Witchcraft Deliverance

The Mystery of Iniquity

Pat Holliday, PhD

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July 8, 2012

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Chapter One

Rise of Witchcraft

SEARCHING FOR SOULS

Charles Williams wrote in Witchcraft, "It is cold, it is hungry, it is violent, and it is illusory. The warm blood and intercourse at the Sabbat do not satisfy it. It wants something more . . . It wants souls!"

Witchcraft is flourishing in the world while, the Spirit of the Christian Church is diminishing in its influence over the souls of people. Yet, Jesus has superior power over Satan and His hosts. How can you explain this situation? The truth is this; Satan only has the power that humans give to him. He has to convince them that he is all powerful by the evil that he creates. Other words, he has to tell the humans what he is going to do before he does it and then he has to get their agreement before he can do it.

Since men have wicked hearts, they quickly follow Satan’s leading and because so many follow him, it looks like he is all powerful. God will not force anyone to accept Him or follow Jesus because humans must turn away from their wicked ways and repent asking Jesus Christ to save them. We see then they follow His pathway which the Bible says is narrow and only few find it. Meantime, the human race has given Satan their right to leadership on this earth by following his wicked ways of rebellion.

Occult techniques are now being introduced to millions in America through the New Age Movement. Psychics have become commonplace. Hollywood actors and entertainers star in television programs urging people to call their "top professional psychics." They are promoting Body, Mind & Spirit, recently proclaimed that "now with a single phone call, you can choose for yourself from among the country's leading Master Psychics including: Past life therapists, Tarot Card, Readers, Astrologers, numerologists, dream interpreters, channelers, clairvoyants, aura readers, root workers and healers.”

“For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. 10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart,” (Psa. 97:9-11).

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH A WITCH

Lou was under the spell of Della, a witch. Della had given her heart to the Lord while I was ministering in the area and had brought Lou to the meeting. When I arrived at the church, I was greeted: “Lou has a demon that she wants to keep. She thinks it is her friend and even knows its name!

The music was beating joyously. People were dancing, clapping their hands, singing, “God’s Not Dead; He’s Still Alive.” The air was full of the presence of God. Suddenly Lou pitched forward in her seat, holding her stomach. She appeared to be in great pain. She moaned and groaned. Tears flowed from tortured eyes, her face showing extraordinary stress. As we began to pray for her, her face twisted with demonic manifestation. Suddenly, she bolted out of the meeting. Later several people went with me to Lou’s home to challenge the spirit. When we arrived, she was in bed. She peeped over the covers at us fearfully.

“Lou, would you like to be born again?”

“No,” she said slyly.

She was about 18 years old. Yet her face was already marked with the burden of sin. Her hair hung loosely, framing hazel eyes. A touch of make-up base did a poor job of hiding deeply entrenched circles under her eyes.

“Honey, Jesus loves you very much. He died for your sins and wants to help you. He wants to give you eternal life, a spiritual rebirth. (Rom. 3:23) says, ‘All have sinned.’ There’s not one person on the earth that is just. We all stand guilty before God. That means a death sentence rests upon everyone. In ( Heb.. 9:26), we see He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. In other words, He washes us from our sins in His own Blood when we confess our sins and ask Him to take over our life and forgive us. He washed us from our sin in His own blood.”

Her eyes flickered with contempt. Her mouth dropped into a sneer.

“We’ve come to set you free. Don’t you want Jesus to help you?’

“No, get out of here. I don’t need you. I hate your guts anyway.” Hate. Such a young person. It was hard to understand that she was capable of having such awful feelings. One could see though, that she hurt, so deeply.

We are not going to harm you, darling.”

“Get out,” she screamed, “I don’t want to talk to you.” Lou looked really panicky.

“Honey, Jesus knows your pain, He wants to help you.”

“I hate Him too. Don’t talk to me about Him.” Her voice was shaky.

“He loves you.”

She turned her eyes to the wall.

Jesus can help you.”

The evil spirit manifested. She became violent and extremely strong. Loosening a person from the powers of darkness can sometimes be fairly easy; however, it can also be exceedingly difficult. Degree of demonization is a factor as well as the person’s willing the demon’s presence.

She wrestled and kicked. She shouted, convulsed, screamed and tried biting anyone she could grab. Glazed eyes-flashed with hatred and fire....

“I bind you in the name of Jesus.” Suddenly she became calm and her head fell to the side. She seemed to be in a trance. . .

Mary, a roommate, laid her head in her hands weeping uncontrollably.

“I’ve never believed in the Devil before tonight but after seeing what he’s doing to my friend, I know beyond a shadow of doubt he’s real. What can I do?” I gave her the plan of salvation! “You must repent, turn away from sin because it separates you from God.  ‘For all have sinned and come short of the glory of god’.”  (Rom. 3:23), says, “Christ is God’s provision for us. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,’ (Rom. 58) Jesus Christ is our only contact with God. Therefore you must receive Jesus as Savior and Lord by your personal invitation.” I quoted (Rev. 3:20), “Behold I stand at the door and knock; If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to come into him . . .?

She repeated the sinner’s prayer with me: “Lord I repent of my sins. I ask you to forgive me. I open the door of my heart and receive you as my Savior and my Lord. Take control of my life, keep me from evil and make me the kind of person you want me to be!

(Janice, the other roommate, had received Christ earlier at the meeting).

Soon, Lou came back to her normal self. She returned to normal just as suddenly as she had previously disappeared under the power of the demon. Rubbing her eyes as though coming out of a deep sleep, she flashed a smile. Her face had relaxed. She was totally unaware of previous violent behavior. She seemed perfectly normal.

We again tried to lead her to Jesus Christ. Her roommates both pleaded with her to accept the protection of Christ. She continued to stand against Jesus.

She stood at the door saying that she had a demon that she wanted to keep. One thing I knew, total submission to God and resisting is absolutely necessary for deliverance . . .”

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RETURN TO BIBLE BASICS

The Christian must return to biblical basics and biblical doctrines have always been important features of training the Saints to be strong and able to stand firm in God’s cause. Jesus Christ, as presented by The Father and also Jesus’ testimony is according to the Word, “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, “All power is given to me in heaven and in earth . . .” (Matt. 28:18). He is revealed as Deity with absolute sovereignty and authority over the universe for eternity.

When Jesus asked them about popular opinions of his identity, they recounted the rumors that he was John the Baptist or one of the ancient prophets. Jesus then turned the focus on them: “But who do you say that I am?” Jesus insisted. When Peter spoke for them all and revealed that Jesus was the Messiah and “Son of the living God,” Jesus blessed him for making that confession. “You are Peter {Petros}” Jesus said in a play on words, “and on this rock, {Petra} I will build my church,” (Matt. 16:18).

The apostle Paul reports, that Jesus rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son. He writes in the beautiful poetic language of Jesus in (Col. 1:13), describing Christ’s sovereignty. A passage celebrates Christ as creator and preserver of the universe, supreme over every creature. He is the head of his body, the church, and the first to conquer death. Although in Christ “all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,” Paul asserts, it was ultimately only through his human suffering ~ through “the blood of His cross,” (Col. 1:19, 20), “That he was able to reconcile all things to God and make peace.”

THE LAW

Forbade to the Israelites the practice of witchcraft:

“Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times,” (Lev. 19:26).

“There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer,” (Deut. 18:10-11).

Forbade seeking to wizards and witches:

“Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God,” (Lev. 19:31).

“For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do,” (Deut. 18:14).

Punished with death those who used paranormal powers:

“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exod. 22:18).

“A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them,” (Lev. 20:27).

Punished those who sought to. Find answers from wizards:

“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…” (Lev. 20:6).

JUDGMENT SEAT OF GOD

At the Judgment Seat of God, Satan’s true condition is put on view and the people of the world shown as being amazed at the lowly statute of Satan. When they see him standing before the Throne of Jesus to be judged, the Bible says, in (Isa. 14: 12-20), “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, everyone in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.”

The peoples of the world who were deceived by this fallen angel will be shocked that he had the ability to destroy their souls and nations and say, “is this the man that made the earth to tremble and did shake kingdoms.” The truth is that it was not Satan’s power that destroyed souls and made the earth tremble, it was their own wickedness and in their lust for evil, they gave their power to Satan. Friends, Satan is helpless without your agreement!

The great paradox is this: that Lucifer is, indeed, purposeful, not as an independent sovereign entity but as a force that God uses fulfill His own plan and for the redemption of human beings of those who choose him.

The dark was created by the rebellion of Lucifer and is allowed to exist by God for His Sovereign purpose and actually needs God's approval and permission to continue to exist.

Chapter Two

The Mystery of Iniquity

WITCHCRAFT OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS

The Late, Dr. Walter Martin, also gave warning to the Church in (1988) wrote: “The Apostle Paul, preaching to the elders in the church of Ephesus speaks these words and Dr. Luke records them in Acts 20:26, “if you do not warn the wicked man of his wicked and he dies in his sin, I will hold you accountable for it.” So we are supposed to warn the wicked of the wickedness they perform and also of the judgment of God upon them. If we don't we become accessories after the fact of their sins,” a direct quote from (Ezek. 34). Another words, if you know the truth and do not warn them, their blood will be on your hands.

We are living in a time of great apostasy in the church. There are very Christian apologists writing concerning some of the ramped heresies that are exploding daily. The “Mystery of Iniquity” spoken of in the Scriptures refers to the New World Order, i.e., the beast system of the coming Antichrist is true; it is clear from the second chapter of Thessalonians that the context of the passage is the coming Antichrist. Even going back as far as the Tower of Babel in the Old Testament, we see men trying to unite against God and so it is today. Also the “Synagogue of Satan” mentioned by Jesus in (Rev. 2:9) refers to the Illuminati, i.e., a demonically-inspired occult group of men and women sworn and committed to bringing to fruition a New World Order—a Global, Godless, Totalitarian, Communist Police State, whose ultimate leader will be the ‘Man of Sin’ himself!"

Countless high-ranking politicians from around the world have been photographed  making the Satanic hand sign publicly, showing their unwavering allegiance for the New World Order and Satan himself, including George and Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle, Vladimir Putin, Yassar Arafat, Ahmadinajad, and countless others. We are living in the Last Days and the Rapture is imminent my friend.

The need to see the truth is greatly needed. For instance, Former First Lady, Senator Hillary Clinton talks to Eleanor Roosevelt, while the late Jeanne Dixon counseled many Presidents in America.  Prince Charles of Buckingham Palace has become to be interested in spiritualism. He claims to speak to his uncle Count Mountbatten. Although the Prince of Wales was married in a Christian ceremony, he dabbles with the occult and he does not believe this to be satanic and thinks the public should be more “open-minded.” Both the late Jeanne Dixon and the Prince claim to be “Christians.” If he becomes King of England, he will actually become head of the Anglican Church and at the coronation of an English monarch, he is given a sword. Elizabeth II took it last, and as she held it before the altar, she heard these words.

“Receive this kingly Sword, brought now from the altar of God and delivered to you by us, the Bishops and servants of God, through unworthy. With this Sword do justice, stop the growth of iniquity, protect the holy Church of God, help and defend widows and orphans, restore the things that are gone to decay, maintain the things that are restored, punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order; that doing these things you may be glorious in all virtue; and so faithfully serve our Lord.”

The Lord detests all who dabble with witchcraft. We cannot seek false gods – idols, (I Jn. 5:21. I Cor. 10:14 Ps. 78:58). Test the spirits to see if they are of God. (I Jn. 4:1). The demons replying to contacts are not dead people or wise spiritual beings, but evil spirits. The messages from these spirits may mention God, but they never urge Bible study, worship of God, or the need for Christ as Savior. These evil spirits deny Christ as the Savior or distort His message.

SUPERNATURAL EXPERIENCES IN HIGH PLACES

Lincoln's wife was haunted by so-called ghosts (impersonating demons). Abraham Lincoln's widow, Mary Todd Lincoln turned to spiritualism for comfort and began attending séances to contact her beloved child. Her husband was distressed and attended several séances with her in attempt to expose the mediums as frauds.  Lincoln ordered the head of the Smithsonian Institution to investigate one of his wife's favorite mediums, but Mary continued her contacts with the dead despite her husband's disapproval. After having lost another son, Tad, as well as her husband, she claimed to be visited constantly by the ghosts (impersonating demons) of portraying themselves as family members. She heard voices and had numerous hallucinations.

A typical complaint was that she had been seized by an Indian (demon) who was pulling wires out of her head. There is a strange photograph of Mrs. Lincoln where the ghostly hands of supposedly her husband or one of her dead sons can be seen clearly on her shoulders. At the end of her life, she died in an asylum.

ADOLF HITLER

In 1933, a funny looking man with a moustache swayed enough Germans so that he was first elected, and then allowed to rise to the post of absolute dictatorship - Adolf Hitler. But, he was the most popular man in Germany, and remained so until just before Germany collapsed under allied firepower in 1945. At the very beginning, in 1933, certain White Magic Occultists recognized that Hitler was demonically possessed, and that he was a practitioner of the Black Magick Arts. Their vigorous attempts to warn people absolutely fell on deaf ears. Nobody believed him, and many of those who refused to believe died in Hitler's Holocaust; if only more people had believed the warnings that Hitler had a dark, black, demonic side.

HILLIARY CLINTON AND WITCHCRAFT

Now, in 1998, we are issuing the same type of warnings about Bill and Hillary Clinton. Listen carefully to our proofs.

Gary Aldrich, former FBI Agent assigned to the Bush White House as the FBI Liaison, was retained in that position by the Clinton White House. This practice of having an FBI Agent keeping an office within the White House complex was a tradition dating back six presidents, to Lyndon Johnson.  The purpose of this FBI White House office was to maintain a "comprehensive and effective security system ... to protect national security, the president, the taxpayer, and the White House itself". ["Unlimited Access", by Gary Aldrich, p. 5-6] The FBI traditionally assigned one of its very best and finest to occupy this position.  FBI agents are trained investigators, able to not only solve complex and difficult criminal cases, but to be able to testify in a court of law about the findings of their investigations.  Agents such as Aldrich are thoroughly trained observers of all that is occurring before their eyes, as well as to pick up tiny fragments of evidence in a crime scene. Therefore, when an FBI agent observes something, he does so in a way that will stand up in a court of law. Aldrich notes this fact most succinctly.  "Most people with any knowledge of criminal investigations agree that FBI agents are the best investigators in the world." [p. 213]

Agent Aldrich observed much in the course of the nearly 3 years he spent at the Clinton White House [1993-1995] that led him to a sobering conclusion:  "... the Clinton Administration was a corrupt disaster, beyond redemption or repair". [p. 154] What Agent Aldrich was referring to as "corrupt" were the deliberate attempts to block standard FBI background checks on White House staffers, to the blatant drug use by staffers, to the deliberate policy of allowing people without high security clearances to read Top Secret [and above] material, and to the deliberate lapses of National Security policy at the highest level, actions that Aldrich feared could lead to an attack on the United States by either Russia or China.

However, Aldrich unwittingly gave us information, based upon his personal observances of behavior by Bill and Hillary Clinton that absolutely identifies them as the powerful, practicing Illuminist witches we have always said they were.  Of course, since Aldrich was not trained in Black Magick Occult, he did not realize that these observations were so damning.  Aldrich did not realize he had just opened the door to confirming Doc Marquis'[Former Illuminist Witch] assertion that Bill and Hillary were powerful practicing witches, and that Hillary was the most powerful.  Since Agent Aldrich has provided so much material from his book, we shall have to devote several articles to this subject.  We have discussed the occult nature of Aldrich's observations with Doc Marquis, former Illuminist witch, now a Born Again Christian, in preparing for this article.

A TV network reported that occultism in the White House is nothing new. Mary Todd Lincoln is said to have held séances in one of the upstairs rooms — a practice President Lincoln apparently tolerated with amusement. More recently, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton used New Age psychic Jean Houston, co-director of the Foundation for Mind Research, to talk to the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt. Reports say that Mrs. Clinton had talks with Roosevelt and Mohandas Gandhi. From the Bible's point of view, of course, if there was contact with any spirits, they were not the spirits of the dead, but demons.

Mrs. Clinton said, "Now I'm sure that there will be a talk show host somewhere who will point out with great glee that I have gone over the edge and am talking to myself and to Mrs. Roosevelt on a regular basis, but I believe that the world, and particularly our country, would be better off if we all spent a little time talking with Mrs. Roosevelt . . ." (Hillary Rodham Clinton, "Keynote Address at the Dedication of Eleanor Roosevelt College, San Diego," CA, January 26, 1995).

Interestingly, when Houston suggested that Mrs. Clinton have a conversation with Jesus Christ, the first lady declined saying that it would be "too personal" ("Methodist Bishop defends Mrs. Clinton's talks with deceased leaders," Expression, August 1996, p. 8). Incredibly, the United Methodist Bishop of Arkansas, Richard Wilke, endorsed Mrs. Clinton's involvement with necromancy, saying, "I think it's marvelous that she's having experiences like this, " adding that Mrs. Clinton is "one of the most profound lay theologians in the United Methodist Church" (Ibid., p.6). This is simply evidence which shows how deficient in biblical discernment and godly wisdom many church leaders are today. If Ms. Clinton had contact with any spirits, they were not the spirits of the dead, but demons. God's prophets were accurate 100 percent of the time - false prophecy resulted in death by stoning.

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN OCCULTIST?

By David Pescovitz at 1:29 pm Friday, Apr 30 Wrote about President Reagan occult interests, "We all know that Ronald and Nancy Reagan consulted astrologers, but apparently the 40th president was also well-versed in the writings of occult scholar Manly P. Hall, most famous for his 1928 tome The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Over at the Washington Post, former BB guest blogger Mitch Horowitz, author of the excellent "Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation," explores the Reagan-Hall connection. From the Washington Post:

Hall's concise volume "The Secret Destiny of America" described how America was the product of a "Great Plan" for religious liberty and self-governance, launched by a hidden order of ancient philosophers and secret societies. In one chapter, Hall described a rousing speech delivered by a mysterious "unknown speaker" before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The "strange man," wrote Hall, invisibly entered and exited the locked doors of the Philadelphia statehouse on July 4th, 1776, delivering an oration that bolstered the wavering spirits of the delegates. "God has given America to be free!" commanded the mysterious speaker, urging the men to overcome their fears of the noose, axe, or gibbet, and to seal destiny by signing the great document. Newly emboldened, the delegates rushed forward to add their names. They looked to thank the stranger only to discover that he had vanished from the locked room. Was this, Hall wondered, "one of the agents of the secret Order, guarding and directing the destiny of America?"

At a 1957 Commencement Address at his alma mater Eureka College, Reagan, then a corporate spokesman for GE, sought to inspire students with this leaf from occult history: "This is a land of destiny," Reagan said, "and our forefathers found their way here by some Divine system of selective service gathered here to fulfill a mission to advance man a further step in his climb from the swamps…"

Reagan then retold (without naming a source) the tale of Hall's unknown speaker. "When they turned to thank the speaker for his timely words," Reagan concluded, "he couldn't be found and to this day no one knows who he was or how he entered or left the guarded room."

Witchcraft is openly promoted and received from the White house, for instance, former U.S. president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy were often the centers of debate regarding the controversial topic Astrology. According to a former White House source, the Reagan’s, said to be very superstitious, and consulted horoscopes and a particular California astrologer prior to making major decisions affecting both their private and political lives. The former president maintained that he did not make major decisions based on astrology, but Mrs. Reagan admitted to dabbling in stargazing ("Just Say No to Astrology," Expression, June 1988).

PRESIDENT OBAMA

President Obama’s mother-in-law is openly practicing Santeria in the White House. 72-year-old Marian Robinson, who lives in the White House and looks after Obama brats Sasha and Malia, began practicing the Afro-Hispanic witchcraft in the late 1980′s to help her ailing husband, who was crippled from multiple sclerosis. Robinson took him “to ceremonies where they did spells and trances, and sacrificed animals, chickens and goats,” which upset Michelle, a close friend reports. “But Marian was desperate and kept going anyway, even when her husband was too sick to go with her.” Michelle never brought up the incidents after her father passed away in 1993.

The friend says Robinson is now afraid for her health and recently invited an old friend with whom she practiced Santeria with to the White House. Michelle is said to have “flipped” when she saw the woman.  Obama reportedly has told Michelle that her mother will have to go back to Chicago if she does not “stop this witchcraft mumbo-jumbo immediately” and ordered the Secret Service to not allow Marian’s friend to return to the White House.

Daniel 2:1–2. King Nebuchadnezzar believed that he had received an important Divine communication. He summoned all of his magicians, sorcerers and Chaldeans. He admonished them to tell him, both his dream and the interpretation, pretending to have forgotten the dream so he could test their skills.  The astrologers failed the test and the King ordered them all executed. God, however, revealed the dream and its meaning to Daniel who after revealing it and the interpretation with Nebuchadnezzar was made the ruler over the whole province of Babylon. God rewarded obedience but chastised disobedience.

“There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up,” (Dan. 3:12). It is better to be seen standing alone for God, His word & His truth. That is the Rock that never fails and no earthquake can pull down! You will still stand when fear, compromise & unbelief make others fall because they are standing on sand foundation.

OPRAH WINFREY MEDIA IDOLS

Oprah’s Production Company “Harpo” is “Oprah” spelled backward, thus showing a secret following for the teachings (the law of reversal) of another occultist Aleister Crowley. Make sure and read our article” Aleister Crowley; “The Most Wicked Man that ever lived!” His teachings still guide the direction of American!

We thought author Jason Kovac had an interesting insight into Winfrey. “Oprah freely confesses to demonic possession as a tool to enhance her influencing performances before the camera.” She said: “I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me. Every morning, before my scenes, I lit candles and said the names of these slaves. I prayed every day to the ancestors”. Oprah’s motion picture, "Beloved", gives an account of a woman who is haunted by the spirit of her dead daughter; which is a Biblically condemned story that advocates communication with the dead. Expressing her strong agreement to cinematically express such themes, Oprah recalls her conversation with Beloved’s author Toni Morrison. She stated: “I told her I’d just read the book and what it meant to me and how I felt so strongly that the world needed to hear this story, and the way to do it was through film.”

Oprah sought after demonic possession in order to elicit a superior acting performance whereby she might gain a greater influence over her viewers. Beloved’s Director, Jonathon Demme, who is also the director of The Silence of the Lambs, recalled: “Oprah had explained to me when we originally met that it was her goal and intention to channel the spirit of Margaret Garner…This very infusion of humanity past accounts to a significant degree for Oprah’s stunning alchemy, her astonishing abandonment of self in her Beloved performance.” Oprah Winfrey preaches a new age gospel that says any leader can be a Jesus. She says there are many paths to Heaven.

JOHN EDWARD – CROSSING OVER

The Messages from the Spirits: John Edward’s show, "Crossing Over," was so popular on the Sci-Fi channel, that it ‘‘crossed over’’ from cable to regular network. Edward approaches a section of the audience and starts giving his ‘‘impressions’’ of what he is getting, whether it be a name, numbers, or a date, until someone responds with information that matches. He also asks the person questions as he tosses out ‘‘clues’’ he says he is receiving. Sometimes it seems that he is throwing out very general information and that the person in the audience is filling in the blanks for Edward. Other times, Edward seems to be uncannily accurate. Is he really receiving messages from dead people?

Interestingly, it seems the dead have a hard time being very clear. For example, they may show Edward pink roses to say that everything is alright or they may show Edward a flag to indicate their past patriotism in this life. It is sort of like a game of spiritual charades. One wonders about this. Why can’t the dead just speak words to Edward, or write them out on a "spirit chalkboard" so to speak?

JAMES VAN PRAAGH

James Van Praagh, in explaining the difficulty he has in interpreting the symbols shown to him by spirits, said that the recently deceased spirits were just learning to communicate, and so one could not expect all messages to be clear. This raises other questions: Why do recently dead people have trouble communicating? Where do they get these objects that they show Edward and Van Praagh? Why can’t they just project their thoughts into Edward’s mind? Why are their messages so prosaic and, well, boring? The picture one gets of these creatures certainly does not present a very interesting company of people to pass the time with. Why would these spirits have any special wisdom just because they are dead?  Though the spirits always claim to be happy and to be doing well (is Hitler also there with them, doing okay?), we do not know why they are happy and doing well. What do they do, exactly? And if they told us, how do we know it’s true? How can we test these spirits to see if they are lying about anything or everything they tell the mediums? The answer is that we can’t test them based on our own experiences since we haven’t been to the other side. Only God really knows if these spirits are telling the truth.

Note that the messages from the "dead," from the spirits, and from channeled entities never encourage people to believe the Bible, never urge people to trust Christ for salvation, and often openly contradict God’s word or even speak derisively of Christ as Savior. For example, the "God" in Walsch’s books attacks very early on the credibility of the Bible, which he mentions specifically, saying that words cannot contain truth (of course, that should apply to Walsch’s books as well since they are nothing but words!). This "God" also attacks the idea that there is right and wrong, and urges Walsch to abandon previous beliefs. At one point, "God" even tells Walsch that he (Walsch) is God’s equal, and that Adam’s fall was actually his "upliftment," and that it was not sin, but was a "first blessing," This is directly opposite of God’s Word.

Note that the messages from the "dead," from the spirits, and from channeled entities never encourage people to believe the Bible, never urge people to trust Christ for salvation, and often openly contradict God’s word or even speak derisively of Christ as Savior.  For example, the "God" in Walsch’s  books  attacks  very early on the credibility of the Bible, which he mentions specifically, saying that words cannot contain truth (of course, that should apply to Walsch’s books as well since  they are nothing  but words!). This "God" also attacks the idea that there is right and wrong, and urges Walsch to abandon previous beliefs. At one point, "God" even tells Walsch that he (Walsch) is God’s equal, and that Adam’s fall was actually his "uplifting" and that it  was not sin, but was a "first blessing," This is directly opposite of  God’s Word.

SYBIL LEAK POPULARIZED WITCHCRAFT

Sybil Leak exploded on the scene in the seventies and eighties. She was a front line person spreading the powers of witchcraft across the country and world-wide. You may remember that Mrs. Leek popularized the hunger for witchcraft in America visiting the talk shows and being interviewed for featured articles in leading magazines. Her books are still being taught in many universities and colleges courses. She became so successful that many said that she had forgotten how to cast a spell.

Did Ms. Leak become a Christian? The author has personally talked too many Christians from Melbourne, Florida area who all testify that they have first-hand knowledge of America's most famous witch of the seventies, Sybil Leek's profession of repentance and confession of faith in Jesus Christ.

Rev. Arlene Coulter, Resurrection Ranch, told me that while Sybil Leek was on her death bed at a local hospital, bout fifty Christians linked arms outside and prayed for her soul. She said two women went in and Ms. Leek allowed them to pray for her. She prayed for Jesus Christ to save her.

Another friend of mine, the late Rev. Irene Park, author of “The Witch That Switched” related to me how women from Melbourne had called her out of a meeting in Texas to ask her what to do. It is true; Jesus Christ translated both these witches, Sybil Leek and Irene Park, out of the kingdom of darkness into His wonderful light.

Chapter Three

Gods of the World

WARNINGS FROM EXPERIENCE

Harold Sherman, author of Thoughts Though Space, an expert in mental telepathy, (ESP) gives some serious warnings to those who seek to snoop in psychic phenomena, He points out the sovereignty of the human mind is definitely endangered by these practices. He found that sometimes, on becoming attuned to the subconscious, panoramic series of mental images and impressions would rush uncontrollably through his mind. These unbidden experiences were frightening. They took a terrific emotional toll giving him serious physical aftereffects. He said it called for a great exercise of will power to overcome these forces that were seeking control of his mind.

Mr. Sherman declared with his exploration into telepathy he suffered a loss of health from the results of the emotional and physical strain. This resulted in stomach ulcers, and causing hemorrhages which nearly took his life.

The door to unhealthy psychological and pantheistic techniques has now been opened within our churches. Where is it going to lead? Can we close a door that many pastors and church leaders and political leaders do not even understand exists? Once the door is opened can, we prevent a flood of unconventional methods from walking through it.

SPIRITS OF OCCULT INVASION

The Lord detests all who dabble with witchcraft; we cannot seek false gods – idols, (I Jn. 5:21. I Cor. 10:14 Ps. 78:58). Test the spirits to see if they are of God. (I Jn. 4:1). The demons replying to contacts are not dead people or wise spiritual beings, but evil spirits. The messages from these spirits may mention God, but they never urge Bible study, worship of God, or the need for Christ as Savior. These evil spirits deny Christ as the Savior or distort His message. Christians are forbidden to acquire information from God through evil spirit contact. They, at no time, must seek out a medium, channeler, or psychic that will contact evil spirits who play to finish their minds and prey on their grief to steal souls. Instead, God gave us His only son, and He gave us His word in scripture. Through trusting in the work of Christ on the cross as the atonement for our sins, we are reconciled to God. Jesus, who has power over all the spiritual realms, has this to say: (Rev. 1:17b-18). "I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades,"

We are seeing more and more of an integration of the occult into and through supposedly Christian personalities but the Bible reveals that God and the devil cannot rule the same life! If, instead of “forsaking all” one seeks after Satan using his devilish devices, the cost may be eternity in the lake of fire (Rev. 21:8 22:15).

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: Shall not a people see unto their God? For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them!” (Isa. 8: 19, 20).

SPIRIT OF WITCHCRAFT

What does the First Commandment say? (Exod. 20:2-5), God says, "He is the Lord our God and we are not to have any other gods before Him." The first commandment also warns us that God is jealous and won't tolerate our seeking power or guidance from any other god. "Thou shalt have no other gods 7 before Me," (Deut. 5:7).

Involvement in the occult is breaking the first commandment (II Cor. 4:4). "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."

God loves us and has forbidden the practice of witchcraft to us for it so dangerous.

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils,” (I Tim. 4:1).

“Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron," (I Tim. 4:2), whatever we have seen, or heard, or touched, or experienced through any of our senses has an effect on us, no matter how long ago.

It is recorded within us for we are like computers; thoughts fed into our subconscious minds affect us, for good or for evil. Paul warned us to carefully choose our thoughts.

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you,” (Phil 4:8-9).

For our own good, we need to heed this warning in the scriptures and rid ourselves of subconscious contamination. If one seeks after another god, then one would be cursed, the children are cursed, grandchildren are cursed, and great grandchildren are cursed.

For our own good, we need to heed this warning in the scriptures and rid ourselves of subconscious contamination.

AVENUES TO THE OCCULT

Demonology has become very attractive to Americans. Everywhere you go, you can now witness cabalistic activity. It is blatant. Psychics and astrologers are using the 900 numbers. Occult themes are being worked into many television programs. Talk shows are featuring astrologers, divinators, clairvoyants, scientologists, Satanists, witches, psychics, crystal gazers, dream analysis, yoga mediator, reincarnations, hypnotists, fortune-tellers, spiritualists, parapsychologists, numerologists and New Agers.

"Many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an Antichrist. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds," (II Jn. 7).

Physics such as John Edward, Jeanne Dixon, Shirley McClaine, Ruth Montgomery, and other astrologers influence presidents, Senators, Congressmen and people in high places. Occult movies, heavy metal rock music, fantasy role-playing games. These games have the attention of the young and the old. Books on magic, witchcraft, paganism, Satanism, gremoires cross the boundary lines of gender. Objects used for spells, such as candles, incense, knives, pentagrams, inverted cross, symbolic jewelry are being sold in great numbers.

"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; 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; whose end shall be according to their works," (II 11:13-15).

Fantasy is the world to which wizards, witches and Satanist seek constant access. It is a world filled with inflaming adventures with magical allusions awaiting them at every step. Just as a Satanist will consider his fantasy world to be more exciting, more fulfilling, than his real world, we are finding that average people are looking for the escapes into the worlds of deceptions.

Fantasy works in the mind by the spirit of illusion. The victim is placed in a world that is not real. Fantasy helps the spiritual realms to change the spiritual prospectus of the human mind. To a child, fantasy will place a blocking spirit of fear as a gatekeeper into the mind and the Gatekeeper will stop all old information from coming through. For instance, blocking the Word of God, Jesus and Christianity when contact is made with the supernatural world of imaginary demons, the atmosphere will be full of real demons. These demons will walk through the open doors of the mind and take possession of those who engage in these fantasy books.

SPIRIT WHITE WITCHCRAFT

Many modern witches’ claim to be heirs to an unbroken religious tradition stretching back into primeval history; they worship the Great Mother, Gaia, the earth mother, the symbol of fertility and the oldest and most elemental of the ancient gods. White witchcraft insists that it is a religion and not an evil cult.

White witches believe there is a distinction between white magic and black magic. But the source of power for white witchcraft, white magic is the same as that of black witchcraft and black magic. It is all from the same Devil. Remember any supernatural power that is not association with Jesus Christ and His Word is of Satan.

WORSHIP MOTHER EARTH

Vice President Gore wrote a book in the eighties, called, Earth in Balance, which challenges Christians “to worship mother earth.” He says that they are ignorant if they keep their minds closed to other forms of religions. He claims to be a Southern Baptist. What a shame. What a deception!

Wicca is a cult of neo paganism, or white witchcraft that has been flourishing in the west since the 1960’s; the group maintains that their "old religion" is not connected to Satan worship. The gods of Wicca are Mother Goddess who ruled the Harvest god who ruled fishing and hunting.

William Schnoebelen, a former high priest in Wicca, explains that there are many differences between Wicca groups. In his book Wicca: Satan's Little White Lie, he describes some of the variations he found. Some groups perform their ceremonies nude, while others wear robes. In some groups members are scourged with a whip during a ceremony, but most groups do not use whips. Some groups practice ritual sex and sexual orgies; others abstain from sexual ceremonies. There are, however, a few common elements in all Wicca and neo-pagan practices.

METAMORPHOSIS

The term metamorphosis is derived from the Greek verb metamorphoomai, to change form. The question to be discussed in this chapter is this: Is it possible for people to change into animals? It is certainly possible in fairy tales. The prince changes into a frog. A beautiful princess is transformed into a deer by a wicked witch. We, however, are not concerned here with fairy tales and myths. Instances of actual metamorphosis have been reported to me in many countries.

Occasionally, the question has come up in the course of my counseling work. I have come across three forms of animal metamorphosis.

There are some hysterical people who can become prone to epidemic possession and imagine that they are animals. This happened in the last century in a convent in South France. The nuns imagined that they were cats and ran around on all fours meowing. I heard of another example in the USA. There a group of hippies likewise took to imitating four-legged animals and to barking like dogs. As a result they became known as yippies. This is of course not an animal metamorphosis at all. It is a case of delusion.

The second form is connected with the ability of some strong spiritist mediums to split off some of their energy. This energy can then be materialized in the form of an animal. There are examples of this in literature, in the history of missions, and in counseling. One may think for instance of the German stories of the Werewolf. Switzerland has about thirty stories about cats which come into the same category.

Professor Carl Gustav Jung, the most famous of all depth psychologists recalled some spiritist experiences from his own childhood.in an introduction to Fanny Moser’s book, Spuk. I will only say, as far as this second form of metamorphosis is concerned, that I have heard three confessions from mediums that were capable of transfiguration. These three confessions may be taken as honest, in that the mediums concerned were seeking help to become free. In one case, the medium, who was a man, did become His wife had formed a circle of praying friends who prayed for him for years, until the Lord Jesus freed this man from his heavy bondage. The third form is the transformation of a whole medium into an animal. This is the most sinister form of metamorphosis. I have heard of it in Tibet and in Africa.

(Exod. 156), “I will start with an example of a hyena man. Near to a mission station lived a pagan whose neighbors said he turned himself into a hyena at night and fed himself while in that form. During the day, he needed no ordinary human food. I heard an even stranger story in Liberia, this time with some evidence to back it up. I was staying with a district governor who had been educated in Europe. He is a believing Christian. After dinner he told me something about his district. One story about a hunter was of particular interest to me, because I had heard similar things in other African countries.”

(Exod. 157), a hunter had gone out hunting. His boy was carrying his gun for him. In the jungle they both caught sight of a leopard. The boy silently handed the hunter his gun. He raised it, took aim, and fired. At once he heard a woman’s voice crying, “You are a murderer. You have shot me.” Both hurried over to the wounded woman. The hunter asked the boy, “Did you not see a leopard?”  “Yes, certainly; I’m sure I did too.” How can one explain this?

They gave the screaming woman first aid and took her back to the village. The relatives of the wounded woman took the hunter to court. The judge listened to the whole story, and then, to everyone’s amazement, acquitted the hunter. As the reason for his verdict he said, “I know that the hunter is telling the truth. This woman was my first wife. I divorced her when I discovered that she could turn herself into a leopard.” That is African justice. The governor finished the story by saying, “We in our government know that there are leopard people. So we have a law which prescribes the death penalty for such offences.”

To a man of Western education, the idea that a human can transform himself into an animal seems incompatible with reason. But anyone who has spent many years traveling from one mission field to another finds that he must change his thinking about many things. The power of Satan becomes especially evident on the mission field. Correspondingly, one comes to value all the more Jesus’ victory over the power of darkness.

SHAPESHIFTING

Bishop Vagalas Kanco converted to Christianity; fourth generation witch doctor from Africa gives the following testimony. “When very young, Satan gave me the power to change into five different animals, a snake, crocodile, butterfly, lizard, and crab. He says, “This ability means that I was considered to be a middle-class wizard. A demon told me that he had the power to affect transmutations with humans. I asked, “What does that mean?”

“I can change humans to the forms of animals,” the demon replied.

All at once, he changed me into a snake. I got so excited that I wanted to go and play in this new body form. I was able to go through walls and these new body forms were moved by my mind power. I became more and more intrigued with the powers of the demonic world.

WEREWOLF

The dictionary definition of a werewolf, "a person transformed into a wolf or capable of assuming the form of a wolf..." This transmutation is not unique in Satanism, but it is done only at the highest levels of witchcraft. Severe demonic possession is also required. This spiritual process is also called "shape-shifting.” Shape-shifting is done with the power of demons and they can assume other forms than just a wolf!

If you have been paying attention, you have noticed several TV shows and movies that have depicted shape-shifting such as, “Roswell” “Werewolf” with Jack Nicholson, “American Werewolf” in London, “American Werewolf in Paris,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Teen Wolf” with Michael J. Fox and The Harry Potter books and movie. These supernatural powers are shown in these films. The fantasy is the world to which every wizard seeks constant access. It is a world filled with exciting adventures with magic awaiting them at every step. A wizard will consider his fantasy world to be more exciting, more fulfilling, than his real world.

The Associated Press reports Prince Charles says he’s related to another famous prince — Vlad the Impaler, progenitor of vampire legend. Why is the prince so eager to be linked to one of history’s bloodiest figures? Because he’s an environmentalist, Prince Charles spends a considerable amount of time and money touring the planet promoting various green causes, and by saying he’s related to the hero of Transylvania, he can say he has a vested interest in preserving the forests of Romania. This Prince could become King of England which would make him head of the Christian Anglican Church.

Christians are forbidden to acquire information from God through evil spirit contact. They, at no time, must seek out a medium, channeled, or psychic that will contact evil spirits who play to finish their minds and prey on their grief to steal souls. Instead, God gave us His only son, and He gave us His word in scripture. Through trusting in the work of Christ on the cross as the atonement for our sins, we are reconciled to God. Jesus, who has power over all the spiritual realms, has this to say: "I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades," (Rev. 1:17b-18).

We are seeing more and more of an integration of the occult into and through supposedly Christian personalities but the Bible reveals that God and the devil cannot rule the same life! If, instead of “forsaking all” one seeks after Satan using his devilish devices, the cost may be eternity in the lake of fire (Rev. 21:8 22:15). Isaiah wrote: “And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: Shall not a people see unto their God; for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them!” (Isa. 8:19).

SUPERNATURAL POWER

Psychics, New Agers, mediums, Satanists, those who follow the occult and spiritualists are seeking power. They are looking for supernatural ways to improve conditions of possessing greater power over the minds of the average human being. They are bringing an onslaught of counterfeit faiths, including the pursuit of witchcraft and Satanism.

You probably know persons who place their faith somewhere else other than in God. Where are they placing their hopes?  Do we as a nation look elsewhere for help? Do you personally look for security and satisfaction somewhere else? Where?

So far, the Christian Church has not responded to the supernatural move of Satan? Will we continue to ignore the plot and plans of the Devil to steal our children by keeping our faith locked inside the church walls?  Can we teach our people to motivate by the Great Commission to carry the gospel to our cities and take territory for Jesus Christ?

Jesus said, “Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be dammed. And these signs shall follow them that believe . . .  “(Mk. 16:15-17).

Just imagine what would happen if every church became evangelistic in our nation?  We could recapture our country for Christ! There is a great darkness covering the world, including our nation. What are you doing? What is your church doing?

IDOLATRY AND NATIONAL CURSE

Jeremiah says that idolatry makes us look foolish and causes us to become as worthless as the idols we worship. Do our contemporary idols make us act foolishly? If so, how can we grow worthless by placing our faith in something less than God? “Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.” (Jer. 2:11).

In Jeremiah chapter two, we see the people have raced after other gods and we can hear in Jeremiah’s words the anger and disgust he feels at their faithlessness. “For my people have committed  two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water, “(Jer. 2:13).

We hear, too, a desperate word of warning: Turn back! You are bringing destruction upon yourselves by forsaking your God! “Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? Thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. Yea, thou shalt go forth from him and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them,” (Jer. 2:36, 37).

Jeremiah’s message could be given to our nation today! We are witnessing the problems of faithlessness and idolatry. We see the Word of God treated as being worthlessness and that is sometimes translated as “delusion.”

Jeremiah uses the word in Hebrews that plays upon the name Baal, the Canaanite fertility god. By using this particular word, he subtly underlines Baal’s unreality and impotence. Next we find a series of metaphors describing the depravity and the ultimate foolishness of Israel’s sin. He described the high hills and green trees of verse 20 refer to pagan religious practices. The fertility cults worshiped on hilltops and held trees as sacred objects.

“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou sadist, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD,” (Jer. 2:19-22).

The Valley cited in verse 23 is probably the valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem. “How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? See thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways,” (Jer. 2:23). This valley is famous as the scene of orgies and child sacrifice in the name of Baal.

In verse 27 he mentions stones and trees; large sacred stones and wooden pillars were used in Baal worship. “Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, arise, and save us. But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? Let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah,” (Jer. 2:27-28).

Then in Chapter three he continues the denunciation of Israel’s idolatry. Here, however, Jeremiah concentrates on a single image, that of Israel as a promiscuous woman. “They say, if a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness,” (Jer. 3:12).

IMMUNE TO POWERS OF DARKNESS

The western part of the Church sees itself as immune to the powers of darkness and believes that demonology is just a concern for the idolatrous, heathen countries. However, we become more and more idolatrous as we seek after everything but Jesus in our homes, churches and government.

The author attended a church about fifteen years ago. An evangelist came to speak whose evangelistic field was in one of the dark nations. He said from the platform, “When we come to America to raise funds for our work, the pastors tells us not to speak about demonology or witchcraft.  Our people just don’t want to know about these things.” This evangelist said that the Holy Spirit revealed to him that in the coming days, churches in America would have to hold all night prayer meetings just to be able to survive! Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to spiritual things. The Apostle Paul said that “He would not have us ignorant of spiritual things!

FAITHLESSNESS AND IDOLATRY

Jeremiah’s message could be given to our nation today! We are witnessing the problems of faithlessness and idolatry.  We see the Word of God treated as being worthlessness and that is sometimes translated as “delusion.” Jeremiah uses the word in Hebrews that plays upon the name Baal, the Canaanite fertility god. By using this particular word, he subtly underlines Baal’s unreality and impotence. Next we find a series of metaphors describing the depravity and the ultimate foolishness of Israel’s sin. He described the high hills and green trees of verse 20 refer to pagan religious practices. The fertility cults worshiped on hilltops and held trees as sacred objects.

“Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou sadist, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD,” (Jer. 2:19-22).

PROMISCUOUS WOMAN

Then in Chapter three he continues the denunciation of Israel’s idolatry. Here, however, Jeremiah concentrates on a single image, that of Israel as a promiscuous woman. “They say, if a man put away his wife and she go from him and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness,” (Jer. 3:1-2).

Chapter Four

Witchcraft, Divination and Sorcery

WITCHCRAFT AND SATAN’S IMPS

Mrs. Penn-Lewis wrote, “. . . when the existence of evil spirits is recognized by the heathen, it is generally looked upon the missionary as “superstition’ and ignorance; whereas the ignorance is often on the part of the missionary, who is blinded by the prince of the power of the air to the revelation given in the Scriptures, concerning the satanic powers.”

Witchcraft is the use of a person employing satanic power. It is Satan’s way of imposing his will on your will and enforcing emotions, behaviors, or circumstances on people they would not otherwise want. Witchcraft cause to be endured, its power primarily though curses and spells.

A system of fraud

Ezekiel 13:6-7, “They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken?”

SPIRITS OF DIVINATION

Divination is fortune telling, or forecasting the future under the power of a demon. People want to know about the time to come. Sometimes soothsaying can be found in the church masquerading as prophecy. Many Christians get caught up in false prophetess or prophet to tell them “what God is saying about them. Really, if you want to know what God is saying about you, study His Word.

The Bible warns against using divination, (Deut. 18-12). Definitions by Webster. DIVINATION; The art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge, usually by interpretation of omens, or by the aid of supernatural powers; SORCERY Use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits, a sorceress witch.

The art or practice that seeks to foresee or foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge, usually by interpretation of omens, or by the aid of supernatural powers…

God does address the issue of spirit contact. What does God say about it? God forbids divination, sorcery, spirit contact, consulting mediums, consulting those who contact the dead, casting spells, and heeding omens, (Deut. 18: 10-12).

Diviners

(Deut. 18:14, “For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do”.

Enchanters

(Deut. 18:10, “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch”,

(Jer.27:9), “Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon”:

Witches

(Exod. 22:18), “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live”.

(Deut. 18:10, “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch…”

Charmers

(Deut. 18:11), “Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”

Wizards

(Deut. 18:11), “Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”

(I Sam. 28:3), “Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city, and Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land…”

Consulters of familiar spirits

(Deut. 18:11), “Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”

Magicians

(Gen. 41:8), “And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.”

(Dan. 4:7), “Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.”

Astrologers

(Isa. 47:13), “Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. “

(Dan. 4:7), “Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.”

Sorcerers

(Jer. 27:9), “Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:”

(Acts 13:6), “And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:”

(Acts 13:8), “But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith”.

Necromancers

(Deut. 18:11), “Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”

Soothsayers

(Isa. 2:6), “Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. “

(Dan. 2:27), “Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;”

False prophets

(Jer. 14:14), “Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.”

(Ezek. 13:3), “Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!”

(Eze.l 13:6), “They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.”

SPIRITS OF WITCHCRAFT EFFECTS

How do we know what to watch for if someone is involved in witchcraft? A steady diet of occult oriented programs, movies and television shows are being projected to the world. These witchcraft mediums do have power to affect the lives of those who expose themselves to these occult channels. According to news reports, Susan Sarandon, who starred in the movie, "Witches of Eastwick" has been seeing ghost and demons in terrifying nightmares ever since she filmed it. She's afraid of having a nervous breakdown and just wants to forget the entire experience. She earlier suffered a near breakdown after she filmed, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." The emotional and physical exhaustion sidelined her for almost a year. Besides roles in "Witches" and Rocky Horror...," she starred in "The Hunger," which she was seduced by a vampire.

These horror shows may also affect the people who curiously go to see them. Demons are also drawn to them and will torment these curiosity seekers for the rest of their lives. God knows the awful terrors that can come upon a person's life by opening themselves to these evil forces.

TV, movie, magazines and newspapers do not seem to realize the terrible forces; they are unleashing on the deceived individuals, who will respond to the power of a witch. Hundreds of thousands have become spiritual slaves. They are captives because of the media's spiritual blindness. They do not see the psychics, for example, as dangerous influences on society.

Satan's ambassadors are very successful and extremely evangelistic, capturing spiritual slaves. Satan worship, coupled with human sacrifices is widespread and happening across our country now! God forbids any occult practices. He calls them an abomination (something He hates!)

THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW

The author ministered to a twenty-five years old man who had gone to see the movie, "The Serpent and the Rainbow." He left the theater believing that someone had stolen his soul. This young man was under psychiatric care and was receiving strong mind-binding drugs. He was being told by a demon to kill the author. He finally was able after much prayer to recover from this little trip to a voodoo inspired movie. Don't ever let anyone tell you that these devilish things do not have serious effects upon those who open themselves to them.

One woman I know was an actress when she was young. The movie in which she starred was occult-horror based. After many years, she was struck down by the spirit of Lupus, (lupus means wolf). Towards the end of her illness, the spirit of death arrived. Her spirit was going in and out of her body. One day the Holy Spirit spoke to her husband to go home and cast the evil thing out. He came home and called the demon out in the name of Jesus and she was immediately set free!

When I ministered to her, she said that woman in that movie gave her a small wooden box. The woman asked her if she would keep the box until she returned for it. The Christians that were ministering to her, advised her to get rid of the box. She threw it away and lupus never returned. She told me that while her spirit was going out and back into her body, she saw an evil- leering wolf standing at the foot of her bed. This woman got a spirit of lupus and the spirit of death from one contact with involvement with an evil movie and a strange woman’s curse.

CHILDREN TRAINED WITCHES AND WIZARDS

Think of our children, whose parents take them to buy “Harry Potter” books dressing them in witches and wizard costumes at the bewitching hour of twelve midnight. Parents are buying them demonic computer games, taking them to see these occult-fantasy movies. What types of demonic spirits are these children going to face after the fun is over? What kind of heavyhearted experiences are their parents going to be facing when these demonic blooms blossom? Have you led your children down the pathway of witchcraft? You had better repent and ask the Lord Jesus to deliver you because destruction is coming to confront you. You are in spiritual warfare and in most cases, the Devil is winning and the Christian Church is sleeping.

SATANIC POWER

Sorcery operates by Satan’s supernatural power and is released through drugs, fetishes, potions, (conjured by wizards’ and witches’) drink or food that has been ritualistically fashioned to bind the person. It can be released in music, charms, and fetishes.

The Bible says that witchcraft is the root of all rebellion, “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king,” (I Sam. 15:23).

Rebellion is the taproot of witchcraft. It is the root of all human troubles and its roots run the deepest.  Notice two actions are connected to witchcraft, stubbornness is likened to idolatry and rebellion is witchcraft. Rebellion says, “I will do it my way and not God’s way and stubbornness says, I won’t change”

There are three key words identifying witchcraft: manipulation, domination and intimidation. These words translate into “control.” Anytime someone asserts authority not given by God.  It is called witchcraft; it is rebellion against delegated authority. When one uses such illegitimate authority, one resorts to manipulating, dominating or intimidating in order to rule over other people!

SPIRITUAL REVELATIONS

If you are going to understand the Word of God, you must have a spiritual attitude toward it. The Lord said that “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned,” (I Cor. 2:14).

God refuses to reveal Himself to just any casual passerby. The Lord indicated this when He said in the Sermon on the Mount. “Give not that  which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn against you  and rend you,” (Matt. 7:6). This same thought must have been in his mind when He prayed, saying, “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight…” (Matt. 11:25.26).

The fact that one must have a spiritual attitude that comes from spiritual life in order to understand the deep things of the Word of God is also the true meaning of the great verse which I quote in paraphrase: “For whosoever hath [new life in Christ] to him shall be given [knowledge of the divine plan and revelation], and he shall have more abundance:  but whosoever hath not [the new life in Christ], from him shall be taken away even that [common sense and deep learning that might make him one of the world’s leaders of the world’s thinking] he hath,” (Matt. 13:12).

If you are going to understand the Word of God, you must have a spiritual attitude toward it. The Lord said that “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned,” (I Cor. 2:14).

DUALISM OF MIND AND BODY

The apostle Paul was keenly sensible of the dualism of mind and body and of the law in his members warring against the law of his mind (Rom. 7:23), and of the temporary victory of the evil, residing in the flesh, over the good of the spirit (verses14 ff). This dualism was objected in Zoroastrianism, and among the Babylonians the several heavenly bodies were regarded as ruled by spirits, some good and some evil. The same belief, appropriated by the Jews during the captivity, appears also in Greek thought, as, e.g., in Plato and later in the Stoics. The higher spheres, which hold the even tenor of their way, were in general regarded as ruled by good spirits; but in the sublunary sphere, to which the earth belongs, ill-regulated motions prevail, which must be due to evil spirits.

The perversities of human conduct, in particular, thwarting, as was thought, the simple, intelligible divine plan, was held to be subject to rebellious powers offering defiance to God. While Paul clearly recognized a hierarchy of such powers (Col. 1:16), ("thrones or dominions or principalities or powers"), it is not certain that he had elaborated a system of aeons to serve the purposes of metaphysical theology and ethics, such as appears among the Gnostics, although they evidently believed they were developing his thought.

In (I Cor. 2:6), he repudiates the wisdom of this world (aion) and of the rulers of this world (aion), and declares (Eph. 6:12) that the Christian has to contend with "the world-rulers of this darkness," and proclaims the triumph of Christ over "the principalities and the powers" in the forgiveness of sins (Col. 2:15).

The same personification of such agencies or powers appears also in  another  passage, where the  rendering of English Versions of the Bible obscures it (Eph. 1:20-21): "when he raised him (Christ) from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all (read "every") rule (Revised Version; "principality," the King James Version), and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world (aion), but also in that which is to come").

Not the least interesting passage is (Eph. 3:10), where the church is said to be the means of revealing to "the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places" "the manifold wisdom of God." One naturally inquires what the purpose of this revelation was. Was it to affect a redemption and reconciliation of these demonic powers to God? To this question Paul supplies no answer.

There is certainly some part of imagination in Dionysius’ division, although there can be no doubt that all the words are to found in the Bible. A good concordance will lead easily to all of the expressions, except “virtues,” and this is the old English word which translates the Greek of a passage that speaks of “the mighty angels” (II Thess. 1:7).

The Scriptures give us definite warrant for teaching that there is a gradation of power and intelligence and that some beings of every rank have remained faithful to God and that some of every rank has followed Satan in his rebellion.

WITCH - WITCHCRAFT

“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king,” (1 Sam 15:23).

Pentacles and pentagrams are considered to be two of the most powerful symbols within the world of occultism and witchcraft. They can be seen throughout our modern society, being used as earnings, necklaces, on posters, banners, and certain magazine and CD album covers. You can see them in New Age bookstores and in the occult sections of major book retailers such as Barnes and Noble. I’ve personally seen these symbols on T-shirts, organizational letterheads, brochures, billboard advertisements, tombstones, and within movies and television shows. Pentacles and pentagrams can be found all over.

The physical differences between the pentacle and pentagram are minimal. Pentacles are upright five-pointed stars within a circle. Pentagrams often have the point facing down. Within the occult, they supposedly have opposite spiritual properties. From a Christian viewpoint, however, both symbols represent forces that oppose Biblical truth.

(wich), (wich'-kraft):

The Words, Their Meaning and Use

Biblical Usage

Common Elements in Witchcraft and Ancient Oriental Magic

Rise, Spread and Persecution of Witchcraft

Meaning and Use of the Words: The word "witch" seems to denote etymologically "one that knows." It is historically both masculine and feminine; indeed the Anglo-Saxon form Wicca, to which the English word is to be traced, is masculine alone. "Wizard" is given as masculine for witch, but it has in reality no connection with it. Wright English Dialect Dictionary, VII, 521 says he never heard an uneducated person speak of wizard. When the people it denotes use this word, he says, a person who undoes the work of a witch. Shakespeare often uses "witch" of a male (compare Cymbeline, I, 6, l. 166: "He is a witch").

In Wycliffe’s translation of Acts 8:9 Simon Magus is called "a witch" ("wicche"). Since the 13th century the word "witch" has come more and more to denote a woman who has formed a pact with the Devil or with evil spirits, by whose aid she is able to cause all sorts of injury to living beings and to things. The term "witchcraft" means in modern English the arts and practices of such women.

Biblical Usage: Since the ideas we attach to "witch" and "witchcraft" was unknown in Bible times, the words have no right place in our English Bible, and this has been recognized to some extent but not completely by the Revisers of 1884. The word "witch" occurs twice in the King James Version, namely, (1) in (Exod. 22:18), "Thou shalt not suffer a witch (the Revised Version (British and American) "a sorceress") to live"; (2) in (Deut. 18:10), "or a witch" (The Revised Version (British and American) "or a sorcerer"). The Hebrew word is in both cases the participle of the verb (kishsheph), denoting "to practice the magical article." See MAGIC, V, 2. In the first passage, however, the feminine ending (-ah) is attached, but this ending denotes also one of a class and (on the contrary) a collection of units; see Kautzsch, Hebrew Grammar 28, section 122.

The phrase "the witch of Endor" occurs frequently in literature, and especially in common parlance, but it is not found in the English Bible. The expression has come from the heading and summary of the King James Version, both often so misleading. In (I Sam 28), where alone the character is spoken of, English Versions of the Bible translates the Hebrew 'esheth ba`alath 'obh by "a woman that hath a familiar spirit." A literal rendering would be "a woman who is mistress of an 'obh or ghost,” i.e. one able to compel the departed spirit to return, and to answer certain questions. This woman was therefore a necromancer, a species of diviner.

ENDOR, WITCH OF; FAMILIAR SPIRIT

Is not what the term "witch" imports; the word "witchcraft" occurs thrice in the King James Version. in (I Sam 15:23), "the sin of witchcraft" should be as in the Revised Version margin, "the sin of divination," the latter representing the Hebrew word qecem, generally translated "divination".

The phrase "used witchcraft" of Manasseh, (II Chron. 33:16) is properly rendered in The Revised Version (British and American) "practiced sorcery,” the Hebrew verb (kishsheph) being that whence the participles in (Exod. 22:18 and Deut. 18:10), translated in the King James Version "witch," are derived (see above). The word translated in the King James Version "witchcraft" in (Gal 5:20), (pharmakeia) is the ordinary Greek one for "sorcery," and is so rendered in The Revised Version (British and American), though it means literally the act of administering drugs and then of giving magical potions. It naturally comes then to stand for the magician's art, as in the present  passage  and also in (Wisd. 12:4; 18:13); and in the Septuagint of (I Sam. 47:9), where it represents the Hebrew noun keshaphim, translated "sorceries"; compare the Hebrew verb kishsheph; see above.

The plural "witchcrafts" (in The King James Version and The Revised Version (British and American)) stand for the Hebrew noun just noticed (keshaphim) in (II Kin. 9:22; Mic. 5:12; Nah. 3:4), but in all three passages a proper renders would be "sorceries" or "magical arts." "Witchcrafts" is inaccurate and misleading.

The verb "bewitch" occurs in (Acts 8:9, 11), The King James Version (of Simon Magus bewitching the people) and in (Gal. 3:1) "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?" In the first context the Greek verb is existemi, which is properly rendered by the Revisers "amazed"; in verse 13 the passive of the same verb is translated "he was amazed" (the King James Version "He wondered"). In (Gal. 3:1), the verb is baskaubaino, which is used of a blinding effect of the evil eye and has perhaps an occult reference, but it has nothing whatever to do with "witch" or "witchcraft."

Common Elements in Witchcraft and Ancient Oriental Magic: Though the conceptions conveyed by the English word "witch" and its cognates were unknown to the Hebrews of Bible times, yet the fundamental thought involved in such terms was familiar enough to the ancient Hebrews and to other nations of antiquity (Babylonians, Egyptians, etc.)., namely, that there exists a class of  persons called by   us magicians, sorcerers, etc., who have superhuman power over living creatures including man, and also over nature and natural objects. This power is of two kinds:

Cosmic, (2) personal. For an explanation see MAGIC II. It is in Assyrio-Babylonian literature that we have the completest account of magical doctrine and practice. The words used in that literature for the male and female magician are ashipu and ashiptu, which correspond to the Hebrew mekhashsheph and mekhashshephah in (Deut. 18:10 and Exod. 22:18) (see 2, above) and are cognate to 'ashshaph’ (see Dan 1:20; 2:2, 10, etc). which means a magician (The Revised Version (British and American) "enchanter").

Other Babylonian words are kashshapu and kashshaptu, which in etymology and in sense agree with the Hebrew terms mekhashsheph and mekhashshephah mentioned above. But neither in the Babylonian or Hebrew words is there the peculiar idea of a witch, namely, one who traffics with malicious spirits for malicious ends. Indeed the magician was a source of good (male and female) as conceived by the Babylonians, especially the ashipu and ashiptu, to the state and to individuals, as well as of evil, and he was often therefore in the service of the state as the guide of its policy. And the same applies to the magician as the Hebrews regarded him, though the true teachers and leaders in Israel condemned magic and divination of every sort  as  being  radically opposed to the religion of Yahweh (Deut. 18:10 f).

Of course, if a Babylonian magician used his art to the injury of others he was punished as other criminals, and in case of the death of the victim he was executed as a murderer. It is, however, noteworthy in its bearing on "witchcraft" that the female magician or sorceress played a larger part in ancient Babylonia than her male counterpart, and the same is true of the Greeks and other ancient people. This arose perhaps from the fact that in primitive times men spent their time in fighting and hunting; the cooking of the food and the healing of the sick, wounded, etc., by magical potions and otherwise, falling to the lot of the women who stayed at home.

In the early history of the Hebrew inspired women played a greater role than in later time; compare Miriam (Ex 15:20 f; Num. 12); Deborah (Judg. 5:12); Huldah (II Kin. 22:14 ff). Note also the 'ishshah chakhamah,’ or "wise woman" of (II Sam 14:2 ff; 20:16).

The first two sections of the CH are as follows: “If a man has laid a curse (kispu - keshaphim) upon (another) man and it is not justified, he that laid the curse shall be put to death. 2. If a man has put a spell upon (another) man and it is not justified, he upon whom the spell is laid shall go to the holy river; into the holy river shall he plunge. If the holy river overcome him (and he is drowned), the man who put the spell upon him shall take possession of his house. If the holy river declares him innocent and he remains unharmed the man who laid the spell shall be put to death. He that plunged into the river shall take possession of the house of him who laid the spell upon him." Not a word is said here of a female that weaves a spell, but probably the word "man" in the Babylonian is to be taken as including male and female (so Canon C. H. W. Johns in a private letter, dated December 22, 1912).

RISE, SPREAD AND PERSECUTION OF WITCHCRAFT

In the early and especially in the mediaeval church, the conception of the Devil occupied a very important place, and human beings were thought to be under his dominion until he was exorcized in baptism. It is to this belief that we owe the rise and spread of infant baptism. The unbaptized were thought to be Devil-possessed.

The belief in the existence of women magicians had come down from hoary antiquity. It was but a short step to ascribe the evil those women performed to the Devil and his hosts. Then it was natural to think that the Devil would not grant such extraordinary powers without some quid pro quo; hence, the witch (or wizard) was supposed to have sold her (or his) soul to the Devil, a proceeding that would delight the heart of the great enemy of good always on the alert to hinder the salvation of men; compare the Faust legend. For the conditions believed to be imposed by the Devil upon all who would be in league with him see A. Lehmann, Aberglaube und Zauberei2 (1908), 110 ff.

This idea of a covenant with the Devil is wholly absent from the early heathen conception of magic; nor do we in the latter read of meetings at night between the magicians and the demons with whom they  dealt, such as took place on the Witches' Sabbath. The witches were believed to have sexual commerce with devils and to be capable only of inflicting evil, both thoughts alien to oriental and therefore to biblical magic.

The history and persecution and execution of women, generally ignorant and innocent, supposed to have been guilty of witchcraft, do not fall within the scope of this article, but may be perused in innumerable works: see "Literature" below. In Europe alone, not to mention America (Salem, etc)., Sprenger says that more than nine million suspected witches were put to death on the flimsiest evidence; even if this estimate  is too high the actual number must have  been enormous. The  present writer in his booklet, The Survival of the Evangelical Faith ("Essays for the Times," 1909), gives a brief account of the defense of the reality of witch power by nearly all the Christian theologians of the 17th century and by most of those living in the early 18th century    (see pp. 23 ff). (See also MAGIC, and The Expositor T, IX, 157 ff).

MEDIAEVAL CHURCH

Rise, Spread, and Persecution of Witchcraft: in the early and especially in the mediaeval church, the conception of the Devil occupied a very important place, and human beings were thought to be under his dominion until he was exorcized in baptism. It is to this belief that we owe the rise and spread of infant baptism. The unbaptized were thought to be Devil-possessed. The belief in the existence of women magicians had come down from hoary antiquity. It was but a short step to ascribe the evil those women performed to the Devil and his hosts. Then it was natural to think that the Devil would not grant such extraordinary powers without some quid pro quo; hence, the witch (or wizard) was supposed to have sold her (or his) soul to the Devil, a proceeding that would delight the heart of the great enemy of good always on the alert to hinder the salvation of men; compare the Faust legend. For the conditions believed to be imposed by the Devil upon all who would be in league with him see A. Lehmann, Aberglaube und Zauberei2 (1908), 110 ff.

STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN DURING HALLOWEEN

During the witches' high days, October 18, 31, Halloween, 1989, a strange middle-aged couple moved into a rented house in a Jacksonville neighborhood. A friend noticed different dogs in the yard every day. The people were more than fifty years old, yet, they had a young child that called them "mother, and daddy." A huge rental truck sat in front the home for many days, and a Harley motorcycle was also parked in the front lawn. Candles flickered at night and each passing day, the neighborhood buzzed over their fences about the strange happenings with the unconventional couple. Sometimes, they saw other cars visit the couple. Then, they noticed the young child was no longer in view. Suspiciously, they called the landlord with their curious views.

The landlord arrived on the scene and opened the garage doors. Stacked in the garage, were about fifteen cages with dogs and another fifteen with cats. The stench was more than the Landlord was able to stand. She approached the couple and told them they simply could not rent her property under such conditions. Unless they were willing to get rid of all the animals but one or two of them, they would have to leave.

Suddenly the couple decided to leave. The neighbors watched them pack the cages onto a big semi-truck. This writer called the local police and reported the situation. When the police arrived they had all the dogs and cats in the truck with the door shut. When the police arrived, they were getting ready to drive away. The police questioned them for about five minutes and left. There was still no sign of the small child that was originally seen in the beginning. The police drove away. They never asked to see what was in the back of the truck.

The strange lady came over to borrow a hose to wash the garage down before leaving. The neighbor that called me said that these strange people told her, “we were told by the policeman, you just have some nosey neighbors who called the police station, that's all." They laughed and the policeman took off on his motorcycle not even bothering checking what was in the back of the rental truck. The policeman did not even ask about where the child was that had been calling them "Mother and Daddy!

This is a true story.

SPIRITS OF THE SIXTH SENSE

Some movies that have popularized spirit contact are "The Sixth Sense," "What Lies Beneath," and "The Others." "The Sixth Sense" gave the message that receiving communications from the dead is a special gift. The young boy in the movie finally accepts this as his gift, and he is able to help someone who is grieving over a death.  In addition to the mediums and the movies, there is the angel phenomenon. Angel books abound. Angels are popularized in movies and on TV shows like "Touched by an Angel." Workshops are offered to teach one how to contact one’s Guardian Angel. Angels are promoted as guides. In fact, angels are the new spirit guides, and it seems so much safer to contact an angel than just any old spirit.

Departed spirits are only demons in disguise. Mediums are demon possessed and are used by evil spirits to deceive others into the occult. A demon (evil spirit) can imitate people and work with a medium and deceive their loved ones into believing that their loved ones actually are speaking to them. The deceived one has been opened up to demon activity and is in bondage until Jesus delivers him.

The only guide we want is the Holy Spirit, not evil spirits.

Chapter Five

Spirit of Idolatry

HIGH PLACES AND ALTARS OF INCENSE

(I Kin. 15:1) was set up on the high places beside the "altars of incense" (hammanim) and the "stone pillars" (massebot). Indeed, the "stone pillars" seem to have represented the male god Baal (cf. Judg. 6:28), while the cult object of Asherah, probably a tree or pole, constituted a symbol of this goddess (see W. L. Reed, The Asherah in the Old Testament). But Asherah was only one manifestation of a chief goddess of western Asia, regarded now as the wife, then as the sister, of the principal Canaanite god, El. Other names of this deity were Ashtoreth (Astarte) and Anath. Frequently represented as a nude woman bestride a lion, with a lily in one hand and a serpent in the other, and called Qudshu "the Holiness," that is, "the Holy One" in a perverted moral sense, she was a divine courtesan. In the same sense the male prostitutes consecrated to the cult of the Qudshu and prostituting themselves to her honor were called qedeshim, "sodomites" (Deut. 23:18, marg.; I Kin. 14:24; 15:12; 22:46).

DEMON GODS

“God calls the hosts of heaven gods! “And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, (even) all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven,” (Deut. 4:19).

The Word clearly shows that pagan worship was prevalent in the Old Testament. “And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon and to the planets and to all the hosts of heaven,” (II Kin. 23:5).

The Scripture demonstrates that God’s people did backslide to serve other gods. “And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, (even) teo calves, and made a grove, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal,” (II Kin. 17:16).

Webster's definition of god: The (supreme or ultimate reality) Being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness, whom men worship as creator and ruler of the universe, "a being or object believed to have more than natural attributes and powers and to require man's worship; one controlling a particular aspect or part of reality, (e.g. Neptune, god of the sea)."

God and Satan are the only sources of supernatural power, power, hidden information, guidance, healing, and knowledge. "But there was a certain man, called Simon, which before time in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one," (Acts 8:9). Man cannot live in a supernatural vacuum. Will have either Christ or Satan; but cannot tolerate an empty soul.

ANCIENT DEITIES

The false gods and idols worshiped by people during Bible times-especially the false gods of Egypt, Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylon), Canaan, Greece, and Rome.

Religion has always played an important part in civilization; in the ancient world it was a powerful force. The pagan civilizations of Bible times worshiped many gods. They had male and female deities, high and low gods, assemblies of gods, priests and priestesses, and temples and sacrifices. All the forces of nature that could not be controlled or understood were considered supernatural powers to be worshiped and feared.

Our knowledge of the pagan gods of the ancient world comes from the religious literature, idols, and other objects discovered by archaeologists. We have also learned from the meanings of names found in the literature from this period. People in Bible times were often named with sentences and phrases; sometimes they used the name of their favorite god in the compound name. Thus, names very often reflected popular religion. Most of the people of the ancient world were polytheistic; they worshiped more than one god.

The people worshiped these gods in the form of representative idols. This practice is called idolatry. The nation of Israel, however, was forbidden to make graven images of the one true and living God whom they worshiped (Exod. 20:3-6; Deut. 5:7-10). The pagan nations made statues or images to represent the powers which they worshiped. Most of these idols were in the form of animals or men. But sometimes these idols represented celestial powers like the sun, moon, and stars, forces of nature, like the sea and the rain; or life forces, like death and truth.

PUBLIC FESTIVALS

(Acts 19:35), Images claiming so loftily an origin were to be found in cities other than Ephesus. Once in the year there was a public festival in honor of the goddess at Ephesus, to which all the Ionians who could do so came with their wives and children, bringing costly offerings to Artemis and rich presents for the priests. Great gain came to the silversmiths in making and selling small images of the goddess (cf. Acts 19:23-40).

Ashe'rah (a-she'ra). Plural, Asherim, a pagan goddess who is found in the Ras Shamra epic religious texts discovered at Ugarit in N Syria (1929-37) as Asherat, "Lady of the Sea," and consort of El. She was the chief goddess of Tyre in the fifteenth century B.C. with the appellation Qudshu, "holiness." In the Old Testament Asherah appears as a goddess by the side of Baal, whose consort she evidently came to be, at least among the Canaanites of the south. However, most biblical references to the name point clearly to some cult object of wood, which might be worshiped or cut down and burned and which was certainly the goddess' image (I Kin. 15:13; II Kin. 21:7).

Her prophets are mentioned (I Kin. 18:19) and the vessels used in her service are referred to (II Kin. 23:4). Her cult object, whatever it was, was utterly detestable to faithful worshipers of Yahweh

SERPENT FERTITILTY

Characteristically Canaanite, the lily symbolizes grace and sex appeal and the serpent fertility. 14 At Byblos (Biblical Gebal) on the Mediterranean, of Sidon, a center dedicated to this goddess (Qudshu) has been excavated. She and her colleagues specialized in sex and war, and her shrines were temples of legalized vice. Her degraded cult offered a perpetual danger of pollution to Israel and must have sunk to sordid depths as lust and murder were glamorized in Canaanite religion. On a fragment of the Baal Epic, Anath ('Anat) appears in an incredibly bloody orgy of destruction.  For some unknown reason she fiendishly butchers mankind, young as well as old, in a most horrible and wholesale fashion, wading ecstatically in human gore up to her knees-even up to her throat-all the while exulting sadistically.

In Canaan there was a tendency to employ the plural forms of deities Ashtoreth (Ashtoroth), Asherah (Asherim), and Anath (Anathoth) to summarize all the various manifestations of this deity. In like fashion the Canaanite plural Elohim ("gods") was adopted by the Hebrews to express the excellences and attributes of the one true God. See also Ashtoreth.

Ash'ima (ash'ima). The god of Hamath, introduced by the colonists settled in Samaria by Shalmaneser (II Kin. 17:30).

Ash'toreth (ash'to-reth). Astarte, a Canaanite goddess. In S Arabia the name is found as 'Athtar (apparently from `athara, "to be fertile, to irrigate"), a god identified with the planet Venus. The name is cognate with Babylonian Ishtar, the goddess of sensual love, maternity, and fertility. Licentious worship was conducted in honor of her. As Asherah and Anat of Ras Shamra, she was the patroness of war as well as sex and is sometimes identified with these goddesses. The Amarna Letters present Ashtoreth as Ashtartu. In the Ras Shamra Tablets are found both the masculine form 'Athtar and the feminine 'Athtart. Ashtoreth worship was entrenched early at Sidon (I Kin.11:5,33; II Kin.. 23:13). Her cult even presented a danger of pollution to early Israel (Judg. 2:13; 10:6); Solomon succumbed to her voluptuous worship (I Kin.. 11:5; II Kin.. 23:13). The peculiar vocalization Ashtoreth, instead of the more primitive Ashtaroth, is evidently a deliberate alteration by the Hebrews to express their abhorrence for her cult by giving her the vowels of their word for "shame" (boshet). See also ANAT; Ashera; DIANA.

Astaroth. See Asherah; Ashtoreth.

Astar'te. The Greek name for Ashtoreth.

Atar'gatis (a-tar'ga-tis; from Greek, atargatis from the Aram. `Atar or `Attar (Astarte) plus `Atah. Probably the same form of the Phrygian Atis, a god of vegetation). A Syrian divinity, the great goddess of fertility among the Aramaeans. The worship of this goddess is not alluded to in the OT, but 2 Macc. 12:26 mentions her temple at Carnion in Gilead. She was also worshiped at Ashkelon, and the concomitants of her cult were those of the mother goddess of the Semite.

Ba'al (ba'al). The common Canaanite word for "master lord." Baal was one of the chief male deities of the Canaanite pantheon, now well-known from the religious epic literature discovered at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit of the Amarna Letters) from 1929 to 1937. Baal was the son of El, the father of the gods and the head of the Canaanite pantheon, according to the tablets from Ugarit. He is also designated as "the son of Dagon" (Heb. dagan, "grain"), an ancient Canaanite and Mesopotamian deity associated with agriculture. Baal was thus the farm god who gave increase to family and field, flocks and herds. He was likewise identified with the storm god Hadad, whose voice could be heard in the reverberating thunder that accompanied rain, so necessary for the success of the crops.

In time an elaborate system of beliefs in such natural forces was developed into mythology. Each civilization and culture had its own mythological structure, but these structures were often quite similar. The names of the gods may have been different, but their functions and actions were often the same. The most prominent myth to cross cultural lines was that of the fertility cycle. Many pagan cultures believed that the god of fertility died each year during the winter but was reborn each year in the spring. The details differed among cultures, but the main idea was the same.

The prominent gods in Mesopotamia were those over heaven, air, and earth, personified by Anu, Enlil, and Enki (Ea). Another group was made up of those that controlled the heavenly bodies: the sun, the moon, and the planet Venus (the "morning star"). In fact, Ur, the city from which Abraham came, was the center for worship of the moon god Sin. As Mesopotamian religion developed, each god had his own star, and the worship of the stars became popular with the development of ASTROLOGY. Many of the astrological texts and charts of the ancient Babylonians read like modern horoscopes.

The worship of the sun, moon, and stars eventually spread across the entire ancient world. The Egyptians, Canaanites, and Phoenicians all incorporated features of this form of worship. Place names in pre-Israelite Canaan reflect the practice. Beth Shemesh (Josh. 15:10) means house of the sun [god]. Jericho (Num. 22:1) probably means moon city. Joshua's miracle of the sun and the moon standing still takes on greater significance in light of this fact. It was a demonstration of the sovereign power of the Lord God of Israel over the pagan gods identified as the sun and the moon, worshiped in pagan cities (Josh. 10:12-13).

Another god of ancient Mesopotamia was Adad, who represented the storm, either the beneficial rains for the crops or the destructive storms with hurricanes. Identical with Adad, or Hadad, was Rimmon or Ramman, the Assyrian god of rain and storm, thunder and lightning. The two names, Hadad and Rimmon, were combined in one name, Hadad Rimmon, in one Old Testament reference (Zech. 12:11). In the Old Testament Rimmon was an Aramean (Syrian) god who had a temple at Damascus. Naaman and his royal master worshiped this pagan god (II Kin. 5:18).

The worship of the sun, moon, and stars eventually spread across the entire ancient world. The Egyptians, Canaanites, and Phoenicians all incorporated features of this form of worship. Place names in pre-Israelite Canaan reflect the practice. Beth Shemesh (Josh. 15:10) means house of the sun [god]. Jericho (Num. 22:1) probably means moon city. Joshua's miracle of the sun and the moon standing still takes on greater significance in light of this fact. It was a demonstration of the sovereign power of the Lord God of Israel over the pagan gods identified as the sun and the moon, worshiped in pagan cities (Josh 10:12-13).

Another god of ancient Mesopotamia was Adad, who represented the storm, either the beneficial rains for the crops or the destructive storms with hurricanes. Identical with Adad, or Hadad, was Rimmon or Ramman, the Assyrian god of rain and storm, thunder and lightning. The two names, Hadad and Rimmon, were combined in one name, Hadad Rimmon, in one Old Testament reference (Zech. 12:11). In the Old Testament Rimmon was an Aramean (Syrian) god who had a temple at Damascus. Naaman and his royal master worshiped this pagan god (II Kin.. 5:18).

The ancient Babylonian and Assyrian goddess Ishtar symbolized Mother Earth in the natural cycles of fertility on earth. Many myths grew up around this female deity. She was the goddess of love, so the practice of ritual prostitution became widespread in the fertility cult dedicated to her name. Temples to Ishtar had many priestesses, or sacred prostitutes, who symbolically acted out the fertility rites of the cycle of nature. Ishtar has been identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna. Strong similarities also exist between Ishtar and the Egyptian Isis, the Greek Aphrodite, and the Roman Venus.

Associated with Ishtar was the young god Tammuz, considered both divine and mortal (Ezek. 8:14). In Babylonian mythology Tammuz died annually and was reborn year after year, representing the yearly cycle of the seasons and the crops. This pagan belief later was identified with the pagan gods Baal and Anat in Canaan.

Another kind of god in both Babylonia and Assyria was a national god connected with politics. In Assyria it was Ashur, and in Babylonia it was Marduk, who became prominent at the time of HAMMURABI (about 1800 B.C)... The ancient ideas about the ordering and governing of the universe were taken over by these two gods.  Marduk, for example, achieved his prominence by victory over Tiamat, goddess of the sea. This cosmic conflict, described also in ancient Sumerian, Indian and Canaanite myths, was believed to have established order. Marduk established order by destroying the goddess Tiamat.

In contrast, the Bible makes it clear that the forces of nature are not pagan gods that war with one another annually to bring about an established order of the universe. They are part of the Lord's creation (Gen 1).

Nebo (1 Sam. 46:1) was the Babylonian god of education, literature, writing, wisdom, the arts, and sciences. The special seat of his worship was at Borsippa, near Babylon. The Akkadian form of this name is Nabu.

Nisroch (II Kin. 19:37; Isa .37:38) was an Assyrian god with a temple in Nineveh. The idol representing this pagan god had a human form with an eagle's head.

Sikkuth (Amos 5:26; Sakkuth, RSV) was a name given by the Babylonians to the planet Saturn.

Succoth Benoth (II Kin. 17:30) was a Babylonian goddess, identified by some scholars with Zarpanitum, the mistress of Marduk. Other scholars believe this god is a designation of Marduk himself as Sakkut Binuti, the supreme judge of the world.

When SHALMANESER, king of Assyria, deported the inhabitants of Samaria to far-flung regions of his empire, he also imported into Samaria settlers from afar to colonize this area of Palestine. These people brought their religion and their pagan gods with them.

Among these gods were: Adrammelech (II Kin. 17:31), an idol of the Sepharvites worshiped by child sacrifice; Anammelech (II Kin. 17:31), another god revered by the Sepharvites; Ashima (II Kin. 17:30), an idol worshiped by the people of Hamath; Nergal (II Kin. 17:30), the war god of  the men of Cuth; Nibhaz (II Kin. 17:31), an idol of the Avites; and Tartak (II Kin. 17:31), an idol also worshiped  by the Avites.

COSMIC DEITIES

The Egyptians portrayed many of their gods with animal images. But they also had their cosmic deities. The Egyptians envisioned the earth as in the shape of a dish with their fertile region (Egypt) in the center. The Nile River flowed from under the earth, bringing fertility to the land. These elements of nature were personified as gods. Geb, earth, was portrayed as a god lying down. Nut, heaven, was a goddess who arched her body across from mountain to mountain. Shu, the air, stood erect, holding up the sky.

The Egyptians also worshiped the sun, moon, and stars. Ra (also Re), the sun god, was the supreme deity of the ancient Egyptians. He was represented as a man with the head of a hawk or a falcon, crowned with a solar disk and the figure of the sacred asp or cobra. Ra appears in the Old Testament in the name of Joseph's father-in-law, PotiPherah (Gen 41:45, 50; 46:20), priest of On, and a city called Heliopolis ("city of the sun") by the Greeks-the principal seat of the worship of the sun. When Ra is absent, Thoth, the moon, is prominent. But the moon is definitely inferior to the sun.

The Egyptians had many other pagan gods. Notable among them was Maat, representing the abstract idea of truth, and Bes, a grotesque god who watched over childbirth. The worship of all the gods also involved magic and superstition. The purpose of these gods apparently was to explain the cycle and forces of life and to insure stability and fertility.

LORD OF THE FLY

Baal-Zebub, which means "lord of the fly," was "the god of Ekron" (II Kin. 1:2-3, 6, 16)-the name under which Baal was worshiped at the Philistine city of Ekron. This god was worshiped as the producer of flies, and consequently as the god that was able to defend against this pest. In the New Testament, reference is made to Beelzebub, a heathen god considered the chief evil spirit by the Jewish people (Matt. 10:25; 12:27; Lk. 11:18-19). The Pharisees called him "the ruler of the demons" (Matt. 12:24; Mk. 3:22; Lk. 11:15), and Jesus identified him with Satan.

This word Baal was also used in personal names, but when the worship of Baal became a problem in Israel, Baal was replaced by Bosheth, which means "shame" (probably because it was shameful to have the name of a pagan god as part of one's name and because Baal was a shameful god). For instance, Merib-Baal (I Chron. 8:34; 9:40), the name of the son of Jonathan, became Mephibosheth (II Sam. 9:6-13), and Esh-Baal (I Chron. 9:39) became Ishbosheth (II Sam. 2:8).

The Canaanite god Baal was known as Zebel Baal ("Prince Baal") or Aliyan Baal ("Baal the strong"), as well as by a number of other titles. Baal was considered the god who brought rain and fertility (especially good harvests and animal reproduction). In a number of passages in Canaanite literature he is identified as Hadad, another god believed to bring the rains, storms, and fertility. This god Hadad is the god Adad of Assyria.

Archaeologists have discovered rock carvings that show Baal holding a club in his right hand and a lightning flash with a spearhead in his left. These symbols identify him as the god of rain and storm. Baal is also known as the "rider of the clouds," a term showing his power over the heavens. (Ps. 68:4,)"Extol Him who rides on the clouds," gives this title to the God of Israel- a declaration that the Lord, and not the false god Baal, is ruler over the heavens.

Baal and related deities are also portrayed as a mating bull, symbolizing fertility. It is no surprise that while Moses was on Mount Sinai, receiving the Ten Commandments from the Lord, the disobedient Israelites fashioned a golden calf to worship (Exod. 32). Jeroboam I, king of  Israel, acted in accordance with this pagan idea  by making two calves of gold, setting up one at Bethel and the other at Dan, (I Kin. 12:26-30).

During the history of the Israelites, a rivalry developed between Baalism and the true worship of the Lord (Jer. 23:27). Perhaps the best example of this rivalry was the conflict between Elijah and the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel (I Kin.. 18). Elijah's challenge to them to bring down fire from heaven was appropriate, because the Canaanites believed that Baal could shoot lightning flashes from the sky. Elijah's mocking of Baal struck at the heart of their claims; he knew that Baal was powerless, that the prophets  of  Baal had misled the people, and that only the Lord God of Israel was alive and able to answer. In the struggle to the death between true religion and false religion, Elijah knew that Baalism and its prophets had to be destroyed.

In Canaanite mythological texts Baal is sometimes called the son of Dagon. Dagon (Judg. 16:23; 1 Sam. 5:2-7; I Chron. 10:10), was the chief god of the ancient Philistines, a grain and fertility god whose most famous temples were at Gaza and Ashdod. With the recent discovery of documents at ancient EBLA in Syria, it is clear that Dagon, or Dagan, was a much more ancient and prominent god. These texts show that Dagon was being worshiped before Abraham entered Canaan about 2000 B.C. Dagon continued to be worshiped by the Canaanites up to the time of Christ. In the APOCRYPHA mention is made of a temple of Dagon at Azotus in 147 B.C. (1 Macc. 10:83-84). Azotus was a later name for Ashdod, one of the five chief Philistine cities.

Like the myths of so many pagan religions, Canaanite stories claim that Baal came to prominence by defeating other gods. One of Baal's enemies was the sea monster known as Lotan.

LEVIATHAN

The Old Testament's reference to Leviathan (Job 3:8; 41:1; Psa. 104:26; I Sam. 27:1) corresponds to this word. But in the Bible Leviathan is simply a powerful creature in the sea that man cannot control, and not like Lotan-a pagan god in the form of a twisting serpent.

In both the Old Testament and the New Testament the people of God were surrounded by pagan gods. The apostle Paul declared to the philosophers of Athens, "I perceive that in all things you are very religious" (Acts 17:22). In the city of Athens, idols of pagan gods stood on every street corner. The Athenians, perhaps fearing that they had slighted some deity, had even erected an altar "to the unknown god" (Acts 17:23).

"The One whom you worship without knowing," said Paul, "Him I proclaim to you: God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands" (Acts 17:23-24).

Only the sovereign Lord God has the power to rule the world; only the Lord Jesus Christ has the power to rise from the dead as the conqueror, establishing once and for all our everlasting life with Him. 24

There are spiritual beings behind these gods. The idols are made of stones, wood but the devils behind them inhabit them to draw worship from humans. How God hates idolatry—stupid people worshiping things that they make with their own hands!

Chapter Six

Demonic Influence

SPIRITS OF WITCHCRAFT THROUGH DEMONS

A major problem that is producing such darkness in America is that the Christian Church has ignored the witchcraft revival that has been taking place for the last thirty years. Also, the Church has ignored the reality of devils and the Church's power over them.

Derek Prince writes in Expelling Demons, "The New Testament Greek word for demon is daimonion in the KJV often translated 'devil'. Associated in the NT with noun daimonion is the passive verb daimonizomai. The literal meaning of this verb is 'to be demoned,' i.e., in some way under the influence or power of demons. In the KJV this verb is usually translated by some phrase such as 'to be possessed' or 'to be vexed' by demons or by evil spirits. However, there is no distinction in the original Greek text to support these (translated) distinctions. Prince goes on to say, "We dare not rest a theological distinction about the work of demons on a distinction about the work of demons in language which does not exist in the original.

"   Jesus said, "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly…" (Jn. 10:10).

We can see two personalities in this Scripture, activity working in the affairs of human beings. A tremendous transference of spirits has occurred in the last thirty years due to people becoming blinded to spiritual realities.

WHAT ARE DOCTRINES OF DEVILS?

What is the result of a spirit of error? Can a spirit of whoredom rule over a church? The Apostle Paul warned Christians to beware of deceivers but also to take heed that he would not deceive himself (I Cor. 3:18). Jesus also cautioned Believers to beware of self- deception in (Lk. 21:8). From the beginning of the Church throughout its history, Satan has attacked by using evil deceivers. "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse, deceiving and being deceived" (II Tim. 3:13).

SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION

Mortimer J. Adler, in his book, How to Think about God: A guide for the 20th Century Pagan, writes: "The dictionary meaning of the word ‘pagan' identifies a large section of the population – all those who do not worship the God of the Christians, the Jews or the Muslims.

The revolution for the America culture was raging in the seventies and eighties. It was being fought from Washington, D.C. to the State Assemblies. It was motivated by politicians, news media, college professors, student, business women and housewives. The Christian Church remained sound asleep, guarding their tax exemptions, while the war for our culture was won by the people of the world.

The battle was won by the women' liberation movement. The American culture was changed and the spiritual winds were changed during this great cultural war. The 1986 National Organization of Women, N.  O.  W.  Convention was held in Denver, June 13-15. Workshop topics included the usual promotions for prostitution, lesbianism, global feminism, abortion, stopping the right wing, and a new addition, "Coping with AIDS." Most amazing, however, was a workshop entitled "Feminist Spirituality - the Goddess Returns."

An attractive, dark-haired woman named Grace, who introduced herself as a "recovering Catholic," opened the meeting, describing her pilgrimage through Zen, holistic health, astrology and finally into the "goddess religion," or "witchcraft. Showing slides of snakes, the Ankh, a witch with a cat, tarot cards, and Pan (half-goat god, whom she described as "the natural loving male”), and she spoke glowingly of the “wisdom of our heritage.  "It all ended with the audience swaying to a drum beat and chanting "We will serve you. We will love you."

The observer described the workshop as a fanatical religious, evangelical outreach to promote the "Old Religion," and ancient fertility cults. The speaker Cindee Grace is an author and seminar teacher headquartered in Boulder, Co.

DEPARTING FROM THE BIBLE

Many Christians have departed from the biblical way of serving God and have devised their own attitudes concerning the Devil and how to defeat him. Look at the writings of TBN Evangelist, Joyce Meyers. “Several years ago I found myself completely worn out from trying to fight the devil. I learned many ‘‘methods’’ of spiritual warfare; however, they did not seem to be working  . . .  I had fallen into the trap that many Christians fall into, I had the right teaching, but the wrong order. I was feverishly applying methods I had learned — like fasting and prayer rebuking and resisting evil spirits empty formulas which wear us out and produce no results except maybe a sore throat”

Joyce simply does not understand the Word says that fasting breaks the yoke, prayer overcomes the powers of darkness and resisting the Devil makes him flee! (Jam. 4:7-8). “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.”

Meyers’ departure from the Word of God is not surprising since she recently sold all her book copyrights to Time-Warner-AOL, “Warner Faith Publishing.” Warner-AOL, which is the largest promoter of world witchcraft and is the publisher of satanic heavy metal rock music, the atrocious Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies! Meanwhile, many leaders in the Church continue to chase the god of Mammon or the almighty dollar!  The camel’s nose is not in the tent. Its whole body has entered the church.

The Church is so asleep. When I discussed the Meyers’ departure from a Christian publishing house with a pastor, the response was, “that’s wonderful, and she will be able to “witness to them.”

In the eighties many Christian authors withdrew their work from a publisher and placed their work with a Christian publisher. The reason was ABC Television bought the publishing house. The Bible says, “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's Table, and of the table of devils,” (I Cor. 10:21).

SUPERSTITION AND MAGIC

Belief in these false gods was characterized by superstition and magic. The people believed that what happened to their gods would also happen to them. Puzzled by the workings of nature, they assigned the causes of various natural happenings to their gods. Rain was absolutely essential to life in agricultural societies. If it rained, they believed this was caused by a rain god. If it did not rain, they thought this was because that god had not sent the rain. They prayed and sacrificed to the god to send it.

In time an elaborate system of beliefs in such natural forces was developed into mythology. Each civilization and culture had its own mythological structure, but these structures were often quite similar. The names of the gods may have been different, but their functions and actions were often the same. The most prominent myth to cross cultural lines was that of the fertility cycle. Many pagan cultures believed that the god of fertility died each year during the winter but was reborn each year in the spring. The details differed among cultures, but the main idea was the same.

According to the Old Testament, God was a jealous God who permitted no rivals: "You shall have no other gods before Me," (Exod. 20:3; Deut. 5:7). God's will is all-powerful and man must submit to it. He reveals Himself when He pleases and to whom He pleases, demanding that man obey His revelation. Nevertheless, the Hebrew people sometimes gave in to temptation and worshiped these pagan gods from the surrounding cultures.

The many pagan gods that served as a temptation to the Hebrew people may be conveniently grouped into four distinct types: the false gods of (1) Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylon), (2) Egypt, (3) Canaan, and (4) Greece and Rome.

NO OTHER GODS

“I am the Lord your God. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image,” (Exod. 20:2-4).

The early Christians often seem to have viewed their experience in terms of warfare, writes the author. Military terminology is liberally sprinkled through the pages of the New Testament. Faith was “the good fight.” Protection was seen in terms of “the armor of God.” The word of God is likened to a “sword.” Satan’s attacks are “fiery darts.”

Michael Harper writes, the war Christians talked about was not “against flesh and blood,” the weapons they wielded were not “carnal,” they discovered it was a spiritual warfare. It was a battle against “the spiritual warfare. It was a battle against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

The Bible shows the lives and destines of Christians with control over their by walking in agreement with Jesus and His Word. “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof,” (Rom. 13:12-14).

"Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful," (Rom. 1:29:31).

Demonic influence whether direct or indirect comes from an outside source. Repression comes from an outside source which is planted into our minds. If you do not overcome these spirits they will soon overcome you. You will become as Paul was. When He would do good, evil was ever present with him. Bitterness and complaining can become a habit with Satan taking advantage unless you restrain, subdue, curb and overcome these desires. You can and must break free.  Spirits to watch out for that may be repressing the subconscious mind. Spirits of lying; craving -alcohol-tobacco-drugs, etc.; rebellious spirit; evil spirit; spirit of gossip; lustful spirit; a familiar spirit; a sullen spirit; timid spirit; grumbling spirit; angry spirit.

"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice," (Eph. 4:31).

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry ... hatred, variance, emulation, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, raveling’s, and such like ...." (Gal. 5:19-21).

The mind is the battleground; the flesh reacts to failure actions or forceful actions of victory.

THE SLIGHTED GOD

In both the Old Testament and the New Testament the people of God were surrounded by pagan gods. The apostle Paul declared to the philosophers of Athens, "I perceive that in all things you are very religious" (Acts 17:22). In the city of Athens, idols of pagan gods stood on every street corner. The Athenians, perhaps fearing that they had slighted some deity, had even erected an altar "to the unknown god," (Acts 17:23).

"The One whom you worship without knowing," said Paul, "Him I  proclaim to you: God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands" (Acts 17:23-24).

Only the sovereign Lord God has the power to rule the world; only the Lord Jesus Christ has the power to rise from the dead as the conqueror, establishing once and for all our everlasting life with Him.

There are spiritual beings behind these gods. The idols are made of stones, wood but the devils behind them inhabit them to draw worship from humans. How God hates idolatry—stupid people worshiping things that they make with their own hands!

JESUS, THE AVATAR GOD

Many Churches no long preach the basics of the Bible. People live for today and have absolutely no concern for their eternal souls. Popular new so-called Christian teachers are inspiring new agendas to transform the Christian faith to shift it into just another religion. Jesus becomes presently another god-avatar that sits alongside all the gods of the world.

Animal and Human Sacrifices are happening now. A local pastor brought a lady Trudy Smith to me. “I am a member of the local coven I want to be free.” We ministered to Trudy. She wept and acted as though she really wanted to be saved and set free. However, after several months, the Lord revealed to me that she was still attending the coven meetings. He showed me just to preach to her and show love.

One night the devils became very inflamed; they said through her voice, “We hate you Pat Holliday more than all the Christians. We tried to get Trudy to kill you, but she won’t do it. She said that you are the only one that has ever shown her love!”

Shortly after that, Trudy left the church. However, one night she called me and said. “Dr. Holliday, Satan is stronger than Jesus.” I replied, “No he is not. Why do you think that?” She replied, “I am at a Satanist meeting and I’ve just seen them take a knife and cut another woman from her breast all the way down to her pelvis. Then they grabbed her heart and drank the blood while it was still pumping.”

“Trudy,” I said, “that doesn’t make Satan stronger than Jesus. I love you.”

“You love me? Why? I’m a witch!”

FIFTH COLUMN AGENTS

Under the title "Fifth Column, Disguised,” Rev. Prince lists rock music as one of the main channels, and its potential for harm is fearsome. He writes about a 33-year-old man that had become demon possessed listening the album by rock band, Black Sabbath.

This account reminds me of a young Christian man (I'll call him Jeff) who attended a rock concert. He said he was sitting about the middle section of the arena when suddenly his spiritual eyes opened. He saw a giant demon who was sitting behind the band. This demon was orchestrating the band. He would waive his hand over the audience and the people would sway in the direction of his hand.

Jeff said that he was terrorized. His hair stood up on his arms. His heart was beating rapidly. He began to pray for protection. As he prayed, he noticed a man dressed in a white suit close to the front. This man began to move toward Jeff. However, Jeff's eyes caught sight of the giant demon and he felt himself falling under its spell. He stopped praying. The man in white stopped moving in his direction. Jeff forced himself to pray. The man in white started moving in his direction again. Finally the man in white took Jeff by the hand and led him out of the concert.

Just imagine. One giant demon was directing the band and holding the entire audience in a weird trance. The transfer of evil spirit was successful over every person in the place! By exposing himself to the forces of satanic inspired music, Jeff was almost captured. Witchcraft and Satanism is being spread through rock music, movies, television and computers. Young people and old are being enslaved by the powers of the devil.

Derek Prince says that "Witchcraft is the universal, primeval religion of fallen humanity. When the human race turned from God in rebellion, the power that moved in was witchcraft. As the Bible says, "Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft" (1 Sam. 15:23). Prince goes on to say, "There four levels of Modern Witchcraft. The Westernized, "modern" practice of witchcraft contains the same elements . . .

1.  Open, public. "Respectable"

2.  Underground - covens.

3. Fifth Column Satan’s agents (infiltrators), disguised with society and the Church.

4. A Work of the flesh.

SORCERY Use of power gained from the assistance or control of evil spirits, a sorceress witch.

WITCHCRAFT: Use of sorcery or MAGIC Use of means (as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces.

CHARMS To affect as if by magic, compel, or something worn about a person to ward off evil and ensure a good fortune-amulet... (Jos. 7).

SPELL a spoken word having magic powers.

BEWITCH Baskaino gk. Primarily to slander, to prate about anyone, then to bring evil on a person by feigned praise, or mislead by an evil eye, and so to charm, bewitch (Eng., fascinate is connected), is used figuratively in (Gal. 3:1), of leading into evil doctrine. Existemigk, is rendered "bewitch" in (Acts 8:9, 11, A. V)., concerning Simon the Sorcerer; it does not mean to bewitch, as in the case of the preceding verb, but to confuse, amaze (R.V)..

“I love your soul, just as Jesus loves you. Jesus shows me that you will not be without cause when He judges you. He has shown you great grace. You have chosen to reject Him.”

“Satan is Lord,” she shouted into the phone and hung it up.

God hates witchcraft because He understands the depth of evil that it can take a person. He knows that it involves Satan taking captives to serve him throughout eternity and very few that walk through this dark door ever returns.

of devils,” (I Cor. 10:21).

CHALLENGE DARK POWERS!

The challenge of Pharaoh by Moses was actually a challenge to the power of the gods that he worshiped. Moses was demonstrating to him that Jehovah’s power was far more superior to his idolatrous gods. We see this supernatural war in (Exod. 7:1-8).

The first nine plagues clearly fall into three groups of three each. Number one and two, four and five, seven and eight were announced to Pharaoh, beforehand, but three, six, and nine came without warning. The first three fell upon both Israel and Egypt, for both nations had lessons to learn. The last two groups fell upon the Egyptians only, that they might know that God who was caring for Israel was God also in Egypt (Exod. 8:22) and greater than all other gods (Exod. 9:14).

The plagues were progressively more severe, the last three almost destroying the land (Exod. 10:7). The tenth plague is discussed in the next division of the text. It is thus set apart from the others because it was not only the culmination of the judgment and the basis of the redemption, but also because it was a direct visitation from God, not a judgment through secondary causes.

The first nine plagues were (natural) wonders, in the sense that they were intensification of distresses such as were already known in the ordinary course of history. Their severity, and even more, their appearance and disappearance at the word of Moses marked them as miraculous. They had their effect upon the Egyptians not only physically and mentally, but also spiritually. Each plague was directed against some demonic god of nature worshiped by the Egyptians as in some way related to the (demonic) gods.  Thus, God demonstrated through His prophet that Jehovah was exceedingly more powerful than Egypt’s’ strange gods.

Chapter Seven

Effects of Demonic Spirits

ASTROLOGY (OBSERVER OF TIMES)

The divination of the supposed influences of the stars and planets on human affairs and earthly events, by their positions and aspects

ENCHANT Influence by charms and incantation bewitches; to cast a spell over.

NECROMANCY Conjuration of the spirits of the dead for the purposes of magically revealing the future of influencing the course of events; (The medium or psychic is the person who is a channel of communication between the earthly world and the world of spirits). Satanic anointing:

(Gen. 32:18; Exod. 30:29; Exod. 40:9).

Witches and Occultist also use articles to use the power of their spirits.

They also put blood of animals and humans upon their jewelry and amulets. They send powers of darkness with these articles.

THE WALKING DEAD

The author wrote, "a significant Satanic movement is occurring across the country and throughout the world,” in her book, The Walking Dead. We are beginning to get a small dribble of information from our secular press on this important subject. It is my contention that satanic rituals, including child sacrifices, are now regularly taking place in almost every city, town and village in America." When the author wrote the book, "The Walking Dead," in the year 1982, I stated: "Fiendish devil) worshiping cultists are on the verge of spawning an insane bloodbath of murder and terror in cities and towns across the country”.

New York's Queens County District Attorney John Santucci, claims he has evidence supporting "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz' bizarre assertion that a devil worshiping cult helped him to murder six people. Since his conviction, Berkowitz has claimed that he was a member of New York-based Satanic Cult whose secret members were responsible for shooting that killed six and wounded seven people! When I wrote about Berkowitz' bizarre claim that he was a "devil worshiper," in book, “The Walking Dead”, it was a very unusual phenomenon; I believe these Satanists are using supernatural powers to blind the eyes of the officials in every town. I also believe most churches are not praying about these things and certainty does not understand the significance that the immense occult revival that has occurred in our country has on the Christian churches of this land. For example, the recent drug-cult ring case of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo. In a dramatic public confession on April 14, 1989, some of the five suspects in custody aid victims were put to death in rituals that were intended to provide a "magical shield" for members of a drug-smuggling ring in Matamoros Mexico.

Sergio Martinez, one of the suspects, unearthed 14 bodies which were buried on the ranch. At this writing, the only victim to be identified was Mark Kilroy, a 21-year-old University of Texas pre-medical student who was kidnapped on the streets of Matamoros last month during spring break. The suspects have said they killed at the demand of Constanzo, whom they called "godfather." They said He was 26, and Sara Maria Aldrete, 24, called the "witch," believed human sacrifices gave the members of the cult protection from harm.

Ms. Aldrete, a resident alien from Mexico, was a physical education major and was one of 33 students listed in the college's Who's Who Directory in 1987-88; Who's Who members are nominated by faculty of students who has a grade point average of at 3.0 and are active in campus organizations?

A search of Ms. Aldrete's home in Matamoros revealed an altar and blood-spatters, but no bones or bodies. Five suspects have been arrested and four talked to Reporters.

HORRORS OF SATAN OCCULT

The Littleton, Colorado massacre of April 22, 1999, is a crime that has been building for years. It just didn't happen. When Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, aimed their guns and bombs, killing a teacher and 12 students before turning their weapons on themselves is a crisis that is boiling in the minds of young people across the country. After this horrendous transgression, copycat acts were reported nationwide. The shock of nation is still reeling during this week of the funerals. From President Clinton to every breathing liberal, the shouts for gun-control are being echoed. The conservatives call attention to the cultural deficient lack of spiritual and moral values.

There were many heroines and heroes that appeared on this terrible national day of tragedy. Cassie Bernal, a junior carried her Bible to school with her every day. When she was asked if she was a Christian, she replied, yes, and I am praying now. The gunman shot her and instantly killed her.

Cassie became a Christian martyr due to our spiritual vacuum that has been instituted in our schools. The courage of her testimony has exploded around the world. Isaiah Shoels age 18, was another champion of the faith. Rachael Scot 16 was active in the Celebration Christian Fellowship church. She played dead in the library and leads many students to freedom. She lost her life. Coach William ‘Dave' Sanders, was a serious Christian, gave his life trying to save the children. Steven Curnow, Corey De Pooter, Matthew Kechter, Mauser, John Tomlin, Lauren Townsend, Daniel Rohrbough, Kelly Fleming and Kyle Velasquez were all savaged by the altars of spiritual vacuum created by the anti- God doctrines instituted by the raging atheists. All these young people are champions. Their bravery shown in their deaths has been broadcast worldwide and millions heard the Gospel preached.

SATAN IS STEPPING UP HIS ATTACKS

Not only is Satan stepping up his attack in causing demonic activity, he has also placed his stooges in high places to hide and lie about the facts. By using his human assistants, the world's perceptions of some informed people appear to be "just those crazy Christians."

Occult respectability is being advanced through full page advertisements and articles showing these powers as helpful, not harmful. A typical advertisement may read: "Whatever it is you need or want, witchcraft can get it for you quickly, easily, and automatically, say these experts. You'll discover how it can bring abundant and overflowing wealth, find or bring back a lover, to ward off evil influences, and much more. Step-by-step in plain English, with complete easy-to-follow instructions.

Magazines and newspapers do not seem to realize the terrible forces they are unleashing on the deceived individuals who will respond to the power of witchcraft. Hundreds of thousands have become spiritual slaves. They are captives because of the media's spiritual blindness. They don't see the psychics, for example, as dangerous influences on society.

Time-Life Books, a highly respectable company, has come out of the closet to promote pure occultism through their "The Enchanted Word, more than even you ever imagined." They boldly advertise, "Enter the World of Wizards and Witches. Television ads feature real witches, psychics and astrologists who promote the books. One witch turns into a cat before your eyes. Their magazine's ads feature characters from the world of sorceries, wizards, witches, sprite's elves, gnomes and unicorns.

The ads read in part: "A spellbinding volume will introduce you to these lands of enchantment: Wizards and Witches, a sumptuously beautiful book lavishly illustrated with full-color paintings and drawings many newly commissioned from today's master artists of realism and fantasy. You'll meet the legendary wizard Gwedion who had the power to turn toadstools into horses and forest into entire armies. You'll be entranced by the story of who fenced her garden with human bones reading will abound with tales of bones reading will abound with tales of talismans, charms, runes and riddles spells, pentacles and other powers of wizards and witches become as wise as Merlin even face the Devil himself and glimpse the eerie revelry and rituals of a witch's Sabbatt. Is it any wonder that our country is being set up for a possible Satanic bloodbath by crazy demon possessed people who fall for these slick advertisements that lead them quickly into the deeper levels of Satan worship? The Church sleeps on. Small bits of news regarding satanic activity are somehow slipping through the net of censorship thrown by many police departments. Secular television talk shows are showing features concerning this issue.

SATANIC RITUAL

The police called from another city, called this author several years ago. A young boy of 13years-old had died. Someone had gone to the cemetery where this young man was buried and found his wallet on the ground. They returned the wallet to his family. The parents' had buried the wallet with their son. They called the police. They exhumed the young boy's body. The body was missing from the casket! The grave had carefully been put back together so that no one would have ever known the truth.

The author advised the police to watch the cemetery starting 18 days before each holiday through the holiday. You will probably catch them because they start celebrating and doing their ritualism during that time frame. The next holiday, the police staked out the cemetery and they caught a group of teenagers who were practicing black Satanism. They never found the dead boy's body.

Witchcraft and Satanism have gone into the deep things of Satan and practice both animal and human sacrifices in America. Millions are becoming demon possessed in America now, while at the same time, most churches view these dark things as something that happened during the Bible days. The author ministered to a young man 20-years-old who had become ensnared by Satan. Sadly, he had been raised in a Christian home and had even studied to become a minister. One day, he sent away for some information from a witchcraft advertisement. He thought it would be something to look into and preach about. He tore down his altar to Jesus Christ and burned his Bible and Christian books within six months! These evil spirits had been transferred into him. He built a new altar to his new god, Satan. There he did all sorts of ungodly ritualism, including blood sacrifices. After his deliverance from evil spirits, the author and another woman went to his house and personally witnessed the blood drenched walls and floor from his ritual sacrifices; the oppression was so great that we could hardly breathe. We drove the evil spirits out in the name of Jesus and reclaimed the territory for our Lord Jesus Christ, Hallelujah!

RECEIVING WITCHCRAFT SPIRITS

Ever played the Ouija board? Played "Dungeons and Dragons," Computer role playing games concerning the powers of good and evil such as "Ultima" 1, 2, "Ultima (Exod. 3, 4).”Baal, the Beast, "Wizardry," 1,2,3,4.

Read the Horoscopes? Had your palm read? Consulted a Medium? Attended a séance? Visited Pagan Temples in Mexico, Greece, Japan, Korea, and Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem); Indian rites or burial grounds?

Used Mind-Control, Mental Telepathy or clairvoyance; Put a hex on others; Divining rod or a pendulum; Science fiction and horror stories, Stephen King; Hypnosis; Magic; sleight-of-hand, ventriloquism, table tipping, levitation, astral traveling, Psychic Healing, Blood pact, mind-expansion drugs, such as LSD, "pot" Marijuana) amphetamines, diet pills, Valium, alcohol?

Transcendental Meditation; read such personalities as Edgar Cayce (a psychic healer who believed in reincarnation) Jeanne Dixon (who consults a crystal ball in writing horoscopes).

Seen such movies: "Rosemary's Baby," "The Omen," "The Exorcist," "Birdie Murphy," Jaws," "Jaws 11," Damien, Omen, 11," "The Serpent and the Rainbow," "Incubus" (sex Demons with humans ) "Succubus" "Star Wars," "Star Trek"; "Space 1999"; Harry Potter books; and others.

Practiced superstitions: "Wished on a star," Thrown salt over your shoulder," afraid of black cats or Friday the 13th," Walking under a ladder," Wished over birthday candles," "Wished in a wishing well." Looked at Pornography in its many forms? Novels, Pictures, TV shows, or X-rated and R rated movies, etc. Playboy or Hustler; Sexual deviations: Sex fantasy, masturbation, homosexuality, lesbianism. Death wish, either for you or someone else; read teachings on reincarnation.

Books on metaphysics: Pagan religions; Books on spiritualism, Ventriloquism, belong to a Secret society, brotherhood, or group that claimed that they believed in "god?" Which god? Studied mind control? Mind expanded?

Communicated with demon powers; deja-vu experience is really a 'familiar' spirit. That great insight is probably a power of divination; because “something happens supernatural”, doesn't mean it's good. Satan is a counterfeiter (Matt. 24:24).

Been hypnotized? Wear a demonic charm around your neck? Your great charm' may be demonic. Ever cursed someone? (That is calling upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon someone). Listen to rock music and get high; kinds of drugs; prescribed drugs: (Exod. 20:4, 5), shows ancestral curses.

Do you know what your great-grandfather did? One may have used a stick to find water for a well, (water witching). Someone may have dabbled with magic or superstitious practices. Called "Spiritual Adultery," Could be why your family line is so plagued with poverty, cancer, or alcoholism, or violence, or insanity, or arthritis, etc. (Deut. 28:16) Seek the Lord only (I Chron. 10:13,14). (Exod. 22:18), Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

PRACTICING WITCHCRAFT

There is rise of social acceptance of witchcraft in America. We have entered the supernatural age of progressive interest and involvement in the occult. Satan's ambassadors are very successful and extremely evangelistic, capturing spiritual SLAVES. Also Witchcraft and Satanic worship, coupled with human sacrifices is widespread and happening now!

If one turns from God he/she will find witchcraft or the devil's world; having given place to the devil and will live by the devil's rules. We have to understand the devil's mode of operation is best described as witchcraft which is the control, influence, or manipulation of persons or objects through the unseen force of evil spirits).

PARTIAL LIST OF SNARES SATAN USES

Occult Practices (partial listing): Fortune Telling, Ouija Board, Cards, Good Luck Charms, Séances, Edgar Cayce, Jeanne Dixon, Mind Control, Witchcraft, Four-leaf Clover, Rabbit Foot, Wishbone, ESP, Transcendental Meditation, Yoga, Hypnosis, Drugs - Tranquilizers and Pain Relievers, Incense, Dungeons and Dragons, Pendulum, Palm Reading, Automatic Handwriting, Pierced Ears, Horoscopes, Signs of the Zodiac, Voodoo, Magic, Levitation, Water witching, Tea Leaf Reading, Secret Organizations and Lodges, Eight Ball, Smoking, Chewing Tobacco, Dipping Snuff, Drinking Alcoholic Beverages, Kabala, Handwriting Analysis, Strychnine, Arsenic, Spirits of Gene and Chromosome Damage, Crystal Ball, Tarot Cards, Psychic Readings, Spiritualism, Sorcery - Drugs - Pharmacia, LSD, Rubik's Cube, Clairvoyance, Telepathy, Para-psychology, Enchantments, Potions, Ankh, Peace Sign, Star of David and Five Pointed Stars, Artifacts, Tattoos, Owls and Frogs, Snakes Self-Realization, Déjà-vu, Martial Arts, Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Yin and Yang, Confucianism, Acupuncture, Hare Krishna, Bingo Gambling and Playing Cards Gambling, Astral Projection, Eckankar, Reincarnation, Arthur Ford, Ruth Montgomery, Divining for Metal or Minerals or Anything Else, Psychosybernetics, Mind over Matter, Pyramid Power, UFO, Trances, Dolls (Originated in Voodoo), Psychometrics, Psychic Predictions, Clairaudience, Second Sight, Auras, Metaphysics, Mental Science, Vision, Superstition, Fetishes, Runes, Amulets, Talismans, Satanism, Indian Witchcraft, Sun or Moon Worship, Spiritual Healing, Italian Horn, Indian Religions, War paint, Maize Fertility, Christian Science Healing, Omens, Karma, Rock and Roll, Mediums, Hex Signs, "Jesus" Rock and Roll, Irish, Gypsy, German, Etc., - Witchcraft, Rapping’s, Poltergeists, Haunted Houses, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Tolkien, Conjuration, Incantation, Idolatry, TV Shows like "Merlin", Walt Disney, Rose Mary's Baby, Reading Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Chronicle of Narnia, Horror Television and movies, Witchcraft and occult, movies, Biofeedback.

In view of the extent to which America is infected by the occult, Christian workers are faced with a double task. One is to enlighten and warn; the other to counsel and help those in need. Since occult experience is a religious (spiritual) issue, the treatment is not to be found in psychiatry or psychotherapy.

CULTS

(Many cults have their members say a prayer that their soul touches all souls. This is one of the ways evil soul ties are formed).

Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Rosicrucian’s, Theosophy, Unity, Mormonism, Unitarians, Baha’i, Spiritualism, Moonies, Subud, Scientology, Sweden organism, Christodelphiamism, Inner Peace Movement, Spiritualism, Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, Association for Research and Development, Religious Research Foundations of America, Eckankar, Urantia, Latihan, Islam, The Way, and other religions using the Bible but denying or omitting the Divinity of Christ, and/or the Atonement of His precious Blood, any group denying existence of heaven or hell, Catholic Church, Third Wave Movement, Peter Wagner; Chuck Pierce and NAR members, The Prophetic Movement, .The Word of Faith Movements, Kenneth Copeland.

We highly recommend that the over comer go through your home, the office, plant or business, and anoint all the chairs, the desks, the windows, the walls, and any soil or anything that would receive the oil. I have anointed the wiring, the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, etc., and take charge of it and demanded it to be free of devils. Then I cast the evil spirits out of it and command them to go into a cage in the name of Jesus Christ. You are freeing the creation from the devil and from the evil spirits by the exercising of the power of Holy Spirit though faith. Ask the Father to let the oil be a symbol of the Holy Spirit to cleanse that area and then destroy all witchcraft objects.

Also, if you are in authority or have the authority to do it, remove from the premises all objects of witchcraft that are abominations to the Lord. If you do not have authority to do so, then you should not violate anyone else's authority even if you know the object is bad. It is a good practice to have the owner of the object remove and get rid of the object. When you do it without permission you can have problems.

If you know that pornographic magazines, computer erotic sex booklets and paperbacks, are in the home, offices or shops, then these should be anointed if at all possible. Neutralize and take authority over the pornography spirits that come out of them and cage them. There should, if at all possible, a cleanup campaign started. This material should be stopped from coming into the business. If this is impossible then the best a person can do is bind evil powers and cast out the witchcraft contained in them. If the machines were manufactured in a foreign country, I think the curses should be broken on all the machines and all foreign made material.

Idolatry, statues of gods and art work that depicted demons and Indian worship must be removed and destroyed. Do not try to sell these things; God does not want to use the money for these devil worship articles... All types of material, related to Satan's world should be eliminated in offices or a business just as in a home. All hexes, curses, spells and blood sacrifices must be broken, renounced and repented and then release the blessings of God in Jesus’ name.

It's my opinion that scriptures on the wall in a business can help bring this business out from under the spell of Satan and into the power of the Lord.

Chapter Eight

Spirit of Rebellion

“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king,” (I Sam. 15:23).

REBELLION

The spirit of rebellion can be seen in the lives of Absalom, (II Sam. Chapters 15-18). Sheba, (II Sam. 20). Revolt of the ten tribes, (I Kin. 12:16; 2 Chron. 10:13:5-12)’ then we see this spirit as taking over Saul - first, anointed by God but rebellion brought him to witchcraft and death. He was the first king of Israel, (I Sam. 10:23).

When Israel clamored for a king, Saul was privately anointed by Samuel in Ramah and later elected by a popular assembly at Mizpah. He was people's choice: (1Sam. 9:2). "And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people." He was the people's hope and was hailed with enthusiasm because he stood head and shoulders above any of the people.

SAUL IS APPOINTED KING

God appointed him to be a ruler over His people. (I Sam. 10:1), "Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?" He used Samuel to prophesy over Saul. (I Sam. 10:7), "And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee. "Then God's direction was given, (I Sam. 10:8), "And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and show thee what thou shalt do." The Prophet Samuel was also impressed by him. It was well for Saul, (I Sam. 10:9),"And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day."

Saul's official acceptance of his leadership seems to have come at Gilagal after he had delivered Jabesh-Gilead from the Ammonites. With the aid of his son Jonathan at Michmash he climaxed a series of encounters which resulted to the successful overthrow of the Philistines, Israel's constant foe. It is said of Saul that "he fought against all his enemies on every side . . . whenever he turned he put them to the worse," (I Sam. 14:47). Then rebellion entered when he disobeyed

SAUL DISOBEYS GOD

God concerning Agag the king of the Amalekites by allowing him to live and not destroying all the livestock; when he fell, the people agreed with him in his rebellion. (I Sam. 15:79). God said to utterly destroy all. Saul's rebellion turned him into a coward. After God lifted His divine anointing from the king, Saul trembled when he met a real giant. Saul turned out to be a poor choice for a king. The state of spirituality of the leader of the country always reflected in the success or failure of the nation.

Saul began to challenge the priest and even offer his own sacrifices. He rebelled against spiritual authority and did not need any priests in his life. In (I Sam. 15), Saul is reproved by Samuel for usurping the priestly functions. He received a religious spirit which led him away from the true presence of God. He grew so cold and embittered that he refused to allow the prophet to minister to the soldiers before entering battle. He grew so bewitched that he even referred to himself as the sacrifice for God. "And Samuel said, When thou was't little in thine own sight, was't thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel?" (I Sam. 15:17).

Aside an encouraging beginning, the better part of Saul's reign was a disheartening and catastrophic matter. He seems to have been quite close to insanity toward the end of his life. Clearly, a breakdown began with his breach with Samuel, arising over his assumption of the priestly privileges at Gilgal, before the battle with the Philistines (I Sam. 13), and becoming complete with his sparing of Aga king of the Amalekites in opposition to the laws of Holy Warfare. His strength was derived mainly from his success as a warrior and commander, (I Sam. 14:47).

SPIRIT OF JEALOUSY

The spirit of Jealousy developed his unbalanced behavior toward David. (1Sam. 18:7), "And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands." (1Sam. 18:8), "And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?" He was filled with insane jealousy. This spirit was joined by a spirit of murder. He spent his last years in persisted quests to track down and kill him. His obsession with David caused him to neglect other affairs of the new kingdom. First place among these was the Philistine problem. They strengthened their forces and were awaiting the opportunity to strike back at Israel.

Notwithstanding the prediction of tragedy received through the medium at Endor, Saul encamped against the Philistines at the foot of Mount Gilboa. Saul lost the battle and his three sons were slain and the king took his own life, after being wounded.

SAUL’S MIND DERANGED

Notice David's reaction to Saul's hatred. He spared his life (I Sam. 24:1). "And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee." The David arose, guiltily and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. David was reacting in a good spirit. He wanted to restore King Saul to his right mind. Saul's deranged mind was the result of a fallen spiritual condition. A person that is walking under the anointing of God will have compassion for the sinner.

David wanted to protect the state of the office of God's appointed king. In (1 Sam. 26:7), "And David said to Abishai, Destroy him no; for whom can stretch forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and be blessed?” David said furthermore, “As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish. The Lord forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the Lord's anointed: but I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go. So David took the spear and the curse of water from Saul's bolster; and they Gath them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked; for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them."

The Bible alluding to his personality we are told that Saul was privately anointed by Samuel in Ramah and later elected by a popular assembly at Mizpah. Despite an auspicious beginning, the greater part of Saul's reign was a disappointing, and tragic affair. His fall seems to begin with his break with Samuel arising over his assumption of the priestly privileges at Gilgal, before the Battle with the Philistines (See I Sam. 13).

David had become an extremely popular figure with the people of Israel. Filled with insane jealousy, Saul spent his last years in repeated efforts to track down and kill him, despite David's repeated expression of loyalty. Despite the prediction, of tragedy received through the medium at Endor, Saul encamped against the Philistines at the foot of Mount Gilboa. The Philistines scored a complete victory; Saul's three sons were slain and the king took his own life after being wounded. The Philistines cut off Saul's head and hung his body along with sons, on the wall of Bethshan. The men of Jabesh-Gilead, still loyal to Saul, removed the bodies, burned them and buried the bones in Jabesh.

The Bible tells us that Saul stood head and shoulders over the people in (I Sam. 10:23). The people shouted their approval. The people saw him by the attractiveness of his flesh. We can see how confounded Saul was and could not believe that he was going to be Israel's first king when the news was told him, (I Sam. 9:20). Look at how self-conscious he was in (I Sam. 10:21-23). Humility is commendable, but bashful or inferiority is not. It is a stumbling block.

Saul's initial actions began with great promise, (I Sam. 13). This entire incident revealed that Saul would not have faith in and obey God. How spiritually bankrupt he was, (I Sam. 15); because his disobedience, Saul lost the kingdom. How depraved he was, (I Sam. 17). He was spineless, imagine Saul, a king and a former great warrior, allowing a teenage lad to go and fight Goliath for him! He became one of the most foremost cowards in the Old Testament.

SPIRIT OF MURDER

After David became a champion and deliverer of his people, the king became extremely bitter and jealous, (I Sam. 18:6-9); David acted as a deliverance minister to Saul by playing anointed music for him. The evil spirit would lift and Saul would get relief. However, each time, the king would return to his iniquity and the spirits would multiply and become stronger. They totally bound his judgment. His resentment and envy of David soon blossomed. Jealousy consumed his heart, (I Sam. 18:8-9), and then one day he threw javelins and wanted to kill David, (I Sam. 20:33). The Spirit of God had departed from him and he became a law unto himself. Notice how his nature had changed and how brutal he was, (I Sam. 18:11-15), etc. He sought in every way to accomplish David's murder.

Murder was dominating his heart and he killed priests because they wouldn't join up with him. (I Sam. 22:19). How rotten he was, (I Sam. 18). He was possessed by an evil spirit of religion. This evil spirit penetrated his home and his daughter despised worship to the Lord. He lashed out at the prophets, (I Sam. 15:267-28). Saul illegally stood in the office of a priest for a day, (I Sam. 13:27-28). He took over God's holy altar and preformed an unholy, sacrifice because he became impatient when Samuel was late in arriving.

SAUL FALLS INTO DARKNESS OF WITCHCRAFT

Then he fell into the greatest darkness. He broke one of the strictest commandments of the Law. He resorted to witchcraft for guidance. (I Sam. 28:1-9). When the door of heaven was closed to him, he knocked on the door of Hell for protection. This final terrible sacrilege cost him the lives of his sons and all his men. Saul committed suicide, (I Sam. 31:4-6), and his armor bearer committed suicide. His life of rebellion brought him step by step to the bowels of Hell.

The Saulish spirit promotes rebellion. This spirit invariably works on God's chosen ones and their family members. This spirit operates in division to cause a person to come against his/her helpers. This person will feel jealous of others' successes and disobey God and not realize

it. This spirit will try to destroy the prophets and ignore correction. This person desires spiritual position that God never ordained and play priest harming God's mantle and His priests. Like Saul, this spirit will cause loss of humility and handle God's holy sacraments and become arrogant and right in this person's own eyes but will fear the people.

The Book of the Law warns us about rebellion. “For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?” (Deut. 31:27).

REJECTING CHRIST

All who reject Christ the Creator still feels a spiritual thirst, search for meaning and curiosity about an afterlife. If they reject the truth, they will find counterfeits. Millions are being drawn into occultism through their seeking a reason for living. Looking for enlightenment, they are find darkness and death. Others seek after the astrologers, psychics or new agers. One thing for sure, multitudes believe in a "higher power" as Nancy Reagan expressed it on Larry King Live. Our nation has left its spiritual morays, the Genie is out of the bottle and it’s, like Pandora's box, is impossible to close the evil up again.

SPIRIT OF REJECTION

What is rejection?  It is an inability to give or accept love. It is often connected back to the roots of childhood in all likelihood to parents who had the same issues. Rejection causes a person feel unlovable and valueless. The spirit of rejection directs a person’s life to feel inadequate, inferior or insecure. The person believes that everyone is better than me. They do not feel secure. They have no recognition as being a valued individual, no important role in life.

The spirit of rejection will cause a person to self-reject. They do not like anything about themselves. They will reject everyone and never give anyone a chance to prove their worth. They require absolute perfection from every relationship. One mistake, they take friendship away.

REJECTION AFFECTS ALL RELATIONSHIPS

They feel rejected by God. They cannot give love and cannot receive love. Something like a trauma or negative circumstance can trigger and release and another layer of rejection will take place. For deliverance of the spirit of rejection, it must be dealt with at its roots. It should be recognized, exposed, cut off and cast out.

SPIRITS OF SOUL/MIND

The spirit of rejection will also affect the area of the mind or soul. Humans are self-conscious beings. The physical body houses the real person, yet is very much joined to it. The personality is formed, simply by the will, area of decision choice or behavior; the intellect, the area of thought, reason knowing and the emotions, the area of feeling. Rejection affects any or all of this area to the extent that a person is not able to behave as they want, choose as they would like to, or make right decisions.

Memory can be so affected that they people are able to block out the rejection of the past. Sometimes they are so overwhelmed by past negative situations where the emotions are hidden, that it seems as though they have none. Other times these emotions are so close to the surface, they cannot be controlled. Often all of them intermingle. When you are told that you are no good again and again, it will affect you on the inside you will behave that way because you believe that you are no good. Your emotions will show others that you believe it; your emotions will show you that it is true, and you will begin to reject yourself.

AHAB AND JEZEBEL SPIRIT

A biblical example of a powerful witch working in a marriage as well taking dominion over a nation is shown in Ahab's marriage to a witch, Jezebel which is shown in (I Kin. 16:31). Jezebel in fact, had no authority of her own. She was simply the wife of the king who was anointed by God to exercise authority over the nation. Ahab abdicated his authority to Jezebel. He particularly gave her rule over the religious affairs of the nation. Nevertheless, she regularly assumed the king's authority when she wanted to. She used the spirit of witchcraft to control her husband Ahab. Then, she used these powers to gain control of the entire nation. We can clearly see her evil influence was more powerful over Ahab than his commitment to his own religious experiences.

Jezebel was capable of killing the prophets of the Lord. "For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophet, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water . . . " (I Kin. 18:4).

Jezebels' influence caused an entire nation to cease worship of the true God. Witchcraft held the people under a diabolical bondage while the prophets who were not killed hid in terror of their lives. Her rebellion spread like evil yeast throughout the land. The people fell under her spell and also served her gods.

After Elijah warned King Ahab of the coming drought, the curse became extremely visible over the land. King Ahab knew that the problem was linked to his rebellion against God. He said, ". . . when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?" (I Kin. 18: 17). Notice Elijah's reply, "And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim." (I Kin. 18:18).

Elijah challenged the king to bring the prophets of Ba'lal, four hundred and fifty and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table to a spiritual demonstration of power on the Mount Carmel. And then he challenged the people, "Then said Elijah unto the people, and said, how long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be Lord follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word." (I Kin. 18:21). Elijah went on to prove that God was more powerful than Baal, Jezebel's witchcraft gods, and the people responded, killing her prophets.

This powerful Old Testament story demonstrates how destructive the powers of witchcraft when practiced by entire nation. Great darkness spreads across a land under these demonic powers. The leaders and people become cowardly. Only the power of God can transfer people from the enslavements of the demonic hordes of evil spirits.

THE SPIRIT OF ERROR

The Apostle Paul tells us in (I Cor. 11:19), why God allows heresy to dwell in the midst of His Church. Paul says, "There must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you." God’s Word and His anointing is a standard that places our faith on firm foundations. It is by means of iniquity (self-will) that the root of error takes control.

The Greek word, heresy, according to Liddell and Scott, means taking for oneself, choosing, or choice. The thing chosen and so plan, purpose a course of action or thought. From this we get a philosophic principle, a sect, and a heresy.

Webster's International Dictionary defines Heresy: 1. Adherence to a religious opinion that contrary to an established dogma of a church; dissent from a dominant theory or opinion in any field group or school of thought centering on a particular heresy.

Therefore, heresy is not so much rejecting as selecting. The heretic simply selects the part of the scriptures he or she wants to stress, and lets the rest go. How prone we are to take to ourselves those parts of the truth that please us and ignore the other parts. This is heresy! Heresies are a direct result of an intellectual concept becoming crystallized into a religious system of teaching that is not Scriptural. This is the case with the multifarious sects which divide Christendom today.

The book of Jude supplies us with a simple, straightforward summary of such sects, "These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit" (Jude 19). Their philosophies are built, not on the full and glorious work of the Holy Spirit of God that exalts Jesus Christ, making His person the grand, central theme of their witness; but on some sideline doctrine, which divides instead of uniting.

Chapter Nine

Faith and Doubt

SPIRIT OF FEAR

Fear is Opposite of Faith, “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life," (Rev. 2:10).

GOOD FEAR

‘To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth…" (I Sam. 2:21),

The word sovereign means: Supreme authority.

Christ is sovereign.

He is above all things.

Because He is sovereign He does not make mistakes Human minds are too small to comprehend this. We accept the Sovereign Christ by faith. He has authority over all, (Heb. 2:8-18).

One of the most tormenting dilemmas we face today is discovering peace of mind. The Bible speaks of God's promises of love, joy, peace, abundant life, and hope. Harassing evil spirits are driving many Christians to search for God's promises to be fulfilled through the power of man-manufactured psychology. Christians must return to the basics of the Bible by living for Jesus Christ and living in the scope of the challenges as shown in the Word. Let the secular people search for answers to the problems in the man-made knowledge of psychology but Christians should seek a relationship with Jesus Christ.

EXTRA-BIBLICAL ANSWERS

The Apostle Paul warns God's people of the dangers of seeking extra-biblical answers to their problems in (Eph. 3:1, 2, 3). "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others."

THE MYSTERY OF BABYLON

The spirit of the Antichrist has been at work in the world since the Resurrection of Christ. His main business is to defame, defeat and destroy the purity, power and purpose of Christ. His personal appearance will come in the seed of the Serpent at the beginning of the Tribulation after the Saints are raptured to Glory. It is the belief of this writer that we are on the brink of this glorious event.

The Apostle John was invited to view the false end-time religious system in chapter (Rev. 17). He saw a woman upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy. He describes the woman arrayed in purple and scarlet color and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of the abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth, " (Rev. 17:1-3).

Dressed as a pagan-temple harlot, this religious system will certainly operate under the cloak of spiritual adultery. Her true personality can be seen in (Rev. 18:2), "...Babylon the Great is fallen; she has become a den of demons, a haunt of devils and every kind of evil spirit.” Babylon has always been associated with occult practices and it is fascinating the Bible shows us exactly.

What kind of a religious system will be in existence during the rise of the Antichrist? The Bible gives a clear picture of the downward progression of sinful practices during the Church Age. It shows the condition of the organized church when Christ comes for His Bride. (He is not coming for a harlot). We see the traits and characteristics of the Church as backslidden as one who has left its first love (Rev. 2:4). It will be filled with materialism, secularization, self-confidence, human reasoning, and Spiritual fornication that tolerate false teaching. That kind of a church can never have a cutting edge against the deceptions of the world.

CORRUPTING THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Satan's methods of corrupting the Church are portrayed in both, (Matt. 13, and Rev. 2, and 3). His plan starts with destruction and has no creative power. He imitates and counterfeits. What he cannot destroy, he joins for the purpose of pollution. His primary goals are to defame the name of Christ, lie about Christ, and lead people to doubt the Bible, defeating the mission of the Church.

Our present world system is over loaded with things of the occult. Much of it started with Franz Anton Mesmer, the father of ancient mesmerism and modern parapsychology, who started by dabbling in hypnotism. This has been called the soul-bed from which many western mental sciences have sprung, most of these sciences using hypnotism in one form or another.10

ENCHANTING SPIRITS AND MODERN HYPNOTISM

It is interesting to note the Bible expressly forbids "charming" and "enchanting,” or "casting of spells,” which certainly encompasses modern hypnotism, putting hypnotists in the same bag with witches, diviners (psychics), consulters with familiar spirits (mediums), observers of time (astrologers), and necromancers (spirits). These "innocent" occult practices are considered nothing less than an abomination in the sight of the Lord, (as Deut. 18 and Lev. 19) make abundantly clear.

Recently a local television program showed a series on hypnotism. The reporter even subjected herself to the hypnotist and filmed the event for her viewing audience. The author asked a local Christian doctor to go to the television channel and ask for equal time to give a Christian point of view concerning hypnosis. He gave a point blank, "no.” He said he simply could not do that because, although he believed it to be demonic, it would make him the laughing stock in the eyes of his peers. He said "practically every one of them were hypnotizing their patients!” What a sad state of affairs! Are we going to trust the old-fashioned Christianity with its narrow point of view and belief in the infallibility of the Bible? Or do we revamp the faith to accommodate the "increased knowledge" of our time and join the world's point of view of disbelief?

The Apostle Paul warns, “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears,” (II Tim. 4:1-3).

Jesus said during His preaching, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying,”  ” (Rev. 3:16). It is important that the church hear what the Spirit is saying. There are many voices and much entertainment that makes us feel good that have perverted the Christian faith because the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is not being preached. We are living in treacherous times. Nevertheless, it is also a time for great Christian witnessing because of the tremendous darkness that has spread across the world. We are surrounded by the enemy and infiltrated by New Age doctrines camouflaged in Biblical language. We must be a vigilant, Word enlightened church.

PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology is one of the mediums used to indoctrinate God’s people. Psychology is not only becoming psychic oriented, but it is also used as a spiritual vehicle transporting the individual into the spiritual realm of the spirit world. Even the noted Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung, shows “in its development to the present, psychology has dealt chiefly with psychic processes in the light of physical causation, the future task of psychology will be the investigation of their spiritual determinants. Psychology has not as yet drawn aside all the many veils from the picture of the human psyche; it remains as unapproachable and obscure as all the deep secrets of life.” Yet he is explicit on the point of his own practice as a psychiatrist, for he says, “If I recognize only naturalistic values, and explain everything in physical terms, I shall depreciate, hinder, or even destroy the spiritual development of my patients.”

Unheard of in Christian churches even fifty years ago, psychotherapy is the method of choice in many churches of our day. Author, Edgar N. Jackson, writes: “The resources of “scientific psychotherapy” are so taxed that those who work with groups through the church must sense their responsibility both for preventive and healing work among those who are spiritually bruised though not broken.”

Frequently, these psychological techniques are taking the form of new consciousness whose ideas stem from age long traditions rooted in the Far East. The New Age plan is to bring Mankind together in a common expression of humanistic “spirituality.” The appearance of new consciousness groups within the framework of Christianity should be an alarming sign. A study of this is important for Christians who are interested in the spiritual development of the Church. Although New Consciousness is often presented in modernized and updated forms, they represent the religious thinking of more than one half of the people of the globe whose pantheistic views should be strange to the Church.

HYPNOTHERAPY AND GUIDED IMAGERY

Franz Anton Mesmer, who was a friend of Mozart’s, developed techniques using so-called animal magnetism. “His patients clasped hands around a pool bristling with magnetized iron bars as Mesmer led them into trances -“mesmerizing them’ although Paris’ society hailed him, a commission of the Academies des Sciences, which included ambassador Benjamin Franklin, soberly concluded that something “having not existence can consequently have not use.”

The convulsive symptoms observed in participants were “ascribed to the imagination called into action.” But, neither the commission nor Mesmer understood the force that hypnotic suggestion exerted on the imagination, a discovery that Sigmund Freud and other framers of modern psychiatry would later exploit.” 49 “Swedish professor Emanuel Swedenborg experienced visions of heaven and hell before turning away from science, which he feared was leading to a godless, mechanistic interpretation of the mind.”

HYSTERIA AND HYPNOTIC TRANCE

In the fall of 1880, one of Austria’s most prominent physicians, Dr. Josef Breuer, was summoned to help an ailing young woman named Bertha Pappenheim who was suffering from exhaustion and a persistent, ominous cough. She lay bedridden in the home where her father was slowly dying from tuberculosis. After examining Bertha, Breuer found she suffered not from a lung disease but from a nervous disorder. Her cough was only one of many bewildering symptoms, including hallucinations, poor vision, partial paralysis, and an apparent difficulty in hearing. Breuer diagnosed hysteria, a perplexing disease that many doctors of his era dismissed. In medical circles, hysteria was viewed as a deception by attention-hungry patients. The usual treatment was a hypnotic trance in which the doctor told his patient to give up the symptoms. Many patients did, if only temporarily.

In Bertha’s case, however, Breuer decided to take a different approach. When he hypnotized her, instead of suggesting that she abandons her symptoms, he asked what troubled her, why was she so distressed. In posing this question, Breuer had opened the door to Bertha’s tormented mind, taking an important first step down the path to understanding the mazes of the human mind. It would prove to be an exhilarating yet terrifying journey, and from which Breuer himself eventually recoiled.

Over the course of more than a year, Breuer helped Bertha remember and relive some of the most painful moments of her past, and in doing so freed her of their tormenting power. Together, physician and patient invented the “talking cure,” as Bertha called it. Breuer mentioned this woman (later known as the famous “Anna O). to a young friend and colleague named Sigmund Freud. That day, November 18, 1882, Freud would later remember this as his first awareness of the immense power of the unconscious.

Freud’s interest in hypnosis sent him to Paris to study under the famous French neurologist, Jean Mastrin Charcot. His own researches into nervous disorders, in Breuer’s “talking cure” of the memories and other fears and desires of the patients’ Freud and Breuer later treated, was the seed from which modern psychoanalysis sprouted. With this new method of study a new view of the mind, grew a new notion of man and a modern legend that would influence every aspect of Western society.

SPIRITUALISM IN GUIDED IMAGERY

The late Gordon Lindsey, founder of Christ for the Nations, wrote: “It is a matter of grave concern, to observe the number of ways that demons are attacking, harassing and dominating people who are professing Christians.” Much of Satan’s power over the minds of Christians comes because of the open door of not forgiving. Sometimes it will be found that a person is held in such bondage to these evil powers that it will first be necessary to break Satan’s hold by calling upon the power of the blood of Jesus before the individual is capable of following in a confession of repentance and faith in Christ.”

Chapter Ten

Entrapped in Witchcraft

FREE FROM WITCHCRAFT

Once entrapped in witchcraft, it is not easy to get out. It’s a cord that only Jesus can break. There is one way out and that’s through receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and His blood sacrifice as His covering for our sins.

Deliverance is having the power to set the captives free. It is never done ritualistically. It must be done by the teaching and anointing of the Holy Spirit. Deliverance works with love, the Compassion of Jesus Christ Himself operating through the deliverance minister, then the love of the deliverance minister to the one who is possessed. We have the advantage of having learned the repugnance with which demons regard genuine love and compassion to a bound and helpless individual. True Christian Love is a powerful spiritual weapon in warfare with Satan.

A person filled with the Holy Spirit who allows the love of Jesus to flow through them can cause the demons to be in torment by embracing the bound individual and letting that holy love flow through them. Evil spirits react with hatred, rage revulsion, often screaming and sobbing to be left alone.

Remember, we do not ask God to resist the demons, WE DO! Jesus Christ has given US, CHRISTIANS, the authority to resist and defeat them in HIS NAME! The words we use at will vary according to the circumstance. There is no set formula. But it is important to use the Word of God. You will find faith and power in the Word of God. The Bible tells you to “Submit therefore yourselves to God, resist the Devil and he will flee from you,” (Jam. 4:7). Claim the protection of the blood of Jesus after a battle with demons as well as during the actual conflict. All deliverance ministers should learn to live a fasted life. The Bible tells us fasting breaks the yoke of the enemy, (I Sam. 58).

LEGION CHAINS ITS VICTIMS

When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit came from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him any more, not even with a chain. “…For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones,” (Mk. 5:5).

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Swear to God that you won't torture me!" For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of this man, you evil spirit!" Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many." And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area. A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside.

The demons begged Jesus, "Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them." He gave them permission, and the evil spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned. Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid (Mk. 5:2-15).

Notice some of the characteristics of this demon possessed man: he had supernatural strength and was violent, lived among the tombs in the graveyard, crying out and mutilating himself with stones. According to( Lk. 8:27), he was also naked, demons also want to demean humans by taking off their clothes; when Jesus drove the demons out, the man got dressed and was in his right mind, listening to Jesus. Take note that these thousands of demons begged Jesus, the one with all authority in heaven and on earth.

Besides people, demons can also inhabit animals, according to the account of the demon possessed man of Gerasenes. There are other Biblical accounts of demonic possession that are more subtle. Judas actually had Satan in him (Jn. 13:27), but he appeared rational. The fortune telling woman with a demon (Acts 16:16-18) must have seemed rational also -- she wasn't foaming at the mouth or acting insane. Otherwise, people wouldn't have gone to her to hear their "fortunes."

Sometimes demons cause physical afflictions: one person could not talk (Mt. 9:32), one was blind and mute (Mt. 12:22), one had seizures (Mt. 17:15-18), one woman was crippled by a spirit for 18 years, bent over and unable to straighten up (Lk. 13:11). Some people with a demon go to a religious place of worship such as a synagogue (or a church), Lk. 4:33. Demons can also perform miracles (Rev. 16:14).

GOD IS ALL POWERFUL

Though Satan is powerful, God is all-powerful! The Lord Jesus pointed out that He could pray to the Father who would immediately give Him more than twelve legions of angels (Matt. 16:53). And if He so desired He would not have to confine Himself to angels who had been long in His service. Our God is the Creator. He could of stones raise up children to Abraham (Matt. 3:9) and could with a single word call into being fresh multitudes of yet uncreated hosts.

If we revert to the military illustration, it would appear that angels of every rank in both camps are constantly at war with each other in the invisible realm. There is no question of overcoming these spirit beings, the victory or the defeat is gained by the application of the power of Jesus and the withdrawal of the inferior demonic force. The importance of all this truth to believers in our day is that it can be demonstrated from the Word of God. The warfare in the invisible realm principally concerns individuals in the human realm.

These spirits are shown as varied ranks to the graduations of the army. In the seventeenth century, we find Wycliffe using the word Hierarchies to describe angels. This is an allusion to the fourth century work attributed to Dionysius the Arepagite, who divided the heavenly beings into three hierarchies, each of which was supposed to contain three choirs or orders. The highest of these hierarchies was composed of the cherubim, (not satanic nude baby angels); the seraphim, and the thrones, the second included dominions, virtues, and powers, and the third contained the others mentioned in Scripture, principalities, archangels and angels.

PRINCIPALITIES

Principalities (Greek. arche, "first," and so "rule, magistracy"); used by Paul of angels and demons who were invested with power (Rom. 8:38), elsewhere rendered "rulers" (Eph. 1:21; 3:10; 6:12; Col. 1:16), a powerful ruler, or the rule of someone in authority. The word (often found in the plural) may refer to human rulers (Tit. 3:1, KJV), demonic spirits (Rom. 8:38; Eph. 6:12; Col. 2:15), angels and demons in general (Eph. 3:10; Col. 1:16), or (especially when used in the singular) any type of ruler other than God Himself (Eph. 1:21; Col. 2:10). While Christians must often wrestle against evil principalities (Eph. 6:12), they can be victorious because Christ defeated all wicked spirits (Col. 2:15).

In the New Testament "principality" occurs for arche, "rule," generally in the plural, referring (a) to men in authority (Tit. 3:1), "Put them in mind to be subject (the King James Version; "in subjection," the Revised Version (British and American)) to principalities (the King James Version; "rulers," the Revised Version (British and American)), and powers" (the King James Version; "to authorities," the Revised Version (British and American)); (b) to superhuman agencies, angelic or demonic (Rom. 8:38; Eph. 3:10; 6:12; Col. 1:16; 2:10,15).

POWER OF BINDING THE STRONGMAN

Christians possess enormous authority to fight the powers of darkness. The problem is that most people have not been taught the fundamentals regarding spiritual warfare or spiritual defense. Jesus left us His power and extends it to us when we call upon His name. However, Satan will not give up his kingdom with putting up a strong resistance. Therefore the enemy must be neutralized before we can release his captives. Before any battle can be won, we first must bind the power of the strongman.

The clash between Satan and Jesus Son of God in the first Gospel is an ongoing one. Satan is characterized as "the strong man" and Jesus, the Son of God, in that He casts out demons by the Holy Spirit and brings people into the sphere of God's reign, as one who "binds" him and "plunders his goods" (Matt. 12; 28-29 cf. also 8:39). Conversely, Satan and those who do his bidding are depicted as doing violence to the kingdom of heaven as "plundering" it (Matt. 11:12). A case in point, is Satan's enlistment of Peter in an effort to put Jesus at cross-purposes with his Father and to turn him away from the path that leads to the cross, (Matt. 16:21-23).

It is precisely to fend off onslaughts of Satan such as this that Jesus teaches his disciples to pray (Matt. 6:130."And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" or ("from evil"). On another level, Satan also exercises his malevolent will against Jesus through the Israelite crowds, (Matt. 11:16; 12:29, 16: 4), and their leaders', (Matt. 16:1; 19:2; 22:18. 35; 23, 15); who asks Jesus for a sign or who tempt Him, not the least while he is hanging on the cross, (Matt. 27:39-42).

Indeed through a parable of Jesus, Matthew makes the programmatic observation that Satan  is the personal "enemy" of Jesus Messiah, who has usurped in Israel the allegiance that is due Jesus alone, (Matt. 13:24-30). Nevertheless, as the story of the temptation at the beginning of the Gospel adumbrates, the repeated attacks of Satan are not sufficient to induce Jesus to divest himself of His divine Son ship and to bring Him from his mission, (Matt. 16:21).

“Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, this fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, every kingdom divided against it is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you; or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? And then he will spoil his house.  He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit,”(Matt. 12:22-33,).

Binding the strongman is first means one must secure Satan’s power or firmly fix it in position so that it unlikely to come loose or give way insuring that its internal sources of danger are removed. This is the first principle of spiritual warfare, before anyone can enter the strongman’s house (body of the person that he has possession, and then the deliverance minister can freely enter into that house and rob it of his goods, (demons). Binding the Strongman is the first principle of deliverance. Before any battle can be won against Satan, that he has dominion over, such as, a city, family or individual, the strongman must be constrained and then Jesus can enter in and rob his possession of the house and deliver his demons. The person is delivered because Satan loses control.

When it comes to binding the strongman, Jesus tells us precisely how to do it (Lk. 11: 12), “If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?  And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. But some of them said he casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.”

Satan is stripped from his weapons. All power is vested in Jesus Christ. In (Mk. 16: 15-17), He commissioned us to go preach His Word and cast our demons. All authority in heaven and earth has been given to Him and He gives us that same authority to act in His name, (Matt. 28:28). He gives His power to us who believe in Ephesians Chapter One. His power is above every power in (Eph. 1:21).

KEYS TO THE KINGDOM

He gives us the authority to use His keys of the kingdom of heaven to loose and bind demons to release His captives. “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven,” (Matt 16:19).

[The keys of the kingdom] By the kingdom of heaven, we may consider the true church, that house of God, to be meant; and by the keys, the power of admitting into that house, or of preventing any improper person from coming in. In other words, the doctrine of salvation, and the full declaration of the way in which God will save sinners; and who they are that shall be finally excluded from heaven; and on what account. When the Jews made a man a doctor of the law, they put into his hand the key of the closet in the temple where the sacred books were kept, and also tablets to write upon; signifying, by this, that they gave him authority to teach, and to explain the Scriptures to the people.-Martin. This prophetic declaration of our Lord was literally fulfilled to Peter, as he was made the first instrument of opening, i.e. preaching the doctrines of the kingdom of heaven to the Jews, (Acts 2:41); and to the Gentiles, (Acts 10:44-47; 11:1; 15:7).

(Matt. 16:19), [Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth] This mode of expression was frequent among the Jews: they considered that everything that was done upon earth, according to the order of God, was at the same time done in heaven: hence, they were accustomed to say, that when the priest, on the day of atonement, offered the two goats upon earth, the same were offered in heaven. As one goat therefore is permitted to escape on earth, one is permitted to escape in heaven; and when the priests cast the lots on earth, the priest also casts the lots in heaven.

(See Sohar. Lev. fol. 26; and see Lightfoot and Schoettgen) These words will receive considerable light from (Lev 13:3, 23): The priest shall look upon him (the leper) and pronounce him unclean. Heb. ªTimee' 'otow, he shall pollute him, i.e. shall declare him polluted, from the evidences mentioned before. And in (Matt 16:23): The priest shall pronounce him clean, wªTihªrow hakoheen, the priest shall cleanse him, i.e. declare he is clean, from the evidences mentioned in the verse. In the one case the priest declared the person infected with the leprosy, and unfit for civil society; and, in the other, that the suspected person was clean, and might safely associate with his fellows in civil or religious assemblies.

The disciples of our Lord, from having the keys, i.e. the true knowledge of the doctrine of the kingdom of heaven, should be able at all times to distinguish between the clean and the unclean, and pronounce infallible judgment; and this binding and loosing, or pronouncing fit or unfit for fellowship with the members of Christ, being always according to the doctrine of the Gospel of God, should be considered as proceeding immediately from heaven, and consequently as divinely ratified. That binding and loosing were terms in frequent use among the Jews, and that they meant bidding, and forbidding, granting and refusing, declaring lawful or unlawful, etc., Dr. Lightfoot, after having given numerous instances, thus concludes:

"To these may be added, if need were, the frequent (shall I say?) Or infinite use of the phrases, 'acuwr wªmowtar, bound and loosed, which we meet with thousands of times over; but from these allegations the reader sees, abundantly enough, both the frequency and the common use of this phrase, and the sense of it also namely, first, that it is used in doctrine, and in judgments, concerning things allowed or not allowed in the law. Secondly, that to bind is the same with, to forbid, or to declare forbidden. To think that Christ when he used the common phrase was not understood by his hearers in the common and vulgar sense, shall I call it a matter of laughter, or of madness?

To this, therefore, do these words amount: When the time was come wherein the Mosaic Law, as to some part of it, was to be abolished, and left off, and, as to another part of it, was to be continued and to last forever, he granted Peter here, and to the rest of the apostles, (Matt 18:18), a power to abolish or confirm what they thought good, and as they thought good; being taught this, and led by the Holy Spirit: as if he should say, Whatsoever ye shall bind in the law of Moses that is, forbid, it shall be forbidden, the divine authority confirming it; and whatsoever ye shall loose, that is, permit, or shall teach that it is permitted and lawful, shall be lawful and permitted. Hence, they bound, that is forbade, circumcision to the believers; eating of things offered to idols, of things strangled, and of blood, for a time, to the Gentiles; and that which they bound on earth was confirmed in heaven. They loosed, that is, allowed purification to Paul, and to four other brethren, for the shunning of scandal; (Acts 21:24): and, in a word, by these words of Christ it was committed to them, the Holy Spirit directing, that they should make decrees concerning religion, as to the use or rejection of Mosaic rites and judgments, and that either for a time, or forever.

"Let the words be applied by way of paraphrase to the matter that was transacted at present with Peter: 'I am about to build a Gentile church,' saith Christ, 'and to thee, O Peter, do I give the keys of the kingdom of heaven, that thou mayest first open the door of faith to them; but if thou askest by what rule that church is to be governed, when the Mosaic rule may seem so improper for  it, thou shalt be so guided by the Holy Spirit, that whatsoever of the law of Moses thou shalt forbid them shall be forbidden; whatsoever thou grantest them shall be granted; and that under a sanction made in heaven.' Hence, in that instant, when he should use his keys, that is, when he was now ready to open the gate of the Gospel to the Gentiles, (Acts 10), he was taught from heaven that the consorting of the Jew with the Gentile, which before had been bound, was now loosed; and the eating of any creature convenient for food was now loosed, which before had been bound; and he in like manner loosen both these.

"Those words of our Savior, (Jn. 20:23), whose sins ye remit, they are remitted to them, for the most part are forced to the same sense with these before us, when they carry quite another sense. Here the business is of doctrine only, not of persons; there of persons, not of doctrine. Here of things lawful or unlawful in religion, to be determined by the apostles; there of persons obstinate or not obstinate, to be punished by them, or not to be punished.

"As to doctrine, the apostles were doubly instructed.

1. So long sitting at the feet of their Master, they had imbibed the evangelical doctrine.

2. The Holy Spirit directing them, they were to determine concerning the legal doctrine and practice, being completely instructed and enabled in both by the Holy Spirit descending upon them.  As to the persons, they were endowed with a peculiar gift, so that, the same Spirit directing them, if they would retain and punish the sins of any, a power was delivered into their hands of delivering to Satan, of punishing with diseases, plagues, yea, death itself, which Peter did to Ananias and Sapphira; Paul to Elymas, Hymeneus, and Philetus, etc."

After all these evidences and proofs of the proper use of these terms, to attempt to press the words into the service long assigned them by the Church of Rome, would, to use the words of Dr. Lightfoot, be "a matter of laughter or of madness." No church can use them in the sense thus imposed upon them, which was done merely to serve secular ends; and least of all can that very church that thus abuses them.

Open the eyes of our hearts, Lord, that we may see You, once again.

Chapter Eleven

Pagan Objects

“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king,” (1 Sam. 15:23).

BREAKING THE POWER OF SATAN PRAYER

Father, be most merciful and gracious that I may receive mercy and find grace from You to help me in the name of Jesus Christ. I rebuke, break and loose myself and my family from any and all evil curses, fetishes, charms, vexes, hexes, spells, every jinx, all psychic powers, sorcery, bewitchments, enchantments, witchcraft, love potions and psychic prayers which have been up upon us back to ten generations, on both sides of the family.

I break and loose myself from any connected or related spirits from any person or persons or from the occult or psychic source. I ask You, Heavenly Father, to send these demons back to where they came from now, (Gen. 12:3, 28 27:29; Deut. 30:7; Psa. 109-17-19).

I renounce, break, free and loose myself and my family from all psychic heredity, demonic holds psychic powers and bondage of physical and mental illnesses, family and marital and other curses upon us, back to ten generations on both sides of our families resulting from sins, transgressions, iniquities, occult and psychic involvements of myself, my parents and any other ancestors of mine or my spouse and all ex-spouses, or their parents, or any of their ancestors.

CLEANSING BODY, SOUL, SPIRIT AND HOUSE

Participation in Witchcraft either directly or indirectly can have damaging influence on your life and the lives of your children (descendants). You and/or your children may be the victims of demonic subjection or oppression because of this activity. You may have never been directly involved in the occult but, because of the sins of your ancestors, could have inherited psychic abilities or familiar spirits (Deut. 5:7-9). (See also Deut. 18:9-14).

EVERY AREA HAS TO BE ATTACKED

When praying deliverance, every area has to be attacked. Some techniques might be considered very controversial by many but to bring the spiritual afflicted to freedom, every inch of ground that Satan has taken must be taken away. Once a person receives deliverance, then the deliverance minister must turn his/her eyes to the infected person’s house. Here are some broad categories of things (and practices) that we have found people to have open doorways for Satan to access and attack minds, body and spirit.

PAGAN ART OBJECTS

These are artifacts which are often is intricate and beautiful from countries steeped in paganism (i.e. Africa, China, India, Peru, South America, the many islands of the world) which are also religious icons that are worshiped. Please note that not everything produced in a pagan nation qualifies. Here are a few suggestions:

1. Statues of the Buddha, Kwan Yin, Foe Hi, Foo dogs and some other oriental sculptures.

2. Native American sand-paintings, Kachina dolls, totem art, etc.

3. African statues: Especially when they are overtly sexual in nature.

4. African Obeah wands or staffs: Often sold as canes, they can be noted by their intricate carvings.

5. Dragons: A common symbol in the East, the dragon is venerated and worshiped in most Oriental faiths. It is also a symbol of Satan in the Bible.

6. The Tai Chi symbol: This circle divided in half by an S-shaped line. One half is black, the other half white. It is the sacred symbol of Taosim and it is used extensively in the Martial arts (and also featured on the Korean flag).

OCCULT IDOLS

These are objects more associated with the occult or Witchcraft subculture than a particular culture. Some have been venerated for centuries as sources of dark power:

1. Unicorns: Thou marketed today as symbols of fantasy, freedom and purity, the unicorn is worshiped in the occult as a symbol to invoke sexual lust and is believed by Satanists to be the “White horse” upon which the anti-Christ will ride, (See Rev. 6:2 and Dan. 8:21:-24).

2. Crystals: Not so much crystals as they appear in nature, but crystals which have been “charged,” “loaded” or prayed over by New Age practitioners or witches. This means they have attempted to put spirit power or “life force” (i.e. demons) into them.

3. Occult gemology and crystlomancy. Our advice is that if you have crystals you are uncertain about, pray over them and plead the blood of Jesus over them. If they have been shaped into occult artifacts, be sure to throw them away.

4. Hex Signs, Pennsylvania Dutch. Also called “painted prayers,” these circular and colorful designs seen on farms and barns in Pennsylvania and elsewhere are actually occult talismans. Their foundational symbols are drawn from occult work books.

5. The “Italian Horn” Jewelry: This is said to represent a Unicorn horn and is often worn by to increase their sexual power. It is a talisman to provoke lust, and should not be worn by Christians.

6. Pegasus: The wined horse. Like the Unicorn, this is another mythical beast. Remember, that we call myths today were the very serious religions Paul denounced among the ancient Greeks and Romans (see Acts 17:16-23). These are not to be trifled with!

7. Occult toys: some of them are a bit older or dated, some still popular, but they illustrate what parent should be on the look-out for. Daily, new occult toys are entering the market place. Kids are targeted by Satan to capture their minds and souls.

8. Dungeons and Dragons games and figurines. All fantasy role-playing games and their pieces. 1

9. Master of the Universe (He-man and She-Ra, etc)..

10. Smurf

11. My Little Pony figurines which include (Unicorns, Pegasus, etc.

12. Care Bears

13. Ouija Boards –extremely bad.

14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (because of the ninja element

15. Halloween -orient toys, masks, costumes, etc.

16. Some video games, (Nintendo, Sega, etch) have high occult content, some do not. These need by examined on a case-by-case basis.

17. Cabbage Patch Dolls; and Barbie Doll; and Dolls of all types. Children become oppressed by these.3

18. Heavy Metal Rock posters or albums (secular or “Christian”). Heavy Metal music cannot be Christian, any more than one could have “Christian topless dancing” or Christian gambling.” Virtually all artifacts surrounding Heavy Metal music are either occult, satanic or associated with the dark world of sado-masochism and perverted sexual dormancy and bondage of women.

19. Occult Jewelry:

20. Pentagrams; 5-pointed stars, either inverted (two points up, the symbol of Satanism) or upright (one point up, the symbol of “white” witchcraft).

21. Hexagrams; 6-pointed stars, symbol of the antichrist in Satanism (6 points, 6 angels, 6 planes_666) especially if the star is circumscribed by a circle. This is the six pointed star that is also called “The Star of David). Remember the Jews went back to Israel in unbelief. There is no Star of David in the Bible.

22. Ankh: (Crux ansanta or looped cross) Egyptian symbol of eternal love and lust. Now has been adapted into the symbol of feminism from astrological symbol for the planet Venus.

23. SS runes (Nazi and ancient Norse): Looks like twins stylized lightning bolts. These are the disguised initials of the Horned God of Witchcraft. Harry Potter has one painted on his forehead while he has millions of imitators around the world.

24. Skull and crossbones: Another symbol of the Horned God of Witchcraft.

25. Birth stone Jewelry: Borderline—you need to pray about it. Birth stones are rooted in astrology.

26. Crucifixes, states of Mary and other Catholic statuary: all of these are three dimensional symbols of the dead. Even the “Jesus” on the crucifix is a dead Jesus. They are used in Catholic piety to direct prayers to dead “saints.” Talking to the dead is strictly forbidden by the Bible. Thus, these items constitute idols, just as much as Buddha, etc.

27. Rosaries are also a problem because they are rooted in the Hindu concept of the mantra and the mala. Mantras are the continued repetition of certain “sacred” names or prayers. This what a rosary is, and the Lord forbids it, (Matt. 6:7).

28. The Mala is a string of beads originally used by Hindus to keep track of prayers. It was later used by devout Muslims. The Mala is a symbol of bondage to the deity to whom the prayers are directed. Since rosaries are primarily (a 10-1 ratio) prayed to Mary, this is placing oneself in bondage to a dead woman—actually it is a demon masquerading as the real Mary.

The technical theological term in Catholicism for their veneration of Mary is Hyperdulia—which is Greek, translated as “super-bondage” or “super-slavery.” These things need to be disposed of!

MASONIC REGALIA:

Apron, sashes, jewels of office

Rings and other personal jewelry

Shriner fezzes and regalia

Books, ritual monitors

Occult or cultic books

Magic, New Age, Witchcraft or astrology books

Book of Mormon, other Mormon Books

The Jehovah’s Witness literature, their Bible, of the New World Translation

Catholic missals, Bibles, hymnals, prayer books, etc…

Literature from any other cult group

BABY ANGELS

Christian bookstores across the nation carry the baby angels’ statues. These are little nude angels who come from the Devil’s side of the coin. When you see them in Christian homes, believe me, there will multitude of devils operating. A pastors’ wife from Africa (we’ll call her Sara), stay with the author. She told me that she had dreamed of little baby angels and wanted to know what I thought about her dream. I told her that the Bible does not show little nude baby angels and I thought they were demonic. “That’s it,” she said. She related to me that a woman pastor in another town had baby angels in her home. She said, “I could not sleep and I didn’t know why until you told me that these angels were demonic.”

Sara called the woman pastor and told her she wanted to return to her home because she had something to talk to her about. She didn’t warn her about the baby angels. When she returned to the home, the woman pastor had been attacked by demons almost to the point of death. After she agreed to throw away all those perverted baby angels, she was totally delivered!

There is truly a cost to pay for idolatry. The American mind cannot conceive that idols have evil spirits that are clustered on them that are just waiting for someone to take them home. The Bible says do not bring the accused thing in your house. The fact that you do, gives the demons rights to attack you. They can attack your mind, sleep, children, husband, wife, and cause divorce and sickness. Get rid of those stupid, unclean idols from your home. Baby angels are perverted angels, like Eros, the angel of love that has a bow and arrow to cause people to fall in love.

The prophet Isaiah insures us that the Lord will mount up a standard against the Devil. “So will they fear the name of the Lord from the west and East? His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift a standard against Him,” (I Sam. 59:1).

THE WORSHIP OF ANGELS

“Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind . . “ (Col. 2:18).

(Zeph.1:5), “And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swears by the LORD, and that swears by Melham; and them that worship the host of heaven-Saba: whence, in contrast to Sabeanism, Yahweh is called Lord of Sabaoth. Upon the house-tops-which were flat ,”(II Kin. 23:5-6,12; Jer. 19:13), "All the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the hosts of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods." So also "unto Baal." The flat roofs open to the sun and heavenly hosts, were chosen as the natural scene of worshiping those luminaries; so that, in fact, every house became an idolatrous sanctuary, (Zeph.32:29).

“And they . . . that swear by the Lord-rather, 'swear to Yahweh,” (II Chron. 15:14), "And they sware UNTO the Lord with a loud voice"). The particle is a different one from what follows, " them that swear BY [b] Malcham”: solemnly dedicating themselves to Him (cf. 1 Sam. 48:1,) "Ye . . . which swear BY [b, not the particle in Zephaniah] the name of the Lord . . . but not in truth, nor in righteousness,” (Hos. 4:15).

And-`and yet (with strange inconsistency) swear by Malcham'-i.e., 'their king' (I Kin. 18:21), "How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him,” (Ezek. 20:39), "Go ye, serve ye everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols,” (Matt. 6:24),

"No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon"), (Maurer); the same as Moloch (note, Amos 5:26), and Milcom the god of . . . Ammon" (I Kin. 11:33). If Satan has half the heart, he will have all: if the Lord has but half offered to Him, He will have none.

When we read in (Rev. 13:14), that people will worship the dragon (devil) and the beast (Antichrist), we can conclude that there will be religious activity during the final seven years of man’s day.

FIVE STEPS TO CLEANING HOUSE

Six-way prayers of forgiveness - you forgive your ancestors, descendants and others, asks God to forgive and bless them. Ask God to forgive you; you forgive yourself for sins against your body. Also ask forgiveness for spiritual adultery.

Break curses and soul ties from others (ancestors) and to others (descendants); break curses of psychic or Catholic prayers.

Clean out house of those objects or exorcize objects (you do this).

Anoint house with oil and cast evil spirits out of house (you do this).

Cast demons out of people that came in through curses from others (optional); for mass DELIVERANCE see Cursed Objects and Demon Infestation.

Please circle each of the following activities in YOU HAVE PARTICIPATED or in which YOU KNOW YOUR ANCESTORS HAVE PARTICIPATED. Now renounce each one, asking the Lord to forgive you for each thing you have circled.

Satan worship, witchcraft, black magic, black arts, black mass, white magic, neutral magic, séances, clairvoyance, mediums, contact with familiar spirits, diving, psychic powers, spiritism, necromancy, conjuring up spirits, communicating with dead or spirit guides, consulting mediums, U.F.O’s, fortune-telling, rod or pendulum diagnosis, trance diagnosis, palm reading, tea-leaf reading, handwriting analysis, crystal balls, tarot and other card reading, handwriting analysis, crystal balls, tarot and other card laying, astrology, Moon-Mancy (includes planting by the moon), interest in horoscopes and signs of the zodiac, numerology, observing of the times, anything that predicts your future and has advised your life, yoga, magic practices, E.S.P. EST, clairaudience, auras, reincarnation, human or animal sacrifice, acupuncture, mysticism, Aryanism, Humanism, Metaphysical healing groups, hypnosis, self-hypnosis, psychokinsis, psychic phenomena, mind reading, mind control, transcendental meditation, second sight, remote influence of the subconscious mind of others, mental science, self-realization, visions, trances, dreams, para-psychanalysis, wizards, soothsaying, spiritual prostitution, whoring, humanistic psychology, prognosticators, psychograph, telepathy, transference, New Age Movement, holographic images. The Masters of Wisdom, holistic medicine, levitation body, lifting out of the body experience, table tipping, good luck charms, psychometry, automatic writing, automatic drawing, automatic composing, fetishes, runes, amulets, talismans, mascots, medals, ankhs, spiels, incantation, conjuration, potions, sorcery, curses, materialization or apports, apparitions, ghosts, poltergeists, magic healing, wart or burn charming, pow-wow, ying-yang, superstition, spiritualism, occult literature, the force, graven images, idolatry, occult games (Clairvoyant, ESP, Kabala, Dudgeons and Dragons, Telepathy, Mystic Eye, Voodoo, Ouija Board, Horoscope, Masters of the Universe, Etch) Planchette, horoscope churts, precognition, churts with occult significance, icons, soul travel, eckankar, Easter religions, Order of the Arrow, Karma, any religion or philosophy that denies the blood atonement of deity of Jesus Christ,, making death oaths or oaths, making death wishes, false cults, involvement with psychics, rock music, martial arts, imitation rites (into loges, brotherhoods, shrines, clubs, societies ,brotherhoods, sisterhoods, clubs, fraternities that would require the taking of an oath to uphold a man-made doctrine), Freemasonry (Masons), Eastern Star, vows, (see James 5:12; Matt. 5:34-37), occult movies, occult television programs, occult video games, occult jewelry, having in your possession occult or pagan religious objects, relics, or artifacts which are used in pagan temples and religious rites, or in the practice of conjuring up evil spirits (sorcery, magic, divination, spiritualism), evil dance, voodoo, thought control, tattooing, body piercing, cutting the body, psycho cybernetics, consciousness-expanding through drugs, graphology, Concept Therapy, agnosticism and atheism radesthesia (water witching or Downing forked sticks or other objects for water, oil, minerals, underground sewer and water lines, etc). Incubi and succubae experiences (being sexually molested by evil spirit, see (Gen. 6:1-4; 2 Peter 2-4 and Jude 6-7) false tongues (test by I Tim 4:1-3 and I Cor. 12:3), blood subscriptions (subscribing your-self and your children to the devil), iridology, reflexology, color therapy, death magic, fire walking, fanaticism Modern Theology (rationalistic or an intellectual theology which denies Jesus to be Son of God and our redeemer, the blood atonement, the resurrection, the Second Coming of Christ, the existence of miracles, answers to prayer, spiritual gifts, the devil, demons and even the personal existence of God. This would also include a liberal theology which would teach salvation without repentance), neo-rationalism, letters of protection, mental suggestion, omens, screening, Umbanda and Macumba cults, minds science, hypnotherapy, Autosuggestion, biofeedback, psychic healing, visualization, exoteric philosophy, self-help techniques, casting spells, astral projection, Other activities not listed.65

SCRIPTURES CONCERNING OCCULT

WITCHCRAFT: (Exod. 22:18; Deut. 18:18; I Sam. 15:23; II Kin. 9:22; 2 Chron. 33:6; Mic. 5:12; Nah. 3:4; Gal. 5:20).

ASTROLOGY: (Dan. 1:20; 2:2; 10:27; 5:57, 11, 15; I Sam. 47:13; Deut. 4:19).

CHARMING: (Deut. 18:11; Psa. 58:5; I Sam. 19:3; Jer. 8:17).

DIVINATION: (Num. 22:7; 23:23; Deut. 18:10; 14; I Sam. 15:23; 28:8; II Kin. 17:17; Jer.

14:14; 27:9, 29:8, Ezek. 12:24; 13:6, 7, 19, 23; 21:21-23; 29).

ENCHANTMENTS: (Deut. 18:10; Exod. 7:11, 22; 8:7; Num. 23:23; 24:1; Lev. 19:26; II Kin. 17:17; 21:6; 2 Chron. 33:6; Eccl. 10:11; 1Sam. 47:9, 12; Jer. 27:9).

MAGICIANS: (Gen. 41:8, 24; Exod. 7:11; 22, 8:7, 19; 19:11; Dan. 1:20; 2:2, 10, 27; 4:7, 9; 5:11; Acts 19:19).

NECROMANCY: (Deut. 18:11).

OBSERVING TIMES: (Lev. 19:26; Deut. 18:10, 14; II Kin. 21:6; 2 Chron. 33:6).

PROGNOSTICATORS: (I Sam. 47:13).

SOOTHSAYING: (Dan. 2:27; 4:7; 5:7; 11; 1Sam. 2:6; Mic. 5:12; Josh. 13:22; Acts 16:16).

SORCERY: (PHARMAKEIA) (Exod. 7:11; I Sam. 47:9, 12; 57:3; Jer. 27:9, Dan. 2:2; Mal. 3:5; Acts 8:9;, 11; 13:6,8; Rev. 9:21; 18:23; 21:8; 22:15).

WITCH or WIZARD: (Lev. 19:31; 20:6, 27; Deut. 18:11; I Sam.28:3, 9; II Kin. 21:6; 23:24; II Chron. 33:6; I Sam. 8:19; 19:3).

Chapter Twelve

Free From Witchcraft

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me," (Jn. 14:6). "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved," (Acts 4:10).

PRAYER AND FASTING

Some demons come out only by "prayer and fasting":

“But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, this kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting" (Mk. 9:27-29). In this case, the boy appeared to have epilepsy or something similar.”

EXOCISTS

Christian Believers are not Exorcists. They simply cast demons out in Jesus' name, anointed by the Holy Ghost and called by God.

There is an account in the Bible of seven sons driving out demons, but one demon was not so easily driven out.

Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, "In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out." Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. One day the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?" Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding. When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor (Acts 19:13-17).

JESUS TAUGHT

Many will say to me on that day, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?" Then I will tell them plainly, "I never knew you … Away from me, you evildoers!" (Matt. 7:22, 23).

The apostles reported others, not of their group, who were also invoking the powerful name of Jesus, but Jesus does not rebuke them:

"Teacher," said John, "we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us." "Do not stop him," Jesus said. "No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us" (Mk. 9:38-40).

Christians have a greater cause to rejoice than just having the spiritual power to drive out demons:

The seventy-two returned with joy and said, "Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name." He replied, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven" (Lk. 10:17-20).

Pray for the Church, the ministers in the battle for souls, the deceived to be saved, for Christians to receive the power of discernment of right and wrong.

JESUS GIVES YOU AUTHORITY

"Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am," (Jn. 17:24)

We are in an intense, spiritual war with the forces of darkness. Demons are just as real in our day as in Jesus' day and still desire to inhabit people. But Christians have powerful spiritual weapons with which to fight back. One of the most powerful is that precious, holy name which is above all others: Jesus! All believers have this weapon available to them:

“And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons ...” (Mk. 16:17).

Please note: Deliverance of demons are unlike in the movies; demons are driven out without the use of a wooden cross, “holy" water or showmanship! Deliverance Minister will not allow demons to take control of the deliverance session by talking, Jesus told them to be silent.

“And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him” (Mk. 1:25,).

“And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not…” (Lk, 4: 35,).

Notice the absolute authority that Jesus held over these demons. They obeyed him and they have to obey a Christian minister too.

DELIVERANCE AND LIBERATION

Jesus is the deliverer and He sets the captives free.

Victims of occult dominion must, with all sincerity, trust Christ and confess Him as Savior. Jesus is the only deliverer from the powers of darkness (demons). You must call upon the name of Jesus and be reconciled to God before dealing with the problem of occult involvement. You must be determining because Satan does not let people go easily. It is only through the blood of Christ and you’re open and honest confession of Jesus as Savior and Lord and that liberation will come.

CONFESSION OF ALL OCCULT INVOLVEMENT

By confessing the specific sins of occult transgression, you unmask the enemy and expose the strategy by which you were held in bondage. Confession means to agree with God about the sin.

RENOUNCE THE DEVIL AND COMMAND HIM TO DEPART

Satan has a right to enter when a pact or agreement has been concluded with the powers of darkness because you have opened the door for him. You have granted Satan access through occult involvement. All agreements must be annulled and can only be dissolved by a conscious verbal act of repudiation on the part of the one subjected. One can say you must depart in the Name of Jesus (Not a prayer request, but a command. Make it clear once and forever that you are taking back the place, the agreement, the lease, the pact, that you gave to Satan.

DESTROY ALL OCCULT OBJECTS

You must realize that deliverance is a walk as well as experience. The ground taken from Satan must be safeguarded for Jesus. After deliverance, it is necessary to walk in the will of God according to the Word of God. The riddance of all occult objects, charms and literature is indispensable to a sustained freedom. All objects are to be done away with and destroyed, (Acts 19:18, 19). "Put on the whole armour of God that you may be able you stand against the wiles of the Devil." (Eph. 6:10-18). Study and stand on the Word daily. Above all, do not rely on feeling or appearance. Satan knows he is defeated and because God's Word says it. You believe it and that settles it!

Chapter Thirteen

Tillie: Victim of the Spiritual Mafia

TILLIE SORCERY AND SNAKES

"A spiritual of mystical revival is taking place in society at large," proclaims Edward B. Fiske in analyzing the new trend for the New York Times. "It can be seen in increased interest in occult, Eastern religion, and primitive practices such as witchcraft . . .”

My friend is seeing snakes crawling on her stomach. Can you please help her?" I had just opened the prayer line on my radio talk show, “The Power of Prayer and Share.” This was the first telephone call. I replied, confident in the Lord: Yes, Jesus Christ can deliver her from that. We are going to pray now, but will you please call back after we get off the air? We want to talk to you further about this." "Yes, I will call back." After the program went off the air, Jamie Green, whose friend was seeing snakes, called back. "Do you think she can come to the Tuesday meeting? Her name is Tillie Damon."

Historically, sorcery once repelled people, and was practiced secretly for selective audiences. Now it is open and popularized respectably through modern media, such as TV, whereby millions are shown demonstrations of the powers of Hell glamorized: fortune-telling, ESP, magic, hypnotism, etc. The occult promise answers . . . that's why it has a strong appeal.

Mike Warneke, former Satan worshiper wrote: "In our ceremonies, we called on demons to do almost everything a person's Satan-oriented mind could dream up. We had control of a satanic power, although often demons themselves do their own destructive deeds without our help in directing them . . .”

Demons can inflict disease, can possess men, can possess animals, can oppose spiritual growth, can disseminate false doctrine, and can torment people. Demons can talk or cry with a loud voice, using the tongues and lips of humans. They can tell lies and make people believe lies. They can even preach. They can stand, walk and seek rest when embodied in a human being, they can tell fortunes, make people strip off their clothes, cause suicides, render a person insane, or cause a body to be bowed in affliction. They can cause jealousy, pride, lust. They can drive a person into despair.

Demons seek to inhabit human bodies that they might work out their indescribable lusts and evil longings. They will not willingly leave a human they inhabit. If they are cast out, they will seek to enter the same body, inviting other demons to join them. It is known that as many as two thousand demons inhabited one man." "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,” (Col.2:6-9).

SPIRITUAL MAFIA

However, Tillie Damon's story would unmask what happens when a person gets involved with occult meetings . . . the terror of a soul captured by a "Spiritual Mafia" that plays for keeps for souls even to the death. (Joe black, whose story appears in another part of this book, was a part of that spiritual Mafia on the local scene by its network from city to city throughout this state, as Tillie later pointed out).

Tillie appeared at a Tuesday meeting in August 1979. She sat quietly and sometimes appeared to be very edgy, but she came forward at the altar call. She was the most pathetic person I had ever seen . . . a beat-down person. Deaf and very sick and physically weak, her face was drawn, eyes hollowed. She began: "I see these snakes, and they crawl on my body at night and they squeeze me. I can't sleep. I have nightmares." We tried to free her, but nothing happened. Something was blocking her deliverance. She just stopped: "You don't know it all."

"Well, tell me." "I don't want to talk about anything," she cried in a loud, fearful voice. We aren't going to judge you, honey; we are here to help you. Tillie, these demons binding you don't want you to tell the truth," her friend, Jamie said. "They are trying to ruin your testimony for Christ. You were healed on July 30, but have since involved yourself with demonic forces and sinful people." "But, they were nice to me,

Jamie. I never took anybody to the meetings. Everyone else has put me down." "These people won't put you down. They love you and will help you. Can't you feel their love?" "I don't feel it." After staring at her Bible for a moment or so in a forlorn way, she sank into the pew, on the brink of uncontrollable weeping. She hurt. She hurt so terribly.

"We don't go by feelings; we go by the Word of God and the Word says that you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. The truth is that Jesus has got the victory and all you have to do is to submit to Him and all those snake demons have to go. You've got to help here. I cannot do it alone. You've got to want to be free." She shot darting glances every way. "These people you are involved with are demonized. They are full of them. Tell Pat everything you know." "No, Jamie, NO! As much as I love you . . . no, I won't tell." Disconnected thoughts flickered through her mind as her frustrations burst forth in a torrent of incoherent shouts. "Well, you will go away just like you are. You told me you were willing to tell everything, before we came . . . I don't think that's you talking . . . I think it's a demon."

"I would tell you, Jamie, but nobody else." "Honey, you don't have to tell me. What I want you to do is just think about the things you are ashamed of and ask Jesus to forgive you. See. Jesus knows what you are thinking all the time. He's the one you have to get forgiveness from. This is between you and the Lord. You can get free, but you have to repent from your sins. Just say, 'Jesus, you know what it is . . . foregive me for it.'" "Thank you for your prayers, Pat." She made a move to get up, with a hopeless look. "Now, one more thing, say, 'Lord, I forgive myself',” Jamie persisted. I moved in: "You believe in Jesus that He died on the cross for your sins, right? “Yes." You want to live for Jesus, turning away from all your sins, right?"

"Yes." "Satan has no more power over your soul. Jesus will set you free. Now, evil force over her, I break your power. This is God's property. She's a child of the King, and in Jesus Christ's Name and by the power of His Blood; I command you to come out of her in the Name of Jesus. I break your power over her mind, body and spirit. I command her to be set free. You have no authority over her. We love you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus; we loose the peace of Jesus Christ, the peace that surpasses all human understanding. We give You glory and praise, Jesus, Jesus, the King of Glory, The One who has all power."

"I don't believe it. I can't be free." We continued to pray over her but could not seem to set her free. The next week, the day before our meeting, Tillie was attacked by twelve seizures. She was in really bad shape. She told us about Jesus Christ walking into her room one night. He healed her crippled body. While I was standing by her bedside at the hospital, the Holy Spirit showed me she thought she had been too bad to be saved. She actually doubted that she could be saved. "Tillie, don't you believe that Jesus is able to save you?" "No. I'm mean, Pat. I've been too mean." A friend of mine, who held the title of Miss Nude Universe, had been a topless go-go dancer and Jesus Christ had cleaned her up and saved her. She was with me, so I said, "Ann, tell her what Christ did for you."

Ann: "My father was an alcoholic and my mother died young. No one loved me. At seventeen, I ran away. I was very lonely. All my friends were married and I couldn't get an $18,000 inheritance until I got married or turned 21. So, I got married. This was not because I loved someone. I didn't know what love was. I married just to get the money. "He was a sweet man, but to me, a burden. Then I decided the way that I could get rid of my husband was to go to work in a go-go bar. It worked. I disgraced his family and him to the point that he found somebody else. He gave me my divorce. I could dance and felt relaxed and comfortable there.

Of course, I was drinking a lot. I was making about $300 a week. I felt at home and accepted there. One thing led to another and I got arrested for dancing. I ended up in jail ten times. I went on, after the publicity died, to a burlesque theater, where they taught me how to striptease. This is a lot higher class than just go-go dancing. It's considered a profession," (Satan doesn't have to work very hard to deceive people into justifying and even being proud of their sin!).

"I worked my way up to about $400 a week, and all I wanted was more and more money. Then I saw a marquee: 'MISS NUDE UNIVERSE'. I got on the phone and called my agent. 'If she can be 'Miss Nude Universe,' then I can be 'Miss Nude Universe.''' So, I decided to go all out for that title, and I put everything in me toward winning it. I won. I was then making $1,000 a week. Now, it was possible for me to do anything I wanted to. I came across everything that Satan has to offer in this world . . .”

When Ann finished her testimony, Tillie looked at her in amazement. "You mean that you did all that?" "Yes, but Christ loved me and pulled me out of it." Tillie began to weep and weep, as the significance of Ann's words sank into her heart. You could almost see her mind working: if He did it for her as bad as she was, He can do it for me, too. She really accepted Christ that day. But what is most important, knew that He had accepted her.

I invited her to come and testify how the wonderful Christ had walked into her room one night and healed her crippled legs and her arthritic, drawn hands. Tillie looked victorious as she got up to share with the prayer group. "I did not know Jesus Christ. I drank. I was known in every liquor place on Main Street. I would not go into the bars, but would drive up to the drive-in windows, get my beer and drive on. You may say that was an awful thing for a woman to do. I could drink more beer than anybody, I guess. I've had my share - if I never touch another can! I didn't drink cocktails. Neither did I drink wine . . . just beer."

"In 1968, my mother passed away, the best friend that I ever had. Never did I realize at our family homecoming that I would lose her. My mother loved Jesus Christ. She loved Him with all her heart. But, she had a daughter who didn't love Jesus Christ too much. I went to church, but I didn't love Jesus like I should. But, Mama prayed for me and those prayers have followed me all my life. About two months after she passed on, I began having terrific headaches. I didn't know what was causing them. Then one day on my job, I blacked out. During the blackout period, they carried my up to First Aid. My blood pressure was awfully high. There must be a remedy for anyone who had headaches. I had them so bad I actually cried. My employer sent me to the doctor. He told me I would have to be well before I could return to work. So began my long history of degenerating health and circulating from doctor to doctor, finding out there were no answers."

Tillie sobbed, and buried her face in her hands. "I'm bound today. I smoke cigarettes - I don't like it. I'm stubborn. About June 1968, the doctor found a mass around the base of my brain. It was rupturing. That year I went on the operating table. Miss Damon, do you know what to expect? You have a 50-50 chance. Your head is running over with infection in both ears. I came out of surgery and don't know how long they kept me in Intensive Care. I could not recall. Anyway, I had a spell. It was the first one I ever had, but it would be followed by many. I did not know what it was but they finally told me it was an epileptic seizure."

"Not knowing Jesus Christ, knowing what I faced . . . aware that I had lived for the Devil all those years . . . “Her voice trailed off for a second. "Now, don't get me wrong. I was not a mean person. I was good in some ways . . . Well, I was in between -let's put it like that. Anyway, I said to myself, if I'm going to die, I'm going out happy. I went out, bought all the beer that I could hold, and went to my friend's house. 'Mary, something has gone wrong with my body. 'I know.' How can you tell? 'By the way you walk.' Well, let's give it up one more time, you and I. I'm not getting any better. I’m getting worse. In the event I die, have you heard the song lyrics: 'Mothers’ prayers will follow you, follow you the whole day through?" Well, my Mama's prayers have been bottled up for me. I don't know where they are, but her prayers have been bottled up because I had a Spirit-filled mother. I knew about Pentecost, but I never would take a stand. I knew it was real. I would say to Mama, 'come on, let's go,' as soon as church was over. Mama was a Godly woman. If anyone ever loved Jesus Christ, she loved him with all her heart. No matter what would happen in the church, she would say, 'Let's pray about it.'"

"One night in my apartment, I fell on the floor and could not get up. I didn't know what was going wrong, but something was happening in my left leg and they had to carry me to the hospital. I had many seizures and would only go out to places where they would take care of me. I've been picked up so many times and carried over to the hospital 'til all I knew were dope addicts, alcoholics and many sick people. Those are the kind that nobody loves today. One day I hope to go back and work among these people. Now, I wasn't an alcoholic nor did I ever take dope. I was epileptic, but nobody understood that. I was in and out, in and out for so long. See. Nobody wanted me. I would pray sometimes, 'Doesn't anybody care?' Even the church people don't seem to care anymore. They are supposed to love Jesus Christ, but even they didn't seem to care." At this point Tillie's spirit crashed. She felt her world was coming apart. None of this made any sense.

A person has no resistance at all to demons without Christ. The Word says "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." (Phil. 4:13). The natural man, without Christ, is spiritually weak and highly susceptible to infestation to demons. There is little he can do about fighting off evil spirits if Christ is not dwelling inside. A spirit of infirmity will manifest weakness and sickness in bodies.

"Eleven years continuing like that went by . . . I went into a wheelchair, to a walker, to a cane, back to the wheelchair. I brought some pictures of me during that time - please return them when you've seen them . . . I had a stroke. They carried me to the hospital. This time, they were certain I would die. They had an old, broken-down shower. I had always believed that it pays to pay tithes. I went back there. I couldn't kneel and so I stood up and prayed, 'Lord, if I pay my tithes - to seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, and your righteousness, and then all these things would be added unto me. I paid my tithes whatever church I went to. Now you said to ask, and it will be given. Now, I'm asking you for a miracle. I've paid out all my money to doctors, trying to get healed. I'm not getting any better. I don't have any more money. You've never failed me. I may have failed you, but you won't fail me. I stood back there and had a feeling that something was going to happen."

"The next day, two women came to see me. They had a big box of things: a robe, a pair of pajamas, etc. They said, 'Billie, we don't know what you may need with this other money.' It was ten dollars more than what I had asked for! I looked in the envelope and tears came into my eyes. 'Thank you, Lord. You are the same, yesterday, today and forever. And you're God and you don't change and you never fail.' Pay your tithes and when the time comes that you need. Him, it will come to you."

"One day at the hospital, I was sitting in a chair and they were going to send me to MacClenny, Florida (A mental hospital). They had a conference. In the morning, I would have to appear before the judge and talk myself out of something. "At the hospital, I had learned a little about the occult. I could work an Ouija board and it would tell me things. There was one old guy there. He could look into anyone's eyes and read what was on the person's mind. There was one old gal there and she read palms. She taught me how to do it. One day she said, 'that's it'. What do you mean? I asked her. 'You won't ever see the mental hospital.' I don't know about that. 'No, you won't'. Your palm tells me something about that.' I'm still bothered with all that today. Some of that is still in me and I find myself wanting to do these psychic things because I'm still bound. If you've got any feelings, any love, any compassion . . . has it for these people. Don't think you are better than they are, because it could be you. By the grace of God, it is not you.

"When I got crippled with my legs, I was worried. Bad worried. Someone called the police and told them I was drunk. But the policeman said I wasn't drunk, but sick. Everywhere I went, they were down on me. I was told to stay out of one church because of the seizures. I went to church because I wanted to go so bad. I didn't go back to church anymore. Nobody could have paid me to go to church then. It was months before I did go again. They took away my driver's license because I had a slight heart attack behind the wheel of my car. When the stroke got on my left side, it drew my hands like this." She folded her fingers into her palms tightly."

"I said, 'Jesus, if you don't do something for me, I'm going to die.' It didn't matter anymore. I got where I couldn't move. I prayed again. 'Jesus, if you so graciously love me, would you do something for me?' In December 1977, I came across a verse in Scripture, 'Let this mind be in you as it is in Jesus Christ.' (Phil. 2:5). For weeks I didn't do anything but read the bible and seek the Lord. I really didn't know Jesus, but I was seeking Him. I wanted my body well. 'Jesus, if you are the same yesterday and you've done things for other people, why can't you do something for me?' I've never lived too bad a life, except for my beer and cigarettes. I've never broken up a home. I was naming the things that I had never done. I've always been good to people. I've never harmed anyone that I know of."

JESUS APPEARED

"July 30, 1978, Jesus Christ loved me and walked into my room about 11:30 at night. I had asked my friend to take me to church. The doctors told me it could be any time. I could have another stroke and that could be it, or I might linger like this for a long time. After church, I returned to my apartment and prayed. About nine o'clock, I picked up my Bible, reading the third and fourth chapters of Philippians. I could do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me, I said to myself. How in the world can anyone do all things when they stay sick all the time? Eleven years I've been like this, Jesus, but in the event that you don't see fit to heal me . . . I will always believe that you can."

JESUS HEALED ME

"But, I really didn't know him like I should. Even today I don't know Him like I ought. We should confess our sins and let Jesus Christ come in and take control . . . confess those things that are hidden in our minds and tell Jesus Christ all about it. I had so many hidden sins in my mind that it was absolutely a disgrace. I have always been able to walk with my head high upon these streets but I still had hidden sins, sins displeasing to Jesus, and today I still have some."

"About 11:30 p.m., I heard a voice; I never heard such a voice before but it was so loud and vivid. I got up to see if I had left my apartment door unlocked. It was locked. When I went to go back to the bed, I heard the voice again. I looked around and sat on the edge of the bed. I could not see anyone. I started to lie down because I had only been out of the hospital two days and I was weak and tired. I heard it again. And this voice said, 'Stand up.' In my young days I loved basketball, volleyball and bowling, so when I heard it again something prompted me inside and said, "Stand up!' It said, 'Jump like you used to!' And I jumped and jumped and jumped." She demonstrated her jumping skills. This seemed to please everyone in the room.

"Then the voice told me to stop. I didn't question why the voice said that to me. So I went to sit back down. There was perspiration running from my brow. My clothes were feeling wet from my weakness. The voice said, 'I didn't say for you to sit down.' (The women all giggled). It said, 'Run like you used to'. And I ran and ran. (Now she was running back and forth across the front of the church).

The voice told me to stop. I started to sit back down. He said, 'I didn't say for you to sit down. Sit on the floor.' I used to do gymnastics when I was young. 'Do a flip.' I'll demonstrate this for you today because there are no men present. So I flipped and continued to roll over and over." (The women clapped enthusiastically. They were loving every minute of this). "I haven't slowed down since. I went to sit back down. Perspiration was high on my brow."

"Jesus said, 'I didn't say to sit back down . . . kneel.' I can't kneel, Lord. I haven't been able to kneel in so long. He said, 'Kneel.' About that time, I felt the joints of my knees begin to loosen up. It was like warm oil was being poured into them. They became limber like rubber. Then I knelt. The first words that came out of my mouth were 'Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed by Thy Name.' I'm still kneeling today. Why? Because Jesus Christ healed me and made me able to . . .”

"I've sold the wheelchair, sold the walker. I don't know how long I stayed on my knees. I got up. I have no answers to that, today. I did those same things again that night to see if I could do them. I could. I sat in my chair in the apartment and felt a tingling like a blood transfusion in my fingers. My knuckles hurt very badly and I began to rub and rub . . . (I don't know how many dishes I had broken in the past, I bought plastic dishes because I knew they would last. They would not break when I dropped them). But I felt this tingling in my hands . . . I could see my hands begin to straighten out. I can use these hands today just as easily as you use your hands. I could do my typing, sweeping, mopping - things that I couldn't do for years - because Jesus Christ came into my room and healed me."

"Oh, praise You, Jesus," rose up from her listeners. There wasn't a dry eye in the room as she continued. “(Phil. 1:6), says, 'He which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.' I believe He's going to finish it because He made it possible at Calvary."

"That was pretty stirring stuff," said Jennifer, who was sitting on the front row. Nearly everyone was crying. Standing at the podium, I beamed at Tillie's victory in Christ. "Isn't that a wonderful testimony, ladies? Ann and I went over to the hospital last week, and Tillie asked Jesus to save her. She thought that she was too bad for Him, but now she's sure that there is no sin too scarlet for the blood of the Lamb to cover . . . Tillie knows He loves her, still loves her. That He's going to complete the work He has begun. The doctors have told her that she has had brain damage from this illness. I believe that if Jesus Christ can walk into her room and make her walk, make her roll, make her kneel, make her know His reality . . . then, He can complete the work today.' 'Amen’s abounded.

"You see, ladies, Jesus really did rise from that grave and He still walks this earth . . . He's alive. He came for the brokenhearted, the downcast, and the people no one seems to care for. Jesus Christ came . . . we just forget it, don't we? We've got to wake up, church. We've got to do what Jesus Christ sent us to do . . . 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that His house may be filled.' (Lk. 14:23).

Her testimony thrilled me. I knew that it would do something for you today. It proves that Jesus is alive. Tillie, I'm going to try to get you free by performing an exorcism. It's a practice of expelling demons by command. I will give a forceful, commanding prayer in the Name of Jesus against sickness of spirit, mind and body. Jesus commanded us to heal the sick and cast out devils," (Matt. 10:7 -8).

DELIVERANCE FOR TILLIE

"All right," she said with a shrug, trying to conceal feelings of futility. First, I want to ask Jesus to fill you with the Holy Ghost." She was crying very hard now, and could not talk. "I bind all of this hurt in Jesus' Name. We bind this satanic power over this woman in Jesus' Name. We bind all witchcraft powers over her in Jesus' Name." From deep in her throat came a bass voice, confirming the presence of a demon. She was obviously afraid of demonic attack. The evil thing was trying desperately to throw her into a seizure. "Hold your peace, you tormenting thing. Be still. Don't you tear her?"

About that time, Jan, who was now assisting with her deliverance, advised, "You are going to have to stop playing with God, Tillie. You've got to turn everything loose. God showed me that you once had the Baptism of the Holy Spirit." "Shut up! Leave me alone!” Tillie snarled, “I did not come here to see you." Tillie had changed suddenly. Demons cause a behavior pattern in the victim that 'can't be her'. It isn't . . . It's the personality of the demon manifested through the person. We are not to argue with demons, when they say they will not come out or shut up. In such cases, we do what Jesus did, who said, Hold thy peace and come out of him.' (Mk. 1:25) It is not good to listen to what demons say. Satan is the father of lies, and usually, all his demons are liars, too. If you ask a demon to identify himself or tell how he entered, he'll most likely lie. We are expressly commanded in the Bible not to communicate with evil spirits. We are to resist the Devil. (Jam. 4:7). Jesus would ask them their name and then He commanded them to leave.

The demon was trying to get her into a catatonic stupor. Her throat seemed constricted by an invisible force.

"You will not hurt her! You will come out." Tillie screamed, "Oh, oh, oh, Jesus, Oh, Oh, Oh, Jesus, help me!" Strange eyes looked up at me out of deep sockets above dark circles. Julie, our song leader, began to sing a song the Lord gave her. "The battle is raging on, Christians. The warfare, you can plainly see . . . But Jesus has given us His authority over all the power of the enemy . . . " "Jesus, Jesus," Tillie continued to wail . . . (She had allowed herself to feel some hope in the past week. Now it was gone). The other women had now joined the singing, "It's the Blood that makes us free . . . It's the Blood that makes us free . . . It's the Blood . . .”

Tillie's eyes flooded with tears and terror. "Oh Jesus, my God, help me . . . “I knew she had a deep, hidden sin. "Tillie, you've got to help me if you want to be free . . . there's something holding you back. Tell me what it is." She stared aimlessly for a moment, her face bathed in fear. Picking up the Bible, I leafed through the pages of the New Testament. The tactic had its effect." "I want to be free, Savior, but I don't know how.

Oh God, Oh, God," "Tell me, Tillie, what are you hiding?" "I c..c..c..Can’t... I just can't tell you." "You've got to tell. What is it? Don't you want to be free?" She gave a weary 'yes'. It puzzled me. I knew inside of her there was revolution. Emotionally spent, she was still hanging on, resisting . . . 'You can whisper it to me', I said.  Tillie looked up and said, okay. I leaned over and put my ear close to her mouth. In a shaky voice, she said, “I’m going to an occult meeting tomorrow . . . just one more time, Pat. I've got to go . . . I've got some friends there, trapped; maybe I could pull them out. I was shocked. "No, Tillie, you can't go back there. God wants a complete change of heart. Don't you see that today you must break that connection? You must decide if you will follow Jesus or the Devil. You cannot sit at the table with Jesus and the Devil at the same time . . . Those demons are destroying your mind, body and spirit. I don't think you will be able to take much more stress from them.

Choose Christ, renounce all that mess, and then we can get you free today. Everything was going against me, Pat. Friends let me down. No one seemed to care. What's the use? These people (Occult) were good to me. I went there and before I realized it, I was leaning toward their way. I thought they were the right kind of people. They were prominent and helped me. They won me. They brought me all kinds of stuff. Everything I needed, they gave me. Satan, Demons? The ones working in hospitals, in the psychiatric wards they are the worst! I've been in there. Your satanic forces are there. Two nurses took me to my first occult meeting. They introduced me into the hideous rites of a satanic religion. But, they were the only people who seemed to care whether I lived or died. They exercised an irresistible spell over me. I thought. Temptation is seldom presented as a distasteful thing. Physical appetite, desire for honor, power, and material gain were all used against Jesus.

Suddenly, something happened to her. She began to call out to God . . . This battle was now between her, Jesus, and Satan. "I won't go back. I won't go back. Lord, help me, Jesus . . . “She moaned and the pitch of her voice rose. She seemed to mean business about God now and struggled to be free from the awful force that had dominated and infected her life. The now bewildered demonic force began to weaken and lost its fury. Her mouth jerked convulsively as I continued to press the evil spirit to leave. It left suddenly, her face burning. Without warning, she began to stammer and shout. Then she broke out into an unknown tongue. Rivers of words flowed. Her hands extended in worship and great love of her Baptizer, Jesus Christ, the mighty God who had just set her free from demons. We were exhilarated, but I was exhausted.

I assured her, "Tillie, you'll not be bothered with those demons again, as long as you abide in Christ. In Matthew 12:28, we have a record of a very important point made by Jesus about exorcism. It's only to prepare for God's taking possession of the vacant dwelling. Otherwise, a man is like a house that stands in good order, clean, but empty. (Matt. 12:44). Unless the power of God enters the empty life, the demon will return, bringing seven other demons with him and the person will be worse off than at first. But if you will yield to the desire of God, you will stay free. God will replace all those old things in your life with the New Wine. He will clean you up as you read the Word of God. You must keep your eye of faith opened on Jesus' ability to protect you. Always remember that 'greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.' (1 Jn. 4:4). All desire for those things will leave. Listen to the voice of God. He does not speak through your mind. He speaks through your heart." I instructed her to get rid of all artifacts of the occult because these are a way demons can keep a foothold in one's life. She agreed to do this.

Confronting and dismissing those demons had drained Tillie so we offered to drive her home. We rejoiced together all the way in the power of the living Christ. Tillie gave her testimony a week later. She mounted the platform with a Bible in one hand. I was the last one to be prayed for at Pat's Tuesday meeting. She said, 'Tillie, how about you? I just sat there. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not a preacher, but honey, I'm a fireball today.

I was a fireball all day yesterday at my grandfather's house. I said to my grandfather, Grandpa, you can know that you are saved.' My grandfather's eighty-three years old, and I've never seen him read the Bible. He thinks as long as you are honest with your fellow man, it will be all right. But I said to him, Grandpa, you can know Jesus Christ. The doctors didn't heal me. Jesus healed me.

Wednesday, I was supposed to be at an occult meeting, but Tuesday, Pat said, you come up, Tillie. Pat seemed to know what was on my mind. Jesus was my Deliverer Tuesday morning. I had been criticized by a friend for giving my testimony Tuesday about smoking and beer. Honey, I drank more beer than you can ever know. My friend told me not to testify about that, Pat, and that I was wrong for telling you about that. Pat had asked then if something was worrying me.

I told her I was wrapped up in these occult doings so strong and I was getting deeper and deeper. It will sap your mind until you are crazy. Every time I got my notice to go to those meetings, I was going to make some way to be there. I've been at meetings in our own fair city on the North side, on the Southside, and at the Beaches . . . all over the state - they have connecting circles of them. I would kneel down by my bed at night, but I couldn't get free. I asked God to help me . . . But it had such a hold . . . They charm you and keep up with you. They make you think you can talk to the dead. I went out every day to my mother's grave and believed that she was going to come and give the answer. But she never did. They got control of my mind . . . “Most people are afraid to discuss past occult experiences, yet Tillie was undaunted.

So Tuesday morning was my day . . . I said to myself, I'm going to see my friend, Pat. She made a visit to me while I was in the hospital. And some of those people came to see me there also. My occult friends were my friends, too. They won't let you down. No matter what you need they share with you? She launched into a blistering sermon directed at sleeping saints. "That's why I say that our eyes need to be anointed with the eye-salve of the Lord and let Jesus take control. You are going to share with your fellow man. You are going to pray for the prostitutes, drug addicts. You are going to get a vision because Paul said to come on over to Macedonia and help us, because the need is great. This is your city and the need is great across this city: down your street, in your neighborhood. I’m content today because Jesus Christ did abundantly above all that I could ever ask. Because I was bound, today I'm free because Jesus Christ has made me that way.

Anyway, when Pat put her hand on my stomach, it felt like something cutting inside like a knife. I was in an awful fix. But little did I realize what was going to happen. She stared in dismay. I had joined the occult and even participated in the idol worship. And I was demon possessed. They set up a Buddha god up there. He's made up, carved all pretty, with deep eyes. You make a dance and form in your mind that this is the truth. But it's a lie from the pit of Hell. I was told on the phone not to talk about how Jesus had come into my life, but I said I was going to talk about it. People need to know the truth because the Bible says you shall know the truth and them knowledge of the Truth will set you free. And today I'm free. I'm free for the first time in years. I'm free and I’m going to praise Him for the goodness of His heart. Anyway, Pat's hand was on my stomach. I felt like I was going to vomit. She said I couldn't turn loose. I knew I was going to an occult meeting on Wednesday.

In the past, I could fool anybody. I could teach Sunday school, pray the prettiest prayers. No one ever could see the truth and I was never delivered. But I couldn't fool Pat. When she began to pray, something in my stomach began to move up. Finally, I was able to get the word Jesus out. I couldn't get the Name of Jesus out before, because I was bound by the occult spirits. If you know, they float inside. Pat pushed my stomach a little harder and spoke her prayer language. Something came up to my chest but it wouldn't go any further. The women in the prayer meeting were singing and clapping. I hated it. I wanted them to stop that noise. I felt mean inside.

Pat said, “Tillie, if you don't cooperate, we can't go any further. I can't get you free. Something is binding you.” I knew it wasn't sex because I hated it . . . the filth of it . . . , anyone who would stoop so low and give themselves over to it . . . (She had never married) . . . so, I finally gave in and told her the truth . . . I was going to an occult meeting. But I wouldn't tell where, because I had two friends involved and somehow was planning to try to pull them out. I didn't know how yet, because they were in it a little deeper. I knew my demon gods, my psychic. I could read palms and I could take an Ouija Board and make it talk, do a card game and it would come out right. The devil possesses your mind. No wonder Philippians says to “Let this mind be in you as it is in Jesus Christ.” Jesus is the Deliverer, Jesus will bring you out!

Pat's hand was still on my stomach. I got so sick, I wanted to throw up - I bent over with my head down; but began to cooperate with Pat. I told her about the meeting and then, Jesus Christ took more control of me. The Holy Spirit began to flow through me when I finally yielded completely. I'm weak, not strong. I'm new in Jesus today. Because I fooled church people so long, I know many will not believe that this, too, is real. But Jesus Christ is Lord!

Your neighbor could be in the occult and you not realize it. The Devil had my life until Jesus got hold of me Tuesday. When I got home from the meeting, I didn't want to talk to anybody for a while. But, I said this experience is just like a well that's springing forth. It flowed and flowed and flowed. Tears ran down my cheeks. All these years I've been running and running but that day, Jesus stopped me and delivered me!

Yesterday, I wasn't at that occult meeting." Praise the Lord! The women said as they clapped their hands. I turned again to Tillie: Tillie, (1 Jn. 5:18), says “He that is born of God (a born-again Christian) keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not.” Keeping ourselves means steady abstinence from the wickedness of this world, walking in the Spirit under the Blood of Christ. Have you seen any snakes since you were saved?

No, I've seen nothing. They used to crawl on my crippled legs, trying to get back on me. I haven't had any seizures either. We're living in the last days, Pat. If I had listened five or six years ago, things might have been different but this old world had such a hold on me. Remember, Tillie, honey, demons have a deep craving to find expression through a physical body. When a demon is cast out and cannot find a body to occupy he is without rest. You'll have to walk close with Jesus from now on, to stay free.

The next week Jamie Green (Tillie's friend) called me, very upset. Pat, you had better call Tillie. She told me that she's going to the occult meeting one more time. What? She told me that she has to go." I rang Tillie. "What are you going to do tomorrow, Tillie? “Did Jamie tell you to call me? Yes, she did." I've got to go, Pat. You don't understand. They'll hurt me. I saw them beat one girl up so badly she almost died. They left her out by a big shopping center. When the cops found her she was barely breathing.

“Tillie, if you go, you'll be repossessed seven times worse that you were …you can't go. Demons like a familiar place. Even after being thrown out, they will seek a chance for re-entry. (Read Lk. 11:24-26), you'll build your faith against a re-entry through Christian, spiritual fellowship.

All right, Pat . . . I won't go." Early the next morning as I was getting ready for my regular meeting, the phone rang. It was Jamie. Pat, they pushed their way in and tried to kill Tillie this morning. I'm so upset I don't know what to do. I told her to call the police but she won't call them. Pat, she says prominent people are involved in the occult circles. Will you call her? Sure I will." I dialed Tillie's number thinking these people will use fear tactics to cover their wicked enterprises. Tillie, what in the world happened?

ATTACKING TILLIE

They called me last night, Pat, about midnight. They said. We’ll pick you up at 1:30 a.m. for the meeting. I said I wasn't going. They just said okay. But early this morning my doorbell rang. I thought it was one of the ladies in the apartment building. These kinds of people have got ways of knowing things. Anyway, I answered the door. I thought it was a neighbor wanting some sugar or something. But there were a man and woman from that occult group standing there. They wanted to come in, just to talk.

I went in the kitchen to get a cup of coffee. I offered them a cup, but they refused. They said, you'll be down this afternoon, won't you?' I told them, no, I won't ever be back. They said you know what that will mean? I answered, yes, and turned to go back to the kitchen, as I recall. Suddenly, from behind, I felt something around my neck! It was powerful. They about broke my neck and there's still the rope mark on my neck. Pat, they were strong. Something snapped in my mind. I staggered, opened my mouth and out came a loud croak. That must have frightened them. They let me go and moved toward the door, but paused before they left, saying, there will be more!

I was stunned. My head was in bad shape. I ran over slammed the door and locked it and looked out of the peephole but they were gone. Really, I thought they were going to kill me. I think they would have, too, if I had not made that noise . . . they got scared. It was the Blood of Jesus Christ that protected me. I would be dead today. Jamie said I would be standing on the street corner and they'd try to run me over. I guess I'll have to watch out, but I'm sorry, Pat. I've had to bear some marks on my body for the sin, but I'll never go back. It might cost me my life, but I'll never go back! Pat, they can kill my body, but they can't touch my soul. Christ is worth it all. Before, this traumatic experience would have thrown me into seizures . . . I didn't have one.

People are going to have to pay a price for the Gospel. What I went through yesterday makes me know Him in His suffering and His resurrection power. I did what you told me to do and I'm going to come out on top. Something came over me that Tuesday at your meeting and it hasn't left me. I promise you, Pat, the occult life for me is over.

WITCHCRAFT SCRIPTURES

Divination by an alleged assistance of evil spirits

Forbidden, (Lev. 19; 26-28, 31; 20:6; Deut. 18:9-14)

Denounced, (Isa. 8:19; Mal. 3:5).

Practiced: By the Egyptians, (Isa. 19:3, 11, 12): by the magicians, (Exod. 7:11, 22; 8:7, 18); by Balaam, (Num. 22:6; 23:23), with chapters 22; 23; by Jezebel, (II Kin. 9:22); by the Ninevites, (Nah. 3:4,5): by the Babylonians, (Isa. 47:9-13); (Ezek. 21:21,22); (Dan. 2:2, 10, 27); by Belshazzar, (Dan. 5:7, 15); by Simon Magus, (Acts 8:9, 11); by Elymas, (Acts 13:8); by the damsel at Philippi (Acts 16:16); by vagabond Jews, (Acts 19:13): by sons of Sceva. (Acts 19:14, 15); by astrologers, (Jer. 10:2); (Mic. 3:6, 7) by false prophets. (Jer. 14:14; 27:9), (Ezek 13:6-9; 22-28); (Matt. 24:24)

To cease, (Ezek. 12:23, 24; 13-23); (Mic. 5:12)

Messages of, false, (Ezek. 21-29; Zech. 10:2; II Thess. 2:9)

Diviners shall be confounded, (Mic. 3:7).

Belongs to the works of the flesh (Gal. 5:20).

Wickedness of, (I Sam. 15:23), vainness of (Isa. 44:25)

Punishment for, familiar spirits (Lev. 20:27; I Chron. 10:13; II Chron. 33:6; Isa. 8:19; 19:3; 294; by entails, Ezek. 21:21, by rods, Hos. 4:12).

Chapter Fourteen

Freedom

COMMAND OF FREEDOM

Only the believer has the power to prevent this witchcraft. It is by the overcoming power of the Lord Jesus Christ and knowing your weapons. In the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, I loose into this home, business, (plant or job, or whatever you are praying for) prosperity, abundance, sound management, ability, and success, and I ask you Father to send angels into every area of this business to create wellbeing, good management, favor and blessing.

I loose the spirits of the Lord, (Isa. 11:2; II Tim. 1:7; Rev. 5:12) Spirit of the Lord, Fear of the Lord, Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, Counsel, Might, Sound Mind, Power, Love, Peace, Joy, Life, Grace, truth, riches, Honor, Blessings, Favor with the Lord, Strength, Glory and Abundance.

Father, based on (Heb. 1:14), I ask you to send out your angels in great numbers and create favor in the hearts of the customers, potential customers, workers, owners, suppliers, financiers, (anyone else), involved and touched by this business.

FREEDOM--OPPRESSION, DEPRESSION

Father I command all oppression, and depression to flesh in Jesus’ name. Persons who have subjected themselves to demonic forces become a direct target or torment from them. Deliverance comes through Christ alone. A person can, through faith and submission to Calvary, overcome all powers of darkness. It was for this purpose that the Son of God appeared that He might destroy the works of the Devil.

“And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out and they could not,” (Mk. 9:18).

Jesus once said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (Jn. 14:6). His apostles preached, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The Bible clearly teaches that Christ alone is the Savior of the world and the world’s only hope of salvation. Apart from Christ, “there is no Savior” (Isa. 43:11; Hos. 13:4).

JESUS IS THE COMMANDER OUR WAR

“Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; 21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; 23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. 24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD,” (Jer. 51:20-24).

BATTLING SPIRITUALLY

Christians battle differently from the people in the world:

"We do not wage war as the world does.” “(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds ;) 18 And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven,” (Matt. 16:13-19).

Christians receive their authority from Jesus Christ and all authority is vested in Him.

Every believer can take to heart. “He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation . . . And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons . . .” (Mk 16:15-17).

DEFEATING DEMONS

Knowing one’s spiritual authority and how to use their binding power, enables one to enter into spiritual warfare with faith to overcome.

Believers in Jesus Christ have every advantage to defeat demons. The Word says, “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you,” (Lk. 10:19).

In addition, Jesus gives Christians power to use His name in (Matt. 28:28). “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given unto me, therefore go . . .” He gave us the legal right of absolute authority. His power is, “Far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come,” (Eph. 1:21).

Satan’s strategy in these last days is to get you to doubt the reality of Jesus and His power. However, for the most part, entire denominations today operate without the Holy Spirit. They are devoid of the presence of Jesus, bankrupt of all spiritual gifts. They practice a form of religion without any power, conviction or saving message. They have cultivated friendship with sin and ridiculing the supernatural by tossing aside all teachings about heaven, hell, repentance and God’s judgment. They are spiritually weak, and cold. The world no longer fears them. They have no respect, and no influence and on society.

TAKING SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY

Command all demons to go by these names or associated with these objects).

Books and objects identified with anything related to Satan's Kingdom.

Sinful activities of former residents left curses.

Knocking or noisy ghosts (poltergeist) and apparitions

Owl, frog, eagles, elephant, snakes, images of all types

Witches’ mask and fetishes used by witch doctors

Objects and literature that pertain to false religions, cults, the occult and spiritism

Graven images of gods (demons)

Objects dedicated to demons (idols and artifacts)

Ouija boards or other occult paraphernalia

Prayers and worship to demons bring curses on home

Mexican sun gods; idols, incense; Buddha; hand carved objects from Africa or the Orient; anything connected with astrology, horoscopes, fortune telling, etc.; books or objects associated with witchcraft, good luck charms or cult religions (metaphysics, Christian Science, the Jehovah's Witnesses, etc).; rock and roll records and tapes.

Jewelry given to a person by someone in witchcraft, hex signs, ancient geometric and mystical motifs, jewelry designed to bring good luck and act as talisman to chase evil.

Egyptian Ankh, broken cross (peace symbols), chais, Polynesian tikkis of gods, African jujus, Italian horn, protectors from the evil eye, hand with index and little fingers pointing up, crosses, clovers, stars, wishbones, luck coins, mystic medals, horseshoes, religious fetishes and statues.

Products with cryptic curses (hidden secret, occult curses)

Dolls used for witchcraft and magic; puppets, cult objects or representations

TAKING AUTHORITY OVER WITCHCRAFT PRAYERS:

In the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ and from my position in the 3rd heaven seated at the right hand of the Father with Jesus Christ. (Eph. 2:6) “far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:”

I bind the strongman over (self, family, children, job, business, home, school, etc.). (Lk. 11:21) I now cast out the strongman's armor (Lk. 11:22) and command every foul and evil spirit of his armor to go to go into a cage. I bind all evil spirits in the heavenlies.

I command the spirits of witchcraft out of (home, business, schools, area counties, countries) and to go into the cage. I break every silver cord, block every ley line, return every hex, curse, spell, blood sacrifice, human and animal to return to where they originated and forbid them to ever return.

I command every demon guiding Christians to pray against my ministry, home, and business to be bound and caged. I release the Holy Spirit power to convict and bring to repentance in Jesus’ name. . As I call your names you are to go now... (Name all witchcraft spirit that comes into your mind).

I release the Wall of fire of the Holy Ghost, (Zech. 2:5); “For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.”

The blood of Jesus, Col 1:14 “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:”

Your hedge of protection around my business, family and home (Job 1:10) “Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.”

Chapter Fifteen

Power of the Covering of Blood of Jesus

PRAYER CLOSET

Heavenly Father

“Do all things without murmurings and disputing’s: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain,” (Phil. 2:14-16).

We come before You seeking You Will to be present in our lives

Jesus said, "And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name shall they cast out devils." (Mk. 16:17).

We are believers, and in the name of Jesus Christ, We exercise my authority and expel' all evil spirits. We command them to leave me now according to the Word of God and in the name of Jesus Christ.

We place the blood of the Lord Jesus on our doorposts (Exod. 12; 13); we draw the bloodline of Jesus around all of our possessions and properties; (Jos. 2:18); and we sprinkle (Exod. 24:8; 29:20, 21; Lev. 1:5; 4:6); or place the blood of Jesus upon ourselves and our family.

We stand against the weakness of our flesh and place our lives under the power of Jesus Christ.

Every Christian’s life is a warfare with Satan, and his principalities and powers, with the world, the men and lusts of it, and with the corruptions of their own hearts; and much more is the life of a minister of the Gospel, who is called forth to meet the adversary in the gate; to stand in the hottest place of the battle, and sustain the whole fire and artillery of the enemy; to fight the good fight of faith, endure hardness as a good soldier of Christ, and with the weapons he is furnished with to war a good warfare: which is not done “after the flesh”; in such a manner as the men of the world wage war with one another; or upon carnal principles; or with carnal selfish views; or in a weak way and manner; but in a spiritual way, with all simplicity and disinterested views, with great courage and intrepidity of mind.

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds ;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” (II Cor. 10:3).

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places….”

Ours is a spiritual warfare rather than a physical one.  We are able to stand, because and are seated in the heavenlies, (Eph. 1:3), before God in truth and we submit f to God, resisting the devil. I expect that he will have to flee from me according, (Jam. 4:7).

Since the first confrontation with Lucifer in the garden of Eden, mankind has been engaged in a spiritual struggle. Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, we are all in a spiritual war. The hard reality is that if you are breathing, you are in this war and will be until you take your last breath here on earth. While this statement may be a revelation to some, it may well be dismissed by others but nonetheless, it is true. It appears to us that many Christians believe that somehow they are immune to this fact. There is no doubt that every born-again believer has been positionally delivered from the kingdom of darkness as Col. 1 declares. But this deliverance from being members of Satan’s kingdom does not obscure us from his attacks. In fact, they are an inevitability we can count on. Your position as a believer does not change Satan’s plan for your life. It hasn’t changed at all and he will continue to steal, kill and destroy! Thankfully, in the verse where we learn this (Jn. 10:10), Jesus goes on to say that His plan is to give us life and life more abundantly! There is the difference. Before we became Christians, we had no defense and probably little or no understanding of the Evil One. Now, covered in Jesus’ righteousness, we can be victorious over the Ruler of Darkness and his forces! Regardless though, every reader seeing these words is indeed in a war, as is every other person living on the planet. The real question are: whose side are you fighting on, and which kingdom are you a part of?

Many saints of God are unrealistically desiring to be permanently immune from knowing about, being subject to, or participating in Spiritual Warfare. As pleasant as this may sound, its not going to happen until we get to Heaven. As long as we’re here, we are going to be in the arena of Spiritual Warfare. However, if our hearts and lives are right before God, Warfare may often be likened to sitting inside an armoured tank. An adversary outside may be shooting a small caliber weapon at it and those inside the tank may indeed be aware of the assault , feeling the concussion of the bullets as they strike. However, regardless of the knowledge or awareness of the attack, those inside the tank are well protected from the potentially deadly yet inferior assault taking place. Yes, there is a war going on but they will not be harmed in the b attle. In fact, the weapons at their disposal from inside the protective covering are far more powerful than anything the enemy has to offer. Just one shot from the tank’s cannon and the enemy is toast! Praise God.

TRANSFORMED MIND BODY AND SPIRIT

We choose to walk transformed by the renewing of my mind body and spirit. We give ourselves to spiritual warfare against the powers of Satan. We are presently sitting in heavenly places with Our Lord Jesus as is shown in (Eph. 2:5-6) “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved ;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”.

We are standing in our position of authority and accept the responsibility of walking in Jesus Christ delegated authority as is shown in (Mk. 16:17-20), “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 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. 19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. 20 And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.”

According to (Matt. 12: 25-29), we command you, Satan, in the name of Jesus Christ that you are bound according (Matt. 18:18), and you will depart from us with all your demons. We bring the blood of Jesus Christ between us and resist every effort of Satan and His wicked spirits to confuse and block us from the will of God. We choose to be changed by the renewing of our mind. We pull down all strongholds of Satan and his fortresses of evil in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ according to (II Cor. 10:3-5).

Father pour out the spirit of supplication and thanksgiving upon the Ministers, Pastors, Evangelists, Teachers, and Singers that may cry night and day. Impart Your anointing for them call lost into Your kingdom. You promised that heathen would be our heritage. Giver of faith and hope, bless and call many intercessors into Your body to pray for the church. Revive us again. Bring Your holy fires, fill us with love and praises to You and Your cause.

Touch our every need with Your supply, spiritual, physical, material. Provide Your grace to our mortal bodies and give us ministers of power and miracles to restore the people bodies and heal them of their wounds. Break the yoke from their necks. Send the Holy Spirit to convict and convince the lost, working with Your Church to bring in the Harvest.

Father, send us leaders that will put down the sins of the flesh, of judging, jealousy, gossip, slander, greed, rejection and division. Leaders who are after Your own heart and seek after unity and love in Jesus Christ and His Word. Leaders who humble themselves, abiding in You and Your Words abiding in them. Leaders forgiving every person against whom have ought and you will bring to their remembrance any brother or sister who has ought against them so that they will go and be reconciled to that person according to (Mk. 11:25) and (Matt. 5:24).

Father grant, a revival to the church. Bring them from the highways and byways with a hunger to find Your Son, Jesus Christ. May every one of us that call upon you in the spirit and truth be rewarded as we diligently seek You, (Heb. 11:6). Call them out of the dead places, the cults, the covens, the darkness of Satanism, worldliness, drugs, alcohol, pornography. Loose them Father from the powers of darkness.

Bring backslidden leaders out from the powers of darkness. Drive them to their knees to seek You in repentance. Many must repent publically Father. Give the courage to stand before the people and confess of their greed, sexual impurities, lack of holiness. Turn them around and bring back the old foundations of their faith to preach like flames of fire. Awaken the dead Father. All things are possible with You God.

God says that Christ is the creator of all power.

“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by him, and for him.” (Col. 1:16,).

God says Christ is the head of all power.

“God elevated Christ above all principalities and power,” (Col. 1:16).

“And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power,” (Col. 2:10).

“Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come,” (Eph. 1:21).

God says that Christ destroyed the devil’s power.

“And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it,” (Col. 1:15).

God reveals wisdom to the church.

“To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God…” (Eph. 3:10).

God reveals the believers’ position in power.

“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through. him that loved us,” (Rom. 8:37).

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,” (Vs. 38).

“Nor height, nor depth nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus or our Lord,” (Vs. 39).

PRAYER OF PRAISE

Heavenly Father

We praise You for this wonderful privilege of sitting in Your throne room with Jesus Christ as my mediator. Your presence is strength for our soul. “Lord Jesus, You have been exalted by God and given a Name which is above every name; that at Your name every knee should bow and every tongue confess that You are Lord, to the glory of God the Father. You are the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords. The kingdoms of this world will become Your throne, and You shall reign forever and ever,” (See (Phil. 2-9-11; 2 Tim. 6:15; Rev. 11:15).

We give You glory that You loved the world so that You sent Your Son Jesus Christ in mercy for humankind that we will not perish. We believe that Jesus is the Son of God, the Messiah who came in the flesh to destroy the works of Satan. He died on the cross for my sins and rose again from the dead. We confess all my sins and repent every evil sin that we have ever committed and claim forgiveness and cleansing according to (I Jn. 1:9). We believe that Jesus’ blood cleanses us now from all sin. Thank You Lord Jesus for redeeming me, cleansing me, justifying me and sanctifying me with Your blood. Lord open my spiritual eyes and sharpen my spiritual ears to hear what the Spirit of Truth is saying to us. Bestow upon us strength to tarry with You for praying Your heart for myself and others during our intercession time.

We invoke Your favor this day upon our family. Cause me to call upon Thy name and stir up myself to take hold of Thee. (Isa. 64:7). O to my heart bring back the springtime. Take away the cold, the darkness of sin. O refill me now Sweet Holy Spirit, till I am young and tender again!

Father, as a believer, we conduct spiritual warfare on my own behalf. I boldly attack the powers of darkness that oppress and hinder freedom and progress in my spiritual life. I bind the principalities, powers, the rulers of darkness of this and spiritual wickedness in high places and claim “it is finished” of Calvary upon the unseen hosts of Satan. Thank You Lord, for the discernment of spirits so that I will be able to bind their activity in my home so that I can bind and war against them in Jesus’ name.

Heavenly Father

We thank You for our families; we thank You for giving me the anointing to pray for them. Teach me to train my children the Scriptures that our children will know You and serve You as Timothy did. Help me to properly discipline them and teach them How to pray that you will keep my children’s heart tender. We accept our children as a heritage of You Lord. Thank You for blessing them and teaching them. We believe that Your divine protection is over their lives. We thank You for the gifts and talents that You will give them.

According (Matt. 18:18), we take authority over the strongman binding his power and constrain every evil spirit that would try to attack myself and my family, body soul and spirit. We bind all the spirits that were inherited through the family line because of “iniquities of the fathers” (Exod. 20:15), and received through spoken curses in witchcraft. Lord, we loose my family and all its members from all the powers of the enemy so God’s will can be established. We ask You Lord to send warring angels to watch over them. Send to them Godly teachers to guide their lives. Show us as parents, how to raise them in the admonition of the Lord. Bring to them good Christian friends and lead them into being strong Christians with love for Jesus Christ.

Father, help my husband (wife) to assume his/her responsibility to establish and maintain a strong, spiritual Godly family. Teach him to become bold in spiritual warfare in an aggressive manner. It is absolutely essential if our family is to function within You Will.

We claim every unbeliever, backslidden Christian in my family to be saved according to Your Word, Acts 2:38, 39). We pray for my mother, father, sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles and every living relative. Lord, we bind the powers over their lives that keep them from You. Let them have no pleasure in their sin lives and send the Holy Spirit to them to convict and convince them of their sins and to reveal Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord, dispatch warring angels over their lives to war against the evil spirits that have them bound. Send workers in their fields to tell them the good news that Jesus Christ came to save them. Then Lord, bestow upon them the promise of the Holy Spirit.

Father, we ask that You send special angels to protect (Exod. 8:22, 23) hide and put a hedge around (Job 1:10); (Hos. 2:6), all of your children who are in the ministry. We cut Satan, his demons and curses loose from them, my family and friends. We command you, Satan, and your curses to loose me and my family, and all the things you have stolen from us (happy marriages, finances, jobs). We command you, Satan that you will stop your maneuvers to stop robbing us of our blessings and blocking God’s perfect will for our lives.

We command you to loose lands, animals, our money, the finances of people who owe us money, and everything you have ever stolen, so that through the blessings of Abraham may come upon us. I ask you Lord to send Your angels to bring these things back to us.

We praise You Father that we can trust Your Word and that by praying in agreement with Your Word; we know that You will hear our petitions.

Father We thank you for your grace and ask that You send the Holy Spirit to convict and convince the lost Who Jesus Christ is and of His divine sacrificial work upon the cross. We command the strongman of Satan; Principalities, and the powers, the rulers of the darkness, the spiritual wickedness in high place and all the demonic spirits of the air, earth and seas to be bound in the name of Jesus. we dislodge and cancel all assignment that you have against the people that we are interceding for at this time.

We loose your powers and bondages from God’s people and let the church and people go free in the Name of Jesus. We command that you stop your maneuvers now. You are spoiled and defeated and not to be feared, flee now in Jesus’ name. We worship You Father and thank You for Your righteousness and Your revelation knowledge in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

We praise you Father that You have called me as an intercessor and now Lord Jesus, teach me pray.

Lord, You said, “I am the good shepherd.” And You are the door of the sheep and You are the sole way to glory and the entrance to eternal life. You love us dear Lord and gave Your Life for the sheep and Your sacrifice saved us from eternal death.

The Word says in (Jn. 10:10-11), “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.”

You said that we might have life you are the fountain of life and Your word says that we might have it more abundantly meaning either of life, or of all necessary good things; greater blessings and privileges ever possessed in the past.  Your Word promises us more abundant life, that is, eternal life; or spiritual blessings much greater than had ever yet been communicated to man, preparing for a glorious immortality. Jesus is come that men may have abundance; abundance of grace, peace, love, life, and

Your Word shows that Jesus Christ Himself Is the Door in (Jn. 10:7-10) and he is the Good Shepherd.

Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.  "All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.  "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.  "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.  "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. "But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.  "The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.  "I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own”, (Jn. 10:7-14).

(Matt 18:18-20) “Verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19 Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

We trust our Great High Priest now puts into the golden censer, our prayers to present them before the mighty throne of God.

UNLEASHING CIVIL WAR IN SATAN’S KINGDOM

“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (fleshly) but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds: casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,” (II 10:4).

Civil War in Satan's Kingdom (Matt 12:22-32, Mk. 3:20-30; Lk. 11:14-23)

In the name of Jesus Christ, we command Satan's demons to fight against and destroy each other. Specifically, we command all marriage and family hindering, delaying, preventing, destroying and breaking demons to attack the spirits of Ahab and Jezebel.

We command the spirits of power and control to attack the spirits of pornography and Eros; the spirits of violence and torture to attack all the spirits of human subjection, degradation and submission.

We command the spirits of riches and wealth by greed to attack the spirits of lust for one world ruler ship, currency, and total control of the world system, the spirits of anti-capitalism, rebellion against free enterprise, strike and work stoppage to attack the spirits of poverty, hatred for believers, anti-Americanism and human bondage.

Let the spirits of war between the nations, destruction, hatred and anger attack the spirits of political and spiritual blindness, rage, mockery, vengeance, evil political science and influence, Illuminati and Communism.

Let the spirits of Antichrist, 666 and false religions false prophets, attack the spirits of Roman Catholicism, and Masonry, Communism, Satanism, Socialism, liberalism, neocons, false conservation,  the spirits of infirmities, sicknesses, weaknesses, deformities and accidents. Let them attack the spirits of alcohol, drugs, nicotine, bad nutrition and abortion. Let them destroy the spirits of mind control and darkness and attack the spirits of Leviathan and pride.

We bind all the spirits of the hidden inside government and the promotion of the evil usurper in the Presidency and those who are supporting him. We command civil war to occur between these demons... And release the divine protection of Jesus Christ over His church and the people of America.

We bind the power of Rick Warren who has sold his soul for money and power.

We command all those demons that are keeping the Old Wise men alive... some of them can barely move, to be bound and we command the life support to stop over these deceivers in Jesus. Name

Heavenly Father, we ask You to lose burning, judgment and destruction upon all disobedient and reluctant spirits that fail to follow these commands promptly.

Lord God, keep us yielded to You as a Christians and dedicated prayer warrior, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Chapter Sixteen

Born Again

SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE

Make sure you are Born Again, that you have asked Jesus Christ to forgive your sins and that you have repented. Give Jesus your life and ask Him to baptize you with the Holy Spirit. Read God's word every day. You are a new born babe in Christ, you need spiritual food and it comes from God's Word. Then pray every day and take time to praise His name. Talk to God out loud, just as you would to another person, and in the name of Jesus.

FELLOWSHIP

Seek the fellowship of other born again Christians in a strong SPIRIT-FILLED Bible believing church. By studying and praying together, you will be drawn into Christian principles and receive the abundant life in Jesus Christ.

DEMONS WILL TRY TO RETURN REINFORCEMENTS

God works quickly with these types of people and teaches them to defend themselves. But it is a matter of God’s people having the understanding of how to work with them. I had been working with Daniel, a man that I wrote about in a book called Solitary Satan, for about a year. He had learned how to protect himself through the name of Jesus and also by calling on God to send him warring angels.

One night, two giant spirits appeared in his room banishing swords. “We’ve come to kill you.” Daniel commanded them to leave in the name of Jesus. The demons just laughed. “Don’t you know who Jesus Christ is?” “Yes. We know who Jesus Christ is, but do you really know?” When Daniel saw that they were not obeying his commands because of his lack of faith, then, he called on his Father in heaven to send His most powerful angels to makes these demons accountable to the name of Jesus. Immediately two very powerful angels appeared and bound the demons. They chained them and took them away!

SEEK GOD’S WISDOM

It is not easy to get out of witchcraft and Satanism. But with a church that will take on the compassion of Jesus Christ, seeking the wisdom of God and willing to pay the price of a clean life, God’s people can and must set the captives free!

(Deut. 18:10), “There shall not be found among you anyone that market his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that used divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.”

(I Sam. 15:23), “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry; because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king...”

(II Chron. 33:6), “And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hanno: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.”

(Gal. 5:20), “Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variances, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies….”

PRAY – READ THE BIBLE – AND FAST

"Father is merciful to me a sinner and receives me now for Jesus Christ's sake; cleanse me from my sin by your precious blood that was shed on the cross for me; fill me with Your Holy Spirit. Teach me to pray each day; to read your will for my life from your word, the Bible; and help me to worship and serve you in the fellowship of your church. I thank you Lord Jesus Christ. AMEN!

ABOUT PAT HOLLIDAY, PHD

Pat Holliday PhD. was born in Jacksonville Florida. She is the widow of Dr. Vadis P. Holliday, mother of three, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was called into the ministry in 1975 and has ministered worldwide. In 1993, she received her PhD. at Southeastern Theological Seminary, Jacksonville, Florida and was a professor for eight years.

She pastors Miracle Church of Jacksonville, Florida and also an internet church.

She is the President of Miracle Outreach Ministry and has appeared on many international television and radio programs. She hosts television and radio programs, “Miracle Outreach TV” and a radio program, Power of Prayer” for more than twenty-five years.

Miracle Outreach Ministries is an international ministry with signs and wonders, miracles, healing, deliverance and teaching follow this ministry. Her latest evangelistic trips include Ghana West Africa, Italy and Jamaica where many miracles happened.

Among her many political activities, she ran for the Florida State House of Representatives in 1972.  She was elected State Committee Woman for her party’ a lobbyist in Tallahassee; area chairman at Jacksonville Beach for President Richard Nixon. She was a founding member of many women clubs such as, Minute Women of Florida; the Ponte Veda Woman's Club; and the Four Foundation Inc., a home for non-delinquent girls in Duval County. She helped to organize two women's interdenominational fellowships. She has ministered worldwide.

Dr. Holliday is listed in “Who's Who of the Woman of the World”; “Who's Who in America Politics”; “Dictionary of International Biography”; “Marquis Who's Who in the South” and “Southwest”; “Marquis Who's Who of American Women”; “Who's Who in American Religion” “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in the World.”

She is the author of the Witchdoctor and the Man ~the City under the Sea.

Pat Holliday, PhD.

CARING FOR THE NEW BABIES

New Christians are like babies that have to learn to live in a new supernatural environment. They have to establish a different connection with the powers of darkness after salvation. Once they were will dupes to these devils. They were slaves. However, they are now the sworn opponents of the legions of Hell. They must be taught how to defeat these evil powers. Whoever they were before they became Christians; adulterers, idolaters, horoscope readers, witches, warlocks, fornicators, they must not have any delusions about the devils’ reality or their hostility. They must not fear them. They must believe that the devils’ no longer have any power over them.

To bind and loose is one thing but to cast evil spirits out is entirely another. After deliverance, the person is like a helpless baby. They cannot defend themselves because they are used to being in subjection to the evil spirits. The evil ones know this and return to try regaining their home. Sometimes they may even regain entry and must be forced to leave again. They may continue to experience the after effects of the devil’s invasion or siege. They will be tempted at times to believe he is still there, and the bondage remains.

The newly delivered person must be encouraged to stay very close to the deliverance minister and the deliverance ministry. They need a great deal of teaching. Satan will try to get them away from their help. This is where intercessors and lovers of souls come in. They must cover the oppressed individual with holy, powerful prayers during this time while the deliverance ministers continue to war and drive all unwanted demons away. Given time, dedication of life and persevering faith, full healing will follow.

CONTENTS

Witchcraft Deliverance

The Mystery of Iniquity

Pat Holliday, PhD

Chapter One

Rise of Witchcraft

Chapter Two

The Mystery of Iniquity

Chapter Three

Gods of the World

Chapter Four

Witchcraft, Divination and Sorcery

Chapter Five

Spirit of Idolatry

Chapter Six

Demonic Influence

Chapter Seven

Effects of Demonic Spirits

Chapter Eight

Spirit of Rebellion

Chapter Nine

Faith and Doubt

Chapter Ten

Entrapped in Witchcraft

Chapter Eleven

Pagan Objects

Chapter Twelve

Free From Witchcraft

Chapter Thirteen

Tillie: Victim of the Spiritual Mafia

Chapter Fourteen

Freedom

Chapter Fifteen

Power of the Covering of Blood of Jesus

Chapter Sixteen

Born Again

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Petersen, William L; “Those Curious New Cults”, Keats Publishing, New Canaan, Connecticut….

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The Encyclopedia Americana, Vol 6, p. 623.

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(From “The New Unger's Bible Dictionary”, Originally published by Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright © 1988).

(from “Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary”, Copyright (c) 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)

(from “International Standard Bible Encyclopedia”, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1996 by Biblesoft)

LITERATURE. --In addition to the literature cited under articles DIVINATION and MAGIC (which see), the following worlds may be mentioned (the books on witchcraft proper are simply innumerable): Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft (aimed at preventing the persecution of witches, 1584; republished London, 1886); reply to the last work by James I of England: Daemonologie, 1597; Casaubon, On Credulity and Incredulity; A Treatise Proving Spirits, Witches and Supernatural Operations, 1668; Joseph Glanrill, Saducismus Triumphatus: Full and Plain Evidences concerning Witches and Apparitions (the last two books are by theologians who class with "atheists"-a vague word in those times for unbelief-all such as doubt the power of witches and deny the power of devils upon human life). For the history of witchcraft and its persecutions see Howard Williams, The Superstitions of Witchcraft, 1865, and (brief but interesting and compact) Charles Mackay, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (2 volumes, 1851, 101-91). See also Sir W. Scott, Demonology and Witchcraft, 1830; W.R. Halliday, Greek Divination: A Study of its Methods and Principles, London, Macmillan (important); and article by the present writer in The Expositor, January, 1914, on "The Words Witch and Witchcraft in history and in Literature." For a full account of the witch craze and persecution at Salem, near Boston, U.S.A., see The Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather, D.D., with a further account by increase Mather, D.D., and compare Demon Possession by J. L. Nevins, 303-10.

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(The Word, The Name, The Blood, pp. 28, 32, 33)

(from “The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, Electronic Database”, Copyright © 1962 by Moody Press)

14. (W. F. Albright, “Archaeology and the Religion of Israel” [1942], pp. 68-94).

15. (c. 1700 B.C).. (Cf. W. F. Albright,” From the Stone Age to Christianity” [1940], p. 231).

(cf. Merrill F. Unger,” Biblical Demonology”, pp. 58-61).

(W. F. Albright, “From the Stone Age to Christianity” [1940], p. 229)

(Jack Finegan, “Light from the Ancient Past” [1946], p. 190)

(Rawlinson and Schrader) (Delitzsch)

GODS, FALSE

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Michale Harper, “Spiritual Warfare”, Logos International, Plainfield, New Jersery, 07-60.

METAMORPHOSIS “By Dr. Kurt Koch

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Time Life Books cit. Op. “Brain. . . “p. 16.

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op. Cit., Penn. Lewis, Soul, p. 5, 68

J. B. Rhine and his wife are considered the originators in America).

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(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft)

http://www.ericbarger.com/disarming/you_war.htm

“Clearing the Land Preparing for Deliverance”, by Geri McGhee, Abiding Life Ministries, P.O. Box 1141, Lindale, Texas 75771, 903 882-8448, Fax 903.882 1177

Table of Contents

Witchcraft Deliverance

The Mystery of Iniquity

Pat Holliday, PhD

Chapter One

Rise of Witchcraft

Chapter Two

The Mystery of Iniquity

Chapter Three

Gods of the World

Chapter Four

Witchcraft, Divination and Sorcery

Chapter Five

Spirit of Idolatry

Chapter Six

Demonic Influence

Chapter Seven

Effects of Demonic Spirits

Chapter Eight

Spirit of Rebellion

Chapter Nine

Faith and Doubt

Chapter Ten

Entrapped in Witchcraft

Chapter Eleven

Pagan Objects

Chapter Twelve

Free From Witchcraft

Chapter Thirteen

Tillie: Victim of the Spiritual Mafia

Chapter Fourteen

Freedom

Chapter Fifteen

Power of the Covering of Blood of Jesus

Chapter Sixteen

Born Again