, the mouths of the slaves were padlocked to make sure that they did not eat part of the sugarcane. These white men were trading in men in collaboration with other African chiefs who had never seen mirrors before. About twenty souls could exchange for a piece of mirror. It was a very horrible practice, but soul trading is much more horrible than that. Jesus expressed the surpassing greatness of the soul when He said, “With what can a man make an exchange for his soul?”
A lot of atrocities are done against men in darkness. Philosophers often allude to the saying that man is the architect of his own destiny, with responsibility to control his own affairs. The truth is that forces he does not understand and has not invited sometimes bombard man. Without the power of the resurrected Christ, man is powerless against the powers of darkness. No individual can fight and defeat the devil successfully without the authority and power of Jesus Christ. These powers trade in the souls of men just like gamblers in the streets. That is why the scripture laments in Joel 3: 3 saying, “And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.” Amos 2: 6 states: “Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.” This means that some people’s minds, will, emotions and intellect have been traded off, and will only return to them on the day of judgment. Only God can deliver any mind that is caged in a demonic trap. A person whose mind is demonically caged will never achieve his or her potentials in life.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF WAYS TO RECOGNIZE THOSE WHOSE SOULS HAVE BEEN TRADED OFF:
1. Such persons will notice that anytime something good is coming their way, one tragedy will just happen to stop it. Somehow they know within them that really they should be on top, but a force keeps dragging them down. The soul of somebody’s spouse could be sold and the partner would be wondering what happened to his wife or her husband. Many soul traders come to wedding ceremonies.
2. Difficulty in getting baptized in the Holy Spirit is a sign that your soul may have been traded off.
3. If you are always seeing slow animals in your dreams, for example, snails, tortoise, etc, it shows that something within you that can make you run fast has been removed.
4. If you dream of being lost in the market or forest and you are not able to find your way before waking up, it is a sign that your soul has been traded off.
5. If you discover that you have a double personality or unpredictable personality traits, or you walk about feeling lifeless as if all your energy have been drained off, or you are married but cannot detach your mind from your former girlfriend or boyfriend. Then your soul has been traded off.
6. When you discover that your mind cannot focus on one thing for a long time, and you also find it difficult to concentrate in thinking through solutions to a problem without digressing, or in your dream you always see two or three people or somebody looking exactly like your figure just starring at you. At any rate when a person’s real emotion and intellect are polluted, he has a great problem. That is why you find some zombie (robot) wives and husbands who can hardly take independent decisions. Their souls need to be called back and healed completely through the divine intervention of the Lord Jesus Christ.
HOW ARE SOULS PUT UP FOR SALE?
1. BY PERSONAL DECISION: A person may decide to sell his own soul. In Isaiah 50:1, it is written, “Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.” And Isaiah 52: 3 says, “For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.”
Take note of the following revelations: The best laboratory in the universe is inside the seas and it excels in sophistication when compared with what we have here on earth. Over there, they pass human beings through that laboratory, form them properly, and send them up here to buy souls. When you see them at the bus stops, they are spotlessly clean, and naturally good-looking. Any person having affairs with these so-called beautiful human beings have been bought and would never be available again even though the person is still around physically. So, any man who sleeps with such girls, has sold his soul and the result is sorrows. Such a man would not be able to gather himself together again. If a woman should sleep with a man from this laboratory, she has sold her soul. It is like the story of a secondary school boy, who went to a disco party where he met a girl. After the party, he accompanied the girl home. She introduced herself as Ronke and the boy promised to visit her the following day at a given time. At the agreed time, he went to the place and inquired about the girl. The first woman he met was stupefied. She called the attention of other people and asked him to describe her. So, he did and they all screamed saying, “Ah Ronke died three years ago. Where did you see her?” He said, “At a party,” and they promptly advised him to go and do something about himself. This boy, by that singular exercise, has sold his own soul.
2. BY ONE’S PARENTS: Your parents may sell you. Parents may hand over the souls of their children to the devil or to the oppressors even before their birth. They usually do this in ignorance. Sometimes, the soul of a child could be traded off through the type of toys he or she is playing with. When a child begins to play with demonic toys, within a short time, he will be playing with them in his dreams too. The powers living in these toys will soon begin to talk with the child and through that the soul of the child could be exchanged. Once this begins to happen, a lot of things would be affected, for example, the child’s heath, academics etc. A child could be sold off with the toys bought for him.
3. LACK OF PROTECTION: Soul hunters could capture unprotected souls. These hunters do this sometimes, in order to gain promotion in the demonic world. They are powers around hunting for the souls of men day and night. I know the case of a demonic woman who wanted more powers and promotion. So, the devil asked her to bring 999 souls of men in exchange for her desires. She was able to get 998 souls. She only ran into trouble when the last person she was desperately after, happened to be a born again Christian. She could not kill him. Unfortunately, their many attacks on the children of God in the spiritual world sometimes work against them. The Bible says, “Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm.” When the anointed is being touched and the prophet is being harmed, then three things have to be checked:
a. Is he or she really anointed?
b. If yes, is the anointed one living in sin?
c. Has she broken down God’s hedge of protection?
If God says that he that touches you touches the apple of His eye and now they are touching you, it is left for you check whether you are still the apple of His eyes.
STRATEGIES OF THE SOUL TRADERS
1. EVIL SUMMON: They summon people’s spirits. It is worse when somebody’s spirit is summoned and he is not aware. Those whose spirits have been summoned out of the body before, often see themselves in strange gatherings at night when they are asleep. They are heavy sleepers. Such people could make suicidal attempts or have suicidal thoughts. They suffer from unexplainable sicknesses, constant tiredness and restlessness. They feel things moving around their bodies and they are afraid of being alone. They sometimes get unnecessarily aggressive and angry.
2. THE USE OF PENTECOSTAL WITCHES: These are agents of soul traders distributed amongst churches to recruit souls. They control people through demonic prophecies and visions. With their witchcraft powers, they are able to tell people their life history. With this, people are deceived into believing their witchcraft prophecies, thereby selling their souls to them. If you got your name or your children’s names from these fake prophets, you have to renounce them. A friend of mine went to such a church with his boss. It was a naming ceremony and the prophet began to scream, “Give me the baby, give me the baby. I want to name the baby.” So, they gave the baby to this shaking prophet; and he said, “Call him so and so name according to the book of Daniel chapter 28.” Then my friend who was a stubborn person said, “Prophet, the book of Daniel has only 12 chapters.” Then the prophet said that he was quoting from the Bible that is in heaven.
In England, I was invited to a church to preach. I did not want to go but the Lord urged me to do so. On getting there, I was asked to remove my shoes. Then I asked if I could leave my socks on. They said yes, as the preacher, I could do that. When it was time for me to preach, there was a man standing on my right hand and another one on my left. I asked their leader why they were standing there, he said that they were watching over me. So, I said, “Let us go into the book of 2 Kings chapter 2.” And to my amazement, everybody was looking at me. Then their leader came to me and asked which page. I asked them which version of the Bible they had, and they said Good News. Then I told them the page. That was how they found where the book of 2 Kings was. Yet there were some Masters degree holders sitting down there. Most of them were asked not to sleep in their houses again because they have cases in court. They were instructed to be sleeping on the floor of the church. Many people abroad are in bondage looking for people to set them free. When I asked one of them to pack all her candles and give them to me, she brought 360 candles. She said, “I have a case in the court and they said that if I do not sleep on the floor of that church for 3 months, I will not be free.” I told her that she would get out without sleeping on that floor again. I asked her if she committed the offence, she said yes. So, I instructed her to kneel down and ask the Lord for forgiveness. Four of them were in the same trouble but only this girl got out. The others were still sleeping on the floor. If you have slept on the bare floor before with candles and incense, your soul have been traded off.
3. FALSE PREACHERS: They are agents of the devil, who recruit souls. These are preachers with multiple wives. They preach success and prosperity without holiness. They teach people how to make money but not how to make heaven. They equate the level of spirituality to personal possessions. They will preach God’s love and kindness, but never mention God’s judgment. These are preachers who belong to secret societies. Sometime ago, we went for a burial ceremony at a cemetery. I arrived in company of another pastor who was to conduct the service. I told him to make it very brief. As he was trying to hurry up, sweating in the sun, suddenly, a man came up in a priestly garment and asked to take over the service. Without consulting any paper, he knew all those things that are said at the cemetery. He was just reading offhand, what my friend was struggling to read from the paper. He had memorised all the funeral proceedings. They are those who trade in souls. They have traded so many souls away and they know the scriptural memory verses with which to bury them.
Many people will continue to recite their catechism and psalms, while their blood is being sucked away right where they are singing choruses. The same people who are sucking them will come to sing the same thing at their burial. Such preachers are more interested in financial contributions than the spiritual life of the members. If you are in such a place, I advise you to get out before it is too late.
4. DIRECT SATANIC AGENTS: They walk around like men but they are not human beings. Sometimes, they dress haggardly, so that people will laugh at them and get into trouble. They are all over the place. Unfortunately, just as many Christians cannot discern angels, they cannot also discern their presence. Some people would say that they saw a person and after speaking to him or her, their heads got swollen. These are agents dispatched to recruit bodies and souls of men.
5. NECROMANCERS: These are those who communicate by magic with the dead in order to learn about the future. If you go to them, all you are doing is trading your soul. Maybe somebody died and you wanted to know who killed him, they called up the spirit of the person and the spirit answered you. What you heard was not the voice of the dead relative, but the voice of a satanic agent. If you have ever been involved in such practice, your soul has been traded off.
6. THOSE WHO RENEW THEIR LIVES: These people use other people’s lives to keep themselves young. A young man of 25 years having affairs with a woman of 65, should know that he is doing a life exchange programme with her. A young girl doing it with an old man will suffer the same fate. Men and women who engage in this kind of thing normally have short life-span. Sisters should be made to know that there are some men seeking for girls to disvirgin. They need that blood and once they get it, such girls should forget about marriage because they have been sold off.
7. MONEY IDOLS: Human beings are being kidnapped and rendered useless daily. Their souls are donated to the demon called mammon, who in turn would give money in exchange. If you have been kidnapped or hypnotized before, they must have done injury to your soul. You should cry to God in prayers. Such people never remain balanced unless they pray very well.
8. SOUL TIE: This is an ungodly link to an old father, old boyfriend, etc. When you are just unexplainably attached to a particular individual, that too is a strategy of the traders of souls.
9. SATANIC BANKS: This is where they store the things captured from people’s lives while they wait for them to come to them for help, and they would demand for a soul before the things are released.
10. FALLING INTO DEMONIC TRANCE: Some people call it entering into the spirit. If you have danced in circles in incense and candle stuffed church in the name of being in the spirit, you have sold your soul.
These things as highlighted above, are some of the reasons why Jesus Himself had to be sold. He was sold for 30 pieces of silver, as written in Matthew 26. Since Jesus has been sold, He is then a substituted sacrifice. We do not have to be sold again. Rather we have been bought back by the Lord’s sacrifice.
Beloved, the devil hates messages like this, because it exposes him and tells people how to get their freedom. There is only one way to freedom and this is by departing from sin and aggressive praying.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every unprofitable oath I made consciously or unconsciously in the spiritual world that is now affecting my life negatively, break in the name of Jesus. (After you have said that three times, then you will be saying, break, in the name of Jesus continuously).
2. You evil soul traders, release your captive today, in the name of Jesus. (After you have said that three times you will be saying, release your captive, in the name of Jesus continuously).
3. I command spiritual healing on my spirit being now, in Jesus’ name.
4. Let every fragmented soul of mine, be gathered together now, in Jesus’ name.
5. (Lay your two hands on your head and pray thus:) Oh Lord, restore my body, soul and spirit to the original perfect one you made for me, in Jesus’ name.
