I am Here to Beat You With the Truth

God is showing me interesting things.

I wrote about Torben Sondergaard, the man who started The Last Reformation. The Danish press and government ran him out of Denmark. They passed a new law against “mental violence,” in response to the things his ministry did. The theory is that “mental violence” should be punished as though it were physical violence. Under the new law, casting a demon out of a person, in front of a minor or someone who has a disabiity, is mental violence.

It sounds very silly to sane Americans. In America, one of the marks of ignorant, unsuccessful cultures is that their members believe it’s okay to respond to words with physical force, equating words with violence. For example, many people think it’s okay to respond to a racial slur with a punch to the face. Of course, it’s not okay, nor is it legal. No matter how offensive you find words, you can’t touch another person simply because you object to what they say.

We know that words can’t be violence, in the traditional sense of our laws. People here who are still sane are amazed to see grown millennials whimpering and running to college deans and town councils, trying to get them to silence people who say things that challenge them. It’s an extremely pathetic spectacle. Today’s pampered, effeminate babies are nothing like the young men who swarmed recruiting centers on December 8, 1941, begging to be sent overseas to face Japanese bombs and machine guns.

These things are true, but still, God showed me that the speech-phobics have a plausible reason for trying to muzzle the rest of us.

Jesus said we were not defiled by what we ate. The Jews of his time were very serious about the dietary laws God had given them, but Jesus pointed something out: the things that defile a man are the things that come out of him. Forbidden foods didn’t actually defile people.

Somewhere deep inside each of us, there is a greatest depth, and the things we do and say start at this depth. Words and acts begin as urges from very far inside us. What you do and say depends on, and reveals, what you’re like at your greatest depth.

If you have a pure heart, you don’t just refrain from evil. It doesn’t even occur to you to do it or say it. Down deep, there is no seed that can grow into an evil word or deed. This is why God can’t be tempted. He has no desire to do evil.

Jesus said people who hated their brothers were murderers. You can be silent and choose not to act and still be counted among murderers, simply because you have the urge.

In Judaism, harming people with words is equated with murder. To God, “murderer” doesn’t just mean “person who has committed murder.” It describes a class of people by their intentions and desires, regardless of what they have actually done.

How is this relevant to the mental violence law and the astounding fragility of millennials? God showed me.

Americans are falling away from God, and most millennials don’t know him. That means they’re ruled by demons. When a spirit has great influence in you, it tries to express itself through you. This is why young people are obsessed with tattoos, self-mutilation, and the strange fashions we see today. It’s no coincidence that they tend to look like Nazis or prison inmates. Those people were heavily influenced by demons before hipsters and millennials came along. As demonic influence spreads, more and more people start to look the way demons want them to look.

Splitting your tongue and having painful hardware rammed through your genitals isn’t self-expression. It’s demon expression. You’re expressing the desires and passions of a dead person who has come to live in you.

It’s interesting. Demons are dead people who were sired by fallen angels (Matthew 23:27), and God removed them from the physical world. Now, through us, they have a chance to be born into bodies again. There is always symmetry in the supernatural, even when it comes to being born again.

In the physical world, casting a demon out is not violence. Here, language and violence are two different things. In the supernatural world, that’s not true. Exposing a demon and casting it out is similar to slandering someone or hating your brother. It expresses an intent to destroy. In the depths of your heart, if you cast out demons, you are similar to a murderer of demons. That’s how they see it. They fear you the way early Christians feared Saul of Tarsus.

The story of creation is a story of genocide. God and Satan are trying to rid the world of each other’s children. We really want demons to be gone for good, and they want a world where people like us don’t exist and can’t obstruct their plans. As far as demons are concerned, what we do to them is violence.

We’re going to lose. The word makes that clear. More and more laws will be passed. Physical violence toward us will be sanctioned by governments. We will have less and less success in reaching people. When things get so bad the return on God’s investment no longer justifies keeping us here, he will remove us. Then he’ll return and destroy the world so he can rebuild it and give it back to us. We will rule in the physical world as well as the supernatural world.

Torben refers to his ministry’s new property as an ark. You don’t need an ark if you’re going to win. An ark is a shelter for people who need protection. If we were going to win, Satan would be the one providing arks. He’s not doing that. He’s taking over cities and making a show of himself.

Speaking in obedience to the Holy Spirit should not be considered violence under our laws. The only forms of speech that have traditionally been restricted are very dangerous forms, like threatening to hurt people while you’re close enough to do it. It’s legal to say very nasty things. You can call someone’s mother a whore, legally, and if the response is violence, you can have the person you insulted arrested. No one should say things like that, but our laws shouldn’t equate it with violence. We live in a physical world, and laws that make sense in the supernatural realm don’t always make sense here.

Demons are very afraid of us, and they know we’re infinitely more powerful than they are. They really need to silence us in order to make their lives less miserable. They won a big battle in Denmark. Now you know what it was all about.

Remember what Jesus said to demons? He didn’t just tell them to leave. He said, “Be muzzled!” He didn’t let them say much. He knew how dangerous words could be. After all, he is the word of God, and look how dangerous he is. He is the most terrifying enemy imaginable. There is absolutely no way to protect yourself from him.

To the demon-infested, the Holy Spirit is a demon (John 10:20; John 7:20). It’s only natural that they should try to muzzle him by passing laws against us, as the ancient Jews tried (John 9:22; Acts 4:18). None of this should surprise us at all. It’s actually a great honor to endure this. If we were doing things completely wrong, people in power would be giving us honorary doctorates, putting us on corporate boards, and presenting us with Oscars.