Educated Westerners might believe in the
spirit world but tend to be unsuspecting about it. Convinced about the power of
love to conquer all, we find the idea of evil spiritual entities unacceptable.
For this reason, I am glad to post this
account of experiences with evil entities as a needful wake-up call. It is
written by a dear friend whose truthfulness I have not the slightest doubt.
In my sophomore year in college, a housemate and I were in
a store that had lots of board games for sale. Not sure why we had gone into
that store anymore. This was 1968 and more than likely we were just buying some
health supplies. She saw the game and said we should get it. I knew nothing
about it and saw no need for getting it. She kept insisting it was a fun game
and we should get it. She did not have enough money with her to pay for it all
by herself. She talked me into splitting the cost with her. However, when it
came to paying half she reneged and said she would pay me later. She never did.
Once we got it home I put it in the closet of my room and
let it set. Then one day when most our housemates were home, Jill (not real
name) suggested that we get the game and all of us play it. Two of our
housemates was not there. But five of us were. So Jill explained how the game
worked. We took turns playing and the girls were intrigued in how it seemed to
work all on it's own, swearing that they were not pushing the gadget around the
board spelling answers. They were asking questions about the future and I began
feeling this was not a "fun" game. I refused to play, but kept
observing. Everything was going just fine. Then one of the two missing housemates
came home. The board stopped working. No matter what the question, it would not
work. Someone suggested to ask it why it stopped. Just then our lately arrived
housemate passed by our room's door. The gadget literally flew across the room
to the door and toward our newly arrived housemate. She thought we threw it at
her. We all were in a state of shock and denied doing so. She said we should
not be playing with that board game. So I packed it up and put it back in the
closet. But since I had not participated in actually trying it my curiosity was
peeked.
Some time later, when I was alone in the house, I pulled
the game out and put my hands on the gadget to see if it would work for me. I
asked some "yes" /"no" questions and discovered that it
answered me without me actually pushing the device around on the board. That
was enough for me that day. I knew the scripture in Deuteronomy 18:10 "Let no one be found among you who
sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination
or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft," . So put it back in
the closet.
Then another day my housemates said they had brought the
game downstairs, (we lived in a private home with house parents) when no one
was home. They were eating snacks and one of the girls had put a coke bottle on
top of the TV. Then they asked the Ouiji Board to give them a sign. The coke
bottle exploded. Yikes! They had a mess to clean up, but thought just maybe it
was a coincidence. So, they tried once again asking for a sign. This time they
heard a loud bang downstairs. About that time I came home. They told me what
had happened and wanted me to check out what the noise was downstairs. I went
down with one of the girls and we found the door of the laundry room had come
off its hinges and was lying on the floor. The two of us tried to fix it, but
couldn't do it.
So when the lady of the house
came home the girls left it to me to explain. I did not tell her about the coke
bottle exploding. She went back down to the laundry room and said there was
probably a normal explanation. None of the girls wanted to own up to what they
has said or done. Her husband was able to put the door back and she warned me and
other girls to stop this foolishness.
Then I heard on campus that some of the students had asked
for a sign in the girls dorm and that lights in the hallway blew up starting at
one end and going to the other end. No one dared tell what the possible reason
might be. It sure got me to thinking there was something supernatural about it.
Now I should tell you that I was going to a Christian College
in Iowa at
the time, but not a Christian community that believed in the paranormal. We
were required to attend chapel everyday. One day, our house mother's daughter
came for a visit and we got to talking. I ended up talking and visiting and it
got around to the Ouiji Board. I began telling them about some of the things I
had heard. My house mother asked me to show it to her daughter. They were
intrigued and asked me to show it to them. So I went back upstairs to my room
and got it. We were trying to think of some questions to ask it that were not
life changing. We were having a hard time thinking of innocent questions. So,
being that I should have been in chapel, I asked if it was wrong for me to miss
chapel. It moved under my fingers to "no". In my heart of hearts I
knew the answer should have been "yes". It did not prove anything to
my housemother and daughter. So I said, "I do not know what kind of car
you drive or the color"... and they agreed. I asked the color of the car
first. "green" was the answer, and it was correct. They decided that
was just luck. So then I asked for the model or type of car. I do not remember
now what the answer was. But it was correct. They thought I cheated and had seen
the car. I insisted that I had not. So then they asked several questions that
they knew I did not know and I still got the correct answer on the board. Then
I decided to ask it what made it work. The answer was "Satan". At
that point we all decided this was to be gotten rid of. But since it was
"mine" they wanted me to do so. That's how it ended up at my parents
home back in New Jersey.
I asked my mother during a phone call if she could go and
burn it for me. I don't remember if I told her why, other that it was a bad
game and I did not want my siblings to end up playing with it. I believed it
was connected with paranormal stuff and demons. Thankfully my mother did burn
it right away, and that's when she said it sounded like something was
screaming. It scared her.
I had to ask the Lord to forgive me of messing with demonic
activity. For many years after that they would appear from time to time where I
could see them. Not that they wanted me to see them. For instance, I saw them
dancing with glee on a high school stage when the principal was speaking at a
meeting with all the teachers a day or so before school started. It was an
orientation for new teachers and student teachers. I saw them and whispered in
Jesus name for them to leave and not come back. They stopped in horror and
looked at me and then disappeared.
I saw them in my own home when we had company after church
one evening. Ugly dark horrible things. At first I thought they were just
shadows, but no they were moving around a specific person. Again I whispered
for them to leave in Jesus name and poof they were gone.
Many years later after we had children, we had a visiting
minister come to our church. He had been in the occult and shared way to many
details about it. I was glad that I was the only one of the family in the
service. He gave everyone there a patch of red felt cloth and told us to put it
on the front door of our house to ward away evil spirits. I brought it home
that night and put it on top of our refrigerator. I forgot about it.
Then one day I saw a shadowy figure come up our stairs from
downstairs. When it saw that I saw it, it froze. I spoke to it in the authority
of Jesus name and commanded it to leave and not come back. In the same
timeframe I saw one looking in our front window. I instantly got up and it ran
down our lawn toward the garage. I told my husband and he walked around our
property rebuking any spirit that might want to be here. We began hearing
similar stories from people in our church. Our pastor and elders cleansed the
church and the homes of parishioners
who were also having strange
things happen in their homes and told us to get rid of the red felt cloth.
Again in the same time frame, our second son told me that
there was a snake in their bedroom closet. He said it only came out at night
and that it had shiny green eyes. I told him that because he had Jesus in his
heart he could rebuke it in Jesus name and it would have to leave. The next
time it showed up he did just that. The next morning he told me he had seen it
leave. He was so excited that in Jesus name we have power over evil that wants
to scare us.
The evil spirit realm is real, very real. Many people think
that is just superstition. I am thankful that the Lord kept me safe from them,
even when I was in college and very dumb about what they can and would like to
do. I am thankful that he kept my parents and siblings from harm too. We are
blessed to be children of God and protected by the blood of Jesus from Satan
and his evil desires for us.
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