Recently a friend of mine shared a tragic story from their own family and I am placing it here as a warning to all to stay away from the Devil's Snares! Not all who mess around with Eastern Philosophy and practices end up with such a horrible ending; however, no good EVER comes from messing around with what God has forbidden! Satan allows some professed Christians, even Adventists, to appear to received much benefit from Martial Arts and Yoga and such practices--it makes these people more effective lures to others. BUT in the end, it leads to Eternal Death and the 'benefits' are only a delusion! I want to assure you that this sad story is true.
My father was overseas playing around with
other women, not writing or communicating, or supporting his
wife and children here in the states. My two little brothers
suffered terribly because of this. My mother worked full time
to support the family and no-one was available to pay much
attention to them, so they were neglected and on their own after
school and in the summers.
My youngest brother who started out life with
a sweet temperament, went to a city community program, where you
can take all kinds of different classes. He must have been
about 15 when he got into the martial arts programming there. It
seemed to give him a focus and he was good at it.
I only remember one day my mother telling me that one of the requirements of the particular course was that he had to come "face to face" with the devil, to show the devil he that he was more powerful then the devil. I don't know if this is a common practice, or it was the persuasion of his martial arts teacher. I don't know what exactly happened...I only know that about that same time he sculpted a hideous head of what must have been what the devil looked like when he met him. In the terms of art it was great, but I would never have let it into my house. I think my mother made a big mistake by displaying it in her living room.
He rose up to the highest degrees, had all the
different colored belts. He and this gal, who was very intelligent
with two college degrees set up housekeeping. For the next several
years we saw each other only occasionally as our lifestyles were
different.
To make a long story short, we didn't know it until afterwards, but he was very controlling with his "wife". One day she finally escaped from him by climbing out a window and calling the police, his life then fell apart (without her financial support), and then is when we recognized that he was demon possessed, not only by his actions, but how he would talk to us. He would stalk her, even the policemen were afraid of him, and on several occassions when they had to deal with him, it took 4-5 of them to get physical control of him he was so powerful.
After all this went on, he came to stay with
me, but I was afraid. I never knew when he would snap and kill us
all....so I finally got him out. He ended up on the streets as a
street person. On one occasion a relative contacted that man, JR
Hoffman, to get ideas how to get rid of the demons. We prayed, and
then she met my brother at a motel, while I sat in the car..I would
not go meet with him or try it myself! Her experience with him in
that motel room was the scariest time of her life, sometimes it was
him speaking, other times it was the evil spirits speaking....and
THE DEMONS DID NOT COME OUT. Of course now we know better!
She got out of that room barely with her life...God was good to her
to help her in her ignorance!
We think he is dead now. We know he went to
another country to be with our father, but he took his father's
young wife to bed, my father caught them and kicked him out....he
ended up in jail in that country, and then got out, but no one has
ever heard from him since. We think he is dead. Such a sad ending,
and in the resurrection morning, so sad for my mother.
This is what convinced me that ALL MARTIAL ARTS programs are FROM THE DEVIL. The evil spirits are connected with them, and no CHRISTIAN should ever be involved! AMEN!!!
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