Get Behind Me Satan
The Novel
Mike Yousif
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Get Behind Me Satan
Copyright © 2009 by Mike Yousif
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Table of Contents
Just another Wednesday
Stuck between Life and Death
Organized Evil
A Day to Witness
Time for Church
Controversial Lunch
Born Again
Bible Study
Tragedy
Spiritual Warfare
Holy & Unholy Assembly
The Holy Spirit
Good Bye for Now
A Slice of Heaven
Funeral
Good Friday-Bad Friday
Glorious Appearing
Best Seat in the Universe
Revelation and Tribulation
Cosmic Battle
The Underworld
Tougher Times
World War III
The Villain is captured
Renovated Earth
The death of Death
Eternity with the Trinity
I dedicate this book to the Lord Jesus Christ.
A Special thanks to my loving wife, Sharon, who endured with me the intense hardship and Spiritual Warfare during the writing of this book. And to my son Johnny, who sacrificed time with Daddy in order to complete this project.
He is a gift from God.
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Just another Wednesday
Jim, who is a bachelor in his mid thirties, woke up to the alarm clock at 7:30 a.m. Next to him, sitting on a chair, is a demon named Daemon. Jim is not aware of the demon’s presence. Demons and angels move at the speed of light, too fast for humans to see. However, the supernatural beings can read and influence the human thought process.
Jim thought, Oh no. I stayed up late last night, and now I have overslept for half an hour. I’m gonna be late for an early meeting this morning.
Daemon said, Why don’t you call in sick today?
Jim agreed and picked up the phone to call, and then he thought, No, I’ve called in sick too many times already, and hung up the phone.
Daemon replied, What are they going to do, fire you? The job sucks anyway.
Jim thought, Yes, it’s true the job does sucks. But I need the money. As he walked to the bathroom, rubbing his eyes and yawning, he tripped over a bottle of liquor. The floor was cluttered with bottles, food wrappers, and take-out boxes.
Looks like she messed up the place good, said Daemon.
Why does she have to come on a weeknight anyway? thought Jim.
You didn’t mind it when she showed up unexpectedly, Daemon reminded him.
Jim smiled as he headed towards the shower. He got dressed quickly and thought, No coffee this morning. I’ll have to get it on the way to work or at work. Then he headed out towards his car. Daemon followed.
He got into the car, which was in the driveway outside his nice suburban house, and closed the door. Daemon got into the car through the door on the passenger side with no problem. As a spirit being, he could go through doors, walls, and so forth. Jim turned the ignition and the radio started. The newsperson reported that there was an earthquake, as usual, somewhere in the world that doesn’t usually have earthquakes; the newsperson also said that earthquake occurrences were increasing in number and magnitude.
Jim said, “Personal assistant,” and a voice from the dashboard said, “Good morning Jim. What would you like me to do for you?” Jim replied, “Check my calendar.” The automated voice said, “Synchronizing calendar, please wait… synchronization complete. You had a meeting at 8:30 a.m. which has been cancelled, no reschedule time is specified.”
Jim was excited over the report and said, “Great,” then he thought, I’d have been very late for this one. Then he said, “Dial Cindy,” The voice said, ‘dialing Cindy, please wait… speaker phone on… connected.” A voice over the speakerphone said, “This is Cindy, can I help you?”
Jim said, “Hi, its Jim. I just wanted to confirm that the eight thirty meeting has been postponed.”
“Yes, and I am trying to get all parties to agree on a good mutual time. I will update your calendar when the time is set.”
“Thanks, talk to you at the office.” Then he said, “PA, switch to radio.”
Daemon said, I told you not to worry.
He felt relaxed and listened to the radio. As he got on the freeway another driver cut him off.
Daemon said, Are you going to let him get away with that? Jim sped up his car and caught up with the other driver, which turned out to be a female. He gave her the finger and Daemon said, That’s my boy! However, the other driver looked back at him, shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand in an apology. He smiled and felt bad now, for what he did. Then he hid himself in the traffic to avoid further embarrassment. He arrived at his work place and got into the building where he works. He opened the main door and got in, while Daemon went in through the glass door. He used the elevator to get to his door and passed by his floor receptionist’s desk, where other employees and their demons were unusually hanging around and surrounding her. He thought, Why are these guys here? But, that’s good for me; she didn’t notice me coming in late.
Daemon said, There’s something good, though, going on down there, you should come back and check it out, later on.
He was almost at his office when a colleague passing by said, “You’re late again, Jim.”
“There was a traffic jam on the freeway.”
Daemon said, That works every time. I taught you well my boy.
As soon as he got inside his office, his best friend, Jack, who is about the same age, popped his head inside the door and said, “How are you doing buddy, have you checked out the front desk yet?”
“No why! What’s happening?”
“C’mon you’ll have to see it for yourself.” Then they both walked together towards the front desk. Their two demons were walking behind them.
Jack’s demon said to Daemon, “The harvest is so big I am doing Jack on a part time bases. But be careful, the enemy is still out there. I saw one the other day.”
Daemon replied, “Jim’s circle of friends and family are all controlled by our brothers. So I don’t have much exposure to the enemy.”
“Watch out for them, they infiltrate and brainwash our subject.”
When the two men got to the front desk, they saw the receptionist who was wearing a low cut blouse exposing big cleavage. Jack asked the receptionist if he had received any mail. The frustrated receptionist replied, “For the third time Jack, no!”
Jack thanked her, and they both left. Jack asked, “Did you check the twins?”
Jim replied smiling, “Yes, they’re great. That explains the big crowd earlier.”
“Yeah, I’ll see you at lunch then.”
Jim and Jack’s demons asked the secretary’s demon, “What’s her story?”
“She just got divorced, and I told her to make an investment in a boob job. The new puppies cost her a couple of thousand dollars, on a payment plan. She is looking for promotion at work and someone to pay for the boob job.”
Afterwards, Jim came across the building electrician, Tom, while he was walking the hallway. Tom told Jim that he was having an extramarital affair and he thought that his wife might already know about it. “However,” he said, “I’m not sure, but I think she is having an affair too, man. It could be great if we could do swapping one day with other couples.”
“Aren’t you afraid of catching a disease, there are all kinds of scary bugs out there?” Jim asked.
“No man, we are using condoms. Let me know if you are interested in swapping!” Tom replied.
Later, Jim talked to his mother on the telephone, and she invited him to dinner that night. He said, “I already have a date at eight tonight.”
“Why don’t you come in at seven then, I just wanted you to meet my new boyfriend. You can leave right after you eat,” she insisted.
“Mom, you just divorced dad not six months ago!—”
She cut him off and said, “I’m not wasting any time, and I need someone besides me here.”
“I knew you were playing the field, but I didn’t know you were going that fast.”
“Listen, I’ve invited your younger brother, Steve. I don’t want you to make a scene,” she said.
“OK, then I’m definitely not showing up.”
“C’mon now, he is your brother, try to be open-minded about his lifestyle. Do this for me.”
“Ok, mom I will show up at seven, but I can’t stay long.”
At lunchtime, Jim and Jack got together and walked to the cafeteria. Jack said, “You’re a lucky man, do the two girlfriends know about each other?”
Jim replied with a whisper, “Of course not, and I don’t want you to tell anyone about this secret.”
“OK.OK…”
Then they arrived at the cafeteria counter and started selecting their meals. Jim picked up the fish special.
Jack asked, “Didn’t you eat fish the other day?”
“Yes!”
“Better watch out for mercury!”
Jim put the fish back and picked up the beef plate.
“Watch out for cholesterol and mad cow disease!”
Jim, feeling frustrated, put the beef dish back and picked up the chicken plate.
Jack laughed and said, “Bird flu!”
“C’mon now, what about you, what are you going to eat?”
“I’m going to be safe and take the salad special.”
Jim, taunting him back, said, “Well then, watch out for E. Coli and salmonella,” and they both laughed.
Daemon commented to the other demon, “We’ve done a good job messing up Earth and the creation.”
After they sat down at a table, Jack said, “Look at that guy over there.” Jim looked in the direction where Jack hinted with his eyebrows. He saw a guy, looked like in his mid-thirties, who was saying grace before he ate. Jack continued, “Look at that Jesus freak! Who does he think he is, acting like he’s all holy and religious?”
“What a jerk!”
“We’re honest people, we’re good people. We pay taxes, tip the waitresses, if they’re pretty. We haven’t killed anyone; I even went to church last summer for a wedding.”
When the man finished praying, Jim took another look at him and said, “Wait a second. I know that guy. I met him at the company picnic last year. His name is John and he was a nice guy.”
“Did he try to talk you into religion? They must pay him to do that or why else would he waste his time on that junk?” Then Jack looked at John with disgust and said, “I don’t know why; I just don’t like him.”
Jack’s demon looked at Daemon and said, “This unsaved man doesn’t know why he hates the gospel! It’s because he’s mine.”
Then Jack said, “Look over there. Your girlfriend, Sheila is having lunch, too. Who is she with?”
Jim looked quickly and said, “I don’t know, she might be a new employee.” Then he looked back again and said, “I think that’s the lady that cut me off on the freeway this morning.”
“Never mind about her. When will you see Sheila again?”
“This weekend,” Jim answered.
“What about the other girlfriend, I think her name is Pat?”
“I’ll be seeing her tonight. Again, just make sure you don’t tell anyone.”
“Lucky you,” Jack sighed, “I wish I could be single again; marriage stinks. Here you are, having a high adrenaline rush from dating two women, and a thrill of doing the forbidden thing.”
“Not really. I have to lie all the time to both of them. Sometimes they both want to go out on a Saturday and I have to come up with new excuses, a brother’s birthday or mother is sick. I have to remember what I have said to whom, or what version of the truth I last said.”
“Measly inconveniences to achieve that kind of thrill and pleasure. I feel like I’m trapped, but divorce is messy. Remember Dave? After the divorce, he lost his house and children and now he pays alimony. I heard that his ex cleaned him out and now is sleeping with a new guy.”
“I don’t know,” Jim mused. “It seems like you got a good deal. A nice family, warm home-made meals, a loving wife, two cute children—”
“Boring. I’d give up all of that and my soul, too, to get what you have and some action. And if I can’t have a divorce, then I’ll just have an affair. Everyone else is doing it. It’s hard to give up all the available females and remain exclusively loyal to only one woman. It is against the male sexual instinct. It just doesn’t make any sense. Ask a male dog, he’ll tell you.”
The two demons perked up their ears and surrounded Jack.
Daemon said, “Did you hear that? Work on it. All you have to do is present the opportunity.”
The demon replied, “Yeah, I heard a lady on the fifth floor that said the same thing yesterday. I’ll have to get them together!”
On the other side of the cafeteria, Sheila, Jim’s girlfriend, was talking to a coworker named Diane.
Sheila said, “Aren’t Christians supposed to be good people? I wonder why my neighbors get dressed up every Sunday and go to church, yet the grass in their lawn is about one foot high. Not only that, but there is always messy garbage outside. How do you explain that, Diane? I’m not likely to read the Bible, nor books of Christian theology to learn about God, but I’ll read Christian lives.”
“First of all, just because someone is a Christian, it doesn’t mean that they are perfect people. Moreover, just because one Christian is behaving badly, that shouldn’t stop you from becoming a Christian. Just this morning, I was on the freeway and without knowing it, I cut off someone. I apologized to the man and felt so bad afterwards. My conscience bothered me until I prayed and asked God for forgiveness. See, if God says that I’m a saint, that doesn’t make me sinless; it makes me blameless.”
“I tried the religion thing many years ago and I didn’t like it then, and I don’t want to do it again,” Sheila retorted.
“Yes, me too, I did try religion, and didn’t like it either. Then, I met Jesus. Why don’t you come with me to church or a Bible study, and I’ll explain more to you?”
“Are you trying to make me like the Christians living on my left and right, who don’t talk to each other because they are from different denominations? And what’s with all these different denominations, why so many, and aren’t you all worshipping the same Jesus? I have one family next door that fights all the time. Sour people, haven’t smiled in years. What do you guys baptize them in, lemon juice?” Sheila snickered at her own joke.
“That’s a shame. Even though people cannot recognize us as Christians by our outward appearance, our unique language, principles, and values should give us away. Our Christian culture should reveal us as being in the world, but not of the world. Unfortunately, not all Christians understand the fundamentals of following Jesus. Jesus said ‘Build your house on a rock and not on the sand, and—’”
“Yada, yada, yada and the three little pigs used different building material to build their houses and the wolf came to huff and puff,” mocked Sheila.
“You know, the wolf is the devil, and he will test the foundation of everyone.”
“No thanks. That’s not for me. I believe in God, and I believe that you can find Him anywhere and you don’t have to sit in a building made by man to find Him. The church is nothing more than a club for people who cannot or don’t want to mentally evolve.”
Diane didn’t pursue the conversation any further after that.
* * * * * * *
Later on that afternoon, Jim and Jack saw one of their colleagues being escorted out of the building by security.
Jim asked Jack, “What is his story?”
“They fired him because he was watching porn at work. Do you believe this guy? He should be watching that stuff at home, like the rest of us. I guess he couldn’t wait until he got home.”
“You watch porn at home?”
“Of course I do, who doesn’t? In his defense though, he was doing it on his lunch hour. I think he is going to sue the company for invasion of privacy. Those company IT techies, they can track the web sites you visit, and I guess he got caught,” Jack informed.
The terminated employee walked away shamefully with his head down, but the demon behind him was very happy. He said to Jack and Jim’s demons, “We are making great headway with porn, brothers.” They gave him a high five from a distance.
“I can’t believe that a man lost his job because he looked at a computer screen pixels, those little dots!” said Jim. Daemon thought, He will lose more than his job; we’re aiming for his soul, too, if we can keep him addicted to porn until he dies. Unfortunately, I could never get you hooked on porn.
* * * * * * *
At seven p.m., Jim showed up at his mother’s house for dinner. After informal introductions with the new boyfriend, Doug, they all sat down around the dinner table. There was Jim, his mother and her boyfriend, and his younger brother, Steve, at the table. Also present were their demons in the background, surrounding them. Steve, a young man in his early twenties, looked sick, pale and bald, with many blotches on his face. Everyone knew he was an AIDS victim. He was quiet and everyone avoided looking at him. His mother, in a show of support, said, “It’s your life, son, you can do whatever you want with it. I’m sure they will find a cure one day for this horrible disease.”
Jim couldn’t hold back his feelings and said, “I told you to leave this life style, and now you’re going to die.”
Their mother Judy got upset and replied, “You have no right to be judgmental!”
“It’s just that when we were kids and we went to church, I remember the preacher saying that homosexuality was wrong.”
Judy replied with a soft voice, “Honey, that was a cult, and we were listening to a cult leader. We shouldn’t have let them lay any of their Bible thumping bull shit on us. I wish we never went there.”
One of the demons looked at Daemon and said, “What’s going on with your human? You haven’t done a good brainwash on him.”
With a nervous tone, Daemon replied, “Oh, it’s nothing, guys. Before I took him under my wing, this family went to church, and I guess the seed was planted early on about the homosexual sin. It’s hard to erase early teachings, as you all know. Nevertheless, it’s harmless. I have it under control. It’s amazing though, how two brothers have different weaknesses. While you have the younger brother under the spell of homosexuality, I have my subject under other spells.”
Steve’s demon said, “That is why we want to start early, in kindergarten, to reprogram the kids’ minds to our radical sexual agenda. We used to start brainwashing them at age thirteen a century ago, then at age nine about fifty years ago, and now we need to start at age six to get to them before the enemy gets to them. We must undermine the faith teachings that the kids get at home. Just like Hitler with Nazi Germany and the Soviets controlled the kids by getting to them at a very young age. It is easier when the parents are divorced and have no time for their children. While the children watch TV and play video games, we send them our messages, with the help of Hollywood and the homosexual-biased media, of course. We’re planting the seeds of homosexuality, and Hollywood is watering it. They help us spread all kinds of evil and wickedness throughout the world, and before they know it, we’ll have a perverse generation.”
Daemon asked Steve’s demon, “How come your slave doesn’t say anything?”
“His conscience is bothering him. He knows that his life style caused the divorce of his parents. Also, he will die in a few months, so it’s normal to feel like this.”
Then Judy’s boyfriend, Doug, said, “Even Jesus supported homosexuality. I was driving along the freeway today and I saw a billboard quoting Matthew 8:10. I looked it up and found out that a Roman leader with a high position asked Jesus to heal his servant. When Jesus wanted to go to his house, the Roman said, ‘I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof…’ Obviously, they were a homosexual couple. And Jesus still healed the servant and didn’t condemn either one!”
Jim had no response to that. However, Judy was pleased.
Doug’s demon said, “Twisted mortals, we have to twist scriptures for them because their conscience is bothering them. The Roman centurion didn’t want Jesus to come into his house because he knew of the authority that Jesus had over the wind, sickness, and death, just like the centurion had authority over a hundred men. He knew that Jesus was no regular Jew, but a miracle worker. Has nothing to do with homosexuals.”
Doug, feeling good about Judy’s approval, continued, “My neighbors are a female couple raising an eight-year-old boy, and they told me that even Jesus supported the gay life style. You know the Bible says that Naomi and Ruth were lesbians; they loved each other as Adam loved Eve. The neighbors’ adopted son has all the support of his elementary school, where they are teaching them that being gay is an acceptable and perfectly healthy alternative sexual life style. They read to them traditional stories with a transgender twist like ‘Jane and the beanstalk’ in class. I’m surprised that an educated person like yourself would have such prejudice against gays.”
Doug’s demon said proudly, “I told him to look up homosexuality and Christianity on the Internet, so he made his research just to score some points with the mother, because she has already told him about the situation of her son, Steve. It’s a good thing that he didn’t see and read the part in the Bible that says all those who die while still a homosexual are damned and destined to the Lake of Fire.
We’ve become very aggressive recently about promoting homosexuality, to make it look like a moral lifestyle. No more Mr. Nice Gay. The Gay community now says ‘Stay out of our bedrooms.’ What occurs in those bedrooms is spilling over in disease into the general population. I’m glad he didn’t mention the part about the special health risks associated with homosexuality.”
In the background, Steve’s demons looked at Daemon and said, “Steve was molested when he was a little boy and no one knew about it. The incident created an emotional hole. The first seven years in a child’s life are innocent; he was pure in heart, naïve, and sensitive. All I had to do was tell him that he was born to be a homosexual, and he believed me. Now he has a short time to live. After that, he will arrive at the gates of Hell. This plan is guaranteed to work as long as we keep the enemy away from him. At the same time, we arrange for him to be with the wrong crowd who encourage each other in sin. After that, I’ll be able to graduate to a new assignment.”
Judy’s demon said, “The AIDS disease is one of the many great inventions we came up with. Sodom and Gomorrah revived; do you guys remember the fireworks of these two cities? What a show!”
Judy calmly said to Jim, “See, they are even teaching children in the first grade to be understanding when other kids have two moms or two dads. Six-year-old children are more tolerant than you are!”
Jim blew up and said, “He’s the reason you and Dad got a divorce.”
Outraged, Judy glared at him. “How dare you bring that up?”
Jim held up his hands in a calming gesture. “I apologize, everyone. Maybe we should just eat now.”
Judy’s demon said, “To think that this family was going to church just a few years ago—”
Doug’s demon asked, “How did you break them?”
“They built their faith on a house of sand. The preacher they admired was caught in the act of adultery. Many of his followers abandoned the faith. What a great way to collect souls - preacher scandal. If we attack the shepherd in the pulpit, the sheep will run away and scatter. We did the same thing with their leader and his disciples scattered. Unfortunately, he was resurrected. That wasn’t on the agenda,” Judy’s demon replied.
Daemon said, “I hear our leader still hasn’t recovered from that day.”
“No, he hasn’t. Anyway, this family and others became calloused because this painful experience pulled them away from the faith. And when they grew calloused and hopeless, they fell into the grip of depression. Judy couldn’t return to her Lord and recover her mental and emotional health. Once a dog has been scalded with boiling water, he will even fear cold water. I love it when a Christian makes a one-hundred-eighty degree change in their course of life and faith.”
Jim felt uncomfortable with the atmosphere there, so he ate quickly and left his mother’s house to head out to his date with Pat.
* * * * * * *
When Jim arrived, he parked his car outside her house and Daemon said, Let’s get ready to party.
Jim knocked on the door and Pat, a gorgeous blond woman, answered the door. She was wearing a tight black silk dress that caressed her hourglass figure. A lot of smoke came from the inside of the room. There was also another demon in the house.
“Hello, come in,” Pat said.
Jim and Daemon went inside and the two demons high fived each other.
* * * * * * *
It was late when Jim drove home, with Daemon in his usual place in the front seat next to him. Along the road, he noticed a young girl on the curb, dressed up like a hooker. She was wearing a red mini skirt, high heel shoes, and a fur coat that covered only a bra. She seemed afraid as she waved at oncoming cars, trying to flag down a ride, and frantically screamed, “Stop, please!”
When Jim started to slow down the car, Daemon said, What are you doing, are you crazy? You never stopped for hitchhikers before! Still, Jim slowed down and stopped the car. The girl got in and Daemon moved to the back seat. The demon who accompanied the young girl also sat in the back seat next to Daemon and said, “Hello, brother.”
The girl, in her late teens, said, “Please help me, my life is in danger. Just drive away from here.”
He drove away quickly and asked, “So what happened?”
“My pimp is going to kill me any minute now because I wouldn’t sleep with this creep!”
“Why not, isn’t that what you do?”
“He was asking me to do some weird stuff!” she replied.
“You are a hooker. What do you mean weird? Why don’t you try drugs? They will make it easy for you.”
“I don’t do drugs anymore. My friend died from an overdose a few weeks ago,” she responded sadly.
“How did you get into this business in the first place? What made you start thinking about doing this kind of work?”
The young girl kept silent and wouldn’t say anymore as she looked out her side window.
Then her demon said, “I had this girl, Carol, molested by her stepfather when she was thirteen.”
Daemon said, “That’s the way to do it.”
“As long as Carol won’t forgive her stepfather for what he has done to her, I’ll be able to hang around her.”
“What are your plans for her?” asked Daemon.
“I tried to get her killed a couple of times,” the demon said.
“And?”
The demon pointed to outside and above the car. Daemon looked up through the roof of the car and saw an angel sitting above them.
Daemon looked back at the other demon and said, “Oh no, what’s he doing there?”
“Her mother became a born again Christian and she’s been praying for Carol from two thousand miles away. God has honored the mother’s prayers and the spirit of the Lord is moving on her behalf. Meanwhile, I got stuck with this angel, who has been protecting her day and night. She used the same drugs that the other roommate prostitute used. That one died and this one didn’t. I can’t explain it. The mother’s prayers gave Carol more time.”
“You should get some backup,” Daemon suggested.
“No, I requested backup to stop her mother from praying, to get rid of this angel. Then I can destroy Carol. I gave our leader the filthy and disgusting things Carol does, so he can go up and accuse her to the creator. But I still haven’t gotten a green light because He promised the mother He would protect Carol.”
“Well, did they send backup to discourage the mother?” Daemon asked.
“Yes they did, but she has built her house on a rock.”
Finally, Jim asked, “Where do you want me to drop you off?”
“I have been thinking about going back to my mother. Just take me to the train station on Main Street. I’ll stay at a hotel tonight.”
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Stuck between Life and Death
The following morning, Jim was still in bed and had just woken up to the alarm clock, and said, “I shouldn’t have stayed up late last night.” Daemon, who just came back from another assignment, said, You’re hooked on her and can’t stop seeing her. Just enjoy the sex addiction.
Jim began another day at work. This Thursday started out just like any another day, until he got into the elevator and saw John, already inside and by himself. Jim thought, Oh no, the praying man and religious nut. Everyone at work runs and hides from him because he speaks about Jesus, then he said, “Good morning. John, right?”
John replied, “Yes, how are you, Jim? It’s been a while.”
“Yes, I don’t usually come to this floor…”
Daemon, standing behind Jim, felt uncomfortable in John’s presence. While they were talking, the elevator shook and stopped between floors abruptly!
Jim panicked and said, “I’m scared of tight spaces. I don’t like this at all.”
The Holy Spirit informed John, This is one of my sheep; his lost soul is crying out for help. Swing the conversation to the subject of spiritual things, and start witnessing to him with the message of the gospel.
“May I ask you a question?” John said. “Do you know where our souls go after we die?”
“That’s heavy. I’m not sure!”
Daemon advised Jim not to talk to John, and reminded him, This is the Jesus freak, don’t talk to him.
John’s assigned angel, Raphael, made himself visible to Daemon, to stop him from interfering with John witnessing to Jim. The following conversation between the spirits occurred at the speed of light, compared to the conversation between the two humans.
Raphael asked Daemon, “What are you doing here?”
“I’m doing the work of my master, Lucifer, the prime minister of heaven.”
“Satan the Devil is your master; he’s a liar and father of lies, and a deceiver from the beginning.”
Daemon furiously said, “Don’t insult my master. He is the shining morning star, favored among all, until your master cast him down to earth. He is an angel of light, and son of the morning.”
“He is the father of the night,” Raphael responded.
“Jewels and stones of fire were on his garment.”
“They will turn up in the Lake of Fire.”
“He is the perfect anointed cherub—”
“Until iniquity was found in him,” Raphael interjected.
Daemon said, “He is beautiful and wise, surpassed in beauty and wisdom.”
Raphael replied, “He is hideously beautiful and has foolish wisdom.”
“He is the god of this age.”
“The Lord God is one.”
“He’s the bearer of light.”
“My God is the maker of light,” replied Raphael.
Daemon said, “He is all power, all knowledge.”
“He isn’t omnipotent, omniscient, or omnipresent, like my God.”
“He had the authority and rulership in the holy Mount of God.”
“He was banished from heaven when he revolted and was overthrown by God, condemned to perdition,” Raphael reminded him.
Daemon became furious with Raphael. His head turned into a roaring lion. He puffed up in size as he shook the elevator. All of a sudden, another angel appeared and joined Raphael.
Daemon said, “Oh, great, so there are two of you against one of us!”
Because Daemon shook the elevator, the two men thought the elevator had been repaired and was going to start moving. But it didn’t. Instead, there was a dead silence, and that caused Jim to panic even more, so he pressed the Emergency button a couple of times. On a slower pace, a simultaneous conversation went on between the two men trapped in the elevator.
John said, “You know, our teachers and leaders prepare us to go through this life. They teach us how to go to college, get a job, get married and climb the labor ladder, buy a house, then have children and retire, and then start shopping for a casket. They don’t prepare us for what happens after death. Even more, they discourage us from thinking about death or discussing it, because they don’t know. But they do tell us that death and taxes are two sure things in this life. Thank God for the Bible that opens our eyes to the truth about heaven and hell. Confucius and Plato talked about the past and present, but as far as what happens after the grave, they hoped that there would be life after death, but they weren’t sure.”
“I was a Christian when I was a boy and went to church with my parents. I was turned off by religion; I never grasped the meaning of being a Christian. And when I started going to high school and college, they taught evolution and I became even more confused,” said Jim.
When John heard the evolution topic come up, the Holy Spirit encouraged him to expose the false doctrine.
“You know, evolution is an atheist excuse for saying ‘there is no God.’ It all started with Darwin and his theory, the Origin of the Species. Darwin’s theory allows atheists not to have to explain why we’re here. Atheists want us to think that we’re nothing more than smart trousered apes. I wonder whether apes have become humans, or is it the other way around, humans are becoming apes? Evolutionists believe that humans are nothing more than sophisticated animals, slower than some animals and more intelligent than others, but far from distinctive.
“People like the idea of being related to animals because they can indulge in immorality and never evaluate their behavior. Look at animals. They mate when they feel like mating, programmed by hormones. We humans, in contrast, can master the desires of our bodies and the ‘animal instincts’. Humans can examine every action and decide if a civilized person would take it.
“Angels are spiritual beings, animals have bodies only, but man has body and spirit. If a man thinks with his conscience, he is an angel, but if he lets his body control him, he becomes an animal. One thing is for sure: without God, our similarity to the wild kingdom becomes more evident. The Bible teaches that we’re unique creatures, touched by the finger of God and that we’re a little lower than the angels. I prefer that, over us humans being a little better than the apes.”
Jim surprisingly smiled, as his mind was no longer focused on the elevator situation he was in.
John was encouraged and continued, “Evolution made it okay to exploit the weak. It teaches that the more death there is, the more progress, and the better the selection of humans. It considers poor humans as weeds, waste, and dead weight of society, labeling them as useless eaters depriving the earth of resources. They want to kill off the poor by sickness and disease, and create a race of thoroughbreds. And then you have the Natural Selection concept, which promoted survival of the fittest. But the fittest still die at the end, because life isn’t only in the physical. There is more to it.”
“You know, I never thought about that before,” said Jim.
“You probably never heard that World War II started because Hitler wanted to preserve the best type of human beings, the fittest, to make the Nazis a superior race. Hitler adopted the concept of one man stronger than others, with the right to step over the weak. He thought he was doing the world a favor by eliminating the weaker, inferior races from the face of the earth. His followers thought they were doing good for humanity by hurrying the natural selection. This led to anti-Semitism, getting rid of Jewish blood, a bad heredity, from the human race gene pool. The Jews topped his list, and in the Holocaust, he exterminated six millions of them.”
“That’s horrible. I never realized the seriousness of the concept of evolution!” said Jim.
“Oh yeah, Karl Marx followed that move with the introduction of communism, socialism, and atheism. In the twentieth century alone, atheism in both of its forms of fascism and communism was responsible for killing far more people than all the religious wars of the previous nineteen centuries. They believe that an ethical life can be lived without religion. If a society is to succeed, it can’t trust everyone to do the right thing. Who will monitor those who monitor the masses to do the right thing? It needs to rely on a more reliable system, like the Bible.”
“But why do they teach evolution in schools?” Jim asked.
“In the 1920’s, a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution in the classroom. Now, Darwin’s evolution is a new religion protected by atheists, and other theories are excluded. Evolution is a carefully protected state religion, just like communism was in the Soviet Union, and speaking against it has now become a blasphemy. The false theory is still taught everywhere by mixing poison with science in textbooks. They figured if you tell a lie long enough, students would believe it. Especially first graders, they believe everything. The teaching of evolution in public education has affected teenagers with an increase in violence and suicide and has promoted immorality and mortality. They removed God from schools so they can play God themselves.”
Jim wasn’t really interested in this conversation, but he was confined in an elevator with nowhere to go, so he asked, “What about the evidence they present, as far as discoveries of bones?”
“The evidence isn’t present; it didn’t fossilize. Fossil records don’t support Darwinism, and the theory should be discarded. The missing link isn’t missing. It never existed, and the only thing missing is what’s between their ears. Scientists preach the gospel of evolution in the museums, their church. Using our tax dollars, they tell people that dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. If I say that kissing a frog turns it into a prince, you’ll say that’s a fairy tale. But if I say it takes a billion years to happen, you might believe it. And recently, they just found live tissue on a dinosaur skeleton. They recently found charcoal deposits in the South Pole, which means that there was a jungle there in the past.
“Darwin himself said that his macroevolution theory would be true only if we could find millions of transitional forms of fossil records. Transitional forms are in-between stages that lie between species. Transitional species are still missing and nowhere to be found. There is no transition between species; instead, there was an explosion of life.
“The Grand Canyon, for example, has evidence of a catastrophic burial caused by the flood. The evidence is running strongly against Darwinism and scientists are now leaning towards God’s intelligent design. Microevolution, on the other hand, is adaptations within a species like horses, zebras, and donkeys, and that’s acceptable.
“Darwin didn’t have knowledge of the complexity of DNA information that we have today. DNA contains billions of coded digital formation. Who puts it in there? The DNA codes have a mechanism that protects it from too much deviation from the origin of code. If Darwin would see all the DNA and scientific new facts, he would retract his theory.”
Jim thought, Get me out of here, and pressed on the Emergency button a couple more times. A voice came out of the speaker, “Hang in there, guys. We’re dispatching an electrician.”
“See, if they void God out, then everything is permissible. And if there are no moral absolutes, then there is no right or wrong and the attitude of ‘anything goes’ prevails. Today’s culture rejects the very idea of absolute standards; everything is relative. A Christian culture, on the other hand, rejects relativism in favor of the absolute standards of the unchanging word of God. If some things are right, then other things are wrong and must be rejected. Creation reveals the power, wisdom, and glory of God. Christians reveal the grace and love of God.”
“Are you the only one who doesn’t believe in evolution?” Jim asked.
“Oh no, many people and scientists believe in creation. There’s no contradiction between science and the Bible. All of the early scientists were Christians. People and scientists are intimidated into believing Darwinism. Just because everyone believes something, it doesn’t mean that it’s right. The world thought that the earth was flat, and when someone suggested that it was round, they didn’t treat him fairly.”
Meanwhile, Daemon said to the two angels, “It was out of the ordinary to see and talk to you guys here and now, and one day we’ll settle this once and for all. But right now, I have to go and assist my subject human. I feel he’s losing the argument, as your mortal is trying to brainwash him.” Daemon switched off the conversation with the angels and joined Jim again. Daemon quickly said to Jim, Ask him about the missing link, carbon dating, and all the archaeology proofs I have staged. So Jim did exactly that, and asked John the question.
John answered, “Carbon dating isn’t a reliable aging technique! If you were able to take those evolution scientists to the first day of creation and ask them how old Adam was, they would say that he looked like a perfect specimen in his twenties or thirties. A one-day-old man created by God! We believe that nothing is impossible with God.”
“Yes, but the scientists don’t believe in the Bible, and no one was there to see it, So—”
“Those same scientists believe that there was a Big bang, billions of years ago. Was anyone there to see it? Both scenarios, evolution and creation, require faith because no one was there to see it. The Big Bang theory says that the universe exploded from nothing. Can you get a dictionary from an explosion of the printing press? As a Christian, you probably know that Jesus turned water into wine in a few seconds, a process that would usually take weeks, not to mention that the grapes were missing. So, if God can do all this, then the Bible is true and He created the universe in six days.”
”What about Mother Nature?” Jim asked.
“Mother Nature can only produce patterns, not detailed meaningful information. Did Nature know how to calculate the exact distance between Earth and the sun for life conditions to exist on Earth? Or did it just so happen that the sun is exactly ninety-three million miles away from the earth, so that it wouldn’t be so hot that humans would burn up to a crisp, or be too cold, and freeze? And who created the sun to give us daylight and the moon for light at night, so we can see? The moon is at the right distance so tides wouldn’t destroy the coastal cities. If the oceans were deeper or higher by a few feet, they would have upset the oxygen and nitrogen balance, and the biosphere couldn’t be sustained.”
Daemon, frustrated with the witnessing encounter of a Christian who learned to give every man an answer, instructed Jim not to listen to John anymore and said again, He’s a Jesus freak. But they were stuck in the elevator and had nowhere to go.
John continued, “Nature always destroys and doesn’t put things to order. It is easier to destroy things than to build them. The second law of thermodynamics states that everything tends towards disorder and chaos. If you leave something alone for a while, it will rot, rust, die, fall apart, or break down. Nothing gets better by itself; it gets worse. If you put a car outside, exposed to all weather conditions, and come back a hundred years later, it’s not going to improve. You don’t see a car from the early 1900’s, unless someone preserved it.”
“What proof is there that God did all this?” Jim wanted to know.
“God’s existence is proven by the creation in the world, the universe, and nature. God reveals Himself to man through the things He has made. He left clues in them, from the black hole to the amoeba, and anyone who cannot see that has to intentionally close their eyes to the facts. The human body is complex and it has a hundred trillion cells in it, and the cells themselves are complex.
“God is a divine mathematician whose mind is revealed in the precise mathematics of the creation. His divine hand sets the universe in motion. The amazing solar system could only have been designed by the power of an intelligent and powerful being. Did you know that the word ‘universe’ means a single spoken sentence, ‘universe’? And God said ‘Let there be.’
“Moreover, science and technology were inspired by the animal kingdom for insight and design. Emulating the animal kingdom led to the invention of new amazing concepts. The brain surgeons study the woodpecker, the architectural engineers study the beaver, and aviation engineers study the birds. Helicopters were designed by studying the dragonfly; sonar was designed by studying bats. The bee brain processes more information than the fastest existing computer.
“Now compare this to what they teach; that life started from a complex chemical organic soup! What was the source of information? Chemicals don’t have information. Life made from organic soup is a lie. We’re not simply the end result of ancient mud puddles struck by lightning. Some say that we evolved from sea creatures. I refuse to believe that my great-great-grandfather was Sponge Bob.”
Jim chuckled.
John continued, “They say that life came together by chance and time, a mindless random chance process, which is unscientific. They watered down the truth and lied because they don’t want to face how sinful they are. Instead of the origin of the species, they should be interested in the future of the species. The future belongs to God, and the best is yet to come. Evolution’s monkey business, the Big Bang, and Random Chance are all fairy tales for adults.”
Jim was very intrigued as he listened to John, and completely forgot about his fear of being stuck in an elevator. Daemon, however, became desperate, so he summoned other demons in the building to have the elevator fixed as fast as possible, to stop this conversation before John removed the blindfold that Daemon had put on Jim.
A demon was dispatched to solve the problem. The demon got the electrician to move quickly to fix the elevator. The electrician got a dispatch and ran quickly to the elevator. This was the same person who was talking to Jim about wife swapping the day before. The electrician, Tom, couldn’t fix the elevator from his floor, so he had to go up ten flights of stairs. The whole time he was going up the stairs, his demon said, Go faster, you piece of blubber, you’re going to lose your job if you don’t fi x it quickly. There is a VP in the elevator. Tom ran up the stairs as quickly as he could.
Tom finally fixed the elevator and it moved to the next floor safely. Shortly after that, Tom had a heart attack and collapsed to the floor. People nearby saw what was happening to him and called for an ambulance. However, the demon was surprised at what happened to Tom, and with excitement said, Are you dying, man? Then he patted him on the shoulder and said, Go down that quicksand, don’t be afraid of sinking in it.
The heart attack was massive and Tom died before the ambulance arrived. His soul came out of his body, saw the demon, and asked, “Who are you, man…ghost or whatever you are?”
“I’m your worst nightmare,” replied the demon.
“Oh my God, help,” Tom’s soul cried.
“It’s too late for that. You had your chance and you blew it.”
The demon started to take Tom’s soul down when angels intercepted them.
The angel said, “We’ll take it from here. He has to face the White Throne judgment first.”
Tom’s soul asked, “What does that mean?”
The demon said, “It means you’ll have to go to Hell, wait a while there, then go to your final destination.”
“Where would that be?”
“You’ll see. I wouldn’t want to go where you’re going. This is where we part, fool. He’s all yours, guys,” said the demon as he looked at the angels. “As for me, I’m out of here. This mission is complete. Time for me to find a new assignment.”
Meanwhile, the elevator started moving again. John and Jim exited the elevator and were shocked to see Tom dead on the floor. Jim said, “I can’t believe it. I just talked to this man yesterday!”
“Yes, it is unbelievable,” replied John.
Then the Holy Spirit communicated with John, That’s why I asked you to talk to Tom yesterday, when the opportunity presented itself.
John sadly thought, I’m very sorry, I thought I had plenty of time. I was going to talk to him later about the Lord.
This is your territory, my son. I brought you here to shine My light in this dark place.
Then Jim said, “John, why don’t you walk with me to the front desk? I want to check my mail box.”
When they arrived at the front desk, the receptionist was still dressed like the day before, with very revealing cleavage. Jim wanted to observe John, to see how he would act in that situation. He wanted to see if John was just one of the fake Christians who spoke godly but acted worldly, who talked the talk but didn’t walk the walk.
John was caught by surprise, since this wasn’t his floor. He took a quick glance at the receptionist’s cleavage, and turned his face away to the other side, where there was a bulletin board. He cast down all imagination and replaced these thoughts with information he read on the bulletin board. He occupied his mind and shut the door on sin and the enemy. He didn’t feed off the flesh.
Meanwhile, Daemon and the receptionist’s demon both threw fiery darts and arrows at John and said, “Lust of the eye and lust of the flesh.”
However, when the darts arrived at John, they were immediately extinguished and deflected by the invisible barrier and shield of the Holy Spirit surrounding him. John had guarded his heart. He took heed as to what he saw and what he heard. He wasn’t ignorant of Satan’s devices.
Disappointed at the failure, Daemon said, Why don’t you just look at them? Your God made them. Admire them the same way you admire the birds and the bees!
The Holy Spirit reminded John, It is written, if you look at a woman to lust after her, you would be committing adultery in your heart.
John thought, yes Lord, Jesus said that to show that we’re all sinners, and no matter how much we claim to be good, we actually sin a lot, especially in the present days, when women dress down, showing a lot of skin.
Daemon said, You don’t have to lust after her, just look and admire. There is no harm in looking!
John ignored those thoughts and continued to read the bulletin board, but became uncomfortable with the situation. Meanwhile, Jim was picking up his mail from his mailbox, but watched John through his peripheral vision.
John turned to leave and said, “OK, I’ll talk to you later, then.”
“Wait and I’ll walk with you,” said Jim, impressed by John’s manner.
The two demons talked among themselves, “C’mon, let’s tell him what we were going to tell him if he would have looked and lusted. We have nothing to lose now.”
Daemon said, Hey John, these boobs are better than your wife’s. I know that you glanced at them quickly, so make a comparison when you get home.
As John started leaving, the Holy Spirit said, Make a note, John, to have Diane talk to this secretary’s poor soul, to show her the truth, to witness to her and get her out of the grip of her demon.
Daemon said to the other demon, “Did you hear that? The enemy is coming to your doorstep soon.”
“I’ll be on guard and watching out for them,” replied the demon, then pointed at John and asked, “Who is this guy, anyway?
Nobody’s resisted like him yet. Even the women are checking the receptionist out. You know, even King David looked at Bathsheba when she was bathing naked and kept looking until he lusted in his mind. His covetousness drove him to action and had her brought to him, and after he stole her from her husband, he committed adultery with her that night. When he found out later on that Bathsheba was pregnant, he lied and murdered her innocent husband, Uriah. David broke all of the Ten Commandments there, and dishonored God and his relatives. Then God took David’s newborn son from him. Two people died from that one look, and David is the one they said was a man after God’s own heart! Who is this guy, now,” pointing at John again, “and what’s his story? Somebody should report him.”
“I’ll be reporting him to our territory leader. He has stepped into my domain and I’m not happy about that. But tell me, how is the secretary doing?”
“She has got a couple of offers, but she is waiting for a good catch. Someone has to pay for these new boobs.”
As they walked away, Jim looked at his mail and said, “Here, look at this big advertisement on the back cover of the magazine about a cave man. What do you think about that?”
“People lived in caves over the past few thousands of years, and if it was a rainy day, maybe they spent the day doodling on the cave walls. Some of God’s prophets lived in caves. It has nothing to do with evolution. Osama Bin Laden lived in caves; it doesn’t mean that he’s an evolving cave man!”
Then John thought, Man didn’t come out of the cave, but he is heading to the cave, and will be crying out for the mountains and the rocks to fall on them in the Great Tribulation, if they don’t repent.
Then he said, “Christians don’t believe in evolution, but we do believe in transformation. The only evolution we believe in is the transformation of an unbeliever who gets into the church of God crawling like a slimy caterpillar, walking strangely and looking weird. Then the word of God cocoons him, and after a while he comes out as beautiful as a flying butterfly, praising and worshiping God. By the way, the caterpillar’s metamorphosis takes only days, not billions of years.”
Then John invited Jim to come to church with him or to a Bible study one day to talk more about the many questions Jim seemed to have.
Jim asked, “Which church or denomination do you belong to?”