THE ADVERSARY AS A ROARING LION.. or HOW THE DEVIL LOVES TO ADVERTISE THIS BIBLE CLASS...
“Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” I John 4:4
So, I no sooner advertised the powerful Bible class that gets people ‘born again’, ‘healed’, ‘delivered from demons and disease’, and ‘baptized in the holy spirit’, walking in POWER, than the enemy launched an attack..
PLEASE KNOW that in 46+ years of either participating in, or conducting this important BIBLE CLASS, I have seen the same thing OVER and again..
IT GETS THE DEVIL ANGRY.
Let me share a story of one time in Virginia, when he did the same thing..
I was active duty in Virginia from 1994 to 1997. After I got off active duty, I started a business - Buon Fresco - & The Academy of Wall Artistry. (www.BFresco.com)..
By 2004, having more time in my life to do so, I decided to return to what I loved best.. researching and teaching the Bible. So I announced that I was going to start a Bible fellowship and start running that CLASS again…
All at once the witches got to work.
2 things happened in quick succession.. they threw a baby deer under my wheels, and had a guy jump off a bridge shortly before I happened to arrive at the scene.
I was driving my 1979 VW Bus on a forested road in Potomac Maryland. Suddenly a tiny baby deer came running out of the woods and on to the road right in front of my bus.
Up till that point, I had never even hit a squirrel in my life, but this deer went under the bus. It survived - but the Animal agency that came (I forget the name) had to put it down.
It was emotionally disturbing for me. I have raised a stray baby mouse when I found it.. I love every size creature, so this episode was upsetting. Not ‘harmful to me’, but upsetting.
Remember- this happened right after I announced that I would be starting my Bible fellowship in Virginia; In the years before active duty, I ran a Bible fellowship in Manhattan that grew so large we split it into 2 locations, one in Manhattan and one in the Bronx. The devil saw how many people came to Christ from my old fellowship.. and was plainly unhappy that I planned to start again.
Within a week of that episode with the deer, I was driving on Rt. 28 up to Leesburg Virginia to get to a job site with my art business. While driving under an overpass, I had to bank around a group of vehicles that had STOPPED in a circle around a truck.. right on the highway. I looked and saw a man laying facedown on the road in a pool of blood. I asked the Lord ‘Should I stop? Can I help?’ (Besides being an Army combat medic, I could pray.. My reaction was to ask if there was something I could do). Jesus said ‘No, keep going. He’s dead’.
Turns out that just moments before, the guy jumped off the overpass onto the highway - right in front of a truck - to commit suicide.
In ALL my years of cab driving, military service, and living in NYC, I’d never seen a dead body. So that also was upsetting.
If the devil was trying to scare me out of starting that fellowship, he failed. I ran it, ran the Bible class, saw miracles.. and I will do the same thing again next month, his ‘roar’ last Sunday, notwithstanding.
THE THING TO SEE HERE, IS THAT I NEVER GOT HURT.. THE ENEMY JUST ROARED..
HURTING OTHER VULNERABLE CREATURES - IN A FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE ME.
DO YOU SEE HOW MUCH THIS CLASS BOTHERS BELZABUB? If this was another empty feel good class.. he’d do NOTHING.
But this class changes people, and I do mean for the better.
One fellow who you may have already read about, Steven, that took the class in 2021.. had been a deacon in the same church for FIFTEEN years, all the while for suffering from Lyme Disease..for the same 15 year period. He graduated this class in September of that year, and DELIVERED HIMSELF OF THE LYME DEMONS.
I myself was delivered of FIFTEEN years of demonic possession when I first took this class. and from the day I graduated, the Lord began to speak to me on a regular basis.
I am still hoping to come to your class!! 😊