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The demons are back, they said. We called the church because we wake up in the morning and all the pictures in our home are turned down on the face except the pictures of her and the baby. Now, we think we got enough information here that this is something paranormal is going on at least. Pastor and I went into the baby's room and we began to pray and ask God to show us what in the world's going on. And that crib began to shake. Have you ever felt a draft? We were hit by a wall of cold, cold air. This pastor said, we have to go in the attic. We're over the baby's room. Do you know what's over the baby's bedroom? A big black plastic trash bag. And we said, what's this?

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Hey, everybody. We are going to be talking about the obvious return of the gods that we are seeing in the world today. And what do I mean by the return of the gods? I'm talking about, of course, gods spelled with a little gift, but I'm referring to the gods that have always been the gods of demonism, the gods of the demonic realm that we in the Western world, due to the light of Christianity, have had the opportunity, the joy, the peace, the comfort, the benefit of the gospel going forth. The gospel goes forth. And it is a hammer against the gods of the underworld, the demonic deceiving forces that Jesus and the Bible warned us about. That light, the light of God, the representation of the Lord and The word of God and the power that resides in a Christian by the Holy Spirit drives darkness away. And as darkness diminishes in the Western world and in America and certainly Europe, which is darkened, there will be a rise of demonic activity. And I just want you to process this now, as you hear this, not with sensationalism, I will be sharing some sensational things with you, but I promise you that all of it will be rooted in truth. That said, it's the return of the gods. The gods of the ancient Babylonian world are back. The evidence is overwhelming. And it seems as though, or perhaps even more than it seems as though, it looks as though the facts are these, that from the deep Eastern European regions of the last several, I would say the last several hundred years, it's possible as far back as the last or near the last half century, there was the Reformation period, which was a spark and a push of light, and that light went out from Europe. But listen, as that light went out, it was quickly attacked by the enemy. Put your spiritual helmet on, friends. That the area that was earlier illuminated so great by the propagation of the gospel, Vienna, Edinburgh, England, you name those regions. Where the light started in the Reformation period, that light began to advance. And right behind the light came darkness. Those things are manifested in spiritual activity. And why do I bring up this, the return of the gods? Because it's a reality. The demons are back. These are not new demons. These are not manufactured demons. These are the old gods of the ancient pagan world. Because the Christian light is all but expired in the world today. There are pockets now of light, but the witness of the Christian church is clearly weakened to the level, to the extent of evil, demonic activity and demonic doctrines. And the doctrines of demons are advancing. And we see it here in America powerfully, where there's deceiving doctrines, deceptive spirits, and of course, in areas where the gospel is not empowered, there are flamboyant manifestations of things like demonic possession and demon manifestations. Those things do happen, of course, at times of the. Of most enlightenment. For example, Jesus himself in his earthly ministry. I mean, you can't talk about more light than that. And yet what did Jesus encounter? Or I should say, what did the demonic world encounter? But when Jesus came into a village, what happened? The demons went nuts, who were possessing people. I want to start out by reading this, but again, I want to say, I want you to be thinking, consider this. We are now living in the time of the return of the gods. The demons are back. And I'm grateful that somebody recently commented on the podcast that we did, that was a three hour long reading of the Book of Revelation, somebody asked the question I do believe about when I mentioned about the image of the beast being possessed, possibly by a demonic spirit. Somebody asked the question, is there any evidence in the Bible that an inanimate object, a lifeless object, can be possessed by a spirit? Well, let's let the Bible answer that question. And by the way, I did mention this, I think when I read the Book of Revelation in our podcast together, First Corinthians 10, 19, 21, Paul says, what am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything. Listen, it's not unless it's demonized. Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord in the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons. Paul equates idols with demonic or demon possession or activity when they would pray or sacrifice to idols. He's warning in 1 Corinthians 10 that you're doing so because statues, these inanimate objects, can be entries or some form of resonant or epicenter of demonic activity. Seems strange to us. But listen carefully. People who practice white and black magic, those who are involved in witchcraft, they know more about what I'm talking about than I do because that's the world they traffic in. They don't laugh when I read a verse like this that Paul says that when you pray or worship to a demon, to a statue, you're worshiping a demon. They actually do that. They believe it. Christians don't want to believe it because it puts the hair up on their neck and they don't want to get that real. Well, too bad, folks, it's real. By the way, can I, can I do a little plug right now for my, my, my friend Steve Deese, who did the great movie Nefarious? Have you seen the movie Nefarious? Please watch the movie Nefarious. I highly recommend it. Nefarious by Steve Deese. It's a great, great film and extremely accurate. I'll talk about that later. So as we go through this and as we consider this, what are we talking about here? We're talking about again, Book of Revelation, chapter 13, where there's the Antichrist and there's the false prophet and there's the image of the beast, which is this thing that is obviously mechanical of some sorts, highly advanced AI thing we don't know. Whatever we do know, it is not human. It's made by man. But it has the ability to discern, to scan who has the mark of the beast and who doesn't. 666. It also takes on the attributes as though it is alive. The book of revelation, chapter 13 tells us that it's as though power or breath is given to it, that it should both conduct itself as you read that in a way that is humanoid like. And I put out there when I read the Book of Revelation. Is it possible that in light of demons being those who possess statues and images and icons and things that are called entries in the demonic witchcraft world, is it possible that the image of the beast becomes possessed by a demon spirit? Not Satan. Satan appears to possess the Antichrist. There's no doubt in my mind that the false prophet will be demon possessed. But what about the image of the beast? I believe it will be some form of AI technology that we that will be inhabited by a demon at some point. All of that said, let me do some reading to you right now. Matthew, chapter 12, verse 43. Now, when the unclean spirit, Jesus said goes out from a man, it passes through waterless places. Some of your Bibles read deserts, which is fascinating. Why would Jesus say when a demon leaves a man, he leaves and goes to the regions where it's waterless, it's dry, and there seeking rest does not find any rest. Here's the creepy thought and not the thought. Here's the creepy idea of this. The demon leaves a man. When he leaves a man, he goes and walks through hangs out in waterless places. Why on earth does the Bible say that? Why did Jesus say that? Finding no rest. It says that he returns to the man in which he formerly possessed and brings seven of his friends. The demon brings seven other demons with him and they repossess the man. And Jesus says the latter end of the man is worse than the beginning. Why? The man was demon possessed. When the demon left the man, the man never filled the void with the Holy Spirit by conversion and faith in Christ. So that when the demon came back and found the man's soul empty, he brings with him seven other demons. And now the man's possessed by eight demons in total. Who said that? Jesus said that. Why is he telling us this? This is very important. Luke 8. 26 and they sailed down to the region of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And he having gone forth upon the land, and a certain man out of the city met him Having demons. Plural Daimoni. Plural daimoni. And a long time he was not wearing clothing and did not abide in a house. Homeless, weird guy. Possessed. But he resided in the tombs. Isn't that weird that demons. Demons seem to be comfortable having this man possessed away from everybody else in the realm of the dead. Living among tombs tombstones. And having seen Jesus and having cried out, he fell down before Jesus with a loud voice. And he cried out and said what to me and to you, Jesus, son of the Most High God, do you have with me? Or what business do you have with me? I implore you that you might not torment me. For he was commanded by an unclean spirit. Sorry for he Jesus was commanding now the unclean spirit to come out of the man, for it had seized him many times and he was bound and the shackles were broken and the man was set free. And he was delivered and was in his right mind. And you can read the rest of that. The demons. The Bible tells us the demons, when they were cast out. Do you remember where they were cast out? Into swine. Pigs. And what did the pigs do the moment that they were demon possessed? They were judged. Not the pigs. The demons were judged because the demons legion said, if you're going to cast us out, cast us into those pigs. All right, Jesus said. And they were. They left the man and they went into the pigs. They should have been more specific. And then the pigs ran violently down the steep cliff, which by the way, in Gadara is the only place on the Sea of Galilee that has a steep cliff only spot. And they fell into the sea and they drowned it. The pigs did. That's amazing. Listen, The connection between the demons trafficking about in waterless places and those pigs being cast into the sea and dying, the demons then would have had to have gone out to look again. There's a little bit of behind the scenes irony taking place there. The demons don't like water. Why? Nobody knows. Unless you entertain the Book of Genesis chapter 6, that when the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, they seized upon them and took them to be their wives. The sons of God is a reference in the Old Testament to angels. I believe it's fallen angels came upon the daughters of mankind, women in Genesis 6. And it says there that the women became pregnant and they had babies. And the babies grew up to be giants, having six fingers on each hand and six toes on each finger. And they were known as the men of renown, the fallen ones, the Nephilim. You see, Jack Is this crazy? No, this is Bible, Genesis, chapter six. Check it out. You say what does that have to do. Wait, you said fallen angels. What have it to do with demons? Because. Listen, how were the giants destroyed? The giants were not fully human and they were not fully spirit. They were the progeny of fallen angels who cohabitated with human females. The children born out of the women were giants called Nephaim or Anakim. Goliath was the son of Anak or the Anakim giants. Some sort of genetic freaks. Isn't it interesting? When the flood came, after Genesis 6, when the flood came and washed away the giants, where did their souls go? What kind of souls did they possess? What is this thing? If a human dies, a human soul is a human soul. We don't know anything about fallen angels cohabitating with humans. What do we have here? This is my opinion. I'm not asking you to believe it, so don't get all uppity about it and upset. This is my opinion and I've studied this for years and it's still my opinion. I believe that judgment fell upon the generation of Noah because the line had been crossed that these angels had. Fallen angels had cohabitated with women. They had human offspring that were hybrids. And when those hybrids were swept away in death by the flood, that those spirits of those hybrids are Daimoni. Daimona. Demons. There's angels fallen and not fallen. And then there's demons that are creatures always looking to inhabit something. Angels, according to the Bible, can appear and disappear. Fallen angels or holy angels can appear and disappear. Demons need something to possess, including idols. Think of that for a moment. This with the time that I have remaining. I mean, I can go on. Maybe I will go on for a moment. I'm checking the clock. Excuse me. With the few moments that we have left. In John 13:26, 26 to 28, Jesus answered and said regarding Judas Iscariot. It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it. And having dipped the bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. Now, after the piece of bread. No. After he had taken the piece of bread, Satan entered Judas and Jesus said to him. Notice. Jesus said to who? Jesus said to Satan. Where was Satan? Inside of Judas. Creep me out, right? What you do do quickly. That's a military command, by the way. In the Greek language, Jesus orders Satan to do what he's to do. But no one at the table knew for what reason Jesus had said this to him. They thought him was Judas. Fascinating, right? How about this? Luke 22:1 4. Now, the festival of unleavened bread, called the Passover was approaching. And the chief priests and the teachers and the law were looking of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they feared the people because of him. And Satan had entered Judas, also called Iscariot, one of the 12. And Judas went to the chief priest to offer to the officers of the temple guard and discuss with him how they might betray Jesus. Demonic activity was in play, in action. I would like to submit to you guys that some of the things that we're seeing in the world around us right now is none other than the cloaked manifestation of demonic activity rising. The gods have returned. The ancient pagan demons have been sequestered for at least centuries, certainly in the Western world. But things where voodoo and demonic activity has been practiced. There are those missionaries who throughout the last 2000 years, report incredibly bizarre accounts of demonic manifestations and demonic activity where the gospel had never been before. It's one of the great reports of those who go into foreign regions. But with all that's going on right now, and as I sit here and speak to you, there's still an ongoing. It's been going on now for years, an ongoing congressional hearing on UAPs. Unidentified. Either unidentified Atmospheric phenomenon or they don't use the term UFOs anymore because it has too much stigma. But it's interesting that some of these manifestations of these UAPS are now dealing with areas of water. And you might say, well, that just blows your theory about. About demons. Why would demons, if demons are afraid of water, because they remember the judgment of Noah's Day and the judgment of Jesus with the pigs in the Sea of Galilee. What's going on with the naval reports of several countries, including the U.S. where they've seen unidentified or UAP appearances that plunge into the wall. Actually, I can't even say plunge. They go into the water without the plunge. They just go into the water as though there's nothing there. Could that be fallen angel activity? If it's not demonic activity because of water, could it be fallen angel activity to deceive? We know this from the congressional reports that. And you can watch this on YouTube, folks. By the way, I do believe I may be wrong. You could Google or YouTube. Congressman Tim Burchart. Burchart. Don't quote me on this, but is it B U R C H E R T T, something like that? Tim from Tennessee, I think he's the chairman. Nancy Mace. Maces on that committee on that committee, as others I think don't. No, I'm not going to mention, I don't think this other one's on there. It doesn't matter. Check it out, look at it. It's, whatever's going on, there's enough activity out there of manifestation that it's, it's, it's, it's concerned the US Congress for a long time and it's not going away. So I'm going to ask you this question. Are you a Christian? I assume, I assume I just heard a yes. Do you believe in the Bible? I think I just assumed I heard a yes. But do you really believe in all of the Bible? I heard a little bit of a weaker yes. Do you believe that everything that is said in it is, is true? I even heard less, even less of a weak response, which now circles back to the first question. Are you really a Christian that said, did Jesus believe that demons existed from the, from the biblical account? Did, did Jesus believe that fallen angels existed from the biblical account? All of that said, I'm grateful for that foundation of truth because I'll start. But we don't have enough time. I'll start by saying that being in the ministry, even, and even before being in the ministry and being an active Christian, I am not an inactive Christian. I'm an active Christian from the beginning, nearly 50 years ago. The personal experiences that I and others have seen and gone through, we don't need anybody to judge them or to tell us about them. We saw them, be it myself with others, other pastors, or with my wife, not with my wife. My wife and I viewing things happening, seeing things happening, witnesses to this, things that are 100% unexplainable, irrational in the scientific mind as we view science. So much so that when I had known who Steve Deese was, I'd never talked to Steve Deese. But when I saw the movie was sent to me to preview some time ago. Nefarious, I saw, blew me away. I think Glenn Beck doesn't. Glenn Beck or David Barton got me his phone number. I called him. He said, hello. I didn't even say, hi, is this Steve Deese? I said, how did you know? How did you know Steve Deese? This is Pastor Jack Hibbs at Cover Chapel. And how did you know? He goes, what are you talking about? I said, how did you know to do that movie? That is so incredibly accurate, Steve. I lived a very similar scene with my wife and a demon possessed individual. And I got to talk to you about this stuff, which turned out to create a friendship, which I'm grateful for. I love. I love him and Amy. We love him and Amy. That said, how do you explain this where a phone call comes into the church here and, guys, I need to know what time to end. Two minutes. That's not going to happen. I mean, I'll end in two minutes. Phone call comes into the church, and another pastor and I are called to a house not far from the church. And we go there and we talked to the family, and we asked them, what's the problem? You guys called the church and said, you think there's a demon in your house? Now, let's be honest. The pastor and I were thinking, coo, coo. We believe in the Bible, but you know how many calls we get like this? We've got calls from Moses. Moses has called us. Elijah called us up. Hey, listen, one day Jesus came to our church in the front row. He tried to get on the stage. Yikes. Okay, Coo, coo. We're talking to the family. Seemed to be a normal family. They go to the church and this is all surrounding a new. A newborn baby. What's the problem? Well, we didn't think there was a problem at all, but there was this. My sister. He said, the young man, my sister, she's just become overly, overly possessive of our new baby. Well, how so? What do you mean? Always wanting to be with the baby, which at first was a great help, but a little hesitant to give the baby back if we went on a date or had something to do. Taking pictures and framing them and putting them on our house wall with her, the sister and the baby, sister and baby sister and baby. Well, okay. They'd left the pictures up. They said, we called the church because we wake up in the morning and all the pictures in our home are turned down on the face except the pictures of her and the baby. We put them back up and we questioned one another and told our older kids, stop goofing off. That's, you know, that's weird. We're not doing it. We're not doing anything. A few days later, they'd get up and all the pictures are turned over again, except the pictures of the baby and the sister. The sister was in her mid-40s, mid-30s. And so this pastor and I began to realize, all right, this is interesting. And then they said, this is no big deal. But our family picture with the baby on the wall, it was hanging. It wasn't sitting on, like a credenza or table. It was hanging. And we noticed that every Morning, we'd wake up, and it's crooked, so we'd straighten it. Until this morning. We got up, and the family picture was on the ground broken. And the other framed pictures on the tables were put face down. And we walked into the room like normal to get our baby. And the baby's crib was shaking. Okay, now, we think we got enough information here that this is. Something paranormal is going on, at least. But the crib shaking, that's a little intense, a little too Hollywood for us, but we don't act like that. But I had this thought in my mind, and I said it. Can all of you step out of the house for a while? Can you guys all go out in the front yard? And they left the room, and the pastor and I went into the. The baby's room. No baby, just the baby's room. And we began to pray and ask God to show us what in the world's going on. And that crib began to shake. In the moment, he and I were both completely unscathed. No fear, no goosebumps, no wide eyes. We were just praying. Cribs start shaking. And I don't know how to tell you this, but have you ever felt a giraffe, like a draft, you know, breeze from the top of the ceiling in that room? We were hit by a wall of cold. Cold air, like. Like a fire extinguisher, cold hitting us. Didn't see anything. But this pastor said, we have to go in the attic. We have to go in the attic. And I said, what do you mean? He said, I don't know. We have to go in and go in the attic. We have to go in the attic. So we go back outside, and we ask the dad, can we have access to your attic? He gives us access to the attic. The three of us go up into the attic. Boy, it's fun being a pastor. I got to tell you. You got to sign up. We go in the attic, and we make our way over to where the baby's room is in the attic. We're over the baby's room. Do you know what's over the baby's bedroom? A big black plastic trash bag. And we said, what's this? Oh, that's. That's a bag full of dolls and stuffed bears and little ducks and little figurines and stuff that my sister. She just overwhelmed us with all of these gifts for the baby, so we thought we'd bag them up and put her up in the attic. It's right over the baby's ceiling. We pull it down. We pull it out, pull everything out. And it's all these dolls and trinkets and things. Teddy bears given by the sister that's very possessive of the baby. And this pastor, good old seasoned saint of God, he just said, I want you to burn this stuff now. The dad said, really? Like now? Like now? He said, now, let's go in the backyard. Let's burn this now. Got lighter fluid. Torched the whole thing. You know what that guy wound up telling us? That guy wound up telling us that his sister. I don't know. For the life of us, I don't know why he didn't tell us at the beginning. His sister belonged to the local chapter of Warlocks and witches and Wiccans for this particular area in Los Angeles. And then when you go and research and find out, part of the deal, according to demonic demonism, witchcraft activity is to give someone an entry portal. And it says, even in their little schoolbook of. I mean, I know this sounds nuts. It sounds like, why don't you go say this at Universal Studios with Harry Potter? I get it. But where do you think Harry Potter got it from? It serves as an entry. Almost like how you would put a camera in a location to catch somebody. They put a little teddy bear that's been hexed, voodooed, whatever they do to it, right? Whoop. Satan is our friend. Satan is our pa. The demonic world is real. And this little teddy bear was converted into an entry point that demons honored. And here's the end. And here's the kicker. That family never again had a problem in their home with the baby, with the house, with the frames, with the anything, everything. It so convinced them that God had taken care of it, that this is what they wound up doing. They wound up. They packed up, sold their house and left and moved and did not tell the sister where they were moving to. You can say, jack, you're nuts. Go ahead. A lot of people do, but that pastor and I witnessed that together. Never forgotten it. There's other things. We're out of time. Leave you hanging. Watch out, folks. What's in your home? You have any idols that you bought in Colombia? Or maybe you were somewhere in Haiti or Jamaica and you picked up this little idol? Things have been weird in your home ever since. Have you anything like that? Has anybody given you something? And they say to you, here, why don't you put this on your desk? Who are these people that gave you that? What is that thing all about? I'm not talking about being hyper crazy, charismatic, but I am talking about believing in the Bible that it is true. Watch out for stuff and we may not believe and take well to somebody saying, well, this witch's covenant put a hex on you. Or this group has been doing incantations. None of that stuff has any power, but the demonic world behind it does. And to deny the existence of the demonic world is to deny the words of Jesus Christ himself. He died on the cross to destroy the works of Satan and he rose again from the dead to provide for us eternal life so that Satan would not win because he has come to rob and to kill and destroy. But Jesus says, I have come to give you life. And that more abundantly. This is a wake up call. You are going to start seeing more and more manifestations of demonic activity in what? Watch out. In what might look to be the natural realm. On the street, in the media, a neighbor next door, out and about. People acting unusually bizarre, violent, strange, unexplainable in one direction and in the other direction. Brilliantly, cunningly, persuasively, charismatically deceiving. Make sure you know the word of God. We'll see you next time.