Posted on 10/29/2019 9:59:07 AM PDT by Coleus
Dr. Michael Brown appeared on Monday's CBN Newswatch to discuss the rise of witchcraft in America. He says the rapid rise of witchcraft is very real and frightening. Newswatch is seen weekdays on the CBN News Channel. To view a programming schedule, click here.
On Thursday, many little girls around the country will dress up as witches for Halloween.
Just last week, it was reported by several media outlets that "thousands of witches" were gathering to cast a spell on President Trump, which they said was to prevent him from "harming the country."
Should Christians take witches and witchcraft seriously? Or is it just another story to scare children?
Dr. Michael Brown, an author, and a radio host says the rise of witchcraft in American is real and frightening. In his new book titled Jezebel's War with America: The Plot to Destroy Our Country and What We Can Do to Turn the Tide, Brown says that the spirit of Queen Jezebel, an incredibly evil and demonically-controlled woman from the Bible, is still operating in America today and is evident through the rapid rise of witchcraft and sorcery across the nation.
While doing research for the book, Brown, the founder and president of AskDrBrown Ministries and president of FIRE School of Ministry, found several headlines about witchcraft in modern America. Here are a few he shared with CBN News.
"As I was doing research for Jezebel's War with America, I was stunned to learn that among Millennials, there are more witches than Presbyterians," he said during an interview with CBN's Newswatch on Monday. "We cannot ignore what is happening spiritually."
His book focuses on the fact that the spirit of the biblical figure Jezebel is at work today through not only a fascination with witchcraft and sorcery but also with radical feminism coupled with the extreme pro-abortion movement and other spiritual and cultural forces in an attempt destroy America.
"Even if you look at the fascination with sorcery, the most read books in America today, six or seven out of the most 10 read books in America today are Harry Potter books," Brown said. "There's a massive increase in tarot cards that people are talking about. And with witches, they've been gathering regularly to hex the patriarchy or to bind President Trump."
"And yes, some of it may just be talk, some of it may be benign," he admitted. "But you are talking about people gathering together, appealing to other spiritual powers and they are militantly against the Bible. They are militantly against Christian values. This is something that's really happening."
"So the window is wide open for deception to come flooding in," Brown told CBN News. "You event have people professing to be 'Christian witches.' The spiritual warfare is real. We need to be equipped. We need to take on the spirit of Jezebel. It's a real thing."
Brown also offered some suggestions for taking on evil.
"First, let's get educated. Let's understand. And let's realize we have greater spiritual weapons," he explained. "Let's clean house in our own lives. Have we opened the door in our own lives to the seduction of Jezebel and these alternative spiritual truths and deceptions? And then we give ourselves to prayer. It is the ultimate spiritual weapon."
"We use the Word of God," Brown continued. "We turn to God to turn the heart of the nation. Politics is important, but the only solution for the nation is found in the Cross, which is found in prayer and fasting. Repentance in the church, living this out we can take Jezebel down."
Understand: 10,000 witches just tried to pray our President to death.
Really?????
We had a huge witchcraft/Satanist store invade our neighborhood a few years ago.
“Witches, etc. glorify Satan;”
Well, there are witches and there are witches. The vast majority neither recognize nor glorify Satan: They are an earth-centric group, and are nature worshippers. They hold reverence to the seasons and their “holy” days are seasonal recognitions, principally involving harvests.
The idea that witches were aligned with Satan is a fiction generated by the Catholic Church to combat what it believed was a threat in the form of heresy. The Church considered all heresy to be demonic inspired, thus they lumped in witches with anyone else who did not subscribe to and embrace Church dogma.
I’m Catholic, but the Church’s witchcraft persecutions were an abomination. Think of the Auto-da-fe, the Inquisitions (there were several), and other horrors.
I studied that subject for many years, and wrote several papers on it in college, particularly on Western witchcraft (witchcraft is the world’s oldest religion, and existed and exists today on every continent). The greatest horrors were committed in — no surprise — Germany, in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries.
“I’ve never met anyone who claimed to be a witch or worshiped the devil.”
Well I never have either, but my hubby, who has traveled in some subterranean circles did once meet a man who claimed to be a devil worshiping warlock. And at some point during the encounter they met up with a third fellow who had his dog with him. And the dog took one look at the warlock guy and just pooped right then and there.
At that point hubby left, disturbed but not surprised at what he had seen.
If we believe in the unseen world, and if we are believers in G-d then we do believe in it, we must realize that we don’t know for sure what all is in that world. But there is no good reason to think it’s all sweetness and light.
I agree with the other person who said: don’t mess with the occult.
[[I have met thousands of Christians who have no plan, no goals and sit around all day debating if Jesus is going to come back tomorrow.]]
Wow- thousands of horribly ignorant and lazy Christians just sitting around all day debating huh? My goodness- Course secularists would never sit around all day debating anything and always have investments, career planning, and make wise education choices— just Christians are lazy=- 1000’s of them- heck- perhaps billions-
You haven’t met any witches or Satan Worshipers huh? Don’t get out much huh? I dated one, unbeknownst to me at the time- full fledged spell casting witch- take 5 minutes and visit a satanic forum- you’ll see plenty there- Heck spend 5 minutes on youtube- they are everywhere-
Has anyone checked up on Christine O’Donnell lately?
They should be thankful we don’t burn or hang ‘em any more.
Is that what caused Windows Vista?
I can’t imagine that writing code via incantations would be very effective.
Halloween is not just fun and games.
Sure, the kids don't get it. For them it's just candy and parties and dressing up in costumes.
Much of what is celebrated in Halloween is downright evil and satanic and one cannot mess with that stuff without consequences.
THAT'S what gives many people problems with it. It's the darker side of it and what the day really represents.
This is the kind of stuff that makes Evangelical Christians a laughing stock.
“I’ve never met anyone who claimed to be a witch or worshiped the devil”. You’re just out of the loop. There are lots of them out there. I live in a small town where a group of witches gather and put curses specifically on our church. A distant relative was married in a satanic church in Portland. Portland probably has more then the average amount of satanic churches, being the most atheist city in the US.
I have encountered scores of folks who are witches.
And unfortunately it is now “cool”.
“Remember there are good witches and bad witches”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6exm2Hi28Xw&t=156s
Well, for one, they tend not to share unless they think you are receptive.
Here in New Mexico they are everywhere. A very nice lady who served on a board with me for years turned out to be a Wiccan. I heard stories about people who crossed her that had very bad strings of luck.
It is much more prevalent than you think.
I read an article about Tom Brady and his wife, the supermodel. She is a witch, giving him little packets of herbs to carry, etc. He says he has learned to just roll with it. She tells him it’s fine because she is a good witch.
Only bad.
“Auto-da-fe, what’s an auto-da-fe?”
“It’s what you oughtn’t to do, but you do anyway!”
;^)
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