In this sermon, the speaker shares personal experiences and observations of occult involvement and spiritual invasion. He recounts witnessing a young man in church who appeared to be possessed by a demon, with his body trembling and uncontrollable. The speaker also mentions a man named Yuri Gaylor who claims to have contact with beings from UFOs and receives power and information from them. The sermon highlights the mysterious occurrences in the Great Falls area, where investigations have yielded no answers. The speaker emphasizes the need for awareness and understanding of the occult and spiritual warfare in today's world.

in heaven. Now, I want to begin by giving you a definition of the word occult, because the word occult does not always have a meaning connecting it with witchcraft. The word simply means hidden, but as it's used popularly today, it has to do with that which is beyond the bounds of ordinary human knowledge, mysterious, concealed, or hidden from view, pertaining to certain reputed sciences such as magic, astrology, now of course astronomy is a science, a science dealing with the stars, but astrology is not a science, it's a pseudoscience, and other arts and practices involving the use of divination, incantation, magic formulas, and drugs. Now, 2 Corinthians 4, verse 2 says that we Christians have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. The Spanish Bible says we have renounced the occult. Ephesians 5, verse 11 says, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. That is, have no fellowship with the occult. Rather, it says, reprove them, or one translation I believe says, rebuke them, it really means to uncover them. Next, I want to give you a list of areas that are regarded by experts in the field of witchcraft as being of an occult, that is, of a forbidden nature. I'll have to take a little time here and qualify some things I say, and I would just ask your indulgence that you'd listen carefully to the end without coming to some perhaps premature conclusion. Acupuncture. Acupuncture, in my opinion, is not by any means always occult, but it does have occult roots. That is, in its beginning, if you go back into it historically, it was definitely connected with the occult. For this reason, I have reservations about recommending it. I'm not saying that it's occult today as practiced by doctors and so on, but I'm disturbed because it does have occult roots. Amulets, the wearing of amulets or good luck charms. Automatic writing. This is where a person will go to sleep with a pen or pencil in their hand and a pad of paper, and when they awaken they'll find words written on the paper which were given to them while they were in the sleeping state. This is known as automatic writing. This is occult. Astral projection, otherwise known as out-of-body travel. Black magic. This is the use of the occult to hurt other people, a putting of curses or hexes on them. And may I say, in regard to white magic, that white magic is also part of the occult scene, although white magic practitioners do not regard it as being such because they say they use it to help people, not to hurt people. But when you look at it objectively, in the light of the word of God, you will see that it is also part of the occult scene. They may sing Christian hymns, they may talk about the Trinity and all of this, but really, basically, it's an appeal to forbidden powers to bless other people. And this is, of course, sort of a backdoor into the occult. I think, in my opinion, it is forbidden as well. Then there's the reading of coffee grounds or tea leaves. This is part of the occult scene. Color therapy, the using of color threads in a box, using them in an occult way. The calling up of spirits, and there are many ways of doing this. Charming, expressly forbidden in the word of God. I have met people who have been charmed by blood charmers. That is, they had a bleeding in their body which could not be stopped, and this blood charmer was able to stop the hemorrhaging. And I've talked with people who've had charmers. They're actually occult healers. They might not call themselves that. Whatever they call themselves by, if they're working in this way, then they're part of the occult scene. But I've talked with people who've had warts and wends and blemishes in their skin removed by a charmer. One man told me he had a piece of skin on his shoulder that was perhaps the size of a 50-cent piece. It was sort of like a wart. And he had a charmer go through his incantations over it, and in a matter of a couple of days, this thing was completely gone. Then candles, the use of candles and calling up spirits. I've talked with some Christian kids who've been invited to a sort of a seance in a non-Christian home, and against their better judgment, they went. They knelt around the table. All of them had their hands on the table, the Christians and the non-Christians. And then the leader of the group lit a large candle sitting in the center of the table, and then he began calling for the spirits to come. Now, here's what the Christian kids told me. They said suddenly the flame, which had been about an inch or an inch and a half high, it suddenly expanded until it was perhaps eight or nine inches high. Then it split down the center, and one flame moved to one direction, the other flame moved to another direction. When the Christian kids saw what was happening, they were frightened, and they got out of there. Well, they shouldn't have been there in the first place. Then the reading of the crystal ball. Then there's the word divination, which is a very large umbrella, and there are many things, for example, the Ouija board found under this general title. Then the use of drugs. It's interesting that the word in the New Testament, especially in the book of Revelation, but also in Galatians chapter 5, from which we get the English word sorcery, or sorcerer, or even the word witchcraft as in Galatians 5, the Greek word here is pharmakia, from which of course we get our English word pharmacy, and it really means witchcraft connected with drugs. Then there's extrasensory perception, and I understand there's a very narrow band that may be a natural gift in this area, but experts warn people who seem to have this particular natural gift not to use it, not to work with it, because you will likely cross over into the area of the occult, because the larger band in the area of ESP is definitely occult. Then there's something called eye diagnosis. There are people known as eye diagnosticians. They're not medical doctors. They're not qualified people in this area, but they claim they can look into your eyes and tell you what's wrong with you physically, and they give treatments through the eyes in some cases as well. I've talked to people. One man told me it was costing him between $40 and $80 a month to see this eye diagnostician, and not only was he not helped, but not long after I talked with him, he committed suicide. He took his life. Then there's the matter of fetishes. These are articles used chiefly in what we might call heathen cultures and connected with witchcraft. We should have nothing like this in our home or on our person. I'm astonished to find that occasionally missionaries have brought fetishes home from a foreign field and given them to churches or given them to Christians, and they have these things in their home. We should get rid of anything of this nature, because it leaves the home open to occult oppression. Then there's fire walking, where people in bare feet will walk on live coals and not be burned. Fortune-telling, horoscopes, some forms of hypnotism. I'm not saying that all hypnotism is wrong, although I'm interested to see that some doctors are now saying that people should not, under any circumstances, be subjected to hypnotism, because it's the intrusion of one person's spirit by another person's spirit. Dr. Estabrook, who has a textbook on this, I understand that Dr. Estabrook is regarded as being the leading authority in hypnotism in the world, and he says that people should never, never allow themselves to be hypnotized by an amateur, one of these perhaps traveling magicians or whatever they call themselves, because they can leave things in your mind that will cause you psychological problems for 20 or 30 years after you had this experience. Then the game called I Ching, Kabbalah, the Cresting Game, letters of protection, levitation, that's raising objects without applying energy to them, mind reading, so-called moonmancy, planting by the moon and this kind of thing, the ring or needle on a thread, necromancy, which is trying to talk to the dead, occult healing, I referred to this briefly before under charming, any method of healing that is not approved by medical science or that is contrary to the kind of healing we find in the word of God, it's really basically an appeal to hidden powers, powers that are not of God, for healing, it's wrong, we shouldn't have anything to do with occult healing. Then omens, this is in the area of superstition, the Ouija board, otherwise known as psychography, and by the way, the word Ouija comes from two words, the French word Oui, meaning yes, and the German word Ja, meaning yes, so it's a yes-yes board, that is, it's the board that gives answers. The use of a pendulum, palm reading, psychometry, that's where they take objects from your person, a handkerchief, a ring, or a pen or something else, and they study this object and then they'll tell you things about yourself that otherwise they would not know. Scientology, seances, sorcery, screening, now screening is where people supposedly will put a protective screen around you so that the devil cannot hurt you, but this is all part of the occult scene. Satanism, that's a worshiping of the devil, and then soothsaying, that's really fortune-telling, table-tapping, where a table is programmed and it will raise one foot on one leg, as it were, and then tap out answers, say one tap for yes, two for no, it can probably only give yes and no answers, but I've talked with people who have actually done this. A telekinesis, now that's moving objects on a horizontal plane without applying energy. Then tarot cards and ordinary playing cards are sometimes used for foretelling the future, and this of course brings them under the witchcraft band. Transcendental meditation, I don't have time to go into this, but it is definitely part of the occult scene. Telepathy, mental telepathy, then wizardry, now a wizard is the person known as the knowing one who seems to have or claims to have contact with unseen powers and uses these powers usually for ill, although he may claim to use them for good. Then the yoga cult, and there are four stages to yoga cult. The first stage seems to be quite harmless, but you know, many of these things are baby steps to a deeper involvement in the occult. The devil doesn't mind how innocently you start as long as you wind up or wander over into his field. So the first stage is meditation and exercise, and it seems to be totally harmless, but the second stage is controlling bodily functions, like people claim they can control perspiration and their blood pressure, their heart beat and this sort of thing. Then the third stage of the yoga cult is controlling the forces of nature, calling down fire from heaven and this sort of thing. Experts in the field tell me that they have talked with people who were in league with what were known as fire demons, and they would actually make fire to rise up out of rocks and fire to materialize in the air. That's the third stage of the yoga cult, and the fourth stage of the yoga cult is an investigation of all areas of witchcraft. We should not get involved in step number one because you're into a forbidden area. Then last of all, the signs of the Zodiac. This too is part of the scene, the occult scene. I've been in Christian homes where they had the signs of the Zodiac on a metal disc on the wall, and they were experiencing occult oppression in the home. Now I've given you 52 areas of the occult. I understand there's probably altogether around 150, but I'm talking here mainly of the better known areas, and it's impossible really just to keep abreast of what's happening here. I recently heard in Saskatchewan of a man who invented three new occult games. One he has in the market and two are about ready to go on the market. I don't even know what they're called. I want to give you next some plain Bible warnings concerning this kind of involvement. I'm just going to give a scripture reference and read it immediately just to save time. You may want to mark these down and then look at them at your leisure. Deuteronomy 18, 9-12. By the way, this scripture will show us quite clearly that witchcraft is not a new thing, it's as old as the human race. There shall not be found among you anyone that uses divination or an observer of time. There's your horoscopes, astrology, or an enchanter. This is where music is used to induce a frame of mind whereby it's easier for demons to contact the person, or a witch. We would call them today probably a medium or a fortune teller, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits. In the New Testament, the spirits, these demons, are called unclean, evil, or foul. In the Old Testament, they were called mainly familiar spirits. We use the word familiar in this sense sometimes when we say someone talked in too familiar a way, that is, in a rather evil way. Or they were too familiar in their attitude, meaning they were suggestive, they were evil. So a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. Remember, a necromancer is a person who tries to talk to the dead. All that do these things, what are they again? Let's go through them again. Divination, observer of times, enchanter, witch, charmer, consulter with familiar spirits, a wizard, or a necromancer. All that do these things are an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations, the Lord your God drives them, that is the Canaanites, out from before you, that was the Israelites. So in the land of Canaan, back in the days of Moses, the Canaanites were deeply involved in these areas of witchcraft, and it was one of the main reasons why God drove them out of the land. Leviticus 19.31, Do not listen to them that have mediumistic spirits, neither seek after wizards, for you will be defiled by them. Remember, these spirits in the New Testament are called evil, foul, or unclean. And if you get over into their area and get involved in some of these occult practices, then you in turn will be defiled, and we run up against people who run into this kind of defilement. Leviticus 20.6, And the person that goes after such as have mediumistic spirits, and after wizards, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. Leviticus 20.27, A man or a woman that has a mediumistic spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death. Remember, this was under the theocracy when Israel was a people of God, the special nation of God, and God was their king. And some of these laws that obtained then do not, of course, obtain today. But it does serve to show us how God regarded occult involvement. Isaiah 8.19, And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and that mutter, should not a people seek unto their God, should the living seek to the dead? Isaiah 47.12-14, Stand up now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, wherein you have labored from your youth. If so be you shall be able to profit. You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from these things that shall come upon you. Behold, they shall be a stubble, the fire shall burn them, they shall not deliver themselves. Jeremiah 27.9-10, Do not listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers. They prophesy a lie unto you. 1 Corinthians 10.20-22, The Apostle Paul says, I would not that you should have fellowship with devils. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils. You cannot be partakers of the Lord's table and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? Here Paul is telling Christian people that they should not, under any circumstances, have fellowship with demon spirits. When you and I get involved in one of these areas or more of the occult, we are guilty of having fellowship with fallen angels, with demons, evil spirits. And when we do this, as Paul tells us here in 1 Corinthians 10, we then provoke God to jealousy, because we Christians belong to God. And here we are guilty of having fellowship with fallen angels, with demons. Let me give you an illustration. A certain Bible school in western Canada, and I knew about this person because a girl from my church was attending there and told me exactly what went on. A bunch of the girls had heard about this needle on a string, and so they had the needle on the string, and these girls all in this Bible school, and they were asking the needle questions. They programmed to spin one way for yes and another way for no, and it was working beautifully, spelling out answers to questions that demanded a yes and no answer. And they were enjoying this, not knowing what they were doing, when suddenly one of the girls, God gave her an insight and she screamed, almost went into hysterics, and she saw demons standing by the needle, manipulating the needle. The whole place went into an uproar, so the staff had to come in and have a prayer meeting with the girls and cleanse that particular place, pleading the blood of Christ against the occult powers that had moved in when these girls moved over into the area of the occult. They didn't know what they were doing, but that did not mean they were not to see it. The devil moved in. Paul says, remember, I would not that you should have fellowship with demons. That's what those girls were doing, although they did it innocently, and still they were guilty before God. Here Paul gives a list of some 18 areas of the flesh. The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, and among the various works of the flesh he mentions witchcraft. That's one of the works of the flesh. Ephesians 4, verse 27 says, Do not give place to the devil. Revelation 21, verse 8 tells us of certain people that are going to have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death, and among others he mentions the sorcerers. We find in the word of God that occult practices will destroy individuals. King Saul, 1 Chronicles 10, verse 13, So Saul died for his transgressions which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he did not keep, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to inquire of it, and did not inquire of the Lord. King Manasseh, 2 Chronicles 33, verse 6, He observed times, there's your horoscopes and astrology, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards. He wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord. As a matter of fact, I might say this, that King Manasseh was one of the worst kings that Israel ever had. His name became a synonym for wickedness and evil, and I'm not surprised. Notice he was involved in many areas of witchcraft. Now, occult practices will destroy nations. The Canaanites, we already noticed that in Deuteronomy 18, were driven out, the seven nations in the land of Canaan, because they were involved in the occult, and this led them into all kinds of wicked immorality and sin. Isaiah 19.3 indicates that Egypt fell because she was involved in witchcraft. Babylon, Isaiah 47.1, and then verse 9, verses 12-14, and then in Revelation 18.2, let me read you this latter scripture from Revelation 18, where it says that Babylon the great is fallen, and is fallen, is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. The devil's bird cages are foul and unclean. So Babylon, then Nineveh, and Nahum chapter 3, verses 3-6, and the nation of Israel in 2 Kings 17, 17-18, and again in Isaiah 2, and verse 6. Now, something else of real interest and help here to note is that idol worship in the Bible is connected with demonism. To put it differently, every idol has a demon spirit behind it, and this explains why God hated idolatry the way that he did, and the way that he does. Deuteronomy 32-17, they sacrificed the devil, and not to God, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. But Israel was not sacrificing to demons, at least they were not planning on doing this. They were sacrificing to idols, but God says you were sacrificing to demons, because I say again, behind every idol, there is a demon. Then again, Psalm 106, verses 36-39, and we've noted 1 Corinthians 10, 20-22. Let's take a look for a moment or two in the word of God to the prophetic picture, as we find this spelled out in the book of Revelation. And of course, to a large extent, not entirely, but the book of Revelation has to do with the latter times. First of all, Revelation 9, and the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues, yet did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and of wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk. Neither did they repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. What do we find in the world today? We find men worshiping devils. I talk with people in North America who worship idols. They haven't repented, it says, of their murders, their sorceries, their fornication, their theft, their thievery. And these are the things we're finding in our world today. But not a sorcery, and the worshiping of demons is part of the scene as the age draws to an end. Then let me read you something from Revelation chapter 16, beginning at the 13th verse. John says, And I saw three unclean spirits, now these are demons, I saw three unclean spirits like frogs, come out of the mouth of a dragon, and out of the mouth of a beast, and out of the mouth of a false prophet. For they are the spirits of demons, working miracles, who go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. In the life, then, of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, do not get involved in the occult, because Jesus Christ is coming back, and we Christians don't want to be found walking naked, involved in occult things. God hates this, and people who get involved in this become an abomination to God, and we know that in Deuteronomy chapter 18. I talked with an expert in this area, a man who had dealt with some 20,000 occult cases over a period of 45 years, and he said he didn't know of one person, Christian or non-Christian, who got involved in the occult, who did not have himself directly, or in his family as a result of his involvement, who did not have psychological and or spiritual problems as a direct result of their involvement with the occult. So in other words, there is always a hidden price tag on this kind of involvement. Christian friends, stay away from them. Non-Christian have nothing to do with the area of the occult. Let me tell you something that happened. I was in a crusade in a place in Alberta, and one night I lectured in the occult, gave an invitation, and the 15 or 20 people came forward, and there was a group of maybe six or eight young people, and they were sort of being pushed down the aisle by another person, and I found a young man who was not a Christian. When this group got to the front, the non-Christian said, I'm not a Christian, these kids are. I'm involved in the occult, and I've got these kids interested in it. I didn't know until tonight that it was a pile of garbage. He said, Preacher, you better get these kids out of it and then talk to me. I was very blunt and direct, and we did deal with these Christian kids and some others, and then the pastor and I talked with this young man alone. We discovered he was involved in 16 separate areas of the occult. But as we were talking to him, he said to me, now you said in your lecture tonight something that's not true, and I said, what was that? He said, you said there was always a hidden Christ tag. He said, I'm involved in 16 areas of the occult. I don't have any psychological or spiritual problems. I said, but you do have. He said, like what? I said, you told me a few moments ago that for years you wanted to receive Jesus Christ into your heart, you wanted to believe on Christ, you wanted to be a Christian, and you can't do it. I said, isn't that a spiritual problem? He said, man, I guess you're right, I guess it is. So the upshot of it was, he wanted us to pray with him and to break the power of these demon spirits in his life, and so we knelt at the altar, the pastor on one side, myself on the other, and we simply prayed and we rebuked the devil and we commanded these spirits that had come into this young man's life, we commanded them to go in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we pled the blood of Christ against them and over this young man, and nothing happened. You know, sometimes there's a loud cries in the book of Acts where we read of unclean spirits coming out and giving loud cries, the same thing in the gospel accounts. Nothing like this happened. He wasn't thrown on the floor, as sometimes happens. He just knelt there. So the pastor and I finished praying, we got to our feet, the young man was still kneeling there, and we waited a few moments and suddenly he spoke up, and this is what he said. He said, man, it was weird. Man, it was weird. I said, what was so weird? He said, when you commanded those things to leave, he said, something withdrew from my legs and my arms and went right off the top of my head. Now, I mentioned this incident in a meeting down in Pennsylvania and unknown to me in the audience, there was a man who had been a medical missionary for years and was now a psychiatrist, a practicing Christian psychiatrist, and he talked to me after and said, Bill, I can corroborate everything you said in your lecture tonight. He said, when I was in Africa, we had some cases where we cast demons out of people, and the people would often tell us, something withdrew from my arms and my legs and went out the top of my head. Now, if you remember the scripture we read in Revelation 16, it talks about demons going out to deceive people, working miracles, and there's a rising tide of this in the world today. I'm not saying, of course, that all miracle working is of the devil, but I'm saying this much, there are 17 or 18 places in the Bible where miracles were wrought by the power of the devil. You might remember that well-known one in 2 Thessalonians 2, verse 9, where it talks about the antichrist whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs. Notice how Paul describes this as lying wonders. They're not real miracles, they are pseudo-miracles, but they look like it. They have all the appearance of being a genuine miracle of God, but they're not. Maybe you heard about this healer down in Brazil. He died in a car accident, I understand, but the Reader's Digest had a lengthy article on him several years ago, and he could operate on people with a penknife. Medical doctors watched him doing this, and sometimes he operated when his hand was behind his back, and he wasn't even watching what he was doing. Many, many people testified that they were healed through this kind of an operation. Medical doctors said, we frankly don't know how he does it, we see what he's doing, it seems incredible, but we don't understand it. He would tell how before he began the operation, he would go into a separate room and he said that the spirit of a deceased doctor would enter into him and take over, and this doctor would then do the operating. I think that what really happened was he was demon-possessed at that moment by a spirit impersonating a dead doctor, and this man, a regal, did not really understand what was happening, because when he came out, people said that his face was changed, even his voice was changed to a different voice. Maybe you've heard of Marcos, Reverend Marcos, as he's called. There's a very kosher-sounding organization down in the Philippines called World Mission. I happened to be in British Columbia when he was lecturing, so a number of us went to this lecture, including my son-in-law, who with my daughter are missionaries in the Philippine Islands. They'd heard about Marcos down there, but had never met him, so naturally they wanted to hear him as well. Mr. Marcos had three people in the meeting who gave testimonies. They were people from Canada who had gone to the Philippines and who claimed they had been healed by his particular art, and it was very interesting to listen to. During the course of his lecture, he said that before he operated, the power of God came over him, and he was totally out of it. He said, I'm aware of nothing until the operation has ended. My mind is not there at all. Some other power, the power of God, he called it, took over and enabled him to do the operation. Now, the Canadian Medical Association would not allow him to practice this healing art in Canada, but they couldn't prevent him from showing a film. He had a half-hour colored film which we viewed, and here's how he operated. You would see the person lying on the table, the exposed area of flesh. He would, with his two hands, his fingertips, touch the flesh, and the flesh would open up just automatically about an inch wide, maybe six inches or eight inches long. Then he would thrust his hands down maybe to the second joint or a little further down inside the incision, hold him there for the count of five or longer. Then when he drew his fingers out, there would be tumors and tapeworms and diseased tissue hanging on his fingers. He would wipe these off in a bowl and then run his hand over the incision. The incision would close up beautifully. There wasn't even a scar or mark. He would take a sponge and wipe off the blood, and the person was healed. Now, teams of doctors had watched this man operate, and you'd say, well, this is exactly what he's doing. We frankly don't know how he does it, but one doctor got a hold of one of these sponges with blood on it, and he took it to the lab and discovered it was not human blood. It was pig's blood. Now, how this deception, how it's done, we don't really know. There was a question and answer period at the end of Mr. Marcos's lecture and presentation of the film, and so I asked him this question. I said, now, Jesus Christ taught us plainly in the Gospel of John, chapter 3, that unless a man is born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. I said, Mr. Marcos, what does that mean to you personally? At this point, he got very angry, and I think at this point also that it was no longer he that a demon spirit was speaking out through him, because this voice said, I have visited this world three times, and I'm not answering your question. And the whole question and answer period ended there. The whole thing was over. All right. That's the man, Marcos, and you've heard perhaps of Yuri Galer, the Israeli. Now, he claims to be in contact with people from flying saucers, or better known, more accurately known as UFOs. He says he gets all his power and his information from these people, and he believes that they are what they claim to be, that is, visitors from another civilization. They claim they are trying to get through this man, Galer, to the world today here and lead us into a utopia of peace and prosperity and all this kind of thing. He's got tape recordings of metallic voices, supposedly from these people who come on the UFOs. When he walks through a room, sometimes objects will rise off the floor and float in the air, tables, chairs, lamps, and other things. And, of course, this is known in occult circles as levitation. These are really occult manifestations, nothing more or less. And this brings me to the matter of the UFOs themselves. There's an interesting book that I would suggest you read if you're concerned in this area and want to get more information. It's called UFOs. What on earth is happening? The subtitle is The Coming Invasion. Now, these men have researched this area very thoroughly, come up with some very, very difficult to deny conclusions. For example, they discovered that anyone that has a close-up contact with a UFO almost invariably will develop some occult ability like clairvoyance or something along this line. And in my own personal experience, I remember once dealing with a woman. She was a farmer, and she was tremendously troubled because she was seeing UFOs very frequently at night. She'd be driving down the highway at night, and there'd be a ball of fire come down the highway and just skim over the top of her car, almost drive her into the ditch. And she was perfectly normal in every other way, but she was seeing these UFOs constantly. And so I discovered in talking with her, she was involved in three or four areas of the occult. And so I showed her the nature of this. She was horrified because she was a Christian, and she repudiated, she renounced these areas. And I commanded any demon spirits that had afflicted her in any way or invaded her to leave. I never saw her for another eight months, but she phoned me when she was in Saskatoon, and she told me that from the night we dealt with this problem, she never saw another UFO. And I remember in Manitoba hearing of a bunch of men that were fooling around with a Ouija board. And the Ouija spelled out on the board that if these men were to go to a certain junction of two highways the following morning at nine o'clock, they would see some UFOs. So they obeyed the Ouija board, went to this junction, and sure enough, a number of UFOs went sailing by in front of these men. Now, there were seven men involved. This happened about three years ago. But it shows the connection between the UFOs and the occult scene. And I personally have been for years persuaded that UFOs are nothing more or less than demonic manifestations. They are not people coming from another civilization at all. Now, I haven't time to go into that. I just wanted to touch on it briefly. Cattle mutilations, there are areas in the States, particularly in Montana, there is a four or five county area around the city of Great Falls, Montana, where there have been scores and scores of cattle beasts that are found mutilated, usually with the eyeballs gone, the tongue missing, the sex organs gone, and all the blood drained from the carcass. And these are things that are used in Satanism, in the worshiping of the devil. Now, the strange thing about it is that sometimes these carcasses are found on promontories where the cattle beast could never by itself have gone, yet there are no car tracks. In almost every place where they find a mutilated carcass, there are no tracks to the area where the carcass is lying, either the animal tracks or human tracks or car tracks or truck or anything, no tracks at all, just as if the thing was lowered from a helicopter and deposited there. Very, very strange. We've had a team in the Great Falls area working for four years now, investigating all of this. They've come up with absolutely zero answers to what's going on. Now, I want to give you a few cases of occult involvement or invasion, cases I've personally witnessed, and I'm going to try and give you sort of in the time we have here, I want to give you as much as possible a cross-section to give you a clearer picture, a fuller picture, a more complete picture of what's going on today. The first case I had to deal with was right after the revival in 1971. My wife and I were on holidays out in British Columbia at a little Bible camp, and a couple showed up. They were from Vancouver, and he listened to me preaching. I wasn't lecturing on the occult, but he came to me after and said, You'd better talk to my wife. She's got a big problem. I said, What's her problem? Well, he said, She's a Sunday school teacher in an evangelical Baptist church in Vancouver, but she hasn't been able to read the Bible or pray for eight months. So we got a number of people together, and we talked with this girl. I had no idea it was occult, and she told me she couldn't pray. So I thought she was backslidden. We knelt together, and I got the Bible, and I showed her how to come back to God, but she couldn't pray. She said, I'm terribly sorry, I can't pray. I said, You can talk. Why can't you pray? She said, When I go to pray, my throat constricts. I just can't get a word out. I said, What do you mean you can't read the Bible? Can you read the newspaper? She said, I can read anything, but when I pick up the Bible, I have a terrible feeling inside of me, and I just throw it down, and I can't read it. Since I've had the experience the last six years or more in this area, I've come to learn, of course, a lot of things I did not know before. One is what is known as the phenomena of resistance. When people get involved in occult practices, they will develop the phenomena of resistance to spiritual things, to holy things, and it will come out in different ways. They may find they are losing interest in the Bible. They may find they are losing interest in prayer. They have no power to pray. Or they may find they have no interest to share Christ with other people. They don't want to have anything to do with Christians the way they have before. This doesn't usually hit people full-blown. Sometimes it does. It usually develops over a period of time, the phenomena of resistance. We know of one lady involved in the occult, and when she would kneel to pray, she would fold her hands and her hands would be violently torn apart. Every time she went to pray, they would be violently torn apart until this was dealt with, the demons were commanded to go, they left her, and then she was able to pray normally. Well, I didn't know what to do with this other girl we were dealing with, so I prayed in my heart and said, Lord, what do we do now? Because I just couldn't help her, and God said, ask her about the Ouija board. It was as clear as can be. So I turned to the girl and said, tell me about the Ouija board. And her husband spoke up and said, the Ouija board, oh, that thing that's bugged her for eight months. And I said, what did you do? Well, here eight months before, she had used the Ouija board one night, and she and her husband had never put it together that from the night she used the Ouija board, she couldn't pray and she couldn't read the Bible. They never realized that there was any connection, you see, between the but of course, obviously there was. So we dealt with this problem then, and we dealt with it very simply. I showed her from Deuteronomy 18 that God looks on this kind of involvement as being an abomination. I said, this is why you're having these spiritual problems. So I led her in a prayer. She was able to follow me in a prayer sentence at a time as the other people believed God for her. And when she got to the point where she renounced the devil and all his works, including the Ouija board people, she was instantly set free. You should have heard her pray. She didn't need me or anybody else. She just prayed for the longest while praising God and thanking God and all the rest of it. Well, the following morning, my wife and I went to talk to she and her husband. They had a little camper trailer and they said, we had the greatest night. We didn't didn't sleep a wink. They said, we prayed, we praised the Lord. We talked about the Lord the whole night. A year later, we checked this out and found there was no further problem. She's able to read her Bible, able to pray, and the former problems were all ended. The second case I had was much more serious than this. I was conducting a crusade. Some people came running and said, there's a girl here we're praying with and counseling with. She says she can't be helped. She wants to take her life and we feel you better come and talk to her. So I did. I discovered she was involved in one area of the occult, but it didn't seem to be very significant. She'd read a book on witchcraft practices, but she declared she didn't practice any. But for a long while, I think it was for 10 months or longer, she'd been trying to come back to God. She was badly backslidden, but she said she couldn't come back to God. Now there were five women and myself praying with her in a small room and had a carpet on the floor. We were kneeling at chairs and I tried to lead this girl back to God and finally she said, I can't be helped. She said, I've tried so long to come back to God and he won't have me. So I silently prayed and I said, Lord, what is the problem? As clear as can be, the Lord made me aware of the fact that she had an occult invasion that we'd have to command a demon to leave her. Now I didn't want to tell this group of women what God had shown me because I didn't want to frighten them. But one of the women in the group was a returned missionary. So I prayed. Now remember, nobody in the group that I was praying and I prayed silently again. I said, Lord, if this is really an occult problem, then as you're indicating, would you give me a very clear sign right now that it is really this. I just finished this prayer in my heart and the missionary lady opened her Bible on her own to Acts chapter 16 and read the story of the demonized girl. When she finished reading that short account, she looked at me, our eyes met and she nodded her head and I nodded back. And I told the group that God had very clearly indicated this was an occult problem and we're going to have to believe God together for this girl to be delivered. So we went to prayer and we commanded these demons to leave. And while we were praying thus and making this command, the girl gave a cry. She was thrown full length on the floor and she lay there a few moments and then she jumped to her feet and she was laughing and crying at the same time and clapping her hands and she hugging the women and she cried, I'm free, I'm free, I'm free. She told me after she said she would never forget the fantastic power of God that touched her body at that point when these powers left her. Now she was totally delivered. There are two interesting sequels to the story. She had a godly mother, her parents were in full-time Christian work and that very same night her mother, not knowing where she was, was praying for her daughter and she said that while she was praying the Lord suddenly told her, your daughter is free, stop praying and stop praising. So she got off her knees and began to praise God and while she was praising God the telephone rang and here was her daughter phoning long distance to say, Mom, Jesus set me free tonight. The other interesting thing is this happened about six years, almost six years ago and that girl is in full-time Christian work today. God really set her free. I remember when we talked after it was all over and she said, so that was a spirit and I said, yes, that was a demon spirit, don't you ever get involved in occult practices again. A young man came to me for counseling one time after a crusade meeting and he said, I'm a Christian but I'm having a terrible time, I'm struggling morally, I'm filled with unclean thinking. By the hour, he says, I have no victory over this, I'm falling into sins and I'm afraid I'm going to just lose out totally in the Christian life. In talking with him I discovered he was involved in three or four areas of the occult. We went to Deuteronomy 18, I showed him what God said about this, it was an abomination and so he was horrified when he saw what the Bible taught about it, he was just ignorant of the teaching of the scriptures. So I knelt with him and I led him in a prayer to renounce these areas of the occult in which he was involved. He was able to do this, after we were through this I said to him, now did you sense anything in your body when you were praying this prayer? He said, yes, my body began to tremble and my knees began to slide under the pew and I couldn't control my body at all. So then I knew he had an invasion, so I called the pastor of the church and I think there was one other lay person in the building and we knelt with this young man and we went to prayer. Just as we went to prayer, I heard a noise and I looked at the young man and he was totally out of it. His hands were flailing around in the air, his head was thrown back and his mouth was opening and closing, no sound coming, his eyes were rolled back in their sockets and I'm sure he didn't even know we were there. So I said, demon spirit, what is your name? And a voice spoke up through him and told us it's name. I don't normally ask for any names, because I find in the New Testament of the 35 cases, so there's only once where Jesus asked for the name. This time we did, normally I don't. And then I commanded this demon spirit, actually there were two demons, they both gave their names, and I commanded them to go to the pit in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the man was instantly set free. We had a girl one time come for counseling and she was involved in I forget how many areas, I think 15 or more areas of the occult. This was before she was a Christian, she had only been a Christian for three weeks. Her mother had led her into the occult, because her mother was deeply involved in witchcraft practices. This girl had become a Christian three weeks before, remember, and from the night she became a Christian she began having serious problems. For example, she would see evil faces floating through the air. She would get into bed and suddenly the bed would begin to shake and like it was plugged into some kind of a vibrator. She was really worried, she didn't want to tell anybody about it, for fear they thought she was going out of her mind and they might commit her to an institution. I showed her what the Bible taught about this, and then we went to prayer. There were two of us prayed with her, we commanded these demon spirits to leave her, and after it was all over she said, when you were praying and commanding the spirits to leave, she said, something rose up inside of me like a river and just flowed right out of my body, and she was set free. I had two rather bizarre cases one time. One was down in Wyoming, in a crusade, and a lady came for counseling. She was involved in I think seven areas of the occult, some of these areas I mentioned earlier in my lecture today. She said, I have one problem I haven't told anybody because I'm so embarrassed I don't want to share it with anybody. I said, well you better tell me because you can't shock me, I've heard it all before, and maybe I can help you better if you'll tell me what the problem is. Well, it turned out the problem was gluttony, but it was a peculiar form of gluttony. She would see food and just go wild, she would stuff herself full and throw it all up and stuff herself full again with new food and throw it all up and she kept on doing this. She was married and only her husband knew about it, she said, you know, our food bills are so big we can hardly afford to pay them anymore. She was quite thin, she was not a heavy person at all. Well, we dealt with the occult problem on Friday night and Sunday night she came and she said, you know, it's all gone, the gluttony is gone. She had been doing this for four years, she had been in this kind of bondage. I came home about a week later and my wife gave me the names of some people who had phoned up in my absence wanting help and one was a university student here in Saskatoon and so I arranged an interview, she came over, and here she had the same problem. There were other problems, she had two serious psychological problems due to her involvement in three or four years of the occult, but she said, you know, I've got a terrible thing, she said, and she told me the same thing, she was eating food, throwing it up, eating food, throwing it up, and she said, I'm just at the point of suicide, she said, I have no control over my mind at all. Well, I discovered she was involved in a number of areas of the occult and we dealt with that in my office. People, I wish you could have seen it, I wish you could have heard what happened, because as I was praying, I led her in a prayer of renunciation, to renounce the devil, all his works, all the areas she was involved in, she did this, and then she just took off, she didn't need me to help her anymore in prayer. It was the most beautiful thing I think I've ever listened to. At one point she burst out and she cried that she saw Jesus standing there and she said, Jesus has forgiven me, Jesus has cleansed my heart, he's healed me, he's taken me back, and she just started to praise the Lord. Well, I opened my eyes, of course, and I couldn't see a thing, but she saw the Lord Jesus standing there and she was beautifully set free. All right, but remember, being involved, I think she was using Ouija board, palm reading, and I forgot the other area, two or three other areas that she was involved in. Now, we must never assume that a person has a demon problem just because they're having a psychological or some kind of a spiritual problem. You must never make this kind of assumption, because sometimes you can hurt people when you're trying to help them. I would say that 95% of the people who have occult manifestations or problems have been involved in some area of the occult, in almost every case then, people have these kind of problems because they're involved in the occult. And if people are not involved in the occult, it's very unlikely, it's not impossible, but it's very unlikely that their problem is of an occult nature. Exceptions to this are people, I think of one man who had occult manifestations in his life, he would feel fingers poking in his back, he'd twirl it around, there's nobody there. Now, he was a civil engineer, well-educated, I checked him out with other people, they said, no, he's perfectly normal, there's nothing wrong with him. Of course, he hadn't been telling people about this occult manifestation he was having, and I was really perplexed because I checked it out, he wasn't involved in the occult, but I found out that he was a very, very stubborn person, and the wickedly, stubbornly resisting the will of God in his life had been for years. And there flashed to my mind as I heard about this, that scripture in the Old Testament where it says about King Saul, Samuel said, Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. So to God, a rebellious, stubborn spirit is just like being involved in witchcraft, and in the civil engineer's life, God had allowed a demon to invade him of his wickedness, his stubbornness, his rebellion against God and his will. We saw a beautiful deliverance from this occult invasion in this particular man's life. We had a case, a girl, perhaps 16 years of age, her mother had died, her grandmother was raising her, and this girl was having occult manifestations of different kinds. She had no victory at all in the Christian life, a very, very sad, morose individual, and her grandmother was just beside herself, not knowing what to do. So we had several ladies, and I counseled with this girl and discovered she was into the occult. So I showed her Deuteronomy 18, 1 Corinthians 10, I believe, and then we went to prayer and she renounced these areas very slowly and deliberately, and we prayed over her and commanded these demons to leave her and so on, claimed the victory through the blood of Christ, nothing seemed to happen, she just sat there. And all of a sudden she just opened up like a flower to the sun and she cried, Oh, I'm free, thank God, I'm free, it's gone! And it was just a beautiful thing to watch. She just came alive in that moment after she renounced the areas of the occult. And I could go on, I don't want to wear you with a lot of these things, we've had to deal with the aggregate total with some hundreds of people now, we've had as many as 40 people respond at the end of a lecture on the occult. Sometimes there's nobody responding, sometimes one or two, sometimes 10, 15, 20, up to as many as 40 responding, people involved, and almost every person a professing Christian. I wrote a book called Demonism Among Evangelicals, in which I go into this more in detail than I can possibly do in this short tape. By the way, that book is available through the Canadian Revival Fellowship in Regina or the Western Transmission in Saskatoon if you're interested in getting a copy. As I say, I go into it much more in detail than I can in this particular tape. However, now before I close, I want to just take a few moments and talk about the way of victory. Now going back to Luke chapter 10, and I want to end on this kind of a note, because it's a note of victory, the Lord Jesus Christ said, you remember he came back with John and said, Lord, even the demons are subject unto you in your name. Yes, what did Jesus say? Jesus said, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. In other words, Satan, the prince of all the demons, is a fallen creature, his power is gone. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Then he said this, Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and you know in the Bible, serpents and scorpions are symbols of demonic powers. And Jesus Christ has given his people, remember these were the 70, they were not apostles, they were ordinary lay people. You never read of them again in the Bible. The only reference in Luke chapter 10, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Or as John said in 1 John, greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. Listen, we Christian people have absolute power over the devil and the demon spirits over all of them, and as Jesus Christ said, nothing shall by any means hurt you. But if a Christian gets over into occult territory, he will come under the power of Satan to some degree and extent, but he can be set free if he will admit, acknowledge, and renounce. Remember, we have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty. We have renounced the occult, and we found it's absolutely essential that people make a list of the areas they've been involved in, ask God to remind them of anything they may not remember, make a list, and then go through the list one point by one. Just renouncing the Ouija board, palm reading, needle on a string, whatever the areas are, and then after the person has done this, this is why it's essential that you have someone else to pray with you. The other person will have to command the demon or demons to leave this person in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and to go to the pit. Now, people ask me where I get authority to command demons to go to the pit, and I have to admit the authority is not so strong, but I do see it when the Lord Jesus, dealing with the demonic at Gadara, begged Christ not to send them out into the deep, into the pit. Why? Because they recognized this was the normal practice of the Lord Jesus Christ. He cast demons out, he committed them to the pit, and these demons were asking Jesus for a special dispensation. That is, that Christ should have mercy on them and not send them into the pit. So we've had demons sometimes speak out through the person and say they didn't want to go to the pit because the pit was a bad place. We've had them threaten to come back from the pit if we send them there and bring more demons with them and create more problems. We command them to go, never to return in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then we take a faith stand against them, plead the blood of Christ over the person and against the demon, because Revelation 12 says, And they overcame him, that is, the devil, by the blood of the land and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death. And so the blood of Jesus Christ, that is the foundation through which we get victory. Christ once said in Matthew 12, 31, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto the sons of men. 1 John 1, 9, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Now, my dear friend, listen, if you have been involved in the occult in any one of these areas, or maybe in an area I haven't mentioned, but you're aware of the fact it's an occult thing, you better take care of it as soon as you can, because you'll find over a period of time, the phenomena of resistance will develop in your life, or it may not in yours, but in some other member of your family, because the whole family gets infected or affected when one person in the family is so affected or invaded by demon spirits. Remember, in Ephesians 4, 27, Neither give place to the devil. Don't give him any room in your heart and life. Rather, as it says in the following chapter, Ephesians 5, 18, Be filled