CHILD ABUSE -
RITUAL ABUSE-
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. ABUSED CHILD
1. DEFINITIONS
2. EARLINE'S TESTIMONY ABOUT REJECTION
3. TEACHING
4. SEXUAL CHILD ABUSE
5. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A GENERATION MAKES - CHANGES IN 25 YEARS
6. ARE ADOLESCENTS VALUED RESOURCES?
7. WAKE UP AMERICA!
2. CHILD ABUSE
1. PARENTAL AFFECTION
2. IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN
3. WARNING SIGNS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN CHILDREN
1. Symptoms - Observable Behavior
2. Note
4. INCEST OR CHILD ABUSE
1. Symptoms
2. Profile Of Offender
3. Note
5. SEQUENCE OF ABUSE
6. TYPES OF ABUSE AND REACTIONS
7. REFERENCES
3. RITUAL ABUSE
1. PREFACE
2. CHARACTERISTICS
3. REFERENCE
ABUSED CHILD
DEFINITIONS
Subconscious - That portion of mental activity of which the individual has little or no conscious perception. Occurring without conscious perception, or with only slight perception on the part of the individual - said of mental processes of reactions.
Abuse - To use ill; to maltreat; to misuse, to use with bad motives or wrong purposes; to violate; to defile; to deceive, to impose on; to treat harshly; to use insulting, coarse, or bad language about or to; to revile.
EARLINE'S TESTIMONY ABOUT REJECTION
Rejection is the basic cause of abuse. All types of rejection work to destroy the mental and emotional health of an individual. You are rejecting when you do not set a proper example, or withhold correction or instruction or love.
I had often wondered about certain problems I had: (1) an inordinate desire to please, (2) inability to say no to things I didn't want to do, (3) always setting goals, working hard to accomplish them and then stopping short of success, (4) always feeling I had to do things better than anyone else, and (5) trying to make everything around me and about me look better than I thought it was.
I cut off part of my finger in an accident loading a horse into a trailer. It was the first time I had need of a hospital in many years. I was put to sleep and my finger was sewn into my palm. The next day I was supposed to be quiet and take it easy.
For five years, I had been trying to help my mom get resettled after my dad's death. At times she would tell me what she wanted me to do and I would start to do it. Right in the middle of my doing it, she would suddenly, without telling me, change her mind and have one of my brothers doing an entirely different thing.
Two years ago I took her to Maine to see my brother. Back in Chattanooga she accused me of wanting and trying to kill her. This really puzzled me because I thought we got along very well.
After the operation, I was being still on the sofa praying. I asked God Why can't I help mom? Why does she think I want to kill her?
I had a vision. I was standing in the room I had as a child. I was high near the ceiling. I was witnessing a terrible thing. A woman was beating, not whipping, a child. I went down to see who this was and to stop it; I saw it was my mom. I went beside the bed, bent down and looked; the child was me.
Thinking I was hallucinating because of the drugs from the operation the day before, I quickly decided to get up and get busy. One-handed work was hard to find, so I swept the carport.
My brother called me or I called him. Since I sounded a little funny, he asked what was wrong. I told him next time they could sew me up awake. Then I related this story to him. He was silent, then he asked me if I remembered that day.
He said he had told my dad that if my mom didn't stop beating me for no reason, he would kill her. The only words said in the scene were by my dad; he said to my mom that he would kill her if he ever heard of this happening again. I was not a small child. I was ten or twelve years old when the beatings stopped.
For some reason, I simply cannot remember this today. He thought her fear that I wanted to kill her came from the guilt for what she did to me.
About eight to nine years before this incident, Gene and I had fasted and prayed for me for two years. When I got the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, there was only initial joy. Immediately, I began to have more fears than before, my emotions were out of control and I couldn't think clearly. God does not give us a spirit of fear but a spirit of power, love, calm, well-balanced mind, discipline and self control.
Neither of us knew about deliverance from demons, so God had to teach us. After a long time of praying one night, Gene began to call out Rejection, Rebellion, Bitterness, etc. I was very different after this.
I had to learn how to stay free by studying the Bible. No one in our town believed a Christian could have a demon, so we had to rely on God and His Word.
I was doing very well until the scene passed before my eyes and I learned of my early life. Immediately, I began to have times of panic for no apparent reason. I was hostile. I noticed a panic when those who had authority over me were present. I would become fearful if a policeman came near me, and when the pastor or principal came into my school room. I felt I had to challenge Gene's decisions.
We prayed and felt that I needed more deliverance. Gene was led to call out the same things as before. We realized at this point that we were working on my subconscious mind.
TEACHING
As you can see, abuse (whether verbal, physical, mental or sexual) has a deep and lasting effect on a person. It affects their relationships and what they do. This includes neglect. II Tim. 3:2 says that in the end times people will be lovers of self, utterly self-centered. Most child abuse comes from selfish parents. When a child is neglected or rejected, damage is done to them emotionally, mentally and physically which is almost impossible to overcome without God's provision of salvation and deliverance. Psychiatry and psychology attempt to help you live with effect of abuse. God has provided a way to get rid of the effects.
II Tim. 3:2 says that in the end times people will be lovers of self, utterly self-centered. Most child abuse comes from selfish parents. When a child is neglected or rejected, damage is done to them emotionally, mentally and physically.
Emotionally these children are unsure of themselves, and everyone or almost everyone around them. Often they are unable to be still or concentrate. Emotions are always at an extreme pitch. They cannot handle conflict but are threatened by it. Often they lash out in temper when problems need to be solved.
Mentally they cannot trust others or themselves. They have difficulty learning due mainly to being emotionally unsound. Some become so fearful they are always watching everyone around them. Some are pressured so by rejection, they go to unnatural or extreme means to succeed. Lying does not seem so bad if it will stop the abuse.
Many become schizophrenic, paranoid and psychotic. Schizophrenics are double or many minded, and unable to cope with reality (James 1:4-6). Some become catatonic either rejecting any activity, or extremely active and talkative, and have hallucinations (II Tim. 3:3). The paranoid mind has delusions of grandeur and persecution. Psychotics simply refuse to acknowledge reality (II Tim. 3:4): the town bum, drunks, sexual perverts, etc. Many that we call hypocrites are in this group (II Tim. 3:5). They will put on whatever face they feel will get the best treatment for them.
Many times an abused child will mildly or completely neglect themselves to convey the idea to others that they are worthless or at fault. By their attitudes they invite sickness, etc. Or, they go to the other extreme - they must always look beautiful to hide their real selves. Doing many things to harm themselves, they always have a hate/love relationship with themselves.
If a child is beaten, it will, when it becomes an adult tend to do the same thing to its children. I know that God helped me in this area. As a small child coming home from school one day after a particularly hard time, a voice told me You don't have to be like your people; you have the ability to choose which way you will go. With my children, I would never touch to punish when I was really mad or upset.
Since these senseless beatings have no reason, the child becomes confused and frustrated. Many work extremely hard to prove themselves.
In mental abuse, children follow pretty much the same pattern as physical abuse. Eventually they accept or partially accept the verbal abuse as true. Dishonest dealing with children makes them fearful of trusting. Hence they have trouble trusting God, because parents who are authority figures have not been trustworthy. They always have nervous problems.
Sexually abused children have all the above problems. Hate figures in all abuse, but is extreme in a sexually abused child. The abused child may take up homosexuality, sadism, etc. and become frigid. Any form of abuse can lead to mental illness.
First, the child who has been abused must learn to forgive. When tempted to hate again, the child must not let it rule him or her.
Come to understand that the parent or abuser has had much trouble in his or her life. If the person is young, you should seek help and protection from this abuser.
If you have had unexplained nervousness, fears lying, inability to trust, always having to prove yourself in dead-heat competition, hate and hatefulness, strong leaning to sexual perversions, hypocritical, fantasy, inability to cope with life or people, extreme self-centeredness, extreme emotions, bad temper, depression, confusion, frustrations, being victimized or unable to control your actions, then you probably need deliverance in your subconscious mind as well as conscious mind.
After deliverance, you will need to learn what the Bible says about each area of deliverance and teach yourself to obey. Without the demons inside, you should be able to obey God's instructions. Ask God for understanding of yourself. Learn to think differently than before.
For example: Most abused people have a problem feeling gratitude because they have been victimized repeatedly. They cannot be glad or grateful when something good happens because they fear it has a price to be paid. Learn Deut. 28:47 - to serve the Lord in gratitude of heart and mind for all that he has blessed you with (an example of what parents' attitudes should be). Remember Jesus died for you before you were ever born. Forgive everyone to the degree that you can truly pray for them to be saved and receive blessings of God. Realize that their troubles are probably as great or greater than yours. Realize it is not entirely or maybe not at all your fault.
Your are rejecting when you do not set a proper example, or withhold correction or instruction or love.
It is almost impossible to overcome without God's provision of salvation and deliverance. Psychiatry and psychology attempt to help you live with effect of abuse. God has provided a way to get rid of the effects.
They cannot handle conflict but are threatened by it. Often they lash out in temper when problems need to be solved. They will put on whatever face they feel will get the best treatment for them.
Many go to great lengths to succeed but are riddled by self-doubt. They stop short of their goals adding more failure and self-hatred, etc. to their life.
SEXUAL CHILD ABUSE
The abuse of children is a direct indication of the condition of a family or a nation. According the Word of God, children are a gift from God. In Deut. 28:4, Blessed shall be the fruit of your body. In Psa. 127:3-5, Lo, children are the heritage of the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward. As arrows are in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of thy youth. Happy, blessed and fortunate is the man whose quiver is filled with them! They will not be put to shame when they speak with their adversaries at the cities gate.
It must really be an affront to God the way many Christians consider children - His heritage, His gift to us. Most Christians have adapted the view of the world concerning children. It would shock pastors to know how many of their members have had abortions (some of those who walk the abortion protest lines have also been served by the clinics). It would be even a greater shock to pastors to learn how many of their own abuse their children or someone else's child. We are talking all kinds of abuse, not just sexual. Very few days go by that there is not a report in our papers of a priest, pastor or rabbi molesting a child sexually.
We have learned from those coming out of the occult, cults and Satanism that they feel they gain evil power by molesting children sexually. They claim that the child will never recover from this act. Out experience with people is that without salvation through Jesus Christ plus deliverance and teaching, they will not. Besides that, there is a soul or mind tie between all people who have sex. That evil person who molests children can exert control over the child even against its will.
There are mind serving demons that travel between people. An example: one young lady who came to us for help explained how she was pulled into homosexuality. In her work, she met a friend of a co-worker at a party which degenerated quickly into something she felt uneasy about. As she was trying to leave gracefully, an older lady came to her and began to make advances to her. The young lady explained that she was not interested in such a thing. The older woman intimidated her by telling her, You mean to tell me you didn't know what kind of party this was? The young lady escaped that night, she thought! She began to have night visitors, she would wake up thinking of this lady and began to feel she had maybe been unkind to her.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A GENERATION MAKES - CHANGES IN 25 YEARS
Americans are waiting longer to marry today, more are getting divorced, resulting in more single-parent families - as many as 60% among blacks.
While the man-and-wife family with one or more children remains the norm, it is a tradition that is rapidly eroding. Divorced persons have risen to 130 per 1,000 married persons, compared with just 35 in 1960, and the proportion of one-parent families of all races has more than doubled from 13% in 1970 to 28%.
Commenting on the causes, Douglas Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute said he doesn't think the fault is so much with economics as with trickle-down morality.
The elites of the country changed their behavior, at least outward manifestations, in the 1950's and everyone else is following. Across the board there has been a total loosening of the old Puritan standards by which we grew up, he said.
People today value early marriage less, value having children less, and value having a career of their own, and some fun before settling down, more highly, Besharov declared. From Association Trends.
ARE ADOLESCENTS VALUED RESOURCES?
Violence and injury account for three out of four adolescent deaths. More than three out of 10 adolescents who die are killed in motor vehicle accidents. Half of these involve alcohol.
The homicide rate has doubled among 10 to 14 year-olds over a period of 20 years. Homicide is the leading cause of death among black 15 to 19 year-olds.
Most 10 to 19 year-old homicide victims are killed with guns. In 1987, firearms accounted for 68 percent of the 1,744 adolescent murders. Eighteen percent of those adolescents were killed with knives and other cutting instruments. Fourteen percent were killed with clubs, beaten to death or strangled.
Child abuse and child neglect increased 74 percent in 10 years.
Over a period of 20 years, suicide tripled among 10 to 14 year-olds and doubled among 15 to 19 year-olds. Whites are three times more likely than blacks to kill themselves.
There are important sex differences in attempted and completed suicide. Adolescent girls are four to five times more likely than boys to attempt suicide, while boys are more likely to succeed, mainly because they choose more lethal methods. Girls generally use pills. Boys tend to hang themselves or use guns.
Approximately 92 percent of high school seniors have consumed alcohol at least once, 50 percent have tried marijuana and 15 percent have tried cocaine. Adolescents who currently drink alcohol are 10 times more likely than non-drinkers to use marijuana and 11 times more likely to use cocaine.
By the time they are 18 years old, 65 percent of boys and 51 percent of girls are sexually active. Approximately 50 percent of American adolescents do not use contraceptives the first time they have intercourse. Half of premarital pregnancies occur within the first six months of sexual activity.
One in four sexually active high school students will get a sexually transmitted disease before graduating.
Mental disorders account for 32 percent of the disabilities among 10 to 18 year-olds. It is estimated that 5 million children and adolescents need mental health services but do not receive them.
Approximately 5 percent of adolescents are clinically obese and between 5 percent and 25 percent are overweight.
Pain during menstruation affects almost half of all female adolescents and is a leading cause of school absenteeism.
About one in four high school seniors approves of heavy cigarette smoking and one or two drinks a day. One in five approves of trying cocaine. Meanwhile, 80 percent of the parents of 8 to 17 year-olds think drugs are not a problem. From Ann Landers Advice.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
The conclusion from the above articles is that American needs to wake up. Parents need to wake up and pay more attention to their children. Parents need to pay more attention to each other. Especially, the Christian churches need to wake up, and teach and practice the whole Bible. God gave the Christians a winning program but we are not using it and the forces of evil are overcoming America.
CHILD ABUSE
PARENTAL AFFECTION
(Taking Our Cities For God)
Parental affection for children has eroded to the point where 30,905 babies and toddlers were simply abandoned nationwide in in 1986. This statistic tripled between 1976 and 1986, and child abuse multiplied twenty times over.
IMPACT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON CHILDREN
Many parents minimize or deny the presence of children while the mothers are being assaulted. However, interviews with children of battered women reveal that they have seen, and heard, and can describe detailed accounts of violent behavior that their mother or father never realized they had witnessed.
Reports by battered mothers show that 87% of children witness the abuse. Of children who witness their mothers being abused by their fathers, 40% suffer anxiety, 48% suffer depression, 53% act out with their parents, and 60% act out with siblings.
These children also suffer poor health, low self-esteem, poor impulse control, sleeping difficulties, and feelings of powerlessness. They are at high risk for alcohol and drug use, sexual acting out, running away from home, isolation, loneliness, fear, and suicide.
More that 50% of child abductions result from domestic violence. Children's lives are frequently disrupted by moves to escape domestic violence. They lose considerable school time; flee home without books, money, or changes of clothing; and live in the family car when shelters are unavailable.
Since school records are not protected by law, violent fathers use these records to track down the mothers or kidnap the children. As a result, many children of battered women are kept out of school for security reasons.
Children worry that their mothers will get seriously hurt or their fathers will go to jail. These thoughts weigh most heavily on a child's mind during school hours when the child is not home. This constant anxiety does not allow them to pay attention to their studies.
Children who live with domestic violence may also have a difficult time relating to their peers. In some cases where the battered mother is isolated, socializing has not been modeled at home.
It is not uncommon for children to feel guilty for having fun. Many children don't want to leave their battered mother alone. Children experience guilt about the good feelings they may have about their abuser.
Embarrassment is not an uncommon feeling, especially for teenagers. They may be reluctant to invite friends to their house for fear that a violent incident could occur.
Because children of violent homes live with such uncertainty, they may feel that life will continue to be unpredictable, and therefore, they worry about their future. They may give up hope and decide it is not worthwhile to set goals or learn self-control.
If intervention does not occur, these children's feeling of anxiety, accountability, guilt, grief, and embarrassment will begin to take command of their lives.
WARNING SIGNS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN CHILDREN
Symptoms - Observable Behavior
(A Door Of Hope)
1. Fear of specific persons or situations / strangers. Child verbally declares she doesn't want to go to grandpa's house or shies away when around strangers.
2. Nightmares. Usually has dreams of helplessness - trying to run away but being caught.
3. Withdrawal (social or emotional). Stays in room; isolates self; is sullen: Just leave me alone.
4. Bed wetting / change in sleep patterns. Says, Mom, I had an accident, or I can't sleep.
5. Personality change. Outgoing child who was a leader type becomes withdrawn; change in school performance.
6. Loss of appetite. I'm not hungry.
7. Unprovoked crying spells. Bursts into tears when significant parent goes on routine errands and leaves child, i.e., Please, Mommy don't leave me.
8. Clinging to significant adult. Stays in close proximity; needs more physical touching.
9. Excessive washing / baths. Talks of being dirty, feels dirty.
10.Poor self-image / low self-esteem. Increases negative self-incriminations - I'm no good. I can't do anything right, etc.
11. Changes in type of fantasy play. Expresses extreme victimization / violence in play.
12.Fear of being alone. Please, Mommy, stay with me. Don't turn out the light.
13.Refusal to go to school. expresses dislike; doesn't want to go see friends. I just want to stay home with you.
14. Running away. Retreats to safe ;family. I don't like it here.
15. Attempt to control environment / fear of unknown. Wants to control excessive environment; often becomes extremely anxious over unknown aspects of life. What if our house catches on fire? Or, Mommy, I'm afraid.
16. Early sexual precociousness. Practices excessive masturbation; uses sexually explicit words and gestures inappropriate for age.
Note
One or even two of these symptoms are not indicative of sexual abuse. A combination of several, four or more, might indicate a need for parental concern.
INCEST OR CHILD ABUSE
Symptoms
(Freeing Your Mind)
1. As A Child: fear, helplessness, inferiority, blame and guilt, bed wetting, nightmares, hiding away, asthma.
2. As A Teen: early rebellion, acute depression, looking downward, feeling worthless, talk of suicide, running away, promiscuity, prostitution.
3. As An Adult: gaps in memory, perfectionism, sacrificial work, lack of faith in GOD, repeated victimization, overweight, nightmares, flashbacks, migraines, allergies.
4. As A Wife: poor choice of mates, accepting of abuse, frigidity, extreme anger, abusive to children, controlling, lack of emotion, lack of trust, suspicious, promiscuous.
Profile Of Offender
The offender is usually a victim himself; was probably abused as a child. The offender exhibits rigid, religious, legalistic and high morals. Is lonely and remote, convincing in denial, quiet, well-mannered and withdrawn. Believes in obedient children and subordination of women. Keeps children close to home.
Note
See Complete Symptom List in back of Freeing Your Mind.
SEQUENCE OF ABUSE
The experience of sexual abuse should be analyzed in relation to four trauma-causing factors: sexual traumatization, betrayal, powerlessness and stigmatization. The preschool child who is a victim of sexual abuse is at risk of severe levels of trauma. As with incest, the preabuse situation in which the child has trusted an adult who then accosts that child creates great emotional and cognitive confusion. It engenders strong feeling of betrayal when the child comes to recognize that this person did do something bad to him or her and that mother and father did nothing to stop it. Parents noticed the following changes in their children: vaginal discharge, genital soreness, rashes, fear of the dark, sleep disturbances, nightmares and sexually provocative language. The children exhibited radical changes in behavior, including temper outbursts, sudden mood shifts, and poor impulse control. These responses highlight the second salient feature of the children's trauma: their sense of powerlessness. The full cycle is trauma, terror and rage.
TYPES OF ABUSE AND REACTIONS
(The Handbook For Spiritual Warfare)
Abuses suffered by children today usually fall into four broad but interrelated classifications:
Sexual Abuse - extreme shame and sexual problems. Fear and anger also occur. Physical Abuse - extreme rage and interpersonal relationship problems. Psychological Abuse - extreme negative self-image and a spirit of rejection. Always produces anger. Religious Abuse - extreme confusion about God and the Christian faith. Inability to trust God or The Son Of God.
The negative reactions listed are not exhaustive. Anger, bitterness, rage, and interpersonal relationship problems will almost always accompany each of the four types of abuse.
The phenomenon of repressed memories of childhood abuse needs careful investigation:
1. Never suggest childhood sexual abuse to troubled counselees.
2. If abuse is suspected, become an intercessor. Ask The Holy Spirit to bring it to the mind of the counsellee. If He does not, what right do you have to do so?
3. Encourage the victim to forgive the abusers.
4. Consider whether or not disturbed believers must remember all the causes of their emotional damage. While identifying these causes is helpful when prompted by The Holy Spirit, if a counsellee does not identify them, is there then no balm in Gilead?
5. Do not encourage victims to break up their family or take their abusers to court, unless the perpetrators still represent danger to other children.
6. Take the victim through deliverance ministry as well as through emotional healing.
REFERENCES
National Domestic Violence Hotline, Texas Council on Family Violence, Austin, TX
A Door Of Hope by Jan Frank
Freeing Your Mind by Fred and Florence Littauer
Lily of the Valley Ministries, Alexandria, LA
The Handbook For Spiritual Warfare by Ed Murphy, Thomas Nelson Publishers
Taking Our Cities For God by John Dawson, Charisma House
RITUAL ABUSE
PREFACE
Ritual abuse is primarily oriented at children and is mainly sexual in nature. It also includes adults but the main emphasis is to affect the lives of children for Satan if they are allowed to live. It is said the this is a three billion dollar business.
We are in a life and death war with the forces of evil. Churches are vandalized, desecrated, and Bibles and churches are burned. Evil people are criminal, stealthily, organized deadly, selfish, disregard life, devil worshiper, lust, unrestrained indulgence and forbid things of GOD. This is clearly demonic influence.
Many churches and youth groups are clueless and powerless, and kids are toxic. Since there is no power in the churches, the youth look to Satanism for power. The children are lonely, hurt, crying, fearful, lost and looking for love with anyone who will give it to them. Hurting teenagers are rejected from church because they don't fit the mold. Churches fall into sedition, gossip, false teaching, secretiveness, exclusivity, pride and arrogance.
CHARACTERISTICS
1. Ritual abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse, spouse abuse
2. Sacrifice of animals, children and adults
3. Blood ritual, death ritual, cattle mutilation, drink blood
4. Teen Satanist, teen vampire, teen bisexual
5. Sex with corpse, snuff death film
6. Pedophile, child molestation, child pornography, child trading, sexual predator, child sex toy
7. Children considered animals, killing babies
8. Rape, torture, death, suicide, murder
9. Criminal occultist, pedophile, pornography, trader
10.Victimization, government programming, high-tech harassment, fragmenting mind, mind control
11.Babylonian witchcraft, Egyptian black magic, black arts, 12.Wiccan, white magic
12.The Necronomicon, Book of Shadows
13.Satanic cult, Druid
14.Adult sexual orgy, pimp, street drugs
REFERENCE
Diary Of A Devil Hunter by Gregory R. Reid
JESUS IS THE DELIVERER
SEXUAL SINS SCRIPTURE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. COMMENTS
1. General
2. Godly Sex
3. Ungodly Sex
1. Thirty-Five Types Of Sexual Sin And Perversion
2. Sexual Behavior In Lesson
4. Soul Ties
2. SCRIPTURE
1. Lev. 15:16-17 & 24 Masturbation And Menstruation
2. Lev. 18: 6-30 Unlawful Marriages And Lusts
3. Lev. 19:20 & 29 Sundry Laws
4. Lev. 20:10-21 Sundry Laws
5. Lev. 21:7. 9 & 13-15 Priest's Marriages
6. Deut. 22:5 & 20-30 Apparel, Adultery, Rape, Fornication And Incest
7. Deut. 27:20-23 Curses
8. Prov. 5:3-20 Whoredom and Chastity
9. Prov. 6:24-29 Whoredom
10. Prov. 6:32-35 Adultery
11. Prov. 7:5-27 Whoredom and Wantoness
12. Prov. 9:13-18 Folly
13. Prov. 11:21 Without Discretion
14. Prov. 23:27-28 & 31-33 Strange Women
15. Prov. 30:20 Adultery
16. Prov. 31:1-3 Chastity
3. OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE
1. Adultery
2. Incest
3. Rape
4. Fornication
5. Harlotry Before the Time of Moses
6. Harlotry In The Time of Moses
7. Samson
8. Spiritual Harlotry
9. Intercourse with a Menstruous Woman
10. Sodomy
11. Bestiality
12. Warnings Against Lewd Women
13. Sins Against Nature
14. Highlighted Scripture
4. PROCESS OF DELIVERANCE
1. Sexual Sin With Penetration
1. Type of Sin
2. Type of Organ
3. Type of Gender
4. Type of Prayer
2. Sexual Sin Without Penetration
1. Type of Sin
2. Type of Prayer
3. Sexual Sin Of Priests
COMMENTS
General
The greatest drive is to live. The next greatest drive is to have sex. This lesson affects everyone. It is Satan's greatest weapon against humanity. It has destroyed churches, pastors, five-fold leaders, Christians and families. Children are having sex at 10-11-12 years old today. You need to train your children before the world trains them.
This lesson lists some scripture about sexual sin. It is not complete but covers a lot of sexual sin. There is a lot of scripture in the other lessons in the Sexual Deliverance Manual. Read The Bible to see how serious God is about sexual sin and the consequences.
Godly Sex
The only godly way to have sex is intercourse between husband and wife. Intercourse would include the foreplay leading up to penetration. Every other type of sex can bring demons into your bodies due to sin.
Ungodly Sex
Thirty-Five Types Of Sexual Sin And Perversion: Homosexuality, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transvestite, Gay, Lesbian, Masturbation, Bisexuality, Prostitution, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Fetishism, Sexual Fetishism, Zoophilia, Sexual Sadism, Sexual Masochism, Necrophilia, Klismaphilia, Lewdness, Telephone Scatologia, Urophilia, Apotemnophilia, Coprophilia, Coprophagia, Pedophilia, Toucheurism, Frotteurism, Sexual Asphyxia, Rape, Gerontophilia, Pyromania, Bestiality, Air Embolism, Aspiration of Semen. (See Chapter 13 for Sexual Definitions.)
Sexual Behavior In Lesson:
Sexual Sin With Penetration and Sexual Sin Without Penetration: Masturbation, Sex During Menstruation, Incest, Adultery, Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Sex With Slaves, Prostitution, Whoredom, Sodomy, Bestiality, Uncleanness, Harlotry, Rape, Fornication, Sex By Apparel, Unchaste, Sexual Flattery, Lust, Sexual Jealousy, Wantoness, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Fondling, French Kissing, Sexual Perversion, Seduction, Pornography, Sexual Addictions, Lust Of Eyes, Lust Of Flesh, Sexual Pride Of Life, and Anything Other Than Intercourse Between Husband and Wife.
Soul Ties
When you had sex with another person or beast, you became tied to whatever you had sex with. It is just like getting married to that person or beast. Your soul is united with them and you become one flesh with them.
SCRIPTURE
Lev. 15:16-17 & 24 Masturbation And Menstruation
Lev. 15:16-17 seed of copulation (emission of semen)
Lev. 15:24 sex during woman's period
Lev. 18:6-30 Unlawful Marriages And Lusts
Sexual intercourse with anyone near of kin: father, mother, father's wife, sister, daughter of father, daughter of mother, son's daughter, daughter's daughter, father's wife's daughter, father's sister, mother's sister, father's brother's wife, aunt, daughter in law, brother's wife, woman and her daughter or son's daughter or daughter's daughter, wife and sister.
Sexual intercourse with neighbor's wife, woman in uncleanness, mankind with mankind, womankind with womankind, beast.
Lev. 19:20 & 29 Sundry Laws
Lev. 19:20 bondmaid (slave)
Lev. 19:29 prostitute your daughter, whore, whoredom
Lev. 20:10-21 Sundry Laws
Adultery, incest, sodomy, bestiality and uncleanness (woman in her sickness). Another man's wife, father's wife, daughter in law, mankind with mankind, wife and her mother, beast, father's daughter, mother's daughter, mother's sister, father's sister, uncle's wife and brother's wife.
Lev. 21:7, 9 & 13-15 Priest's Marriages
Lev. 21:7 wife that is whore, divorced woman
Lev. 21:9 daughter of priest that is whore
Lev. 21:13-15 wife in virginity but not widow, divorced woman or harlot
Deut. 22:5 & 20-30 Apparel, Adultery, Rape, Fornication And Incest
Deut. 22:5 Sex distinguished by apparel
Deut. 22:20-30 whore, adultery, fornication, rape, father's wife
Deut. 27:20-23 Curses
Deut. 27:20-23 lieth with father's wife, beast, daughter of father, daughter of mother, mother in law
Prov. 5:3-20 Whoredom and Chastity
Prov. 5:3-14 the mischief of whoredom and riot
Prov. 5:15-20 exhortation to chastity
Prov. 6:24-29 Whoredom
Prov. 6:24-29 evil, flattery, strange, lust, whore, fire
Prov. 6:32-35 Adultery
Prov. 6:32-35 adultery, jealousy
Prov. 7:5-27 Whoredom and Wantoness
Prov. 7:5-27 strange woman, simple ones, harlot, flattery, fool, way to Hell, chambers of death
Prov. 9:13-18 Folly
Prov. 9:13-18 foolish woman, simpleton, death, depths of Hell
Prov. 11:21 Without Discretion
Prov. 11:22 jewel of gold in a swine's snout
Prov. 23:27-28 & 31-33 Strange Women
Prov. 23:27-28 & 31-33 whore, strange woman
Prov. 30:20 Adultery
Prov. 30:20 adultery
Prov. 31:1-3 Chastity
Prov. 31:1-3 give not strength to women
OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE
(119 REFERENCES WITH 22 HIGHLIGHTED IN 13 BOOKS)
1. Adultery
1. The Mosaic Law: Lev. 18:20, 20:10; Deut. 5:18, 22:22
2. Temptation Resisted: Gen. 39:7-12 (Joseph)
3. A Case of Guilt and Forgiveness: Jud. 19:1-4 (Concubine)
4. Its Prevalence Among the Hebrews: Jer. 5:7-10, 23:10, 29:23; Eze. 18:6,
33:26
5. Its Wickedness: Job 24:15-18, 31:1, 9-12; Prov. 6:24 35, 30:18-20
6. Marriage of a Divorced Woman Adulterous: Rom. 7:2-3
7. Adultery in the Heart: Mat. 5:27-28
8. Spiritual Adultery: Is. 57:3-4, 7-8; Jer. 3:1, 6-9; Eze. 16:16-17, 25
-34, 36-41, 44-59, 23:43-48; Hos. 2:1-7, 9-11; Rev. 2:22
2. Incest
1. Forbidden: Deut. 22:30, 27:20, 22-23
2. Lot: Gen. 19:30-35
3. Reuben: Gen. 35:22
4. Ammon: 2 Sam. 13:1-2, 11-12, 14-16
1. The Crime Avenged: 2 Sam. 13:20, 28-29, 32-35
5. Absalom: 2 Sam. 15:16, 16:21-22, 20:3
6. Reported of the Corinthians: 1 Cor. 5:1
3. Rape
1. A Capital Offence: Deut. 22:25-27
2. The Levite's Concubine: Jud. 19:25-26, 20:3-7
4. Fornication
1. With a Betrothed Virgin: Deut. 22:23-24
2. With a Virgin Not Betrothed: Ex. 22:16-17; Deut. 22:28-29
3. Dinah's Case: Gen. 34:1-2, 5, 7, 31
5. Harlotry Before the Time of Moses
1. The Harlot's Dress: Gen. 38:12-15 (Tamar)
2. Her Hire: Gen. 38:16-23 (Tamar)
3. Burning a Punishment for Harlotry: Gen. 38:24-26 (T)
6. Harlotry In The Time of Moses
1. Forbidden: Lev. 19:29; Deut. 23:17-18
2. By Priests' Daughters Especially Heinous: Lev. 21:9
3. With Heathen Women: Num. 25:1, 6-8, 14-15
4. Citizenship Denied to Bastards: Deut. 23:2
7. Samson
1. The Harlot of Gaza: Jud. 16:1
2. Deliah and Her Treachery: Jud. 16:4, 15-20
8. Spiritual Harlotry
1. Ps. 106:39; Jer. 2:20, 33, 3:2-3, 11:15, 13:26-27; Exe. 16:13-15, 63,
20:29-30, 23:2-21, 27-29, 35-36; Hos. 4:12-16, 18, 5:1-5
2. The Mystical Mother of Harlots: Rev. 17:1-5
9. Intercourse with a Menstruous Woman
1. Prohibited: Lev. 18:19
2. The Penalty: Lev. 20:18
3. Loathsomeness: Is. 30:22; Lam. 1:17; Exe. 36:17
10. Sodomy
1. Forbidden: Lev. 18:22-24, 26, 28-30, 20:13
2. Instances: Gen. 19:4-10; Jud. 19:22-24
11.Bestiality
1. Ex. 22:19; Lev. 20:15-16; Deut. 27:21
12. Warnings Against Lewd Women
1. Their Arts: Prov. 5:1-3, 7:6-15, 18-23, 9:13-17
2. The Ruin of Yielding to Them: Prov. 2:16-20, 5:4-6, 8-14, 7:1-5, 24-27,
9:18, 22:14, 23:27-28, 29:3, 31:2-3; Ecc. 7:26
13. Sins Against Nature
1. 1 Kings 14:24; Rom. 1:24, 26-27
2. Punished: Deut. 29:22-23; Lam. 4:6; 2 Pet. 2:6
14.Highlighted Scripture
Gen. 19:4-10 Instances Of Sodomy
Gen. 34:1-2 Dinah's Case
Ex. 22:16-17 Fornication With A Virgin Not Bethrothed
Ex. 22:19 Beastiality
Lev. 18:22-24 Sodomy Forbidden (R)
Lev. 19:29 Harolatry Forbidden (R)
Lev. 20:10 Adultery (R)
Num. 25:1 Harolatry With Heathen Women
Deut. 27:20, 22-23 Incest Forbidden (R)
Jud. 16:15-20 Deliah And Her Treachery
Jud. 19:25-26 The Levite's Concubine
2 Sam. 13:14-16 Amnon's Fornication
2 Sam. 13:28-29 Amnon's Crime Avenged
2 Sam. 16:21-22 Absalom The Avenger
Prov. 6:24-35 Wickedness Of Adultery (R)
Prov. 7:6-15 Warnings Against Lewd Women (R)
Prov. 7:24-27 The Ruin Of Yielding To Lewd Women (R)
Isa. 30:22 Intercourse With Menstruous Woman
Jer. 3:1 Spiritual Adultery
Jer. 5:7-10 Adultery's Prevalence Among The Hebrews
Hos. 4:12-16 Spiritual Harlotry
Rom. 1:26-27 Sins Against Nature
2 Pet. 2:6 Sins Against Nature Punished
PROCESS OF DELIVERANCE
Sexual Sin With Penetration
Type of Sin: Fornication, Adultery, Incest, Bestiality, Rape, Prostitution, Sodomy, Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Fondling, French Kissing, Sexual Perversion, Sex During Woman's Period, Sexual Slave, Prostituting Your Family.
Type of Organ: Openings of Vagina, Anus, Mouth; Use of Penis, Hand, Foreign Object, Tongue
Type of Gender: Man with woman, man or beast; Woman with man, woman or beast
Type of Prayer:
1. Identify the sin such as fornication.
2. Get right with God: repent, forgive or renounce as required. Ask God to forgive you for fornication. Forgive the man for forcing you. Ask God to forgive you for seducing the man. Renounce the sexual sin if you are addicted to fornication.
3. Break soul ties, curses and demonic ties. Break the soul tie with the man or woman or beast by proper name if you can remember it; otherwise do it in general. Break curses of fornication and sexual sin such as lust. Break demonic ties and set yourself free from man, woman or beast.
4. Cast out demons in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Cast out name of soul tie, fornication, lust and whatever you did.
5. Anoint with oil and pray for healing. Pray for healing of soul (mind, will and emotions) and body. Pray for healing for emotions and from sexual diseases.
6. Discipline your life. Go and fornicate no more. Change your way of thinking and acting about sex.
The six steps above were chosen as an example to deal with fornication. The pattern could be used for any sexual sin where the body was penetrated.
Sexual Sin Without Penetration
Type of Sin: Masturbation, Wrong Sexual Apparel, Lust, Pornography, Sexual Perversion. This includes sexual lust of eyes, lust of flesh and pride of life.
Type of Prayer:
1. Identify the sin such as masturbation.
2. Get right with God: repent, forgive or renounce as required. Ask God to forgive you for masturbation. Renounce the sexual sin if you are addicted to masturbation.
3. Break soul ties, curses and demonic ties. Break the soul tie with the man or woman or beast by proper name (if you can remember it; otherwise do it in general). If you masturbate with someone. Break curses of masturbation and sexual sin such as lust. Break demonic ties and set yourself free from whatever you are lusting for.
4. Cast out demons in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Cast out name of soul tie, masturbation, lust and whatever you did.
5. Anoint with oil and pray for healing. Pray for healing of soul (mind, will and emotions) and body. Pray for healing for emotions.
6. Discipline your life. Go and masturbate no more. Change your way of thinking and acting about sex.
The six steps above were chosen as an example to deal with masturbation. The pattern could be used for any sexual sin where the body was not penetrated.
Sexual Sin Of Priests
God was very serious about the wife of the priest. Do you think He has changed his mind about the pastors or leaders of today? God wanted the wife to be a virgin. God rejected the whore, harlot and even the divorced woman.
Why do you think God wanted the priest to marry a virgin? He would be marrying a woman with a minimum of sexual problems and the other problems brought about by previous marriages.
A married woman has a soul tie with her ex-husband unless it has been broken. He may have cursed her and have demonic ties with her. She probably carries the scars of how she was treated in her soul and body. She will bring these problems into the marriage. These probably will affect the ministry and the family. The problems may lead to divorce, sexual problems and other problems.
If you had sex before marriage, it places you in the category of whore or whore monger. You cursed your marriage, your descendents to the third or fourth generation (to the tenth generation if you conceived a bastard or was in incest), and set your marriage up for failure such as adultery, divorce, separation, strife or distrust.
What if you did marry a divorced woman or man? Nowadays, women are also pastors and leaders. Is it hopeless? No, there are spiritual ways of dealing with the past through deliverance and healing.
First, you need to deal with your sexual life. It starts with the sins of the ancestors, and goes onto today or until it is handled spiritually. It is ideal to do a spiritual history of the sexual sins starting with the ancestors that would have cursed you. What were their sexual sins? Were you conceived in sin? Did they reject you in the womb because of your sex? Did they want to kill you because of your sex? Were you sexually abused before God held you accountable for sin? What did you do sexually after God held you accountable? Apply the principles listed below depending upon the circumstance of each traumatic event.
Second, you need to deal with prior marriages sexually, emotionally, and physically in a spiritual manner. You want to set yourself free of prior marriages so you can go on with life. You have to forgive your mate in detail for whatever the mate did to you and ask God to forgive you for whatever you did to the mate. Then you have the right to break bondages, cast out demons, pray for healing, discipline your life and go on with the present marriage. There is an example listed above: Sexual Sin With Penetration that you can use.
Third, you need to deal with premarital sex with your present mate as fornication or adultery or whatever sin you committed such as oral or anal sex. There is an example listed above: Sexual Sin With Penetration that you can use.
JESUS IS THE DELIVERER
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. SCRIPTURE
1. Violence Against Women And Repercussions In The Community
2. Suffering
3. Love And Marriage
4. Sin And Accountability
5. Reaching Out To Others In Need
2. IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP BASED ON EQUALITY?
1. Nonviolence
3. DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
4. EMOTIONAL ABUSE
5. SEXUAL ABUSE
6. PHYSICAL ABUSE
7. WHY WOMEN SOMETIMES STAY IN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS
1. At Least Temporarily
8. THE CYCLES OF BATTERING
1. Tension Building
2. Explosion
3. Love
9. SIGNS TO LOOK FOR IN A BATTERING PERSONALITY
10.POWER AND CONTROL BY PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE
11.ASSESSING WHETHER BATTERERS WILL KILL
12.REFERENCES
SCRIPTURE
Violence Against Women And Repercussions In The Community
II Samuel 13
Judges 19
Suffering
I Peter 4:12-19
Jeremiah 29:10-14
Psalm 55
Love And Marriage
Ephesians 5:21-33
I Corinthians 13
I John 4:18
Sin And Accountability
John 7:53-8:11
Ezekiel 18:21-32
Reaching Out To Others In Need
Luke 10:25-37
IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP BASED ON EQUALITY?
(Nonviolence)
Non-Threatening Behavior - Respect - Trust & Support - Honesty & Accountability - Responsible Parenting - Shared Responsibility - Economic Partnership - Negotiation & Fairness.
DEFINITION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Battering is a pattern of coercive control that one person exercises over another. Abusers use physical and sexual violence, threats, emotional insults and economic deprivation as a way to dominate their partners and get their way. Relationships in which one partner uses assault and coercion can be found among married and unmarried heterosexuals, lesbians, and gay men.
Battering is behavior that physically harms, arouses fear, prevents a woman from doing what she wishes, or forces her to behave in ways that she does not want to. The statistics clearly indicate that battering is too common to be considered an emotional illness.
EMOTIONAL ABUSE
How many of these things has your partner done to you: ignored your feelings; ridiculed or insulted women as a group; ridiculed or insulted your most valued beliefs, religion, heritage, or class; withheld approval, appreciation, or affection as a punishment; continually criticized you, called you names, shouted at you; insulted or drove away your friends or family; humiliated you in public or in private; refused to socialize with you; kept you from working, controlled your money, made all decisions; refused to work or share money; took car keys or money away; regularly threatened to leave or told you to leave; threatened to hurt you or your family; punished or deprived the children when he was angry at you; threatened to kidnap the children; abused pets to hurt you; told you about affairs he imagined you were having; or manipulated you with lies and contradictions?
SEXUAL ABUSE
Has your partner done any of these things to you: told anti-women jokes or made demeaning remarks about women; treated women as sex objects; been jealously angry, assuming you would have sex with any available man; insisted you dress in a more sexual way than you wanted; minimized the importance of your feelings about sex; criticized you sexually; insisted on unwanted and uncomfortable touching; withheld sex and affection; called you sexual names like Whore and Frigid; forced you to strip when you didn't want to; publicly showed interest in other women; had affairs with other women after agreeing to a monogamous relationship; forced sex with him or others or forced you to watch others; forced particular unwanted sex acts; forced sex after beating you; forced sex when you were sick or it was a danger to your health; forced sex for the purpose of hurting you with objects or weapons; or committed sadistic sexual acts?
PHYSICAL ABUSE
Has your intimate partner done any of these things to you: pushed you or shoved you; held you to keep you from leaving; slapped or bit you; kicked or chocked you; hit or punched you; thrown objects at you; locked you out of the house; abandoned you in dangerous places; refused to help you when you were sick, injured, or pregnant; subjected you to reckless driving; forced you off the road or kept you from driving; raped you; or threatened or hurt you with a weapon?
WHY WOMEN SOMETIMES STAY IN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS
(At Least Temporarily)
Why do they stay? It is the question most often asked of battered women's advocates, though it is certainly not the most important question to be asked about domestic violence! We have not way of knowing how many women in this country have left abusive or violent relationships, yet chose not to identify this as their reason for leaving. What we do know is that there are many reasons - for women to stay, at least temporarily, in an abusive relationship.
Fear Of Retaliation - Nowhere To Go - Economic Realities - Children - Isolation - Preservation Of Family - Religious Beliefs - Focus On Day-To-Day Survival - Lack Of Adequate Resources.
THE CYCLES OF BATTERING
The three cycles of battering are tension building, explosion and love. They vary in time and intensity. We cannot predict the length of each cycle. Both situational events and stage of life affect the timing.
Tension Building
Woman can sense man's edginess. Little issues are smoothed over. Woman feels she can and must control the situation. Woman denies her anger. Woman feels she deserves it. In order to cope, she denies that the second stage will occur and believes she has control. Although she is often unaware of it, after each incident her anger grows. He knows his behavior is wrong and fears she will leave him. She reinforces his fear by with drawing herself in order not to set him off. His jealousy and smothering brutality increases. Tension rises. Sometimes the woman knows that Stage 2 must come and provokes and attack in order to get it over with and to have it on her terms. She can then feel she has had some control.
Explosion
In Stage 1 the man accepts that his rage is out of control, but justifies it. In stage 2, he no longer understands his anger. The man doesn't begin wanting to hurt the woman, but to teach her a lesson. A woman can often retell this stage in detail. He cannot. In this stage only, women often feel that it is safe to release their anger and fight back. This is the shortest stage and generally lasts from a few hours to 24 to 48 hours. We do not know why he stops. He seems to know how to prolong the battering without killing her. It is not uncommon for a man to wake the woman up and begin to beat her. A woman will often deny the seriousness of her injuries, sometimes to soothe the batterer and to be assured that Stage 2 is over.
Love
This stage is welcomed by both. The man is sorry and tires to make up. He fears she will leave him. He is charming and manipulative. He believes that he can control himself and will never again hurt the woman he loves. He convinces everyone. The woman wants to believe him and convinces herself. She has a glimpse of her original view of how nice love is. This is a very idealized stage - little girl loved by husband or lover. He plays dependent - he will fail apart without her. She ends up feeling responsible for him as well as for her own victimization. She is given what she wants with overkill: flowers, candy. This stage is generally longer than Stage 2 but shorter than Stage 1. We must teach women not to fall for this.
SIGNS TO LOOK FOR IN A BATTERING PERSONALITY
Many people are interested in ways that they can predict whether they are about to become involved with someone who will be physically abusive. Usually battering occurs between a man and woman, but same-sex battering occurs as well. Below is a list of behaviors that are seen in people who beat their partners; the last four signs listed are battering but many don't realize this is the beginning of physical abuse. If the person has several of the other behaviors (three or more) there is a strong potential for physical violence - the more signs a person has, the more likely that person is a batterer. In some cases, a batterer may have only a couple of behaviors that can be recognized, but they are very exaggerated (e.g., will try to explain behavior as signs of love and concern, and a partner may be flattered at first). As time goes on, the behaviors become more severe and serve to dominate and control the partner.
Jealousy - Controlling Behavior - Quick Involvement - Unrealistic Expectations - Isolation - Blames Others For Problems - Blames Others For Feelings - Hypersensitivity - Cruelty To Animals Or Children - Playful Use Of Force In Sex - Verbal Abuse - Rigid Sex Roles - Dr. Jekyll And Mr./Ms. Hyde - Past Battering - Threats Of Violence - Breaking Or Striking Objects - Any Force During An Argument.
POWER AND CONTROL BY PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Physical and sexual assaults, or threats to commit them, are the most apparent forms of domestic violence and are usually the actions that allow others to become aware of the problem. However, regular use of the other abusive behaviors by the batterer, when reinforced by one or more acts of physical violence, make up a larger system of abuse. Although physical assaults may occur only once or occasionally, they instill threat of future violent attacks and allow the abuser to take control of the woman's life and circumstances.
Using Intimidation - Emotional Abuse - Isolation - Coercion -Threats - Economic Abuse - Male Privilege - Children. Minimizing - Denying - Blaming.
ASSESSING WHETHER BATTERERS WILL KILL
This is not an exact science, but there is a solid literature base that informs us of some possible predictors of which batterers pose homicide risks. The best listing is excerpted below.
Threats Of Homicide Or Suicide - Fantasies Of Homicide Or suicide - Weapons - Ownership Of The Battered Person - Centrality Of The Partner - Separation Violence - Depression - Access To The Battered Woman And/Or To Family Members - Repeated Outreach To Law Enforcement - Escalation Of Batterer Risk - Hostage Taking.
REFERENCES
When Violence Begins At Home (A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Ending Domestic Abuse) by K.J. Wilson
National Domestic Violence Hotline, Texas Council on Family Violence, Austin, TX
Guidelines for Mental Health Practitioners in Domestic Violence Cases
Project for Victims of Family Violence, Fayetteville, AR
Assessing Whether Batterers Will Kill by Barbara Hart
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence
The Cycles of Battering by Lenore Walker
Lily of the Valley Ministries, Alexandria, LA
JESUS IS THE DELIVERER
THE CHANGE OF LIFE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. SCRIPTURE
2. PREFACE
3. ANN LANDER'S COLUMN
4. CONFESS YOUR FAULTS TO OTHERS
5. LUSTING AFTER OTHER WOMEN
6. LUSTING AFTER OTHER MEN
7. MENOPAUSE
1. Description
2. Hot Flashes Or Hot Flushes
3. Treatment
4. Artificial
5. Premature
6. Surgical
8. DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS ABOUT TREATMENT
9. MALE CLIMACTERIC
10. WHY DID GOD MAKE US THIS WAY?
11. WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
12. MENSTRUATION PROBLEMS
13. REFERENCES
SCRIPTURE
Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Prov. 5:15-21 Be content with your wife and do not commit adultery.
Prov. 5:19 Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times.
Jer. 3:3 Thou had a whore's forehead and was not ashamed.
Mal. 2:14-16 He hateth putting away (God hates divorce).
Mark 9:43-48 Hand - foot - eye: cut off or pluck out rather than go to Hell.
Gal. 5:1 Christ has made us free (we have a free will).
James 5:13-20 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another.
Rel. 21:7-8 Whoremongers - shall have their part in the lake which burneth.
PREFACE
This is a lesson that I have never heard taught. Bill Null asked me to teach the men's class at Lake Hamilton Bible Camp shortly before it was to begin. I asked the Lord what to do and he gave me the initial part of this lesson. This is a very sensitive lesson. It causes problems for Christians as they grow older; the change of life may even start at a young age such as in the 30's.
ANN LANDER'S COLUMN
I like to read her newspaper column to find out what is happening in peoples' lives. Since our ministry is to help people who are hurting, we need an understanding of what experiences people have to go through in life. There has been considerable written about the difficulties that married couples face in the change of life of the woman or even of the man.
CONFESS YOUR FAULTS TO OTHERS
We have had many prayer meetings in our home where deliverance was the main subject. One type of meeting had this format: we would sit around the room in a circle and each person would have time to talk. I would take notes; then each person would pray and get right with God. After the prayers, we would cast out demons. Publicly confessing your sins is very effective.
It bothers me to watch ministers, especially deliverance ministers, try to forgive people's sins. This is an absolute impossibility! Only God can forgive sins, and only then when a person really repents and humbly asks God for forgiveness. If you cast out a demon that has a right before God to be there, that demon has a right to come back in again!
The most effective way to get rid of demons is to have the person repent of the specific sins committed by that person or committed by that person's ancestors as the first step to deliverance. You could say that the most important aspect of Christianity, and also of deliverance, is repentance. Without repentance, you will never become a Christian. Without repentance, you will not get your demons cast out or they will not stay out.
LUSTING AFTER OTHER WOMEN
Does a man have a right to lust after other women? Clearly, the Bible teaches that lust is a sin and is an opening for demons.
What will happen if the man freely lusts after other women? Satan will set a trap in the future with a loose woman. Sin begins with the thought process and leads to actions later on. Consider our divorce rate of about 50% in America, that there are more women than men, the declining morals of our society, the women that are looking for a husband anyway they can get one married or unmarried, and you will see how easy it is for Satan to trap the man.
LUSTING AFTER OTHER MEN
You may not think so but women also lust after men. This was a shock to Earline when she discovered that practice of women. This action is getting worse; the women are becoming more forward and initiating the approach to men. Women are becoming more like men in the area of sin. You can see the effects on women as they begin to sin like men. They become hard of heart, their hair begins to fall out, their face hardens, they get a whore's forehead and they begin to have problems like men.
MENOPAUSE
Description
"That period which marks the permanent cessation of menstrual activity. Usually occurs between the ages of 35 and 58. Natural menopause will occur in 25% of women by age 47, in 50% by age 50, 75% by age 52, and in 95% by age 55. Menopause due to surgical removal of the ovaries occurs in almost 30% of U.S. women past age 50.
The symptoms that may be associated with menopause begin soon following the cessation of ovarian function. This is true whether menopause occurs natural, or is due to surgical removal of the ovaries or failure of the pituitary gland to function. Symptoms that may last from a few months to years vary from being hardly noticeable to severe. Included are symptoms of vasomotor instability, nervousness, hot flashes, chills, excitability, fatigue, apathy, mental depression, crying following circumstances that would not normally cause that reaction, insomnia, palpitation, vertigo, headache, numbness, tingling, myalgia, urinary disturbances such as frequency and incontinence, and various disorders of the gastrointestinal system.
Hot Flashes Or Hot Flushes
These may start with an aura followed by a feeling of discomfort in the abdominal area, perhaps a chill quickly followed by a feeling of heat moving toward the head. Next the face becomes red, and sweating is followed by exhaustion. The cause, or causes, of hot flashes is not completely understood and is controversial (my thoughts - could it be demonic?).
Treatment
Hormone replacement as required. However, the use of estrogen or estrogen combined with a progestogen as a cure-all in treating the symptoms of menopause has been seriously questioned due to the possibility of undesired side effects. Hormonal replacement therapy is contraindicated in those with a history of an estrogen-dependent breast tumor, thromboembolic disease, or acute liver disease. The long-term use of estrogens in order to prevent osteoporosis, q.v., is questionable. If menopause is the result of surgical removal of the ovaries, it is possible that estrogen therapy will reduce the risk of coronary disease. Yearly pelvic examination to include Papanicolaou test for cancer of the uterus and cervix.
Artificial
Menopause occurring subsequent to surgical castration, x-ray irradiation, or radium implantation into the uterus.
Premature
Natural or artificial menopause occurring before age 35.
Surgical
A form of artificial menopause that follows surgical removal of the ovaries."
DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS ABOUT TREATMENT
The woman is torn between wanting to sexually satisfy her husband and maintaining her physical health. If she studies about hormone replacement, she will find that there are two sides to that issue. There are two schools of thought in the medical profession: either take estrogen or do not take estrogen.
If the woman takes estrogen, she will remain more sexually active for a longer period of time. However, she risks the serious side effects of contacting cancer or other diseases. Her husband may push her to take estrogen so that he can selfishly satisfy his sexual desires at her expense.
If she doesn't take estrogen, her body will continue the natural process of aging. It will become harder to have intercourse as she becomes older. It becomes more painful because her body becomes more fragile.
What about the use of lotions and creams? These help but they are a poor substitute for estrogen or the former youthfulness of the woman's body.
If she doesn't have intercourse, she may risk losing her husband who is only motivated by sex and not by love for his wife. How often have you read or heard about the man leaving his middle-aged wife for a younger woman? Clearly, this is usually motivated by sexual desires because the woman can still perform the other wifely duties.
MALE CLIMACTERIC
"The period that marks the cessation of a woman's reproductive ability (female climacteric or menopause); a corresponding period of lessening of sexual activity in the male (male climacteric)." Sometimes this has been jokingly called "the seven-year itch" to have another woman to prove that the male has not lost his ability.
What happens to the male when his sexual drive begins to lessen? He may take it as a normal part of the aging process or he may go to extremes to compensate for what he feels is a loss of manhood. He may become overly concerned about his loss of hair, start transplanting hair from his body to his head, and grow a beard to compensate for the loss of hair. He may start dressing in a flashy manner to show his sexiness. He may buy a sports car to show his youth. He may start acting younger in mannerisms and actions. He is no longer an Oldmobile but now a Youngmobile. He may start going to the bars for one-night stands. He may start running around on his wife. He may even get separated or divorced. He may ignore the concerns of his children. He may ignore all wisdom and common sense to show that he is still sexy. Earline had a college roommate that made a very apt statement, "A man is led around by his penis."
WHY DID GOD MAKE US THIS WAY?
The question that I have wrestled with for years is "why did God make the man and woman this way?" It is fairly easy to see that women should have children when they are young. They need the health and about twenty years to raise a child. Also, the older the couple, the more likely the child will be born with physical deformities and mental limitations.
Well, what about sex? What does the woman do as she is still married and her body is wearing out due to age, sickness and disease? What does the man do as he is still married and his body still has the lessened capacity for sex? The man has the capacity for sex many years after the woman enters menopause, possibly until he dies.
God hates divorce and the Bible teaches that we should practice one man - one woman throughout life. Does the man have the right to divorce his older wife and find a younger one mainly for sex? The biblical answer is clearly no!
Does the woman have a right to deny her husband sex when she reaches the menopause stage of life? She will be able to perform well for some years after that stage. What about sex as it becomes more and more painful? What if she chooses not to take estrogen? She has to make the choices of treatment and take the chances with her body. Should the husband force her to take estrogen? Before God, she has the right to decide what to do with her body and the husband should not coerce her in any way.
What should the man do who can not have sex with his wife? Should he masturbate? Should he read and watch pornography? How about watching television with all of its sex in advertisements and shows which just stimulates the sexual drive?
WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
As you can see, this is a problem for all of mankind and womankind. You will face this problem sooner or later in life. What will you do then? Will you give up your Christianity to have sex? Will you compromise your morals or beliefs to justify your actions?
Why did God make us this way and then write the Bible where it is difficult to follow? Could it be that this is a long personal test to see if we will follow His precepts or fall away to sexual sins? Do we follow God or follow our fleshly desires? Do we follow spiritual things or carnal things?
How important is sex to you? What are you willing to sacrifice to have it? What about your soul? Are you toying with the second death, the lake of fire and brimstone? Men, it would be better to cut your penis off than to lose your salvation. Women, it would be better to cut your breasts off than to lose your salvation. If that sounds strong, how about the verses of plucking out your eyes or removing the offending member rather than perish in Hell?
MENSTRUATION PROBLEMS
A deliverance lesson could be developed dealing with the physical, mental and spiritual problems associated with problems in menstrual cycle. How many of you have been prayed for or prayed for others in this area?
REFERENCES
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (Everybody in deliverance should have this book. It provides a list of demons when praying for someone with diseases.)
JESUS IS THE DELIVERER
ABORTION, AND SHEDDING
INNOCENT BLOOD
(Written by Earline Moody)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. SCRIPTURE
1. General
2. We Are God's Workmanship
3. Scripture and Abortion - An Outline
2. ABORTION, EUTHANASIA, SUICIDE AND SANCTITY
1. Sanctity of Life
2. Shedding Innocent Blood
3. Statistics
1. General
2. African American
3. Why are children aborted?
4. Top Emotional Effects Of Abortion
5. Critical Social Issues
6. Partial-Birth Abortion
4. You Should Say / You Should Not Say
3. COMMENTS
1. Statement
2. Picketing
3. After-Effects To Mother
4. GENERAL
5. GENE'S COMMENTS
6. REFERENCES
SCRIPTURE
General
Ps. 139:13-16 We are made by God.
Isa. 29:15-16 Potter and the clay.
Isa. 42:5 God gives us breath and spirit.
Isa. 43:1 & 7 Called thee by thy name.
Isa. 44:24 Formed thee from the earth.
Isa. 45:9 & 12 Created man upon the earth.
Isa. 49:1 & 5 Made mention of my name in the womb.
Isa. 63:16 Father is the Lord.
Isa. 64:8 Works of thy hand.
We Are God's Workmanship
Jer. 1:5 Knew, sanctified and ordained before conception.
Matt. 1:20-21 Conceived by Holy Ghost.
Luke 1:15 & 41 Filled with Holy Ghost in womb.
Rom. 9:20-21 God formed us.
Gal. 1:15-16 Separated by God from mother's womb.
Eph. 2:10 Christians are workmanship.
Scripture and Abortion - An Outline
Many of these verses apply to more than one heading; duplication was eliminated. These verses also apply to euthanasia, assisted suicide, taking innocent lives and the sanctity of life.
Introduction - Gen. 31:38; 38:28-30; Ex. 21:22-25, 23:26; Deut. 22:19; 2 Kings 2:19,21; Job 2:10, 3:11,16, 10:18; Psa. 58:8, Ecc. 1:9-10; 6:3; Jer. 20:18; Hos. 9:14; Mal. 3:11
Creation - Gen. 1:1; Ex. 1:15-16; Psa. 95:6; Prov. 8:36; Jer. 19:4-5; Eze. 16:20-22; Matt. 2:13-18; John 1:3, 3:3-7,16-17, 8:44, Rom. 9:21; 2 Cor. 5:17; Rev. 12
The Humanity of the Unborn in the Old Testament - Gen. 16:11, 25:22-28; Jud. 13:2-5; Psa. 22:9-10, 51:5, Isa. 46:3-4, 49:1,5; Jer. 1:4-5
Old Testament Law and the Sanctity of Life - Gen. 9:5-6; Ex. 20:13, 21:12-13,22-25; Deut. 27:25; Psa. 8:4-5; Prov. 6:17, 24:11-12; Amos 1:13
The Humanity of the Unborn in the New Testament - Matt. 1:20-21; Luke 1:15-17,36,39-44,56; 2:12,16; John 10:10; Acts 7:19; Gal. 1:15; 1 Pet. 2:2
The Value of Human Life in the New Testament - Matt. 4:23-25, 6:16, 8:1-3, 9:1-8; 10:29-31; 18:1-14; John 3:16; James 2:5-9
Children - Gen. 1:26-28; Deut. 7:12-14; Psa. 113:7-9, 127:3; Matt. 18:1-14, 19:13-15; Rom. 8:15, 9:4-8; Gal. 4:5; Eph. 1:5
The Hard Cases and Christian Decision-Making - Gen. 38; Ex. 4:10-12, 23:2; Lev. 19:14; Deut. 24:16; 2 Sam. 11; Eze. 18:4; Matt. 22:36-40; John 13:34-35; Rom. 13:8-10; 1 Cor. 3:16-19, 6:18-20; 2 Cor. 6:16-17; Gal. 5:14; 1 Pet. 2:16
Implications for Society and the Christian's Proper Response - Lev. 20:2,4-5; Num. 35:33-34; Deut. 21:7-8; Eze. 33:8; Dan. 9:4-11; Luke 10:25-37
Encouragement for Those Facing and Unwanted Pregnancy - Gen. 50:20; Rom. 8:28; James 1:12
Pharmakia in the New Testament - Gal. 5:20; Rev. 9:21, 18:23, 21:8, 22:15
Life Principles - Gen. 2:15-17; Psa. 106:37-38; 127; 128; 139; Isa. 45:9-12; Jer. 22:1-3; Heb. 2:14.
ABORTION, EUTHANASIA, SUICIDE AND SANCTITY
Sanctity of Life
(That They May Have Life)
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly (John 10:10). Human life is not an achievement. It is an endowment. It has measureless value, because every individual, at every stage of development and every state of consciousness, is known and loved by GOD. This is the source of human dignity and the basis for human equality. It must therefore be asserted without exception or qualification: No one is worthless whom GOD has created and for whom Christ died.
Shedding Innocent Blood
(Taking Our Cities For God)
Five common roots that lead to abortion: Lust, because it is often the context for irresponsible conception. The love of comfort, because the decision to abort is often made simply to avoid the discomfort of pregnancy. Love of money, because of a desire to avoid financial sacrifice. Rejection, because in her fear of rejection by society or boyfriend, a woman's solution is to reject the child in her womb. Unbelief, because we discount the existence of adjust God who will surely honor a difficult but righteous decision. The voice of unbelief concludes, If I have this baby, it will ruin my whole life!
Americans spent eight billion dollars on pornography in 1996. By 2001, illegal drug sales were estimated to top $62.9 billion. Promiscuous homosexuality is now an accepted life style, and adultery is casually regarded as being sexually active or having multiple partners.
Statistics
General: America has 1 abortion for 3 live births, 18% of born-again women, 31% of Catholic women, about 3300 per day and 1,200,000 per year, about 50,000,000 since 1973, and an average of 1 abortion per woman and 43% of women by age 45. Approximately 2,800,000 women get pregnant out of wedlock each year. Less than 5% of abortions are done because of rape, incest or health. Nearly 2,000 abortions a year are performed after the 5th month of pregnancy. It is legal to have an abortion through the 9th month of pregnancy.
Worldwide there are about 46,000,000 abortions a year. About 78,000 die from unsafe abortion. Satan is losing about 46,000,000 babies a year that will go to Heaven, but look at the mental, physical, spiritual and material damage that he is doing to the human race!
African American: More African American babies have been killed by abortion during the past 27 years (13,000,000) than the total number of African American deaths for other causes combined. Abortion services have been deliberately and systematically targeted towards African Americans. A disproportionate number of the nation's abortion clinics are located in minority neighborhoods. 36% of abortions in the United States are performed on African American women, while they represent only 12% of the female population of the country. The abortion rate among married African American women is 4.4 times greater than it is among married white women.
The rate which blacks contract chlamydia is nearly 3 times that of whites. For syphilis, a black person is 54 times more likely to be a carrier than is a white person. It is 56 times more likely that a black person is infected with gonorrhea than is a white person.
Why are children aborted? The following are reasons given in percentages: 1% - victims of incest or rape, 1% - fetal abnormality, 4% - doctor said that health would worsen if pregnancy continued, 50% - didn't want to be single parent or have problems in current relationship, 60% - could not afford child, 75% - child would interfere with lives, 95% - reasons of convenience: not incest, rape, physical condition of unborn or threatened health of mother.
Top Emotional Effects Of Abortion: 92% - emotional deadening, 86% - increased rage and fear, 82% - increased loneliness, 75% - loss of self-confidence, 73% - sexual dysfunction, 58% - nightmares, 57% - suicidal feelings, 53% -drugs and alcohol abuse, 39% - eating disorders and 28% - suicide attempt. There are physical, emotional and spiritual consequences such as hurt, guilt, anger, anxiety, depression, pain, flashbacks, relationships, reactions, fear, bitterness, pressure, grief, confusion and shame. Risks include heavy bleeding, infection, incomplete abortion, allergic reaction to drugs, tearing of the cervix, scarring of the uterine lining, perforation of the uterus, damage to internal organs, breast cancer and death.
Critical Social Issues: Teen Pregnancy, Venereal Disease, Sexuality, Chastity, Morality, Abortion, Teen Suicide, and Drug and Alcohol Abuse. More than 13% of births are to teenage mothers; some will commit suicide. For every unwed teenager who gets pregnant, ten teenagers will get sexually transmitted diseases.
Partial-Birth Abortion: It is infanticide. The baby is allowed to be almost totally born (feet first, leaving only the head in the womb, in order to keep the procedure technically legal). Then the abortionist punctures the baby's skull, suctions out the brain, and in many cases sells the baby's dead body to a harvester who markets it to the scientific and academic research fields!
You Should Say / You Should Not Say
Killing a baby during delivery / Partial-birth abortion/ alone. Research cloning/clone and kill / Therapeutic cloning. Human embryo implants / Fertilized egg implants. Fertilization / Conception. Abortion mill/chamber/killing center / Abortion clinic. Abortionist / Abortion provider/Doctor. NARAL / NARAL Pro-choice America. Birth dearth / Population explosion. Disqualifying issue / Single issue. Kill / Destroy. Kill an unborn baby / Terminate a pregnancy. Mother / Pregnant woman. Abortion / Procedure. Fetal handicap / Fetal deformity. Assault rape, forcible rape / Rape. Human life / Person. Place a baby in a / Give her baby away. Protective legislation / Anti-abortion laws. She is carrying a child / She is expecting a child. When doctor kills patient / Death with dignity. Chemical abortion / Medical abortion. Abortions committed / Abortions done. National Organization For (some) women / National Organization For Women. Womb / Uterus. Permissive/radical abortion laws / Liberal abortion laws. Abortifacient pills / Emergency contraceptives. Safe, legal and everywhere / Safe, legal and rare. Human life with great potential / Potential life. Right to Life/Pro-life / Anti-abortion. Baby/Fetal Baby / Fetus/Embryo. School based sex clinics / School based health clinics.
ABORTION
Statement
Abortion is murder and we have no right to take a child's life, our life or anyone else's life. We are created by God for His Purpose; not ours.
Abortion is murder in the sight of God. It will probably be the straw that broke the camel's back and cause God to allow the United States to be destroyed by its enemies.
THE LORD showed Earline that women who have had an abortion and those that were accomplishes, have brought a curse of death upon themselves because they committed murder or encouraged it. Taking innocent blood is the same as murder; study Cain and Abel (Gen. 4:1-15). They give Satan a right to attack them. This is one reason that you see so many women and men murdered, killed or maimed.
Picketing
It is popular now in Christianity to picket the abortion clinics. The preachers are getting on the bandwagon. What is now popular is teaching the congregation about sexual sin an its consequences, and having deliverance thereafter. If a preacher does not have the courage to teach about sin and the aftermath, then he shouldn't get excited after the damage has been done. As Earline says, It is like trying to get the animals out after the barn is on fire. It would be better by trying to prevent the barn from catching on fire. Those in the five-fold ministry should pray and ask God to forgive them of cowardliness.
After-Effects To Mother
"After abortion there is an increase in sterility of 5%, of miscarriages of an additional 10%, of psychiatric aftermath (9 to 59% in England), of Rh trouble later. Tubal pregnancies rise from 0.5 to 3.5% and premature babies ;from 5 to 15%. There can be perforation of the uterus, blood clots to the lungs, infection and later fatal hepatitis from blood transfusions." From Life or Death, Hayes Publishing Co., Cincinnati, OH.
GENERAL
I would like to examine the question of shedding innocent blood, or murder of innocent people. In the last twenty years there seems to be a great rise in the murder of innocent people or what seems like innocent people. Wondering why this has happened, has set me to doing a little study. It seems that as the years go by unprovoked, or what looks like unprovoked, murders become more common.
As a child on a mountain in Tennessee, we heard of murder only once. It was a great shock to us all. Nothing like this had ever happened in my lifetime before. It took us children a long time to feel safe to go and come as we had before. There were no more murders there that I heard about, so in time, we became trusting again and went all about alone without fear.
I have read about so many murders in my town that I don't pay much attention to them anymore. I do find that I stay away from certain places and types of people. I wouldn't just go anywhere as I did as a child. I take my husband or someone else when I have to go to certain areas. We have a shopping center that I almost never go to alone because I consider it not to be safe even in the day time.
I started to notice a trend in our area; on the surface it seems more women are being attacked and/or murdered than in years past. I have often wondered why. I think we can find some answers in the Bible.
I have a new Bible which I have started to read from beginning to end, marking all of God's words in red. I came upon this verse, which I will have to admit, never registered with me before. Whosoever sheds men's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God He made man (Genesis 9:6). Since God created man in His image, we should respect that which God gave honor to and not deface God's image, by unjustly killing a person. There is a law for killing by those who plan and carry out murder. There is a curse on those magistrates who do not punish murders, Rom. 13:4.
The first account of innocent blood being shed in the Bible is in Gen. 4. The brothers Cain and Able have both offered sacrifices to God but only Able's is accepted. Cain becomes exceedingly angry and indignant. And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? And why do you look sad and dejected? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not well, sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you, and you must master it (Gen. 4:6-7).
Cain lets anger, rage, hate and jealousy take hold of him. Instead of repenting of disobedience to God's instruction concerning sacrifices, he decides to destroy the object of his anger. He murders his brother, hides the body, and pretends he doesn't know anything about it.
God is not deceived by this act, neither is the Devil. For God looks into Cain's heart and sees all the evil there. Cain could have confessed his sin but he did not; instead he lies. His sentence: And now you are cursed by reason of the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive you brother's [shed] blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength; you shall be a vagabond on the earth [in perpetual exile, a degraded outcast] (Gen. 4:11-12). Even at this point Cain could have repented and been forgiven, but he would not. In fact, he was telling God that God would have to accept him because of his fine gift. There is nothing we can offer God fine enough to cause Him to accept us. It is only by accepting Jesus Christ as Saviour and afterward living by God's directions that we can be acceptable to God. Cain began to tell God about the harshness of his sentence. In the light of his murder of his brother, this attitude shows his opposition to God's laws. He should have considered his sentence light compared to the sentence he deserved.
See these scriptures on shedding innocent blood:
Ex. 23:7: Keep very far from a false matter and [be very careful] not to condemn to death the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify and acquit the wicked.
Deut. 19:10: Lest innocent blood be shed in your land, which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and so blood guilt be upon you.
In the verses just before this one, God is setting up cities of refuge for those who accidently kill another. God did not want the avenger of blood to kill while he was hot with anger. (If the avenger killed one who had accidently killed, then the avenger would be guilty of shedding innocent blood.) The one who had accidently killed another could stay in the city of refuge until the elders of his city could determine if he was guilty of hating and planning to kill. If it was certain that he hated and planned to kill, then they would go into the city of refuge and bring him out and slay him.
Why do this? Your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall clear Israel of the guilt of innocent blood, that it may be well with you (Gen. 4:13).
This is the provision for redeeming the land where one is found murdered and no one knows who did the murder. Deut. 21:1-9, If one is found slain in open land, then the city nearest to the body shall bring a heifer to a valley never sown, break it's neck, and there all the men from the city would wash their hands and say whether they had seen the murder or done it.
Forgive, O Lord, Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not allow the shedding of innocent blood to be charged to Your people Israel. And the guilt of the blood shall be forgiven them. So shall you purge the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord (Gen. 4:8-9).
Cursed is he who slays his neighbor secretly. All the people shall say, Amen (Deut. 27:24). Even if you should never get caught, you and your descendents will be under a curse and will be hunted by others and be killed. The Devil will never leave you and your descendents alone until you repent of your sins, accept Jesus as Saviour, break the curses on the family line, cast out the demons, and live according to the Bible thereafter. If you or you children sin in this manner later, the curse will return.
Cursed is he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person, all the people shall say, Amen (Deut. 27:25). This will include all parties participating in abortion of unborn children: the father, mother, doctor, nurses and all others who agree to the abortion. It includes those who are bribed to lie or kill, and judges who accept bribes to cancel sentences or give light sentences to those who have committed murder or have lied to protect the guilty.
In I Sam. 19:5, Saul had ordered David slain but Jonathan attempted to persuade Saul to stop before he shed innocent blood. Why was Jonathan concerned? We will see soon that the curse for shedding innocent blood would effect Jonathan and all Saul's descendents, especially the males.
Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, filling Jerusalem from one end to the other--besides his sin in making Judah sin, by doing evil in the sight of the Lord (II Kings 21:16). In II Chron. 33:1-10, He burned his children as an offering to his god in the valley of Ben-hinnom.
Manasseh, evil son of good Hezekiah, not only worshiped other gods but he put their images in God's Temple. Children were gifts from God given by Him to parents who then turned and killed them, and sacrificed them to demons. This was a terrible affront to God, a great rebellion, and a terrible sin which brings curses for many generations, possible forever, on a family line. It takes sincere repentance for these sins of self and/or ancestors.
The Lord sent against Jehoiakim bands of Chaldeans, of Syrians, of Moabites and of Ammonites. And He sent them to Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by His prophets. Surely this came upon Judah at the commandant of the Lord, to remove them out of His sight because of the sins of Manasseh according to all the sins he had done, And also for the innocent blood that he shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon (II Kings 24:2-4).
Jehoiakim was a descendent of Manasseh; the sins of his father he did plus he received the punishment and curses of his father. Good King Hezekiah prayed to not die, God heard him, and he proceeded to give Israel the worse king it had had so far. [Read of ten tragic results from God giving Hezekiah what he wanted so badly, II Kings 20:18; 21:1, 3-4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 20.] It was good that Hezekiah prayed earnestly but at the end of giving his desire list to God, he should have submitted himself to God's plan.
Josiah, son of Manasseh, did right in the sight of the Lord and God stayed His wrath until Josiah died. But Manasseh's grandson, Jehoiakim, followed after Manasseh and great was the destruction on Judah.
There is a good possibility we would never have heard of Nebuchadnezzar, if it had not been for the Kings of Judah going after other gods and shedding innocent blood. God appointed him to be king, and to take into captivity all of Judah and the rest of the known world.
I Kings 21-22 and II Kings 10, You will see an example of the results of shedding innocent blood on Ahab's household. Ahab wanted to have the vineyard of Naboth. Naboth refused to sell. Ahab came into his house, jumped into bed, whined around and pouted until he manipulated Jezebel to solve his problem. She had Naboth framed and killed. God issued the results of that curse. I Kings 21:19, To Ahab; -- where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall they also lick your blood, even thine. I Kings 19:21, To Ahab's sons: Behold, I will bring evil upon thee and utterly sweep away and cut off from Ahab every male, bond and free. I Kings 19:23, To Jezebel: the dogs will eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. All these things happened just as God said.
In Ps. 10, we get a good picture of the wicked person who plots and plans murder of innocents. He is greedy, full of pride, persecutes the poor, spurns, renounces and despises the Lord, refuses to heed God's instructions and warnings, thinks he will never be punished, his ways are grievous, he believes he will never have adversity or want, his mouth is full of cursing, deceit, oppression and fraud, trouble and sin are under his tongue, and he ambushes and slays the poor and innocent.
Ps. 15:5 tells us that those who will take a bribe to slay the innocent will not dwell in the tabernacle and in God's Holy Hill.
In Ps. 94:21 there are those who band together to condemn the innocent to death, but the Lord will turn their own iniquity back upon them.
And served their idols, which were a snare to them. Yes,, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, [II Kings 16:3.]. And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood. Thus were they defiled by their own works, and played the harlot and practiced idolatry with their own deeds of idolatrous rites. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people, insomuch that He abhorred and rejected His own heritage, [Deut. 32:17]. And He gave them into the hand of the heathen nations, and they that hated them ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under the hand of their foes (Ps. 106:36-42).
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that manufactures wicked thoughts and plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who breaths out lies [even under oath], and he who sows discord among the brethren (Pro. 6:16-19).
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths and highways. The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice or right in their goings; they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes in them knows not peace (Isa. 59:7-8).
Jer. 2 is a good chapter to read completely. In Jer. 2:34, God, through the prophets, is telling the history of sin to these people. He reminds them that He brought them out of Egypt and set them free. They have forgotten all His care and provisions in the wilderness, and being brought into a land of plenty. Not even the priests ask for the Lord. The rulers transgressed against God, and the prophets prophesied by the authority of and in the name of Baal. Then God tells them what they are like and what will come upon them. He likens them to restless females in heat looking for a male. In Jer. 2:35-37, He explains how vain and hopeless their worship of idols is, and what destruction they have brought upon themselves.
In their idol worship they burn their babies and sacrifice their children; they also kill the innocent poor. V.34 tells them they have done these things because of their lust for idolatry.
One thing we have learned in deliverance sessions; those people who get into the occult, drugs or sex have a very difficult time giving their old activities up. After much prayer and Bible study, it has become evident that since these are all activities carried on in idol or Satan worship, the demons will really work on these people to get back in. It is far better and safer to leave idol and Satan worship out of you life. This means no sex before marriage, no desiring forbidden knowledge, no flirting with the occult, no use of illegal drugs, and no worship of anyone as Lord except Jesus Christ.
Because the people have forsaken Me, and have estranged and profaned this place [Jerusalem], by burning incense in it to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, nor spoke it, nor did it come into My mind or heart; Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. I will cause their people to fall by the sword of their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth. I will make this city to be an astonishment and a horror and a hissing; I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and neighbors because of the distress of their life (Jer. 19:4-9).
This group of verses should serve to warn us in America of much horror, sadness and distress ahead. I try to imagine what terror a baby goes through when it is murdered. It can be nothing but murder. We can see how far we have fallen when we pick to murder those who are unable to do anything to defend themselves. See also Jer. 22:3,17; 26:15.
Eze. 13 tells us about people who are occult taking bribes to keep alive those who should die, and to kill those who should live. God says in verse 23 that He will deliver His people out of their hand. In Eze. 14, God explains what He will do to those who worship idols and still come around asking for God's advice. He will be cut off from the midst of My people. God says that when the land sins (which is like our law allowing and financing abortion), He will stretch out His hand against it and cut off their bread, send famine, and cut off from it man and beast. And that even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in that land, they could save only themselves by their own uprightness. You and I will stand before God on our own record and will not be able to make claims of rightness because of what our families have done.
In Matt. 27:4, when Judas saw that Jesus was condemned to be killed; his remorse was little more than a selfish dread of the consequences of betraying innocent blood. It looks like Judas didn't have the courage to face his friends after betraying Jesus. I'm sure he knew what he had done.
In Matt. 27:24, Even Pilot wanted everyone to know he was not responsible for the innocent blood of Jesus. Then answered all the people, and said His blood be on us, and on our children (Matt.27:25). Once when we were working in deliverance with a person of Hebrew blood inheritance, we were impressed to have them repent for this curse and break it. They then began to shake and tremble violently. When they were free of these spirits, the shaking stopped.
From all this scripture we have learned: it is a very severe thing to take the life of any human being. It is most severe to take the life of the innocent, the unborn or the poor. To murder the unborn in a attempt to cover other sins only gets a person in more trouble that having the child.
We have seen how rebellion, hate, envy, jealousy grow extremely rapidly. The Bible tells us to obey the instructions of God quickly and enthusiastically. Quickly forgive others, repent of rebellion and quickly correct any errors in your thinking.
Have you seen families or a person that seemed to never belong, never be able to make enough money to take care of themselves, let alone their families, families who seemed to always be despised in the neighborhood, those who work and make plenty of money but never seen to have enough, those who never seem to be able to come to Jesus, those who stay in their idolatry and witchcraft even when it is obvious they are gaining nothing but are being damned, etc.?
There will be judgement coming on our land for the guilt of all the innocent blood that has been shed on our soil. These are some of the consequences we can expect: all the above and all those things we read about happening to the Old Testament. There must be sincere and deep repentance for the agreement to or the act of murder of innocents. If you give consent to abortion, you are also guilty. When Daniel asked God to forgive the sins of his nation, he used the terms us not them. Maybe we should do that too.
GENE'S COMMENTS
I would like to add some comments. It is very clear that those participating in sexual sins (which lead to pregnancy) and then a decision is made to have an abortion are committing murder. The spirit of Abortion is basically child murder. The murder of an innocent child then opens the parents to demon attacks of being murdered or having violence committed against them.
A couple that does not want a child should use birth control methods that prevent pregnancy. This is better than having an abortion of an unwanted child. Single parents should not deliberately have children outside of marriage. They are cursed and their child is cursed.
After having an abortion, the woman is subject to having miscarriages or not being able to get pregnant again. She may have painful and prolonged bleeding and pain during her menstrual cycles. She is subjected to many cruel emotions such as paranoia and insecurity.
Rape can lead to pregnancy. Do you have a right before God to kill the child because you were raped? Soul ties should be broken with any sexual partners outside of marriage whether by rape or by sexual consent.
The church is drastically affected by the bastard which is a child conceived out of wedlock. The bastards have great difficulty in going to church and participating in the church services. Those who have sexual demons may act religious in church to cover their guilt about their sexual sins.
REFERENCES
Deliverance Manual by Gene and Earline Moody
Scripture And Abortion - An Outline by Gary Thomas, Care Pregnancy Clinic, Baton Rouge, LA
That They May Have Life, John 10:10, The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, St. Louis, MO
Taking Our Cities For God by John Dawson, Charisma House
Organizations: Care Net, Center For Disease Control, Americans United For Life, Guttmacher Institute, National Pro-Life Religious Council, Life Issues Institute, Life International
JESUS IS THE DELIVERER
SOUL TIES AND DEMONIC TIES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. SCRIPTURE
1. Soul Ties - One Flesh
3. Soul Ties - Witchcraft
2. Curses - Bondage
4. Bands - Bondage
2. GENERAL
3. GOD'S SYSTEM
4. INANIMATE OBJECTS
5. SEX WITH DEMONS
6. SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY
7. SOUL TIES
8. GODLY SOUL TIES
9. FORNICATION AND ADULTERY
10. HOMOSEXUALITY
11. BESTIALITY
12.CURSES
13. WITCHCRAFT
14.BANDS
15.COVENANTS
16.BROTHERHOODS
17. YOKE OF BONDAGE
18. SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, MIGHT AND FORCE
19. TYPES OF CATEGORIES
20. REFERENCES
SCRIPTURE
Soul Ties - One Flesh
Gen. 2:24 And shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matt. 19:6 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
I Cor. 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?
Soul Ties - Witchcraft
Lev. 19:31 Regard not that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards.
Lev. 20:6 I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off.
Curses - Bondage
Num. 5:21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing.
Deut. 28:48 Put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Deut. 30:7 And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies.
Job 2:9 Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God, and die.
Acts 23:12 Certain of Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse.
Acts 23:14 We have bound ourselves under a great curse.
Gal. 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse.
Bands - Bondage
Lev. 26:13 And I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Jud. 15:14 And his bands loosed from off his hands.
Job 38:31 Or loose the bands of Orion?
Job 39:5 Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
Job 39:10 Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow?
Psa. 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psa. 58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth.
Psa. 73:4 For there are no bands in their death.
Psa. 107:14 And brake their bands in sunder.
Psa. 119:61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me.
Prov. 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Ecc. 7:26 The woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands.
Isa. 28:22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong.
Isa. 52:2 Loose thyself from bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Isa. 58:6 To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens.
Eze. 4:8 And behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee.
Dan. 4:15 Leave stump of his roots in the earth, with band of iron and brass.
Hos. 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love.
Zech. 11:7 The one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands.
Zech. 11:14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands.
Luke 8:29 He was kept bound with chains and in fetters; he brake the bands.
Col. 2:19 From which all the body by joints and bands, and knit together.
GENERAL
There are invisible ties between human beings: alive and alive, alive and dead, between human beings and spiritual beings, between human beings and animals. There are demonic ties, soul ties, ties of curses, witchcraft ties, and bands or bondage.
Most Christians do not believe that demons control any part of their lives. If they only knew how much, they would be aghast and would begin to take action against the forces of darkness. I spend my time primarily studying what happens to people when they do not obey the Law of God. I study God's Law of Justice. Most people want to study Gods's Law of Love. The Law of Justice equally balances the Law of Love.
Do you feel as if there is something that ties you to another or as if there is pressure around your body? Think about ties to men, women and animals: both dead and alive, and to inanimate objects and demons.
GOD'S SYSTEM
We believe that God has setup an invisible system of ties that we can not see but we can feel the results of these ties. We are knit together with God as His Body. We are also knit together with others and by demonic forces.
The impression that we have is that there are good ties with God and bad ties with the forces of evil. You could visualize being tied up, bound up, in chains and fetters, tied to others, weighed down, under pressure, etc. You are either tied to others or tied-up within your self. You are carrying heavy loads on your shoulders or within your body.
God can either put you into bondage or remove you from bondage. It is your choice, not God's. You either do or do not follow God's Law. You pay the consequence for your actions; you sow what you reap.
INANIMATE OBJECTS
If you have a cursed object in your house, you are cursed. A cursed object does not just sit idle in your house. It will cause trouble for you. There are demons that live in or around the cursed object. Do you feel an unusual attraction or repulsion to some object in your home, office or car? You may have a demonic tie to it.
Some friends of ours were ministers who went to Haiti. One time they brought us some carved figurines as a gift. These statutes caused us strife in the family. Our daughter, Marie, felt like there were eyes watching her as she walked across the room. The Lord finally got our attention and we destroyed the wood figures. The wood would not burn normally and finally I had to soak them in charcoal-lighter fluid. When they finally burned, a green flame came out and shot toward us. These dolls were probably made by Voodoo worshipers who blessed them so that they would be sold. After getting rid of the statutes, the strife left our family.
SEX WITH DEMONS
There are demons that have sex with humans that may be against their will. There are worshipers in Voodoo that invite demons to have sex with them during their rites. These demons are called incubus for women and succubus for men. It may be possible to form a soul tie with a demon.
SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY
The human being is composed of eternal spirit, intellectual soul and fleshly body. God imparted the spirit into the womb at the moment of conception. The soul is normally thought of as mind, will and emotions. The soul and body grow as we develop as humans. When we die, God will take our spirit and soul into the spiritual world leaving our fleshly body behind. We will recognize each other when we get to Heaven because we will have our souls which contain our memory.
An animal is composed of soul and body but no spirit. When the animal dies, there is no indication in the Bible that God preserves any part of the animal or that any earthly animals will be found in heaven. There are heavenly animals that are there now, such as horses, and will probably be there when we arrive.
Demons have a spirit and soul but do not have a body.
When we unite with another, we unite in the soul. A demonic tie is formed between men and women depending on what the sin is all about. A soul tie or some form of demonic tie may be formed with beasts, demons and objects.
SOUL TIES
Soul ties are simply becoming one flesh according to the Bible; the souls are united. Soul ties are invisible ties between live humans, live humans and dead humans, and live humans and animals. Soul ties between live humans would include husband and wife, man and whore, woman and gigolo, man and man, and woman and woman. Soul ties between humans and animals would include sex with animals by men or women. Soul ties between live humans and dead humans would include any inability to give up the dead and influence of the dead on the living.
Have you been married before and divorced or separated? Is your former mate dead? If so, you have a soul tie with that person that needs to be broken, unless you plan to reunite with that person after temporary separation.
GODLY SOUL TIES
There is a good soul tie between godly married mates. This was established by God as one of His Laws. Earline and I had a godly soul tie. This was our only marriage and we did not have any other former mates. We were one flesh. We became one flesh when we united in sex. Marriage in the Bible was consummated when the couple came together sexually. They simply went into the tent, had sex and they were married in the sight of God. There is no need for paperwork or formalities in the sight of God; these are needed for man's world.
FORNICATION AND ADULTERY
Fornication is all sexual acts outside of godly marriage union. Fornication would include sex between men and women before marriage even if the consenting adults got married after sex. Most people think that if they get married after a child is conceived, it is not illegitimate. In the sight of God, the child is a bastard.
A soul tie is formed immediately upon the sexual act. God made the woman to have a strong attraction to the first man that she had sex with. It is going to be very difficult for the woman to forget her first sexual partner even when she gets married to another man. She may want to go back to her first partner as she goes through life.
Adultery is ungodly sexual acts in marriage with another person. Adultery is also defined as fornication. If a man or woman has sex outside of marriage with another, then a soul tie is formed with that person. When the married person goes to bed with their godly mate, it is as if they were bringing the other people to bed with them. This explains why people have some problems with their sex lives. They think about others during this time.
Sex with the harlot, whore, prostitute, gigolo (either male or female) causes a soul tie to be formed just the same as if the marriage was legitimate before God. Any soul tie outside of marriage is ungodly.
The world gets caught in the age-old trap of thinking that sex is love. Sex is not love; sex is sex. Sex in marriage should be sex with love but may only be sex without love. This may be brought about by the wife bargaining for sex with the husband to get something she wants or for some other reason. It could be that all the husband wants is quick sex.
HOMOSEXUALITY
Homosexuality forms soul ties between men and men or women and women. They have united their souls through the sexual act of sodomy. There is now a spiritual tie between them similar to the ties of being married. Sodomy causes strong demonic action.
BESTIALITY
Bestiality is the sexual union between man or woman and beast. It may be that a soul tie is formed between the person and the beast. Have you noticed that some people treat their animals as if they were their children? Why do people have an ungodly attraction for animals? It is not all for bestiality but it illustrates how a person can be attracted to animals as if they were humans.
CURSES
Curses are a type of demonic tie between the living, and between the living and the dead. Curses speak of oaths, binding and lying upon. God can curse us for not following His Laws. We can curse ourselves and bind ourselves under a curse. We can curse others and bind them under a curse if we have the spiritual authority to do so (such as our children).
When the curse is broken, there is a release as if a tie had been severed. I have always wanted to see the connection in the spiritual world of the curse emanating from someone and landing on someone else. We can curse ourselves or we can be cursed by others. How does the release occur? Is the tie suddenly severed or does the demon suddenly leave or what really happens? I wish God would open my eyes so that I could see into the spiritual world and see what happens there. I would like to see what happens as we pray, war in the spirit world, etc. Practicing deliverance is the best education that I know of to help you see into the spiritual world and understand what happens.
WITCHCRAFT
Witchcraft is the attempt to exercise control over others for personal gain. It can be practiced by white witchcraft (so called good witchcraft), black witchcraft (evil witchcraft), or someone who doesn't even think that they are a witch. Deliberate witchcraft would be practiced by someone in the occult or Satin worship. You don't have to be a witch or warlock to practice witchcraft. Christians can practice witchcraft through psychic prayers or what they say about others.
When we go to a witch to gain hidden knowledge or something for ourselves, we are seeking to them as we would seek to God. We submit ourselves to them, become obligated to them, and they begin to exercise control over us.
Unknown witchcraft would be practiced by someone trying to control others for their benefit or even for good intentions. Parents have a right and responsibility to control children that are underage and are supported by them. Parents do not have the right or responsibility to control children that are of age and are not supported by them, especially when they are married.
Unknown witchcraft is commonly practiced in the Christian world by laymen and leaders. This is called charismatic witchcraft. A pastor or leader who tries to control his flock or group is practicing witchcraft. He or she may feel that they know what is best for their people and they try to force it to happen. They may or may not know what is best for others, but they have no right to force their will on others. The best example is God, He will not force His Will on us.
We have worked with people who have been controlled by a dictatorial pastor. The pastor has formed soul ties with those who have yielded to his control rather than the direction of God in their lives. It is necessary to forgive the pastor, break soul ties and cast out demons.
If you have left a group that truly does not follow Jesus Christ, then you need to renounce that church or organization, forgive them, break soul ties and cast out demons. The Catholic Church is a good example of an organization that tries to control their people completely. Many charismatic leaders fall into this trap of trying to control people and their money in order to build their kingdoms whether small or large.
We went to a church where the pastor seemed to let the Holy Spirit have His way in the services. There was a tremendous freedom there and you could hardly wait to get to church to see what God was going to do. Then the pastor decided that it was his church and would be run the way he wanted it to be run for his reasons. After that, the freedom left and it was like any other charismatic church.
If you went to a fortune teller to get your fortune told, then you formed a soul tie with that person. There will be an attempt to control your life by that person from then on. Attempted control forms a soul tie. Demons will be sent out to help and draw you back to the fortune teller. God will cut us off. He may kill us as He did Saul for seeking the medium. He may cut us off from His Blessings on us mentally, physically, spiritually or materially. You are allowed to be placed in bondage by God. You may lose your mind, health, wealth or relationship with God. You are cursed and God may put ties on you to prevent you from prospering.
Witchcraft causes demons to be sent to another person to affect their life. The demons may stay on the outside of the person and just talk to the person, or may affect their material surroundings. The demons may converse with the demons within the person and get their co-operation for your destruction.
BANDS
There are bands that bind us. These demonic ties are bands, bonds, fetters, cords, ropes, covenants, brotherhoods, etc. that have strength, might and force in our lives.
We have worked with people in deliverance who acted like they had bands around their heads or bands around their bodies. There would be pressure on their heads as if something was tightened around their skull or brain. Similarly, there might be a feeling of pressure around the body or organ.
COVENANTS
We have cut a covenant with Jesus Christ. He has given us His Benefits and we have given Him our life. This is a blood covenant founded on the Blood of Jesus Christ. This is a very serious agreement and should not be taken lightly.
Beauty is a symbolic name given to one of the two staves which symbolized the Lord's covenant with the seed of Jacob, and the brotherhood of Israel and Judah. I would say that this word symbolizes the good things that God will do for us.
Bands is a symbolic name given to the other of the two staves mentioned above. Strongs Concordance lists the following for bands: twisted rope, measuring line, inheritance, noose, cord, tied together, ruin, destruction, pain, pang, snare and sorrow. I would say that this word symbolizes the bad things that God will do to us. It could also mean that God sets a measuring line for us not to go past and that is our inheritance in Him. If we exceed His limits, then we face ruin, destruction, pain, pang, snare and sorrow. We could be twisted like a rope, have a noose around our neck and tied together with a cord.
David agreed with Jonathan to be his brother. They treated each other as if they were blood brothers. This agreement lasted after the death of Jonathan. David was obligated to care for the descendents of Saul and Jonathan. David lived up to his agreement. Are you living up to your vow and agreement with God?
BROTHERHOODS
Have you joined a brotherhood or sisterhood outside of Christianity? Have you agreed to or signed a document that causes you to treat those in that organization as if they were your blood brothers or sisters? An example would be the Masons. Have you ever cut your wrist, mingled your blood with another, drunk mingled blood and wine out of a chalice such as in an Indian rite?
As Christians, we are brothers and sisters in Christ by the Blood of Jesus. We are a family and may form some strong ties which may seem even stronger than those with our blood brothers and sisters who turn against us as we follow the Lord. This needs to be a natural love and not a contrived false love. Calling someone brother or sister, or saying that I love you does not indicate that you really mean it but may just be putting on a show for others.
YOKE OF BONDAGE
Have you ever felt that you have a yoke of iron upon your neck, or that you were carrying a heavy load on your back or that you felt a heaviness on you? This feeling could be analogous to having bands around you. It can come about because you did not serve THE LORD YOUR GOD with joyfulness and gladness of heart.
Earline wrote a lesson called An Attitude of Gratitude - The Cure for Depression. We have seen how important it is to have gratitude towards God in ourselves and the lives others.
SPIRITUAL STRENGTH, MIGHT AND FORCE
Many Christians act as if there was no force in the spiritual world either good or bad. They may act as if God had no power or would not exercise that power in the lives of men. They may act as if Satan had no power or could not exercise that power over them.
God is all powerful, all knowing and all present: omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. God exercises those qualities in our lives whether we realize it or not.
Satan is the second most powerful being in the universe, only second to God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He and his forces can do demonic miracles to fool men. Except for Jesus Christ on our side, we are powerless before him. With Jesus Christ on our side, we have power over the enemy.
You may act as if Satan was a buffoon, or wore a red suit with a tail and carried a pitchfork. You need to know your enemy. It is Satan and his forces, not man, that is causing you problems. Satan has one-third of the angels, billions of demons and about 98% of the human race in his army. We don't need to fear this mighty enemy, but we need to respect his power and learn how to overcome the enemy's army.
TYPES OF CATEGORIES
This list would include any demons that would cause demonic ties of any type. They include general categories of sexual unions, people who would control your freewill, you practicing witchcraft on others, and demonic ties to objects, animals and demons.
Demonic ties could be thought of as holds over your life or being tied to something that you can not let go of. You are tied to anything that has a hold over some aspect of your life. What you worship and is important in your life is a key to your ties.
Demonic ties can be caused by parents abusing their children causing them to try to please their parents and get their acceptance for the rest of their adult lives. They can be caused by weak effeminate men and strong domineering women improperly raising their children. Ties can be caused by false religions or religious leaders. Addictions are a type of tie to drugs, alcohol, food, etc. Children can have demonic ties with their parents as well as godly ties.
You can be tied to your enemies because of your hatred and inability to release them from their sins against you. You can be tied to worldly systems of religion, family, occupation, education, recreation, etc. You can be tied to races, cultures and creeds. You can be tied to doctors and hospitals for treatment of body and mind. You can be tied to yourself through selfishness and only thinking about your needs. You can be tied to traditions of your elders or churches.
You can be tied to medium spirits which guide your life or to your own demons that you submit to. Familiar spirits following the descendents after the ancestor's sins could be a type of tie. You can even be tied to someone that has died. You can be tied to the Devil through occult, witchcraft and Satan worship. You can be tied to demons that you have sex with.
REFERENCES
Deliverance Manual by Gene and Earline Moody
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