Welcome to Demonland
The crazy amount of times I was told by road signs, gas pumps, or store speakers to get vaccinated on the way back from Florida definitely got under my skin, but it paled in comparison to the frustration that hit me the moment we came up on a very large sign reading “welcome to demonland” while traveling through Louisiana.
You can’t be a chief or a crusader in the new modern woke minded USA these days, but “welcome to demonland” is still as cool as hell I guess. Yea, I refuse to capitalize it. A lovely place where you can have demon pride and put “I’m a demon” on your 4th grader’s t-shirt. When they get in junior high the t-shirt has advanced to read “We love our demons”. I can just feel the eye rolls and hear it now, “Come on and get off your Christian high horse! It is just a tradition. Nothing is wrong with supporting our demons.” I think I will pass on that path personally.
I did a little research to figure out how Universities like Duke, Wake Forest, Northwestern (LA) State University or Arizona State chose a demon or devil to represent their school. Most had some weird explanation, but to be honest, I could care less how they chose it. What blows my mind is the double standard on this one.
After watching the media try to completely destroy the credibility of Dr. Stella Gwandiku-Ambe Immanuel a while back after she took a bold stance when it comes to demons, I completely wonder if the majority of Americans honestly believe demons are a bad thing or maybe don’t even believe they exist. At least not in the USA.
Check out this video of a CNN interview with Dr. Immanuel. The reporter openly laughs at her. I would love to see the reporter in Cameroon locked in a room with a person possessed out of his mind by a legion of demons. Something that is common in many third world countries. Where exorcism is a normal practice or even better Warriors like Dr. Immanuel stand boldly and cast demons out of people in Jesus Name.
Demons tremble, flee, and bow just at the mention of the name of Jesus. We as Christians have nothing to fear, but that does not mean we should act like they don’t exist. I’ll take this demon sniper on my side any day.
For Americans to allow themselves to believe that demonic activity does not exist in the USA and that spiritual warfare is not raging right in our midst daily may be the biggest sign of lack of intelligence there is. Because we don’t refer to people as witch doctors, that must mean they are not around. They only exist on Bourbon Street in New Orleans right? In dark alleys far away from the suburbs or rural American right? The truth is. Nobody is absent of spiritual warfare, so for your children’s sake, you better figure out what it takes to win.
How naïve is it to believe Satan is not deceiving, tricking, and possessing people? How naïve is it to believe that demonic activity has not played a role in the level of perversion to increase at a level that is beyond sick these days? To believe demonic activity is not behind the escalating amounts of depression and suicides? Do we just ignore the fact that that witchcraft and satanic worship is on the climb and is as common as Christian churches in America today?
I got sick in my stomach when they chose in 2015 to remove a statue of the Ten Commandments in downtown OKC, but the same year allowed the White House to be lit up with rainbow colors representing a Supreme Court decision.
Wait. I forgot. Everyone is free to do whatever they want to in America right? Unless you are a high school football coach and choose to take a knee near your players after a game. The freedom to do whatever you want is why sexual abuse and human trafficking of little children is out of control. Just keep telling me how dumb I am for even mentioning this demon thing.
If Evangel University has to remove Crusaders as their mascot, then Duke should be required to remove Blue Devils from their uniforms. I have seen demonic activity kill way more people in my lifetime than a crusader.
While I’m on my soap box, why would a person ever say “Hell Yea”, or sing “I’m Hell Bent and Whiskey Bound”, or sing about being on a “Highway to Hell”. All I can figure is they are stupid, possessed, blinded, deceived, or were not beaten by alcoholic or drug addict parents. Sadly, maybe they were and now they just pass that demonic activity from generation to generation, while honestly believing that it is just a song or a saying. I think I will say “Hell No” on that one.
I have sadly seen alcoholism and drug addiction and what it did to some my close loved ones. I have experienced what demonic activity did to some of the coolest, nicest, a most incredible people I knew growing up. Some who are dead today as a result.
So don’t tell me a demon is nothing to get upset about. He is a spirit. Why do you think a liquor store has the word spirits on many of them? A demon is my enemy, but as a child of the most high, I don’t fear them. i do feel sorry for those who have not picked a side yet or those who ride the fence on this one. Someone needs to wake them up and let them know there ain’t no fence to ride, that’s a lie too! John writes in Revelations 3:16, that you are either hot or cold, lukewarm is not a good place to be.
When a Christian University like Oral Roberts University can be villainized during their run in the NCAA Tournament simply because of their stance against a non-Biblical lifestyle, something is definitely wrong. Read for yourself.
Praise the Lord though, Even when I think the world can’t get any darker, I hold onto Romans 4:18. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations. I have hope because I know the power and love of Christ Jesus. Love still never fails, my Savior is still undefeated, and God has not called us home, so He must have work for us to do. Driving through southeastern Oklahoma on the last leg of our trip back from Florida, Sheri says look at that. I look up and on the side of a mountain, bigger than the frustrating sign I had seen earlier, someone had beautifully created a huge sign with just one word “JESUS”.
Here is an article about where the sign originated. Pretty cool.