Experience the extraordinarily veiled world of demonology, cultism, and the supernatural through the author’s eyes. Dale Brown gives us a rare, profound and yet candid look as he takes you on personal accounts. His research done in over twenty years of various forms of ministry, from Alaska to Haiti, from London to Salt Lake, is written as the memoirs of a man who was delivered of a demon himself, and then, in an age of modern science and medicine, struggled to come to a balanced grip with this controversial subject of which there are no real "how to" manuals available.
The topic of demonology is a topic much avoided by most clergy though approximately one-third of the earthly ministry of Christ was focused on this very issue. Countless fluffy books have been written on angels yet little attention has been given to the sometimes brilliant ones who have fallen.
The author has lead a rather unusual lifestyle. After moving from eastern Washington to Alaska by way of the military, he and his wife lived without electricity or running water for several years. During the oil pipeline, he developed a market for his paintings and sculpture. In search of spiritual fulfillment, he became a licensed minister, a missionary, and a researcher of cults and religion. He has been a contributing writer for several para-church ministries and a feature guest on a number of radio talk shows. Some of his writings have been published in Portugal in several languages. This is his first full-length book.
Outside of ministry he has worked construction, owned and remodeled several yachts, played music in a variety of bands, and sold his artwork in galleries in Alaska and Washington State. At the present, he and his wife Peggy live on a 42-foot motor/sailboat in Puget Sound and have cruised the coast between Alaska and Washington as missionaries.
I leaned forward and asked the "spirit" if he was aware of what the Bible says in Deuteronomy chapter eighteen and Isaiah forty-seven about what was being practiced here tonight. He, or (should I say) it, responded angrily that I had not come here to seek advice but to challenge and bring confusion, then rambled on for quite some time about some irrelevant issues. It took him awhile to calm down but when he did he went about answering the other’s questions about their investments in silver and other less spiritually centered topics.
When the clipboard got back to his wife she said that there was a little more time and asked if anyone wanted to ask another question. I raised my hand. I again leaned forward over the table and told the "spirit" that if he indeed was the great I AM then he would confess that Jesus Christ was Lord and asked him if that was the case.
He went off on a long twisted trail of irrational jabbering and accused me of being mean-spirited and that I had come there to trick him. He continued on with a bunch of meaningless nonsense which sounded a bit like a tape machine eating an audio tape. His wife looked up startled from her meditative position. He stopped and soon came to his normal conscious architect self.
"What an interesting evening," his wife said as she tried to gather her thoughts. There was some small talk for a few minutes then she asked me if I could share a little about the Bible verses I had made reference to during the session. Unfortunately I did not have a Bible and the small pocket Bible that Daryl had hid away in his pocket was only a New Testament, which would not cover the verses I had mentioned. I did not know the verses well enough to quote them so I was somewhat on the spot. Before long she and her husband were digging around in a pile of books looking for a Bible.
Looking at the verses I had written on the clipboard the architect turned first to Deuteronomy chapter eighteen and began to read out loud from his cheap paperback Bible. When he got to verse nine the intensity of the moment increased. He read, "When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens. or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord; and because of these things the Lord your God will drive them out before you."
There was an uncomfortable silence and a pause, then he began looking for Isaiah chapter forty-seven. At verse twelve he read, "Stand fast now in your spells and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you will be able to
profit, perhaps you may cause trembling. You are wearied with your many counsels; let now the astrologers, those who prophesy by the stars, those who predict by the new moons, stand up and save you from what will come upon you."
There was an attitude of awe and concern that came into the room. The young man who had come looking for advice about growing a new set of fingers was whispering to his ladyfriend.
