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At 50 years of age, Taylor Hawkins was found dead in a Bogota, Columbia hotel room. The band was due to play in a rock festival Friday. The band in which he played was a descendant of the Seattle so-called grunge band Nirvana, headed by Kurt Cobain. Cobain struggled with drugs all his short career and eventually the demons he let in through his addiction convinced him to blow out his own brains with a shotgun blast. His friend and bandmate Dave Grohl, eventually regrouped the band, renaming it Foo Fighters after pilots who witnessed unidentified flying objects, UFOs, back in the 40s and 50s. Foo Fighters won 12 Grammys and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. Grohl was the drummer, but took over as singer, leaving the drums to Taylor Hawkins. Grohl admits being a druggie in his younger days, included weed and hallucinogens. To his credit, he says he stopped drugs years ago. Not so with his drummer Hawkins. Hawkins left behind a beautiful wife, two kids, and an estimated net worth of $40 million! Here are the questions that have been circling in my mind since news of his death hit the press over the weekend.

#1 – Why would someone like Hawkins, at the top of his career and possessing fantastic wealth, risk certain death from drug addiction?

#2 – Why didn’t his rehab efforts work and get him off drugs?

#3 – Can being in an affiliated venture with someone evil who took their life create a soul tie with those who inherit some part of that legacy?

#4 – Did the suicide of Cobain pass on a spirit of Death that looked for another victim to destroy?

It’s impossible to know for certain the answers to these questions, but as an exorcist and deliverance minister with nearly five decades of experience confronting demons of Death operate, I can offer some thoughts. I’ll answer these questions above in numerical order.

#1 – The nature of having an addiction to drugs, especially hard drugs, is that the user adopts a lifestyle of lies. Mostly he lies to himself about what he’s doing and what it’s doing to him. I recently had a personal encounter with an addict who at great expense and time had come to see me. He admitted that, just before we started, he had gone to the bathroom and shot up drugs minutes before we prayed. Another drug user once said to me, “I smoked a joint just before meeting you, so I’d have one last time to enjoy what drugs do before I try to get rid of them.” Neither of these individuals had a successful deliverance. Their demons manifested, but there was no way to make them leave. The addict was in agreement with his demons, not God.

#2 – Rehab can be helpful, but if you have demons counseling and rehabilitation only reforms behavior. This can sometimes be helpful, but it won’t get rid of the evil spirits that are fed by the addiction.

#3 – Being in any soul-tie relationship with someone, even at arm’s length or only as part of a legacy, can be an open door for demons to attack. That is why everyone needs to cut off all spiritual ties to former friends, lovers, business associates, even spiritual mentors, if that person committed evil acts, including self-murder.

#4 – I can’t say for certain that Hawkins inherited a suicidal impulse just from being in a legacy band of Curt Cobain. But it is possible. I hear stranger stories every day of how demons connect the dots of a person’s life history to attack when least expected. Plus, we don’t know the personal history of Hawkins, his ancestors and early family life, to know what demons he may have picked up genealogically that then connected with the Cobain heritage. If you know of someone in your bloodline or personal affiliation who committed suicide, curse breaking prayers about this matter are crucial.

Please understand my motives in doing this blog. I’m not out to make a point of the tragedy of Taylor Hawkins, but rather use it as a teaching illustration to warn others who are caught up in drug addiction. If that is you or someone you love, get help now! Get deliverance! Get Christian rehab! Hold the addict accountable to godly spiritual mentors. If the addicted one is a friend of family member, get them to someone like me who knows how to cast out demons of death and addiction. A virtual encounter might save their life. Rock star or average individual, the spirit of Death is no respecter of persons. As Proverbs 27:20 says, “Hell and destruction are never full; so, the eyes of man are never satisfied.”

Demons are dumb. That may sound like a strange thing to say because evil spirits seen to be clever, deceptive, and beguiling. They are, but they are also dumb. They remind me of those accounts of stupid criminals. Like the 19-year-old woman who committed a robbery, stole a car, and then posted her deed on YouTube. Dumb. Or the man who walked into a bank and handed a note to the clerk demanding money. The only problem was that he signed his name to the note and was easily caught later. Dumb. Then there was a man who was arrested for a petty crime, booked, and released. He stepped outside and stole an ambulance. When he arrived home, the police were waiting for him. Dumb.

Now let me list three dumb things that demons do. Here’s #1. You are the brightest angel in heaven. You are covered with precious stones and make music before the throne of God. You are an anointed angel on the mountain of God. But then, you do something dumb. You think that you, the created, are greater than the Creator, God, and you determine to one-up Him and take over. Ezekiel chapter 28 and Isaiah chapter 14 describe this scenario. The dumb one was the devil, and he took one-third of Heaven’s angels with him in this rebellion, according to Revelation 12:4. Dumb and dumber multiplied by billions of insurrectionist angels. Yes, demons are dumb.

Dumb demon thing #2. Once these demons, fallen angels, were cast to earth they became even dumber. They watched as Christ cast out demons and gave that authority to all who follow him, including the command of Luke 10: 19, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” If you know that someone had the power to destroy you and send you to the fiery pit of hell, wouldn’t you avoid them any way possible? But as an exorcist I have learned that not all demons want to hide. You’ve seen them on my YouTube exorcism channel, lunging at me, screaming, thrashing about violently when all I do is look at them or hold up my cross. Why don’t they stay cool and keep quiet? They are proud, and pride makes one dumb. It’s proud people who cheat, steal, cut corners. Some, like Jeffrey Epstein, get by with it for years but eventually they make a dumb mistake and are caught. As many times as demons have seen me cast out their kind by the thousands, there is always one more demon who thinks he can best the man of God. But what’s really dumb is that they forget who they are fighting, Jesus inside me.

The #3 dumb thing that demons do is persist in evil when they know the outcome. James 2:19 tells us that demons believe in God and tremble. They know they are defeated. But they fight on. Revelation chapter 20:10 tells of the devil being cast into hell, the lake of fire, to be tormented for ever and ever. You’d think that would make a demon think twice about soldiering on with their mission of evil and seek some redemption, but no. No living person has cast out more demons than me, and I’ve never had a demon genuinely offer to repent of evil. Since their expulsion from Heaven, evil spirits are incapable of change. Their eternal state has been fixed. They have been dumbed down so that they march onward to eternal punishment without regret.

I recognize that demons have supernatural intelligence. Most are smarter than the smartest human, but they are not wise. They are dumb. They substitute spiritual intelligence, true wisdom, for wiliness, deception, and prevarication. Just because they are dumb doesn’t mean they can’t trick you. But know this, that you have something which dumb demons can never have, supernatural wisdom from God as promised in James 1:5 “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him” (NKJV). That promise in the Word can never be claimed by a dumb demon.

Some thoughts on the state of the world as we wake up to Daylight Savings Time. The world teeters on edge of WW III and yet the most popular news web sites are obsessed with Tom Brady’s return to football and the moral circus of Kim Kardashian, her lover Pete Davidson, and her not-yet-ex Kanye West.

This weekend a Russian rocket exploded 12 miles from the Polish border. President Xi of China and Vladimir Putin are forming an alliance against America. Meanwhile our cowardly government won’t give Ukraine the jets they need to fight back. Innocent civilians are dying in Ukraine, including 100 children have died in the war. Russians have killed pregnant woman, bombed hospitals, and even shot a bi-lateral amputee sitting a wheelchair. Our response is to take the yachts of oligarchs. I ask, what kind of moral equivalency is that?

In spite of the current war scenario, Tom Brady’s return to football is what most people are talking about. He quit to be a family man. Well, that noble idea lasted a month. His wife is a famous model and a Brazilian witch. Brady has publicly credited her witchcraft with helping him to win a Super Bowl. He is worth over a billion dollars in past salaries and endorsements doesn’t need the money. It is ego and pride drives his story to top of the list of most trending topics.

Meanwhile the Kanye West/Pete Davidson feud continues. (Pete is the latest sex partner of Kim Kardashian, still wife of Kanye West). Kanye invited him to go to church. Davidson sent back a photo of him naked in bed with Kardashian. Davidson brags about what a great mother Kardashian is to her 4 kids with West. And this is a woman who regularly appears barely clothed and recently did yet another nude photo shoot. And she’s a good mother?

We are one missile misfiring and landing in Poland, Latvia, Slovenia, or Lithuania. Then all bets are off, and NATO has no choice but to declare war on Russia. How close are we to the unleashing of the 4 demons of Revelation 9:15 before the trumpet sounds and the Lord returns? Read these words of revelation 9:13-16: The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number (NIV).

Euphrates was the cradle of human civilization. This means that we have a fundamental return to the original earthly powers of primal evil, having come full circle from the beginning to the end (prepared specifically for the hour, month, day, and year). These beings come to kill so they are obviously demons, fallen angels. This refers to an earthly army controlled by demons. They are as a plague of locusts, innumerable. The number is equal to 200 million. Who might be able in earthly terms to raise such an army? It’s obviously a combination of nations with military might. Russia, China, Iran, the “Stans” states under Russian control? In ages past these demon kingdoms of destruction were speculated to be the Parthians (Persians), Huns, Vikings, and Muslims and their empires. But this interpretation ignores the literal biblical intent that these were four actual fallen angel-demons at the end of time, using kingdoms/nations existing at the end of the ages.

Who are these demons? If Leviathan is the Best of Revelation 13 then he may not be one of the four. Other principality demons who destroy are Beelzebub, Mammon, Murder, Death, Moloch, Baal, Azazel, Behemoth, to name a few prominent ones. The four demons of Rev. 9:15 could be any combination of these. The fact that these four demons have been bound since some time after the fall, means they are primal demons, associated with very early kinds of evil active near the genesis of mankind

While our government dithers and Kyiv is bombed, Satan is preparing to unleash these forces of evil. Whether that happens in a month, a year, or 10, 20, or even more years, the devil is patient to establish his plan for the End Times. America must be ready, the Church must be ready, and you must be ready by surrendering your life to Christ and getting deliverance from your demons.

Recently I did a blog on the subject “The Top 5 Demons in Hell.” Go back and watch what I had to say about Lucifer, Leviathan, Jezebel, Lilith, and Mammon. Now I want to discuss the top five demons that affect your mind. They are Fear, Anger, Rejection, Depression, and Self-Hatred. The top five demons in hell are spirits with proper nouns for a name. Their designation is nominal, not descriptive. Not so with demons which torment the mind. Their names are their functions. The ways in which they are delegated relate to their assignment from Satan. The names of the top five demons in hell refers to who they are. The top five demons that affect your mind are called by what they do. They represent emotional strongholds. And we are told in 2 Corinthians 10:4, “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds’ (NKJV). The NIV changes “pulling down,” to “demolish.”

The top five demons in hell are acquired by behavior and evil actions. The demons that affect the mind are there because of internal, emotional responses. These conditions of fear, anger, rejection, depression, and self-hatred are open doors that an individual allows. That person may have inherited tendencies making them vulnerable to these evil spirits, but usually there is some internal feeling and reaction that allows a stronghold to be established.

#1 FEAR: Fear, we are told in 2 Timothy 1:7, is a spirit, not some indistinguishable element. It’s a demon, and what I call a “doorway demon.” Fear is a gatekeeper allowing other spirits to enter when the host gives in to unreasonable fear. Fright and flight are normal human responses to danger, but demonic fear is a non-rational dread of something to which an outsized significance is attached. Psalm 55:5 says, “Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me” (NKJV). In that state, you are open to demons of many kinds.

#2 ANGER: It is axiomatic that anger gives place to the devil. That is why we are told in Proverbs 16:32 (NKJV), “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” Anger can affect your cardiac health. It weakens your immune system. And it often makes worse what made you angry in the first place. Anger is an evil that leads to broken relationships, shattered goals, and even murder, as in the case of Cain. We call such acts “crimes of passion.” Anger that festers as a boil and isn’t confessed as sin leads to irrational actions and is a doorway to demons.

#3 REJECTION: Rejection is an emotion bemoaned in songs and sonnets. But as an unaddressed emotion it leads to anxiety, aggression, and poor judgment. Isaiah 53:3 tells us that Christ was “despised and rejected,” so He understands when we feel rejected. Just as there is a demon who calls himself fear, and one who goes by anger, there is an evil spirit known as Rejection. This demon causes a rejected person to feel negated. Often it is the person who rejects that has emotional illness and the one rejected who is the victim. The more you give in to the victimization of someone else’s unhealthy disavowal, the more you risk being taken over by the spirit of Rejection yourself.

#4 DEPRESSION: When you sense persistent sadness, that lack of zeal for life, especially things you used to enjoy, you are headed for clinical depression. This is more than experiencing the loss of a loved one, for example, or a medical condition, such as a thyroid disorder. Real depression is signaled by hopelessness, anger, loss of pleasure, and feelings of worthlessness. The Bible doesn’t use this exact word, but David did speak in Psalm 143:5-8 of his “spirit failing.” Scripture does refer to being “downcast,” “discouraged,” “troubled,” and “brokenhearted.” Often depression is anger turned inward, avenging the hurts others cause upon ourselves. For clinical depression you may need medication. For depression that has a spiritual root, you need deliverance.

#5 SELF-HATRED: We sometimes call self-hatred a sense of unworthiness or lack of self-esteem. For the Christian, the equation is simple. God loves us, Satan hates us, and wants us to hate ourselves. At times we are all disappointed with our actions and decisions but giving in to self-denigration denies the love of Christ at the cross. That opens the door to the demon of self-hatred. In the worse cases, such individuals may do self-harm like cutting or even attempt suicide. These thoughts are demonic and yielding to them may invite a demon to enter. David hated himself for what he did with Bathsheba, but he repented. Judas hated himself for betraying Christ but allowed the devil to enter him and killed himself.

Take a moment to examine yourself to see if any of these emotions, and the demons that feed on them, are part of your makeup. If so, take corrective action now with prayer, Christian counseling, fasting, Bible memory of the Lord’s promises, and intervention that may include casting out demons of Fear, Anger, Rejection, Depression, and Self-Hatred.

Does it take an act of moral outrageousness to open your life to demons? No!
You can get demons by a legal right of entry or by demonic opportunity. If you understand this principle of spiritual warfare, you’ll be in a better position to protect yourself from attacks of the devil. Ephesians 4:27 (NIV) implores, “Do not give the devil a foothold.” The King James says, “give place.” This passage of Scripture explains what I’ve heard demons claim on many occasions, “I don’t have a legal right to be in this person, but I do have opportunity.”

As we teach in our International School of Exorcism, a legal right is the technicality by which a demon gains admission to a person. Call it what you like, possession, oppression, torment, harassment — the term isn’t important as this fact: If a demon is in you by some manner of occupancy, you are demonized. You need deliverance. What’s in you, needs cast out of you. But the important question is, “How did the demon get there and by what arguable justification does that evil spirit claim tenancy in the ‘house’ of your life?”

Examples of a legal right might be a specific generational, bloodline curse or a particular evil act that you committed. For example, your ancestors might have practiced idolatry and performed blood sacrifices to a false god. They granted the legal right. On the other hand, you might have gone to a psychic or put a revenge spell on someone. That is divination and witchcraft, and your active participation in such occult deeds constitutes a legal right for demonic entry that you granted. But what is opportunity? As the Bible says, it is giving place or providing a foothold for Satan.

That fourth chapter of Ephesians, which we’ve citied, gives some examples of footholds. Here are some sins of opportunity mentioned in this passage: lying, failing to speak truth, anger, holding on to wrathful thoughts and motives, stealing, failing to labor industriously, lack of charitable acts with one’s finances, corrupt communication (foul and profane language), grieving the Holy Spirit, bitterness, evil speaking, and malice. I suggest you go back and read this chapter slowly and absorb its sober warnings, because the apostle Paul gives a spiritual list of demonic opportunities. Not all such sins will lead to demonization, but the risk is there if these transgressions are not dealt with forthrightly. I am not saying that any one of these moral lapses automatically leads to demonization. But careless, deliberate indulgence of such evils may overtime give the devil opportunity.

A demonic foothold grants the possibility of spiritual torment, especially if you haven’t had curse breaking ministry to remove past generational tendencies. So, allow me to restate Ephesians 4:27 like this, “Don’t give demons an opportunity when they may not have a right.” And here’s what is also important. A legal right is canceled by confessional agreement with God and his Word. We call this curse breaking. Opportunities are annulled more gradually by correcting behavior and a progressive surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Break curses now. Identify behavioral patterns you need to start reforming. And begin the journey of deliverance to remove every opportunity of evil so you can walk in spiritual freedom.

I’m going to name the top five demons you’ll likely face sometime in life, or in deliverance ministry. Be watching for a follow up to this. I’ll soon release another blog in which I announce an additional five demons that affect your emotions and behavior. I’ve broken down these 10 demons this way. The first Top Five are demonic principalities, quintessentially the most complete embodiment of evil. The other five are demons rooted in human feelings and actions. The Top Five demons of classical Satan worship are Lucifer, Leviathan, Jezebel, Lilith, and Mammon. These are not necessarily the most powerful evil spirits, but they are the most active. Their presence in human conduct is more common than other high-level spirits like Apollyon, Baphomet, Asmodeus, and Beelzebub, for example.  

These Top Five “classic” demons are examples of consummate evil. They are ruling spirits, not acquired by casual sin or minor moral failures. They are often conjured. These are the big boys who rule institutions, legacies, and occult agencies. For those new to this area of demonological understanding, there are many demons laying claim to one name. There are many Jezebels and Leviathans, for example. The prototypical behavior and actions of these evil spirits has to do with the rank of their name. All Lucifer demons and all Leviathan demons act similarly. Something else you need to know. One person can have more than one of these Top Five. Maybe all five. Or more than one of each, such as having several Jezebels.

Number one is Lucifer. He is the most powerful. He orchestrates the actions of others top demons. He is usually aloof and doesn’t present himself unless he must, leaving the dirty work to the others. Lucifer is like his namesake, filled with arrogance and rebellion. He often works in concert with Lilith since they are both part of the original Edenic deception. You can read about him in Isaiah 14:12.

Number two is Leviathan the dragon, the serpent of the deep spoken of in Job 41. He is snakelike and his trademark is pride. He is often accompanied by a nest of other snakes, some small and some large like Python and Kundalini. His haughtiness is readily detected when he manifests.

Numbers three and four are Jezebel and Lilith. Though they hate each other and vie for dominance, both function through similar sins and behavioral patterns, such as lust, spiritual manipulation, and control. These sisters of evil are feminized in identity and often act to destroy women (though they may also inhabit men). They are present whenever there is sexual abuse and perversion.

Number five is Mammon who, like Lucifer, is more aloof. He often hides behind Jezebel, as explained in my book “Jezebel, Defeating Your #1 Spiritual Enemy.” Mammon mainly restricts his action to the area of greed, power, and avarice. Infirmities and diseases are often attached to him, the price followers pay for the money and influence that they gain by serving this evil spirit. He is all about ill-gotten wealth which he offers in exchange for torment of the mind and body.

Few people have all five of these top generals of evil. Many have two or three. Others only one. To spiritually accommodate these insurrectionists requires extensive generational iniquities and a lot of witchcraft in the bloodline. As we teach in our Advanced Academy of Deliverance, demons are often typically found in certain family genealogies, but these Top Five are cross-cultural and inhabit a wide range of ancestry.

How would you know if you have one or more of these Top Five demons? Go to demontest.org and check out our statistically weighed analysis of the probability. Schedule a personal encounter with me, online or face-to-face. Because of my experience in deliverance, I know the right questions to ask based on the relevant information about your life.

Don’t leave your spiritual health to chance. Just as a physical pain would push you to see a doctor, so should spiritual misery lead you to someone knowledgeable about deliverance. To me, and to those I’ve trained, it’s somewhat easy to spot when one or more of these Top Five denizens of the deep are present. Get the door to these evil spirits closed quickly by an encounter, by enrolling in our School of Exorcism, or by reading our books. And be looking for my next list of the Top Five most prominent demons affecting your behavior: Rejection, Worthlessness, Hate, Fear, and Lust.

If ever a couple typified the Jezebel-Ahab complex, it’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle. From the start, it appears that Meghan has infected Harry with her controlling spirit to push the Church of England baptized prince more and more into New Age witchcraft. The latest example is the new Silicone Valley business startup they are pushing called BetterUp. Speaking from their $14 million Hollywood mansion, Harry, who has zero experience in business, scolded companies to give employees “time to focus on themselves.” I thought employees were being paid to do a job, not indulge in company sponsored meditation time to think soothing thoughts about self-improvement.

In a speech promoting BetterUp, Harry whined about how his sad life as a Prince in England, and all the “bad stuff” he went through as a member of the Royal Family. He neglected to mention that, because of the monarchy, he is heir to a fortune worth millions of dollars. He revealed that he is now a “life coach” teaching people how to accomplish “inner work,” a New Age psychobabble concept. His pitch to businesses was this: “You can’t expect your people to put in the work on themselves when you’re not giving them time to do it.” Read that as follows: companies should pay people to engage in spiritual development while at work. Obviously, productivity and labor are concepts beyond his understanding. All this from a couple who have a $25 million deal with Spotify and a $150 contract with Netflix!

But Prince Harry’s main punchline was this: “When bad things happen there’s a lesson here, I’m being schooled by the universe [that] there is a something for me to learn.” Are people supposed to take this seriously from a guy who has never been gainfully employed or spent a hard day’s work in his life? No wonder he encouraged people who feel stuck in their jobs that “don’t bring them joy” to quit, that leaving work was a thing “to be celebrated.” He says that for him the path is daily meditation. Tell that to a single mom trying to responsibly hold job to raise and care for a couple kids.

 These ideas are straight from Meghan’s show-biz, New Age, Oprah-influenced, concept of spirituality. And throw in Markle’s mom who has been a fulltime yoga instructor who raised Meghan with a Hindu, Kundalini, New Age outlook on life. Sadly, you can be certain that Harry’s daily meditations aren’t on the Bible or seeking the purpose of Christ for his life.

 It reminds me of the bumper sticker I recently saw: “I trust the Universe.” So, what’s this Universe thing about? Witchcraft. It’s the belief that somewhere out there is a primordial, beneficent power guiding each of us to happiness. Get out of line with bad karma, and the Universe will teach you a lesson to get you back on the path to personal enlightenment. This Universe is a substitute for God, a false reality where there are no rules, no Commandments, no defined moral code. It’s what you feel that matters. Whatever you think your Inner Self is saying must be the voice of the Universe. Biblically speaking, that’s witchcraft. Or as Harry calls it, “Global consciousness.” No Christ, no cross, no empty tomb. Just an ethereal, universal mind, straight of the neopagan playbook of spiritualism, with an empty-your-mind kind of meditation that opens doors to demons.

This spiritual agenda is exactly what Jezebel wants. Don’t buy Harry and Meghan’s gobbledygook, doublespeak New Age ideas of spirituality. Harry didn’t die for your sins, Jesus did. Meghan doesn’t offer you eternal life, only a meal at the trough of warmed-over occultism dressed up with social media marketing. Don’t meditate like Harry to empty your mind for whatever the “Universe” wants to dump into it. Fill your mind with the wonders of the ways and the Word of God. Psalm 97:10 says, “You that love the Lord, hate evil.” That’s the way to a life of true fulfillment on the job and off the job. Resorting to New Age witchcraft ideas is spiritually deadly. As Proverbs 14:2 says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”

Consider this scenario. A patient walks into doctor’s office and complains of excruciating headaches, blurred vision, confusion, and occasional seizures. The doctor orders no CT scan and no blood tests. His advice is, “Go home, take 2 aspirins, get a good night’s sleep, and you’ll be okay in the morning.”  The patient takes the advice but awakens next day with an even worse headache. He calls 911 and is rushed to the hospital, but he is dead of a brain tumor before he gets there. Would you call what I’ve described medical malpractice? Should that doctor be sued? Should a medical review board take up the case and consider barring this doctor from practicing medicine? Is this medicine done wrong?

In a spiritual sense, this same storyline is played out hundreds, perhaps thousands, of times each day across America. A suffering and tormented individual hears voices in his head saying, “Kill yourself.” This individual also sees shadows out the corner of his eyes. Objects move. There are sounds of footsteps when no one is there. The person feels something moving inside like a snake. Odd accidents keep occurring. Dreams of someone offering food happens regularly. Other nights, dreams of sexual assault occur. This tortured soul goes to his pastor and tells what is happening.

The pastor listens to this tale of woe. He asks no questions like, “Does anyone in your family practice witchcraft? Have you dabbled in the occult? Were you ever a victim of sexual abuse? Has anyone in your bloodline practiced Freemasonry? Have you attempted suicide or engaged in self-harm? Have you prayed to break family curses?”

This typical pastor will at worst pawn the person off to a psychiatrist. At best he’ll suggest a “healing ministry.” The psychiatrist will put this individual on meds and ask few questions. The healing ministry may offer some spiritual self-analysis and soothing prayers. If there is a “prophet” present, this well-meaning person may attempt a diagnosis with a “word from the Lord,” objectively unverifiable and lacking investigative due diligence.

Seldom ever does anyone in deliverance or healing ministry ask the right questions — informed and incisive questions like we teach people to ask in our School of Exorcism. And almost never does anyone demand a demonic manifestation. There is seldom an interrogation of the tormenting evil spirits to find out the root cause of the spiritual attack. I call this deliverance malpractice. Deliverance done wrong.

I am passionate about confronting this problem because every day I meet the victims of deliverance done wrong. They come to me because they’ve watched me online confront demons and do exorcisms. In most cases what I do doesn’t remotely resemble what they’ve been through. I listen, I examine, I ask question, I probe, and most of all I directly confront the evil inside them. By the power of Jesus Christ, I force demons to manifest and reveal their secrets. There is no magic to this, just decades of gaining knowledge and experience, which I share openly in our School of Exorcism. What I do others can do, and what graduates of our School of Exorcism and Advanced Academy do every day all over the world.

Too many people have suffered from deliverance malpractice for too long. They have been shouted at, prophesied over, and given unstudied advice. They are told that their demons are gone when they haven’t really left. They are advised to just read their Bibles more, go to church more, and give more. And if that doesn’t work, their spiritual agony is somehow their fault. They just aren’t spiritual enough. But I see it differently.

From my perspective, with most cases of spiritual oppression, the onus for failure isn’t on the supplicant who seeks relief. It’s on the ill-experienced, uninformed, and poorly prepared deliverance minister who is following a model of spiritual intervention that doesn’t work. They may be sincere in wanting to help people, but that’s no excuse for poorly done deliverance. In these Last Days of demonic onslaught, Christians need to learn the right way to minister healing and freedom from demonic bondage and stop doing deliverance wrong.

There are some excellent deliverance ministers who understand what I’m saying. They share my concerns. Even if their model is slightly different from what the Lord has shown me, they see the need for a better way of helping those bound by Satan. I’ve featured some of these ministries on our weekly livestream, “Bob Larson Live.” Read my books and their books. Watch them and watch me. Get educated about true spiritual warfare. Schedule a personal encounter with me. Enroll in our School of Exorcism. The right kind of help is available so you can do deliverance right, not wrong.

What is the #1 reason that people have demons? It isn’t what you think. It isn’t because they were involved in the occult. It isn’t even because of bloodline curses. That’s how you get demons. I’ve done lots of teaching on how people get demons in our School of Exorcism. But this time I want to emphasize why many have demons. The reason you may have demons because you’ve done nothing to get rid of them. It’s that simple.

The area of ministry called deliverance has many misconceptions, especially by those who are new to this calling from God. Some assume that if you’ve prayed to break generational, family curses that the demons attached to this past evil automatically leave. Not so. The power of a curse may be mitigated by declaring the curse canceled, but the demon attached to it often doesn’t spontaneously depart.

The same is true with a sin forgiven. The eternal consequence of a sin is removed by confession and God’s grace. It no longer holds sway eternally. But a curse is different. This form of evil isn’t about consolation, it’s about cancelation. First John 1:9 says (KJV), “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Case closed. The redemption of the cross removes our sins from us as “as far as the east is from the west (Psalm 103:12 NKJV). But curses, and the evil spirits attached to them, are a matter of earthly, genetic and behavioral disposition. Thus, some people have demons because they haven’t confronted the generational evil operating through such iniquities.

The #1 reason people have evil spirits is because they’ve done nothing specific to exorcise their demons directly by confrontation and expulsion. Nowhere does Scripture suggest that demons leave because they are bored, intimidate, fatigued, or irritated. They leave because they are expelled. “In My name they will cast out demons,” Jesus said (Mark 16:17 NKJV). Demons go because they are made to go. They aren’t coaxed out by curse breaking. They aren’t removed by soothing prayers or prophetic pronouncements. Demons go when they are pressured to leave by insistent prayer and bold commands. In most cases they must speak, give up their rights, and declare their downfall.

To be clear, it is good to confess all your sins. It is wonderful to nullify ancestral evil. And it is awesome to receive inner healing. But none of this should ever be a substitute for interrogation, purgation, and the abdication of any evil spirits still hanging around because they weren’t confronted and cast out.

If it were not tragic, it would sound like a bad joke. But it’s true. After school “Satan-Clubs” have been established in public schools, and more are on the way. Claiming legal protection by a Supreme Court ruling, a group known as The Satanic Temple is establishing clubs for the devil in various public schools. It made news recently, but it has been going on for years and gaining momentum. I am very familiar with the group behind this and want to tell you what is really going on. This issue may seem minor now, but it is a crack in the door for demons to boldly enter classrooms. Ironically, it was claimed discrimination against a Christian school club that resulted in the 2001 Supreme Court ruling of “Good News Club v. Milford Central School” that opened the door. The Satanic Temple claimed that what was good for Christians also applied to them. More about that illogic in a moment.

Previous attempts by The Satanic Temple to infiltrate public schools have mostly encountered disinterest. One reason is that for a student to attend an after-school club they must have parental permission. And what goes on at clubs for the devil? According to the Temple actual Satanism isn’t taught, as least not explicitly. The temple says students participate in “games and thinking exercises, benevolence and creative expression.” Hmm. Wonder what that means. The latest controversy is over a club at a Moline, Illinois elementary school, designed for grades one through five. A Satanic Temple flyer says the children will learn “basic education skill.” What? I thought that was what they were supposed to be getting in the classroom?

Instead of fighting back against such nonsense the Board of Education in Moline issued a statement saying, “To illegally deny their organization to pay to rent our publicly-funded institution, after school hours, subjects the district to a discrimination lawsuit, which we will not win, likely taking thousands upon thousands of tax-payer dollars away from our teachers, staff and classrooms.” They may call this prudence; I call this pathetic capitulation. The kids in the club are not cognitively enhanced adults, they are children with easily malleable minds. Does the Board of Education really think that Satanists can be trusted to completely avoid any ideology of evil? To draw that conclusion is to be horribly naïve or grossly negligent of child welfare.

I know The Satanic Temple well. Over the years their groups have randomly attended our seminars. Two years ago, before COVID hit, about 25 of them attended our seminar in Detroit. That night a young mother violently manifested demons. At one point, the demons pointed to The Satanic Temple members sitting on the front row, dressed totally in black, and sneeringly said, “These people are my puppets.” (Click on this link to watch the video “The Devil in Detroit” to see what happened that night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7o1ajQ63yg.

For all of the demonic bravado of The Satanic Temple, they are craven when it comes to a real debate about their beliefs. Notwithstanding the “congeniality” of their members in Detroit, the leaders have stonewalled every contact made to them by our ministry. We have given them an opportunity to debate me on our livestream “Bob Larson Live.” No response. In just a few weeks, The Temple is bringing their national convention to Scottsdale, Arizona where our offices and studio are located. They call it Satancon. I contacted them saying I planned to attend, (Not likely now because of COVID with my family and staff.) and I asked to debate them in public. Remember, I allowed them to debate me in my seminars. No response. Either they are too incompetent to give a reasonable response, or they are afraid. I presume the latter.

If The Satanic Temple thinks that having a Satan club in public schools, using the facilities built with hard-earned, taxpayers’ dollars, is about freedom of religion, here are my concerns.

#1 – Can we really assume that these ideologues of evil will never mention anything regarding their beliefs during their club meetings?

#2 – Are they trustworthy enough, as Satanists, to never attempt even the most subtle indoctrination of the minds of children as young as five or six?

#3 – I understand that the Temple is officially “non-theistic” and claims they are not Satanist in the classical sense, that they don’t worship a literal devil. But that distinction is merely academic. In the supernatural world of demonic evil, they spiritually embrace a real devil who uses them as satanic storm troopers creating spiritual shock and awe to get people used to the idea of Satanists in our midst.

#4 – The symbol of the Temple is the dual-sexualized Baphomet image of Lucifer featuring a stylized male phallus, female breasts, cloven feet, horns, a goat’s head with a pentagram. If that is their standard bearer, the image emblazoned on their official website, should children be placed at the mercy of individuals who give homage to such a demonic, grotesque depiction of the devil?

#5 — More on Baphomet. He is the demon worshiped by the Knights Templar, precursor to Freemasonry. This demon goes back to ancient Egypt. The Satanic Temple has a large statue of this image, being adored by two children, which it has placed in public places, including the state capitol of Illinois. It is one of the alternate images of Lucifer, and to adopt this depiction is to invite possession of this evil spirit and his minions.

America, take these incursions of demonic beliefs seriously. They may seem like minor irritations now, but over time evil metastasizes. “Overcome evil with good,” Romans 12:21 reminds us. If more Christians were casting out demons, there would be fewer people left to become Satanists of any kind. Enroll in our School of exorcism and get started now, fighting back against the devil with actions, not rhetoric, real spiritual warfare instead of abstract, prophetic pronouncements.