The Exorcist's Bestiary

As the vision continued, the participant saw several paths forward. “These are the possibilities I have ordained,” Jesus told them. We now had to face their trauma, and there were several ways of going about it. Every time we made a significant step forward in dealing with the trauma, the Holy Spirit would return the participant to the vision to show them a new progression in one of the paths.

This vision is a great look at how the Bible presents free will and predestination. God’s omniscience is not like a book where he knows only one way things will go. God’s omniscience is like a library in which he knows every conceivable way things may go. Yes, we have free will, but none of our possibilities and their futures are outside of God’s knowledge.

Take David as an example. He asked God if Saul was coming to get him, and God answered yes. He then asked if the city he was in would surrender him to Saul when he arrived, and God answered yes again. David considered this information and left the city, causing the future God foresaw to never happen. God sees all things, not just one thing.

In our particular case, we teamed up with the Holy Spirit to overcome the participant’s trauma, so the Spirit showed us the various paths ordained for us to walk. He did not force us down a particular path, but no direction we could walk was outside of his omniscience. When we unite with the paths God arranges for us, we walk into God’s variously ordained paths of predestination.