WHAT IS
BEHIND THE 'IRRESISTIBLENESS' OF THE
HARRY
POTTER BOOKS:
This testimony
expresses my experience in the same kind of power that is affecting
people through the H/P thing. It can be resisted ONLY through God's
protection - Satan can put the rosy glasses on anyone and make you feel
soooo good!! That's why every
body is raving about these 'wonderful books'
During the time I was studying eastern philosophies, I was a postulant
and later a novice in a order called the ___ knights, studying to become
a leader in the group. There were books that we were encouraged to read
which put forward the theories we were practicing.
One book, and I won't give
you the name of it in case someone would be curious and go looking for
it or something, I don't want to promote it, but it was putting forth
the spiritual side of martial arts. It went the round of those of us who
were studying for the leadership of the ___ knights.
My immediate teacher over
me, my Sifu, read it and was greatly impressed with it and passed it to
me and said, "Here, read this book!" So I read it, it was a
medium-sized book, and I read it from cover to cover and I have to tell
you it was the most fascinating book I ever read! It was amazing! I
thought it was a wonderful book! I said, "This is so enlightening,
this is so wonderful. I really love this book!"
Later I returned it to my
teacher and I said, "I read this book right
through and this is really a good book, it's a wonderful book!"
Well for some reason or other, he didn't know why, but I know why now;
God had His hand in something there. My teacher turned around and he
handed me back the book and he said, "Well, if it is that good,
don't just read it once, read it again!"
So I took it and I said,
"I will, I'll read it again." I'll tell you how I
know it was God who interposed there, because afterwards my teacher
seemed so annoyed both with me and with himself, he said, "Do you
have to do everything I tell you? Can't you think for yourself?" or
something like this, but I said, "No, I will read it again."
You know, we have no idea the spiritual battle that rages around us!
Satan knew God was going to interpose and he was mad.
I didn't ask for God's
blessing, I didn't ask Him to show me if this thing was true or not; I
didn't take it to the Word of God and test it to see if it was truth; at
that time, it didn't cross my mind. But our Lord is merciful beyond
anything we can imagine, really! And He was gracious and merciful to me,
who was deliberately seeking after things that I knew better than to
seek! God sent His Spirit and angels to be with me the second time I
read that book. I didn't ask for this help, but I am so grateful to Him
for this and I have thanked Him many times. He stopped the hypnotic
spell of Satan and when I read it again, I never read such a pack of
rubbish in my life! It was the same book! I had only read it two days
before and thought it so wonderful.
It was
just a bunch of fabricated rubbish from cover to cover. There was
no good in it - just stupidness, Disgusting stupidness! Why didn't I see it the
first time? Satan was influencing me and God stopped him and let
me see the truth!
When I read it the first
time, one of the things it talked about was this
experience of 'enlightenment'; Now if you hang around 'New Age' or
eastern philosophy people
very much, you will hear a lot about enlightenment. It is supposed to be
that all of a sudden when you are meditating or practicing, you get this
experience where everything seems more real to you and more plain and
clear and it's like light flooding into your mind.
I will tell you that
this kind of 'enlightenment' comes from Lucifer, the fallen
light-bearer, he specializes in that kind of experience. You can hear or
read something and feel that it is so wonderful, something that you feel
has opened a whole new world to you and opened up your understanding
like never before, and it is nothing but a feeling, it has no basis in
reality at all! It is hypnosis kind of a thing he uses and you can feel
nothing has ever been so precious in your whole life!
I have experienced this trick. I can still remember experiencing this
after I first read that book. As I left my apartment that day to go to
work, how everything seemed so bright, and so wonderfully new and
beautiful, so different, so much more real, and I had this feeling of
enlightenment.
It was all so incredible!
but it doesn't last, friends, it doesn't last. In fact when it fades,
you usually end up in discouragement and darkness afterwards because
Satan and his bunch have more things to do than to sit around and make
you feel good all day; because he really hates you with a passion,
because you belong to Jesus. It's nothing personal, he just hates you
and delights to destroy you so as to hurt Jesus.
But he gives people these
sweet experiences to lead them to seek more as they think there must be
real truth in this because of what they saw or felt. The 'Master' of the
order based all his confidence in a hallucination he had in meditation
where he saw supernatural beings he thought were angels (they were
fallen angels), who told him to start this order.
Many people are given an
experience when they first come into occult territory. They may visit a
psychic type therapist and receive a treatment and find it makes them
feel sooo good! Then they really believe in it and come back again and
again. Seldom is there any lasting health benefit, but the good feeling
keeps them returning and spending their money.
Often they choose to take
classes and begin to practice the therapy they have chosen. They also
accept the spiritualistic explanation of the therapy as true. Many times
when a person first visits a psychic, he is told, "You don't
realize it, but you have a rare gift, special powers, and with training
you could really be good at this and help many people."
The person thinks
"What? Me? Special powers? I never knew that!" It really makes
him feel important. The person is made to feel he is under obligation to
develop this hidden 'gift' for the blessing of others. In reality, it
really boosts your pride to think that you have a 'special gift' that
others don't have. Once pride gets in there, you are led like a beast to
the slaughter. Satan will give you just enough success to keep you
coming back for more.
I am sad to tell you that
some of the "New Theology" and "Cheap Grace" being preached in our
Christian pulpits today
has the same effect, the person feels a wonderful exhilaration; he
thinks he has never heard any thing quite so wonderful. He is sure he
has received a real blessing from the Lord, but in reality it fades away
and leaves him more spiritually dead than ever before.
Whole audiences experience
this 'false sense of revival' together, and when it wears off, they have
to look for some new excitement to keep them going. The hypnotic power
of demons is involved in these false doctrines. Don't ever underestimate
the hold it can take on your mind!
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