Supernatural Blindness is the Rule, not the Exception

One of the main symptoms of demonic control–surely the most common one–is an inability to perceive the truth.

People think they believe what logic tells them to believe. The most emotional, least logical person I know loves to say, “I am a slave to logic.” This is a person who has excelled in a profession where the use of logic is key, so you can see why it would be easy to convince him all of his thinking makes sense. People think they draw conclusions through reason, but in reality, we believe what we want to believe, and demons have a lot of power over the desires, and therefore, the beliefs, of people who are not connected with the Holy Spirit.

Some conservatives like to say liberalism is a mental illness. This is true. Leftists are able to believe all sorts of inconsistent things; it’s why the left has so much internal conflict. Leftists think they are driven by compassion and other noble motives, but of course, anyone who knows their history knows they are angry people who turn sadistic and murderous when they get enough power.

Most conservatives are sick, too, and some of us are completely off the wall. There are conservatives who conflate conservatism with what they think is righteous racism. Conservatism has nothing to do with racism, but white racists tend to be conservative, just as non-white racists tend to be fervent leftists.

There are conservatives out there who still believe the birther theory, and some go father, claiming Obama was a left-wing plant, groomed from day one to assume the presidency in spite of his Kenyan citizenship. The state of Hawaii confirmed his place of birth, his mother was a citizen, and a 1961 Hawaiian newspaper had a birth announcement in it, but facts don’t matter to people who listen to demons. They will never believe Obama is a citizen.

Why am I writing about this? Because I just saw a news story so unreasonable, it made me think about demonic deception. A journalist named Greenblatt wrote a book about tyrants, and he compares Donald Trump to Shakespeare’s Richard III.

The story of Richard III is simple. He was not in line to wear the crown, so he killed everyone who stood between him and the throne. He was a completely evil person. He had no remorse or compassion. He came across as calm. He didn’t seem like an exceptionally angry person. He just wanted the crown, so he did whatever seemed likely to put him under it. His problem, more than anger, was an absence of love.

He was a bad person, but I don’t know if I would consider him a good example of a tyrant. A tyrant isn’t just driven by a desire for power (as Richard was); he is also driven by a desire to micromanage the lives of ordinary citizens. I don’t see that in Richard. Sounds more like Stalin or Castro to me.

No person with clear vision could fail to see the perversity of comparing Trump to a tyrant. A tyrant is a person who believes in all-powerful government. Trump is weakening the government and giving power back to individuals and states. He is against tyranny, although perhaps not sufficiently so to please libertarians. It’s impossible to be in your right mind and not see this.

1. Trump lowers taxes. Tyrants are known for increasing them or, in the case of leftist tyrants, confiscating some or all of the people’s property.

2. Trump is trying to reduce the government’s infringement of our Second Amendment civil rights. Tyrants take arms away from people and curtail their rights.

3. Trump is in an open war with the deep state, an ossified, securely entrenched complex of unelected bureaucrats who have tremendous power over us, and whose interests conflict with those of the nation and the administration which is supposed to manage them. Tyrants don’t get rid of oppressive bureaucrats. They multiply them. Think of Goebbels and Beria.

4. Trump made a rule that the government can’t add new regulations without getting rid of old ones. What kind of tyrant does a thing like that? Picture the Sheriff of Nottingham pulling a move like that. It would ruin the Robin Hood myth.

People have pointed out that Robin Hood was conservative, by the way. He robbed tax collectors and gave back to the taxed.

5. Trump instructed the IRS to stop enforcing the Obamacare tax, destroying the extraordinary, tyrannical new power Obama gave that agency.

I feel like I could go on all day.

You have to wonder what acts Trump has committed that could ground a charge of tyranny. My best guess is that the simple act of taking office suffices to stir up the libel. Accepting his Constitutionally sanctioned office after a reasonably fair election, and requiring enraged leftists to accept his authority, must be tyranny.

The anti-Trump character who wrote the book says Trump’s insistence on loyalty makes him a tyrant. That’s crazy. Tyrants insist on loyalty from every citizen. Trump merely demands loyalty from his underlings. That’s just a management style. It may be an excess, and it may be caused by a character flaw, but it’s not tyranny.

Is he saying Trump, who is clearly a champion of liberty in his professional life, is a tyrant solely with regard to those close to him? That doesn’t seem to be true. He has great relationships with his kids, and they would be the first ones to turn on him if he were a tyrant in his personal life. He’s an adulterer, sure, but that’s not tyranny.

If you want to see a politician with a truly tyrannical mindset, you have to look no further than Barack Obama. He forced us to buy medical insurance. He armed the IRS. He pushed socialism, which is inherently tyrannical. He wanted to take away our civil rights in the area of gun ownership. That’s classic tyranny. He did more to gut the Fourth Amendment–an anti-tyranny law–than any president in history. He sanctioned the killing, without trial, of American citizens by our military. He tried to prosecute at least one journalist. Where are the leftist journalists his tyranny upset? A few exist, but they have been marginalized.

It’s remarkable that conservatism has become associated with fascism, which has traditionally been the hallmark of leftist regimes. Communism is fascism, and it’s a leftist system. It infected about half of the world. It still controls China, where you can’t open a church because the government has taken over the religion business.

Doesn’t anyone remember the USSR? People couldn’t travel inside the country without permission. They couldn’t leave without permission. The state murdered them and turned them into slave laborers for doing things like writing pamphlets. How about Cuba? In Cuba, you can go to jail for buying or selling a steak. Slavery is still practiced in Cuba; the state makes slaves of dissidents and forces them to do disagreeable labor. Every neighborhood has government stooges who keep an eye on everyone and turn them in when they violate Cuba’s fascist laws.

Many people think the word “fascism” only applies to right-wing regimes. That’s crazy. Look it up. It’s an extremely ill-defined word. It means “authoritarianism.” It’s not tied to any particular system.

The definition may change to favor the leftist interpretation. Dictionaries used to be useful reference tools, and that’s still true if you use dictionaries written decades ago. Lexicographers used to find out what the correct meanings of words were and record them so we wouldn’t stray. Now they look around to see what ignorant people are saying, and they change legitimate definitions to match our errors. Merriam-Webster just changed the definition of “assault rifle” to include semi-automatics. Try selling a semiauto to any military organization on earth. They’ll laugh you out of the room. They’re strictly civilian weapons, and civilian weapons are not assault rifles.

Perhaps liberal scholars who edit dictionaries are changing the definition of fascism, but in the world of 2018, what’s in the latest dictionary and what’s correct are two different things.

Trump bears little resemblance to tyrants. Obama and Hillary Clinton are much more tyrannical, and Bernie Sanders is definitely a tyrant. Yet Trump, the person who moved our embassy in Israel to the ancient capital of Jerusalem, is the one who gets compared to Adolf Hitler.

Christians have ruined the world. We had a powerful supernatural religion which connected people to God and brought them wisdom, healing, love, provision, and safety, and we exchanged it for Catholicism’s ridiculous system of life-sapping, pathological rules. We turned Christianity into a game with a scoreboard. All that mattered to us were our violations and our forgiveness. We threw away real power, and we threw away the God-given ability to perceive the truth.

If we were still pursuing the Holy Spirit and the inner transformation he brings, we would be able to see the truth, and we would be able to help others see it. You can’t see the truth without supernatural help, because the forces that prevent you from seeing it are supernatural. If people were Spirit-led, they would agree about everything. God is consistent. He tells everyone the same things.

We’re supposed to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and that’s a baptism which doesn’t necessarily occur at salvation or during water baptism. We’re supposed to pray in tongues every day. We’re supposed to live in a state of confession and cast demons out of ourselves and each other. Every single one of us is supposed to hear from God. We’re not supposed to rely on ignorant old men in bizarre costumes, mumbling through lifeless rituals in gaudy cathedrals.

Our leaders should be setting us free, but they put additional chains on us. The Pope doesn’t know anything about God. T.D. Jakes doesn’t know anything about growing in Christ. A few lost people make their way to the top of corrupt human organizations, and suddenly we think they must know something. The high priests, who are probably in hell, taught in a big shiny temple, and the public adored them. Jesus didn’t spend much time there. He had to teach in streets and in people’s houses.

Most Christians don’t believe in demons. Most Christians who believe in demons think they’re rare, and that they only appear in crazy people. Many Christians think it’s an insult when other people suggest they have demons. We don’t admit we are controlled by demons. We think we’re too good. Because we don’t acknowledge the spirits that run us, they get a free pass to remain in us and invite friends. We develop sick lifestyles in which we share ourselves with them, like roommates sharing apartments. We get sick and die from things caused by spirits that should be cast out easily. We get worse with age instead of better.

I love it when God tells me I’m infected with a demon I didn’t know about. It’s an opportunity to be free of a problem I didnt’ recognize. I don’t find it discouraging or insulting at all. I wish he would give me a typed list of all of them, along with a list of things I need to do to get rid of them permanently. There is nothing like the feeling of relief when one of these things leaves.

Another problem: Christians think a demon only has to be cast out once. Completely wrong. They come back. The Bible calls Satan the Lord of Flies. What do flies do when you shoo them away? They leave for a while and come back. Because we don’t understand this, we get set free, and then our demons return, and we think we’re still delivered. Sometimes we have attitudes and behaviors that keep letting them back in.

Do you think the Pope is telling people about this? Of course not. He has no idea. He’s too concerned about spreading socialism and weakening our objections to poisonous habitual sins. Fighting fallen angels and demons is his job. It’s the sole reason for his office to exist. He has no clue.

Have you ever taken a problem to the government? Sometimes they help, but often they do virtually nothing, or they make things worse. Asking the government to solve a problem can be like adopting a leopard to get rid of your mice. That’s what taking your demonic issues to most preachers is like. They are useless or worse. They work for demons, themselves. How can they be expected to know how to fight their masters?

Priests will actually tell you to pray to saints, which is prayer to evil spirits who hate you. They’ll give you medals to carry. These are idols, and they are connected to demons. No wonder miracles are so rare in the older churches.

You can’t get anywhere with God if you’re relying on help from a Mary action figure on your dashboard.

Christians are obese. We are addicted. We are unable to stop sinning. We are filled with lust and hate. We are mentally ill. We are unsuccessful. We are worried. We are diseased. We are deformed. We lose battles with wicked people who don’t have God’s favor, every day. Somehow, we manage to reconcile our lifestyles of utter defeat with the victorious path the Bible describes. And we think we’re the ones who know the truth!

Prayer in tongues changes things. Like the rudder of a ship, which keeps it on course, a Holy-Spirit-guided tongue guides us out of error, ignorance, and slavery.

Most of us can’t or won’t pray in tongues. We think it’s demonic or that God decided to quit helping us 1700 years ago. Some of us think it’s optional, as if we get to decide which parts of God’s program we should accept. Some people know prayer in tongues brings us closer to God, and they reject it because they don’t want to be that close. They enjoy carnality too much, and they’re afraid God will take control away from them and change their lives in ways they won’t like.

We love struggling and suffering. We love thinking of ourself as shining martyrs whose failures are actually victories. God told me this: “We become proud through struggling in the flesh.”

When you tell God you don’t need his help, or that you don’t want his charity, you might as well be spitting on him and telling him you want Satan to win. God is a rich father, and he wants heirs who receive fortunes they did nothing to earn. No one has ever earned his help, and he is willing to give it to the lowest of the low. Pedophiles, rapists, Satanists…to God, they are not disposable trash. They are prime targets for redemption. The first person he saved was a criminal hanging on a cross.

God wants to cleanse us miraculously and to live inside us and communicate with us. He wants to heal us physically and give our minds rest and peace. We aren’t receiving these things because we rejected his system. People who accept the system have lives that are very different from those who think they have to earn everything.

The world is insane these days. People can believe anything. We fine people for refusing to say men are women. Many Americans think we shouldn’t screen people who enter the country, which is so absurd it shouldn’t even be considered debatable. We have socialist priests, in spite of socialism’s long history of hostility toward God. We have Jews who vote for liberals and rail against conservatives who are their only friends. Craziness is everywhere, and it will get worse. The only people who will have any immunity will be the Spirit-led, and everyone else will do their best to silence us and kill us (as they always have).

The Holy Spirit is the only protection we have from a complete loss of reason, and it doesn’t look like many of us are going to get to know him.