For those who believe demon possession disappeared from the earth during the time of Jesus Christ and His apostles’ ministries, well, they are going to be in for a rude awakening. Demon possession is NOT a medieval concept, nor has it disappeared from the earth. Folks, the opposite is true. It’s getting worse! God reveals to us in the 13th chapter of Zechariah just when demon possession will end – AT CHRIST’S RETURN! (See Zechariah 13:1-2). And Revelation 12:7-17 warns us that it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
The body of a 6-year-old boy was found in Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon after his mother called police and said she had thrown him off a bridge. She said she heard voices telling her to throw the boy off the Yaquina Bay Bridge, according to News Lincoln County. This horror occurred one November night in 2014. I don’t think Jillian McCabe was lying when she said she heard voices telling her to kill her son. I believe she actually DID hear such voices, and I believe they were demonic spirits speaking to her mind.
On May 20, 1998, 15 year old Kip Kinkel retrieved his .22 caliber rifle from his bedroom and ammunition from his parents’ bedroom. He then went to the kitchen and shot his father once in the back of the head, then dragged his body into the bathroom and covered it with a sheet. His mother arrived home at about 6:30 p.m., and he met her in the garage, told her he loved her, then shot her twice in the back of the head, three times in the face, and once in the heart. He then dragged her body across the floor and covered it with a sheet.
In a note Kinkel left on a coffee table in the living room, he wrote “My head just doesn’t work right. God damn these VOICES inside my head. … I have to kill people. I don’t know why. … I have no other choice.”
On May 21, the morning after he murdered his parents, Kinkel drove his mother’s Ford Explorer to the high school he attended. Entering the patio area he fired two shots, killing one fellow student and wounding another. Kinkel went to the cafeteria and, walking across it, fired the remaining 48 rounds from his rifle, wounding 24 students and fatally wounding 17-year-old Mikael Nickolauson. Kinkel fired a total of 50 rounds, hitting students with 37 of those, and killing two. When Kinkel’s rifle ran out of ammunition and he began to reload, seven students succeeded in subduing and disarming Kinkel.
I believe there is a very good chance Kip Kinkel was telling the absolute truth about the voices he heard telling him to kill and that he had no choice. He couldn’t stop himself from doing what he did. And, again, I believe these voices to be of demonic origin!
Again and again one hears of murderers who say they heard a voice telling them to kill. Remember David Berkowitz aka the Son of Sam, who between July of 1976 and July of 1977 killed six strangers with a .44 caliber hand gun? He claimed he received orders to kill from a demon-possessed dog!
Then there was the killer who wrote with lipstick on the bathroom mirror in one of his victim’s homes, “Stop me before I kill again!”
Yes, I believe in demon possession, and I am sure there are a lot of homicide detectives who believe the same. Jesus believed in demon possession. The apostle Paul was confronted by a demon possessed woman in Philippi years after the founding of the church. (See Acts 16). Demon possession is not a medieval concept, brethren. It is a reality!
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley