Angels & Demons: What Does the Bible Say? | Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess | Ep 1

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is something that is supernatural. It is very serious and it is very real. Angels and demons and a lot of the things that people talk about when they talk about space aliens, when they talk about I think I thought I saw the ghost of a loved one. There's some sort of ghost haunting this or haunting that I believe that I, you know, saw some sort of monster or creature. Most of this, I do believe that people

have experiences. Don't misunderstand me. I have talked to I have seen interviews of very credible people, and I believe that they're telling us the truth. Now, we first have to weed out all the people that are just making stuff up to get attention and know that they're out there. I'm talking about people that have experienced something, and they've experienced something that I do believe them that was supernatural.

That's really not the question. Do we encounter the supernatural? Well, the answer is yes, But does that mean that we are encountering space aliens, ghost, bigfoot monsters fill in the blank. I'm going to tell you, I would say no. I don't believe that any of those things are real. I believe it all falls under what we know to be true if you have a biblical worldview, and I do and so do many others, is that it really isn't up for debate whether the supernatural exists, because we know

that it does. So. I spent thirty one years hosting a show called The Rick and Bubba Show. Thirty one years that we did that. It was a wonderful run, loved it. I'm currently hosting a daily show called The

Rick Burg Show. And I remember back when I was doing The Rick and Bubba Show, we had a very popular segment called the Thirteen Working Days of Horror, and it was all in good fun that we would start out, you know, talking about ghost stories, and then we would send members of the team out to investigate those ghost stories. And there's tons of shows that do that now and they're very popular. But it didn't take long because I

was so new to the faith. I had not been redeemed very long, so I didn't know much about spiritual warfare, and I thought, well, what's the harm. You know, we're doing these things. Everybody seems to like them. We all like being scared fill in the blank. But I will tell you that from the time I was a little boy. I had a very strong, you know, a strong feeling about horror movies and haunted houses. I didn't like them

at all. I sensed, even as a child that there was something wrong with this, and there was an oppressive spirit with it all, and I didn't want any part of it. But as I grew up, I still didn't care for it all that much. But I didn't take it very serious. And this was one of those occasions, and it became a very very popular series on that show that I did for thirty one years. But as I began to grow in my faith, I began to be more and more uncomfortable with the thirteen working days

of horror Horror. It bothered me. I started being in a dilemma on whether we should be doing this or not. And the more I studied some of the things we'll talk about today, the more I realized that what we were doing was very, very dangerous. It was very dangerous. Were we at times just telling ghost stories and there really was nothing to it, sure, but things begin to happen when, as you can guess, if you keep doing it for multiple years, what happens you start pushing the envelope.

And we kept looking for stories and looking for experiences. And it didn't take very long for me to understand that these men that we were sending out, who were dear friends of ours and we'd worked with for years, that we were sending them into very dangerous situations. And I'm going to give you some of the facts behind that today in scripture. Because I didn't even know the spiritual condition of the members of our team that we

were sending out. Some of them I did know were men of faith, but I didn't think they were very mature in their faith. Then there were some that I didn't even know if they had ever been redeemed before. And as we started pushing on these investigations again, like a lot of the popular shows you see now, they

started encountering things that could not be explained. I remember one particular, we went in to do an investigation of the ghost of an old site war This is where they would keep people that were mentally ill, and they shut it all down. And when they shut down this high hospital, they just kind of walked out of the hospital and left it as is. So there were you know, office desk everywhere, there were chairs everywhere there, and they were the phones that were pulled out of the wall.

The bell phones. You know that some of you are so young you don't even know what I'm talking about. But we had landline phones at one time, and they had bells in them, and it would it would that's where the ring would come from. Uh. And they were they had been pulled out of the wall. They were laying around in all these rooms. And as our guys were investigating these ghosts of this mental hospital, the phones started ringing, and they would ring at different parts of

the hospital. And when they would go to the floor where they heard the rings, it would then start ringing on another floor. Uh. And these things were happening, and they could not be explained. Now. At the time, I wasn't fully aware of what we were doing. But but I believe now, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that these men that we sent into this hospital were experiencing demonic activity. And I came under so much conviction from the Holy Spirit that we set down and I just

had to tell the guys. Into their credit. They all degree, I mean agreed, some not as much as others, but all of us finally agreed because I said, now, if we're going to continue to do this. I can't be part of it. We must stop doing this. I'm under conviction because we are tampering with darkness, and we are tampering with evil spirits. They are real and we should not be doing this. We are placing these people and our audience in danger. Now what do you mean by

you replacing the audience in danger? Well, I'll tell you why. Because what happens when you're listening to something like this and you're watching something like this, now you want to go out and do it. And we were encouraging people to go on ghost hunts or go after the fill in the blank monster. A lot of it was just fairy tales and it didn't mean anything, but there were things that were quite real. And now here we are with this platform, we're not only sending out people that

shouldn't be doing this. Now, we're encouraging total strangers to go and do this. And I just couldn't. I just could not do it any longer. So when I was approached about doing this, I want to make it perfectly clear. This is not me revisiting that. There might be some pressure to do that, but I'm not going to do that because it's dangerous. What I am going to do is to be sure that we stay inside the realm of spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare between angels and demons is

extremely real, and it is going on. It's real. Simple. Paul talks about this in his letter to the Ephesians in Ephesians chapter six. Some of you may be familiar with this. Some of you may be hearing this for the very first time. It's not up to debate, up to debate, because scripture says it very clear. Look here, the apostle Paul. You might be familiar some of you with the armor of God. These are those scriptures where

you put on the full armor of God. But you may not know why we're supposed to put on the full armor of God. You may not know why. Maybe you've been thinking about, well, you know, it's persecutions. I need to do better with my sin nature. Now, what Paul's specifically talking about is you must be prepared for spiritual war. That's his main point, and that's not my opinion. He tells this this. Listen to this, he said. Finally, this is in verse ten of chapter six of Ephesians.

Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the death. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. So how do I know that demonic activity exists? How do I know that every day I'm entering into a spiritual war? Because the scriptures

make that clear. I've said this on my day job many times. I don't need Bigfoot. I don't need space people from another planet. I don't need ghosts haunting some area. I don't need to worry about bigfoot. I don't need any of that. The scriptures tell me all I need to know. When I know that spiritual forces are existing in another dimension and are allowed to come into my dimension, and I'm warned in scripture that there's demonic activity all around me, and there are angels and demons waging war.

I got plenty on the table, and that's what this podcast is going to take on. And we hope to educate you because you know, some of you may have seen the posts that I put out promoting episode one. I fear that, especially in the Western Church, that this topic is not a topic to obsess over. And we'll talk about this, but it's also not a topic to ignore.

And I'm afraid that many times in the Western Church that the local church, which I love the local church because Christ loves the local church, that we don't talk about these things. But yet we send people out of our congregations out into a spiritual war that we have not prepared them to fight. So there is a balance. So I want to take that on. Yes, we're going to delve into this going forward on strange encounters. Yes, I'm going to share with you stories about encountering demons.

I'll share a brief one with you. Even on this episode. We will be interviewing people, we will be talking about these things. But I want to be real cautious here, yellow flag waving. This is not to cause you to obsess over the spiritual realm. We should not obsess over it. That The goal is not to have you looking for demons around every corner, looking for Satan around every turn, you know, having people that can mislead you and say, oh I can see the spiritual rem I've got some

sort of touch from God. Be careful of these people, okay. It it's dangerous to ignore spiritual warfare, okay, but it's also dangerous to obsess over it. That's not the intention either. You don't want to bring any glory to Satan and his demons by obsessing over them and having an unhealthy obsession with seeking them. That's problematic too. The goal of this podcast is to educate you on this so that you're aware of what's going on and you will be

able to go into the battle prepared. Okay, that's our goal. So let's look at one thing when you talk about Satan, Satan's real You know, there's a question I get quite often, why did God create the devil? Well, he didn't. God created an angel called Lucifer. Lucifer was a beautiful angel, a very high ranking angel that decided that being a high ranking angel was not good enough for him and he and he convinced a third of God's angels, all created beings by God for an overthrow to take God's

throne from him. God will share his glory with no one, And of course Lucifer was expelled from heaven or from the presence of the Lord with a third of the demons, and then of course the war started. But here's one thing I want you to know about Lucifer is, and I've already mentioned it once. Lucifer is a created being. Okay, he is. This is not star wars, This is not Ying and Yang that that that you know mystical Eastern religion. It's not that at all. God created the angels, who

then became a third of them demons. He created Lucifer, who then became the devil because he became our accuser, he became Satan, but because he became our adversary. But it is Lucifer that we're dealing with, the angel, created being by God. Now why rick is that important? I'm will tell you why that's important. He's not God, he's not the dark version of God. He's not the Force. He's a created being, which means there is a there's there's a substantial gap between Lucifer and the God who

created him. Now, is he stronger than a human being? You better believe it. We'll give you some examples of this. Are there demons that went with Lucifer that are stronger than some of the angels of God? Yes, not stronger than all of them. Not stronger than than the Son of God, and not stronger than God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, of course not. But I want you to take comfort in that. And here here's here's why.

I know many times I've been guilty of this too, that we will be in a situation and we throw around these terms. I've done it. Okay, So I'm not talking down to you or talking at you. I'm talking with you and we'll say, well, I'll tell you, Satan's really given me a hard time right now? Well, probably not. Okay, let me just go ahead and say that because Lucifer is not omniscient. Lucifer is not omnipotent. Lucifer is not omnipresent. Unlike God, Lucifer cannot be in multiple places all at

the same time. Lucifer, in order to come after you and me, has to leave wherever he is and come to where we are and not be there anymore. I'm just gonna say I like to think that, you know, I'm devoted to my Lord and Savior. I want to be about his business. I want to have impact for the Kingdom of God. But I don't quite think that I rank Lucifer coming after me. Now his demon's coming

after me. Sure, but Lucifer, I just find it unlikely that he's going to leave some of the places where he's battling right now and say, well, I've got to go find Rick Burgess, you know, on whatever street he lives on, because that guy is so devoted to God that he's really hurt me. Probably not Now, a third of the angels being demons, yes, I've experienced them. I have not a lot, but it has happened, and we'll

talk about that through in future episodes. Okay, But James tells us in The Powerful Book of James, he kind of gives us a little bit of a Hey, let me give you some clarity. Maybe come down from you thinking that you're so impactful for the Kingdom of God that Lucifer has decided that he's coming after you. James says, most of the problems we get into, really it's just

our sin nature. I mean, when I get up and pray every day, I do pray against these cosmic forces that God would put a protective headge around me and around my family and around our business and around my friends. I do all that, Sure, but the prayer that I probably pray. That's the most important, as I pray to God protect me against my biggest enemy, myself, my sin nature. James talks about this, and he says, but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his

own desire. Then desire, when it is conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, brings forth death. So I'm headed down this road of sin, James says, not because Lucifer Satan, the devil is tempting you, Not because God's tempting you, Not because the demons are tempting you. Most of us find ourselves on a bad road simply because of our own wicked desires. So I hope that brings you some peace, and you're going to see some of the things that we talk about about.

The We're not sitting here like sitting ducks every day. Oh no, you know what's going to happen to me. I'm at the mercy of whatever the demons or Lucifer wants to do today. Now, if you have not been redeemed, if you're not under the authority of Jesus Christ, do you have something to fear? Yes, yes you do, because you don't have the protection. You're not under the authority of Christ. You are a sitting duck. You are easy pickings.

I don't think you're going to rank Lucifer as I said, but for those demons, because and I'm going to show you an example of that before we're done today. How important that is. So now let's talk about who's in control. I mean, can can Lucifer? Can the demons just do whatever they want to do whenever they want to do it to a person who is redeemed? The answer is no, that they can't. Now one of these things, you know, this part of the Bible seems to bother people more

than it comforts people. But I hope today it'll comfort you. It's the Book of Job. We're currently doing the Book of Job in a Wednesday Bible study. You can also find on our website, Rick burgesshow dot com. We do it every Wednesday. We're in Job. Now. I want you to see this moment when we learn something else about demons and Lucifer. Okay, this is in chapter one of

the Book of Job and it starts in verse six. Now, there was a day when the sons of God, that's the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan Lucifer also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, underline that Satan hasn't said anything. The Lord says to Satan, from where have you come? So can Satan, Lucifer, the devil and his demons? Can they move around the earth? The answer is yes. Satan answered the Lord and said, from going to and fro on the earth, and from

walking up and down on it. So yes, they are among us here on earth. Scripture tells us that. And the Lord said to Satan. The Lord said to Satan, Satan doesn't bring up Job. The Lord said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job. There is none like him on earth? A blameless and upright man. That doesn't mean sinless. It just means he had no sin, that he had not repented of, who fears God and turns away from evil. Then Satan answered the Lord and said,

does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him? That's what I was talking about. And his house and all that he has on every side. You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land but stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your faith. Listen verse twelve, and the Lord said to Satan, behold, all that he has is in your hand, only against him. Do not stretch out

your hand. So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, who sets the boundaries for what Lucifer could and could not do the Lord, God Almighty. He couldn't do anything that the Lord did not allow him to do. Now, if you want to get that's a whole nother discussion on why God allowed him to do it. I can certainly go down that road, but for this podcast, that's been explained in the Bible study. I'm happy to answer

that for you. But right now, the purpose of these scriptures is to show you that Lucifer and his demons have to appear before the Lord. The Lord sets the boundaries on what they can and cannot do to the redeemed, not to the lost, but to the redeemed. God sets the boundaries. Now, a lot of times we focus too much. Well, I don't like the fact that God was allowing anything, but don't miss the fact that it has to be allowed that are to bring you peace. Okay, that are

to bring you peace. So we know that Lucifer is not omnipotent, he's not omniscient, he's not omnipresent. We also know that the Lord God Almighty sets the boundaries for what he can and he can't do. We also know that most of the trouble we get into is because of our own sin nature, not because we're under attack from Satan and his demons. Okay, we got that. So what are some things that we need to do that would prepare us for the spiritual battle. Well, let's go

back to the beginning. Let's go back when all of mankind fail because of a deception from Lucifer himself appearing to the woman as a serpent. Let's go back to the fall, Genesis chapter three. This is crucial, okay, And Genesis chapter three we're learning. We're educating ourselves on how Lucifer and his demons, how do the enemies of God work? Okay, So we look here and we see that the serpent Lucifer has now approached the woman and the serpent. This

is chapter three. And now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden? Now that that's that strategy that you need to know. What what what the adversary and the demons are going to test is how well we know the promises of God? Do we really know what God said? Lucifer, if you rank him, probably won't, but his demons follow

his instruction. The demonic forces that will come against you always are going to take the gamble that you and I don't really know what God said, so they can deceive us with false prophets, false teachers, false theology, because we don't know any better. What would you agree with me that it is impossible to discern false teaching if

you don't know pure teaching. I would yes. So so many times we do foolish things that allow these demonic forces to come into our homes, which we're going to cover on future episodes about spiritual house cleaning, come into our lives. The reason why they're coming into our lives is because they've been invited. And how were they invited?

Because we did not know the scriptures well enough to recognize when we were being deceived by a person that was sent to us by a pastor that was sent to us by a praise song that we shouldn't have been singing. And before we know it, we're under deception because we don't know the genuine article. Now, years and years ago, had a great opportunity to interview someone in Secret Service. Now, Secret Service also is in the counterfeit industry. You know, they go, that's who you sin if there's

a counterfeit ring running false currency. Well, when they're training the Secret Service to recognize the genuine article, they never show them examples of counterfeit money. They never see those those very wildly. What they do is they make sure that they're familiar with the genuine article. They're so familiar with the genuine article that they recognize the counterfeit immediately

because they know the original, they know the standard that. Well, I'm going to just ask you, do you know the word of God and do you know the promises of God to the point that you can you can call on them when you're being deceived or you're under attack. Well, i will tell you from the very beginning, the demons and Lucifer have been using the is that what God really said? And they've been quite successful. With it because too many times the person they're attacking doesn't know the answer.

So make sure that you know the answer if you we always make sure that we're experts on so many things. You better make sure that you're an expert. This is a warning on the word of God because the demons and Lucifer are hoping and they're betting that you don't. So let's turn to Second Corinthians, chapter eleven. This is important too on deception because so many times these demons will present themselves as angels of light. We have to know the difference. It has happened so many times when

somebody you're going with, this person seems like they're okay. Well, why is that important? Because demons that this goes back to this ghost thing. Demons love to pretend to be your grandmama that died and you're sure went on to glory, And what they want you to do is to think that your grandmother has come back to you. Are your mama,

are your daddy, or you're your child. You know, I have a child that is in heaven, and it certainly would mean a lot to me if somehow I thought I could visit my child again, and I will one day. But you know, a demon would love to convince me that I could now through some person that claims they can conjure him up or I thought I saw him in our home or something like that. When these things, if these things are happening to you, these are not

your relatives, these are not angels, these are demons. It's all about deception. And you're sitting there going with they don't look like a scary mom. They look like my grandmama. They look like me, mam. Well that's what they're hoping, you think, Okay, and you'll say, well, what if it's an angel, an angel, this is important Episode one. Let's get this on the record. An angel throughout scripture will

always identify themselves. They'll always tell them tell you they're from the Lord, and then they move into why they came to see you. Okay. You never find an angel appearing like some kind of mist, you know, saying I'm your grandmother, I'm your mama, I'm this person, this friend of yours, I'm real mysterious. I moved through the room. And see, that's all chaos, that's all attempt to fear and intrigue in the supernatural with no clear understanding of

what they're doing and why they are there. I don't care how wonderful they may seem, Paul warns us in chapter eleven. And he warns us in verse fourteen when he goes on to say that that we need to understand that many times they will appear to us as angels of light. He and here he's talking about false prophets.

In thirteen, he says, for such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ fourteen And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light, so it is no surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Therein will correspond to their deeds. He said, Look, false teachers always appear like they're wonderful human beings, and they always act like that,

their apostles from Christ and teachers of Jesus. And he said, no wonder because Satan is who really sent them, and Lucifer always he's been known to present himself and his servants do the same thing as angels of light. We did an interview with a guide man. Anytime you hear these things. Oh, I've got somebody. Angels have been appearing to this god. Oh, we can't wait to hear from him. And I'm going to tell you many times. Well, every time that I've ever dealt with I go to these

verses and usually tell the person. You may think you're talking to angels, but you're not. You may think you're talking to space people, but you're not. You may think you're talking to a ghost, but you're not. You're talking to demons, because this is exactly how they work. But if I can't recognize that, if I don't know, I can't recognize this if I don't know. Okay, so you start thinking to yourself, well, I think about the story

of Job. Is there anything after that where I can see that there's demons or Lucifer once again being used by God to test those that he loves and loves him. Yes, the apostle Paul staying in Second Corinthians, if you go over to a Second Corinthians chapter twelve, you may read something that you go, I, I don't know about that. That's a little that's a little alarming. It has to do with Paul and the thorn in his flesh. You

may have heard of this before. Paul's been talking about all the things he suffered because of his devotion to Christ, which, by the way, we're allowed. And so he says this verse seven of chapter twelve Second Corinthians, So to keep me from becoming conceited. So there's the why to keep me from becoming conceited. Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelation, he was allowed to see the third heaven. A thorn was given me in the flesh. Listen to this,

a messenger of Satan to harass me. Here comes the why to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me, but he the Lord, said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Now again, I know that may trouble you, but I

wanted to bring you peace. Because here's what's happening. Paul is being humbled, and the Lord has decided that this thorn in his flesh, whatever it was, was allowed because he could get Paul to where he wanted him to be.

And he was even willing, just like Job, to use a messenger of Satan to accomplish his goal of keeping the Apostle Paul humble so that the Apostle Paul would be more dependent on him, thus becoming more powerful by being weaker and being totally dependent on Jesus once again, Satan and his demons are simply tools that God uses when he wants to. But he is completely in control for the redeemed, for the redeemed, And I know that.

You say, well, I don't like the thought of God sicking them on me for for lack of a better term, but remember, he's gonna always be part of it. He's in control. It's like I don't like the I don't want to think about a pit bull getting after me. And the guy comes in and he's got a pit bull on the chain. Well, I don't want this pit bull here at all. I understand that, But isn't it great to see if somebody's got him on the chain. So unless that person lets out enough chain, he can't

get you. He might be barking at you, he might be scaring you, but unless the owner lets loose of the chain, he can't kill you. Well, that's the way you got to see the spiritual realm for those that are redeemed. Are demons real? Yes? Is Loocier for real? You better believe it. Are angels real? Yes, Well, we talk more about them, we will, But today I want to establish that this spiritual warfare is real. It should not be ignored, it should not be obsessed over. But

you got to know how it works. That's what this podcast is all about. Okay. So to kind of get us down to the end of our first episode, I want you to go to Acts nineteen because this is a warning that I want to leave with you until the next time we're together. Everything I've been telling you today only applies to the redeemed. If you are not redeemed, if you are not under the authority of Jesus Christ, then this spiritual warfare that's going on is something you

should be gravely concerned about. So in Acts chapter nineteen, we see something very very interesting involving these sons of a very well known Pharisee. He had seven sons, the apostle Paul had been doing miracles, and they were jealous of Paul. He had been casting out demons, and we're going to talk about that in future episodes. You're gonna hear me interview people that have cast out demons. Okay, that's coming. But in this case they wanted to also

cast out demons. Okay, so this is verse thirteen of chapter nineteen. Now they are jealous of Paul. That's their whole motivation. Okay. So in verse thirteen, the scriptures tell us, then some of the Jewish exorcists undertook to evoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, I call on you by the name of Jesus, who Paul proclaims seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Skiva.

We're doing this. But when they called on an evil spirit to come out of a man Verse fifteen should be very troubling to anybody that is listening to this or watching this that is not redeemed. Listen, but the evil spirit answer these men, Jesus, I know this is an evil spirit, a demon. Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize demotion for Paul, but he makes it. But

who are you? Let me tell you, whoever is listening to this and watching this, you don't want to hear that these evil spirits recognized Jesus because they used his name. They recognized Paul because he belonged to Jesus. He did not recognize them, or it didn't recognize them. Now what happened next? Rick Well and the man in whom the evil spirit had possessed leaped on them, mastered all of them, overpowered them so that they fled out of the house,

naked and wounded. They used the name of Jesus. Why didn't it work? It didn't work. I'm gonna say that again. It did not work. Why when Paul used the name of Jesus it worked. Why because the apostle Paul belonged to Jesus. The apostle Paul was redeemed, so the power of the name of Jesus was available to Paul. These other pretenders just wanted to see a show. They wanted to go play games with evil spirits. They wanted to play games with demons. They wanted some notoriety that they

were able to cast out demons. So they thought that they would just do what Paul had done. That they would roll up against an evil spirit. They would say to that evil spirit, in the name of Jesus, that Paul calls upon come out of this man. But they got a much different result. The reason why the evil spirit did not leave the man. Not only did it not leave, it inhabited the body of a man, which is real. This does happen, and it jumped on seven men,

seven grown men. And these trust me. These demons when they possess somebody, they have magnificent strength, okay, and they have rankings just like the angels do. Some are stronger than others. And strip these seven guysnaked. Now why do they strip people neked? Have you ever noticed that? You know? Anytime someone is deranged, and many times they are just possessed of a demon. Mental illness is real. I'm not saying it's not, but in many cases this is just demonic.

When you see the evil of the world today, why did this person slaughter all these innocent people in cold blood? Because they're likely possessed with the demon. This is evil, is what it is. Okay. All they do is destroyed, murder, kill still, and so you'll see a lot of times when someone is possessed of a demon, or they've allowed a demon in through allow themselves, their mind to be altered by drugs or alcohol, whatever the case may be,

and they've opened themselves up to demonic forces. What happens a lot. They strip themselves naked, These demons strip these guys naked. Why because of the original fall in the garden. See, you know that at one time, the original man and woman that God created, they were naked and unashamed. But when sin came into the garden, what happened. Clothe ourselves, hide our shame. And what these demons are doing is they're trying to present you as shameful and naked right

before God. You see that all the time. It is a trait to look for if you want to see demonic forces. Did the people strip themselves naked? Are they running around naked? And usually it has to do with that. They're once again taking what God called pure and they're exploiting the fall of mankind. And how naked this now is something to be ashamed of. It's not something that we're comfortable with anymore because of our sin. And they're

revealing that again. They're accusing here you are naked before God. So the name of Jesus had no power in the hands of these sons because they didn't belong to Jesus. If you don't belong to Jesus, you can shout Jesus's name in your house all you want to when it's under demonic attack, and it's not going to accomplish anything

because you don't belong to Jesus. These demons will look at you when you're hollering that out when you've waited too late and they've over they've taken over your home or taken over your life, or they've taken over your children, or they've taken over your marriage, and you'll start shouting Jesus, Jesus, in the name of Jesus, leave my family along, leave us alone. And if you don't belong to Jesus, those demons are going to say, Jesus, we know, but who

are you. You don't belong to Jesus and they're not going anywhere. So if we're going to prepare for this battle, we must prepare ourselves by first making sure that we belong to Jesus, because without the protection of Jesus, you are sending yourself out day after day into a spiritual battle that you cannot win. And it's real. I mean, if you could see the cosmic war that is going on around you on a daily basis, if God allowed you to see it, you could not handle it. I

could not handle it. So are there supernatural forces all around us? The answer is yes. Is it Bigfoot, is it space aliens? Is it ghost? No? But that didn't make it any less real. So I hope that you'll go on this journey with us on episodes that are still to come, and become educated and understand the seriousness of these strange encounters.