Bible Question: Why are people confusing the Holy Spirit with the Restrainer, the Archangel, and Michael? It is the Restrainer (keeping Satan restrained) that will be called to Heaven and not the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in each and everyone of us and it is a matter of whether or not we choose to acknowledge it. Some people call it our conscience.   Bible Answer: There are three parts to this question. The first part is who is the Holy Spirit? The second part is in whom does the Holy Spirit live? The last part is who is the restrainer?     Who Is The Holy Spirit? The Spirit of God is not a force or an impersonal, abstract power. He is a person who has emotion, a will and intelligence. He is known as the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, and by many other names. The Spirit is never referred to as “it” in scripture but as “He” or “Him” (John 14:16, 17, 26; 15:26). In the table below are some of the characteristics of the Holy Spirit which show He is a person.   Eph. 4:30 Spirit can be grieved.   1 Thess 1:6 Spirit has joy. John 15:26 Spirit helps us.   1 Thess 5:19 Spirit can be quenched. Acts 10:19-21 Spirit can speak to us.   2 Peter 1:20-21 Spirit moved men to write scripture. Hebrews 2:4 Spirit has a will and gives spiritual gifts to us.   1 Cor. 2:13 Spirit is a teacher of scripture.   Now that sounds like a person because He is a person.      The Holy Spirit is also God. Acts 5:3-5 is one important passage that proves this. Here we are told that a couple in the early church sold some land they owned, kept part of the money for themselves, and then went to church and claimed they were donating all of it. It was a lie. So, Peter says,        Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back some of the price of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God. (NASB) Acts 5:3-5   Peter says Ananias lied to the Holy Spirit (v. 3) and then he adds something remarkable, “You have not lied to men, but to God.” Peter makes it clear that the Holy Spirit and God are the same. Some other passages that show us the Holy Spirit is God are Hebrews 9:14, Job 33:4, Ps. 139:7, Isaiah 40:13-14, and Matthew 12:31. The Holy Spirit is not our conscience.         < Back   Next >
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