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Wow....Wow. THIS SAME THING HAPPENED TO MY HUSBAND AND ME. My boys were spending the night with a friend, so my hubby and I went to see a movie. It was October, epitome of dark movies. While what movie we saw that night wasnt dark, the posters in the theater WERE dark. During the night, I was awakened by the feeling of being sat upon and suffocated. And then we both saw a figure coming into our room...I can still feel that presence. There are more details but we immediately started praying, while I sobbed. Praise Jesus Who has defeated our enemy!
I'm 42 now but when I was about 18, I became a dedicated follower of Christ coming out of dabbling with the occult and other sins. I was preaching to all my friends one by one about how Jesus freed me. One night I was at a park with a friend telling him about Jesus and how he could be free from the occult too when I distinctly saw shadow leap from him and hit me. it felt like someone smacked me across the entire front half of my body because the entire front half of my body was completely numb. The force of it was so hard that it knocked me back two steps and I yelled because I had no idea what had just happened to me. That moment changed my life in a profound way. Good news is that guy I was preaching to also became a devoted follower of Christ a couple years later and is thriving in his walk with God to this day.
This happened to my friend when I was driving one day. I was taking him home when a thick shadow flew into him and the truck and I felt the spirit of God touch him right then. He was always making arguments against Christianity and was atheist like several of my friends were. I have prayed for all of them a lot through the years but had recently focused more on his behalf praying for him to be saved. When this shadow flew through the truck and went through him, his jaw dropped and said "Woah! Woah! What was that?" Then he looked at me shocked and I said it was Jesus trying to grab his heart and he started crying profusely. We arrived at his house a minute later and I let him know I had prayed for this to happen and have been praying since he told me he didn't believe it was all real . I asked God to show him he was real because he didn't seem to be able to believe without God giving him a sign or confirmation from how his mind was at the time on subject. I trusted God to answer that and I thought it was a genuine request from the spirit of God within me calling for me to think about him so much. When I told him I have been asking God to speak to his heart for years and plead with God to save him he broke down and hugged me telling me and hugged me like I saved his life. I know God's with us and loves us all. Never be ashamed to have a conversation about Jesus. You may plant the seed within an unbeliever that helps lead them to Jesus
@ApologiaStudios I remember that day when you testified in Colorado. I was in the capitol too and I remember seeing you walking past me and thinking you looked really stressed. If I remember correctly, they also kept on delaying the hearing time. I just assumed you were stressed because you were going to testify before the committee. Anyway, your testimony was really powerful and so was the one from the senator/pastor from Colorado Springs. I believe that the Holy Spirit was speaking through you because you were testifying before the higher authorities. I will never forget your boldness and the courage you displayed when speaking before the committee. May the Lord always use you as His ambassador and witness! Oh I also remember that you had a really nice scent to you! I was like man this brother is fresh!
When this experience happened to me, the voice in my head sounded like a weak radio transmission. The words were understandable but the sound of the "voice" was like a listening to a program that wasn't exactly tuned in. It was a litany of "you are worthless, you are a waste of everyone's time" etc. I finally forced myself "awake" and only then did I pray and thank God for sparing me from the horrible experience.
In the years following my wife's salvation she struggled with assurance. We would go through the Scriptures, but little comfort would be given. She would be brought to tears at times with what she described as onslaughts of blasphemous thoughts. My heart broke for her as she would be in tears telling me how she did not want them there. It was a battle that went on for quite some time.
@@rhondahart2416 continued labor in the Word and prayer. My wife would have to actively take her thoughts captive. When a blasphemous thought would come, she would counteract it with Scripture. I am a pastor and I preached through First John verse by verse and the Lord used all of it to bring her victory.
@@Jesus_is_the_1way see my other comment. Get into the Word. Fill your mind with it. First John is a great place to start. That little book can be summed up in one word, assurance. If you haven't done so, get in a good bible believing local church where you can be poured into by biblically qualified pastors.
Love the Christmas tree! In my pre-Christian days, I was harassed by demons for an entire week or so, following a drinking binge until finally, my boyfriend took me to the psych ward. They still harassed me, but I begged God, whom I didn't know at the time, to help me and he did to a great extent.
This has happened to me twice. The first time was when I was working through my addiction and getting to the other side of it. I was 20 years old and I was sleeping soundly in my bed. I was stirred awake by this overwhelming sense of fear. When I opened my eyes I could not move but I saw a dark figure at the foot of my bed. I could not speak but I prayed for the lords help in my head. I kept praying and praying. Finally the entity left and I was able to breathe and move again. I immediately went to psalm 91. Spoke it out loud over and over till I fell back asleep. This happened to me at 3 am. The second time happened when I went from a weak evangelical church to really studying reformed doctrine. The same feeling of fear came over me at 3 am again. I opened my eye and saw them figure over my side of the bed. My wife who was right next me lay soundly sleeping. I immediately started to say psalm 91 in My head again over and over and the entity left me again. That was three years ago, it has not been back since.
That hatred can definitely be felt and its absolute. Jesus Christ Saved me out of the darkness after practicing witchcraft most of my life. I had a few on edge experiences after with oppressivness, unexplained illness, etc. But the creepiest was i was lying in bed in that half sleep and i here someone yell in my ear very angrily, "stop following Jesus!" I immediately got up, got on my knees and prayed to the Lord, not looking around. I continue to pray for the armor of God often. Ive also heard it speak thru the unsaved when some hear the Gospel. My own family members have become vicious in coming against me when i speak out about Jesus Christ. And i will say, no matter what happens, when you truly know Jesus Christ and the true freedom and love that comes from that, its all worth this battle. Thank you for your podcasts. 😊 God bless you all.
3am, theoretically, is the time when your cortisol levels start increasing to get your body ready to wake up. Sometimes your hormones get sketchy so it could be a sort of unintentional natural drugged state that opens us to spiritual attack like this.
From everything I've read in the Bible, and elsewhere, and experienced myself, the demons want to induce fear in you. They thrive off it. But God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. Spiritual warfare kicked off in my life at an incredible clip after the Lord restored my wife and I's marriage.
I got saved a year ago and my husband is an unbeliever and although we had problems before I became a born again believer the heat was def turned up after, he confessed to me recently that he’s been hit on before in our marriage but since I got saved he said he gets hit on ALL the time! The enemy is truly trying to destroy my marriage and my faith but the Lord is stronger than any of His schemes and I’m thankful for that!
God bless you brothers. Thank you for speaking boldly and carefully by the basis of the scriptures and applying it to the Christian worldview in such a way that was honest and could be found to ruffle feathers within reformed circles. This was extremely encouraging for me to hear, as I have had similar experiences and have felt outcasted lately by others who seem to not have had these experiences. Anyway, God bless y’all hard for this. Keep kickin’ ass to The Glory of God! SOLI DEO GLORIA (To The Glory Of God Alone) Father, Son & Holy Spirit -Ronnie
Im BEYOND happy that real Christians are talking about this, paranormal. If a Christian is not believing that demonic activity is real, and doesn't need to be taken deadly serious..then literally, what in hell do you think we are fighting against?
The main thing we fight against is the battle for Truth (the gospel). The 2nd is the flesh.. 3rd is spiritual warfare, though all of these 3 can be called spiritual warfare. Don't get obsessed with demons
@@Bearthowlemew its exactly where the fight is, including witches 😉.. {Eph 6:12} "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."
@@BearthowlemewMy dear, I don’t know if you listened to the whole thing or not, if not you may want to. In light of your comment, would you be willing to explain and also then exegete Ephesians 6:12? Was Paul just larping and rambling on as some deranged demon conspirator?
37:50 a reason that they couldn’t take a physical form would be based on the belief that demons are giant spirits and lost their body as opposed to angels who have both a body and spirit form
I really enjoyed this episode as alot of us have experienced this. It opened my eyes that it's more than I thought it happens because every time I would share with someone it was just blank stare and they were not sure how to respond.
I had dreams as a child of being dragged into hell by demons and I always escaped by calling on the name of Jesus. I am not sure it was truly a spiritual attack but it always stuck with me.
I had the experience after watching paranormal videos online about 20 years ago and asking if that stuff was real, then something needed to show me for myself. I laid back in the recliner and fell to sleep. I woke up with zero control over my body. My mouth was wide open and I was wide awake and had this feeling of something wanted to kill me. It’s horrifying and never want to experience anything like that again.
When i quit the porn industry and was getting sober from meth I was attacked so much. Just like yall I was being choked n held down. It was pinning my arms down I couldn't even fight back. But while I was thinking about what to do I realized I could think still. So Immediately started saying "in the name of Jesus get behind me satan!" Once it was like an quick "whoosh" And it was gone. And once it threw me to the floor and it was gone. A few days later I was awake and all of a sudden felt like I was in the eye of a tornado with this really high screeching noise. Like a level of frequency that was too much and I just new I was surrounded by angels protecting me from the battle raging around me
Soon after I professed faith in Christ, I had an experience where I was choked and weighed down in my bedroom. I was able to mumble a prayer to Jesus and after a couple of times of this, it released me and dissipated out of my room. But I can testify that I was not asleep at the time, and the darkness in my room was like nothing I had or have experienced since.
My husband and I lived on Oahu for two years. He was stationed there. You could feel the oppressive atmosphere! I had several demonic experiences! Praise God neither of us was ever scratched or choked but you knew there was a presence of evil!❤️🙏✝️
Thank you guys so much for talking about your experiences. It seriously helped me to recognize the enemies trying to thwart the gospel light in my own life, and take seriously the biblical necessity to be aware of the enemies and pray against them in the name of Jesus so that God will be glorified in my life. This video was a serious help, as I have witnessed the same experiences. Thank you, and praise the Lord!
I have experienced many nightmares due to PTSD and 3-4 times demonic but I began to ask the Lord to be with me and protect me in my sleep, as I dream. Great relief came then as I remembered to invite Jesus into my asleep times.
I had the same type of experience a few months ago, I felt like someone was sitting on my chest and I couldn’t move, my wife was laying next to me. And felt I was being pushed deeper in the bed, and was unable to move, it felt completely wrong, so I began to try to say get off me in the name of Jesus, but as I began to call out, it was as though I was trying to speak through closed lips, so I kept trying till it made me angry so I yelled through my lips as loud as I could, let me go in the name of Jesus!!!!! And immediately I was released, which scared my wife because I yelled sooo loud,
I have a quick story…my daughter would hear sounds like coughing from an old person down the hall but no one was there. She would approach us with wide eyes looking scared but would only say that she thinks she saw someone in the backyard. I myself never saw anything but felt an oppressive uneasy presence. Some time later I gave my life to Jesus and was born again! My wife soon after! All I could say is that that oppression I was feeling went away. My daughter stopped seeing things. The home felt peaceful and joyful. I personally believe if you are a child of God the devil and his demons will flee.
Praise God for your deliverance, but remember we have to discipline our worldview with the scriptures. Paul had a thorn in his flesh described as a "messenger of Satan," in 2 Corinthians 12:7. James 4:7 says to resist the Devil and he will flee. Ephesians 6 speaks about the armor of God, which isn't used against people but rather the spiritual forces of wickedness. Simply being a child of God doesn't preclude these things from happening.
@ true and you’re right we aren’t finished here until God calls us home. Jesus did tell us we will have trouble in this life because we are not yet fully sanctified. God will bring it to completion.
When I was in a moldy apartment I was having nightly contact with a sleep demon… he held me down and I saw him. Of course, something biological happening, but demons will use that as an entry. As soon as I moved out, those stopped haven’t come back. Thank Jesus.
A few years ago I remember my husband had left to work early in the morning, and after he left I had went back to bed to and i was in a pretty light sleep and all of a sudden i get up and see pure darkness like a dark black cloud surrounding my bed and it was getting bigger and bigger around me all I knew was to call out Jesus! I yelled Jesus name 3 times and the dark cloud had disappeared. I always knew about the spiritual unseen realm but this was my first time experiencing this type of attack.
My youngest son used to see demons as a very young child. He was finally able to tell me what was going on. After praying authority in the name of Jesus it ceased. When we moved he saw them again but it looked different. Again, I prayed and he stopped seeing them.
Constantine? Go ahead and keep laughing. Thank you for this testimony ma’am! Had a very similar experience with my son! And myself when I was younger! There is power in the name of Jesus!
Amén Zack! What you are saying is so true, warning to those who think they should be pastoring or teaching or evangelizing! Listen to Zack’s statement, if you don’t good luck!
When my dad began to do Evangelism Explosion in the 1990's, demonic activity started happening in our house. He felt something was sitting on his chest when he was in bed, preventing him from getting up. In my room, I heard an audible voice whispering the word "Yes" over and over again. It was freaky. We had things happen in our new house as well, mostly to my mom, and my grandpa has had demonic activity in his home, which he said goes away when he calls on Jesus. The spiritual realm is a real thing.
As Jeff was talking about the evil thoughts that he had in his head while in Hawaii it made ,me think of this scripture: “For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.” 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 ESV
Brothers and sisters in Christ please keep me in prayer. This is exactly what’s been happening to me with the severity of the intrusive unwanted absolutely horrible thoughts. Thoughts against God thoughts against my husband thoughts against myself thoughts even against my eight month old daughter, trying to tempt me to hurt her.. Please brothers and sisters keep me in prayer. I’m really struggling with the constant thoughts and unwanted images.. I do struggle with pure OCD which is precisely just unwanted thoughts and images. I’m not trying to just focus on the demonic.. I’m doing my best on getting healed, taking vitamins and helping my body to recover from postpartum but these thoughts have been so pervasive and just disgusting. It leads me to feeling so low that I have never felt before.. Please keep me in my family in your prayers, please brothers and sisters.
Cut off all the demonic and God dishonoring thing in your life. Pray that God empty your house of demonic presences and influences. In my experience, a prayer of faith works immediately. Also ask for other proven believers to pray for you
I grew up in the movement of, "You have the spirit of (fill in the blank with character flaw)." All the men seemed to have the "spirit of lust" ....and if a women in the church got knocked up (which happened frequently) it was because she was no match for that guy's strong spirit of lust...and it went on and on to nauseam. It was always the most (seemingly) most spiritual person/leader who could discern which spirit someone had, they of course, stayed sucka' free (without spirits). The whole thing drove me crazy and I gained new appreciation for good old boring baptists :)
I've encountered the demonic multiple times. Some of those times were when I was a cop in the Los Angeles area. My baptism provided me the armor needed to be in the presence of such evil. I know this seems dramatic but you know it when it happens.
@apologiaradiostaff Around 14:24 off and on speeding up content. Never heard this before, but I do usually listen on Spotify. Not sure if a RUclips thing.
Ever stop and think that someone who hasn’t been able to convince their loved ones they’ve been fighting through something like this hears this and is relieved that they’re not the only one ? I could tell he was telling the truth by the look on his face.
From a continuationist perspective what pastor Jeff’s experiencing in 1:11:10 is a prophetic revelation am I right? What would the cessationist call this revelation? I’m on a fence or borderline cessationist.
John tells us to test the spirits. Ask them what do you think about Jesus? They must leave at the name of Jesus. This is how you would know whether this revelation is coming from the Lord.
Jeff’s experience sounds a lot like something called sleep paralysis, which I think is a spiritual experience. There was a dark time in my life when I was being abused that I experienced this at least twice a week. Ever since I broke free from my abuser and moved on I have not had the experience again
It kinda gets to the point where it’s so much evidence and testimonies of these things that it’s wild to believe that it’s even real.. like it’s really an unseen realm with persons, and we will live in eternity one day, and we are fighting to pick which place we will be. Truth is really stranger than fiction. Praise Jesus
I had the choking at night happen to me. I couldnt speak but i just kept saying Jesus Jesus in my head and it went away. I saw a figure and it came up over me. I vant think of anything important i was doing though. I was still a fairly newlywed at the time and my husband and i were in an awful battle with his patents. If anything i thought it meant i was doing somwthing wrong. My huaband and i have now been married almost 17 years and my inlaws have proven to be very ungodly and i dont speak to them anymore. But i dont know that it was something important on a larger scale. I dont know.
They seem to love causing confusion/distraction by harassing people in the weirdest ways. Often, it arouses curiosity, and people can be sucked into a lifelong obsession with trying to experience more supernatural activity or learn more about it. Ultimately, I think they realize it distracts people from the truth and it causes them to put their energy into literally chasing “ghosts,” something they’ll never catch. Even if some demonic activity seems stupid or harmless to us, I believe they always have a reason and a strategy to lead people further and further away from Christ.
Then exact same thing happened to me. I dabbled in the new age and new thought for years. But after I found the Lord and surrendered my life to him it was like a switch went off and I was being choked out every night. The only way it stopped was with the name of Jesus.
@36:37 yes, we do have an example of a holy angel appearing in physical form in its service to the LORD. But show me only one example in scripture of any demon doing the same things.
Today is Saturday 12/7/24; last night I had a dream with Durban, he came over for dinner and he was sitting at the table talking to my younger brother, and having a meaningful conversation and I was soo excited with glee because Jeff came over to my house to eat! After I woke up and I felt worthy because he was actually sitting at my table! And I know Jeff is a brother in Christ just like you and me we are family, but for a pastor to actually take the time to even consider me worthy enough to come and visit, these dream made it possible to happen! I know Jesus is my shepherd and he is the only one i need! but! hey, when you have Samuel coming to visit thats a big deal! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ peace (like Durbin says) ya'll!
One of the things I don't miss about Calvinism after coming into the LCMS is I am not obligated or brow beaten into believing in cessationism. Granted, we do believe in being level headed about things, but at least we don't dismiss these sorts of things outright. Now, not all Calvinists have this attitude obviously, but the ones I was around were.
Yeah I would say I’m charismatic Calvinist who is tired of the theological fighting of the mainstreams views on TULIP. It’s not the gospel and the gospel is the most important thing we need to share with others. Jesus Christ and him crucified!
I had something lay on my chest and whispered in me ear. My first wife had no idea what I was talkn about but my 2nd wife has had it her whole life. It’s happened to me probably 10 times. It happened more as a Christian than not. It happened when seeking the Lord,,so your view is correct. It makes me mad when it happens now. Before it was terrifying.
Id love to share my story of a visual encounter with a demon when i was high on merh for 3 days. And it was very visual and i csn still describe ever asoecf if the demon.
I had very scary spiritual experiences while high on that same drug, and others. I didnt know at the time how much those substances can "thin the veil" and connect you with entities and open doors for certain things. Thank Jesus He saved me from all that, I have 6.5 years clean 🙏🏼
My son heard voices very often and saw all kinds of "beings" while on meth. He even filmed them. On those videos there was definitely something there, kind of hard to make out because it was always at night, but the sounds they made were very strange and downright scary. I didn't believe him at the time, I just thought it was strictly drug induced hallucinations. After he got clean all of it disappeared but he still says he remembers all of it and it was all very real, and now I believe him. It was definitely demons. Incidentally, as a child under 5, he used to have "nightmares" where he would see things even though he was actually awake.
I did use drugs. I had no idea what i was doing and only wanted to get high not to divine anything. But yeah I was thrown into the other side. It was terrifying.
Dear family in Christ Jesus when the Powers of darkness seem to be near draw near to Christ and the Holy Spirit will take care of those wicked spirits they will flee at the word of God. I know the Lord fights our battles much love always in Christ Jesus 🙏
But as a Christian, how much of these experiences are related to sleep paralysis? I’ve had similar experiences before I was a Christian and continue to have similar experiences now that I am a Christian but have always thought it’s just sleep paralysis?
Deuteronomy 6 "mezuzah" thing... feel free to have an updated interpretation and application. "And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."
2 or 3 am, as far as I recall, is the third watch of the night when Jesus walked on the water. At the darkest time of night, Jesus walked on the waves. He subdued the chaos and stilled the wind. He entered into our lives and ordered our chaos, brought us into the the Kingdom of light - out of the deep darkness we were in, the valley of the shadow of death, and rebuked the winds of doctrine that we were enslaved to. Jesus is amazing, all glory to God! It is no suprise that the demonic will try to influence people at the darkest hour (both literally and metaphorically), but remember, our Lord and God Jesus Christ has shone the Light of His gospel into our hearts, separated the waters from the waters, and made what was once formless and void a vessel of honour for His glory alone. We are now temples of His Spirit, and greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world, amen. Maranatha Yeshua.
Pay attention to the person at the back of the church! If you are not in front of “I did this! Someone that come in praises then leaves an nobody knows their name or who they are, and don’t come back and nobody misses, then we think or that person is not close to God that’s why they are gone! Is it true or maybe they might have en a counter with the demonic and no help! I hope this makes sense, I’m answering my own question if satan doesn’t know my name, I’m not doing enough for our God, but I have seen the person in the back of the church, and that encourages me to be a better person to everyone and to anyone!
Deliverance ministry. I recommend Small Voice Ministries based in Winchester, VA. Pastor Mike Dean does phone counseling as well as in person. My testimony video is on his channel, under my name: Justin Sturz.
No need for false “deliverance ministries” you simply repent and trust in Christ and seek prayer from Godly men and women. God is faithful to His people
I also believe that it can be from other humans hating on you, sending you bad vibes etc I believe it can manifest physically. That's why the bible tells us to pursue peace with all. It might be demons but it also can be from humans. That's my belief and experience.
Sorry but the part of Genesis 6 youre dead wrong. Its even proved by giant skeletons all over the world. They did not come from fall men being with godly woman. Otherwise there would still be giants around we are alle fallen. The daughters of set where still fallen. Nimrod was a giant. Or dou you think s normal human can hold a lion like a house cat? Its just foolishness to even think that.
Yeah, I was surprised to hear that they dismissed the traditional understanding of Nephilim. Definitely love Jeff but I totally disagree. If you start to look at the pre-diluvian Old Testament through the lens of tainted bloodlines due to the “Sons of God” aka watchers. The Flood and Gods wrath just makes much more sense. To be clear, I’m not saying that I need Gods wrath to make sense to me in order for it to be what factually happened. I recently dove into the watchers and concepts in the book of Enoch, it really brought clarity to the level of spiritual warfare that is going on.
Great discussion. But if you don’t think humans and angels could inappropriately have sex then what do you think the queers in Sodom were trying to do Lot’s guests? And why do you think Lot had such a wild reaction to go as far and tell them to take his daughters? I think it makes a lot more sense that hat he was fearful of seeing the same sin that occurred before God judged the world with a flood. Of course creatures ought to come after their own kind, God said so. But that’s also why it’s such an abomination to God.
I used to suffer from what is called "sleep paralysis" It's when your body is asleep, but it feels like your mind is awake. I would feel trapped in my body. I would try to move my arm or leg so I could wake myself up, but it wouldn't work. And during this time I would feel as though I was suffocating. I thought it was normal , that most people experienced this. I now know its not.After sitting on the fence about Jesus most of my life, I finally surrendered to Him completely 8 years ago. Since then, I have only had a couple of sleep paralysis incidents. I now know to speak the name of Jesus when it happens, and I wake up! Oppression is real. I'm just so thankful to my Lord Jesus that I am blood protected!! ❤
I infrequently get sleep paralysis. A few times I’ve even seen shadowy figures and once thought I woke up out of bed despite still being in paralysis. I doubt these are spiritual attacks. Do you think only your sleep paralysis was spiritual or everyone’s sleep paralysis is a spiritual attack? In my case, if I avoid sleeping on my back and get enough consistent hours of sleep, i don’t get paralysis.
@trevoncampbell2744 i personally feel all sleep paralysis are spiritual attacks because of the nature of them. They are typically frightening and seem to be dark. From my experiences any way.
@@Andrea-sw7rg I understand how it’s frightening, surprisingly I’m not so much afraid as I am focused on getting up. If i get paralysis again, I’ll try focusing on Jesus and see if that gets me up faster. Although I’m skeptical of the idea that sleep paralysis is spiritual, as I am most people’s accounts of demonic encounters. I could see how God uses this very natural condition to make you afraid enough to seek something beyond the human experience. God used the condition as a vessel to get closer to him.
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Wow....Wow. THIS SAME THING HAPPENED TO MY HUSBAND AND ME. My boys were spending the night with a friend, so my hubby and I went to see a movie. It was October, epitome of dark movies. While what movie we saw that night wasnt dark, the posters in the theater WERE dark. During the night, I was awakened by the feeling of being sat upon and suffocated. And then we both saw a figure coming into our room...I can still feel that presence. There are more details but we immediately started praying, while I sobbed. Praise Jesus Who has defeated our enemy!
I'm 42 now but when I was about 18, I became a dedicated follower of Christ coming out of dabbling with the occult and other sins. I was preaching to all my friends one by one about how Jesus freed me. One night I was at a park with a friend telling him about Jesus and how he could be free from the occult too when I distinctly saw shadow leap from him and hit me. it felt like someone smacked me across the entire front half of my body because the entire front half of my body was completely numb. The force of it was so hard that it knocked me back two steps and I yelled because I had no idea what had just happened to me. That moment changed my life in a profound way. Good news is that guy I was preaching to also became a devoted follower of Christ a couple years later and is thriving in his walk with God to this day.
This happened to my friend when I was driving one day. I was taking him home when a thick shadow flew into him and the truck and I felt the spirit of God touch him right then. He was always making arguments against Christianity and was atheist like several of my friends were. I have prayed for all of them a lot through the years but had recently focused more on his behalf praying for him to be saved. When this shadow flew through the truck and went through him, his jaw dropped and said "Woah! Woah! What was that?" Then he looked at me shocked and I said it was Jesus trying to grab his heart and he started crying profusely. We arrived at his house a minute later and I let him know I had prayed for this to happen and have been praying since he told me he didn't believe it was all real . I asked God to show him he was real because he didn't seem to be able to believe without God giving him a sign or confirmation from how his mind was at the time on subject. I trusted God to answer that and I thought it was a genuine request from the spirit of God within me calling for me to think about him so much. When I told him I have been asking God to speak to his heart for years and plead with God to save him he broke down and hugged me telling me and hugged me like I saved his life. I know God's with us and loves us all. Never be ashamed to have a conversation about Jesus. You may plant the seed within an unbeliever that helps lead them to Jesus
wow, thank you for sharing. I believe every word. Praise the Lord.
@ApologiaStudios I remember that day when you testified in Colorado. I was in the capitol too and I remember seeing you walking past me and thinking you looked really stressed. If I remember correctly, they also kept on delaying the hearing time. I just assumed you were stressed because you were going to testify before the committee. Anyway, your testimony was really powerful and so was the one from the senator/pastor from Colorado Springs. I believe that the Holy Spirit was speaking through you because you were testifying before the higher authorities. I will never forget your boldness and the courage you displayed when speaking before the committee. May the Lord always use you as His ambassador and witness! Oh I also remember that you had a really nice scent to you! I was like man this brother is fresh!
Keep it up Apologia! God bless you guys!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
It's good to know I'm not crazy this has happened to someone else
When this experience happened to me, the voice in my head sounded like a weak radio transmission. The words were understandable but the sound of the "voice" was like a listening to a program that wasn't exactly tuned in. It was a litany of "you are worthless, you are a waste of everyone's time" etc. I finally forced myself "awake" and only then did I pray and thank God for sparing me from the horrible experience.
In the years following my wife's salvation she struggled with assurance. We would go through the Scriptures, but little comfort would be given. She would be brought to tears at times with what she described as onslaughts of blasphemous thoughts. My heart broke for her as she would be in tears telling me how she did not want them there. It was a battle that went on for quite some time.
How was it resolved?
Wow I’ve been struggling with similar experience since being saved a year ago
@@rhondahart2416 continued labor in the Word and prayer. My wife would have to actively take her thoughts captive. When a blasphemous thought would come, she would counteract it with Scripture. I am a pastor and I preached through First John verse by verse and the Lord used all of it to bring her victory.
@@Jesus_is_the_1way see my other comment. Get into the Word. Fill your mind with it. First John is a great place to start. That little book can be summed up in one word, assurance. If you haven't done so, get in a good bible believing local church where you can be poured into by biblically qualified pastors.
@@jaredaustin1844 Awesome!
Love the Christmas tree! In my pre-Christian days, I was harassed by demons for an entire week or so, following a drinking binge until finally, my boyfriend took me to the psych ward. They still harassed me, but I begged God, whom I didn't know at the time, to help me and he did to a great extent.
This has happened to me twice. The first time was when I was working through my addiction and getting to the other side of it. I was 20 years old and I was sleeping soundly in my bed. I was stirred awake by this overwhelming sense of fear. When I opened my eyes I could not move but I saw a dark figure at the foot of my bed. I could not speak but I prayed for the lords help in my head. I kept praying and praying. Finally the entity left and I was able to breathe and move again. I immediately went to psalm 91. Spoke it out loud over and over till I fell back asleep. This happened to me at 3 am.
The second time happened when I went from a weak evangelical church to really studying reformed doctrine. The same feeling of fear came over me at 3 am again. I opened my eye and saw them figure over my side of the bed. My wife who was right next me lay soundly sleeping. I immediately started to say psalm 91 in My head again over and over and the entity left me again. That was three years ago, it has not been back since.
Thanks for having this necessary discussion. It was very enlightening to hear your stories and to clear something up for me as well.
Thank you for being authentic in sharing your experiences and perspectives on this subject. Appreciate yall
This was very edifying, God bless anyone reading this and apologia church. Thanks for this content Jeff and guys.
I needed this thank you
Amen! Excellent conversation. Truly fascinating. God bless you and your ministry.
That hatred can definitely be felt and its absolute. Jesus Christ Saved me out of the darkness after practicing witchcraft most of my life. I had a few on edge experiences after with oppressivness, unexplained illness, etc. But the creepiest was i was lying in bed in that half sleep and i here someone yell in my ear very angrily, "stop following Jesus!" I immediately got up, got on my knees and prayed to the Lord, not looking around. I continue to pray for the armor of God often. Ive also heard it speak thru the unsaved when some hear the Gospel. My own family members have become vicious in coming against me when i speak out about Jesus Christ. And i will say, no matter what happens, when you truly know Jesus Christ and the true freedom and love that comes from that, its all worth this battle. Thank you for your podcasts. 😊 God bless you all.
3am, theoretically, is the time when your cortisol levels start increasing to get your body ready to wake up. Sometimes your hormones get sketchy so it could be a sort of unintentional natural drugged state that opens us to spiritual attack like this.
From everything I've read in the Bible, and elsewhere, and experienced myself, the demons want to induce fear in you. They thrive off it. But God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. Spiritual warfare kicked off in my life at an incredible clip after the Lord restored my wife and I's marriage.
I got saved a year ago and my husband is an unbeliever and although we had problems before I became a born again believer the heat was def turned up after, he confessed to me recently that he’s been hit on before in our marriage but since I got saved he said he gets hit on ALL the time! The enemy is truly trying to destroy my marriage and my faith but the Lord is stronger than any of His schemes and I’m thankful for that!
God bless you brothers. Thank you for speaking boldly and carefully by the basis of the scriptures and applying it to the Christian worldview in such a way that was honest and could be found to ruffle feathers within reformed circles. This was extremely encouraging for me to hear, as I have had similar experiences and have felt outcasted lately by others who seem to not have had these experiences. Anyway, God bless y’all hard for this. Keep kickin’ ass to The Glory of God!
SOLI DEO GLORIA
(To The Glory Of God Alone)
Father, Son & Holy Spirit
-Ronnie
Im BEYOND happy that real Christians are talking about this, paranormal. If a Christian is not believing that demonic activity is real, and doesn't need to be taken deadly serious..then literally, what in hell do you think we are fighting against?
The main thing we fight against is the battle for Truth (the gospel). The 2nd is the flesh.. 3rd is spiritual warfare, though all of these 3 can be called spiritual warfare. Don't get obsessed with demons
It's a spiritual war. Not a fight against demons roaming the earth or mean ghosts.
@johnsambo9379 amen lol. Share the Gospel, that's the ultimate warfare. Not larping and pretending you're this powerful warrior against demons.
@@Bearthowlemew its exactly where the fight is, including witches 😉.. {Eph 6:12} "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."
@@BearthowlemewMy dear, I don’t know if you listened to the whole thing or not, if not you may want to. In light of your comment, would you be willing to explain and also then exegete Ephesians 6:12? Was Paul just larping and rambling on as some deranged demon conspirator?
37:50 a reason that they couldn’t take a physical form would be based on the belief that demons are giant spirits and lost their body as opposed to angels who have both a body and spirit form
I really enjoyed this episode as alot of us have experienced this. It opened my eyes that it's more than I thought it happens because every time I would share with someone it was just blank stare and they were not sure how to respond.
I had dreams as a child of being dragged into hell by demons and I always escaped by calling on the name of Jesus. I am not sure it was truly a spiritual attack but it always stuck with me.
I had the experience after watching paranormal videos online about 20 years ago and asking if that stuff was real, then something needed to show me for myself. I laid back in the recliner and fell to sleep. I woke up with zero control over my body. My mouth was wide open and I was wide awake and had this feeling of something wanted to kill me. It’s horrifying and never want to experience anything like that again.
When i quit the porn industry and was getting sober from meth I was attacked so much. Just like yall I was being choked n held down. It was pinning my arms down I couldn't even fight back. But while I was thinking about what to do I realized I could think still. So Immediately started saying "in the name of Jesus get behind me satan!" Once it was like an quick "whoosh" And it was gone. And once it threw me to the floor and it was gone. A few days later I was awake and all of a sudden felt like I was in the eye of a tornado with this really high screeching noise. Like a level of frequency that was too much and I just new I was surrounded by angels protecting me from the battle raging around me
Soon after I professed faith in Christ, I had an experience where I was choked and weighed down in my bedroom. I was able to mumble a prayer to Jesus and after a couple of times of this, it released me and dissipated out of my room.
But I can testify that I was not asleep at the time, and the darkness in my room was like nothing I had or have experienced since.
#ReformedAndCharismatic here.
Proper balance.
My husband and I lived on Oahu for two years. He was stationed there. You could feel the oppressive atmosphere! I had several demonic experiences! Praise God neither of us was ever scratched or choked but you knew there was a presence of evil!❤️🙏✝️
Thank you guys so much for talking about your experiences. It seriously helped me to recognize the enemies trying to thwart the gospel light in my own life, and take seriously the biblical necessity to be aware of the enemies and pray against them in the name of Jesus so that God will be glorified in my life. This video was a serious help, as I have witnessed the same experiences. Thank you, and praise the Lord!
I have experienced many nightmares due to PTSD and 3-4 times demonic but I began to ask the Lord to be with me and protect me in my sleep, as I dream. Great relief came then as I remembered to invite Jesus into my asleep times.
Intro was like a fever dream 😂
Looking forward to the rest tho ⚔️
Thank you for your work! This was very helpful.
Thank you.
I had the same type of experience a few months ago, I felt like someone was sitting on my chest and I couldn’t move, my wife was laying next to me. And felt I was being pushed deeper in the bed, and was unable to move, it felt completely wrong, so I began to try to say get off me in the name of Jesus, but as I began to call out, it was as though I was trying to speak through closed lips, so I kept trying till it made me angry so I yelled through my lips as loud as I could, let me go in the name of Jesus!!!!! And immediately I was released, which scared my wife because I yelled sooo loud,
I have a quick story…my daughter would hear sounds like coughing from an old person down the hall but no one was there. She would approach us with wide eyes looking scared but would only say that she thinks she saw someone in the backyard. I myself never saw anything but felt an oppressive uneasy presence. Some time later I gave my life to Jesus and was born again! My wife soon after! All I could say is that that oppression I was feeling went away. My daughter stopped seeing things. The home felt peaceful and joyful. I personally believe if you are a child of God the devil and his demons will flee.
Praise God for your deliverance, but remember we have to discipline our worldview with the scriptures. Paul had a thorn in his flesh described as a "messenger of Satan," in 2 Corinthians 12:7. James 4:7 says to resist the Devil and he will flee. Ephesians 6 speaks about the armor of God, which isn't used against people but rather the spiritual forces of wickedness. Simply being a child of God doesn't preclude these things from happening.
@ true and you’re right we aren’t finished here until God calls us home. Jesus did tell us we will have trouble in this life because we are not yet fully sanctified. God will bring it to completion.
Oh wow, it's so helpful to hear because I no longer feel alone. Multiple pastors have told me that it's my imagination. Thank you
When I was in a moldy apartment I was having nightly contact with a sleep demon… he held me down and I saw him. Of course, something biological happening, but demons will use that as an entry. As soon as I moved out, those stopped haven’t come back. Thank Jesus.
A few years ago I remember my husband had left to work early in the morning, and after he left I had went back to bed to and i was in a pretty light sleep and all of a sudden i get up and see pure darkness like a dark black cloud surrounding my bed and it was getting bigger and bigger around me all I knew was to call out Jesus! I yelled Jesus name 3 times and the dark cloud had disappeared. I always knew about the spiritual unseen realm but this was my first time experiencing this type of attack.
My youngest son used to see demons as a very young child. He was finally able to tell me what was going on. After praying authority in the name of Jesus it ceased. When we moved he saw them again but it looked different. Again, I prayed and he stopped seeing them.
Was his name Constantine?
Constantine? Go ahead and keep laughing. Thank you for this testimony ma’am! Had a very similar experience with my son! And myself when I was younger! There is power in the name of Jesus!
Has happened to me , after I had heard Jeff tell what happened to him .
Amén Zack! What you are saying is so true, warning to those who think they should be pastoring or teaching or evangelizing! Listen to Zack’s statement, if you don’t good luck!
When my dad began to do Evangelism Explosion in the 1990's, demonic activity started happening in our house. He felt something was sitting on his chest when he was in bed, preventing him from getting up. In my room, I heard an audible voice whispering the word "Yes" over and over again. It was freaky. We had things happen in our new house as well, mostly to my mom, and my grandpa has had demonic activity in his home, which he said goes away when he calls on Jesus. The spiritual realm is a real thing.
As Jeff was talking about the evil thoughts that he had in his head while in Hawaii it made ,me think of this scripture: “For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.”
2 Corinthians 10:3-6 ESV
1:05:00 story recap reminds me of a quote from Jordan Peterson; "Are you having thoughts or do thoughts have you?"
God bless you !
Brothers and sisters in Christ please keep me in prayer. This is exactly what’s been happening to me with the severity of the intrusive unwanted absolutely horrible thoughts. Thoughts against God thoughts against my husband thoughts against myself thoughts even against my eight month old daughter, trying to tempt me to hurt her..
Please brothers and sisters keep me in prayer. I’m really struggling with the constant thoughts and unwanted images.. I do struggle with pure OCD which is precisely just unwanted thoughts and images. I’m not trying to just focus on the demonic.. I’m doing my best on getting healed, taking vitamins and helping my body to recover from postpartum but these thoughts have been so pervasive and just disgusting. It leads me to feeling so low that I have never felt before..
Please keep me in my family in your prayers, please brothers and sisters.
I'm literally experiencing this currently in my life.
Cut off all the demonic and God dishonoring thing in your life. Pray that God empty your house of demonic presences and influences. In my experience, a prayer of faith works immediately. Also ask for other proven believers to pray for you
Probably worth investigating the time when these things happen.
Tomorrow is the cut-off for being able to get things by Christmas from apologia's shop.
I grew up in the movement of, "You have the spirit of (fill in the blank with character flaw)." All the men seemed to have the "spirit of lust" ....and if a women in the church got knocked up (which happened frequently) it was because she was no match for that guy's strong spirit of lust...and it went on and on to nauseam. It was always the most (seemingly) most spiritual person/leader who could discern which spirit someone had, they of course, stayed sucka' free (without spirits). The whole thing drove me crazy and I gained new appreciation for good old boring baptists :)
I've encountered the demonic multiple times. Some of those times were when I was a cop in the Los Angeles area. My baptism provided me the armor needed to be in the presence of such evil. I know this seems dramatic but you know it when it happens.
I can testify to the reality of Jeff’s experience, happened too me too
@apologiaradiostaff Around 14:24 off and on speeding up content. Never heard this before, but I do usually listen on Spotify. Not sure if a RUclips thing.
Ever stop and think that someone who hasn’t been able to convince their loved ones they’ve been fighting through something like this hears this and is relieved that they’re not the only one ? I could tell he was telling the truth by the look on his face.
Where can I find that sermon from Dr Martin?
From a continuationist perspective what pastor Jeff’s experiencing in 1:11:10 is a prophetic revelation am I right? What would the cessationist call this revelation? I’m on a fence or borderline cessationist.
John tells us to test the spirits. Ask them what do you think about Jesus? They must leave at the name of Jesus.
This is how you would know whether this revelation is coming from the Lord.
Seeing or experiencing a demon is one of my fears!
Why? God has delivered you if you have been born from above. Just walk with Christ , stay out of sin so as not to open a door.
That old intro is so dope “Jesus is not this weak beggar”
Jeff’s experience sounds a lot like something called sleep paralysis, which I think is a spiritual experience. There was a dark time in my life when I was being abused that I experienced this at least twice a week. Ever since I broke free from my abuser and moved on I have not had the experience again
When will this be uploaded to Spotify?
It kinda gets to the point where it’s so much evidence and testimonies of these things that it’s wild to believe that it’s even real.. like it’s really an unseen realm with persons, and we will live in eternity one day, and we are fighting to pick which place we will be. Truth is really stranger than fiction. Praise Jesus
I had the choking at night happen to me. I couldnt speak but i just kept saying Jesus Jesus in my head and it went away. I saw a figure and it came up over me. I vant think of anything important i was doing though. I was still a fairly newlywed at the time and my husband and i were in an awful battle with his patents. If anything i thought it meant i was doing somwthing wrong. My huaband and i have now been married almost 17 years and my inlaws have proven to be very ungodly and i dont speak to them anymore. But i dont know that it was something important on a larger scale. I dont know.
Deep charismatic kind of prayer 😆
Why do spirits/demons/ghosts, whatever they are, open kitchen cupboards? What on earth could they gain from doing that?
They seem to love causing confusion/distraction by harassing people in the weirdest ways. Often, it arouses curiosity, and people can be sucked into a lifelong obsession with trying to experience more supernatural activity or learn more about it.
Ultimately, I think they realize it distracts people from the truth and it causes them to put their energy into literally chasing “ghosts,” something they’ll never catch.
Even if some demonic activity seems stupid or harmless to us, I believe they always have a reason and a strategy to lead people further and further away from Christ.
Loud and chaotic I'm guessing. Oh and creepy 😮
Then exact same thing happened to me. I dabbled in the new age and new thought for years. But after I found the Lord and surrendered my life to him it was like a switch went off and I was being choked out every night. The only way it stopped was with the name of Jesus.
@36:37 yes, we do have an example of a holy angel appearing in physical form in its service to the LORD.
But show me only one example in scripture of any demon doing the same things.
Today is Saturday 12/7/24; last night I had a dream with Durban, he came over for dinner and he was sitting at the table talking to my younger brother, and having a meaningful conversation and I was soo excited with glee because Jeff came over to my house to eat! After I woke up and I felt worthy because he was actually sitting at my table! And I know Jeff is a brother in Christ just like you and me we are family, but for a pastor to actually take the time to even consider me worthy enough to come and visit, these dream made it possible to happen! I know Jesus is my shepherd and he is the only one i need! but! hey, when you have Samuel coming to visit thats a big deal! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ peace (like Durbin says) ya'll!
So many many words!!
One of the things I don't miss about Calvinism after coming into the LCMS is I am not obligated or brow beaten into believing in cessationism. Granted, we do believe in being level headed about things, but at least we don't dismiss these sorts of things outright. Now, not all Calvinists have this attitude obviously, but the ones I was around were.
Yeah I would say I’m charismatic Calvinist who is tired of the theological fighting of the mainstreams views on TULIP. It’s not the gospel and the gospel is the most important thing we need to share with others. Jesus Christ and him crucified!
Imagine how short this video would be if not for all the "ads."
Christ is King
I had something lay on my chest and whispered in me ear. My first wife had no idea what I was talkn about but my 2nd wife has had it her whole life. It’s happened to me probably 10 times. It happened more as a Christian than not. It happened when seeking the Lord,,so your view is correct. It makes me mad when it happens now. Before it was terrifying.
Id love to share my story of a visual encounter with a demon when i was high on merh for 3 days. And it was very visual and i csn still describe ever asoecf if the demon.
Let's hear it...
I had very scary spiritual experiences while high on that same drug, and others. I didnt know at the time how much those substances can "thin the veil" and connect you with entities and open doors for certain things. Thank Jesus He saved me from all that, I have 6.5 years clean 🙏🏼
My son heard voices very often and saw all kinds of "beings" while on meth. He even filmed them. On those videos there was definitely something there, kind of hard to make out because it was always at night, but the sounds they made were very strange and downright scary. I didn't believe him at the time, I just thought it was strictly drug induced hallucinations. After he got clean all of it disappeared but he still says he remembers all of it and it was all very real, and now I believe him. It was definitely demons. Incidentally, as a child under 5, he used to have "nightmares" where he would see things even though he was actually awake.
I too have a witching hour experience. On the dot. Yep.
I did use drugs. I had no idea what i was doing and only wanted to get high not to divine anything. But yeah I was thrown into the other side. It was terrifying.
I need to know where preborn truly stands? If you know?
Dear family in Christ Jesus when the Powers of darkness seem to be near draw near to Christ and the Holy Spirit will take care of those wicked spirits they will flee at the word of God. I know the Lord fights our battles much love always in Christ Jesus 🙏
But as a Christian, how much of these experiences are related to sleep paralysis? I’ve had similar experiences before I was a Christian and continue to have similar experiences now that I am a Christian but have always thought it’s just sleep paralysis?
the re-enchantment is almost here, get your apologia ready
Deuteronomy 6 "mezuzah" thing... feel free to have an updated interpretation and application.
"And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates."
Doesn’t work for those not in Christ. And it doesn’t work for the Christian who uses scripture like some spell
2 or 3 am, as far as I recall, is the third watch of the night when Jesus walked on the water. At the darkest time of night, Jesus walked on the waves. He subdued the chaos and stilled the wind. He entered into our lives and ordered our chaos, brought us into the the Kingdom of light - out of the deep darkness we were in, the valley of the shadow of death, and rebuked the winds of doctrine that we were enslaved to. Jesus is amazing, all glory to God!
It is no suprise that the demonic will try to influence people at the darkest hour (both literally and metaphorically), but remember, our Lord and God Jesus Christ has shone the Light of His gospel into our hearts, separated the waters from the waters, and made what was once formless and void a vessel of honour for His glory alone. We are now temples of His Spirit, and greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world, amen. Maranatha Yeshua.
Have yall engaged with Michael Heiser or Doug Van Dorn?
“darkest before the dawn”
Watching this video, there is an ad every 2 minutes. Anyone else?? It's extreme.
Please meet with the right to life group in Colorado. They are abolitionists. They wanted to help the past bills. ( if you have a bill going in there)
Pay attention to the person at the back of the church! If you are not in front of “I did this! Someone that come in praises then leaves an nobody knows their name or who they are, and don’t come back and nobody misses, then we think or that person is not close to God that’s why they are gone! Is it true or maybe they might have en a counter with the demonic and no help! I hope this makes sense, I’m answering my own question if satan doesn’t know my name, I’m not doing enough for our God, but I have seen the person in the back of the church, and that encourages me to be a better person to everyone and to anyone!
There’s simply nothing Durbin doesn’t know,
Great point: Whatever the demon had planned it backfired. Tucker went right to a Christian then the Bible.
What do you do when you are a believer and oppression won't go away?
Deliverance ministry. I recommend Small Voice Ministries based in Winchester, VA. Pastor Mike Dean does phone counseling as well as in person. My testimony video is on his channel, under my name: Justin Sturz.
No need for false “deliverance ministries” you simply repent and trust in Christ and seek prayer from Godly men and women. God is faithful to His people
@@ScribeAlicious then after that?
Rebuke it in the name of Jesus by praying aloud.
I also believe that it can be from other humans hating on you, sending you bad vibes etc I believe it can manifest physically. That's why the bible tells us to pursue peace with all. It might be demons but it also can be from humans. That's my belief and experience.
Sorry but the part of Genesis 6 youre dead wrong. Its even proved by giant skeletons all over the world. They did not come from fall men being with godly woman. Otherwise there would still be giants around we are alle fallen. The daughters of set where still fallen. Nimrod was a giant. Or dou you think s normal human can hold a lion like a house cat? Its just foolishness to even think that.
Yeah, I was surprised to hear that they dismissed the traditional understanding of Nephilim. Definitely love Jeff but I totally disagree. If you start to look at the pre-diluvian Old Testament through the lens of tainted bloodlines due to the “Sons of God” aka watchers. The Flood and Gods wrath just makes much more sense. To be clear, I’m not saying that I need Gods wrath to make sense to me in order for it to be what factually happened. I recently dove into the watchers and concepts in the book of Enoch, it really brought clarity to the level of spiritual warfare that is going on.
Great discussion. But if you don’t think humans and angels could inappropriately have sex then what do you think the queers in Sodom were trying to do Lot’s guests? And why do you think Lot had such a wild reaction to go as far and tell them to take his daughters? I think it makes a lot more sense that hat he was fearful of seeing the same sin that occurred before God judged the world with a flood. Of course creatures ought to come after their own kind, God said so. But that’s also why it’s such an abomination to God.
I used to suffer from what is called "sleep paralysis"
It's when your body is asleep, but it feels like your mind is awake. I would feel trapped in my body. I would try to move my arm or leg so I could wake myself up, but it wouldn't work. And during this time I would feel as though I was suffocating.
I thought it was normal , that most people experienced this. I now know its not.After sitting on the fence about Jesus most of my life, I finally surrendered to Him completely 8 years ago. Since then, I have only had a couple of sleep paralysis incidents. I now know to speak the name of Jesus when it happens, and I wake up! Oppression is real. I'm just so thankful to my Lord Jesus that I am blood protected!! ❤
I infrequently get sleep paralysis. A few times I’ve even seen shadowy figures and once thought I woke up out of bed despite still being in paralysis. I doubt these are spiritual attacks. Do you think only your sleep paralysis was spiritual or everyone’s sleep paralysis is a spiritual attack? In my case, if I avoid sleeping on my back and get enough consistent hours of sleep, i don’t get paralysis.
@trevoncampbell2744 i personally feel all sleep paralysis are spiritual attacks because of the nature of them. They are typically frightening and seem to be dark. From my experiences any way.
@@Andrea-sw7rg I understand how it’s frightening, surprisingly I’m not so much afraid as I am focused on getting up. If i get paralysis again, I’ll try focusing on Jesus and see if that gets me up faster.
Although I’m skeptical of the idea that sleep paralysis is spiritual, as I am most people’s accounts of demonic encounters. I could see how God uses this very natural condition to make you afraid enough to seek something beyond the human experience. God used the condition as a vessel to get closer to him.
@trevoncampbell2744 The experience is not natural but unnatural. I'm just thankful there is power in the name of Jesus!
I cannot understand the mentality it takes to scream for the right to kill your babies 😢😢😢
18:00
Demons shape shift
15 minutes in, are we sure Tucker Carlson is coming?
Did Tucker take pictures of the wounds? Why would you not?!
Because it’s insane. Who would believe him? Maybe he was afraid and wanted to ignore it and rationalize it away
For the algorithm
I can't even watch my Christian channels now without ads being in my face. Stop trying to monetize everything. So darn sick of it.