Pam Sheppard

Author of Non-Fiction Christian Books

Chapters 1 and 2 of “THE NEW IDOLATRY.”

CHARISMATIC WITCHCRAFT

DEFINING THE TERM

Taken separately, the word ‘charisma’

in the thesaurus and the dictionary use
synonyms such as charm, allure and
dynamic glamour. Once attached to the
word ‘witchcraft,” at the highest point on
the spectrum, religious charisma
embodies a hypnotic magnetism akin to a
form of magical suggestion which can be
abusive if practiced by people with a self
aggrandizing motivation.

In his book “Christian Counseling and

Occultism,” the author quotes German
Professor Paul Diepgin in his definition of
magic. Magic from a religious or spiritual
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perspective is classified as the true

meaning of witchcraft. Witchcraft is
manifested according to two distinct
types: black magic and white magic.1

Black magic is Luciferian worship,

obviously practiced in the invocation of
Satan, devils and demons for the purpose
of persecution, vengeance and death
spells. White magic uses the names of the
Trinity, bible verses,---particularly the
psalms---and other religious symbols to
invoke, prosperity, health and healing,
protection, destiny and purpose, romance,
finances and fertility.2

In a nutshell, like New Age mysticism,

charismatic witchcraft is the practice of
white magic. For the sake of comparison,
consider how both a new age practitioner
and a Charismatic Christian would
approach a typical problem, namely, a
woman seeking to stop the infidelity of a
lover or husband. From the occultist, the
woman might be required to purchase a
defense enchantment like burying her
man’s shirt at full moon, while
pronouncing a curse or a magic formula
seven times. As the shirt wears out and
disintegrates in the ground overtime, so
also will the man’s love for the other
woman fade and dissolve.

1
Kurt E. Koch,, c 1972, Christian Counseling and Occultism,
Krigel Publications, 1994, pg 145
2
Ibid
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Both the occultists and those deceived

by charismatic teachings rely on the
credulity and readiness of those they
counsel and advise. In like manner,
charismatic witchcraft might approach this
classic problem from a variety of religious
perspectives, with the twist that God is
made amenable to the woman’s plans.
Supernatural dreams and visions labeled
the discerning of spirits, a word of wisdom,
a word of knowledge and prophecy,
intercessory prayers of “binding and
loosing” and the taking of scripture out of
their natural context and applying them
to the woman’s personal agenda are the
primary methods of choice.

In this instance, the woman might be

advised to pray over her man’s side of the
bed, anoint it with oil or holy water, name
it and claim it by sending forth evil
prayers against her man’s lover, in
unsavory ways un-befitting to Jesus Christ,
and pray controlling, manipulative prayers
to change the man’s behavior. Rather
than deal openly with the issues of
infidelity, sin and spousal abuse,
Charismatics are infamous for seeking
“the supernatural solution.”

Charismatic Witchcraft Parallels To the

Occult

Success, prosperity, self actualization,

man as a god with a small “g”, altered
states of consciousness, and various
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associated esoteric techniques embraced

by new age occultists also serve as the
foundation of the charismatic movement.

“If a witch doctor came

dancing down the aisle with
his paint, feathers, fetishes,
and rattles, most evangelical
churches would have enough
discernment to attempt to
convert him, and if that didn’t
happen, to put him out. But
the same witchdoctor, minus
the outward adornments of his
occultism, dressed in a clerical
collar or a business suit, with a
Phd in psychology and
teaching ‘success principles’
allegedly from the Bible, would
we welcomed and listened to
intently.”3

Anthropologist Michael Harner, one of

the world’s leading authorities on
shamanism (a modern word for
witchcraft), lists the new names under
which the basic elements of ancient
witchcraft are now widely accepted in
today’s world and church: visualization,
hypnosis, psychological counseling,
positive thinking, positive speaking,
(confession) and Eastern medication
techniques.4
3
D. Hunt, Countdown to the Second Coming, pg. 64
4
Michael J. Harner, The Ways of the Shaman: A Guide to
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In the early 70’s, as an atheist psychic

medium and astrologer, once I became
born again, it is not surprising that I would
be magnetized to and seduced by the
charismatic movement simply because of
its familiarity to white magic. So from a
personal perspective, I know better than
most that the tools of charismatic
witchcraft have an esoteric source. Even
a congregate worship service professing
to be Christian church is very similar to
tribal worship of ancient deities.

Pentecostal Influences of Charismatic

Witchcraft

Uplifting, often energetic, rhythmic

music with lots of percussion instruments,
led by dynamic, “charismatic”
personalities who prance, shout, run,
strut, slide and even dance across stages
and platforms are elements of a “worship
in the flesh.” Charismatic, Pentecostal
worship provokes an emotional,
sometimes demonstrative response, an
outburst of some kind. Extremely skilled
at manipulating a crowd by stirring up the
emotions, once sufficiently stirred, the
characteristic outbursts are shouts,
screams and similar outcries that will
ignite an entire congregation.

Healing and Power (Harper and Row, 1980 pg 36

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Demons use these kinds of outbursts

to counterfeit the Holy Ghost with
nonsensical laughter, shouting, falling
slain, rolling on the floor, running up and
down aisles, and even throwing money at
the feet of a prominent evangelist, and
other forms of emotional frenzy.

Most of the demonically tormented

people that I have counseled in the last
ten years were active members
charismatic and Pentecostal churches.
Some of them were set free but others
remain tormented. So it no longer comes
as a surprise to me that some of them will
never find relief from demonic torment. In
pastoral counseling, it is an empirical fact
that white magic practitioners who attend
Christian churches are so shackled to the
sin of idolatry, that release from demonic
captivity is unobtainable without a
thorough confession and renunciation of
charismatic witchcraft. As a consequence,
the spiritual pride deeply rooted in the
charismatic movement remains the
stumbling block as “God resists the
proud.”

The Baptism in the Holy Ghost

Charismatic witchcraft practitioners

have identified the speaking in tongues as
the evidence that someone is born again.
Yet I have found that those who are
demonically tormented spoke in tongues,
but under further examination, it as
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discovered that they were not saved

because they never repented and they did
not understand the resurrection of Jesus
Christ. One hundred years ago, Jessie
Penn Lewis warned the believers of her
day not to seek after signs:

“Again, in connection with the

seeking of ‘manifestations’ as
an evidence of a believer
having received the baptism
of the Spirit, methods have
been used to bring these
about, that synchronize with
the methods of mesmerism,
and thus counterfeits have
broken into the true church of
Christ. In other cases,
believers have had a true
influx of the Holy Spirit into
their human spirit, and
through ignorance they have
developed the psychic power
latent in the human frame,
and brought about mixture in
their own life and service for
God, eg. If a chorus is sung
over and over again, they can
bring a meeting into a psychic
condition, when those present
become incapable of
intelligent thinking, or any
decisive action of will. Thus
on a floodtide of psychic force
in the world today the demons
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are carrying out their plans

and purposes.”5

In a lecture concerning demonism and

psychotherapy, German psychiatrist Alfred
Lechler shed a somber light on demonic
captivity:

“What then must we regard as

the cause of demonic
enslavement or possession? If
we enquire closely from such
people as bear the marks we
have just mentioned, we very
often find in their background
the use of magic means such
as are employed in black
magic---acts of charming or
being charmed, the sin of
fortune telling or visits to
fortune tellers and card layers,
and participation in spiritist
sessions. Black magic is much
more prevalent than is
ordinarily assumed…When we
look into the Bible, we note
that it too is well acquainted
with enchantment. It is in Acts
19 described as a ‘prying art.’
(here we also find mention of
magic books.”

5
Jessie Penn Lewis, “Soul and Spirit,” Overcomer
Puublications, Printed in Great Britain by Gospel Press,
South Molton, Devon, pg.
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“together with spiritist

activities, magic stands in a
class of its own in relation to
other sins, when it includes an
appeal to Satan’s services or
even a formal pact with Satan.
The Bible speaks of this too
(Isaiah 28:15-18). For by
invoking Satan, man yields
himself unequivocally to
powers of darkness, in that he
attempts by magic and the
help of Satanic power to gain
something that God has
forbidden or withheld.”6

I must concur with the late Dr. Lechler,

a German who practiced psychiatry before
I was born. Five or more decades later,
what I have found astounding is that in
practically every case of demonic torment
among my own Christian clients, a
common factor is that 95 percent of them
were not demon possessed BEFORE they
went to a charismatic, “word of faith, non-
denominational church.

Fetishes

Within the history of religion in general,

fetishism is a form of magic, wherein an
artificial object is revered and regarded as
powerful enough to ensure protection.
6
Dr. Alfred Lechler, “Demonism and Psychotherapy”
Lecture given to the conference of doctors and pastors at
Hohe Mark on 7/5/1949.
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Likewise an amulet is a power-charged

fetish for protection against magic and
demons.7 Those who revere and depend
on fetishes and amulets are in danger of
transgressing the second commandment,
namely, not to make any graven images.
Even a cross suspended from a necklace
has a magical meaning. Written in 1972,
the passing of three decades reveals that
the problem has progressively worsened:

“Many a Christian worker

thinks so. It is evident here
that Christianity has become
infected with magic
influences. According to the
New Testament this intrusion
of magic elements turns the
Christian faith into a matter of
materialism and idolatry.
Pastoral experience shows in
many cases how this
superstition captivates men
and subjects them to magical
influences. It is not seldom
that houses protected by fire
charms and other fetishes and
amulets become haunted. 8

Prayer and Charismatic Witchcraft

Even prayer can be dangerous because

it descends into charismatic witchcraft
7
Koch, pg. 157
8
Ibid pg 158
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when the one who prays seeks to control

the lives of others. Soulish prayers of this
kind energizes psychic power by
projecting one’s thought on to the persons
that they are praying for, by saying that
such and such a person ‘shall’ do this or
that. Such prayers make demands upon
God to “make something happen.
According to Jessie Penn Lewis,

“Every prayer should be

directed Godward, and should
never be a telly the Lord what
to do for somebody else. We
may pray that God will direct
them what to do, but we ought
not to say that they ‘must’ do
what WE THINK is God’s will
they should do, or even that
they ‘shall not’ do what we
know is wrong.”9

I observed in a video clip a vivid

depiction of a charismatic witchcraft
prayer offered by well known evangelist
and associate of charismatic mega
prophetess Juanita Bynum, Rev. Cindy
Trimm. Before a congregation of at least
a few thousand, Trimm walked up and
down the platform, supposedly praying,
bellowing loudly: “I decree this and I
proclaim that.” With this esoteric, occultic
prayer, rather than God the Father of the
9
Jessie Penn Lewis, “Soul and Spirit,” Overcomer
Puublications, Printed in Great Britain by Gospel Press,
South Molton, Devon, pg. 75
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trinity, she really was addressing fallen

angels.

Once Trimm loudly proclaimed, “

Father, I decree that the spirit of the
Ashtar shall fall upon all the people, from
one end of the congregation to another,
the people fell slain in the spirit in what
looked like ocean waves. Ashtar is one of
the gods who calls himself an ascended
master who channels message through
New Age mediums. Ashtar claims to be
the military general of the fallen angel
known as Jesus Sananda Emmanuel, the
one I call “the Fake Jesus.” In fact, when
Charismatics praise and give thanks to
Jesus, Sananda is the one who receives
the worshiped and the adoration because
the fake Jesus is the invisible god behind
the practice of charismatic witchcraft.

HISTORIC OVERVIEW

Unfortunately, the Pentecostals and

Charismatics who claim that they are word
people rarely ever study history. A part of
rightly dividing the word is to interpret its
meaning in accordant with the most
relevant historical perspective.
Nevertheless, those who submit to
charismatic witchcraft preachers are
taught to randomly select scriptures out of
context. To discern the signs of the times,
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we need to understand what went on

yesterday, particularly about a century
ago.

It was a century ago that the seeds of

charismatic witchcraft as manifested
today were originally planted in the early
20th century. No different in the early
1900’s, the movement emphasized
supernatural manifestations, spectacular
crowds in the midst of deception, delusion
and confusion. The speaking in tongues
came to the forefront through the
ministries of two men, considered the
fathers of Caucasian and African American
Pentecostalism: Charles Parham of
Topeka, Kansas, and Parham’s black
student, William Seymore. Seymore is
credited as the leader of the Azusa Street
revival in Los Angeles while Parham is the
first to teach that tongues is the initial
evidence of the baptism in the Holy Ghost,
a dangerous false doctrine that has
filtered through the
charismatic/Pentecostal religion for more
than a century.10

A contemporary of both Parham and

Seymore, Jessie Penn Lewis, a prominent
leader of the Welsh revival, warned about
this false doctrine in her book, “Soul and
Spirit”, ---a warning that was clearly
ignored both yesterday and today:”

10
P. Sheppard, The Fake Jesus, pg. 134
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“Again, in connection with the

seeking of ‘manifestations’ as
an evidence of a believer
having received the ‘baptism
of the Spirit,’ methods have
been used to bring these
about, that synchronize with
methods of mesmerism, and
thus counterfeits have broken
into the true Church of Christ.
In other cases, believers have
had a true influx of the Holy
Spirit into their human spirit,
and then through ignorance,
they have developed the
psychic power latent in the
human frame, and brought
about mixture in their own life
and service for God, eg. If a
chorus is sung over and over
again, they can bring a
meeting into a psychic
condition, when those present
become incapable of
intelligent thinking, or any
decisive action of will. Thus,
on a floodtide of psychic force
in the world today, the
demons are carrying out their
plans and purposes.11”

Other charismatic leaders passed the

baton from one decade to another,
introducing an ever-increasing plethora of
11
Jessie Penn Lewis, “Soul and Spirit, A Glimpse Into Bible
Psychology, pg. 72
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esoteric teachings in what is labeled as

“moves of God”. By the 1970’s,
authoritarianism was widespread through
the predominant influence of what is
referred to as the
Shepherding/Discipleship Movement.

The domination and control of the

sheep for the hidden motive of self
aggrandizement of various church leaders
paved the way to the suppression of God’s
people through the teaching called
“spiritual covering” and the rise of what is
called the Apostolic Movement. Connected
to the “fivefold ministry” teaching which
dictates the ultimate power of the
apostles, over the other ministry gifts and
the church at large, charismatic
witchcraft presupposes that apostles and
bishops have the power to provide what is
referred to as “spiritual covering” to all
ministers and all church members.

Implicit to spiritual covering is the false

teaching that God’s people cannot trust
their own spiritual discernment or
judgment for even the most mundane
issues of life, defying the scripture where
the Apostle John wrote that we all have an
unction from the Holy Ghost, and as such,
we need no man to teach us. (I John 19-
27) Consequently, domination,
manipulation and control are intrinsically
built into charismatic oversight---an open
door for the sheep to be spiritually abused
in their dependent reliance upon obtaining
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permission from appointed elders about

practically every aspect of their lives.

“The abuse and

exploitation occurring in
groups where these hyper-
authoritarian systems of
governance are instituted
come in various shapes and
shades. In a nutshell, the
‘dumb sheep’ are taught they
cannot trust their own
judgment or ability to receive
direction from the Lord for
even the most mundane
decisions of their lives, but
rely instead upon the
supposed transcendent
wisdom and superior
spirituality of their human
‘shepherds’’.

Typically, submitants must

obtain the approval of their
group gurus for virtually all
domestic matters and
decisions; matters of romance,
such as who members date
and marry; health and
insurance matters,
employment and career
matters, and most of all,
regarding every detail of
members’ personal finances,
which requires their leaders’
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approval for practically every

significant expenditure.” 12

Passivity and Charismatic Witchcraft

The passive condition of a churchgoer

is when he or she becomes like a puppet,
a robot, even a machine. Passivity can be
obtained by a wrong interpretation of
scripture. For example, consider a
Christian woman who takes the scriptures
that say she must “submit to her
husband” which lead her to passively
accepts persistent battery from her
husband’s fists because she believes also
that because the bible says that God hates
divorce, she has no other choice but to
submit to her husbands every wish and
demand, regardless of how demoralizing
or revolting.

Some passive Christians are like

helpless zombies, unable to take
corrective action where necessary. On the
charismatic side, good people have been
deceived into accepting all things
supernatural as “of the Lord’ and
consequently, they have made “a voce
from God’ as the deciding factor in every
matter, both trivial and important.
Passive believers have also suppressed
their personalities to such an extent that
they can’t distinguish their own persona

12
http://www,charismatic-captivation.com/?page_id=141
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from the demonic influences that bind

them.13

Dominion Theology

Yet another heresy crucial to the

emergence of spiritual humanism
component of Charismatic Witchcraft is
“Dominion Theology.” Crossing several
lines with diversified applications, one
central endtimes related issue is dominion
theology’s supposition that Jesus Christ
cannot or will not come back to earth until
the organized charismatic church has
taken control of the earth’s political and
social institutions. Strongly connected to
New Age thought, Charismatics teach that
man’s self actualization is his personal
pursuit of freedom in his progressive
attainment of how own personal state of
Christ like divinity. In other words, if we
all develop our “Christ Consciousness”
within, we will become “gods” with a small
“g.”

Dave Hunt, a best selling Christian

author lays it on the line:

“Peale, Schuller, Robertson,

Hagin, Copeland and others
have brought into the church
ancient occultism as part of
the ‘signs and wonders’ and
13
P. Sheppard, “Come Out of Her, God’s People,” 2010, pg.
198
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‘prosperity’ movement
foretold in Scripture. Many
Christians now assume that
our thought and words, not
God, control our destiny---that
we are little gods capable of
creating our own world.”14

Along these same lines, there is very

little difference between dominion
theology and new age occultism, as
demonstrated by the words of leading
proponent Earl Paulk, the pastor of Chapel
Hill Harvest Church in Atlanta, as
compared to a message channeled
through a new age medium. Note the
similarities in the two statements:15

“Christ in us must take over the dominion

over the earth. The next move of God
cannot occur until Christ in us take
dominion.” (Paulk)

“One by one, great awakened souls are

coming forth who will become clearly
conscious of their own mighty, inherent
God Power and such as these will be
placed in all official positions of
government.” (This is psychic medium’s
message from a fallen angel)

POWER EVANGELISM AND CHARISMATIC

WITCHCRAFT
14
Dave Hunt, Countdown to the Second Coming, The Berean
Call, 2005, 62-63
15
P. Sheppard, The Fake Jesus, pg. 80-81
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Also in the 1980's, yet another

movement appeared on the religious
scene which made the Pentecostal/
charismatic false teachings even more
appealing and dangerous. Why? Because
this movement promoted the same, basic
unscriptural doctrines held by
Pentecostals and Charismatics while, in its
inception, disclaiming any relationship to
either of these groups, thus making it
especially attractive to evangelicals and
fundamentalists who did not want to wear
the charismatic label.
The impetus for this new movement
came largely from several widely
circulated books and many lectures to
evangelical groups around the world by
Dr. John Wimber, founder of the Vineyard
Christian Fellowship [now deceased,
Wimber was never healed of his cancer,
despite his supposed healing miracles
ministry], and Dr. Peter Wagner of Fuller
Theological Seminary Institute of Church
Growth.
Both men greatly influenced each other
and, as they experimented with various
teachings and practices related to
"healing, miracles, signs and wonders,"
they soon augmented the Pentecostal
and charismatic errors. They claimed that
the exorcising of so-called "territorial
spirits" was essential to complete the task
of world evangelization; and, that God had
re-established the offices of prophet and
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apostle with those supposedly holding

these offices receiving direct messages
from God for the church, and exercising
divine authority over the church. The
“territorial spirits” teaching also combined
with the false teachings inherent in
deliverance ministry, exposed in the next
chapter.
This newest movement is often
referred to as "Power Evangelism or the
"Third Wave of the Holy Spirit."
Ecumenical in scope and decidedly worldly
in practice, the three so-called "waves of
the Holy Spirit" (Pentecostals,
Charismatics and Power Evangelism
teachers) have now blended into a
powerful coalition which has rapidly
spread and become a political force to
reckon with. These are the present day
“Tea Party” antagonist to President
Obama’s administration. Even more
destructive from a biblical perspective,
“the Third Wave” is a huge part of the
religious monstrosity predicted by Paul to
Timothy when he warned that in the last
days, some would depart from the faith
because they gave heed to doctrines of
devils through the ministry of seducing
spirits..16

The “Slain in the Spirit” Phenomena

A universally accepted experience to

all Charismatics, after what I witnessed in
16
Taken from an Internet articled called
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the Cindy Trimm video clip, I suspect that

the slain in the spirit experience falls
under the domain of the fallen angel
known as Ashtar. Christians have fallen
under the power since the 1760’s. It was
a common expression among the Shakers
and also one of the signis of the ministry
of Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844-1924),
known as “the trance evangelist.” About
15 years before the Azusa Street Revival
that started the Pentecostal Church, Etter
began manifesting the phenomena in her
meetings in 1885.17
The practice was not widespread in
Pentecostal circles after Etter’s death,
until the advent of another woman
evangelist named Aimee Semple
McPherson. (1890-1944). Founder of the
charismatic church called Foursquare
Gospel, McPherson died of a barbiturate
overdose.
The next major figure to manifest the
falling of multitudes in her meetings was
not Benny Hinn, but Kathryn Khulman, one
of Hinn’s mentors. In fact, I’ve hearn Hinn
testify that it was at Khulman’s gravesite
that he received “the power.” In the 90’s,
John and Carol Arnott of the Toronto
Airport Church laid hands on people and
they fell. The first time I witnessed the
phenomena on a “mega” scale was at the
Kenneth Copeland Believers Convention
held in Atlanta Ga in October, 1983.
However the first time was at my home
17
P. Sheppard, “The Fake Jesus,”pg 144
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church when a Pentecostal woman

evangelist from Buffalo NY laid out our
entire congregation on the floor, all except
me.18
Even though I didn’t fall myself at that
time, in the first 10 years of my ministry I
longed for that same power, until I finally
obtained it in the 90’s. For at least a
decade, I not only laid my hands on
people and most of them fell, I also could
wave at a few, or look at them intensely
and they would fall slain to the ground or
slump in their seats, practically
unconscious. What caused me eventually
question the phenomena was that as a
pastor, I noticed that the members who
passed out slain the most were the ones
who also backslid the most.
For example, I could wave my hand or
blow a breath at one of them and he’d fall
to the ground like a limp dishrag. Yet,
before the day was over, he was drunk---
and I don’t mean by the Holy Ghost. And
there were several others that I observed
who did not really abide in Jesus. So I
humbled myself to the fact that from a
personal perspective, this thing could not
be godly. Searching for how the slain in
the spirit practice might possibly fulfill
Satan’s agenda, I have connected it to the
importance of the altered state of
consciousness. An altered state provides

18
www.bible.ca/tongues-slain-in-spirit.htm, 10/7/2002
“Pentecostal ‘Slain in the Spirit is occult, non-Christian and
unbiblical”
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demons and devils the opportunity to

“walk in” to our souls. Like yoga,
hypnosis, TM, chanting, and other
practices that induce an ASC, falling slain
falls into this category. Fallen angels are
on stand-by, patiently waiting for a
charismatic to fall slain. Once these
entities spot an opening, they seize the
opportunity to enter one’s soul.

Charismatic Divination

New age divination is a branch of white

magic whose primary goal is to obtain
secret knowledge, particularly
supernatural insights into the future.
Likewise, religious divination is the art of
producing results beyond human ability
and claiming that God Almighty is the
source, when in reality, invisible
superhuman entities manifested the
results.

The difference between charismatic

divination and occultism lies in the fact
that generally the dreams, visions and
prophetic messages of charismatic
practitioners are usually spontaneous
experiences, which “come over” or
“overtake” the professing Christian
without apparent preparation or mental
volition on his or her part. For this reason,
the gullible and unsuspecting assume that
the supernatural information must be from
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God. On the other hand, psychics make

use of omens, potions, amulets, tarot
cards, the I Ching, tea leaves, crystal
balls, Ouija boards and a plethora of other
tools to interpret the signs believed to be
in them to predict the future.

Charismatic diviners have the same

purpose. They simply use tools that they
claim are the nine biblical gifts of the Holy
Ghost, particularly those labeled “the
revelation gifts:” a word of knowledge, a
word of wisdom and the discerning of
spirits. What charismatic teachers fail to
understand is that Paul wrote the
Corinthian letter about these gifts without
defining them or explaining any specifics
as to how they operate. In fact, no texts
in the bible actually define these gifts.

Yet charismatic ministers like the late

Kenneth Hagin and Oral Roberts have
defined the gifts according to 3
categories. Beside the revelation gifts,
Charismatics teach that the other 6 gifts
fall under the categories of power
----healing, miracles and faith--- and the
utterance gifts of prophecy, tongues and
interpretation of tongues. It bares
repeating that Paul provided no specifics
in any of his letters on how these gifts
manifest, other than to indicate that they
do not operate by the will of man but of
God only. As occultists obtain
supernatural information according to
their own wills, Charismatics believe that
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their power to predict the future only

operates according to the will of God.

Nevertheless, the acceptable

presupposition underlying all methods of
divination is that certain superhuman
spiritual beings exist, are approachable by
man, possess knowledge which man doe
not have, and are willing upon certain
conditions known to diviners to
communicate this information to man.
The word, in its etymological significance,
carries with it the assumption that the
source of the information is obtained from
supernatural beings.19

THE HIDDEN MOTIVE

The demonic hidden agenda of both

New Age divination and charismatic
witchcraft is simple, once experienced.
Without a doubt, the disappointment one
endured by one who has received a
prophetic message that obviously did not
come to pass can be catastrophic. A case
of occultism is a shocking example from a
post World War Two period:

“A young woman whose

husband was missing went to
a card layer to find out
whether he was still alive. The

19
Merrill Unger, pg. 121
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fortuneteller replied, ‘your

husband is dead.’ The wife
waited three months and
again visited a card layer to
find out about the uncertain
fate of her husband. Again,
the answer was ‘your husband
will not return.’ She went
home in despair, and turning
on the gas killed herself and
her two children. The next
day, the husband returned
from a Russian prison camp,
and found the dead bodies of
this three loved ones.” 20

Divination within the organized church

community is also aimed at controlling the
lives and destinies of gullible people.
Pulpits are filled with diviners and
soothsayers---“charismatic hype
masters”---that have no other message
but one that caters to our flesh. Like the
occult card layers, the divination of old
has progressively worsened in our time
because the “church community” is
flooded with countless pseudo-profits as it
sweeps across worldwide Christiandom, it
leaves some devastated people in its path.

As they prophesy presumptuously in

the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
declaring things that He has NOT spoken
to them is comparable to New Age
divination. As they boldly and confidently
20
Koch, Christian Counseling and Occultism, pg 82-83
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declare, “thus saith the Lord,” fallen

religious angels are leading God’s people
away from the truth. Any power or
influence that seeks to control the future
of others is unquestionably demonic.21 The
Lord declared, “I will bring such evil upon
Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever
heareth it both his ears shall tingle. And I
will stretch over Jerusalem the line of
Samaria, and the plummet of the house of
Ahab; and I will wipe Jesusalem as a man
wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it
upside down.” (II Kings 21:12,13)
CHAPTER 2: UP CLOSE AND
PERSONAL

The vast majority of my clients for

deliverance counseling have not only been
wiped and turned over like a dish. Those
severely tormented have disclosed that
their ears tingled. At first, I assumed the
ear tingling was a demonic sign. Perhaps
in His great disdain for charismatic
occultism, the tingling of the ears is God
Himself, reacting to present day idolatry.

The primary strategy of religious fallen

angels is to build a solid, seemingly
impregnable bridge between its target’s
propensity toward supernatural signs and
wonders and a rather intricate,
intersecting freeway of clever counterfeits
2
21

http://truthcontinuum.tripod.com/Divination.html, 8/10/10
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of the divine presence and operations of

God. With subtle suggestions, frequent,
almost constant dreams and visions, with
outstanding predictions of the future,
particularly ministry, the goal is to cause
the target to renounce God and the
Christian faith.

With clever counterfeits of the Holy

Ghost, religious demons had me in a
spiritual noose. Since I believe that God
has released strong delusion in the 70’s, I
simply got swept into the trap along with
other Christians, too numerous to fathom
a count. As Paul warned the
Thessalonians, strong delusion will cause
even God’s elect to believe a lie. Since I
was a psychic prior to my salvation,
believing a lie was made easy. What is
virtually impossible is to become “un-
deceived” once ensnared. Yet, I am living
proof that with God, “all things are
possible” After almost 3 decades, I
successfully escaped, with my faith in
Jesus Christ stronger than ever. I believe
that I have been victorious because of my
love for the truth and the fact that I do not
judge success and failure by the standards
of the world.

Once saved in 1977, my charismatic

deception began in the early 80’s when I
was introduced to the ministries of the two
Kenneths: Hagin and Copeland. These two
men provided what seemed to be biblical
explanations to some of the strange
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supernatural manifestations that I had

already experienced, particularly
travailing in the spirit. A power often
gripped my spirit, brought me to my
knees, where I wailed, moaned, groaned
and sobbed out a river of tears while my
mind was totally unaware of how or why
these strange happenings occurred. Once
I began to seriously study the audio taped
messages of Hagin and Copeland and
several others along the way, these
teachers provided the confirmation that I
believed I was looking for. I met both men
face to face at their meetings. In the
Hagin meeting of 1982 in Albany NY, I
began to speak in tongues.

It is difficult to describe what I

experienced. Inside my body, in the chest
area, I felt like something inside of me
flipped, twisted and turned. When the
manifestations were particularly strong,
water flowed from my eyes. Sometimes
the feeling was so intense that I could not
speak or even stand. Most of the time, I
was bent over. For too many years, I was
led to believe that this inner turmoil was
God’s way of saying “Yes! Go for it. I’m
with you, Pam. This is God. Don’t resist,
but just experience this flow of My Spirit.”
I accepted every chill and goose bump as
a sign of what I believed to be “a
quickening of the Spirit.”

As I point out elsewhere in this chapter,

I also believed that I had a healing
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anointing because my hands often tingled

and burned. Other times, it felt like I was
electrified, as if struck by a bolt of
lightening. For example, any time I stood
in a circle holding hands on each side of
me, I’d feel pain in my hands. The
feelings in the hands caused me to
function like a barometer, able to tell by
touching if a person was demonized.
Through charismatic teachings, I believed
that “the feeling” was simply a
manifestation of the gift of “discerning of
spirits.”

When I laid hands on people to be

released from their affliction, their pain
left their bodies and I could feel it enter
my hands. When I declared such persons
healed, most of the time, they were.
There were also other times when I
predicted the future and I was correct.
This is the classic trick of the enemy to
trap a Charismatic by the truth so that he
or she will continue to ignorantly practice
divination.

My eyes began to open in 2003 when

one of my predictions did not come to
pass. To make a long story short, I was
hoping to reconcile with my husband even
though his behavior was an obvious fact
that he no longer loved me. One day,
while sitting at the computer, the
quickening of chills, goose bumps, eyes
pouring out water, inner flips and
tightness began, regarding my husband’s
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love for me. With this experience came a

sentence: “ Your husband’s love for you is
so strong, that you can have faith in it, as
you have faith that the sun will also rise
tomorrow. So trust in him.” By 2004, my
husband was deeply in love with another
woman. Consequently, for the first time, I
began to question the source of the
supernatural manifestations upon my
flesh. With each question, the Lord
answered me and I was finally completely
un-deceived, fully released from demonic
deception. In fact, I rarely hear from
demons and devils these days.

My autobiographical work, “Come Out

of Her, God’s People” provides the details
of how I escaped charismatic witchcraft
and New Age occultism. In retrospect,
what I believe kept me stuck in
charismatic witchcraft were various
incidents where I predicted events and
situations that actually transpired. The
most outstanding tool of my deliverance
was the book “War on the Saints” by
Jessie Penn Lewis. Unfortunately,
countless of God’s elect have not yet
escaped. It concerns me that too many
have even died, still deceived. In this
very hour, Christian women and some
men continue to bombard heaven’s gates
with prayers and fastings focused on a
particular person as the “God sent one” to
be their future spouses. It’s a trap of the
enemy.
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In every single case that I am aware of,

every little coincidence about the
“intended” served as a flashing sign from
heaven that a casual acquaintance would
culminate in a happy marriage, where the
couple would serve the Lord together in
ministry. Moreover, divination in the form
of dreams and prophetic words received
from charismatic Christians were accepted
and believed to be confirming signs. In
most cases, those who anchored their
faith in these kinds of predictions
experienced devastating disappointment
that shipwrecked their faith in Jesus Christ.
In fact, demonic mockery is evident in
several cases where “the intended”
actually married someone else. Most of
the emotional outcomes are tragically the
same, including and not limited to severe
depression, anger at God, and
blasphemous thoughts and utterances.

So I know from personal experience

that Charismatic practitioners are skilled
at minimizing the similarities between
divination and divine biblical prophecy,
either intentionally or ignorantly blinded
by the essential and radical differences
between the two. Once born again, I
came out of the New Age Movement in a
few short years. Quite the reverse, it took
me a few decades to realize that my
former lust for supernatural information
detrimentally served as a hindrance to my
personal faith in God’s care and provision.
Whether from God or from a religious devil
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assigned to me, I did not actually ask or

seek supernatural knowledge, but once it
was obtained, I most definitely savored it.
From personal experience, I know without
a doubt that those who desire such power
are susceptible to demonic deception.
With supernatural experience as an
overall charismatic expectation, it is
predictable that counterfeits will continue
to flourish.

God’s displeasure with both black and

white magic is graphically set forth in the
old testament. As one who loved secret
knowledge, nothing but the grace of God
protected me from the plagues of both my
occult activity prior to being saved and
decades of charismatic teaching. As
Charismatics perceive themselves as a
spiritual army who are taking the kingdom
of God by force, intelligent thought and
“common sense” no longer play any part
in the way they consider their situation.
Objectivity and rationalism have been
discarded and replaced by a dependence
on emotion, sensation and even hysteria.
Like those who seek psychics, astrologers
and other occult prognosticators,
Charismatics have become prophecy
addicts who live in anticipation of the next
word.

In the midst of crowds of gatherers,

people come to be led by shamanistic
men and women who know how to “turn
them on” with just a wave of a hand. On
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more than one occasion, I watched in

amazement as a well known TV
evangelists ordered apparently sensible
people to turn to their neighbor and with a
wave of their hand, shake their neighbor’s
problems away. To watch the people
immediately obey without thinking at all
was a scary thing indeed. Any one with a
sound mind would know that problems do
not “fly away” by a wave of the hand. The
scary part is that mega-evangelists
Kenneth Copeland and the late Kenneth
Hagin have told congregations to bark like
dogs and cluck like chickens, and I have
seen youtube video clips of these services,
where bedlam broke out with barking and
clucking. I’ve seen some women in these
clips, curl up in their seats like pythons or
cobras.

What I perceived when I used to watch

Christian television was a strange
epidemic that I did not perceive to be in
control among the denominations - a kind
of contagious disease - spreading itself
among gullible people and rendering them
incapable of commonsense, objectivity
and intelligent thought. Those who have
embraced this delusion seem totally
unaware of the irrationalism that grips
them. They are mesmerized by what I also
call “charismania”---a counterfeit, false
power.

What do I say about such people? Well,

I perceive that through the practice of “a
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new idolatry,” they are like drunkards

“under the influence” of a STRONG
DELUSION, that they should believe a
LIE ...” (2 Thessalonians. 2:11) I personally
am acquainted with Charismatic followers
who are so deluded that they are
practically possessed. Consequently, they
are being tormented n one way or another
—ie, poverty, panic attacks, hearing
voices, obsessions and compulsions. The
Lord has revealed o me that the torment
that professing Christians are enduring
today is a kind of blessing, for if they were
not tormented by demons, they would not
know that something is sp assuredly
wrong. cause of the arrogance of this
present day Laodicean church, they would
not know that they are poor, blind and
naked. These are the “word” folk for
whom the word is not working.

In churches that were only a few years

old in the early 80's , unlearned pastors
trained by audio cassette tapes and mini-
books of mega-ministers like Kenneth
Copeland and Kenneth Hagin were
establishing the foundation for charismatic
witchcraft. They formed little elitist
networks among themselves as the un-
churched folk started to flock in. At that
time, the preaching centered on faith,
name it and claim it, believe and receive,
speaking in tongues, healing and miracles.
In the late 80's early 90's, the prosperity
message rose to a prominence that
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became even more popular than the other

doctrines and teachings.

As a ministerial member of a
denomination for twenty-five years, I
personally watched and experienced how
the sin of legalistic traditionalism and
religious hypocrisy have desecrated main
line denominations, permeating like
leaven from top leadership in a circular,
downward, then in an upward spiral. As
the root of the denomination is rotten,
there is no genuine fruit. Notwithstanding,
the deception in the charismatic
movement spreads far beyond just a few
pastors or a handful of local
congregations. Ministers and laypersons
who have never seen each other are
mimicking the same key people. Leaders
watch and imitate leaders who in turn
learn from other leaders and pass on the
same false doctrines.

Consequently, from personal

experience I have come to believe that the
sin of deception can be even more
destructive to the Body of Christ than
some of the more obvious sins of the
flesh. The cure for sin is to simply repent,
receive forgiveness and cleansing in the
blood of Jesus and then to practice
righteousness. This is the formula
prescribed in the word of God that
denominational preachers can follow to be
delivered of sins like lust and fornication.
At least one can repent of personal sin.
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Yet much more complicated than the

sins of the flesh, I have personally
witnessed a spiritual snobbery among the
charismatic movement that is extremely
difficult to penetrate, not just among the
ministers but among the members as well.
I call it a charismatic witchcraft but the
bible calls it strong delusion, the spirit of
error and worst yet, the spirit of the anti-
Christ. The spirit of the anti-Christ is the
unseen force behind charismatic
witchcraft and I am afraid that the only
way to wipe it out is through a spiritual
earthquake.

Also known as “word of faith,” It’s

almost as if charismatic believers are
acting under the influence of a delirium;
that they are in a state of intoxication and,
as a result, are incapable of telling the
difference between truth and lies, or
understanding the danger that they face.
The root cause of this delirium is that its
doctrines and practices are rooted in
fostering a state of spiritual intensity of
shouting, stomping, wailing, screaming in
a form of intercession where “the violent
take the kingdom by force.” Therefore,
force is the catalyst for the intense energy
that is thought to be evidence of the Holy
Ghost.

At that time, most of the first

members of these new, non traditional
churches either came from the streets
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themselves or they left one word of faith

church to join another. There was a lot of
"sheep stealing" in those days. In the 90’s,
traditional, denominational church folk
wanted "in" on all the excitement and
started to leave their stagnant, dry
denominational churches to become a
part of the word of faith, charismatic
movement. As frequented worship
services in various charismatic churches, I
witnessed several people respond to the
altar calls, appearing as though they got
saved. More than 20 years later, I am now
meeting some of these people again.
Today they are contacting me to be set
free because they are infested with
tormenting demons.

One particular case in point is a

microcosmic example of a globally
endemic infestation. Back in the early
80’s, there was always a great deal of
gleeful buzzing whenever the charismatic
community released news that Pastor
Mason Romano was coming to town. Word
spread like wildfire because Pastor Mason
was an exciting, extremely handsome
young man with a professional sounding
singing voice. In fact, it was well known
that Pastor Mason had obtained a degree
of personal success in the secular music
industry prior to pulpit preaching. His
claim to “Christian fame” was that he had
been the right hand of a well known and
renowned evangelist of radio and
television prominence, a name always
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repeated in Mason’s bio. His connection to

a famous ministry was instrumental in
Mason’s ability to establish 5 small
denominational churches in the northeast
of New York State. Mason himself founded
and continues to pastor a church in a New
England.

On several evenings, I attended

Mason’s revivals. I never was quickened in
my spirit when he preached, but he truly
ministered to my spirit when he sang. He
was a guy with a lot of “ham”, a true
performer---a real showstopper. Even
though I found Mason to be a bit cocky,
there was nothing boring about him and I
enjoyed him. In fact, Mason reminded me
of a Christianized Frank Sinatra. “Ole Blue
Eyes” had always been one of my favorite
actors and singers, with a flair for stand up
comedy. Since the subject of most of
Mason’s messages were about “come and
get your miracle”, I thought to myself,
”well, who knows! Maybe this will be my
night.” It was also in Mason’s ministry that
I sat “up close and personal” as I watched
intently the phenomena of being “slain in
the spirit.”

Its been more than 20 years since I sat

in one of Mason’s worship services.
Recently, I received an email request for
deliverance from a woman who, on the
surface, seemed well rooted in the word of
God. Since no one can stand his ground in
spiritual warfare unless he be saved, I
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began to enquire into this particular

client’s salvation experience as a prelude
to deliverance counseling. One thing led to
another and as I listened to the client’s
story intently, I interrupted her “with, what
is the name of the church where you ‘got
saved?’.” When she told me the name, I
knew who the pastor was. She was a
member of Pastor Mason’s church.

This tormented woman had arrived at

the altar ten years ago at the invitation of
Pastor Mason in his home church. Today,
she tearfully admits that she has never
experienced the fruit of her salvation. She
confessed that as she listened to a radio
broadcast a few years ago, for the first
time, she realized that something was
wrong with her spirituality. However she
did not know what to do to make things
right. I revealed to her that at no fault of
her own, she was not saved. I
remembered that Pastor Mason always
assumed that everyone assembled at his
meetings was saved. To the lost, it was
simply “come on down to the altar and
receive without preaching about sin, the
cross and repentance. Since she did not
respond to the Savior through conviction
for sin, I suggested to her that she
probably picked up a religious demon at
the altar.

Yet another one of my clients came to

an altar at a Charismatic church 15 years
ago. Carol has been slain in the spirit
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countless times, yet she wakes up

everyday afraid to take a shower,
believing that the shadows she sees over
her food is human excrement. This
particular client responded to an invitation
after a sermon was preached, was led to
recite the sinner's prayer, given the right
hand of fellowship and declared to be
saved,--- once in a Catholic Charismatic
Church---and then once again in a word of
faith church---and then once again in a
holiness Pentecostal church.
Notwithstanding, she too has been
tormented since the first day of her
alleged salvation. In this case, Carol
refuses to consider the possibility that she
is not saved, even though there are
countless signs that serve as evidence
that her spiritual life has been unfruitful.

Each day as I now enter into pre-

deliverance counseling with people whose
minds have been similarly oppressed,
thanking the Lord each morning for
awaking in my "right mind" takes on new
meaning. Why? Because my caseload
continues to include Charismatic
Christians who profess to be saved yet
who are afflicted with OCD---Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder-- dissociative identity
disorder (DID), Paranoia,
Depersonalization, even disorders that
don't even have a name yet. I have
discovered is that the underlying root of
the problem is that unsaved persons were
prey to the religious demon while
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attending either a word of faith or a

Charismatic/Pentecostal church.

A few years ago, a professing Christian

for 13 years made a four hour drive to
Troy New York to seek deliverance from
demons. An intelligent woman with a
masters degree in her field of endeavor,
Ann is clearly demonized. Her body is so
taken over by demons, that as I drove her
to my office from the motel, the demons in
her caused Ann to reach across from the
passenger's side of the car and grab the
steering wheel.

I was on a three lane highway in rush

hour traffic, driving at about 65 miles an
hour. While I maintained control of the
steering wheel, I rebuked the demon.
Insisting that she is saved---- Ann casually
looked at me as she sat back in her seat,
composed and aloof ----declaring "the
demons are just showing off. They want
you to know that they are going to put on
a show for you when you try to cast them
out." It was clear to me that Ann had no
regard for the danger that we had just
narrowly escaped. Once at my office, even
though I cast out several demons from
her, she traveled back home with her
demons. Why? Because she refuses to
admit that she is not saved.

This is the power of charismatic

witchcraft. In this particular case, Ann had
been a nominal Christian in a dry,
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denominational church for 20 years. All of

that time, even though she was an active
member from her childhood, an usher
even, she had the presence of mind to
KNOW that she was not saved. However, it
is equally important to point out that while
Ann actively attended a dry,
denominational church, she was also not
demonized. However upon visiting a
Charismatic/Pentecostal church 13 years
ago, Ann was taken to the altar to "seek
the Holy Ghost" by chanting Jesus, Jesus,
Halleluiah, Halleluiah. She was told that
since she spoke in tongues at the close of
this tarrying session, she was saved.
Shortly thereafter, the demonic
oppression began and then proceeded to
increase in intensity until now the demons
are almost incomplete control of her mind
and her body. Ann is a woman possessed
yet she STILL insists that she is saved.

Experience has taught me that anyone

who seeks the Holy Ghost by tarrying and
chanting at a church altar has not
received the Lord Jesus Christ. As you
were waiting for the Holy Ghost, a
religious demon was at that altar, waiting
for YOU! Anyway, for 13 years, Ann
continues to be tormented by demons. I
want to warn you, the reader, that if you
have had a similar experience, chances
are that not only did you not get saved,
but you may have opened the door to
receiving a religious demon. It is shocking
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to me that each week I am brought into

contact with demonized people who
believe that they are born again---people
who came to the Lord years ago through
either the charismatic movement or the
Pentecostal church

The most damnable plague of the

Charismatic movement is that countless
millions, perhaps billions of seekers have
responded at the altars of a "believe,
confess and receive" gospel, based upon
Romans 10:8-10

If you confess the Lord Jesus

with your mouth and believe
in your heart that God has
raised Him from the dead, you
shall be saved."

Beginning with the old line Pentecostal

denominations, multitudes have come to
the altar seeking the Holy Ghost and the
speaking in tongues without having
repented for sin and they too are in a
mess today.

Not to suggest that there are not

countless people in the traditional
denominations that are not saved. Since
the unsaved in denominational churches
are not open to the invisible world of the
spirit, they generally do not have the
added problem of becoming practitioners
of charismatic witchcraft. Those who
sincerely yet prematurely seek the Holy
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Spirit without having experienced

repentance are the ones who are the most
vulnerable to the deception and
subsequent infestation of the religious
demon.

Not all, but several Charismatic

churchgoers are now being tormented by
demons, even though they have been
sincere believers in Jesus Christ. How can
this be? The hidden root of the problem is
that they have unknowingly been
worshipping the Fake Jesus, the imposter
occultist god, Jesus Sananda Emmanuel.
Morever, they never got saved because
they merely repeated a sinner’s prayer or
responded to an invitation to Christian
discipleship without being drawn by he
Holy Ghost to repent. Consequently, the
primary danger of charismatic witchcraft
is that it produces counterfeit spiritual
births that mimic the true born again
experience.

Too many charismatic idolaters did not

approach the Lord with a contrite heart.
Nor did they come "poor in spirit." Oh,
they repeated a sinner's prayer, yet
without "feeling what a sinner must feel"
to be saved. A sinner must feel the godly
sorrow of repentance. A sinner should
FEEL that he is standing on the edge,
about to slip off into hell, but that he has
grabbed a lifeline, and that lifeline is Jesus
Christ of Nazareth. No one can be saved
unless the preaching they responded to
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emphasized the wretchedness of the lost

soul that can do nothing for itself accept
receive what the Lord has already done.

Defying the scripture which states that

salvation is a gift from God, to prevent
human boasting, those under the
influence of Charismatic witchcraft
generally boast that they "“accepted
Jesus." We don't accept Jesus. He accepts
us!!!! Consider a person who is drowning
declaring after he has been saved that "I
accepted the lifeguard who came to save
me." When you knew that you were
drowning and you knew that you wanted
to live, did you really have any other
choice????"

A salvation that brings forth a new

birth includes a recognition of what you
have narrowly escaped. What we need to
preach to the unsaved is their need to fall
on their faces in the fear of the Lord.
Repentance in the spirit of meekness and
in humble gratitude for what the Lord has
already accomplished is essential to a true
conversion. The unsaved should tremble
first and then feel the unspeakable joy
that comes with knowing that at the cross
they have escaped the wrath of God that
is to come. Then and only then can the
lost believe and receive their free gift of
salvation. Even the demons believe and
tremble, yet there is no salvation for them
either. Therefore, it stands to reason that
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we have experience more than just

believing. Certainly, faith is essential to
salvation. Without faith, it is impossible to
please God. However, where salvation is
concerned, God is the actual supplier of
the faith.

Besides faith, repentance is essential

to salvation---a godly sorrow that is also
“God’s doing” as the Holy Spirit draws
each sinner to the cross. Therefore, how
can we escape if we submit to the word of
faith teaching that defines repentance as
a mere change of mind or heart that is
within the volition of the sinner, who is
taught that he must turn around in
another direction??? As the demons have
sense enough to tremble, we also need "to
tremble." True repentance will cause us to
tremble. When we tremble, we realize that
if it were not for the blood sacrifice of
Jesus, if Jesus did not pay the price for us,
we are separated from God for eternity.
We receive our salvation by faith in the
Lord's finished work. Now that is
something to tremble about!!!!

On the contrary, many come to Jesus in

charismatic congregations for peace and
joy. Others come for prosperity, miracles,
signs, wonders and healing. Without a
doubt, there is no other faith that offers as
much to the lost as does Christianity and
so some come in on this "good deal" of
the good news. Jesus lifted up John the
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Baptist as the greatest of the prophets.

Unlike Moses and Elijah, John did not
perform any miracles. His entire ministry
was to prepare the way for the coming of
the Lord by simply preaching repentance.
For the call to repentance from sin, John
the Baptist was beheaded. It stands to
reason that if Jesus declared that John the
Baptist was the greatest prophet born of a
woman, then repentance must be the
major focus of the message preached by
the present day prophet to prepare us for
the second coming of Lord Jesus Christ.

Repentance is the dark night of the

soul. It is when we are confronted by our
inborn evil that we can do nothing about
other than grab on for dear life to the One
who became sin so that we could become
the righteousness of God in Him. We must
see our darkness before we can
appreciate how Jesus has translated us out
of darkness into light.

After 33 years, I can remember very

vividly how I myself experienced the dark
night of my own soul. I was a confident,
high minded person who thought very well
of herself. After all, I had obtained a
masters degree four years before,
doubling my salary as a result. I had great
ego strength when the Lord showed me
my personal darkness. The poorness of
spirit that I felt was indescribable.
However, the Holy Ghost used my sorrow
to cause me to repent. that Repentance
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led by God to my spirit brought forth the

fruit of a rebirth that was equally
indescribable as the Holy Ghost entered
my spirit and I experienced “the joy of the
Lord.”

It seems an impossible task to correct

the damage that charismatic witchcraft
has wrought, Primarily because most
Charismatic people are convinced that
they are saved. It is like putting a camel
through the eye of a needle. With man, it
would be impossible, but with the Lord
Jesus Christ, nothing is impossible. Since
the devil is responsible, the Lord is using
the torment of Satan's demons to wake
some of these people up. I myself would
never have thought of such an idea. Only
the Lord knows how to deliver those who
are in danger of hearing Him say, "I never
knew you.”

HOW COUNTERFEIT HEALING WORKS

Healing is a major element of
charismatic witchcraft.. More then two
decades ago, healing ministry captivated
me into the charismatic movement. As I
recall, something in me believed that I
was called to healings and miracles. My
inner knowledge was stirred by isolated
instances when the devil
would demonstrate his power to
"keep me in the loop" with a few
outstanding healings and deliverances. In
one particular case that is hard to
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describe, my mind
was overpowered by what seemed to me
to be both faith and knowledge that a
particular client of mine would be healed
of womb cancer.
It happened when I was awakened at
about 5am with my mind in a holding
pattern that I could not shake. In other
words, no other thoughts could intrude.
On the morning that the client was going
to the doctor's office for a medical check-
up, she called to cancel our mid afternoon
session. Since I was working in a
substance abuse counseling agency at the
time, I went out on a professional limb
when I spoke to her over the phone: "I
heard from the Lord about you in the
middle of the night and I believe that the
Lord wants me to lay hands on you for
your healing today during group session. I
am sorry that you are canceling the
appointment.." Well, a week later, the
client walked into my office beaming with
a medical report in her hand. I looked
down at it and glanced at its bottom
line. It read "cancer of the cervix,
negative."

At the moment that my eyes fixed on

those words, a power fell on me as I sat at
my desk. Tears flowed from my eyes
down my face. I went into my desk draw
and pulled out the bible. It opened to
Matthew 10 which reads, "heal the sick,
cast out devils, freely you have received
so freely give." Shortly thereafter, even
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the medical profession was used to

confirm the healing. This client was going
to the doctors for tests on a regular basis.
A few days to a week before my
supernatural faith and knowledge
manifestation, the client’s test had been
seriously positive. Just hours AFTER my
experience, the test was re-taken. This
was why she had to cancel the group
counseling appointment with me. This
incident was cleverly planned to embed
my soul to embrace a counterfeit healing
ministry. The spreading of this incident
through out the counseling center where I
worked was used against me by enemies
to cause me to lose a job that I loved. It
was a demonic coup on all levels---a
deception that encompassed things
spiritual, emotional and financial. .

With this counterfeit healing, I KNEW

THAT I KNEW THAT I KNEW THAT SHE
WOULD BE HEALED because a feeling
consumed my entire body. This is the clue.
Any supernatural manifestation that is
focused in the body and puts the mind on
hold is usually demonic. Totally deceived
by it, I assumed at the time that the Holy
Spirit touched her directly Himself and
then fused my mind and body with the
knowledge of it in what charismatic
witchcraft calls “a word of knowledge.” Yet
pivotal manifestation was merely one
more supernatural experience that I
innocently, and ignorantly, I might add---
assumed was from God. Was it? I can
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look back now and see the devil’s hand in

all of it. When God really heals a person,
He has no interest in proving Himself by a
“medical confirmation from mere doctors
He Himself molded and created.

The religious devil assigned to me led

me to believe that I had a special calling
or “anointing” to heal cancer. So armed
with faith in a word sent by a fallen angel,
I layed hands on about 10 cancer victims.
Each one of them significantly recovered
months, even years beyond their
predicted expiration date, but every one
of them eventually died of cancer.
In retrospect, each of the deaths was
used by the enemy to mock my healing
ministry. This is how these entities work.
First they tell you that you have a
supernatural gift to help people and then
they use your failure to heal to mock you.
The mockery was very clear in one
particular case. Sister Perry was dying of
a brain cancer when in a dream, I was
shown that she would live to see the birth
of her first grandchild. To encourage
Sister Perry, I told her the dream just
before I laid hands on her to be healed.
Sister Perry smiled yet looked puzzled
because all of her sons were homosexual
and her one and only daughter was not
pregnant. A few days after I had the
dream, it became known that one of Sister
Perry’s gay sons had recently slept with a
woman and that he announced the day
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before that he was going to be a father.

Since my prediction was now half true, I
believed the second half of the
prediction---tht Sister Perry would live at
least another 7 or 8 months to hold her
first grandchild. Instead, she died a few
weeks later.
At that time, I was totally unfamiliar
with the methods and tricks of demons
and devils, so the demons hoped that I
would lose faith and deny God. Instead. I
rationalized that I had done something
wrong until I learned that Sis Perry had
sought the help of a witchcraft
practitioner. I had perhaps one or two
supernatural manifestations a year and at
times every other year, but they were
enough to keep me holding on to the
word of healing and miracles that had
been spoken to me through a 9 year old
little girl in my living room on a Saturday
afternoon on 1/8/83:
the waters of heaven shall
flow down upon the house of
the minister and the minister's
daughter. These waters shall
HEAL the city. Great miracles
shall flow from this house.”
Therefore, I continued to wait for the
mighty waters of heaven to heal for 25
years. Did they? It seemed so, but the
healings never lasted and the people died
of the same diseases that they had
originally claimed to be healed of. With
what I believed to be a healing anointing,
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my hands would often tingle and burn. On

some occasions, I felt like I was electrified,
similar to the feeling of electric shock
when by mistake one touches a live wire.
When I stood in a circle with Christians
holding hands on each side of me, I’d feel
pain come into my hands, as if like a
suction cup, I was drawing pain out of
their bodies. I rationalized that the pain in
my hands was a sign that the persons
were demonized. So in my deliverance
ministry, I often laid hands on afflicted
people to be released. When the pain left
them and entered my hand, I declared
them healed. Most of the time they were,
but the so called healings were most often
temporary.
Finally, a few years ago, the Lord
revealed the truth:
“Pam, you had the power to
heal while you were ignorantly
practicing witchcraft. It is not
my power.. It is soul power
that has been energized by
demonic power. It is the kind
of power that lifts up man and
not Me. To really obtain MY
power, you must repent and
then deny the power of your
own soul. “
I have denied it and I wait to see what
God does with me in the 21st century.
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