If anybody had suggested a few decades

ago that there’d be intelligent people in this

generation seriously interested in talking with

the dead, levitation, table-rapping, spirit-

writing, clairvoyance, devil-worship, witchery,

fortunetelling, fire-walking—that person would

have been declared mentally disturbed.

But today it’s happening. Never has any

generation in history been so educated and yet

so fascinated with the very occult practices

which were once thought to be the marks of

ignorance and superstition.

What’s behind this revival of interest in the

occult? H. A. Maxwell Whyte investigates this

question and comes up with some rather

startling answers.

by H. A. Maxwell Whyte

© 1973 by Whitaker House

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International Standard Book Number:

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Contents

1 The Law of Opposites. .......................................7

2 Personal Experiences. ......................................17

3 The "Appearance" of Samuel. .........................27

4 Occult Practices. ................................................39

5 Delusions. ..........................................................47

6 Witches and Warlocks. ....................................57

7 The Dangers of Occultism. ..............................67

8 Horoscopes. .......................................................75

9 There Is Deliverance. ........................................85

10 God's Alternative. ...........................................95

11 Joint Heirs. .....................................................107

Chapter One

The Law of Opposites

1

It seems that there is a universal law of

opposites. One seems to counterbalance the

other. If we find a positive, we must expect a

negative. Darkness is the absence of light, and

when light is manifested it dispels the darkness.

In the study of the principles of electricity,

we find there is a positive and a negative, and

without these two opposite poles there can be

no flow of current. A condition of static

immobility would result. And when we

consider the behaviour of alternating current,

we find that the positive peak is equal to the

negative peak; but the negative component may

be rectified (or converted) and made positive.

We can use this as an analogy of the workings

in the world of spirits, both holy and unholy.

The whole of creation is held together by

the Holy Spirit of God. God is the original

Creator of all matter and spirit and without His

Eternal Being there would be nothing. But

matter and spirit are extensions of His mind, for

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He spoke and “it was so” and God saw that it

was good. In the New Testament this is taught

by Paul in Colossians 1:16-17 where we read

that “all things” both physical and spiritual

were created by Jesus (the Spoken Word of

God), and they were created for Him, and

thereafter are maintained by Him. In Hebrews

11:3 we read that the worlds were framed by

The Word of God and were made of invisible

things. Thus spiritual forces of God created

visible matter, and the very composition of

these elements in their atomic form is

maintained by the Spirit of God alone.

The bridge between the tangible and the

intangible is real. There is a vital link between

matter and spirit. It is impossible to understand

the workings in the physical realm without

understanding the sustaining force of God; but

there is a negative force which interrupts this

state of well-being, and this force is also

personal. God is the Eternal Person, but Satan is

the opposite: a created person. God creates;

Satan destroys. God heals; Satan makes sick.

The Bible picture of the Christian Church is

a composition of men and women filled with

the Holy Spirit and thus receiving blessings of

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health, strength, joy and peace. This church,

called The Body of Christ, is to show forth and

demonstrate His saving grace to all who are

activated by “other spirits” and to deliver them

from the thraldom of these spirits and convert

them to faith in Christ, so that they also may be

filled with God’s Spirit. Using the electrical

analogy, God desires to transform the

individual from the negative cycle to the

positive cycle. The Bible actually uses the word

transform: " ... be not conformed to this world:

but be ye transformed by the renewing of your

mind...." (Romans 12:2). The power of God

completely changes the whole nature of the

individual by rectification of the spirit of man

through the Holy Spirit. The negative

personality becomes positive in action and

behaviour. The mentally and spiritually bound

becomes liberated as a transformation takes

place.

In the law of opposites, day cannot be fully

appreciated unless we have been through the

night. We venture to suggest that vigorous

health cannot be enjoyed to the fullest without

the opposite experience of sickness and disease.

The realization of the holiness and greatness of

Almighty God cannot be appreciated in the

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right perspective, unless man is faced with an

alternative. Man being a creature of free will is

therefore faced with two opposites: good and

evil. These are ever around him. He has to

make the choice each day.

Long ago Joshua challenged God’s holy

people by saying,

... choose you this day whom ye will

serve; whether the gods which your fathers

served that were on the other side of the

flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in

whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my

house, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD.

(Joshua 24:15).

The choice here is between God and gods: God,

represented to a Christian as the Triune God

(Father, Son and Holy Spirit), or a multiplicity

of gods.

As the Trinity works in unison, so does

Satan and his gods. As God the Father

manifests His Son on earth by the Holy Spirit,

so does Satan, the Prince of this world, manifest

his evil powers by his unholy spirits. The image

of a heathen god is but the outward symbol of

the evil spirit behind it. The real god is not the

idol of wood or stone, but the powerful demon

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inhabiting the idol and its associated worship.

The word “occult” basically means

“hidden.” Thus the danger of the occult will be

hidden from natural eyes and understanding

and can only be revealed by the Spirit of God

through the operation of the charismatic gifts.

The fact that the spirit world is invisible does

not mean it does not exist; in fact, as we have

explained, the physical is in fact the

manifestation of the spiritual; and where the

laws of God are upset, as in the case of

breakdown in mental or physical health, we

must look for another spirit, an evil spirit,

which will be invading and upsetting the

perfect balance created by God. God gives us

His health; Satan steals it from us and then tells

us a lie by saying we have no right to expect to

be healthy. He is the father of lies. When Jesus

rebuked the wind and the waves, He was not

rebuking air and water but the spirit behind

these elements which Satan was using for

destruction. Water is good to drink and to swim

in, but not to drown in. The same air we

breathe for life can be so whipped up by satanic

fury that it can blow our house down and kill

us. What matters, then, is the agent behind the

storm. Though we cannot see the occult agent,

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yet we can feel and experience his power in the

destructive elements.

Deuteronomy 28 clearly gives us the choice

of two ways. It contains the law of spiritual

opposites and the effects which happen

according to our choice. If we obey God then a

whole catalogue of blessings are promised in

health, work, occupation and farm stock.

Blessings overtake us. We do not seek after them;

they follow us like the signs enumerated in

Mark 16:16-18. On the other hand, if we do not

obey, then a very long list of curses will

automatically follow us. There will be no avoiding

them. These curses, the opposite of the

blessings, come from Satan through his unholy

spirits. The blessings come from God by His

Holy Spirit.

The natural man with his rationalizations

and philosophies will never understand the

cause of his problem. It is “occult,” that is to

say, “hidden” from view. We pray to God, and

the Holy Spirit comes to our aid with

ministering angels sent by God. Both the Holy

Spirit and the angels are outside the realm of

natural understanding or comprehension. If we

do not pray to God in faith for help, then we do

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not release the positive forces of good on our

behalf, but we maintain a state of unbelief in

which the negative forces of evil operate

automatically to our hurt and destruction. We

can see the evidence of faith or absence of faith,

but we cannot see the primary cause which is

spiritual. Only with our spiritual eyes shall we

see and understand these mysteries.

The spirit of an unconverted person is

totally dark. It is only when the Light of the

World, Jesus, shines into our spirits that we

become new creatures, and the candle of the

Lord is lit within us. “The spirit of man is the

candle of the Lord, searching all the inward

parts of the belly” (Proverbs 20:27); but we also

read that "... there shall be no reward to the

evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be

put out” (Proverbs 24:20). In the case of the

righteous man, the candle is shining and

illuminating the very inner recesses of the

personality; but in the case of the disobedient

man the candle is put out. The result is total

darkness and complete lack of understanding

which often leads to early physical death and

insanity. When we allow Jesus to shine into our

beings and reveal the Word of God to us, then

we realize how much darkness there has been.

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As we turn from darkness to light, conversion

takes place. We are transformed.

On one side of us there is eternal life and

light; on the other is eternal death and

darkness. We are in the middle. The decision of

which way we go, the broad path that leads to

destruction or the narrow way that leads to life

(Matthew 7:13-14), is ours alone. No one can

make it for us. Satan ever seeks to capture and

blind us by telling us he alone is the angel of

light "... for Satan himself is transformed into

an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing

if his ministers also be transformed as the

ministers of righteousness” (Corinthians 11:14-

15). Notice that, in this case, Satan, who is a

spirit, transforms himself, but we are

transformed by an operation of the Holy Spirit.

Satan by his demon spirits transforms his own

ministers as angels of light to deceive us. They

appear in many guises but are always

controlled by an occult spirit. They can minister

in churches claiming to be Unitarian,

Modernistic, Theosophic, or any of the Christ-

denying cults that deny the efficacy of the

Blood of Jesus to cleanse. They can be false

prophets and false Christs (antichrists: Matthew

24:24), and they can come as sheep in wolves’

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clothing, but inwardly they are as ravening

wolves (Matthew 7:15), and we are told to

beware of them. They come as angels of light,

as sheep to be accepted of the unwary, but the

spirits operating in and through them are

demonic and destructive. These are occult

spirits.

There are men who creep into churches and

pray for the sick, and miracles seem to take

place, but they are operating in the strength and

revelation of the occult spirits and thereby

many are deceived. Jesus said, “By their fruits

ye shall know them.” They often put on a false

front of “love” to deceive, and the evil spirit

shows in their faces. As someone has described

it, it has the appearance of a “plastic face”—an

unreal mask; but challenge them and plead the

Blood of Jesus and their spirit will soon be

revealed for what it is: an occult, deceiving,

religious spirit.

Beware of false prophets.

Chapter Two

Personal Experiences

2

If God intends to use a man in a positive

way, He may first give him some education of

the negative way. We learn by contrast. As a

child I grew up in a nominal Christian home

and went regularly to the Scottish Presbyterian

Church, but my mother was enmeshed on her

side of the family in spiritism and variations of

the occult. I was led to understand that the

family was really communicating with the

human spirits of departed people and that these

people desired to get in touch with us through

the agency of a medium. My Aunt Esther was

such a medium. My eldest uncle, Walter, was a

professor at Leeds University in England and

was one of the first to practice hypnotism

clinically in Leeds Infirmary. Another uncle,

Aubrey, was a medical doctor and studied

occult practices of various kinds. Uncle Harry

claimed to be a pantheist, i.e., one who

disavows the personality of God but sees the

universe and God as the same thing. Aunt

Daisy was a Theosophist of high rank, believing

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in the equality of Buddha, Mohammed,

Confucius, Jesus Christ, etc., but not in

salvation through the Blood of Jesus Christ.

You can see that our whole family was one

big mess of occultism in its various

manifestations. They believed in reincarnation,

astral plains, and communications with the

dead (necromancy). No one except my mother,

who later was truly converted, believed that

Jesus was the Son of God and the Saviour of the

world. They attended seances, saw trumpets

floating around the room, experienced

levitation, heard the voices of spirits, enjoyed

table rapping, and took part in both spirit

writing and spirit drawing. My aunt Esther

used to draw the internal anatomy of humans

with uncanny accuracy, and these were

checked by both of my uncles who were

medical doctors. Mother used to hold a pencil

in her hand and watch the controlling spirits

write in large writing all kinds of nonsense (and

some sense). I was always taught that this

"proved” that life existed after death.

Hour after hour I listened as my medium

Aunt talked incessantly to my mother about

these things. I saw “spirit photographs,”

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pictures of “fairies,” and was taught about

ectoplasm and the materialization of spirit

forms. Let me explain. When a spirit medium is

in a deep trance and under the control of the

familiar spirit, it is possible for this spirit to take

some of the physical matter of the medium’s

body and use it to materialize a form,

sometimes the face of the departed person.

Recently a man told me that he had been to

a trumpet seance. As the speaking trumpets

would “sail” round the room, he asked the

spirit if he might shake hands, so the spirit

offered the trumpet as a hand. This man told

me that he insisted on shaking hands with the

spirit purporting to be the spirit of a departed

person. Immediately this man felt three clammy

cold fingers of ectoplasm in his hand which he

described as dead cow’s udders. He was

disgusted.

I was familiar with clairvoyance,

psychometry and all the paraphernalia that

goes with the occult. As a child of twelve I took

part in the experiment of a heavy dining room

table walking up the wall of my grandfather’s

house in Beckenham, Kent, England. I have

heard my uncles speaking to the spirits, who

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replied with one knock for “yes” and two

knocks for “no”—a kind of demonic Urim and

Thummim. I have seen them using the Ouija

board, or planchette, and the spirit behind the

board would spell out their answers. Today a

whole generation of our young people can

purchase these ouija boards and “play” with

them for kicks not realizing the danger

involved.

When I was a young man, one of my friends

who, like myself, had recently got married was

encouraged by a third friend to try “spirit

writing.” My friend, coming from a God-

fearing Anglican home, knew nothing of this at

all. He simply took a pencil, waited, and the

spirit began to take control and started writing.

Various questions were asked, such as, “Who

are you?”—to which the spirit replied by

writing the name of an Italian. My friend Don

had never heard of this name before, but he

went with his wife to the library to check; and

sure enough, it was the name of a sixteenth

century Italian painter. He was immediately

afraid and dropped the practice.

But how could this spirit know about this

Italian painter? Could it indeed have been the

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actual human spirit of the artist? No, it was a

demon spirit that had lived in the mind and

body of the artist and knew his intimate, evil

life. Demons do not die; they do not sleep. They

wander naked seeking the house of another

body through whom they desire to manifest

their evil nature and characteristics. All we

have to do is open the door to them. The door

of occultism in any form is that which they

seek. No wonder Paul said, “Give no place to

the devil” (Ephesians 4:27).

I have seen my uncles and aunts put their

fingers under the armpits of another person

and lift. By levitation of the spirits human

bodies are lifted. In cases of spiritist experts the

mediums can be lifted right up to the ceiling by

the spirits. Objects in haunted houses can

suddenly sail across the room to be dashed

senselessly against the wall.

It is easy to say, “I don’t believe these

things.” Did not Paul speak of unbelief when he

wrote, “For what if some did not believe?

shall their unbelief make the faith of God

without effect?” (Romans 3:3). This scripture,

of course, applies strictly to belief in the works

of the Holy Spirit; but as we are trying to show

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that we learn by contrasts, many who refuse to

believe in God also refuse to believe in the

negative supernatural of Satan and his demons.

Many who investigate the evidence of both

the Holy Spirit in healings, miracles, tongues,

prophecy, etc., and the supernatural

happenings in the occult, cannot explain these

things at all. So they try to make a science of it

and create university courses called

“parapsychology,” where young people are led

to study the workings of demons. Many young

people become enmeshed in dangerous occult

practices by such studies.

In my own family, disaster has struck time

and time again. Without mentioning names,

there has been adultery and sudden deaths

among my cousins. Husbands have left wives

with children, and then to seek solace, they

have gone to false cult religions instead of to

Jesus Who heals, forgives and cleanses by His

Blood. Marriages have broken up, and one in

particular has become a wastrel and an

immoral man. The mark of Cain is on the

family.

We cannot play with sin and escape

contamination. There is no doubt in my mind

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that everyone, who has in times past been

contaminated by occultism in any form, has

also been polluted by evil spirits, either in their

minds or bodies. The effect seems to be

cumulative, and the older the person, the more

the evil spirits dig down deep into the

personality, binding and destroying like a

spiritual cancer. Senility may often be traced to

occult involvement in times past or in the

history of our parents. Cancer and other foul

diseases may also be traced. There seems to be

an occult line which is very tenacious and has to

be confessed, forsaken and forgiven before it

can be broken by the prayer of faith given in the

Name of Jesus.

When I first sought the baptism in the Holy

Spirit in 1939, I knew nothing of these things.

My friends urged me to “plead the Blood of

Jesus,” but I refused. I could not. They joyously

did so, and of course the effect was immediate.

I stiffened out like a board from a kneeling

position and fell flat on my face, wondering

what was happening! It was years later when I

realized that, at that moment, an evil spirit of

occult contamination had left me, by the

honouring of the Blood of Jesus. It was cast out

of me by the power of God that answered to the

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cry of the Blood. Satan is always defeated by

any mention of the Blood of Jesus whether in

song or prayer. A week later I went to another

“seeking meeting,” as they were called then,

and was quickly filled with the Holy Spirit,

because this time I was freely able to plead the

Blood. I heard myself begin to speak in a

heavenly language as the Holy Spirit came in.

The occult spirit had gone out.

My mother was a great student of the

writings and prophecies of Johanna Southcott, a

last century medium. She made many false

prophecies which were published and which

led to the forming of a society. We pleaded with

her to burn them, but she said she had been

helped so much by these writings that she

refused to destroy them. Although she followed

me into the truths of the baptism in the Holy

Spirit and received an experience of “speaking

in tongues,” she never had too much liberty.

When I first started telling her about the gifts of

the Holy Spirit, especially the true gift of

prophecy, she said, “I know all about these

things!” What she really meant was that she

was familiar with Satan’s counterfeits. She was

unable to discern the true from the false.

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So many people in our historic churches are

unable to understand that healings are indeed

practiced in spiritist churches with “messages,”

and that when they hear of gifts of healing

being practised in New Testament churches

which honour the Blood of Jesus, they think of

all supernatural happenings as coming from the

same source—God. Tongues, interpretation and

prophecy are what they have in seances! Satan

is a good counterfeiter.

So many in spiritism say that the evidence

of the supernatural and the friendliness of the

people have drawn them closer to God, and

they are not willing to depart from their

spiritual harlotry.

Chapter Three

The "Appearance" of Samuel

3

In 1 Samuel 28:7-25 we have an amazing

story of spiritism at its worst. The witch of

Endor had a familiar spirit; that is to say, she

was possessed and motivated by an evil spirit

who “divined” messages from the unseen

occult state. The demon spirits in her, in

favourable circumstances such as a trance,

would communicate their thoughts through the

mouth of the human witch.

It is strongly emphasized among spiritists,

who now claim the title “Christian

Spiritualists,” that this account is a classic case

of a medium bringing Samuel back out of the

unseen state, and that the whole story

illustrates the “truth” that it is possible not only

to communicate with dead persons but also to

see them in bodily manifestation. The wording

of the scripture would seem to bear this out.

Saul said to the witch, “Bring me up

Samuel.” And when the woman saw

Samuel, she cried with a loud voice.... and

she said, “An old man cometh up; and he is

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covered with a mantle.” And Saul

perceived that it was Samuel.... And

Samuel said to Saul, “Why hast thou

disquieted me, to bring me up? ”.... Then

said Samuel, “Wherefore then dost thou

ask of me, seeing the Lord is departed from

thee, and is become thine enemy?”

If Samuel really did appear and speak to

Saul, then the laws of God would have been set

aside. God would have contradicted what He

had already said and spoken through Samuel

when he was alive. This is an impossible

contradiction. In 1 Samuel 28:6 we read that

Saul inquired of the Lord and the Lord

answered him not. The three major means

whereby God would speak to Saul were closed:

1. dreams in the night to his spirit,

2. Urim and Thummim in the breastplate of

the High Priest,

3. and the voice of His prophets.

Saul was literally cut off from God and all

means of communication with Him. In

desperation he sought another means forbidden

by God—a voice from the pit. It was an

absolute impossibility that God would speak to

him, and we will endeavour to prove this.

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In the law we read,

And the soul that turneth after such as

have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to

go a whoring after them, I will even set my

face against that soul, and will CUT HIM

OFF from among his people (Leviticus

20:6).

The law was clear. Saul disobeyed it; therefore

in going to a woman who had a familiar spirit

(a demon), he received the reply of that demon,

because all communication with God by His

Holy Spirit was severed. Saul himself was no

longer considered a child of God, and he was

cut off from among his own Israelite people. As

we read later, Jesus spoke of a branch of the

vine being pruned or cut off the tree; it then

died and was burned (John 15). This was the

inexorable fate of King Saul. It was not Samuel

who spoke to Saul; it was a demon spirit

impersonating Samuel, and this spirit could be

materialized since this possibility exists even in

advanced spiritism. The witch of Endor was a

very powerful medium.

Saul confessed to the demon impersonating

Samuel that God would not speak to him any

more, either by dreams or prophets (v. 15).

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How then could this be a prophet speaking to

Saul when he already confessed that the voice

of the prophets was silent? It could only be an

impersonator.

This seems to be made very clear in the final

account of the tragic death of King Saul.

So Saul died for his transgression

which he committed against the Lord, even

against the word of the Lord, which he kept

not, and also for asking counsel of one that

had a familiar spirit, to enquire OF IT; and

enquired not of the Lord; therefore he slew

him.... (1 Chronicles 10:13-14).

The reason for his untimely death was because

he inquired of an evil spirit. God would not

have allowed him to die if he had inquired of

God. It is clearly stated that the communication

was with a demon spirit, because all

communication with God by the Holy Spirit

had been completely and finally severed. Saul

did not speak to Samuel. He spoke to an evil

occult spirit impersonating Samuel, and, God

had no alternative under the dispensation of

the law but to cause His judgment to operate.

Saul died.

It is very important to remember that Saul

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did not seek the Lord; he went to seek a woman

that had a familiar spirit (1 Samuel 28:7). Saul

had already sought the Lord but only received

silence. The ministry of Samuel was to be a

prophet, a mouthpiece of God. God spoke to

Saul and others through Samuel. No other voice

came through him because he was filled with

the Holy Spirit. The Apostle Peter makes it clear

that the ancient prophets spoke as they were

moved by the Holy Spirit: "For the prophecy

came not in old time by the will of man: but

holy men of God spake as they were moved

by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:21). Even when

Balaam tried to prophesy for financial gain, the

only words that came out of his mouth were

from the Holy Ghost.

Assuming that Saul did indeed see and talk

to Samuel in the witch’s home, no words would

have come out of his mouth, for God had

already shown that He would never speak to

Saul again by a prophet. The genuine Samuel

would have been silent like his God. All that

Saul hoped to gain was supernatural

information from a source other than God;

therefore, he went to inquire of a familiar spirit,

which is specifically mentioned as one of the

sins of Israel in Isaiah 8:19, where inquiring of

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the dead by the agency of familiar spirits is

contrasted with seeking after God. It seems we

have the other side of the prophetic coin here.

One side enables us to communicate with God

by His Holy Spirit, and the other with evil

spirits simulating the dead.

When the witch was using her occult

powers, she was alarmed when she saw what

appeared to be Samuel, plus other spirits

referred to as “gods” ascending from the earth.

We have already explained that when God

commands us not to serve “other gods,” He

had in mind that we should not serve the

demons behind the idols of the heathen. The

first commandment, “Thou shalt have no other

gods before (or instead of) Me,” is

immediately followed by the second

commandment which is a logical corollary of

the first: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any

graven image...." (Exodus 20:3-4).

It is impossible to worship an unseen occult

spirit without some visible manifestation to

represent the deity behind that image. This is

why some idols are so hideous, especially in

China, for the worshippers have actually seen

the appearance of the gods they worship. Witch

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doctors, swamis, holy men and high priests are

merely the mediums through whom the

demons manifest themselves. All heathen

religions of any form are of the occult. It is

unfortunate that the practice of making “holy

images” crept into the Church at the time of

Constantine, when he forced everyone of note

in the pagan Roman Empire to be baptized by

decree to become "Christians.” The heathen

naturally brought their visible gods into the

church. Their names were changed to those of

saints.

There is a good reason why the Bible

teaches us that no man has ever seen God. He is

the Invisible God and the only way we are

going to “see” Him is by seeing the Son (John

14:9). Jesus is the express image of the Invisible

God (Colossians 1:15), and no stone or wooden

statue will portray God Almighty! It is said that

Moses had to destroy the brazen serpent which

had been put up on a pole, because after people

were healed by looking on it (for it typified

Christ) it became an idol worshipped by the

Israelites. As soon as we start to worship the

creation rather than the Creator, we are into the

world of the occult (Romans 1:21-25).

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In Deuteronomy 18:11 one of the forbidden

practices was that of consulting with familiar

spirits. As we have said, Saul had no intention

of consulting with God. His intention was clear;

he sought out a witch with a familiar spirit.

The evil spirit impersonating Samuel would

of course have known Samuel’s way of life and

many details that occurred in his life.

Where demons appear in spiritist seances

and communicate “messages," it is highly

probable that they actually lived in the

departed person, and so could of course

actually speak the language and accent of that

person. We are not suggesting that this was so

in the case of Samuel. He was a servant of God

and therefore a much feared enemy of Satan.

No doubt Satan and his demons had watched

his every move for many years. Given the right

circumstances demons can speak in other

languages as well as prophesy through spiritist

mediums. These demons will prophesy through

false prophets—right in our churches—and in

Deuteronomy 13:1-3 we read that their

instructions would be that, we should serve

"other gods.”

God permits these poor deluded souls to be

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in our midst, for He said that He wants to

“prove us to know whether we love the Lord

our God with all our heart and soul.” Here we

get the contrast approach, learning the positive

from the negative. If we never hear a false

prophecy or come into contact with a false

prophet (or prophetess), then how shall we

recognize the true one? The spirits that inhabit

these prophets are called "lying spirits” in the

Bible, and we are counselled to test the spirits

whether they are of God. ‘‘Beloved, believe not

every spirit, but try the spirits whether they

are of God: because many false prophets are

gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1).

Any prophecy that detracts from Jesus and

advertises man is the utterance of a demon. The

Holy Spirit is only sent to “glorify Jesus” (John

16:14). Saul came under the bondage of a lying

spirit after he rebelled against God, and this

spirit obviously enticed him to go to the witch.

Having identified the demon spirit that

personified Samuel, we then find that he gave

himself away to Saul. The final message that he

gave was, "Tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons

be with me” (1 Samuel 28:19). The spirit had

been “brought up” by the witch out of the pit

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called Sheol, or the place of departed spirits.

Samuel was in Abraham’s bosom, not in

torment but at rest, and nothing would disturb

his sweet rest in the abode of the righteous

dead.

There is a great gulf fixed between these

two places, as we read in the parable of Lazarus

and the rich man. Lazarus was carried by the

angels to Abraham’s bosom, but the rich man

died, was buried and went to hell! (Luke 16:19-

26). If we wish to enter into the eternal state of

bliss, we must cross over the bridge of this

great gulf by accepting the sacrifice of Jesus.

And we must do this NOW. After death it is too

late. Any teaching which is contrary to this

simple truth is out of the pit, from a seducing

spirit, and is a doctrine of demons (1 Timothy

4:1). There are many specious cults that deny

the simple truths of the duality of the Gospel.

Universalism, for example, teaches that all go to

heaven ultimately. This is the teaching of an

occult spirit.

The only known case of a man being

brought back from Abraham’s bosom was that

of Moses, who appeared on the Mount of

Transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-18). We are

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distinctly told, however, that this was an act of

God, not of a demonized witch or wizard. God

is omnipotent and can do as He wills. If we try

to imitate Him by interfering with the

underground world of demons, we shall be

“cut off” and probably die before our time in

sickness or mental disease.

In praying for the sick today we have been

amazed at the number who have been engaged

in some forbidden occult practice in past times.

If we give our minds and bodies to these cruel

spirits, they will take the place we give them,

will refuse to leave, and will multiply in our

minds and bodies like germs. They have to be

confessed, forsaken, and cast out in the Name

of Jesus before any release and healing can take

place.

Chapter Four

Occult Practices

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In Deuteronomy 18:10 we have a command

forbidding the heathen practice of making sons

or daughters to pass through fire. Some interpret

this as the human sacrifice practiced in some

heathen religions as mentioned in

Deuteronomy 12:31: “... for even their sons and

their daughters they have burnt in the fire to

their gods.” The command in Deuteronomy

18:10, however, refers to going through fire, and

coming out unharmed.

In a most interesting book by Doris Irvine of

Bristol, England, called From Witchcraft to

Christ, she tells how she achieved the great

distinction of actually walking into a great fire

on Dartmoor in England during a great

conclave of European witches and warlocks.

Miss Irvine testified that when she was actually

in the fire, Satan himself would be there, would

hold out his hand to her and see her safely

through. This actually happened as she

foretold, and she was promoted to Queen of

witches for Europe for one year. She suffered

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no harm in the fire and even the smell of smoke

was not on her black witch’s gown. Doris Irvine

was saved during Evangelist Eric Hutchings’

campaign and was later delivered from the

occult demons through the ministry of a Baptist

minister in the west of England.

We knew of the case of a Spirit-filled

minister who went to Indonesia, and while

watching heathen witch doctors walk on live

hot coals and stones, was challenged to do the

same in the power of his God. He accepted the

challenge and actually walked on hot stones

with no harmful results. We feel that this was

unwise and was presuming on God’s goodness,

for we are told not to tempt God. His

protections operate for us, as in the case of the

three Hebrew youths who were thrown into the

fiery furnace because of their testimony. They

declared that God would deliver them, and He

did, without the smell of smoke on their

garments.

We see here the positive and negative

principle again. Both Satan and God can protect

in fire. In like manner, God promises that if we

drink poison we shall not be harmed, but we

must not tempt God by experimenting.

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Similarly, in Mark 16:18, believers are told

that they can take up serpents without harm,

but this should not be done deliberately to

prove God and tempt Him. Many have died in

so doing. Serpents typify Satan and his demons,

and we are supposed to keep as far away from

them and their spells as we can! When a viper

bit Paul on the back of his hand on the island of

Malta, he shook it off back into the fire and

never gave it another thought. He knew about

God’s protection (Acts 28:3-5).

We understand that it is possible for a

person to be so hypnotized and put into a

trance that a surgeon can perform an operation

without using an anesthetic. We have even

heard of demon-possessed warlocks operating

on a human body without the incision of a

knife, and then closing up the wound with no

scar remaining. This may sound like a very tall

story, and we cannot prove it, but we have read

that it does happen in certain heathen cultures.

There are areas of the occult that are terrifying

without a knowledge of the protection of the

Blood of Jesus.

When heathen priests have their ritualistic

orgies working themselves into a frenzy, and

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inviting demons into their lives, they can freely

demonstrate their ability to walk in fire, live

coals and hot stones. This is done in India,

Indonesia, Africa and dark areas of the world,

and proves that the power of spirit is stronger

than matter. It also shows us by contrast the

incredible power of the Holy Spirit to keep us

from harm if we abide in the secret place of the

most High (Psalms 91:1, 10-14). The promise is

that no evil shall befall us, and the angels of God

will have charge over us to keep us in all our

ways. We shall tread on the lion and the adder,

just as Jesus assures us in the New Testament

"... I give unto you power to tread on serpents

and scorpions...." (Luke 10:19). The trouble

with us is that we find it easier to run than to

tread! But the promise still stands!

In India the heathen priests and holy men

compete in their ability to lie on beds of nails or

to drag carts with hooks in the flesh of their

backs with no sign of blood. Spears are put

through their flesh and spikes through their

noses, yet no blood appears and no pain is felt.

Why is this? They have given over their bodies

to the power of Satan, and he works these

miracles to show them his great power. They

know nothing of the greater power of Jesus or

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the cleansing power of His Blood. How much

more, if we give our minds and bodies to the

Lord Jesus Christ, will He keep us from harm

and danger?*

Also mentioned in Deuteronomy 18:10-12 is

the black art of divination. This is mystic insight

into the future in its many forms such as

reading palms, reading Tarot cards or teacups,

or crystal ball gazing. It can include water or

mineral divining by rod or twig over land or

maps. A good illustration of this is the well-

known case of the young girl in Acts 16:16-18

who had a spirit of divination. She was a young

witch and prophesied correctly that Paul and

his friends were servants of the Most High God.

This was true and Satan knew it. Satan will

advertise God if it is for his own ends. Paul

took dominion over this spirit of divination and

cast it out. Simon Magus in Acts 8 was another

who was so well known in Samaria for his

satanic miracles that he was known as “the

great power of God.” There is a man called

Harry Edwards in London, England, who can

fill the Royal Albert Hall with 7,000 people and

can heal and do miracles, but he openly admits

that his power is from the spirit world. A

miracle is a sign of a spirit working, but not

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necessarily the Holy Spirit! Again we see the

principle of the negative in contrast to the

positive.

If anyone tries to get their fortune told, they

are automatically entering into the world of

spirits and are attracting demonic power and

ability to themselves. Their minds receive the

“messages” given by these demons. In many

cases these messages seem non-sensible, but at

other times surprising shafts of truth come

through. Demons cannot foretell the future; this

belongs alone to God, the Great I AM. But

demons are very intelligent and make some

surprising deductions from known facts in

fortune telling.

Let me say right here that it is even

dangerous to ask a Holy Spirit filled person to

prophesy over you, for this reduces the gifts of

the Spirit to “private fortune telling,” and

however sincere the child of God may be, they

may attract to themselves another spirit if they

disobey God in the proper use of the gifts of the

Holy Spirit which are for the edification of the

Church (1 Corinthians 14:12). It is a different

matter if God by the Spirit reveals something to

a minister of the Lord. Many times God uses a

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person for the ultimate blessing of a brother or

sister. This often happens in healing lines where

the sick are being prayed for. The revelation is

not sought after. It is word of knowledge given

by God.

The elders of Moab and Midian approached

Balaam with the reward of divination

(Numbers 22:7). They were not interested in a

pure word of prophecy. They wanted an occult

spirit to put a curse on Israel. Balaam tried so

hard to earn this fortune-telling money, but the

Spirit of God would not respond, and so

Balaam gave a blessing instead. A fortune teller

will usually ask a price! Because of Israel’s

refusal to obey the law we read that

… they caused their sons and their

daughters to pass through the fire, and

used divination and enchantments, and

sold themselves to do evil in the sight of

the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

Therefore the Lord was very angry with

Israel, and removed them out of his sight.

(2 Kings 17:17-18).

Ten tribes were banished from God’s presence

into the hands of the cruel Assyrians because

they preferred to practice occultism for gain,

rather than to serve the Lord for blessing. Do

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we not see this across the world again in our

day? Why should any of God’s people prefer

witchcraft to God? It is because of the “kicks.”

Fire walking and fortune telling can be very

entertaining, but Satan has the last kick. We

shall get kicked out!

When the Ark of the Covenant had been in

the land of the Philistines for seven months, the

Philistines brought in the diviners to ask their

advice in getting it back! (1 Samuel 6:1-2). Is this

not the same among some of the priests of our

old-line denominational churches who

encourage spiritistic practices and give their

Sunday School children Ouija boards to play

with? The priests of Israel thought God had let

them down when He punished them. No doubt

King Saul did also. They went to the negative

source for information. They offered the

opinion that maybe “a chance would happen

to them” (1 Samuel 6:9). The very wording of

their pronouncements was not of God. We

don’t get “lucky chances” with God. We get

positive blessings if we believe. There were

plenty of false prophets in Israel who

prophesied lying pronouncements. They were

fortune tellers. And we have them today!

Chapter Five

Delusions

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In May, 1973, a young teenage girl in

Ontario was held for the slaying of a person

with a butcher knife in a “ritualistic slaying.”

Her cult in California demanded a human

blood sacrifice, although the sacrifices of

animals are quite common among Satanist

cults. Usually some of the blood is mixed with

human blood obtained from incisions in the

arm and then is drunk. We see a most revolting

opposite of using blood in their sacrificial

offerings as compared to the Blood of Jesus

Christ which He offered for the sins of the

world on the cross, and which we may use by

faith and drink in the communion service.

Before any young person arrives at the rite

of drinking blood in a black mass, he will first

be introduced to drugs in varying forms,

because it is while the human mind is thus

exposed that demons enter in and stay. The

more a person subjects himself to drugs, the

more the demons take over progressive control

of the mind, until the spirits become the

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dominant factor in the human behaviour

pattern. Thus any kind of atrocious crime can

be committed, because the motivating force will

be demonic and not human. Demons seek

bodies in which their evil nature can be

manifested. I admit that this seems quite an

impossible truth for the “intellectually wise” to

face up to; but owing to the terrible growth of

occultism in our society, especially in High

Schools, people are being forced to notice

something which they have previously

screened from their minds.

As I am writing this I have a letter from

some people in California who tell me that they

have been “forced into a ministry of

deliverance.” They did not seek it, neither did

they want it, because, they explained, it was

“too controversial!” Young people came to

them for help, so when they prayed for them in

the Name of Jesus, demons would start

manifesting themselves by speaking, arguing

and then being violently ejected through the

throat. When God called me into this ministry

back in 1947, I was not “looking for demons.” I

was trying to help people and was not really

aware that the cause of their troubles might be

demons. In fact, I honestly knew nothing about

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evil spirits. Since those days literally thousands

have been set free by a commanding prayer

given in Jesus’ Name and the efficacy of His

Precious Blood claimed against these terrible

destructive personalities.

Our modern “civilization” is being forced to

take note that things are happening today of

which no previous generation had had detailed

knowledge. We have buried our heads in the

sand, or preached that these things could be

swept under the rug of “parapsychology.” No

one really understood the meaning of the word.

The Bible tells us the whole sordid story. To

play with any form of occultism will force you

into the hands of evil demonic forces from

which you will not be able to extricate yourself.

God will cut you off from His protection and

Satan will progressively bind your mind and

body until you die. Some do this in the guise of

a religion that “helps them.” Oh, the pity of it

all!

Again referring to Deuteronomy 18, the

next category on the list for consideration is the

“observer of times.” Manasseh, King of Judah,

was one who consulted with familiar spirits

and observed times. God said, “I will wipe

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Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it,

and turning it upside down.” The King led the

people into sin, and had there been

newspapers, radio and television in those days,

they would have had horoscopes, fortune-

telling columns, charts of the heavens, and

zodiac symbol charms. These things would

have been done by the King and people in

direct rebellion against the known laws of God.

Is it any wonder that Canada, the United States

and other freedom-loving nations are suffering

such terrible happenings? Is it any wonder that

we finally have to face up to the unpalatable

fact that the politics of these countries is

basically rotten? A rotten politician represents a

rotten people until both grow tired of their

rottenness. It is then that God promises to

“sprinkle clean water upon us” (Ezekiel 36:25).

This cleansing from on high is overdue, but

it is coming. Without a spiritual renewal these

nations would be wiped clean like a plate. Do

we not sweep up garbage and burn or bury it?

What will God do with the pornography and

the mental and spiritual garbage in America

today? If He leaves it too long the whole nation

would be irredeemably polluted with mental

and physical sickness.

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An observer of times is a prognosticator—

one who attempts to foretell future events by

means of supernatural powers, for the purpose

of gain. Some people will not even plan their

day without consulting their horoscopes. They

arrange their marriage day and business

appointments by observing times. Thank God

that we read, “Our times are in His hands.”

This means that as He is the Eternal I AM, we

do not have to observe times, but just trust Him

at all times! Jesus said, “Take therefore no

thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall

take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient

unto the day is the evil thereof” (Matthew

6:34).

Another evil practice mentioned in

Deuteronomy 18 is the art of enchantment. This

is the practice of magical arts by magicians. We

have a wonderful contrast between the real

power of God and the enchantments of Jannes

and Jambres in Pharaoh’s court. Pharaoh was

not amazed when God’s man, Moses, threw his

rod to the ground and it was instantly changed

into a writhing serpent. He called for his own

(a) wise men, (b) sorcerers, (c) magicians; and

these highly paid false prophets and religious

leaders of Egypt used their enchantments. They

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cast down their rods and each rod became a

small serpent. Now how did they do this? It is

obvious to all Christians that God can do any

miracle and create matter for His own

purposes, but can magicians do this? No, but

they can counterfeit the miracle-working power

of God. Demons were despatched to the desert

at lightning speed by the satanic powers

working with these men, and exchanged

serpents from the desert rocks for the priests’

sticks. This is levitation as used in spiritist

seances. As glasses and other objects can be

made to sail across a room, so were serpents

supernaturally transported into Pharaoh’s

court, and Pharaoh had no doubt that the

magicians could do such “a trick.” It was in fact

a demonic slight of hand.

But God showed His superior power

because Moses’ serpent swallowed up the lesser

serpents. The same magicians made water

appear as blood (Exodus 7) and made frogs

appear all over the land of Egypt. They

counterfeited God’s miracles, but when Moses

came to the fourth plague of lice on the land, it

is written, “And the magicians did so with

their enchantments to bring forth lice, BUT

THEY COULD NOT” (Exodus 8:18). Satan’s

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power, though great and fascinating to the

unwary, is yet limited before God’s ultimate

power and judgments.

In Isaiah 47:9-11 we have a sad account of

God’s ultimate judgments descending upon a

rebellious people. The basic cause of the terrible

punishment was because of their multitude of

sorceries and for the great abundance of

enchantments. The result was loss of children

and widowhood which came upon them

suddenly. How often punishments and blessings

come suddenly. On the Day of Pentecost the

Holy Spirit came suddenly and they spoke in

other languages, much to their astonishment.

This present renewal of the Church is

uncovering many incredible hidden truths and

practices, both good and bad. Blessings and

curses in abundance—which do you want?

So many play with the occult “just for

kicks.” They are storing up God’s judgments to

be suddenly visited upon them in suffering,

sickness or sorrow, and when it happens we

say, “Wasn’t I unlucky?” The ancient Egyptian

goddess of good fortune was named LUK, from

which the word “luck” is derived. Yes, we do

get what these gods give us. We get what we

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deserve! "For rebellion is as the sin of

witchcraft....” (1 Samuel 15:23). Play with

witchcraft and you get the curse of witchcraft.

A few years ago there was an article in

Reader’s Digest about a famous French spiritist

who was levitated from his chair in a sitting

position to the ceiling where he remained

suspended in air without visible means of

support or suspension. How? This is an

enchantment. If two persons put two fingers

under the armpits of a consenting person,

“they” can lift him easily. How? The demons in

each case lend their strength and do the

levitation.

Nebuchadnezzar also had magicians in his

court. It was the normal heathen practice. These

“wise men” were the mystics, the prophets of

heathendom. Daniel and his three friends,

however, were the real prophets of God in a

heathen setting. They were the positive of the

negative. It was written of them,

... God gave them knowledge and skill

in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel

had understanding in all visions and

dreams.... And in all matters of wisdom

and understanding, that the king enquired

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of them, he found them ten times better

than all the magicians and astrologers that

were in all his realm. (Daniel 1:17, 20).

It is instinctive in man to want to know the

future, and God has provided His people with

true prophets and teachers. He has given us the

gifts of the Holy Spirit, including prophecy, the

word of wisdom and knowledge, and the gift of

interpretation. Why do people need to go to

Satan instead of to God?

Isaiah tells us why. “It is because there is

no light in them” (Isaiah 8:20). If we walk in

darkness, we grope in darkness and hear

nothing

except

empty

demonic

pronouncements. Much of the church in times

past has been spiritually dead and sterile. It has

had little to offer in the way of the supernatural,

and so Satan has won an easy victory with

many who have sought the mystical among the

demons. But the whole pattern is changing.

God is switching on the Light of the Spirit upon

the Church in our day, and many are beginning

to awaken and understand. “Should not a

people seek unto their God? [instead of] ... the

living to the dead?” (Isaiah 8:19).

Chapter Six

Witches and Warlocks

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The term witch is usually applied to females,

whereas a male is a wizard or a warlock. Their

ministry of evil is the same. So serious did God

consider this demonic practice that His law was

that a witch should be put to death (Exodus

22:18). This law was not carried out strictly,

because King Saul was able to consult with a

witch. She was afraid when she realized who he

was because she thought he had come to put

her to death. He promised her life in direct

contradiction to God’s Word.

Witch doctors in Africa are demon-

possessed practitioners and are, in fact,

practicing mediums. By rites and incantations

they are supposed to heal the sick and put

curses on people. Those who are cursed often

die, for the familiar spirit kills them. When

sickness leaves a person, through the

incantations of a witch doctor, it is not cast out

as when a Christian prays in Jesus’ Name to

cast out a demon. It is simply removed

temporarily from the part of the body that is

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affected. It is usually driven deeper into the

inner personality only to reappear at a later

time as a worse sickness of the mind or body, or

to return to in its original form.

Deliverance in Jesus’ Name is much

different. In many cases where spirits of

infirmity are rebuked in Jesus’ Name, the spirits

move around, and the person claims to feel

their presence, pressure or pain in various parts

of the body, until they ultimately leave, often

through the throat with a cough or cry.

A medical doctor recently examined the

strange rites and results of witch doctors in

Africa and reported that healings did indeed

take place, not only of the body but also of

disturbed minds. This doctor claimed that they

were “doing a good work” among their native

tribes and should be encouraged to continue,

especially where the medical services were

lacking!

In Africa today reports are coming in from

many countries that witch doctors are turning

to Christ, burning their fetishes and jujus, and

being delivered of their familiar spirits. In

Nigeria I learned first hand that witch doctors

who used to be so greatly feared by the

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primitive peoples are now in turn fearing the

native Spirit-filled ministers who are

proliferating in the present charismatic

outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

In more sophisticated countries however,

we do not have witch doctors, but we have the

more refined hypnotist. Briefly, one who

practices hypnotism is a witch! What actually

happens is that the familiar spirits controlling

the hypnotist take over the mind of the person

being hypnotized. Of course, the patient must

be willing to be hypnotized, otherwise it

“doesn’t work”! He must surrender his mind

and will utterly to the hypnotist. It is not a

question of one mind controlling another, or of

one mind being stronger; it is simply a

manifestation of a powerful, familiar, evil spirit

taking over the subjected mind of the patient,

who is temporarily forced into a trance-like

state. The spirit invades the victim. In

hypnotism, it is possible to hypnotize oneself,

and the familiar spirit then reveals hidden

secrets that may have been forgotten by the

mind, but which are resident in the mind

nevertheless. One goes into a trance and the

evil spirits will speak. The classic case in recent

times was Edgar Cayce of Virginia Beach,

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Virginia, who diagnosed sickness in others by

the evil spirit within him as he was in a deep

trance.

In church circles there is a more subtle form

of witchcraft. This concerns the false prophet

with false occult gifts. They creep into churches

manifesting the supernatural; but they are

healing by "the spirits” and not by the Holy

Spirit. They preach a very light message with

very little Scriptural backing, and then healings

occur which charm the people (literally) and

they conclude he must be “a man of God.” He

is in reality a wizard! This is a religious spirit

and when cast out has been known to reveal

itself as a "spirit of witchcraft.” I heard one

friend who is a pastor explaining that their

faces seemed to have a “plastic look,” and this

exactly describes their mask-like, unnatural

“holy” look! It reveals the seducing spirit

inside. It is fake and it simulates the things of

God by counterfeit.

The classic case, of course, is Simon the

sorcerer in Acts 8:9-11. He used sorcery in

Samaria to bewitch (because he was a witch) the

people, and stated by self advertisement that he

was a GREAT ONE. Because of the healings, all

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the people readily agreed that he was THE

GREAT POWER OF GOD. It is stated that he

bewitched them all for a long time with his

sorceries. Simon was astonished when one

greater than he came to the city: Philip the

Evangelist. He manifested the gift of miracles

and healings, and Simon knew at once that

Philip had superior power and tried to buy it

with money! The whole occult realm relies

upon money—from the greased palm of the

palmist to the charges made by practitioners of

the bloodless cults.

On the Island of Paphos, Paul and Barnabas

received a visit from a Roman Deputy named

Sergius Paulus, who was described as a

prudent man. He inquired about the way of

salvation. In the same place was a sorcerer

whose name was Bar-Jesus, which means son of

Joshua. Here was a “son of Joshua”; surely he

would rejoice at Sergius Paulus coming to Paul

and Barnabas to inquire about Jesus. Not so.

Although he had such a fine spiritual name, he

was a warlock who operated by other spirits

and withstood the men of God. This is one of

the great signs of a false prophet today. They

withstand the obvious truths of the Word of

God, especially those that deal with the whole

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salvation purchased by Jesus for all mankind,

and substitute their religious formulas;

however, they claim to represent Jesus!

When Elymas (for that was Bar-Jesus’ other

name) started his negative opposition, Paul

looked hard at him and said to this supposed

“man of God”:

O full of all subtility and all mischief,

THOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL, thou

enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not

cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is

upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not

seeing the sun for a season. And

immediately there fell on him a mist and a

darkness.... Then the deputy when, he saw

what was done, believed, being astonished

at the DOCTRINE OF THE LORD. (Acts

13:6-12).

What a remarkable story! His blindness was

caused by his activity in witchcraft, but the

judgment brought salvation to another man.

Who can tell how many sicknesses are the

direct or indirect result of occult involvement in

the family? Did Paul make Bar-Jesus blind? No.

Paul knew by a word of knowledge received

from the indwelling Holy Spirit that this would

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happen. In the same manner, Peter did not

cause the death of Ananias or his wife in Acts

5:1-10. He simply spoke the word of God with

boldness and God did the rest. Those who

tangle with demonic activities today, even if it

be disguised in a Christian garb, may well

tremble at what God will do today as the Word

of God is again preached in the power of the

Spirit and confirmed by signs, wonders and

miracles.

We read that the demons believe in God

and tremble (James 2:19). No wonder witch

doctors are now trembling in Africa at the

outpouring of the Spirit and the preaching of

the Word of God. I have seen demon-possessed

men and women cry out when they have seen

me, “Don’t you touch me,” and they have been

visibly trembling with terror written all over

their faces. We have nothing to fear (Psalm 27),

but Satan has everything to fear. No wonder we

read that Jesus will destroy that WICKED by

the brightness of His coming (2 Thessalonians

2:8). This is the day of the reappearing of the

Word of God in the power of the Spirit, Who

will consume the wickedness of occultism and

destroy those who tangle with it. At the same

time His mercy is extended to all who will

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confess, forsake, and ask forgiveness for their

wicked ways. Hell was not prepared for

humans, but for the devil and all his angels,

including the whole occult family (Matthew

25:41).

Now, let me say just a word about the evil

eye. Paul was well aware of the subtle dangers

surrounding the early Christians. He wrote to

the Galatians, "O foolish Galatians, WHO

HATH BEWITCHED YOU, that ye should not

obey the truth" (Galatians 3:1). The Greek word

for “bewitched” is baskaino, which means

literally to “smite with the eye.” This is an

occult practice similar to hypnotism and

referred to in the Bible as an evil eye. As Paul,

filled with the Spirit, bore his eyes into Elymas

and brought blindness, so likewise the eye of a

witch or warlock can bore into the very soul of

an unsuspecting gullible person and bring a

curse into their lives. False prophets when

praying for the sick will literally bore their eyes

right through a person, and that person will

often fall to the ground supposedly “under the

power of God.”

This must not be confused with the laying

on of hands by Spirit-filled servants of God,

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which may cause a person to collapse because

of the “jolt of the Spirit.” The Galatians were

suffering from the operation of some false

prophet who had a seducing spirit, and as he

talked to them, he would bore them through

and through with his eyes and bring them into

a state of spiritual subjection. His seducing

spirit would then take over, as in the case of

hypnotism, and destroy the pure doctrine of

God.

Much hypnotism is done by the use of the

evil eye. It is often very easy to detect demon-

possessed people by the narrow pupils of their

eyes. They seem to have a “hypnotic effect.”

This same narrowing takes place when a

person is under the influence of drugs. A

demon has entered, and even if the drug addict

turns to Christ, it may still have to be exorcised

from them.

Today we must do what John told us: to

“try the spirits, whether they are of God” (1

John 4:1). We must not let any false prophet lay

hands on us, for he might impart a wrong

spirit. We must not let him look into our eyes.

We must have nothing whatever to do with

him. John says that if any of them, whom he

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describes as “antichrists” or false Christs, come

to our door, we must not let them into our

household (2 John v. 10). They do not come

advertising themselves as false prophets, but as

true ones. The burden is on us to prove them.

Chapter Seven

The Dangers of Occultism

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A few years ago I received a letter from the

brother of an old friend in England. He wrote

inquiring about our healing ministry. I wrote

him, sending a tract which I had written

entitled Divine Healing, and explained that we

laid on hands, prayed in the Name of Jesus and

pleaded the precious Blood of Jesus for healing

and cleansing. He wrote back saying that he

had been quite interested in what I had to tell

him, but he did not understand what I meant

when I referred to the Holy Spirit, for he prayed

and asked the spirits, whom he called angels, to

help him get well. He also failed to see why we

had to use the Blood of Jesus. This made no

sense to him at all.

This was obviously a case of spiritism. I

wrote and told him so and warned him of the

great dangers. He replied that he was a

“Christian Spiritualist” and he believed God

healed, even as I did. It seems that it was just

our approach that was different! He sent me a

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tape to listen to. For a while I forgot about it,

but some months later found it and decided I

ought to listen to see what more he had to say

about his version of “spiritual or faith healing.”

He explained how he ministered healing. The

spirits, the angels, did the healing while he

went into a trance. He said that on the reverse

side of the tape I would hear his voice change

as the spirit took control. This should have been

enough for me, but curiosity got the better of

my knowledge of the dangers, so I listened to

the whole tape. While listening I had a horrible

feeling of evil, although I was playing the tape

in our church.

Within two weeks I was stricken with a

very bad attack of bronchitis, which bordered

on bronchial pneumonia. It knocked me out,

and I would cough up black-looking mucus.

My wife was concerned. Was this coincidence?

I trusted the Lord for healing and after about

six weeks I was fully delivered, but it was a real

battle of faith. It was a horrible tenacious attack

of Satan, for sickness is an oppression of the

devil (Acts 10:38). I fully believe that I gave

place to Satan because I deliberately entertained

him in a recording of a seance in my own

church! By listening to the workings of Satan on

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a magnetic tape I was stricken with sickness,

even though I was a Spirit-filled believer!

When Oral Roberts first started praying for

the sick by radio, his radio messages and

prayers were made on tapes, and many

objected saying “How can God’s healing power

be transmitted through a tape?” But it was, and

the Holy Spirit would confirm the word

preached electronically and people would be

healed listening to their radios. In like manner,

by the law of opposites, Satan’s cursing power

can be transmitted electronically.

Consider that today the television screens of

North America are carrying interviews with

witches; seances have even been conducted by

radio, and discussions on parapsychology and

the occult have been openly made. Can this

affect our health if we deliberately look or

listen? Certainly. We can be afflicted through

the eargate or the eyegate. Paul distinctly

wrote, “Neither give place to the devil”

(Ephesians 4:27). I believe that I gave my ears

and mind to the devil when I listened to the

seance recording. I got what I deserved. Some

deliberately take university courses on the

occult for which they obtain credits. The

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devotees of the cults are trying to make it a

respectable science and make it popular for the

masses.

In considering the bloodless cults, we find

that Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy used to go into

trances to get her revelations that she taught

under the name “Christian Science.” Helena

Petrovna, a Russian girl, married N. B.

Blavatsky in 1848 and became a spiritist

medium. As Madame Blavatsky, she founded

the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875.

The Unity Church was founded by Franz Anton

Mesmer, a German physician who started the

practice of Mesmerism, a form of hypnosis.

Mesmer spoke of his “magnetic fluid.” It was

something that flowed from him. We

understand, of course, that this was simply the

powerful familiar spirit in him bringing the

other person’s mind into subjection.

Quimby took up his teachings and became a

pioneer “spiritual healer.” Mormonism was

started by an illiterate man named Joseph

Smith, who claimed to have seen an angel

named Moroni who showed him where certain

golden plates were buried in New York State.

Supernatural ability was supposed to be given

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to Smith to interpret the hieroglyphics. We do

not doubt the appearance of this supernatural

being, but as the teachings of Mormonism do

not agree with the Word of God, we must

assume that it was an evil angel, a deceiving

spirit. Smith nearly died afterwards.

Jehovah Witnesses deny the pre-existence of

Jesus Christ, and John states positively that this

is the teaching of a false prophet when one

denies that Jesus came in the flesh as the Son of

God (1 John 4:1-3). Russellism is antichristian

by definition.

The new cult of Armstrongism is having a

revival. It also belongs to the tares of the field;

"An enemy hath done this" (Matthew 13:28,

39). We are in the harvest time of the age, and

in the world all antichristian cults are coming to

their full fruition, as is also the wheat of Jesus’

planting. It is a most interesting and

challenging age in which to live. These cults are

opposed to Jesus Christ and are repulsed by

any mention of His Blood. They are well

described by Paul when writing to Timothy.

Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that

in the latter times some shall depart from

the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,

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and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in

hypocrisy.... (1 Timothy 4:1-2).

These false cults, which have proliferated

like tares, are demonic in origin and teaching. If

we give our minds to their evil teachings and

practices, we shall receive their spirits which

are interwoven in the whole texture of their

cults. These are occult societies, with occult

spirits operating and hidden from man’s view.

They can only be detected by the discerning of

spirits, which is one of the nine charismatic gifts

of the Holy Spirit mentioned in 1 Corinthians

12:8-10. Those who have been enmeshed by

these cults can turn to Jesus and ask for His

forgiveness and the cleansing of His Blood, but

they will probably need the strong prayer of

exorcism to deliver them from the seducing evil

spirit that will almost certainly have been given

a home by “giving place to the devil.” We

cannot blame God if we lose our health, our

mind or even our loved ones. Occult

involvement is like taking a viper to our

bosoms. It will give us the kiss of death.

Letters are continually arriving at my office

telling of cases of people bound in wheel chairs

because their mother or father (or both) were

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involved with occultism in some form or

another. The sins of the fathers are indeed

visited upon the third and fourth generations of

those who disobey God. This warning is given

in Exodus 20:5 in the giving of the ten basic

commandments, and it is directly connected

with the command forbidding the making of

graven images and bowing down and

worshipping them. Disobedience on these

matters is going straight into Satan’s occult

camp, and the result will be suffering, sickness,

sorrow and despair, and often early death, unto

the third and fourth generation, from

grandchildren to great grandchildren. Are you

willing to take this risk?

There is forgiveness and deliverance in

Jesus Christ. He is very merciful toward those

that repent of their sins and turn to Him. Open

renunciation and repudiation of these occult

sins must be made, then forgiveness and

cleansing may be received. By faith in Jesus

Christ and His shed Blood, the occult line that

has run through a whole family can be broken.

Chapter Eight

Horoscopes

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This chapter deals with horoscopes. They

should really be called HORROR-SCOPES,

however, for by reading them and digesting

their contents, a person opens himself to the

horrors of the devil.

Most of our newspapers today carry a

column dealing with horoscopes, called

monthly prognostications in the Bible, and lay

out the pretended things that will happen to

you each day of the month. This is not a new

practice but is as old as mankind.

In Daniel’s day he and his friends were

included among the “wise men” who were

magicians, astrologers, and soothsayers. Where

Jesus is not honoured and the presence of the

Holy Spirit enjoyed, mankind will

automatically degenerate into the negative

cycle of dealing with demon powers and

inquire of them for information about the

future. This is especially done on those days in

the monthly calendar which may be considered

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favorable for certain activities. Astrology must

not be confused with the legitimate science of

astronomy; the basic idea behind astrology is

that the stars themselves influence the conduct

of human affairs.

The worship of the sun and moon have

been with mankind since earliest times. The sun

would represent the supreme deity; the moon, a

female deity owing her allegiance to the sun

god. The stars in their turn became the lesser

gods, all of which in the overall picture affected

humanity for good or evil. They had to be

worshipped and horoscopes had to be made of

their prognostications. This is pure heathen

practice with the demon-gods operating behind

the heavenly facade.

In 1935 I was employed by a large oil

company in London, England, and my boss at

the head office informed me one day that he

“wrote horoscopes.” With my history of occult

involvement I became quite enthusiastic and

asked him if he would write mine. I got the

nearest time and date of my birth (this is

extremely important) and he made me my very

own horoscope. The contents certainly seemed

to explain some of the behaviour patterns of my

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life, which were basically known to my boss as

well as the demons! It was really quite an

intriguing transcript and I showed it to my

fiancee, Olive. She agreed it was a fairly

accurate portrait of myself. I returned to my

boss’s office and asked him if he would

consider doing a horoscope for my fiancee. At

first he was not too keen because he was a cynic

as far as women were concerned, but he finally

agreed. I got Olive’s time and date of birth as

near as we could compute them.

My boss wrote the horoscope, which was

not as good as mine. Then he cast the two

together and rather horrified us with the

definite statement that we were not

temperamentally suited and should not

consider marriage! He assured us it would

never work! You can see what you get into

when you start inquiring of the devil!

We both lost confidence in this method of

“fortune telling” or soothsaying, decided to

ignore it, and went ahead with our marriage

plans anyway. Up to the time of this writing we

have been happily married for thirty-nine

years! Both of us have been used of the Lord in

the ministry of deliverance, in healing the sick

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and casting out Satan’s demons. Is it possible

Satan might have had some precognizance of

what would happen to his kingdom if he did

not stop us teaming up against him?

Precognizance is one of the occult gifts!

Clairvoyance is another. Could he have seen,

however dimly, what would happen? All we

can say is, it is possible.

But suppose we had been involved much

more deeply in this business of astrology and

reading horoscopes? Suppose we had had no

faith in God at that time? Thank God we had a

little, which seemed to be enough to sustain us

and bring us back to realize that anyone who

allows their life to be governed by astrology is a

fool. We might have been trapped by the lies of

the devil. The “stars” said we must not marry;

we were incompatible. But instead of listening

to the stars, we listened to God and believed He

had brought us together. Olive had prayed

most sincerely about our relationship, and

when I proposed, she felt a strong pressure

from the Holy Spirit to make her accept.

How many lives have been ruined by

foolish people who listen to the demons behind

the horoscopes instead of trusting the Lord who

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had promised to bless us with uncounted

blessings if we served Him?

Perhaps the saddest part of this story is that

my boss died three years later of a disfiguring

cancer of the face.

Israel, God’s chosen people, His Church of

the Old Covenant, went after every type of

occult practice they saw among their Gentile

neighbors. They learned more easily about

other gods than they did about the true God.

They and their elders had faithfully promised

to have no other gods before Jehovah. In Isaiah

47:11-14, God lovingly told them what would

happen; but they refused to listen. He said,

Therefore shall evil come upon thee. ...

thou shalt not be able to put it off: and

desolation shall come upon thee

SUDDENLY.... Stand now with thine

ENCHANTMENTS, and with the

multitude of thy SORCERIES.... Let now

the ASTROLOGERS, the STARGAZERS,

the MONTHLY PROGNOSTICATORS,

stand up, and save thee from these things

that shall come upon thee; behold THEY

(that is, their gods) shall be as stubble; the

fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver

themselves from the power of the flame....

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All the worship of heathen gods, all the

money they had poured into the coffers of the

heathen temples, all their time and devotion to

a lost cause would not save them from total,

irrevocable calamity. It happened just as He

said it would, and my friend, it will happen to

you if you persist in your practice of reading

the daily horoscope. My wife was trying to

explain to a lady that it was literally playing

with death to read horoscopes, but her reply

was typical: “When I come to the part called

‘Horoscopes,’ I just go on reading. It is

entertaining and fun. What’s the harm

anyway?”

You would have a better chance if you

played Russian roulette and had a rattlesnake

as a pet, than by dabbling in the forbidden

practices of the occult. The hidden demon

spirits are lurking to trap you and destroy you.

Destroy? How? How can reading a daily

horoscope kill me? How can reading tea leaves,

reading cards, having my palm read and

carrying a lucky charm hurt me? Friend, it can

kill you. We have uncovered time after time

that the primary causes of such death-dealing

sicknesses as cancer, heart failure and arthritis

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had an association in the past with some of

these “innocent practices.” By seeking

knowledge from these sources we can open

ourselves to demons that may cause arthritis

and other crippling diseases.

The church has been silent and has not

warned people. Ministers of large

denominations have even encouraged their

members to go to spiritist seances because this

“proves” that life after death exists! They have

served on committees for the investigation of

psychic phenomena. Healing Orders in some

Protestant churches have been literally shot

through and through with metaphysical

teachings and spiritual healing by other means

than Jesus Christ.

On one occasion I was invited to speak on

spiritual healing at a retreat in Ontario, 20 miles

north of Toronto. I did my best. I spoke about

how Jesus healed and how He was still healing

through His servants. I spoke of the Power of

the Blood of Jesus. I did not know that the other

speaker after me was a “Christian Spiritualist.”

In fact, I did not even know that such a creature

as a Christian Spiritualist existed! I thought

they were all of the devil! She relied on a tape

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recording to give her the right type of music so

that she could slip into a trance. When she

switched on the tape recorder, it refused to

work! Everything was tried, but still it would

not work. Another tape recorder was produced

and connected up, but it too failed to work.

She was never able to minister. Jesus and

His Blood had made both tape recorders fail to

work. What a good thing the Lord had me bat

first!

The present outpouring of the Holy Spirit is

stirring up the demonic powers to a frenzy, and

is flushing out all occultism from its hidden

lairs. The same fire of the Holy Spirit will soon

begin to burn up their powers, even as it

stopped the tape recorders. Jesus prophesied

this when He said in Matthew 13:30, 40 that He

would send His messengers who would be

used to burn up these tares. In the present

church renewal many will be delivered from

occult bondages and brought to salvation in

Jesus Christ and the subsequent infilling with

His Holy Spirit. Instead of trying to be guided

by false spirits, many will be guided by the

Holy Spirit, Who has such gifts of guidance as

the Word of Knowledge, the Word of Wisdom,

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Tongues, Interpretation and Prophecy.

Everything we need to know will be given to

anyone who inquires of the Lord.

Jesus said,

How be it when He, the Spirit of Truth

is come, He will GUIDE you into ALL

TRUTH, for He shall not speak of Himself;

but whatsoever He shall HEAR, that shall

He SPEAK; and He will SHOW you things

to come. (John 16:13).

We do not need Satan’s lies. We need the

Truth of God.

Chapter Nine

There Is Deliverance

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I have tried to show in this book the

extreme danger of contamination with occult

powers. Man was made by God to have

fellowship with Him, to be free, healthy and

wise; but if man will not serve God, then the

spiritual vacuum will automatically be filled by

Satan. Man is not a completely free agent, but is

free to choose. He is made to serve God, but if

he will not, he will serve the devil. Paul made

this very clear when he wrote,

You know well enough that if you put

yourselves at the disposal of a master, to

obey him, you are slaves to the master

whom you obey; and this is true whether

you serve sin, with death as its result; or

obedience, with righteousness as its result.

(Romans 6:16, N.E.B.).

If God is not your Master, then Satan becomes

your master.

If we obey God, we worship Him because

we love Him, but if we do not obey God, we

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worship Satan, and it is in the various occult

forms that we find our spiritual contact with

Satan and his demons. This is why Moses

instructed Israel to have no other gods before

Him. The issue is clear. You will either serve

God or gods. You will either worship the

Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or you will

worship Satan and his evil spirits. Satan will

serve you, answer your prayers, delude you

and finally give you the payoff—“for the wages

of sin is death” (Romans 6:23).

I have tried to show that the many “gods”

or demons of Satan manifest his evil in many

subtle ways. The moment a person, be he ever

so sincere, contaminates himself with occult

involvement, be it teacup reading or the grosser

forms of spiritist seances, he puts himself in the

vulnerable position of being subjected

progressively by a demon spirit. This evil spirit

will not stop at a small bridgehead, but will

progressively work its way into one’s mind and

body like a steadily growing cancer.

As the door of entrance is opened wider,

other spirits will also enter—some to give

delusions in the mind, others to cause erratic

behaviour, still others to visit sickness upon the

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body. The end result will be progressive

degeneration as the unfortunate person gets

older, until in their last days they may be totally

senile and crippled. Always remember that

God’s norm is a long life with abundance and

satisfaction (Psalms 91:16). God gives

regeneration, not degeneration. Regeneration is

not only a fact at our spiritual rebirth (John 3:3-

5), but it is a progressive daily experience. It is a

fact that many who become Christians by the

rebirth do indeed find their health

progressively improves over the years. This has

been true in my own case.

What can we do for these millions of

people, many professing Christians, who have

contaminated themselves with the demons

behind the many occult mysteries? Can we find

healing for them to rid them of their

infestations? Yes, in Acts 10:38 we are told that

Jesus, anointed of the Holy Spirit, went around

among the people healing ALL THAT WERE

OPPRESSED BY THE DEVIL. This means that

He took the people from their spiritual

subjection and brought them out into the

glorious liberty of the sons of God (Romans

8:21). The word “oppressed” means to be

overpowered or overcome—in other words to

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be brought to a place of captivity and bondage,

as in a prison. Jesus came to set us free, for “if

the Son therefore shall make you FREE, ye

shall be FREE indeed” (John 8:36).

In recent years in the present charismatic

move of God among the churches, "The

Deliverance Ministry” has arisen. It has been

found that when Christians take their rightful

authority in Christ against sin, sickness and

suffering and openly rebuke it in His Name, the

demons behind the troubles react and come

out, often quite violently as we read in Mark

1:25-26. This is frequently a very astonishing

experience and will increase your faith in God

and His Word tremendously! The number now

who are using this forceful and scriptural

approach in prayer is rapidly increasing, in

spite of opposition by some fearful people!

This is the day of the revelation of God’s

power that was manifest in the life of Jesus

when He went around delivering the captives

and setting them free. The concept that

emotional problems and physical bondages can

actually be precipitated by occult involvement

is so alien to Christian thinking that it is hard

for people to understand. Of course we know

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that psychiatry and the medical profession

know nothing about these dangers or the

causes. This is a brand new field of

understanding in healing. It is a fulfillment of

the words of Jesus who referred to the

prophecy of Isaiah:

... he hath anointed me to preach the

gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal

the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to

the captives, and recovering of sight to the

blind, to set at liberty them that are

bruised. (Luke 4:18).

Priests of heathen religions will explain to

visitors from Western countries that there are

spirits behind their idols, and it is the spirits

who answer their prayers. The average tourist

may think this is “funny” or just superstitious

foolishness of ignorant people; but it happens

to be dreadfully and fearfully true. We have

shown that not only are demons behind idols,

but in Asian temples there are holes in the back

of some of their hideous monstrosities which

the demon uses to go in and out. He goes in

when some sacrifice or oblation is made to him.

We have shown that demons can inhabit the

physical matter of these idols. In the Bible the

Holy Spirit is likened to water, because water is

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fluid, and evil spirits are likewise fluid and will

actually flow over us and into us if we give

them place. “Give no place to the devil”

(Ephesians 4:27), said Paul. If we do, we

actually create a “hole” into which Satan can

flow by his spirits. As the pure water of the

Holy Spirit can flow in and out of us in the

operation of charismatic gifts (John 7:38), so

likewise unclean spirits can flow in and out of

us and manifest their filth in false prophecies,

false teachings, and evil speakings.

When people visit us for special prayer at

our Toronto Church, we ask them if they have

had any form of occult involvement; a

surprisingly large number realize that they

have been involved in such things in times past.

Due to ignorance of parents and friends, many

have been seduced into communicating with

demons, from the “amusing” Ouija board to the

equally entertaining Chinese fortune cookies

given us when we eat Chinese food.

Horoscopes have been read as well as books

about the occult religions of Unity, Theosophy,

Parapsychology, etc. Many have drawn into

their minds evil thoughts from evil

personalities; and the inevitable mental or

physical bondage has caused many people to

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come seeking prayer. However, prayer is

ineffectual unless the cause is understood,

confessed and forsaken. Resentments, criticisms

and pride must also be confessed, brought out

into the open, and then forsaken as something

hideous and unclean. Forgiveness must be

sought from the Saviour and the cleansing of

His Blood applied. The occult line can then be

quickly broken, the continuing curse in our life

can be lifted, and we can be set free as the

demons are commanded to come out in Jesus’

Name.

To “do business" with Satan as a master

may be entertaining for a while. The trinity of

Satan (the world, the flesh, and the devil) may

appear to satisfy for a season, but what a

collective price we pay for this style of life! It

has been my privilege in recent times to pray

for quite a few young witches, who at first

certainly did not appear to be full of evil; but

through time even their very faces would be

changed, and their bodies might even become

twisted because of twisted minds. In all cases

the demons quickly responded. In some

sessions of prayer the demons threw their

subject to the floor and sometimes spoke back,

but finally came out, screaming and coughing,

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being ejected through the witch’s throat. The

longer a young witch practices her evil ways,

the greater will be the control that the familiar

spirits exercise over her. The older the witch,

the more violent the deliverance because

compound troubles may have occurred.

Our young people go in for the occult

because they say it gives them power over their

peers. True, it does. When Philip came to

Samaria in Acts 8, he exercised a much greater

power than that of Simon the Sorcerer. Previous

to Philip’s visit, the whole city believed that

Simon had the ultimate in power. He bewitched

the people with his sorceries. But when Philip’s

power was manifest, Simon quickly saw that

his power was less than Philip’s, and he

attempted to buy it with money.

When we minister deliverance to witches

and spiritists, we always lead them to receive

the baptism in the Holy Spirit afterwards. As

they begin to speak in other languages as the

Holy Spirit gives them utterance (Acts 2:1-4), a

stronger power flows through them—a power

that can heal the sick, raise the dead and cast

out demons.

If you are looking for power, the Holy Spirit

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can give you the power you need. All people

need power. All people crave power. This is

why an unbeliever seeks self-aggrandizement

and works himself to death, trying to be top

dog. But when God makes you a Son, He gives

you the potential to act like a son and do the

works of the Son of God. You can have His

power over sin, sickness and evil in any form.

You can have power over evil men and those

who would attack you. You can sit in the

driver’s seat—the seat of authority in Christ.

You can become the head and not the tail. You

can have the dynamic power which He gives to

those who ask Him (Acts 1:8).

If you have been involved in any form of

the forbidden occult, confess it and contact

someone in your area who can pray the

commanding prayer of faith that will set you

free. Start afresh with Jesus the Son of God, and

go out and do His works (John 14:12).

This is the day of the full restoration of the

Body of Christ. “In my name shall they cast

out devils” (Mark 16:17). Jesus promised you.

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Not only does occult involvement lead to

sickness, slavery, and death—it is also

unnecessary. There is no reason to seek power

and knowledge from Satan, since the Lord

provides everything we need. Indeed, His

provision for us is greater than we can possibly

imagine. Jesus told us: “I am the way, the truth

and the life” In this triad we have the recipe for

a life of dominion over the world, the flesh and

the devil. There is not a created being, be it an

elephant or a germ, that can harm one of us,

unless we permit it to harm us by lack of faith!

Once we fully understand the authority vested

in us by God through Christ, we can proceed to

take our place as invincible creatures of faith,

and not conquerable captives of fear. Paul

wrote: “We are more than conquerors through

Christ.” Not just conquerors—we are more than

conquerors.

Jesus is the way out of our captivity, our

bondage, our sorrows, our feebleness. He

blazed a trail clean out of captivity. He was

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manifest and anointed with the Holy Spirit at

Jordan that He might bind up the broken

hearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, open

the prison doors to those who are bound in

chains, and set them free. This fulness of

salvation does not have to be repeated. We are

saved, and set free once and for all, that we

might enjoy a fulness of blessing in this

Kingdom of God on earth—restored Paradise

indeed. The salvation of the soul is the way into

the new life, with healing of the mind and

body, so that we might enjoy divine health and

strength. The prison door is not opened that we

might come out one day and go back in a

week’s time because we got so used to “being

cared for by the devil.” It was said that many

negroes who were emancipated in the days of

Abraham Lincoln continued to work for their

old masters, rather than venture forth into an

unknown world. Truly the Kingdom of God is

an unknown world to most people, and

unfortunately so few Christians today have

much idea of the blessing given by Jesus to us

on the cross. They would rather live like other

churchgoing people, than begin to act as sons of

God—royalty indeed. Being of the royal family

of God sets them too far apart from even

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members of their own families, who remain in

sin and ignorance. They dare not be different.

However, the Bible teaches us that we are

different—completely different and separate

from the world. It is as we learn to live and act

differently that we begin to have experiences of

divine power and authority and blessing that

amaze us, and demonstrate God’s glory.

Jesus said, “I am the truth.” Once we have

accepted the way, we must walk in the light as

He is in the light (1 John 1:7). We no longer

walk by traditions taught to us by others, even

if these traditions sounded sensible, and were

taught by church leaders. In Jesus' day there

were many rabbis, and a powerful church, but

He said they had made the Word of God of no

effect by their traditions. This means in plain

language, they had thrown the Book out of the

window. They had church, ceremonies,

religion, priests, services, but no truth. Once a

son of God enters the Kingdom of God, he must

adjust his life, his thinking, his speech, his

bearing, and realise that “perfect love casteth

out all fear.” What a challenge. The more our

lives become readjusted to His truth, the more

authority we will exercise over Satan. Though

all men may laugh at you, it is better to obey

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God than man.

Jesus said, “I am the life.” Christianity is

not a monastic life suppressing natural desires

and appetites. It is a life of abundance for spirit,

soul and body. Jesus said that He came to give

life and to give it more abundantly. He came to

take that tired, bound, captive life and fill it

with His overwhelming abundance.

Can we imagine Adam being sick,

depressed, miserable, weak and fearful in the

garden? Jesus came to give us back everything

that Adam lost, and as we shall see, even more

under the New Covenant in His blood.

Abundant life means just what it says for every

child of God, everyone who approaches the

mercy seat will have available to him

immediately every blessing in the Bible, and

there are thousands. Abundant life, including

joy, peace, strength, health and prosperity is

laid to your account in heaven by Jesus Christ.

“My God shall supply all your need according

to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus”

(Philippians 4:19).

Unfortunately, when a child of God does

venture into the Bank of Heaven, after knocking

timorously, instead of walking in boldly as if he

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owned the place (and he does!), he cautiously

and apologetically approaches one of the

tellers, and proffers a check with a small

amount and wonders whether it will be

honoured! This is not an exaggeration

concerning the approach in prayer of the

average child of God. We might just as well

write “million” as “two” because it belongs to

an heir of God anyway. Let us therefore go

boldly into the holiest place by a new and living

way, and plead the Blood of Jesus as our reason

for expecting fantastic blessings. The world

uses the word “pay off.” Our “pay off” includes

every good thing the moment we dare to enjoy

it by faith. The blood of Jesus purchased every

redemptive blessing for us.

“But I am not worthy of His blessings!”

Who said so? The opposite is the truth; this is a

lie of Satan. “Thou hast a few names... which

have not defiled their garments and they shall

walk with Me in white, for they are worthy!”

(Revelation 3:4). Jesus makes us worthy in Him.

As long as we abide in Him, and permit His

Words to abide in us, then we will continue to

be worthy of all His abundant blessings.

Though these wonderful blessings have been

made available to us at the cross, yet each

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promise must be appropriated by our own

personal faith, and not that of another; no

promise of God is automatically bestowed on

us. It must be appropriated by faith.

The story is told of a soldier son who

faithfully sent his uneducated mother a

monthly check, enough to keep her in comfort,

health and happiness. The mother could not

read, and so she received her son’s letters, but

did not understand what the check was, and so

over a period of years she used to stuff the

money under her mattress. She died in abject

poverty, bringing early death upon herself

because of lack of proper food. Had she not the

means? Were not the checks good? Was not the

son faithful in all that he did? Had she

understood the ways of the bank and of her

son, she need not have died in misery. She was

worthy for she was his mother. We are worthy

of these blessings because we are sons.

Many Christians have failed to appreciate

the significance of their sonship, and have

believed that Jesus only vested His authority in

the twelve apostles. It is true that these men

were the foundation stones of the New

Testament Church, and they were built upon

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Jesus, the cornerstone. However, the Church—

the Body of Christ—is composed of many

members, and these are supposed to exercise

His authority each day in their own lives, so

that the church shall arrive at a point of having

no spot or wrinkle, no sickness or disease, no

defeat or frustration, and no oppression of

Satan. We are told to go on unto perfection!

Before Jesus left this earth He gave a last

commission to His church, which was not a

limited dispensational commission, but binding

for the whole Christian age or dispensation,

which ceases only at His second coming. In

Matthew 28:18 Jesus told His disciples that He

had been given all power in heaven and upon

earth. He had earned this power by His death

and the shedding of His blood. The whole

power of the universe was vested in one Man

Who rose from the dead.

Because of the death of the Testator, the

New Covenant came into operation, as in the

case of common earthly testaments, or wills.

God in Christ died, reconciling the world unto

Himself, and in this manner was the New

Covenant ushered in when Jesus shed His

blood and gave up the Spirit on the cross,

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crying “It is finished.” (Hebrews 9:16-17).

Because God died in the Person of Christ, it

became legally possible for His Son to possess

all things, and because He possessed them. He

had a free hand to give them to whomever He

wished.

It was this thought that was no doubt in His

mind when He gave seventy men His power,

for it was His to give by right of sacrifice. When

they dared to use it in faith—it worked! This

should not surprise any of us, for we have a

demonstration of higher authority every day in

the police force of any nation or city. When the

policeman holds up his hand in traffic, the

vehicles grind to a halt, because the authority of

the head of state is vested in that policeman’s

hand! In the British Commonwealth that

authority belongs to the Queen or King, and is

known as the authority of the crown. When we

accept Jesus as Saviour, we accept the authority

of the crown, for we are a royal priesthood. We

are kings and priests, we are of royal family, we

enforce the law of Calvary! His crown covers

our authority and when we hold up our hands

before all the might of Satan, he also must grind

to a complete stop. Indeed, we can give Satan a

ticket!

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It is in keeping with the gospel that we

should all understand that we have His

authority and that we can use it today.

These signs shall follow them that

believe; in My Name shall they cast out

devils, they shall speak with new tongues,

they shall take up serpents, and if they

drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt

them; they shall lay hands on the sick and

they shall recover. (Mark 16:16- 18).

To whom does “they” refer? To those who

believe and are baptised—every child of God

born into the Kingdom of God by the Holy

Spirit. The same authority that was vested in

the seventy is now vested in all who believe.

Hallelujah! We are to cast out demons, heal the

sick and handle serpents as harmless things,

just as Moses handled a serpent in Exodus 4:4.

Moses’ ministry was to deliver the people, and

the ministry of Jesus was also to deliver the

people, and He handed on His mantle to the

church on the day of Pentecost, to continue the

same ministry that the people might be

delivered today. “Let My people go” is still

God’s cry to us today. Are we doing it, or

making excuses? We have the authority and the

power—all that is now required is that we

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should go forward and use it.

Jesus gives us a parable in Luke 11:21-22.

He speaks of a strong man being armed and

keeping his palace. Satan is this strong man,

and he is described as the Prince, or ruler, of

this present world in which we live. He

certainly does a good job at keeping this world

bound in sin, sickness, sorrow and suffering.

But Jesus said that when a stronger man comes,

he binds the strong man and delivers him of his

captives and takes his house and possessions.

Jesus did this at Calvary, and He hands on the

keys of the Kingdom to all who will take them

and go into Satan’s strongholds to set the

people free. Greater is He who is in you than he

(Satan) who is in the world (I John 4:4).

Tremendous truths! We do not call on Jesus to

do this for us; this is apologetic unbelief, for He

is in us, and so We go forward in Him and do it

in His name. Jesus did not tell His disciples to

pray for Him to heal the sick or cast out devils

—no—for we read, “As you go preach, saying

the Kingdom of God is at hand. Heal the sick,

raise the dead, cast out devils. Freely ye have

received, freely give” (Matthew 10:7-8). We are

on the receiving end to give to those who are in

need.

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As we hold on to the right hand of the Lord

Who got the victory, then we take from Him the

healings, deliverances and blessings which He

commands us to give to the people. When Jesus

fed the five thousand, He broke the bread and

gave it to the disciples, but they in turn gave to

the hungry. “Give ye them to eat" still echoes

from heaven today. We do not try to be

religious and kneel down and piously ask Him

to do the giving for us. This is unbelief in

action. We take and we give, and there will be

many basketfuls left over after our ministry, so

that we have a never decreasing supply to give

to everyone who is hungry for God and His

blessings. While we are busy giving bread, we

can eat as much as we like ourselves, so both

the giver and the receiver get blessed, healed,

restored and caused to prosper.

Don’t limit God. This was why Israel failed

to go into a land that flowed with milk and

honey. They limited God. In Psalm 1, in simple

language we are told that a child of God will

prosper in everything that he does. This means

material prosperity, mental and emotional

prosperity, and spiritual prosperity. We shall

have had supplied to us all things needful from

the Bank of Heaven. This is a land that flows

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with milk and honey; so much milk and so

much honey that the cruse of God’s blessings

will never dry up, the barrel of meal will never

cease to supply our needs. Whatever we do

shall prosper! But we have to keep ourselves

planted by the river of life that flows through

the paradise of God. We must feed upon Him

Who died for us.

And so the disciples “went forth, and

preached everywhere, the Lord working with

them, and confirming the Word with signs

following. Amen” (Mark 16:20). Notice the

Gospel ends with “Amen,” which means “So

let it be." God desires that He should be given

an opportunity to do His part by confirming

His Word that is preached by us. These signs

will be the casting out of demons, the healing of

the sick and taking dominion over every evil

sin and sickness and handling them as dead

serpents and scorpions. We preach, and the

signs will follow. Amen.

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To appreciate fully the incredible blessings

which we receive from God through Jesus

Christ, we consider the amazing teachings of

the Apostle Paul in his famous eighth chapter

of Romans.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of

God, they are the sons of God (Gr. huios—

mature sons). For ye have not received the

spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have

received the Spirit of adoption, whereby

we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’ The Spirit Himself

bearing witness with our spirit, that we are

the children of God (Gr. teknon—new born

ones); and if children, then heirs, heirs of

God, and joint-heirs with Christ. (Romans

8:14-17).

Paul starts by telling us that as mature sons

of God we can be led of His Holy Spirit. This is

quite different from being led of the wisdom of

man, for being led of the Holy Spirit is the daily

experience of a son of God who has grown out

of the milk stage to the meat stage. God expects

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us to be led of His Spirit, which is a continual

operation of the gifts of the Spirit in our daily

lives. He then proceeds by explaining that if we

have fear, we did not get it from God. It is an

evil spirit—a demon—sent of Satan, but not of

God. What God gives us is the Holy Spirit that

adopts us into His family.

Just as a natural born child and a legally

adopted child in a family would have the same

name, the same privileges, the same standard of

living, the same education, and finally would

share together in the estate of the father, in like

manner we are adopted into the family of God.

Jesus becomes our Elder Brother, and He is the

only begotten of the Father. But although He is

the begotten son, and we are adopted out of

every tongue, tribe and race on earth, we still

become sons of God and are reckoned to have

all the privileges, all the favors, all the blessings

that belong by legal right to the Son of God. He

does not withhold anything from those that

walk uprightly. He is more anxious to bestow

His favors upon us than we are to receive them.

We cannot imagine or understand such

blessings, such prosperity and such health. We

are as one in a dream, but the Word of God is

true, "if children then heirs of God.” As Jesus

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became the rightful possessor of all His Father’s

estate, so also do we become heirs of this estate

through faith in Christ. We become heirs of the

same estate that was given to Jesus because He

was obedient unto the death of the cross. He

paid for all these blessings in His own blood.

They are His and they are ours.

Does He share them with us? No! They are

just as much ours as His. Now we find we have

become joint heirs with Christ. A joint heir is

one who has as much right to the estate as the

other joint heir. Now notice that it does not

matter how many children apply for the

blessing of this New Testament estate, for the

riches in glory never dry up, and to borrow from

John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, “The more we

give away, the more we have.” There is room at

the cross for you, my friend, even though

millions have already come. You will never

exhaust the riches of glory. They are unlimited.

Jesus has taught us that He inherited all

things in heaven and in earth. All power is His,

the silver, the gold, the cattle, all are His by

right of inheritance, because the Testator died,

thus establishing, ratifying and probating the

New Testament. All the promises of the Old

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and New Testaments are ours today and

forever. He does not share or give us handouts;

He is the Good Shepherd of the sheep, and we

can go in and out and find pasture, knowing

the wolf shall not touch us. He is our Brother;

we are His brethren. What is His is ours, and all

we have to give is ourselves, and He multiplies

our station, our prosperity and makes us into

Kings and priests. From commoners to royalty

in one rebirth; no wonder so many find it hard

to appreciate such riches and such glory. It

seems to take us all so many years to begin to

lay hold on this prosperity; we are so used to

being stupid, and fearful, and poor, that it takes

time to realise what the expression “Riches of

Grace” really means!

Some may argue that these promises are

only to make us spiritually rich, but physically

poor. Let us remind you that Jesus told us He

became poor to make many rich (2 Corinthians

6:10). We must be careful not to seek riches as

an end, but to seek only Jesus and His

righteousness, and He will become our

prosperity in spirit, soul and body. We shall

lack nothing, and this is riches indeed. Let us

not indulge again in apologetics, but enter into

His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. John knew

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this when he wrote, “Beloved, I wish above all

things that thou mayest prosper and be in

health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

David, in Old Testament times, put no

division between the blessings of soul and body

health. We have two feet to tread upon the two

curses of Satan, the scorpion of sin and the

serpent of sickness. “Bless the Lord O my soul,

and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth

all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy

diseases” (Psalm 103:2-3). His power and

authority are sufficient, for if He puts all things

under His feet, then they are under ours also.

For our feet become His feet on earth, and our

hands His hands, for our bodies are the temples

of the Holy Spirit through which God wishes to

manifest the Son by the Holy Spirit in us.

The amazing truth of our adoption is given

a double witness in Galatians 4. Paul begins by

reminding us that we were under bondage

before we found liberty in Christ, but Jesus

redeemed us, or purchased us from this

bondage into the glorious liberty of the sons of

God. It was as if we were slaves to Satan. Jesus

came and paid the price of His own blood and

we were set free from the power of Satan, for

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“Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.” Thus

a complete freedom from want, fear, poverty,

suffering and sickness was given to us as a free

gift, and is called the good news of the

Kingdom of God. Good news indeed. One

hundred percent free.

The redemption price at Calvary introduced

the law of adoption. By believing with our

whole hearts that Jesus paid the penalty of our

sins, we were reckoned to have been adopted

by God into His family. We may not have been

aware of this, nor of the amazing blessings that

accrue to us, but God reckoned it nevertheless,

and it is as we become aware of this truth that

we enter into a progressively greater degree of

blessing as we exercise our faith; and our faith

comes through reading and believing the Word

of God. Paul concludes, therefore, by telling us

that we are no more servants, but sons, and if

sons, then heirs of God through Christ. It is all

through our Elder Brother.

Now notice the tremendous change that

takes place when Jesus incorporates us into His

Royal Family. No longer a little below the

angels, but now lifted up into heavenly places

in Christ (Ephesians 2:6). It is always necessary

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to remember that as we abide in Christ, we are

where He is. He is the New Creation, and we

also are reckoned to be a new creation in Him. If

He is far above all principality and power, and

might, and dominion, and every name that is

named, not only in this world, but also that

which is to come (Ephesians 1:21), then we also

are positionally the same when we learn to

abide in Him. No wonder Jesus told His

disciples that they had power over all the

power of Satan. Jesus obtained that power

through the cross, and now we are joint heirs

with Him in His reigning position on the right

hand of God, set down in heavenly places. This

truth is so amazing, that it alarms the timid

who think more of their unworthiness than His

worthiness. “Worthy is the Lamb,” the angels

cried.

Paul understood this truth when he

reminded us that we "wrestle not against flesh

and blood, but against principalities, against

powers, against the rulers of darkness of this

world, against wicked spirits in high places”

(Ephesians 6:12). In this verse are enumerated

the various degrees of Satanic spiritual

wickedness. These are not earthly powers, they

are Satanic spiritual powers that control earthly

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kingdoms, dictatorships, political systems and

religious systems opposed to God. Every evil,

foul demon working for Satan is mentioned in

the categories; now Paul says we wrestle with

them! Is this a hopeless wrestling match? Are

the odds one hundred to one against us? Do we

go into the ring doomed to be pulverized by

these powers? No, a thousand times no. We go

in to win, to defeat the enemy by commanding,

by prayer, by our very attitude of victory.

The very moment Satan sees us enter the

ring, he knows that he is defeated. He will

certainly put up stiff and stubborn opposition,

but he knows he is defeated, and it is only a

matter of time before he will throw in the towel,

and declare that he can no longer oppress us in

the way he tried so hard to do. Our faith must

never waiver. The battle may be long and fierce,

but “I can do all things through Christ who

strengtheneth me.” Defeat is not in the

dictionary of heaven unless it speaks of Satan

and his demons. For the Christian there is only

victory.

Why is this? It is because our lives are hid in

Christ, and the wicked one touches us not.

Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

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When ministering in Uruapan, Mexico, we

met a Christian man who was a cotton grower

with a farm given to him by the Mexican

government. The surrounding cotton farmers

resented his faith, for they were fanatical

religionists being stirred up by their priests.

They commanded this man to leave his farm,

and he refused. They came again and ordered

him to run and they would shoot him. He

refused to run and told them he would stay

where God had put him. Then an enraged

fanatic said he would shoot him where he

stood, so he said, “Go ahead and shoot, but I’m

not quitting,” at which a strange thing

happened; the man began to tremble violently

and he turned and slunk away. This is a true

story, for the man gave me his sombrero as a

memento of a New Testament story. Resist the

devil steadfastly in the faith. Sometimes we do

not wrestle long enough. We give up and Satan

wins, whereas he was only supposed to lose and

run!

We once had an objection raised to this

teaching of our authority in Christ. How could

we command Satan when even the great and

mighty archangel Michael dare not rebuke

Satan himself, but said, “The Lord rebuke

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thee” ? (Jude 9). This is a wonderful and

marvellous revelation. Before Calvary man had

been created in God’s likeness, but a little lower

than the angels, including Michael the

archangel, but after Calvary we were elevated

far above all principalities and powers. Now an

angel becomes a ministering spirit to those who

are heirs of this salvation. This is where our

position of being joint heirs with Christ is

rightly understood. Now Michael and other

angels become our ministering spirits; now we

are re-created in Christ to be above them, not a

little lower, but now far above. As Michael

never sinned, he was never lost, and so does

not need a Savior. It was the fallen angels who

sinned, and were divested of their spiritual

bodies and position. They were cast out into the

earth (Revelation 12:9-10) but Michael is still an

archangel and is still subject to obedience of

rank. Satan was created the greatest and the

most powerful of all the angels, and Michael

was next in rank with others like Gabriel.

Therefore Michael could not rebuke his

superior officer, even if his superior officer had

sinned. He still carries his rank, for the callings

of God are not to be repented of. He now uses

this rank to break down God’s heritage instead

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of helping to build it up by ministering to it, as

Michael does. Satan was created as the supreme

commander-in-chief of all angelic forces. Before

the cross he even entered heaven to give an

account of himself as we read in Job 1 and 2,

and he correctly reported that he was walking

to and fro in the earth, for that was his domain,

as Prince of this world. At the cross Satan fell

heavily and lost his right of entry into heaven,

but he never lost his rank (Luke 10:18). Michael

cannot rebuke Satan, but Jesus did, so we can

do so today in His Name. This is why we cast

out demons in the Name of Jesus; we heal the

sick in the Name of Jesus; we can do all things

in the Name of Jesus, even commanding a

mountain to be cast into the sea, and if we do

not doubt in our hearts, it will happen! Try it

and see!

Thus we find in God’s Word that He is

imploring us to understand our high calling in

Christ.

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ...

may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom

and revelation in the knowledge of him.

The eyes of your understanding being

enlightened; that ye may know what is the

hope of his calling, and what the riches of

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the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

and what is the exceeding greatness of his

power to us-ward who believe according to

the working of his mighty power, which he

wrought in Christ when he raised him

from the dead, and set him at his own right

hand in the heavenly places, far above all

principality... power ... might... dominion...

name... and hath put all things under his

feet.. (Ephesians 1:17-22).

This is the position of Jesus Christ today. God

put Him there after He raised Him from the

dead, and as we abide in Him, and are “found

in Him” (Philippians 3:9) we can exercise all

the power and authority that He vests in us, His

brothers and sisters.

In Romans 8:11 Paul records that “if the

Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the

dead dwell in you, He that raised up Jesus

from the dead shall also quicken your mortal

bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” The

quickening power of the Holy Spirit will be

continually restoring our mortal body to health

and strength for every time of need in our

victorious battle against Satan. Finally, when it

is God’s time (and not Satan’s time) for us to go

to be with the Lord, He will quicken our bodies

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so completely that we will have a body which is

from heaven (2 Corinthians 5:1-2). Every punch

that Satan might put into us, in suffering,

sickness, frustration and sorrow, if resisted will

be repulsed by the quickening power of the

Spirit of God in our mortal bodies. Perhaps this

is what Paul had in mind when he wrote that if

a believer speaks in tongues he edifies himself,

for in so doing he would cause the Spirit of God

to move mightily in his mortal body. Paul also

recommended to Timothy that he stir up the

gift that was in him. Christians today have been

far more prone to let the devil stir them up and

kick them around, and stamp on them, rather

than to take the initiative and stir up the Holy

Spirit in themselves, charging into Satan like a

quarterback and knocking him down and

casting him out of the way. It may seem a crude

thing to say, but either Satan is going to kick

you around, or you are going to kick him

around. Just choose which position you want to

play!

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Document Outline

- The Kiss of Satan

- Contents

- 1 The Law of Opposites

- 2 Personal Experiences

- 3 The "Appearance" of Samuel

- 4 Occult Practices

- 5 Delusions

- 6 Witches and Warlocks

- 7 The Dangers of Occultism

- 8 Horoscopes

- 9 There Is Deliverance

- 10 God's Alternative

- 11 Joint Heirs

Table of Contents

1 The Law of Opposites.

2 Personal Experiences.

3 The "Appearance" of Samuel.

4 Occult Practices.

5 Delusions.

6 Witches and Warlocks.

7 The Dangers of Occultism.

8 Horoscopes.

9 There Is Deliverance.

10 God's Alternative.

11 Joint Heirs.

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