And No One Hit me or Anything

Mark Hemans is visiting the US, and he appeared in Tampa this weekend. My wife and I decided to go. I like his ministry, even though he says Christians shouldn’t criticize destructive, cult-forming preachers like Benny Hinn and Kathryn Krick. Everyone has a blind spot or two.

Another issue: he has a history of engaging demons in conversation during deliverance. This is a bad idea, in my opinion. You’re talking to a spirit that loves lying and hates humanity, and you’re putting him in front of thousands of people so he can have a big audience. Doesn’t seem wise to me.

The meeting was held in a small church near Tampa. It was about half full. No one will ever be able to lump Hemans in with the soulless megachurch preachers who contaminate thousands at a time.

I would guess most people were there for healing, since that is what Hemans is known for.

There were a bunch of autistic kids there. That was upsetting. Autism seems to be everywhere now. I don’t have a big social circle, but I can think of three autistic kids I know personally. People blame vaccines and, of course, Donald Trump, because there is nothing the left can’t pin on him.

Seems to me autism is caused by demons. Autistic kids do things similar to the things demoniac children did in the Bible. Many can’t talk, and they harm themselves.

Directly in front of me, there was a boy who looked to be about 8. As we sat down beside him, he smiled at me and grabbed my foot. I thought he was just friendly, but then I noticed other things. His father had to hold him in his lap, restraining him. He had something resembling a dog chew toy on a string around his neck. From time to time, he would throw his head back as hard as he could, trying to hurt his father. Although his dad was used to this, he took at least one hard strike that clearly caused him a lot of pain.

The boy smiled most of the time and seemed very happy, even as he was trying to knock his dad’s teeth out.

To the right of these two sat a lady with a sweet-looking girl who was probably about 4. She was smaller than my son, who is not yet two. Her mother held her most of the time. She also had a chew toy. She didn’t try to hurt anyone.

Behind us, there were two disabled kids in one family. They sat in special wheeled contrivances. One had her head down in front of her and couldn’t do anything but move it slightly. My wife told me. I didn’t want to turn and stare. The other was a little better off. One of them had a machine that went on periodically and made sucking noises. I believe it sucked liquids out of her throat to keep her from aspirating them.

My guess is that they had genetic deformities, since they were sisters.

There were other people there who were not doing well. Most were adults. Nobody else looked as bad as the paralyzed kids. There was an old lady with a walker.

Hemans came in after a while and prayed for various people. He says the Holy Spirit locates the ones he wants to heal or deliver, so it’s not like Hemans goes immediately to the people who seem to need help most. It’s not predictable.

After a while, he turned his helpers loose on the crowd. I got prayer for a minor shoulder problem, and my wife also received prayer. We didn’t meet Hemans.

Did we get any miracles? Did we see any miracles?

One odd thing happened. After they prayed for my left shoulder, which is taking a long time to get over an injury, my left shoulder seemed to feel better, but my right shoulder started hurting. Did a demon move from one shoulder to the other? No idea, but my right shoulder is fine now, and my left shoulder doesn’t seem to be improved.

Hemans went to the lady with the walker. She had bad disks, as I recall. He prayed for her, and she left the walker behind and walked around the church with him. I don’t remember the details, but she seemed better.

We did not see anything happen with the autistic kids, although I’m sure all received prayer eventually. We had our son with him, and there was no childcare, so we had to leave after a couple of hours. We did not see everything.

Sooner or later, the highlights will probably appear on Youtube.

He said that it was common for autistic kids to seem unchanged during a meeting and then recover quickly afterward. There are a number of testimonies about this on his channel, and they are very impressive. Kids who couldn’t talk, speaking suddenly. Kids who had never shared affection with their parents, hugging and loving them.

I thought it was great. I hope some people got healed and delivered. It was the kind of service I like. Generally, churches have people sing for a while, they provide boring sermons telling us to be nice to each other, and then they ask for money. We sang, and then there was a long healing session. Then Hemans talked about being Spirit-led. Then the helpers started doing healings.

It’s strange that most churches don’t send teams out to pray, deliver, and heal during services. We are supposed to do these things. Yeshua and the apostles did. The church gave up on the Holy Spirit about 1800 years ago and became powerless, and since then, most churches have spent their time making excuses for being impotent and attacking Christians who do what Yeshua did.

As of Friday morning, I did not plan to go to the service. I was a little disappointed in Hemans because he had defended awful preachers. Also, I know you don’t have to go see any particular preacher to get supernatural help.

Later on, I realized I wanted to be around Christians. Last week, America rejected God and put its antisemitism and love of covetousness and murdering babies on display in front of the world, and I was grieving because I knew my nation was finished. I thought being around Christians would soothe and encourage us. It did.

I have given up on America. It is hostile to people like me. I am not America’s enemy, but America is an enemy to me. The nation of my birth has chosen conceit, sexual sin of all types, greed, cruelty, idolatry, and persecution over the God who made it great. It’s not a Christian nation; Barack Obama was right.

In this world, Christians who are Spirit-led, as they are supposed to be, are foreigners with green cards. Nations tolerate us, as many nations have tolerated Jews without really accepting them, but we are also like Jews in that nations turn on us for no reason.

I don’t know why I should feel bad about losing enthusiasm about America. The people who won the election aren’t enthusiastic, either. They hate America. They are bringing in other America-haters as fast as they can to destroy the country.

I knew all these things before the election, but the election reopened the wound and rubbed salt in it. Americans–I almost said “We”–are descending into tyranny and turmoil. America will probably become a second-world nation soon, and China and other pagan countries will continue to ascend.

They are talking seriously about doing away with the Electoral College now. This is just more proof that the left is insane and has no principles. They falsely accuse conservatives of trampling the Constitution, but here they are, attacking an institution created by the Constitution; one of the institutions that makes us a republic, not a fascist, centrally-governed state.

Like the Senate, the College was created to prevent populous states from enslaving the rest of the nation. It wasn’t about the difficulty of counting ballots, as leftists would have you believe. It seems to me that if they get rid of the College, the Senate will probably be their next target, and after that, they can pass legislation to get rid of the state governments. Then we’ll all be forced to use invalid pronouns, and they’ll arrest us for tweets they don’t like.

Without the College, hostile foreigners and woke Americans will know that if they systematically move to California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Texas, they will run the country. They’ll be able to abuse the red people as much as they like.

Can they get rid of state governments? Of course they can. Congress can pass any law it really wants. It created the Constitution, and it can amend it.

The Civil War showed how little respect the federal government has for states’ rights. Personally, I am repulsed by the notion that people should be prevented from seceding and governing themselves. It’s what the CCP believes. But it has been federal policy since at least the 19th century.

The best way to start a civil war is to make part of your country subject to laws the people can’t endure. When they prefer risking their lives in war to living under your laws, they will put their lives on the line and try to break free. It appears that leftists will push and torture sane people as hard as they can, so I think civil war is highly likely.

Seceding to prolong slavery is obviously morally repugnant, but seceding to save yourselves from woke tyranny will make perfect sense if the suffering gets bad enough. There are worse things than civil war.

Because gun rights have expanded so much in recent years, and for other reasons, conservatives are not like prewar European Jews or other oppressed groups that have had to accept unbearable yokes. This isn’t 1860. The feds would not be up against a poor enemy with no industry, a small population, and limited weapons. The feds are having trouble with Iran. Fighting the red states would be much harder. It would never end unless the blue states agreed to a split.

I don’t want to be here when division and hatred get even worse. I am not going to sit on the sidelines and cheer for Americans killing other Americans. I don’t want to have to choose a side. This is not what God put me here for.