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Eight people died at the Travis Scott concert melee last Friday night in Houston. Many more were hospitalized with 300+ injured. Many in a surging crowd, egged on by Scott, were trampled, suffocated, and brutalized. One concert goer in the melee posted the scene on Instagram, saying, “It was like being in hell. Like demons were everywhere. There was no way out!” Others used the term “demons” to describe the atmosphere. Even the normally liberal USA Today national newspaper declared in a headline that it “felt like hell on earth.”

Other reports claim that individuals were injecting people with needles containing some unknown substance. Videos of the concert later confirmed that Scott saw that audience members had been hurt and that the crowd was pleading with him to stop the show. He didn’t and instead continued to perform for another hour. And its not the first-time people at a Travis Scott concert have been seriously injured. In 2017 a man was paralyzed from a fall. At this same concert, Scott was filmed encouraging another fan to drop from a 2nd story seat into the crowd below. The injured man now claims that Scott incited people in a reckless manner. He was arrested in 2017 for encouraging people to rush the stage. Scott calls his fans “ragers” and encourages them to act accordingly. If that isn’t demonic, what is? Proverbs 14:16 says, “A wise man fears and departs from evil, but a fool rages.”

Travis Scott’s partner is Kylie Jenner, of the infamous Kardashian family, one of the world’s youngest billionaires. She already has one illegitimate child by Scott and is pregnant with their second. Those who have read my book Curse Breaking know it contains an entire section devoted to examining the curse of illegitimacy, one of the most devastating curses known to humanity. Deuteronomy 23:2 declares in blunt language, “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.” I’ve dealt with thousands of people victimized by this curse, through no fault of their own. It was the lust of their parents’ evil that cursed them. Until this curse is broken, the innocent child suffers a lifetime of rejection and feelings of alienation from the Lord. The details of Scott’s birth aren’t known, but he was raised by his grandmother until the age of six.

Travis Scott has consistently engendered a godless thug image based on moral mutiny. Those in the entertainment industry consistently describe Travis Scott’s deliberately inculcated image as being one of rebellion. The Bible in 1 Samuel 15:23 says, “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.” If you want a lyrical sample for proof, try this from Scott’s song “S*** On You”: “I did things that most men will ask forgiveness. Broke the code the commands from my descendants. Who gives a ****!”

Travis Schott is responsible for what happened. His careless, egomaniacal behavior drew young fans to their death. Look at the images of the Astroworld concert. There is Scott, high on a platform, almost godlike, inciting the audience. His own fans screamed for him to stop, but he went on performing while bloodied bodies gasped for air. Some breathed their last breath.

Hosea 8:7 warns, “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” Tavis Scott sowed moral insurrection to 50,000 people that night in Houston. He’ll now likely reap a whirlwind of lawsuits that even his paramour’s pocketbook might not be able to withstand. How different things would have been if Scott had used his talents to reflect biblical behavior of “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance – the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23 KJV).

I will tell you up-front, there are three main ways to get rid of demons. You can (1) fast them out; you can (2) starve them out, or (3) you can cast them out. Most churches don’t address the issue of Christians having demons. I was recently watching the sermon of a pastor I respect. He’s an excellent Bible teacher with a passion for souls. He was talking about seeking ungodly wisdom and quoted from James 3:15 in the ESV: This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. This pastor emphasized the danger of operating from ungodly logic that comes from demonic forces. I knew what was coming next in his sermon. Because of his theological persuasion, he felt the need to emphasize that demons can tempt, oppress, and influence Christians, but they cannot live INSIDE a believer. I looked at my wife and grinned knowingly. Ironically, just a few minutes earlier he had bravely admitted he was physically and sexually abused as a child. I was heartbroken that this good man of God might be unknowingly harboring an evil spirit. It may not affect him now, but life is long, and Satan is patient to hide and look for opportunities. Even if this pastor were to accept the concept of having some internalized demonic presence, I doubt he’d go straight to an exorcist. He’d more likely try one of the other two ways to get rid of demons. Let me share from five decades of deliverance experience why the first two options to rid demons are seldom effective.

The pastor I’m referring to might try to fast it out. Jesus said in Matthew 17:21, “This kind does not go out except by fasting and prayer”(NKJV). Many preachers miss the point of this scripture. Jesus isn’t suggesting that fasting be a substitute for verbally commanding demons to leave. Christ is pointing out that fasting is spiritual preparation for both the deliverance minister and the one receiving deliverance. Fasting is a way to get ready to cast out demons. Yet some believe that the discipline of going without food actually makes demons go. If that were true, Christ would have said so explicitly and there would be ample evidence of this in church history. Fasting strengthens the host who has the demons and weakens the demons. Fasting facilitates the deliverance process, but it doesn’t replace it.

As another option, this pastor might try starving out demons by living holy enough. The idea is that one deprives the demon of its spiritual sustenance. The presumption is that the demon will leave on its own accord when it is soffocated by the godly living of the host. But as we teach in our School of Exorcism, “Demons don’t go until they are made to go.” Evil spirits seldom ever leave on their own no matter how closely one draws to the Lord. A pure and dedicated life will hinder the indwelling demons and lessen their options of affecting the host’s behavior. But they usually just dig in deep for the long haul, hoping the person will develop a spiritual weakness they can use. Starving a demon by godly living will make it less active and less threatening. But a caged wild beast is still a wild beast if it escapes. Better to completely get rid of the demon rather than hope it will go away of its own accord.

This is what the Bible says about getting rid of demons (NKJV):
He healed many who were sick with various diseases and cast out many demons (Mark 1:34).
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them (Mark 6:13).
But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you (Luke 11:20).
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons (Matthew 10:8) 
And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons (Mark 16:17).

If you want to get rid of your demons, now not later, go through deliverance. Experience an exorcism. Fast if possible before your time of prayer against evil spirits. Certainly, live as godly as you can to narrow the areas of your life where demons can operate. But know that in most cases, these factors alone won’t usually make a demon leave. They got in by legal rights, and by removing those rights they can be forced to leave, expelled, cast out — IN the NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH!

MARK 8:36-37: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” NIV

What WILL a man give in exchange for his soul? The age-old question Jesus asked 2000 years ago in Mark chapter eight has been answered by NETFLIX. A South Korean film production company has released a series called Squid Game on the network. According to this series, the price of a soul is about $40 million, depending on the latest US dollar exchange rate in South Korea. Nearly 200 million people have already watched the Game. The plot isn’t exactly ingenious. An aging and bored super-rich man joins forces with several of his equally bored colleagues and offers a $40 million prize to the winner of Squid Game. Exactly 456 entrants are allowed to accept the challenge. By the end of the first episode, more than half have been murdered in cold blood, their price of entry. Along the way, participants can opt out or continue for the mega million prize. Unbelievably many decide to continue risking their lives for a chunk of cash to escape poverty and financial failure. In the process they squander their moral equity by conniving to escape death and win the squid lotto. They have also effectively sold their souls in pursuit of the prize. But that is fiction. What’s real is that millions of viewers have risked opening the door of their souls to demons by watching the cursing, inhumanity, violence, and bloodshed. 

The screen writer based the idea on a childhood game named Squid. I know nothing about the origin of this youthful pastime in Korea, but I can tell you this. In the marine spirit-world the squid is a powerful demon. It is another form of the Leviathan spirit, along with the octopus spirit. Is the success of squid game due to the violent zeitgeist in which we live? Or is there serious demonic intentionality in developing and promoting this bloodthirsty, streaming series. If demons devised it, can you get a demon by watching it?

Here is the risk. Those watching without an understanding of spiritual warfare may become desensitized to the biblical view of life’s sacredness. I watched the first two episode so that I could do primary research and speak authoritatively. But afterwards I felt somewhat defiled and had to pray out of my mind the images of bloody bodies senselessly slaughtered. Some may see the squid game as nothing more than a social commentary on human selfishness. But Squid Game’s promotion of immorality and greed makes this series more than entertainment. It is ideologically demonic and capable of being a door of demon possession.

Since the 1960s, for nearly 70 years, doctors and psychologist have studied the effects of watching violence, especially how young minds are affected. Here is what researchers have concluded. When observing inhumane acts of aggression, especially murder, three things happen to mind seeing too much mayhem: 1) There is less sensitivity to the suffering of others. This lack of empathy results in less restraint on personal acts of violence. 2) Society at large seems more frightening. Seeing too many senseless acts of violence creates  anxiety which increases stress levels affecting mental and physical health. 3) The mind overloaded with bloodshed and gore is less likely to be restrained from personal acts of harm toward others. We see this with road rage, street rioting, and senseless acts of aggression. Consider the recent instance in which a woman on a subway was raped and passengers watched and did nothing to stop it. At least one person filmed it on their phone camera.

Jesus said in John 8:44 that Satan was a murderer from his beginning. Murder is not war, self-defense, or restraint of criminal activity. Murder is unlawfully killing someone with premeditation. In Squid Game, it’s even worse. Murder is methodical, systematic, intentional, and organized. It’s like standing in a Nazi death camp and watching Jews machine-gunned and thrown into open pits.

To watch something like this for a cheap adrenalin rush is to deliberately open the door of one’s soul to Satan, the original murderer. Don’t argue that it’s only make-believe. So is pornography but viewing lust can poison the mind and damn the soul. Jesus said so in Matthew 5:28. If you are a Christian and have watched all or most of the Squid Game episodes of gratuitous murder, you need spiritual cleansing – maybe deliverance.

How do you know when a problem is primarily psychological or spiritual? Whether you need to see a therapist or an exorcist? Does the choice matter so long as you get some help for a vexing issue in your life? As an exorcist with a ministry spanning nearly 50 years, and as the founder of an online school of exorcism, I can assure you that the decision of what sort of help you engage matters a lot. Some problems are better dealt with by counseling, at least initially. Other kinds of dysfunction won’t get much better by seeing a therapist. The situation may be so dark and demonic that only a highly trained exorcist will solve the problem. But how does the average person know which road of help to go down?

The initial choice of intervention depends on the severity of the individual’s state and what aspect of the human condition is most affected. For example, if one struggles with reading the Bible or feels repelled by holy objects like a cross or Bible, the problem is more likely spiritual. That person needs to contact an exorcist. If, on the other hand, the issue is an eating disorder or a compulsive obsession, then a therapist may be the best place to start. Usually exorcists aren’t equipped to handle matters of neurological or psychological disordering. Likewise, therapists tend to shy away from solving conditions such as seeing a ghost or paranormal events like the terrifying movements of the planchette on a Ouija Board. When a demon possessed person seeks a therapist for what is basically a spiritual issue the clinician may end up essentially counseling a demon. Likewise, the exorcist who tries to solve an issue like attachment disorder or PTSD by commanding a demon to leave may do more harm than good.

In truth, both disciplines need each other. I’ve been told by psychiatrists and psychologists who have spent time watching me work with a variety of clients that what I do is often 75% psychological help without the technical framework of a clinical paradigm. This is known to those in deliverance ministry as “inner healing.” The other 25% is direct confrontation with a demon, an interjected evil identity which seeks to emotionally, physically, and spiritually hijack the host. As explained in our School of Exorcism, this approach seeks to identify the demon’s point of entry and right of habitation so these legal claims can be removed by prayer. Then the demon is cast out.

If you are wondering whether the help needed by you or someone you care about should begin with a therapist or an exorcist, contact us to schedule a personal, virtual session. We can quickly determine whether what you’re facing is best served by a process of emotional healing, curse breaking, and the biblical commands of exorcism or whether you first need clinical assistance for things such as medication as in the case of delusional psychosis, for example. I, or one of our high trained ministry associates, have the experience to give you suggestions on whether your primary approach should be spiritual.

In fact, all problems are ultimately spiritually grounded, even when mental instability seems to be the core problem. Prayer changes things, even with the most profound cases of psychological abnormality. The church and medical science need each other. Doctors and exorcist can be complimentary. We don’t need to be oppositional. James 5:16 says, “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed (KJV).” This scripture espouses the best of both worlds, the therapist’s view of mental health and the exorcist’s intentionality of deliverance from evil. And this mutual accommodation is a great way to bring wholeness and health to every individual tormented by emotional disequilibrium or actual demons.  

The headline last week concerning actor Will Smith was that he didn’t practice monogamy in his marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith. But the story unraveled further from there into complete moral insanity. From his sitcom start as the Fresh Prince to blockbuster appearances in the films “Independence Day” and “Men in Black,” Smith was once declared to be the most bankable star in Hollywood, with eight consecutive movies grossing over $100 million. Sadly, he has now become known for going public about his private sex life. In a “GQ” magazine interview he admitted to being unfaithful with his wife. He also noted that his wife was adulterous, including a public affair with August Alsina, a rapper nearly half her age.

Smith was raised in a Christian home but has strayed far from that. Worse yet, his three children have to watch this debacle played out in the press with an international airing of dirty laundry and disgusting turpitude. Smith defends his unusual marriage by saying that his wife was raised in a family with “unconventional relationships.” This means that Jada’s moral compass was skewed by rampant sin in her family of origin. Will says that for his part, marriage should not be “thinking of monogamy as the only relational perfection.” He went on to say, “Marriage for us can’t be a prison” and that “we have given each other trust and freedom.” Worse yet he describes his moral insanity as “the highest definition of love.”

This kind of double-talk, Hollywood-speak, got still worse when Smith admitted to his fantasy of having a harem of famous women. He got the idea by working with a tinsel-town so-called “relationship coach.” What? A relationship mentor giving guidance that includes encouraging multiple sexual partners while married with three children? Moral insanity!

As to his Christian upbringing, Smith went on to say that his former biblical beliefs were that evil thoughts were a sin according to the words of Jesus in Matthew 5:28 that to look with deliberate lust is sin. Smith now says, “even acting out on an impure thought didn’t make me a piece of s***.” Insanity. Evil. Because Smith was raised to believe in biblical morality, this extreme departure from moral truth can only be described as demonic. I’ve encountered many times evil spirits who go by the assignment of their names, such as Deception, Confusion, and Perversion. Will Smith badly needs an exorcism of these demons. It’s the only way he’ll ever completely escape his deliberately embraced moral insanity. And if you think Smith’s moral compass is OK, you also need an exorcism.

Since June of this year, millions around the world have been intrigued by the ongoing story of social-media influencer Gabby Petito and her boyfriend/fiancé Brian Laundrie. The two of them remodeled a van and set out across America living in their vehicle, what their generation calls the “van-life.” Through social-media, Gabby delighted her followers with videos and photos of her trek starting in New York, going through America’s heartland, then on to Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. But as the journey progressed, footage emerged questioning whether all was well. In Moab, Utah police stopped the two after witnesses had seen Laundrie slap Petito. The police questioned Gabby who, at first, admitted she’d been struck and bruised. Then she backed off that claim. Women in abusive relationships often blame themselves. The couple went on their way until Gabby’s postings stopped. Then Laundrie suddenly returned home to Florida, disappearing into a nearby swamp area. On September 19, Gabby’s remains were discovered in Grand Teton National Park.

There is no reason to believe that Gabby was anything other than a vivacious young woman in love, living her internet dream. There is ever reason to believe that Laundrie may have not been the man of her dreams, or that somewhere along the way he went through a profound personality change. Whoever killed Gabby, to take the life of a lovely 22-year-old was a demonic act. If Laundrie did it, was Gabby fooled by the person he seemed to be, not realizing that he had a dark, demonized hidden self? Evil spirits are clever to hide themselves, and even the host person may not realize that something satanic lurks inside. That’s why we say EVERYONE needs deliverance. But the purpose of this blog is to draw lessons from this tragedy so that no other young woman, or man, becomes the victim of a love affair gone wrong. Here are my warnings and takeaways from this sad saga.

1. DON’T BE DUPED BY A QUASI-COMMITTMENT RELATIONSHIP
   We live in a world of shallow commitments. Couples move in together without marriage, often with little investigation into the person they are cohabiting with. They form soul bonds, intimate sexual connections, and the semblance of permanency when in fact the other person in the relationship is in it for the satisfaction of the short haul. Without the long-term promise of holy matrimony, an individual can become the victim of short-term sexual or financial exploitation. Marriage is no guarantee of lasting love, but it is a better shot at real happiness than a non-obligatory arrangement where either party can walk away at any moment. Too many young women want out of a dysfunctional family and they are fooled by a smoothing talking guy who offers male affirmation only to get control of a woman’s body and mind. Even engagement isn’t a guarantee. Before you live in sin with someone, in any circumstance, including a van, walk down that marriage aisle first. It’s God’s way and it increases your chances of success. The latest statistics indicate that couples who marry stand a 40% chance of divorce, but those who cohabit have a 56% chance of breaking up. And those who live together and then marry stand a greater chance of divorce than those who marry before moving in. Living in sin for an extended time gives the devil legal rights to create all kinds of long-term misery. Getting married gives you better odds at success in a relationship, and it might keep you from suffering domestic abuse, injury, or even death.
2. IF A PARTNER PHYSICALLY ABUSES YOU, GET OUT IMMEDIATELY
   The first time a live-in partner, or a spouse, threatens you or strikes you needs to be the one and only last time. In most cases that should end the relationship quickly in the event of cohabitation. In marriage, it should mean immediate legal separation and counseling. There can never be any excuse for physical altercations in a romantic relationship, married or otherwise, even dating. I have counseled thousands of people, usually women, who didn’t heed the warning sign of a partner or spouse who crossed that line. They always suffered later. That kind of violence never de-escalates on its own. It ALWAYS escalates unless there is immediate intervention by an outside party with the professional skills to understand abusive behavior. Such actions are often learned in the family context. If your wife, husband, or live-in spent childhood and/or adolescence seeing parents pummel one another, especially a man getting physical with a woman, most romantic partners will act that out at some point in the relationship. They need serous therapy/counseling plus inner healing and deliverance. We know nothing of Brian Laundrie’s home life, but I’m 100% positive it wasn’t good. He likely would never have struck Gabby unless he had witnessed bad behavior in his family of origin. Know the family dynamics of the person you are involved with and get out if there is any hint that their home life included screaming, yelling, throwing things, or physical violence. See a counselor and deliverance minister first before you unpack your bags before marriage or get in the close confinement of a van for months on end. 
3. DON’T BE SEDUCED BY THE LURE OF SOCIAL-MEDIA FAME.
   The new millennium standard of stardom is different from any age before. To gain notoriety in the past, an individual needed to have at least some measure of talent and preparation for fame. Today, our children can be morally blinded by the overnight success of TIK TOK recognition, often aided by nothing more than a sexy image or outrageous conduct. The more bizarre the better. Going viral has replaced ability, education, and maturity. Becoming a so-called “influencer” is more important to today’s teens than a college education and a stable career path. This shallowness lures young people into taking chances with their future in exchange for short-term notoriety gained by sexiness or craziness. As an example, instead of hitting the books in a classroom or preparing for a skill that would last a lifetime, Gabby chose to text from a moving piece of metal, her mobile home shared with a man who now appears to be narcissistic psychopath. Unfortunately, she is not unlike many of her peers. Even in good families the alluring power of social media can quickly pull a good kid off course. What’s on the internet is often not only addictive, it is demonic. Heed the words of 1 John 2:15-17 KJV: Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And let us pray that Brian Laundrie is brought to justice for what he knows or what he did. And let us pray for the broken-hearted parents of Gabby Petito who have suffered an immeasurable loss.

I am often asked, “What is the difference between deliverance and exorcism?” Deliverance doesn’t always attempt to destroy demons. Deliverance can refer to many kinds of spiritual intervention. That’s why I call myself an exorcist because I do exorcisms. An exorcist destroys demons. Deliverance doesn’t necessarily require demonic manifestations or confirmation. Deliverance can be quiet, calm, and unperturbed. Exorcism is often rowdy, loud, and in your face. And I don’t do deliverance lite. I do heavy deliverance. Militant deliverance. Defiant deliverance. Bold deliverance. Aggressive deliverance. I name demons, and I bind them. I torment them, and I cast them. I find the source of family bloodline curses down to the exact number of generations. Exorcism which means interrogation, torment, expulsion, purgation, purification, and the demon’s abdication. That’s why I am an exorcist. By God’s grace and the power of Christ, I destroy demons!

I’m getting a little tired of hearing puffed-up pastors call themselves apostles and prophets. We have far too many apostles and prophets and too few exorcists. We have so many who want the prophetic that it has become pathetic. What we need are spiritual warriors who fight demons, not deliver ambiguous prophetic messages that sound like they were ripped from the headlines of Fox news. I read this week that some prophet is seeing orange and purple angels. What we need to see are fiery red demons and send them back to hell where they belong. Consider these scriptures.

MARK 1:23-24:  Now there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us?”

1 JOHN 3:8: For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

Like the word deliverance, the term “spiritual warfare” means many different things to both Christians and non-Christians. New Agers use these words to describe combat against “negative energies” or “dark, alien forces battling against the light.” (Whatever that means.) Even among evangelical Christians it can have a watered-down application. Spiritual warfare, to those who don’t actively practice deliverance and exorcism, often signifies almost any kind of prayer or Christian activity that is moderately opposed to evil. But real spiritual warfare address demons directly by name and assignment and strips these evil powers of their ability to torment, consigning them to the Pit, spoken of in Revelation 20. Here is yet another scripture to consider.

MATTHEW 8:28 -29: When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way. And suddenly they cried out, saying, “What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”

In these Last Days, more than ever, we need anointed men and women of God who will destroy demons, before the time of God’s final judgment.

Is the world we know real? What if we’re all trapped in a simulated realty? How would we know if we were? Suppose we were all created by artificially intelligent machines using our minds and bodies as energy sources? How would we get out of this matrix of dystopian evil? That was the theme of the 1999 science fiction film “The Matrix,” starring Keanu Reeves. The movie featured an experimental form of filming in which the action taking place moves in slow motion while the camera appears to project at a normal speed. If you had seen the original film, as I did, you’d know what I mean. Matrix #1 grossed nearly $500 million and was followed by the 2004 release “The Matrix Reloaded” and the later “The Matrix Revolution.” Comic books and video games followed. Now, the world awaits the soon-to-be-released 2021 version, “The Matrix Resurrection.”

In the original film, the hacker-hero Neo (Reeves) was offered a choice of two pills—a red one to tell the truth about the Matrix or a blue one to return to normal life. He swallowed the red and reality disintegrated. He then awakened in a pod, along with other humans, attached to an electrical system harvesting their bioelectric power. Biblical terms are a crucial part of the Matrix. The anti-hero Morpheus (the Greek god of sleep and dreams) flies a spaceship called the Nebuchadnezzar, named after the ancient, evil Babylonian king. The last refuge of rebellious free humans is referred to as Zion, which means “the city of God” in the Bible. Morpheus convinces the rebels that Neo is the “One,” a savior prophesied to free humanity. True to typical Hollywood plot lines, a female name Trinity falls in love with the One. He then controls the Matrix, defeats the villains, and declares a world where “anything is possible.”

Critics and fans have theorized that the Matrix is really based on philosophical ideas borrowed from such disparate sources as Plato, Immanuel Kant, and even Descartes. Demons would be a more credible source. Neo was supposedly virgin born. He was prophesied as a coming savior. His love interest Trinity completes the mockery. Some fans have even created their own Matrix religion.

The film’s depiction of a dream world that is more real than physicality is consistent with the Hindu concept of “maya” (the illusory nature of matter). The Matrix also resembles the Buddhist idea that what we think is real is only a projection of reality known as “dharma.” True reality is “samsara,” freedom from the moral debt of karma. In Hinduism nothing of the material world is real. In Buddhism reality is the endless existence of impermanence. The theology of the Matrix is far more mystical than Christian, despite the biblical buzzwords.

The belief system of the Matrix is warmed-over paganism, borrowing Judeo-Christian words and themes to deceive the unwary. The Apostle Paul warned of such in 1 Timothy1:4 when he said we should not give ourselves to things that “promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work which is by faith.” In other words, avoid the Matrix and its demonic doctrines referred to in 1 Timothy 4:1. You may say that watching this film isn’t an evil act, but according to 1 Corinthians 5:6 it only takes a little leaven to affect the whole lump. Not only does the Matrix lack biblical spirituality, it also deliberately promotes a demonic worldview.

September 11 this year marks the 20th anniversary of what has become known as simply 9/11. Say those numbers and every American knows what it means: 2,977 lives lost in a single day; 4 highjacked planes, 3 attacks at Shanksville, PA, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center. The human toll was immense. Two thousand children lost a parent. The NYC fire department lost 343 firefighters; 7 in 10 Americans said the attack caused them depression. And America was changed forever.

Most of those whom we call generation Z, 68 million Americans, weren’t born yet. So let me tell these individuals about the America that used to be. You could arrive at an airport 30 minutes before a flight and walk straight to your gate in time to board. I know, I used to do it. If a plane was landing with a loved one, you didn’t need a ticket to meet and greet them. No body scanners or metal detectors. No bored TSA agents staring into an X-ray machine looking for a lethal weapon. It only took 19 men, Islamic Al-Qaeda terrorists, to change how we live. On that day, a permanent fear was instilled in Americans. With Al-Qaeda now joined by the Taliban, ISIS, and ISIS-K the words of Jesus in Luke 21:26 seem foreboding: “Men’s hearts failing them for fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth . . .”

With our humiliating exit from Afghanistan, many think it’s only a matter of when, not if, something as bad or worse will happen again. Now the enemies of freedom have billions of dollars’ worth of our weapons. Over 20 years, the U.S. spent $2 trillion dollars, $300 million a day on a state-of-the-art embassy, a world-class airport, and armaments including 22,174 Humvees, 33 Black Hawk helicopters, and nearly 360,000 assault rifles. Now, that hardware is in the hands of those who hate us and want to kill us.

Is this the beginning of the Apocalypse? Will an inevitable decline of America as the world’s protector of freedom lead to Armageddon? At the very least we are much nearer to the End Times than many imagine. So today, we pray for America; for our leaders; for the comfort of God’s grace upon those who lost loved ones on 9/11 and still feel the pain. We pray for Americans still trapped in Afghanistan. And we pray for a spiritual awakening in America that will shake us to our moral core.

Targeted curse breaking. What’s that? It’s a challenge to get Christians to understand any form of curse breaking. Most American believers attend churches that teach there are no curses on Christians. Every curse was supposedly canceled at the cross. Consequently, every confessing Christ has total freedom by faith according to Galatians 3:13. My book “Curse Breaking” explodes that myth. Get a copy and read what I have to say. This theological viewpoint is uniquely American. Much of the rest of the world, especially places such as African, India, and Asia knows better. With many generations of paganism and witchcraft in their genealogy, they understand the negative influence of unbroken curses.

Once a person accepts the concept of confessionally canceling the curses of one’s forebears, what then? Being born again means that the new follower of Christ has the right and authority to cancel the residual effect of all past bloodline evil. This is usually done in a general sense by declaration. “Curse Breaking” includes 25 pages of prayers to break specific curses that may befall any individual. This is a great place to start. But real freedom from generational bondage requires taking things further. This is what I call “targeted” curse breaking, renouncing specific evil that is connected uniquely to the inherited evil of a specific person’s ancestry.

A starting point is renouncing the known evil actions of ancestors who were evil. For example, the parent who was physically abusive. The grandfather who was an adulterer. The grandmother who practiced witchcraft. The uncle who molested. The aunt who was an alcoholic. The great-grandparent who engaged in criminal behavior. The murderer. The drug addict. The blasphemer. The atheist. Targeted curse breaking names individuals and cites their specific ungodly actions. These evil ancestors and their acts are specifically declared (targeted)and the inherited curses canceled.

You can’t know all the evil of every ancestor to nullify such actions by prayer, but you can cancel the iniquities of those you are aware of. In addition, question members of your extended family regarding what they know about sins and sinners in the family tree. You may be surprised what you uncover. Then, according to Matthew 18:19, agree with a godly Christian to eradicate targeted bloodline evil. Our YouTube Members Only Channel contains videos you can watch and declare curse breaking prayers along with me. Enroll today. Break free from the consequences of ancestral evil. Pray curse breaking prayers. Better yet, target definitive sins and the individuated source of those moral failures. You’ll be amazed at how free you’ll feel and the new intimacy you’ll have with Christ once you engage in targeted curse breaking.