Posted on 10/02/2017 4:39:46 PM PDT by Eagles Field
I haven't. Do you believe in or not, and why.
What a devastating experience. I’m so thankful you are now a Christian. Blessings on you and yours.
Relative noob with a solid ozone/spark ratio. Nice.
I’ve seen a demon-possessed woman who fulfilled the ancient Hebrews’ name for demonic possession from the root word for “python”...
She was undulating as if she was a possessed by a huge python or snake inside of her.
Then she screamed in this metallic voice that was neither male nor female:
“I AM Mohammed!”
This was moments after I had just been telling a friend of mine that Satan was real after they said to me: “Jesus I can believe in, but Satan? That’s crazy!”
... and we were on our way to a Christian bookstore near UCLA.
Also years before 9/11 or any everyday cognizance of the satanic Islamic threat.
I wanted to cast it out of this woman, but she was behind the wheel of her car and I was afraid she might run us over. So I just left her there, staring at me, undulating and repeating that phrase like a demonic rapper...
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I knew an older guy that had been in the Defense Intelligence Agency - a spy basically. He had all sorts of supernatural stories. He was a strong Christian. One of his stories was when he was in Iran - this would have been the time of the Shah before the Revolution.
He had been witnessing to this one gal - and it became clear that she had a demon. He asked her if he could pray to cast it out - she said okay. So he did, she had some sort of spasm and fainted. He said her cat, a constant companion of many years and an indoor cat, at that very instant the cat jumped out a two story window and ran off.
“Well you know - demons have to have something to possess!”
Just a few years ago I was on a some-what crazy guy’s property. He lived in a trailer that was half falling apart, and all sorts of junk cars laying around in close proximity (like within 10 feet “Yeah - I’m working on that one right now”).
He was saying how he was certain his one cat was possessed - always getting in trouble, getting under his already wobbly feet and tripping him up. One day he had had enough and yelled at the cat “One more time like that and I’m putting you out of my misery” as he patted the gun on his hip. Yes - talking to a possible nut-job talking about his demon-possessed cat while he is packing was a bit disconcerting.
So anyway - the cat looked at him and slunk under the car parked 10 feet away. “I never saw that cat again. Until a week later I crawled under there to work on it again - and there was that cat - laid out dead. Right where he had walked to after I yelled at it. I had thought something was starting to stink - but around here that’s sorta normal.”
I wonder if that cat WAS possessed - and rather than getting shot out of the blue and ending up without a body (or becoming a ghost cat!) - waited until some other critter passed by and leapt into it. Of course there are 100 other reasons why it could have died (leaking antifreeze might be high on the list) - but it makes one wonder.
Me? I never have seen a ghost. Have had several very accurate premonition dreams, and a few dreams where I came up with little sermon type things for Sunday School.
I don’t care to see a ghost - pretty sure they are demonic mostly. I would like to see a UFO someday (although I’ve heard a pretty good case made for them being demonic). Although I’ve been plenty of places where it seemed seeing a UFO would be optimum and never saw any, so I don’t have my hopes up anymore.
Now Bigfoot - that is something I would like to see - but not too close!
The voice was indescribable and echoed down the street; at first I thought it was someone’s “boom box” with a crazed rapper until I looked over at the possessed woman.
P.S. my friend instantly believed that demons are real. Like a scene out of The Exorcist. Bought a lot of books that day on this subject.
Referring to his story in post 76 about the carrots.
Back in the 60's and 70's, even up until the early 80's before video games matured in technology, board games were a big life of every kid. I think at least half of the houses of my friends had a Ouija board somewhere in the closet. I do remember putting my fingers on a a Ouija board trencher that was on display in a department store, and it moved by itself.
While I think we invited demons into our home, I later learned that my mother had had problems with mental illness (and demonic oppression) her whole life.
I never witnessed her talking in voices or having super human strength. She also never spoke in languages that she didn't know, nor did she exhibit an ability to know events or the future that she could not have known.
All of the above are signs of demonic possession.
I believe she had demonic influence and oppression. She could see, hear, and smell things that none of us could, and when she would talk about them, she clearly described demons. They would taunt her, threaten her, humiliate her, and even tell her they wanted her soul.
For anyone who is being confronted or oppressed by evil, my advice is realize that demons are smarter, stronger, and more powerful than you are. But, Christ is more powerful than they. You cannot fight them on your own. Pray, and invoke the name of Jesus Christ - directly. They not only fear the name of Christ, they must submit to His authority.
I don't think that ghosts are dead people. There is a gulf between the living and the dead (Luke 16:26). I believe that whatever people believe are ghosts are really demons.
One of the best books out there on possession and the demonic is this one:
Very intense and scary book. But also very instructive if someone wants to know how evil works.
Thanks for that recommendation. Perhaps I can return the favor. One of the best books I have ever read is Death of a Guru, by Rabi Maharaj. The author was born into a devoutly Hindu family, and had many firsthand experiences with demons. Some of his encounters will make your hair stand on end. He became a Christian and this book tells the story of that conversion. Once you start reading it’s hard to put down. The .pdf is free:
http://sygmabeaute.com/download-pdf/5309-death-of-a-guru.html
Getting back to Martin. I’ve heard the name but wasn’t too familiar with his writing. I did a little poking around and found some interesting quotes. I’ll cut and paste one in below. If you have the time and inclination, please let me know what you think.
‘”One of the big deficiencies in Christianity is there is no theology of women at all. Although the one thing Jesus needed, the one thing he needed, having decided to become human, the only thing he needed was a woman, and logically all priests should have been female, you know. But male chauvinists got in the way. And as some theologian said, you know —and this is a sideline but let me finish it. As you know it’s theologically possible for God to have become a cow if he decided. He could be incarnated as a cow. But even if he had been incarnated in a cow, we men would have taken over, that’s the extent. But we’ve no theology of woman and no theology of love, really human love, because it involves the essence of woman and I don’t think we know that theologically.”
(Malachi Martin, December 7, 1973,Firing Line, interviewed by Skull and Bones Bill Buckley)’
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2013/01/malachi-martin-god-could-have.html?m=1
Thanks for the recommendation. I will read that. On the Martin quote, interesting, but in truth that’s probably one of the least interesting things he ever said. If you really want to be fascinated, listen to his interviews with Art Bell that are on YouTube. Martin discuss possession, Satan, corruption within the Catholic Church, evil, and many other fascinating subjects.
SkyPilot, I appreciate and respect the fact that you think very highly of Malachi Martin. For me personally, before I can get more involved in his exorcism experiences, I need to understand exactly who he is. The quote I posted to you bothers me enormously. If I read it as an unattributed quote, I’d assume it was spoken by a non-Christian. There’s nothing in it to suggest otherwise.
The other quotes that disturb me concern antisemitism. Martin says the church has been antisemitic since the 6th century. This is a terrible misunderstanding. Jesus’ teaching absolutely and unequivocally forbids antisemitism. This is so much the case that it requires a choice. Does any given person want to be a Christian or an antisemite? No one can be both. I marvel at any person who claims to be a Christian and yet does not understand the necessity of this choice.
I need to do some more reading and some praying. The Bible specifically says that not everyone who casts out demons is known by Jesus. A person who says Jesus was in need of a woman (while also claiming the Lord could have been incarnated as a cow), and who claims there is a distinctly Christian flavor to antisemitism, is not someone I’m inclined to trust theologically. If that makes sense?
I’m so sorry for your loss & that experience Brother.
It’s interesting that “aliens” intensely fear the name of Jesus Christ as well according to abductees (of which almost all of them admit having performed or partnered with some form of witchcraft or other demonic activity when interviewed).
The Holy Name of Christ is extremely powerful!
Let me say this and explain further.
First, Martin was a flawed man in many ways, just as we all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. He had some wrong ideas, one of them being that he believed the power to defeat demons lay in the Roman Catholic church, rather than on the power of Christ's authority and name alone.
Martin also only believed in salvation within the Roman church. He was an interesting and perplexing man. He actually left the Jesuit priesthood, and was released of his vow of poverty and another vow (I cannot remember which) by the Pope, whom he worked for. But he remained a priest, or at least said he did. In fact, he was called on to perform hundreds of exorcisms throughout his life, which he did. The last one indirectly (or directly) led to his death. There was a movie made by the same title of that book: "Hostage To the Devil." Fascinating story, done with interviews of his friends and colleagues.
Martin was a genius. He spoke 14 languages, and had many talents. He wrote many of his books in the "Faction" guise - a combination of fact and depicted as fiction. So many of the characters were not only based on real people and events, but what transpires in his books actually happened, with some alterations.
He wrote Windswept House in this manner as well, which I have not read, but I know Martin stated that his life was in danger for the things he revealed.
It has been conjectured, and Martin alluded to the fact, that he was interwoven into Hostage to the Devil. He was either the actual exorcist in some of the cases, or was intimately involved.
So I bold this for emphasis to you: don't worry about Martin's theological faults or sins, but focus on the mechanics of possession, the fight that ensues when the demonic is confronted, and how demons work. There is perhaps no other book that makes things as plain, and as terrifying, as what is depicted in that book. The cases are real.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to Freepmail me.
Amen.
Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply. It motivated me to find an online excerpt from Hostage to the Devil. I read most of it. What struck me most was how different from Biblical exorcisms it was. It was like comparing night to day.
I could see where Malachi Martin would write something like that. A person who sees Jesus as in need of a woman would also need to depict an exorcism as being unrecognizably different from Biblical exorcisms. It certainly fits.
That happened to me once when we lived in Hawaii and my husband was traveling. I WAS being held down — maybe sat on. Couldn’t breathe. I yelled out loud, “Help me, Jesus!” and I was released immediately.
A few weeks later at work a group of us were chit-chatting. One local mentioned a Hawaiian legend-spirit that sits on people in their sleep. Freaked me out.
Hawaii is a very “spiritual” place - and not in a good way.
It’s super freaky. I was in Hawaii just last October...
I’ve captured an invisible soul. I keep it in my physical body.
Indian Pow wows are religious ceremonies so that’s why the spirits are there.
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