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The cries are louder than ever for gun control. President Biden says that the Second Amendment is not sacrosanct. But is limiting the access to firearms going to solve the real problem? Gun violence may mean the end of America as we know it. Now that I’ve gotten your attention with that provocative statement, let me explain. This blog isn’t about the politics of gun control per se. There are legitimate issues to be addressed with the recent carnage in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York. We could endlessly debate so-called ghost guns and whether the public should possess AR-15 rifles. An online ad for the AR-15 says that this gun is “America’s most popular rifle.” The reason? It is “reliable, rugged, and accurate making it a go-to choice for home defense.” That statement likely has Biden and the Beto in a lather. But my calling as a deliverance minister isn’t to legislate but to litigate against demons. And, despite many reasons for the epidemic of mass murders, there is a common theme to the killers.

First, let’s explode the myth that it is mostly mentally ill people pulling the triggers, and if we can keep them from guns, we’ll all be safe. Here are the facts. Research shows that less than 5% of violent acts are linked to mental illness. If you doubt me, check out an article in the Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2022. According to psychologists and epidemiologists, most acts of violence are not committed by people with a diagnosed mental illness.  In fact, the American Psychiatric Association states that, “The overwhelming majority of people with mental illness are not violent and are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than perpetrators thereof.”

A study of discharged psychiatric patients found that only 12% of violent incidents were preceded by a psychotic episode. It gets more interesting. A study by the justice department found that only 17% of prison inmates were mentally ill.

Here is where it gets interesting and is more to my point. The MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study of mentally ill people found that violent acts were more likely because of, and I quote directly from the study, “a history of violent acts, childhood physical abuse, antisocial behavior and a father who abused substances.” Now do you get my point? In the words of the progressive left, “Follow the science.” Well, if we are to do that, the most important answer to stopping gun violence is in the home. I’m going to make two bold statements:

• First, people raised in two parent, Christian families, where a godly father is giving guidance don’t go on killing sprees. My wife and I have three children. What are the chances one of them will be consumed by racial hatred and walk into a Buffalo supermarket? ZERO! What is the possibility that one of them will post online their murderous intentions and then invade a Texas schoolroom with mass murder? ZERO! I understand that there are some single moms doing their best after a good-for-nothing father abandoned the family. But we need to focus on fatherhood and the value of a sustainable home of love and acceptance. To paraphrase a popular pro-gun phrase (Guns don’t kill, people kill.), “Guns don’t kill, but individuals raised in violent, sexually abusive, and drug addicted families do kill.” Abandonment, rejection, and parental absence are the real killers stalking our land.
• My second point is that the moral demise of America will not be about whether a minor child can possess a rapid-fire rifle but will depend on the spiritual qualities of our American families. By throwing away the rights of decent, god-fearing people we are treating a symptom, not the real problem. Perhaps a background check on mental illness could be a deciding factor in purchasing a high-caliber, magazine weapon. But what about a background check on abuse, alcoholism, and abandonment in the home? That is where demons do their dirty work turning kids into killers in Buffalo and Uvalde.

The end of the stable, loving, nuclear family that made our nation great is becoming a thing of the past. Let’s restore the family first, and then talk about REAL common-sense ideas concerning the role of firearms in our culture. And let’s add to that a theologically serious conversation about getting demons out of those who didn’t come from good families. Ephesians 6:4 says, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” Every child coming from a broken, addicted, or dysfunctional family needs some serious counseling before they are provoked to wrathful violence. They also need Jesus, and they most likely need an exorcism.

It happened again. Occasionally one hears of an exorcism gone wrong. Usually, it occurs in countries with an African population, like England, where some immigrants influenced by witchcraft try to drive out demons physically. This time an errant exorcism happened at a Hispanic church in San Jose, California. A 25-year-old mother, Claudia Hernandez, has been charged with murder. Authorities claim that that she tried to drive demons out of her three-year-old daughter by choking her and withholding food from the child. The mom admitted that she had tried to squeeze the demons out. Claudia’s pastor-father assisted in the exorcism, though he hasn’t been charged yet.

How did they determine that the child had a demon? According to the mother, the little girl would wake up screaming and crying. Someone in the family, it’s not clear who, determined that this was the work of evil spirits. Weirdly, after the child’s death the family held a Disney-themed funeral for her. The mother posted on social media about the death, “I am happy. I am at peace.” Obviously, the police thought otherwise, and I agree.

Our Do What Jesus Did deliverance teams are required to go by specific ethical guidelines. One might pray gently over a child if spiritual oppression is suspected, but never exercise physical brutality to expel a demon. Any kind of prayer over an infant should be gentle and with great caution to not upset a little one. Whether intended or not, this incident was thoughtless, unbiblical, and abusive. And it was murder to some degree.

Here are three ways to avoid a tragedy like this:

#1-The presence of a demon must NEVER be determined ONLY by subjective criteria. Telling someone they have a demon because their actions are suspicious, or they exhibit abnormal behavior is wrong. That is why our International School of Exorcism teaches you must make every effort to make the demons speak. That is the one sure way to know that someone has a demon. The cry of a child is not a sufficient indication.

#2–Demons are spiritual beings and can’t be driven out physically. No amount of pushing, shoving, hitting, or infliction of pain of the host’s body will cast out a demon. Demons only respond to pain when it is spiritually inflicted, such as with a Bible, cross, or anointing oil. But that is a spiritual act. Strangling a child on the pretext of deliverance is abuse, not exorcism.

#3–Demons leave because they dread the name of Jesus. They do not fear human exertion to resist them. We sometimes need to physically restrain a person for the safety of those involved in an exorcism. But that is a defensive action not an offensive assault. A biblically legitimate exorcist knows that it is what he says by the power of the Holy Spirit, not what he exerts by physical maltreatment that drives out demons.

My prayer is that the mother and grandfather of this dead child will see the error of their actions and repent. So far, they are hiding behind a cloak of religion which makes matters worse. It also empowers the spirit of Jezebel who likely orchestrated this spiritual catastrophe. It is imperative that those of us who do REAL deliverance do more than ever to set people truly free. Then the real deal will be witnessed and exorcism by affliction will be discredited!

When I first started ministering deliverance and exorcism it was a steep learning curve. There was no internet to share experiences and information. There were few books on the topic, and no communication portals to know who else was doing deliverance. I was the first person to use the web to demonstrate deliverance. Now there are hundreds, and the number is growing.

Things have drastically changed. This phenomenon is mostly good. But I have concerns that some seeking deliverance from demons are being confused and sometimes mislead.

Certainly, there will be different approaches and methods; different styles of ministry and calling. But if a deliverance is to be successful there are constants that should not change. An important factor is where you tell demons to go. I see people telling demons, “Up and out,” or “Go, go, go!” That’s OK, but up and out to where? Go where? Matthew 8:12, 22:13, and 25:30 speak of “outer darkness” as the destination of demons. This is just another term for hell, since it’s described as a place of “weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

There are about 25 cases in the Gospels of Jesus casting out demons, and it’s not clear how His exorcisms ended and with what specific language. But here are five arguments in favor of casting them to the Pit, the Abyss.”

#1 — Hell, the Bottomless Pit, the Abyss, is the eternal destination of all demons. Some are there already as spoken of in Jude 1:6. (“And the angels who did not keep their proper domain [“first estate” KJV] but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.”) Demons possessing people can and should be sent to the Pit.

#2 — Isaiah 15:14 speaks of “the Pit” as Lucifer’s destination. Revelation has many references to the Pit of Hell: Rev. 9:2, 9:11, 11:7, 17:8, 20:3. According to Matthew 8:29, demons were fearful of being sent to “torment before the time” of their final judgment, which is in Hell. Lucifer is there. Send his minions back where they belong. (It’s not clear in Scripture if demons can ever escape temporarily and enter a willing human vessel on earth. I suspect that some can and do, but I can’t quote chapter and verse.)

#3 — Some Bible teachers argue that there is no indication Christ told the demons that He cast out to go to a particular place. In Mark 5:12-13 they are “sent away.” Mark 1:24 says “judgment.” But would Jesus send a demon to anything less than maximum anguish? “Sent away” is another way of commanding demons to go where they belong, the Pit, Hell.

#4 — Those against precision in deliverance language regarding the Pit argue that Jesus allowed demons to go into a herd of pigs (Matthew 8:30-32); however, that was a unique situation. It was an object lesson to the Gadarene Jews who weren’t supposed to eat pork, let alone raise swine. Anyway, the pigs ran off a cliff, were all killed, and the demons went back to Hell.

#5 — Jesus spoke of unclean spirits going to “dry places” [KJV] [“arid” NIV] (Matthew 12:43; Luke 11:24) seeking “rest.” I have sometimes commanded marine spirits to enter dry places on their way to the Pit. They love moisture and scream in torment at this judgment. Dry places are temporary locations of vexation for “water demons” on their way to the Abyss.

As I have previous pointed our blogs, books, and the International School of Exorcism, we do not have in Scripture a single, complete formula for the precise verbal command expelling a demon. But like many things in church life for which there is no exact biblical pattern, we use biblical wisdom and practical knowledge to guide our faith. It is the same with exorcism. The original 1614 Roman Catholic Ritual of Exorcism, The Rituale Romanum, states as follows: Now He is driving you back into the everlasting fire, He who at the end of time will say to the wicked: Depart from me, you accursed, into the everlasting fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.” For you, O evil one, and for your followers there will be worms that never die. An unquenchable fire stands ready for you and for your minions, you prince of accursed murderers, father of lechery, instigator of sacrileges, model of vileness, promoter of heresies, inventor of every obscenity.

As we less pedantically state in our School of Exorcism, demand the demon to say these words: I go now to the Pit. Demons don’t want to say it. They fight to avoid it. So, I make them do it. It seals the deal and ensures that demon won’t be back. To have certitude during deliverance, command to the demon to declare his doom — everlasting torment IN THE PIT!

Can Satan kill you? NO. The idea that the devil can take your life is a lie. Christian or non-Christian, Satan can’t make you pull the trigger of a gun. Force you to down a bottle of pills. Get you to OD on drugs. Drive your car into a lane of traffic. Jump from the window of a tall building. BUT the devil can push you to the edge of self-destruction. He can put you in a seemingly irreversible situation where you act out your own end. Or he can gradually take over your mind until you become incapable of rational thought and you take your own life. I’ve addressed this issue in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of counseling sessions with individuals despairing of life. Please hear what I say. It could rescue you or someone you love.

This blog came about because of an article I read concerning a beautiful, 19-year-old African American college student, Arlana Miller. She was a popular cheerleader who killed herself just over a week ago. Looking at pictures of her one would think she had everything to live for. But the lengthy suicide note she left behind was gut-wrenching and revealing. She confessed to dealing with depression for a long time. She started by say, “I have fought this urge since my early teenage years”. It was obvious from the note that she had catastrophized her situation, blowing her adversity way out of proportion. But that’s the nature of clinical depression, loss of ability to sees one’s own challenges in perspective.

Among the heartbroken words of her suicide note were these: “I’ve lost my connection to God. The devil seems to have won. And that is OK. I blame no one for this. I’ve been dead inside for too long. I’m done fighting. My battle is over. I’m SO, SO SORRY.”

I only know about this young woman from what I read, but I want to give my observations from decades of counseling and ministering to thousands like her. I’m not saying that this tragic death involved any of the issues I’ll address. But her loss is a warning to look for these signs:

• Lack of a supportive, two-parent family structure. It appears Arlana came from a broken family. Of all the photos posthumously posted, none show a father present. Don’t ever believe the lie that children aren’t deeply affected by divorce and family disintegration. I can’t underscore enough how important it is to have a loving father in the home, especially if the child is female.
• What I’m about to say doesn’t necessarily reflect on this young woman, but the majority of suicidal cases I’ve dealt with, especially women, involve past sexual abuse. Most have never told anyone and never sought spiritual and mental health assistance. If this is you, please tell your story immediately to a pastor, priest, therapist, mental health professional, or an inner healing and deliverance minister. Talk to a trusted, adult authority figure and don’t bottle up the pain of trauma.
• If the person in question has battled major depression over a prolonged time, get help. Don’t assume that good looks, talent, intellectual ability, and even a Christian faith will get that individual past the persistent feeling of sadness, hopelessness, loss of interest in normal activities, or lack of interest in life.
• Many people I’ve counseled have experienced what I call the X-factor, some unrevealed, tragic incident. It could be any of a thousand things, but for the suicidal person it is some life-defining moment: sexual violation, personal failure, drug addiction, occult involvement, or family dysfunction that has led to demonic oppression. In this case, confronting the evil spirits of death and destruction will be necessary, in addition to competent counseling.

Remember Arlana’s words: “I’ve lost my connection to God. The devil seems to have won.” If you or someone you know feels that way, remember this. The devil can’t kill you if you are a child of God, but he can push you to the point of such despair that you’ll do it for him. A suicidal or severely depressed person needs help immediately. Get them to an emergency ward. Seek competent counseling. And if the person reveals some previously unknown abuse, contact us to arrange a deliverance encounter with me or a trained Associate Minister. Satan can’t kill a depressed and despairing Christian, but he can lead them to the edge of destruction where a mentally imbalanced mind can make ending it all seem like a way out. As Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end, it leads to death (NIV). And as Hebrews 2: 14 reminds that “through death [Christ’s crucifixion] He [Christ] might destroy him [Satan] that had the power of death, that is the devil” (KJV).

Actor Will Smith isn’t punching anyone out these day as he did at the Oscars. Instead, he has flown to India with his family to meet with a Hindu guru to resolve his anger problem. This is a typical Hollywood approach to resolving deep moral issues. Pass the buck to some quick fix of occult spirituality, like Kabbalah, yoga, or the New Age. In recent months, Smith has talked about both he and his wife committing adultery, she with a man half her age. Smith bragged about wanting a sexual harem of 20 women. Considering all this, Smith has gone to the “right” place.

Hinduism has no defined moral code. No Commandments. Nothing is specifically proscribed. Lord Krishna had more than 16,000 sexual partners. Tantric yoga teaches that enlightenment is achieved by mutual orgasm, no marriage contract needed. I have visited Hindu temples in India specifically devoted to eroticism. The entrance to one temple I researched was covered with hundreds of pornographic sexual carvings, some involving bestiality. The scenes were so perverse that I had to avert my eyes upon entry. I questioned the main priest of the temple how a building devoted to religion could contain such immorality. His answer? “We encourage the people to experience all their lusts before they enter the temple so they can be holy inside. Sinning so that grace may abound? Such is the logic of Eastern religions.

The guru whose help Smith is seeking is the yogi Sadhguru, whose real name is Jagadish Vasudev. The controversial Hindu yogi first met Smith in 2020. The yogi told Smith, “Are you suffering life or your memory. What may happen tomorrow you already suffer. You’re suffering your imagination.” Typical Hinduism. All life is illusion. Nothing real ever happens. Only spirit is real and all else is what the Hindus call maya, the illusion of time, space, and matter. And this is supposed to cure Smith of his issues?

Yogi Sadhguru isn’t without controversy. He claims that human suffering is because people don’t know who they are spiritually. No need for objective principles to guide human decisions. There is no place for moral evil in the yogi’s ideology and certainly no devil. And he has other controversial views. As a devout Hindu he worships the cow as a god and has advocated for a ban on slaughtering cows for meat. He teaches that cooked food consumed during a lunar eclipse depletes the body’s pranic energy. (Prana is the Hindu vital life force, like chi to Buddhists, and mana to Polynesians.) He promotes the use of Vibhuti, sacred ash made of burned cow dung and cremated bodies. It is applied with three horizontal lines across the forehead to honor the god Shiva, Lord of death and destruction. Hindus believe that it has the erotic power of procreation and that the ash comes from the ray of the third-eye of Shiva. The real answer to Will Smith’s anger, and his infidelities, can be found in a transformational encounter with Christ. That isn’t likely to happen anytime soon after he returns from India. His bondage to dark, demonic forces will have only gotten worse. Whatever spiritual processes the Sadhguru will engage with the actor are designed to achieve occult enlightenment. Smith was raised a Baptist Christian, but by 2018 he had embraced Hinduism and Indian astrology. Will Smith needs to leave India quickly, leave the Sadhguru behind and make a sharp spiritual U-turn before he gets slapped by the devil.

Things are not well in America. Inflation is out of control and middle America is suffering. In Wisconsin, a 14-year-old kid was just charged with raping and killing a 10-year-old girl. (His father is a convicted pedophile. The mother of the girl is on probation after conviction for multiple counts of credit card theft.) Crime is way up, and New York City, for example has seen an increase of nearly 40% in one year.  On top of this, Russia is threatening nuclear war. And with all these important events which should get our attention, millions have been glued to their TV screens to watch the spiritual shipwreck trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. These two spoiled, dysfunctional, and very rich Hollywood stars have been duking it out in a Virginia courtroom. The testimony has been silicious, titillating, and at times down right obscene. When $150 million is at stake, things can get messy.

With disgusting, profane, and gut-wrenching charges going back and forth, the whole thing sounds and looks like a page from the script of Depp’s 2015 film, “Black Mass” about a mafia hit man. Testimony has featured tales of defecation in bed, enormous amounts of alcohol consumed, cocaine addiction, severed fingers, and various bodily injuries between each other. The biggest joke is that this whole thing started because Depp said that a major newspaper editorial by Amber, alleging domestic abuse, ruined his reputation. What reputation? The one carefully cultivated with him always scowling and sneering with an evil look? The Jack Sparrow pirate wanna-be? The Sauvage, meaning savage, Dior fragrance ads with him looking like an animal on the prowl? And when you’re worth at least $200 million, does one article really bring down his acting empire?

By the way, there are such things as real pirate demons. I don’t see them much in the mainland U. S. but in coastal cities, and I do encounter them when ministering in the Caribbean. These are nasty demons. Bloodthirsty. Lawless. Murderous. Did Depp get actual pirate demons from playing his Jack Sparrow role? That depends. If he was merely a character actor, that means he was taking on an eccentric role that wasn’t like his real personality, perhaps not. The other style of acting is personality acting in which the actor becomes the character. I think Depp did that with his pirate role. What he did onscreen was larger than life. He became too much like the a real pirate, the ocean-going outlaws who operated during the late 17th century and the early part of the 18^th century. They terrorized merchant ships and ports, stealing gold, liquor, or whatever they could get. The most infamous was Blackbeard, an English pirate who operated mainly in the West Indies. For all his evil, he died sometime around the age of 35. I believe that Depp was evil before Jack Sparrow and that playing the role through five films opened a door for pirate demons to enter. His spiritual implosion, the roots of which were already there, only got worse. Amber had her problems too. She is a real-life Jezebel.

These two are the best examples I could think of the Ahab-Jezebel complex. Johnny, the whiner conceding dominance to Jezebel and then complaining about it. You remember the story from 1 Kings chapter 16. Verse 30 of that chapter says, “Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him.” Up to that time in history, he was the most evil king ever in Israel. And then he was outdone by Jezebel, priestess of the demon-god Baal whom he imported from Phoenicia to be his queen. They conspired to commit murder (1 Kings 21) to get the vineyard of a man named Naboth. Imagine, killing a man for grapes? Then there was the showdown on Mount Carmel when Elijah called down fire from heaven to prove who really was God. Jezebel’s response was to say that if Elijah wasn’t dead in 24 hours, she should be. And she was, trampled by horses and eaten by dogs. The only thing missing with the real Ahab and Jezebel was the courtroom drama of Johnny and Amber.

Ahab and Jezebel were the ultimate power couple, but their evil brought them down. The same could happen to Depp and Heard. I’ll not cry if it happens, except for their poor, lost souls. Ahab and Jezebel could have repented, and their story would have ended differently. There is still time for Johnny and Amber to repent of the evil they caused each other in the name of fame and fortune. One or both might lose their reputations, but they don’t have to lose their souls. In this case only the pirate demons of the Caribbean will win.

Let me state clearly. I don’t want you to get a demon. I’m not telling you the #1 way to get one so you will open your life to demonization. This is a warning about WHAT NOT TO DO to get a demon. By avoiding the easiest way, I pray that you’ll avoid EVERY WAY you might fall prey to an evil spirit.

The #1 way to get a demon is transactionally. A transaction is defined as buying or selling something, a business deal. In a broader sense it is an exchange or interaction between two parties. You walk in a store, pick out a product, go to the cashier, hand over your credit card, it is processed, and you walk away with your purchase. You have transacted a relationship between the seller and the buyer.

Spiritually speaking there is something called “transactional theology.” It can be quite complicated, but here are the issues. Transactional religion can be as simple as believing that the atonement of Christ on the cross was transactional. He offers something, salvation, and by faith when you trust in Him you receive that salvation. It is transacted; however, transactional theology can get messy and result in a slot-machine, legalistic view of God — you do something for God, and He does something for you.

The hyper view of transactional theology is found in the prosperity gospel, the idea that what you get from God is directly proportional to what you’ve given to Him. Seed faith, for example, isn’t a bad idea, but it can be perverted into a transactional view of blessings involving direct equivocation. By this I mean the concept that your spiritual and financial benefits of being a Christian are directly related to the quantity of your investment in God’s kingdom. That is usually calibrated by the size of a donation to a particular ministry. Give, for example, $1,000 to a certain internet or television evangelist, and you’ll receive your miracle from God proportionately. This kind of transaction is a form of spiritual abuse and is unbiblical.

My purpose is not to look at the many aspects of transactional theology regarding salvation, all the way from extreme free will to hyper-Calvinism. I want to warn you about transactional demonization — the #1 way to get a demon. This concept is like what’s known in spiritual warfare as a “legal right,” but transactional spiritual engagement is more exact and binding. It is a form of covenant with the devil.

During a recent virtual encounter, I confronted a demon who claimed the right to a man because he had gone to a psychic spell-caster and paid to curse someone who had offended him. I countered the demon by saying that the person was now a Christian and had consulted the medium in ignorance. The demon responded, “That psychic was my agent, and when this man paid for the spell, he colluded with sorcery. That gave me a transactional right to enter him. Until that is canceled, I can stay.”

That may be demonic logic, but the evil spirit was factually accurate. I led the individual in a prayer to renounce that transaction and place the sin of seeking a psychic under the blood of Christ. The demon was then expelled. But the warning stands. The easiest way to get a demon is to transactionally enter into an agreement with the devil through some evil action. Examples would be: Paying to have your tarot cards read or your horoscope cast; following a Hindu-based yoga instructor whom you paid to teach asanas to you; buying a New Age book like The Secret; paying for an abortion (a blood sacrifice transaction); practicing eastern meditation, especially as part of a cult to which you financially contributed. (That is a transactional agreement with mind control spirits.)

Deuteronomy chapter 28 is a good example of transactional spirituality. God lists His promises of obedience. Then, He warns of the curses coming from disobedience when a person transacts with the lies of the devil by spiritual rebellion. Schedule a virtual encounter with me so we can review your life to see where you have entered transactions with Satan. Uncovering transactional bondage sometimes requires the objective view of someone outside yourself to spot these things. A transactional, covenant agreement with demons may take a lot less than you think. It may be the easiest way to get a demon.

I want to make you aware of the worst demon you’ve never heard of. Here’s how I met this demon. I was at our ministry center in Phoenix, Arizona, having an in-person encounter session. An individual came to me because she feared that she had demons. She was a delightful person, well-spoken and extremely prepared for our time of prayer. She had an advanced college degree and a great personality. My wife Laura and I were both impressed with her communication skills and her spiritual zeal. But as her story unfolded, she detailed failure upon failure, both personally and professionally. We quickly identified several powerful demons, including Lucifer, Leviathan, Beelzebub, and Jezebel, to name a few. But we weren’t making sufficient progress in the deliverance until I demanded that the most powerful demon come forth. It turned out not to be one of the big demons I suspected.

Readers of our blogs, and our International School of Exorcism students, have heard me speak about the names of demon. High level demons, principalities, have nominal designations. Their names are proper nouns. A second category consists of demons named after their actionable function such as murder, rage, or destruction. A third category involves demons which inhabit emotional strongholds such as rejection, depression, or jealousy. A fourth category of demons describes a state of being. This might involve something such as perplexity, indecision, or aggression. Of course, these states of mind may be purely human and not embedded by an evil spirit. But when a demon is involved the intensity of the mindset is overwhelming and destructive.

When I think I’ve heard of every demon, something new surprises me. In the case I just referred to it was the demon of Nothingness. As the name implies this demon fosters feelings of being insignificant, unimportant, and worthless. Nothingness. This evil spirit may not sound threatening, but it could be the worst demon you’ve never heard of.

If an individual thinks of himself as nothing, he can do nothing. Relationships will fail. Vocations will be unstable. Poverty will follow. Health will suffer. Most of all, that person’s spiritual life will deteriorate. How can anyone succeed at anything if they are “nothing?” Being tormented by a spirit of Nothingness is a path to defeat and failure in life. The one afflicted may have raw talent, powerful spiritual gifts, and even a call from God. But if the demon of Nothingness affects their self-perception, life will go nowhere fast. You can’t be SOMEONE if you think you are NO ONE.

The spirit of Nothingness brings a cascading sequence of miscarried opportunities. This demon must be cast out for the host person to thrive in life. First the demon of Nothingness must be confronted by spiritual truth. Consider these Bible verses:

• Psalm 139:14 – I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
• Jeremiah29:11 – For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
• Luke 12:6 – Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God.

Nothing beats Nothingness like a daily dose of God’s Word.

Your health, your finances, your relationships, your calling from God may be hindered by the spirit of Nothingness, or some sort of demon that fulfills that function. Bind this spirit’s operation in the Name of Jesus. Declare its assignment canceled. Seek an exorcism if necessary to get it cast out. You might start by scheduling a virtual encounter with me or one of our associate ministers. Discover to what extent some form of nothingness has dominated your life. Our book “Demon Proofing Prayers” has dozens of daily, biblically grounded declarations that you can make which will cleanse your mind of the devil’s negative assumptions. Begin today to turn your life around from nothingness to somethingness and discovery your true destiny as a child of God.

If you are interested in seeking deliverance, how do you prepare yourself? Simply put, the best way to get free from Satan is to make the devil weary and unwelcome. Demons sometimes say to me, “I can’t stand it here in this person. I’m ready to go. Get me out of here”. These are not common demonic comments, and such claims can be a trick. But in cases where the supplicant has truly gotten themselves ready for deliverance, this can also be an admission of the devil’s defeat. In short, before the deliverance prayers start, make the devil weary and unwelcome.

There are four ways to get ready for deliverance.

#1 Education

• Watch my YouTube channel, read my books, enroll in our School of Exorcism. Educate yourself about credible approaches to deliverance.
• Do some research and go to someone with a credible reputation. Don’t let just anyone pray over you. Does the deliverance minister have published books or a statement of faith? How much trustworthy experience do they have? Are they connected with an organization or church that has sound theology?

#2 Preparation

• Get your DNA profile done. This can be a clue to what kind of demons you may have. Many companies offering this service. Explore your ancestry by talking to older family members. Do a family tree of what your parents, grandparents, and great grandparent know about the spiritual legacy (or lack thereof) of all extended family members.
• Put your spiritual affairs in order. If you have addictions, get clean and sober. If you have broken relationships, put them in order. Review your life regarding prayer and Bible reading. Up your spiritual game to be at peak performance to fight the devil.

#3 Expectation

• Prov. 13:12 says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” If you are depressed, get some counseling to identify the cause. Come to the deliverance session with expectation, not hesitation.
• In Matthew 17:21 Jesus said that certain demons would not leave “except with fasting and prayer.” Do some research on a fasting that best fits you and your scheduled deliverance.

#4 Determination

• Drive, fly, connect by computer—don’t wait for your freedom. Take action to schedule a deliverance session in person or virtually. Putting it off will only further entrench the demons. If you can’t travel on short notice, contact us for a virtual, online deliverance session. If I can’t personally get to you quickly, we have highly trained Associate Ministers standing by to intervene. Don’t prolong your spiritual agony anymore.
• Attitude is everything. It is your battle. The Lord wants you to be free. I want you to be free. But you need to want to be free so that you’ll do what’s necessary to get the right kind of help. Spiritual freedom is a triangulation between you (wanting deliverance), the one ministering deliverance, and God. Don’t be the weak point in that relationship.

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After nearly 50 years of deliverance and exorcism ministry, I have uncovered many things about the secret structure of Satan’s kingdom. One of these previously hidden mysteries is the demonic hierarchy of Freemasonry. There are many demons that operate in this secret society such as Jezebel, Moloch, and Baal, to name a few. But the top six ones that I regularly encounter are Lucifer, Apollyon, Leviathan, Beelzebub, Baphomet, and Asmodeus. I’ll first reference five of these evil spirits and then emphasize the #1 demon of Freemasonry – Lucifer.

#1 – APOLLYON: This is the Greek name for the demon Abaddon (Hebrew), the Destroyer of the bottomless pit spoken of in Revelation chapter nine. He is the king of the locust demons of the Last Days, a ruling spirit, a principality spoken of in Ephesians chapter six. The roots of Freemasonry are with the rogue Knights Templar of the Middle Ages who turned to the worship of Satan when they were persecuted. Thus, Apollyon was welcomed as a symbol of rebellion. 

#2 – LEVIATHAN: This serpent of the deep is known as the King of Pride. There is no better description of the attitude engendered among Lodge members than pride. The power, wealth, and influence of Freemasonry is one of the prideful reasons that members are drawn to the Lodge. Leviathan orchestrates that. 

#3 – BEELZEBUB: To ancient Jews, he was the prince of demons, sometimes known as the Lord of the Flies because of this affinity for frequenting excrement. His characteristics are filthiness and gluttony. Those who know of the abominable rituals performed in some lodges realize why the demon Beelzebub would be welcome there. 

#4 – BAPHOMET: This demon is usually depicted as being hermaphrodite, exhibiting cloven hooves, a goat’s head with horns, and both male and female sexual organs. According to ex-Lodge members, and the claims of Masonic demons I’ve encountered, the higher degrees of some lodges require participation in detestable sexual rituals. Baphomet is often worshipped during these evil rites. 

#5 – ASMODEUS: Lust, perversion, and unbridled sexuality are the attributes of this demon. His identity is consistent with the orgiastic activities secretly celebrated in some lodges. Asmodeus is known as one of the seven princes of hell, and thus he is noted for cruelty and lasciviousness. 

Now we will focus on the number one demon of the Lodge, the ultimate god of Freemasons, the “Supreme Architect of the Universe” as he is known by Masonic parlance. 

LUCIFER is the spiritual ruler of Freemasonry. His human representative is known as the Grand Master of the Lodge who sits in an honorific, large chair at one end of the Lodge hall. Often there is a Lucifer-worshipping pentagram positioned above him on the wall directly behind. I have been in Masonic lodges to film documentaries, and the interior openly displays Lucifer-worshipping pentagrams unashamedly. American Masons consider Albert Pike to be their greatest scholar and historian. He was also an admitted occult Luciferian, espousing his beliefs in such books as Morals and Dogma, a sacred text to Freemasons. He has written, “The masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the Purity of the Luciferian doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay (Adonai) and his priests calumniate (deprecate) him? Yes, Lucifer is God.” To those who read Morals and Dogma, it is clear that Pike was a powerful occultist who indulged various forms of paganism, mythology, and witchcraft, and he incorporated them into the teachings of the lodges over which he had sway. 

To further understand the dangers of Freemasonry and pray detailed prayers to break Masonic curses, get our book, Freedom from Freemasonry available in the “resources” section of our website. Don’t put off discovering if you are a victim of one of these six top demons of Freemasonry.