Last night I´m quite sure I encountered a very real demonized man. Not the typical kind of demon or evil spirit probably, but there was something inside of him I´m sure.
He calls himself Joe Peacemaker. He´s a middle-aged American who I have passed by twice before in town. He has gobs of charms and symbols and thing around his neck and all over his walking staff:
- A carving of a Native American chief
- an eagle carving
- a little buddha figure
- a dreamcatcher
- mayan symbols and things
- a couple crosses
- a star of david
- a totem pole thing
- and several other trinket things that symbolize or represent other belief systems or religions
This guy was absolutely filled with an evil spirit of deception. Holy cow dude! The guy would not stop talking. Seriously. It was close to impossible to sneak a word in amongst his ramblings, and that was becoming very frustrating.
Clinton, Hannah and I started talking to him on the path to town and he kept talking non-stop for about 4 hours. He was still talking as the taxi drove him away. Clinton and I bought him dinner, paid somekind of phone debt he had and paid for his taxi ride home.
He talked about the cosmos and the stars, and planets, aliens, governmental conspiracies that he´s been forced to bottle up, something about the Queen of England and the war, his childhood as an orphan, how we almost had surgery to become a female, stuff about Bush, the Koran, some lost books of Eden, the Gospel of Enoch, some other books I can´t remember the names of and then Christianity. And some of the stuff he said about Christianity was actually very true and almost profound and for a while I thought there was maybe something I could learn from him.
I asked him straight up questions about Christ, and who exactly did he think Jesus was. I asked him what he thought about Jesus dying on the cross for us personally and what he thought about the fact that we can have a personal relationship of him. Asked him about how when Christ died he cleaned our slate completely. I asked him how could he believe in bits and pieces of so many different belief systems. He never gave me a straight answer though. He would just start going off on somekind of tangent. Very frustrating.
Sigh.
I need to be careful with this I think, because the whole thing kind of ticks me off. And I need to still be loving towards him and graceful, and realize that the real Joe is still in there somewhere trapped perhaps. I still need to love him. But the worst part for me was the fact that he knew a lot about the Bible and therefore I thought maybe I could learn stuff from what he was saying. But the fact that he mixed with so much other rubbish was very deceiving.
Thank you Jesus for protecting me during it! Thank you for your shield of faith! Thank you for a sound mind and for loving me unconditionally. And thank you for keeping Clinton by my side the whole time.
After he was out of sight in his taxi, I put my hands on my head and crouched down and said to Clinton, ¨What in the hell was that!¨
I ended up talking to Chad later that night about it and he gave me a lot of scriptures and advice to use for the next time that will happen. So I will be better prepared with the sword of the spirit and the words of Christ.
