Month: June 2021

Millennials never experienced role-playing games of the eighties, such as Dungeons & Dragons, indulged in without the aid of computer-generated graphics. Back then I did many exorcisms on D&D players. They so invested themselves in their characters, such as the Druid, the Sorcerer, or the Wizard, that they became demon possessed. In today’s gaming world of human interaction with visual feedback on a computer monitor, it is even worse. There is no violent or immoral theme too evil for the gaming industry to exploit. One observer remarked that “the combination of low culture and high technology” provides “the instruments for libidinal extravaganzas devoid of any socially productive component.” The American Academy of Pediatrics sums it up this way: “Playing violent video games is to an adolescent’s violent behavior what smoking tobacco is to lung cancer.” And no game franchise is worse than Mortal Kombat.

Mortal Kombat is the second best-selling fighting game franchise. Its media universe includes movies, a TV show, a stage show, comic books, and a game – all with a satanic Leviathan dragon as the branded symbol. The Kombat theme centers on martial artists with supernatural powers out to save the world by violent bloodshed. Gruesome combat scenes finish with moves known as Fatalities, murdering one’s opponent. This can include bashing an opponent into pieces, impaling them on a bed of spikes, or disposing of them in a pool of acid. Or the loser may choose to exit by suicide, depriving the winner from murdering his opposition.

The latest Kombat movie, released in April, is still packing theaters. It is also the most successful film to-date on HBO Max. The plot features occult themes of souls being saved by a god of thunder, a soul-eating sorcerer, and dragon-marked saviors of humanity who have a power known as “arcana.” This is a play on the word “arcane” which refers to secret occult abilities. In the movie, arcana gives those who possess it the power to shoot a laser from one’s eyes, teleportation, supernatural strength, and the belief that touching the blood of a departed fighter allows the dead man’s spirit to fight alongside the current combatant.

The occult and witchcraft aren’t the only dangers to movie fans of Mortal Kombat. There are moral and psychological effects as well. Aggression, less control over personal behavior, an inability to direct one’s thoughts with inhibitions – all this is the result of the national obsession with gaming. This past year, 63 of the largest 66 police jurisdictions saw increases in at least one category of violent crime, including homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Should we blame the game? Not entirely, but today those ages 15-24 account for 14% of the population but are responsible for 40 percent of all arrests. And I believe that the nearly $200 billion gaming industry is driving a lot of these statistics.

If you are a Christian and watched the 2021 version of the Mortal Kombat movie without spiritual discernment, you have contributed to the looming age of the Antichrist. The battle that should concern you isn’t that of cage fighters with arcana or shaolin temple, Buddhist kung fu martial artists. It’s the war being waged for your soul by Satan. As Ephesians 4:27 says, “Don’t give place to the devil.” Don’t immerse yourself in a movie based on a satanic worldview of good and evil, God and Satan, or you may find yourself in mortal combat with demons inside your own soul.

Is it possible to take a lying, murderous demon and cinematically rehabilitate him into a likable rogue who elicits sympathy instead of loathing? Ask Disney. They’ve done it with their new Disney+ miniseries “Loki.” Before explaining the manipulative metamorphosis of this Luciferian demon from hell, consider first the mythological facts about the Nordic god Loki. His parents were Fire-Giants of the Viking spiritual universe. He was friends with Thor, eldest son of the supreme Nordic god Odin. Thor is theatricalized as the hammer-wielding Avenger of the Marvel Universe. Loki was historically stylized as a handsome jokester, gregarious, and mischievous shape-shifting god. Exactly the kind of anti-hero to bring big bucks to the Disney money machine.

I watched the entire first episode of this series. It is cleverly produced, mixing retro cartoon graphics with real life melodrama. Typical Marvel stuff. Loki, Tom Hiddleston reprising the role, squares off against TVA (Time Variance Authority) executive Mobius M. Mobius (Owen Wilson). Mobius represents the “keepers of time” that supposedly control the flow of a universal reality. The acting is minimal. The special effects are what matters. Mobius acts as a stoic bureaucrat. Loki gets the best one-liners. “I am a god,” Loki constantly declares. (It turns out he was also airplane hijacker D. B. Cooper.) “I am the god of mischief,” he adds specifically. All he wants to do is reclaim his throne, and if that requires innocent bloodshed or deceptive lying, so be it.

Marvel is an amoral universe. Consequently, the completely diabolical can be commonsensible, even reasonable. What if Loki is a hideous demon devoid of moral decency, he’s hip and he’s charming. He’s a victim of Thor’s rejection and his mother’s misunderstanding. So sad. Shed a tear for Loki who only wants the power that is rightfully his. By the way, remember that Frigga his adoptive mother is a very real Jezebel demon in the pantheon of evil; thus, it is disingenuous to inject human relational issues into the machinations of a demonic cabal. It is a tragic sign of where culture is when a disgusting demon is the star of the show!

For many years and in countless spiritual battles I’ve stared down the demon Loki in hundreds of demonized people. I know this demon well, and he’s no benign trickster. He ravages those he possesses and is one of the most sinister evil spirits in Satan’s arsenal. He’s also one of the most prevalent demons attacking humanity. He often inhabits the bloodlines of those with Scandinavian and German descent. Just one viewing of him on Disney, without proper curse breaking preparation and bloodline cleansing, can lead to spiritual disaster. Even demonic possession. At the end of the first episode, Mobius says to Loki, “I can’t offer you salvation, but I can offer you something better.” Episode two will supposedly tell viewers what that is. But you can be certain it isn’t eternal life through Jesus and freedom from the Loki demon.

After a few years of lesser interest, concern about UFO sightings is back again. Culture has always been captivated by ideas of aliens with movies like “Close Encounters” (1977), “E.T.” (1982), “Roswell” (1994), and “Contact” (1997). Since the 50s, sightings of UFOs and aliens have swirled around places such as Roswell, New Mexico, and Area 51 in Nevada. In the 90s I appeared on Oprah’s talk show and debated author and UFO aficionado Whitely Strieber to debate his book “Communion,” about alien communication. Strieber claims he was abducted by aliens and later formed communion groups of people to share their experiences of being taken aboard spacecraft. They claimed that aliens performed surgical experiments on them and molested them sexually. As I speak, we are days away from U. S. intelligence agencies presenting to Congress an unclassified report on what the government and military knows about UFOs, now referred to as Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).

In 1997 I released a 215-page book explaining my view of UFOs. Unfortunately, that book is out of print. But here’s what I said then, and still believe. First let’s break down the basic kinds of UFO phenomena: (1) Sighting that result from atmospheric conditions or untraceable lights in the sky. These are natural occurrences. (2) Flying objects which can be explained as birds or planes.  (3) Intrusive, experimental spacecraft of our own government or hostile nations, including a new generations of drones which represent serious national security issues. (4) Paranormal spiritual beings, demons, who can shapeshift from invisible forces into visible material manifestations and thus defy the laws of thermodynamics, physics, and gravity.

As an exorcist, I am concerned about #4. Those who claim to have been abducted have a certain consistency in their stories involving terrifying experiences of mind control and sexual violation. The appearance of these beings ranges from reptilians to so-called “greys” (big heads, large eyes, naked), Draconians, and Nordics who look like ancient Vikings.

The biblical conclusion is clear. The Fall of Eden was cosmological. All the universe is tainted by sin and rebellion as stated in Romans 8:21-22. Christ came as man only to redeem creatures on Earth, no other planets. If there were life out there, it would be incredibly corrupt, mired in evil, and without hope of redemption. And those aren’t the kinds of creatures you’d want to meet on a lonely road on a starry night without having Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

The 3rd installment of “The Conjuring” movie series releases next week in theaters. It is entitled “The Devil Made Me Do It.” This film is part of what’s known as the Conjuring Universe, an official franchise with a logo. The first two films have spun off other movies about the Conjuring entities, including the “Annabelle” series and “The Nun.” Total income for the franchise is almost $2 billion! The current film, as with the previous two, is based on paranormal investigations conducted by Ed and Lorraine Warren in the late 20^th century. More on them in a moment.

Let me first address the issue of Christians seeing these films as entertainment. NO! The Conjuring Universe fosters fear and terror contrary to 2 Timothy 1:7. In these films there is no vanquishing of the demons by authentic exorcisms through the power of Jesus Christ. The story lines are a mixture of fact and mostly fiction, interwoven with a spiritualist, non-Christian view of the supernatural. This franchise has duped many millions into a zeitgeist of terror regarding demons.  The Conjuring counterattack to demonic evil smacks of witchcraft – fighting fire with fire.

Back to the Warrens, the driving force behind the Conjuring films. Ed Warren passed away in 2006 and Lorraine died in 2019. Ed grew up in a haunted house and saw ghosts as a child. He claimed to be a demonologist and exorcist, but not the Christian kind. He believed that spirits were all around in a vibrational field and that his wife Lorraine could see and hear them clairvoyantly. That is biblical witchcraft. After Ed died, Lorraine communicated with him beyond the grave. That is defined in Scripture as necromancy, a capital crime in ancient Israel. Both claimed to be good Catholics, but they violated many biblical injunctions against all forms of divination. Their approach was spiritualism sprinkled with a biblical template of good and evil. Clever deception.

I knew Lorraine Warren. Before she died, a production company wanted me to do a reality TV series with her. I would be the exorcist, and she would be the paranormal investigator. That would certainly be an odd couple. Pre-show interviews of our ideas about demons and demonic possession were conducted. When it was over, the producer came to me and said that there was no way Lorraine and I could work together. Our views on demons and the supernatural were too far apart. This conclusion came from a Hollywood producer!  We parted ways. I went on to film the TV series “The Real Exorcist” and Lorraine went on to lend her paranormal views about ghosts and demons to the Conjuring  films. Lorraine died not long after. She deliberately or unwittingly served Satan all her life – and never even reaped the full economic benefit of it. That’s the kind of cruel joke the devil plays. In the words of the new Conjuring byline, the devil made her do it. Sadly, Ed and Lorraine Warren will pay the price for all eternity. You will too if you allow yourself to be duped by the biblical contradictions of “The Conjuring.”