I wasn't looking for them. And I didn't run. I couldn't. The fear I felt wasn't some childish freeky teenage prank game playing with something I didn't know about. I had just a couple of weeks previously met Jesus. I was born again and rejoicing in a faith I had never known existed. The enemy came to me. I didn't go looking for them. You don't know what you don't know. But stop being so self assured and adamant about matters you know nothing about.
I’m just expressing my experience with other human beings. Things of this world are capable of distorting a soul, to doing horrible things. Like molesting children, or being a Husband who has children and controls everything around them, strict rules, guidelines, and no time to be children, or vice versa, a wife doing the same thing. Only allowing their children to see them as the authorities and never Yahavah our Father who is the authority who writes in the minds and hearts of those that are his.
If you are sure in people being possessed and it’s by a demon, then by all means. Some say the poor people on Skid Row, and their issues are because they are in ‘fact demon diseased ridden people.” Then by all means, deem them as such if one desires to do that. Yahavah will judge.
I’m skeptical of any demons being around, or ghosts, however I was in love with the darkness as a Child, Adolescent, Teens, and Young Adult. Desired to murder my mother, because of being denied, at least I’m able to at least acknowledge that notion, even with her present, cause it’s of the darkness and evil which resides within me that is not of Christ, a dream I had when I was 6 or 7 years old involved me being touched by this “Satan” seen as a smoke in my dream, and said that I was one of his.
The reason for the skepticism isn’t based on my own written opinion, it’s always couched in the view of Jesus and his victory over all things, even demons, however the Light and the Darkness have been kept separated from the beginning and was what tempted the Fallen angel. And Darkness continues to roam around promoting everything that desires to take life from others, spiritual darkness exists as well, and the world promotes false versions of the devil with the horns and red tail, or tell you how to live rather than consulting God and allowing him to you move by the spirit, when lead and live for Him and his good pleasures.
Several years later a close friend of mine and neighbour did become possessed.
Understood, your friends subjectively had experience.
She had been digging into cultural tribal spiritualism in a manner her husband had warned her about was too deep.
The world and the spiritual darkness is nothing to get into. You are right. It causes distortions rather than, renewing the mind in Christ, seeking for truth.
He asked me, the only Christian he knew, to help him.
May we only boast in the Lord and desire to help people by the spirit which is caused by his righteousness, and not our own.
My wife and I went to his place immediately. The moment his wife saw me, she flew into a crazy rage and tried to attack me. No reason. No logic. Just blind rage.
Surely a scary attack. Not sure the whole story from the other persons point of view, however if a person is tipped off to the top of the tip, like the thoughts of killing my own mother ; it would have happened, but praise God for holding people back. AND I’m not suggesting your experience shared is not true.
If she could have she would have killed me.
That’s a line, there Brakelite. Remind me of a client I was watching who almost got me in a good headshot in with a kick, if I had not blocked just in time.
Her husband, our good friend, neighbour, and fellow worker and hunter, manager to hold her down while she glared at me with such hatred I had never before witnessed.
Hell she probably just wanted out of the house. My client doesn’t like whenever he has to be held down, we try to avoid those issues before things flare up.
She spoke to me in a language her husband was fluent in, but in a dialect known only to their ancient ancestors and a small select line of tribal priests.
I’m skeptical, but perhaps it’s true, only have words to go on.
A dialect she had never learned. But there's more. She spoke in a voice not her own. It was male.
She seemed really mad! being held down and who knows what her story might be like if heard.
Matthew, stop being so certain regarding stuff you have never experienced.
It’s not because of never experiencing. It’s because of faith in Jesus and his victory that I tend to lay aside all the whole, demons and Satan are still around. Darkness, yes absolutely.
Satan is real. His demons are real. They are no more bound or in prison than you or me.
I highly disagree in regards to Jesus and his victory. I’m skeptical of your shared experience with you and your wife and friend and his wife.
I use to love the idea of ghost, ghouls, goblins, and may enjoy a horror movie once in a while, but to me the whole demons and Satan, all they represented was Darkness things that was not towards the light, and the bible talks about the ending of that age then.
You may believe they are still around, it doesn’t effect me any different that my willingness to atleast read and be honest and open, with you, is in love by the spirit of Christ.
