an 8 year old wonder preacher

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Hi,

 

Seen a TV-program yesterday, on young preachers in the US..

The kind of preachers who exercise 'spiritual warfare' against the

Devil, as they call it.

A father and his two sons, travelling across the US for

years, 'spreading the word of the Lord'...

 

The film showed first the older kid at 8 .. he was full of confidence

preaching, gesticulating, repeating loudly 'yes Lord, we have

Poweeeer over the Devil' and the audience would reply 'Halleluia.. !'

and so on.

Another preacher, 46 years old came to be blessed by the kid. The

reason was that after 30 some years of preaching, he was not doing so

well, he was in a crises/depresion.. so the kid recommended 'faith

and reading the Bible some more'.. and put his hand on the older

preacher's head, who thereupon started to shake and speak in tongues

and then collapsed.

 

The father was proud of him.

The child had no friends. Got no school education.

As soon as he would be with other kids, he would ask 'what time is

it' and go away .. he would hardly ever have eye contact with them.

 

At 14, .. one day when preaching, a woman came to him with her hands

up in the air, ready to be saved/healed .. the kid puts his hand on

her forhead and asks the Lord to remove the Devil who, he thought,

possesed her.. also said that this is because she does not go to

church to hear the word of the Bible, often enough ..

Now, she happened to be a local priest's wife ...

and her husband was in the hall also.

At one point, very upset he (the local priest) starts to yell at the

kid, denouncing him as being a false/fake preacher ..

The kid got very ofended and hurt, and while the local priest and his

wife were walking towards the door, the kid-preacher started to

yell: 'Remove this Demon from your house my Lord.. OUT of my

Saviour's House you Deeeeevil !' ..while pointing his intensely

vibrating finger.

(Well, it worked, of course.. he was on the way out anyway.)

 

Following this incident, the kid went behind the stage and with his

finger vigorously pointing at, supposedly the Devil ...roared :

"How Can Youuuu Do this to me ?!.. after soooo many years of me

preaching.. and you Still put bad thoughts in my head !?.. I will Not

let youuuuu ... be lost you Demon !!..".. on and on went the

conversation and the threats.

(I imagine that the Devil.. -If he was around.. which

apparently 'Was' the case-,.. must've head a great time to see how he

could affect a preacher ..)

 

At 18, he was again interviewed .. he was hardly preaching any

longer,..was alone mostly in his room, on his bed, sleeping much,..

but still travelling with the father. He was constantly depressed. No

friends ..

Asked how he was feeling, he said, faintly mumbling, that he "was

tortured by the Devil" and sadly wondered "WHY would he do that to

me ?!"

 

His mother was also worried about him .. he would go around as if

drunk with his eyes hardly open, and was incessantly touching his

face and eyes, looking rather disturbed and damaged.

His mother said, "he just needs a damn pair of glasses !, and he's

gotta get a girlfriend like other boys and a job !",..but admitted

that he and the father, were 'Obsessed with demons, the Devil and

hell'. She said he was 'himself' and felt good only 1 out of 24

hours, while he was preaching.

Even so, she was proud of her son being a preacher serving the Lord

and to her, he was chosen by God.

 

He was asked if he was happy.

In a rather feeble and depressed tone of voice and rather

reluctantly, he said

'.. not really .. uuuhh I don't know ..'

 

His younger brother (about 10 yrs. old) was also to be ordained as a

preacher.. by another preacher ..

On the way to the place, his father told him how proud he was to have

him continue the spiritual warefare aginst the Devil,..

 

At one point the father asks the young son :

"Son .. are you looking forwards to be Ordained ?!"

And the son replies "Oh Yaaaaa !"..

and two seconds later he adds :

" .. What is 'Ordained' Daddy ?!"

 

At the end of the documentary (I have to underline.. this was not a

fiction-movie but a documentary) the older son, now 20, was asked

what he would like in his life ..

He replied "I would like a church, filled with 5.000 people, to whom

I can talk and preach the word of the Lord .."...

but his tone of voice was still revealing his depression and also the

lack of confidence and eagerness, he used to have, at the age of 8.

 

 

God and the Devil.. responsible for everything ..

a tragedy of extreme dualism ?

And the fight/warfare against the Devil, .. did _the fight_ create

the Devil ?

A case of intense conditioning, with no possibility for realease from

it claws ?

Apparently so...

Would there be a 'Devil' if there was no 'God'..

and viceversa ?

And is this conditioning, The 'devil' itsself ?

 

His father was asked by the interviewer, in connection with the kids

bad state :

'should'nt you just have him stop doing all this, and let him have a

normal life ?'

The father replied :

'Well, some doctor said he might be autistic, but they do not really

know .. No, no,.. my son has been chosen to do the work of the Lord'.

Apparently, _both_ of His sons.

And he divorced his wife, and continued traveling, spreading the word

and hoping one day, to have his own church.

 

regards,

Jb

PS. In a way, the kid-preacher, is an enviable position ..

a position where one can exercize power, one can send anyone whom one

does not like to hell while others applaud, one is listened to and

gets Hallluia feedbacks, one can indulge in desires for personal fame

and success, one is never contradicted, one receives gifts from the

congregation, one can channelize one's anger by projecting the Devil

on the object of hatred, one can do swing on the emotional universe

as one pleases, one can feel the strength generated by the attention

of the yes-sayers listening, one can escape from one's depressions,

one can freely judge another, one can generate fear in another (the

Fear of God), one can regard oneself as a kind of a Superman fighting

the Whole world's evil ones.. one has a meaning for the duration of

one's whole life,

...and all this with the 'guarrantee' that in the end,

one will be victorious .. and succesful ..

and all this, in the name of the Lord.

 

 

I mean,.. to win with one's opinion over another's, or a

phylosophical/political dispute, must be sheer and fragile peanuts,

compared to the 'joy the Lord can give' and the guarrantee for

winning, while in his service.

 

As a matter of fact, I know a bit about that joyful feeling

of 'speaking for the Absolute Truth'..

(.. you too ?!)

but alás, it does'nt last long ..

_Some_ ignorant ! fool, comes along, and puts a needle into my

bloated of self-worth and confidence baloon ..

 

But then,.. they would Not dare to do such an evil thing, IF I was an

Authorized speaker,..

would they ?!

 

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