As many of you know, I encountered a demon just about two years from now. It was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life, and I didn't exactly know what was happening at the time. A lot of things have changed since then, mainly I have more of a grasp now on how spiritual things work and, like anything, the rules that are associated with it. Not too long after I had that night of prayer, I was sitting at an IHOP with a friend. We were trying to fix some dispute that we had. At the time I don't even exactly remember what dispute we had, all I remember is that afterwards something happened that changed my perspective on a lot of things.
The Waiter
While we were at the IHOP, I overheard a waiter briefly mentioning his beliefs to another group of people. Briefly, he mentioned a name, The Architect he called him. Originally, me and my friend thought he was talking about an intelligent designer. Which we agreed with naturally as we were both Christians. More intrigued by his beliefs than anything, we called him over so that he could explain more of his beliefs to us. Almost immediately we came to realize that he was not in fact a Christian and that The Architect was not actually a person, well it could have been a person. But it was more of the concept that this universe is a part of a much larger being. That our whole universe was just one small tiny speck on a much larger being. As he keeps explaining I feel something rise up inside of my chest. It was this tightness, something inside of me that was warning me that something was not right. I understood that was the Holy Spirit showing me that there may have been something wrong with this guy, something afflicting him. I continued to ask him more questions. One of the things that he brought up was chakras. Previously, I had never heard of chakras nor done any research on them.
Further and further, we kept questioning him. Really, what we were trying to do was we were trying to get to the core of his beliefs. More and more, that tightness kept getting stronger and stronger inside of me and I started noticing that the men we were talking to started almost dancing while he was explaining some of his concepts. He would make weird contortions with his hands and his face, and I could tell that he felt the spiritual things that I felt as well. At one portion during the conversation, he stops dead in the middle of his sentence and looks up and with a smile. Not a normal smile, but one of exhilaration with a hint of insanity behind it. All he says, is that's cool. When I asked him what is cool? He replied with, nothing don't worry about it. Even so, we still continue to have this conversation.
I Can't Tell You
As me and my friend are still asking him more and more questions, he starts getting even more vague with his answers. It got to the point where some of the questions we asked he replied with, I can't answer that I know the answer but I can't answer it. This was a completely foreign concept to me as well. If you know an answer you should be able to give it freely, especially if it is on the topic of religion and beliefs. And when we asked him why, he would reply with it's just not in my programming to be able to answer that type of thing. I would be punished if I did give you the answer. More and more, I'm starting to think that this guy might be demon possessed. He explained a night of when he was partaking in hallucinogenics and he was watching the stars. He then described it as an orange being opened up the sky and looked at him. And from that moment on, his life was changed.
Finally I decided to ask him a very personal question. Which was, who are you? What is your role in this life? He responded with I'm starting to understand that and I don't know that completely yet, but even if I did know I would not be allowed to tell you. I responded with I know who I am. He became completely fascinated and asked me are you allowed to tell anybody? I responded with I can tell anybody I want I have nothing that is keeping me back from telling anybody.
As the conversation continued, this tightness became even stronger and stronger in my chest, and he started dancing more and more. Until I felt I just had to say something really quickly, which was I know something is influencing your life, and I know who I am I am a child of God and I am secure in that. Just then, the tightness in my chest hit me harder than before. It wasn't a growing sensation anymore. He then, started grasping in mid air trying to push something invisible away from him and multiple times he's saying get away from me, get away from me. After he calms down a little bit he goes and does some of his waiter duties, which gave a little bit of time for me and my friend to sit there and talk and discuss what had happened.
The Demon Reveals Itself
After a little while, the waiter comes back and he starts drawing on a piece of receipt paper. He was drawing a face, and once he finishes it he hands it to me and says this is what has been influencing me I know I have seen it. Looking back at me on that piece of paper was the face of that same demon that had visited me approximately a year and six months previous. This completely freaked me out. This thing that was influencing this guy's life, knows me. Personally. Because I had no real instruction on what to do if I had an encounter with the demon I started panicking. This was before I had met my mentor at the time, and so I had no idea what I should have done. Should I have cast it out of him? Should I have let it go? I didn't understand at the time what exactly I needed to do for this man. It's got to the point where I started fearing for my safety. Me and my friend who had also had some spiritual experiences as well, decided to leave just thereafter.
Since then, I have more of an understanding about spiritual things and the rules behind them. Which I will be getting to in my next post on demons in the spiritual. Thank you for reading, as always please outvote and resteem if you enjoyed this article and want to read more. Also, I would ask that my steem family be in prayer for me as I just lost my job. I had some circumstances that made my job extremely hard for me, and so I was let go as of today. But I have not yet last hope. Because I know that that this job was not what God had for me long-term. It was just a stage of my life, and that his true calling on my life is for public speaking.
Other articles in the "On Demons and the Spiritual":
My Story
On Demons and the Spiritual - Part 1 - Introduction
On Demons and the Spiritual - Part 2 - A Divine Appointment
On Demons and the Spiritual - Part 3 - Unseen Ties
On Demons and the Spiritual - Part 4 - My Journey as a Speaker