“Face it, Morneau, you’re not your own master. I wish you were, but you’re not … and the sooner you acknowledge that … the better off you’ll be.” Roland began pacing the floor, wringing his hands. “Your days are numbered — along with those of the young couple responsible for leading you away from the master. Come with me to see the high priest right now. He will restore you to the spirits’ favor, and all will be well. This way no one gets hurt. One thing in particular the high priest wants you to realize,” Roland continued. “No one has ever gotten out of our secret society alive. The spirits brought you and me into it, and we’re to be in subjection to them, not they to us.” The experiences and questions of childhood and wartime had turned Roger Morneau away from God until he hated Him. After the war a friend led Roger into demon worship. Then Morneau discovered the good news of a loving God. Here is Roger Morneau’s own story of divine rescue from the terrifying world of satanism. Roger Morneau dedicated his life to prayer ministry and recorded God’s thrilling responses in his books: Incredible Answers to Prayer, More Incredible Answers to Prayer, and When You Need Incredible Answers to Prayer.”
Roger J. Morneau (18 April 1925 – 22 September 1998) was a Christian author who wrote on prayer and the supernatural. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Morneau was born in 1925 in Saint-Jacques, New Brunswick, Canada, into a family of devout French Canadian Catholics; two of his aunts were nuns, and one uncle was a priest. While he was a youth, his mother died and he experienced disillusionment in God that he later claimed stemmed from teachings in Catholic books and the Church. He was concerned with teaching that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, and felt he could not understand a God that would torture people eternally in hell.
He was a man of remarkable faith. When he prayed, things happened. Some miracles saved him from certain death. But most were in response to prayers for others. Patients dying in a hospital got well. Shattered families were reunited. Addicts found freedom. And hearts were changed. Every year Roger Morneau received thousands of calls and letters requesting intercessory prayer. As he shared God’s amazing answers, he showed how you too can take hold of the incredible power of prayer.
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Transcript of Roger Morneau’s story in his own words
ENTERING FORBIDDEN GROUND
When I came out of the navy after WW2, I was looking for to take up a trade in Montreal, Canada and at that time I ran across a fellow that had been on a particular ship with me and he said, “Hey, Morneau, you’re alive! How nice to meet you, let’s have dinner tonight?” I said to my boss, “Can I have the evening off?” Because I was assistant to the Windsor bowling alleys and billiards. It was the high class place in Montreal where all the dress manufacturing people go and relax. So I got the evening off and I went out to have dinner.
He told me, “Hey, I got something fantastic to tell you,” he said, “I am affiliated with people that speak with the spirits of the dead. How would you like to talk with the spirit of your dead mother?”
And I was shocked! I was shocked. He said, “You wouldn’t be afraid of talking to the spirit of your dead mother would you?”
“Well”, I said, I’ll tell you what, I would have to give that some thought; it’s something I never thought about before in my life!”
Well, he said, “It’s written all over your face, you’re afraid of going to a séance. But”, he said, “I know you, you’re going to come.” And then he started telling me how brave I was when I was aboard ship, you know and different things. He says, “You’re not the same man, you’ve changed; you’re chicken!”
That’s all I needed to hear, I said, “When do we go to the séance?”
Attending the Séance
So one Saturday evening we’re in the place was the very first time, a very beautiful place; the medium was a lady; she had a gorgeous new home in Montreal; and there were about twenty invited guests there. I was one of them. And she communicated with the spirits for different people there and telling them what the spirits said.
Then there was one lady that had been talking and talking almost continually before the séance started, and she didn’t believe in the dead appearing and all this and all that and she said, “Well, I would have to see my dead sister to believe it.” So while this séance was going one man said, “I would like to talk to my friend that died six months ago. But I don’t want him to appear, I just want to talk to him. because”, he said, “I don’t trust you talking to my friend for me.”
So the medium says, “Let me inquire of the spirits; Yah, the spirit will talk with you.” And that big masculine voice was heard in the place, Said, “Hi, Frank, it’s nice of you to ask for me to talk with you.” and they had a little chat and after it was over, Frank says, “This is the greatest thing on earth, to be able to talk with the spirits of the dead!”
Then the medium said, “We have a very special surprise tonight for you people, a spirit will manifest itself openly here in a few minutes.” And it was like a big gust of wind hit the building and right through the wall, the lights weren’t terribly bright, you know they were like living room lights, a couple of floor lamps and maybe some of these, and that translucent being seemed to come right out of the wall.
It’s almost like my heart stopped a little bit; Very weird feeling! It was a lady in a beautiful evening gown; floor length and she said to Mary, “My dear sister, you are so wonderful to have asked for me.” And Mary fainted and fell right off her chair on the floor. A couple guys jumped up and picked her up and the spirit was gone.
Spirit Worshippers
That was the beginning of it. You know something interesting about the human mind; you can adjust to an awful lot of stuff! Things that would terrify you to begin with, after a while they become common and ordinary. Then I got into a secret society that worshipped the spirits.
It happens that the séance, I’m not involved in it, in many ways, but when you get into a secret society of spirit worshippers and especially when you are invited there by the direction of the higher ups in the spirit world, you never get out of there alive. And that’s exactly what my friend and I were up against; we didn’t know anything about.
There was a very popular big band, jazz band leader, very famous; he played a lot in Montreal, Canada; Vancouver the big cities and one night we went to one of these séance and he was with his wife. Now the spirits had told him what to do. The spirit told him “There’s two of these guys”, gave the names, “and we’ll make it so your wife will want to talk to the medium when you say that you want to go home because you’re tired as soon as you see that these guys are starting to want to leave, then leave with them at the same time and as you get outdoors, you ask them if they are driving, and they will say no, that they’re going to take the tramway a couple blocks away. You invite them to get in your car with you and that you will take them to a fancy restaurant and treat them to some good food and talk about the merchant navy.”
And that’s what the guy did; and there we were in this posh restaurant, we pulled into a little alley, I can still see it like it was yesterday, just enough room to pass a car, that happened to give on a restaurant that was on St. Catherine’s street, the main street in Montreal. It was quite an evening.
After we were seated, in entering there, the place was just full, packed tight, but there was a couple of tables against the wall that had a ‘reserved’ sign on it and the owner of the place recognized the band leader and came and said “Good evening”, you gentlemen want a table?” So you’re one of the reserved people.
We sat there and we had our favorite alcoholic beverages and as we talked the band leader says, “How long have you fellows been involved with sorcery?” It shocked us a little bit; and I said, “exactly what do you mean?”
“Well”, he said, “You know, what you people are doing, talking to the supposed spirits of the dead”, he says, “This is silly. You see, my wife, goes to the séances because she gets comfort and she gets something good out of it; a good feeling out of it and she lives for what the spirits are going to say that the future’s going to be like. To me, I can’t bother with this stuff.” He said, “I want power, I go right to the source of power. How do you think I became famous the way that I am?”
I said, “You must have had some good luck.”
Well he said, “There’s no such thing as ‘good luck’, there’s either some power working for you somewhere, or you don’t get ahead in this world, not in my type of occupation.”
From there we got talking about spirit worship, so he said, “the ‘supposed spirits of the dead’ that you’re talking with are demon spirits, they’re fallen angels, they’re beautiful beings” He said, “You guys got a great future ahead of you, because we’ve been told, the high priest of our secret society has been told that the master has very special plans for you two.” We were interested to hear more about it.
He told us, “We worship spirits, we worship Lucifer and all his angels, and they’re just as beautiful as before they were cast out of heaven. There was a misunderstanding in the whole thing heaven, in the galaxies, our master was misunderstood and God did not bear with him like He does with people who make mistakes today. So we’re in the warfare, good against evil and we happen to be the evil ones. But we’re not that bad.” He said, “I look at this business between the forces of good and evil, one person believes in God another believes in Lucifer; it’s like politics.”
These people are sold to the fact that Christ will not return to this planet with power and great glory; He’s going to abdicate all claims to the planet, because the high priest once said, Christ will abdicate all claim to the planet because He knows that it lawfully and rightfully Satan’s. At that time he said, Lucifer, he mentioned Lucifer a lot of times, but he mentioned Satan also;” he says, “The Master”, they like to talk about the master, “will resurrect his people from their graves.”
Now he said, “Listen guys, I’d like to have you meet some of our people. What about next week? Wednesday evening? I’ll pick you up at your place and you’re invited to one of our services. It’s a testimonial to the spirits of how the spirits have blessed your life.”
When we left there I said to myself, “This guy’s half drunk, I’m not going to hear from him again.”
But it was true, Wednesday night came and he was there with his big Lincoln, step in and we went to one of the most beautiful areas of Montreal, the place was a mansion. Mansions are usually very large; we call this a small mansion. It was a most beautiful place.
It was a big surprise for me as I kind of made up my mind they were going to be rough looking characters; but as we entered the place, I was amazed to see that they were all very well dressed, well mannered and that a lot of the people, as we were being introduced to people, were professionals; doctors, attorneys, a lot of business people.
Praise to the Spirits
See what they had, they had a praise session to the gods, which are the spirit counselors which are in charge of legions of spirits. They talk about what the ‘lord of their lives’ has done for them. They call on particular spirits like the god Nehustan, which you read about in 2nd Kings, the Israelites worshipped the [brazen] serpent that Moses had made; well behind that they were worshipping the serpent, they were actually worshipping this spirit Nehustan and the same spirit, Nehustan.
A medical doctor was telling us how he was making operations that had never been made before because people have to be awake and have no feeling; he was able to carry on surgeries that had not been done before; but the spirits would give that capacity to be able to operate without people feeling any pain. Also, with no problem with the blood, because as he would cut his incisions, everything would be open and there would be no blood running; so he could do work that had not been done before.
A big surprise to me when I went to the place, the priest said, “Let’s go down to the worship room of the gods and have a singing session.” So we go down there and what do you think they pass around? Church hymnals. Christian church hymnals; and I couldn’t believe this and I said, “What’s this business”? The priest said “Well now for those of you that are new, let me tell you that this is the most feasible way to please the spirits is to deride Christ and His people, and His church and all that.”
So they sing out of Christian hymnals. They change a lot of the words. It’s a form of blasphemy.
So we see today in the Rock music world, you see the singers they have these crosses? The ladies have these earrings with crosses? This is a form of blasphemy, a form of deriding Christ. Spirits cause the people to do that; to find pleasure in wearing this type of emblem, a cross is the emblem of the crucifixion of Christ to the Christians.
The Worship Room of the gods
We were there maybe half a dozen times; and the high priest told us after the meeting was over he wanted to talk to us, my friend and I. So after most people had left he says, “The master of my life has revealed to me that it is time for you people to become acquainted with the worship room of the gods.”
Well, we started to move toward a beautiful grand staircase; Beautiful; the banister was huge, it was massive and the wrought iron work that they had done, it was super; the beautiful decorations on the wall; the chandelier on the first landing; you go down about 8 or 10 steps and you had the first landing; was huge and beautiful.
The light arrangement was the nicest I’d ever seen in my life. When we got into this sanctuary area, it wasn’t very brightly lit but everything was magnified, the beauty of certain things like a lot of things were gold-plated or gold trimmed. The little altars; where they had the spirits had materialized, they photographed them and then they had paintings made of them and there was maybe about a hundred of those around the place. Underneath was a little altar where you had incense and the things that they would use in their prayer session and devotions to certain spirits. Some of the objects in there the priest said were solid gold. It was a unique experience to see that.
I felt that these people had power and they had a lot of it. I had mixed feelings about it, because to a certain extent things looked so good; it sounded so good to us; but you see, I’d been brought up in a Christian home where my parents had told us—there were eight children in the family and especially the older ones—my Dad said, “Well you know, if you get involved in wrong doing, you’re going to have to pay the price. There’s always a cost for everything in this world.” So this thought came creeping to my mind, just how far do you go with these spirits before you start paying the price?
And yet there was no way out because that’s what we were told. The high priest had said that the master had special plans for us in our lives, and that no one ever went into this society unless they were invited by the spirits. So that was made very clear. He also explained to us the danger of going against the will of the spirits. He mentioned about this man and his wife that lived in a fireproof building in Montreal, the place burned right down with them in it. He was one of their members that had decided well he wanted to think things over. He was not going to get initiated at the time when the spirits said they would like him to be initiated to the society.
You see these people in that Montreal society, like the priest mentioned, there’s thousands of spirit worshippers in different societies of spirit worshippers in this world; but he said, “We are the elite, we know the real truth about the master and his angels and they are not hideous looking beings they are gorgeous creatures.” And from the paintings that they had on the walls of that worship room, they were beautiful beings; especially was a full-length painting of Lucifer above his altar. That was very fascinating; because he looked like a man of great intellect; high forehead and when you looked at the eyes it gave you a depth of perception of somebody that was very knowledgeable and powerful.
At the praise sessions there were a lot of success stories, the master has done this for me and that for me; I remember one lumber dealer he had half a dozen different operations in different parts of Quebec, and everything that he touched seemed to turn to money, and he was telling about it.
Then there was this other person that was a clairvoyant, that would work only for the wealthy, only the super-wealthy. He said, “I have the knowhow, they have the means, let them pay.” So he advised them in business transactions; they would come to him and say, “Hey, listen, I’m looking at this deal that I might get, this factory or some business” This person was interested in industrial real estate, and he would talk to the spirit and the spirit was audible to him, he could hear the spirit talk to him; the man did not hear. So the spirit was telling the clairvoyant what, well he called himself an astrologer; the moons and the stars, you know.
This person stood up and said, “I had a nice little experience last week the master carried out.” This lady and her husband brought him, this astrologer, a bundle of money. He works only on percentages, he doesn’t work for set amounts of money only percentages on what the people make. So he said, “they brought me a substantial amount of money and they were very happy with it and I felt that it was very reasonable but then my guide spirit says, ‘ask them when they are going to give you the other 1700 dollars that is really yours?’” And he says to these folks, “I would like to know now before we leave here, when will you have the 1700 dollars to give me that makes up my rightful part of the deal?” The wife fainted, and the husband says, “We’ll have the money for you in 24 hours”. So that was this type of praise session.
The Spirits Work
It wasn’t too long that the priest mentioned to us that the time had arrived for us to start trusting the spirits and give the spirits a chance to work for us. And there was a number of gifts that you could choose from, and I used to play the horses, not knowledgeable at all, I used to go to those bookies. I said, “Hey, I’d like for the spirit to instruct me on the numbers and the name of the horses that’s going to win at Belmont or some other racetracks like that; Make myself a little money.”
The priest said, “It will be given you.” and sure enough one night, whether I fell into a trance or dreamed the thing, I don’t exactly know what happened but I saw three races that were really going to pay big. And these horses were dummies, they were not really good horses; one horse paid twenty-one to one because he was that poor, right? I saw the board at the bookie and the number and I went there and they said it was going to be on Saturday; it was like on Wednesday, and few days later it was Saturday; I went there and sure enough there they were on the boards. I went to the wicket and handed some money in, and got myself a winner. Now I said, I am crazy; I ought to put more money on there so I put twenty dollars onto the next horse and that paid 21-1. I left there with maybe four-five hundred dollars in my hands. In this case I went directly down to the finest men’s shop on St. Catherine’s street and bought myself a $200 Suit. People then were working for $18 a week and the good earners maybe $75 a week.
Then I went to other bookies and one day I am told by the man at the cage, where you do your bet, he says “My boss would like to talk to you; go right through that door over there.” I knocked, the guy says, “Come on in.” The guy’s sitting behind a big desk smoking a big cigar; so he says, “You’re Roger.” I say, “Yes.” He got up a walked around me, he said, “You don’t look that smart.” I said, “What sir?”
“You don’t look that smart that you could pick horses that are winners when they’re supposed to be losers. Where do you get your help?”
“What do you mean help? I’m not getting any help. I just happen to…”
“Awe no, we’ve been watching you here for a number of weeks; and you always leave here with some of our good money. Now, I’ll tell you buddy, if you want a list of all the bookies in Montreal, I’ll give you a list of them; but I want you out of here, and don’t show up again because somebody’s going to put a
…you know what I mean.”
“So I said, “Ok sir, I won’t be back again.” It’s a tough business to be in, gambling.
THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
The high priest told us that there is a ‘Great Controversy’ going on between the forces of good and evil; between Christ and Satan; and these people always praised the great master, Satan, as the super-intelligent being that he is, beautiful to behold, and if he ever appears to you, you won’t be able to look upon him because he’d be too bright, he’d just ruin your vision.
The high priest sad he was in Chicago and a spirit appeared to him and said, “Morneau and his buddy, George has invited them to the service and the fellow that is in charge while you’re away? He’s going to wreck all the work that the spirits have done for the last few years to get these people into the society.” So the high priest which was in Chicago picks up the phone and calls; and the spirit appeared to him, and he said the angel was so bright that he could not look upon him. He said after he picked up the phone to dial, he couldn’t dial the phone because of the fact that his vision was so terribly blurred by the light, the beautiful light of the bright being and he dialed 0 and the operator came on and she had to dial for him.
They talk about many, many things in regards to who’s going to win this conflict. They say, “The ‘Bible people’ (talking about the Christians) they read in the Bible that we’re all going to land in the ‘lake of fire’ and this and that, that’s Baloney!” he says, “The conflict is going to end peacefully. Christ is going to realize that He might as well abdicate the rights to this planet, take His few people along with Him to His planet in the center of the galaxies and we will be left with a master who will resurrect all his people that will be as numerous as the sand of the sea, and the master will rule forever and ever and ever a happy people.” And he named some of the people that are going to be there but I won’t mention any names, they’re known to history. So that was quite impressive.
They were telling the truth, they really had things down straight but still I was not satisfied with the answers. There was something, and I understand now that it was the Spirit of God, saying, “Hold back fellow! Hold back.” And the priest had talked about us thinking seriously of being initiated into the cult. There’s no turning back; It’s not a matter of whether you’re going to be initiated or not, it’s when.
So the priest said, “Look, I’m not going to pressure you into anything, OK? But I want to show you what the spirits can do for a devoted servant.” We went downstairs, not through the staircase that I talked about in the worship room of the gods but at the other end of the building, and went downstairs and a number of times I had gone there to the men’s room and I heard typewriters clicking like the dickens, I thought that they must have a lot of people typing in there in that room. That evening he knocked and the man says come on in, and there was all those typewriters moving along by themselves; typing at the speed that I’d never seen before. And not only that, the high priests says, “I want to show you something clever, follow me.” So we went around the table, there was like two long tables, and they had about ten typewriters, and he said, “Notice now that the typewriter types to the right and then doesn’t go back, it types back to the left. Isn’t that something?” I had never heard of things like this before, he said, “The spirits are doing the work.”
He introduced us to the man, and the man is a lawyer, and he said, “How much money did you make last year?”
“Oh, he says, it’s in the six figures.” All this guy did was put paper in there and different briefs for court cases came out, typed by the demon spirits. He had this service to the legal profession and would sell these briefs to lawyers in United States and Canada.
Now they have a super beautiful resort which is in the Lauretian mountains north of Montreal, North of St Agate, a famous name there in Montreal; Montrealers all go north there and have summer homes
and that, so they had a big resort up there for their people, it was a closed society, and they had on October 31, Halloween, they had what they call live animal sacrifices. I don’t know what it is, we could never find out. By the time that the Lord pulled me out of there I had not yet found out what it was. So you have this intrigue involved in there.
Three very unique services that I attended there that stayed in my mind forever, one was entitled Christian Idolatry, another one was entitled the super deception of a ‘Glorious New Age’ which I say applies to the ‘New Age’ today and this was 1946 we’re talking! And the other one was Satan’s great general counsel of the 1700s. I must say the things that I heard there was an eye-opener.
‘Great General Counsel’
First we’ll look at the ‘Great General Counsel’: “At the beginning of the 1700s”, said the high priest, “Satan and all his spirit counselors held a Great General Counsel with one purpose in mind, it was to prepare for the great industrial age which was soon to break upon the world, and Lucifer also foresaw another age that was to follow that where tremendous scientific discoveries would be made by people and we would enter into a unique age that would change the way that everybody lives.
It would also serve to usher in the end times and the close of the ‘Great Controversy’ between the forces of good and evil.” The priest said that Lucifer had been studying the Bible and he found in Daniel 12:4 where we are told about the time of the end, ‘Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased.’ He understood it to be that we’re getting to that point, and he had with all the spirit counselors, to change their modes of operation in order to ensnare people and devise a way whereby people would disqualify themselves from being members of Christ’s kingdom.
By the time the counsel came to a close they had three major policies that were going to be followed: 1st, they were to see to it that humans would be made to believe that Satan and his angels do not really exist. You see, up to that time you could walk down the street of Paris and you’d have signs that would say that you have a soothsayer or a fortune teller of some type and if you want to put a curse on someone you could go and see this other old lady over there, you know, the old witches, that’s the way it goes but now it had to change.
Lucifer said that we have to make sure that people, humans, get to believe that Satan and his angels do not really exist. (Note: a recent survey shows that over 75% of people today do not believe in a real, tangible devil!)
The next thing in the three part policy that they had adopted there, the second one was to find a way to be able to get total control of people’s minds and that would be done by taking hypnotism out of the realm of the occult and introduce it as a new science for the benefit of mankind. They felt that by taking hypnotism out of the realm of the occult and introducing it as a new science for the benefit of mankind, they could then use people of great renown, educators, people of capacity that would do great things such as supposedly regress people in time to former lives that they had and of course, after the session is over the person would not know a thing about ancient history and the person she or he has talked about performing certain deeds, we’ll say three-four thousand years ago; but this was their strategy.
Now what this would do for the thing is this, that it would create in the minds of the general public, solidly set now in the general public, an unwavering trust in that great deception. In other words, people would believe it, this person was hypnotized was regressed in time to former lives and did this and did that and no deception, maybe Alexander the Great we’ll say, and some of his generals and the person after the session is over comes out of hypnotism and he or she doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Hypnotism
So now this would be a way of de-Christianizing the western world through the avenue of mysticism. Now the time came when Lucifer decided that he had to choose a person to initiate this thing. Franz Mesmer, which was an Austrian physician, was chosen because he was most capable. Mesmer originated a theory called ‘animal magnetism’, later on named ‘Mesmerism’. Mesmer was led by the spirits to believe, this is what the priest said, was led by the spirits to believe that certain persons have a magnetic influence within themselves, so to speak, that would cause them to have great power over other persons even to the point of placing them into a trance. And at that time, that was readily accepted by people in general, the time that Mesmer lived. So people realized, they said that some people have the capacity to put you into a trance this way.
Now, by the time that he died in 1815, a lot of the physicians in Europe were using hypnotism as a means of anesthesia. Hypnotism is Mesmerism that has been developed to a higher degree of refinement. The priest went on saying that the plan of Satan to deceive the human family this way, he says, is the most intriguing thing to his mind and he went on saying how it was going to be brought about.
Evolution
He said that a fellow by the name of Darwin, and another fellow by the name of Thomas Henry Huxley, would be used by the spirits because in their childhood, they had been hypnotized by medical doctors and they figured that they would be real good subjects to lead the people into this belief that they had that Satan wanted to bring into people’s lives.
The third point in the plan of Lucifer and his spirit counselors was to destroy the Bible, without burning it. It was very interesting because after the great general counsel, it was decided that Satan would tutor Charles Darwin personally. In setting up the principles of his theories of evolution, he was tutored by Lucifer himself, fallen Lucifer. And at that time it was understood, Satan and his spirit counselors understood that if a person was led to believe in the theory of evolution, it would in his life destroy completely the creation week of the Bible, the fall of man and the plan of redemption; it would do away with it.
Now he made a unique statement, he said that according to the spirits, anyone that teaches the theory of evolution is considered to be a minister of a great religious system; you see they call it a religious system; the theory of evolution; Because it is a system of schooling people and getting them to disqualify themselves from being members of Christ’s kingdom. And he said that every teacher of that theory is recognized by the spirits as a person of great value and receives a very special unction from Satan himself giving great power to induce spiritual blindness, to convince and convert. Three capacities are given to those teachers of the theory. Then, that’s not all; the priest says that Satan considers the teachers of the theory of evolution to be so valuable to him that in the sight of all the inhabitants of the galaxies, he assigns a retinue of bright, beautiful angels to follow that educator all the remainder of his life. And that in the sight of the inhabitants of the galaxies is the greatest honor that he can bestow upon his workers among mankind, until the controversy is finished. That was quite enlightening.
The high priest believed this one hundred percent, no question about it. He says that deception is like politics, you believe in one candidate, the other person believes in the other candidate and they’re fighting to get the position, it’s just a matter of who’s going to be the smartest and with Lucifer the fallen cherubim, he’s very smart, he’s going to win and Christ will advocate the rights to the planet; he’s going to resurrect his people, and establish his kingdom that’ll last forever and ever. God won’t destroy him because it would be against the Creator’s nature, to destroy Lucifer in the fire, and besides that, he
said that spirits now, demon spirits, have the capacity now to outlive fire, he said if you don’t believe it go to India or some of those countries where they have fire walkers. It’s done by the power of demon spirits; the people are energized by the spirits so they can walk on those hot coals without burning themselves. He said, if they want to use fire, they can use it; it’s not going to burn anybody. So that’s the way they believe.
This high priest figured he was going to be one of the higher ups in that great kingdom. I was about twenty years old at this time and I had a sort of awe in the fact of being chosen to join this group but then I got thinking, when am I going to have to pay the price, the cost? My parents had brought me up like this. If you get involved with evil, you’re going to reap what you sow; so you want to be upright in life and if you associate with evildoers they’ll probably land you in jail or somewhere else that you wouldn’t want to be. So there’s always a price to be paid.
Christian Idolatry
Now one of the things that really amazed me and shocked me and made me sick at heart is when the priest talked about Christian Idolatry. He said that Christian idolatry is the most grandiose or great deception that has ever been brought upon the human family, upon mankind. And he boasted, that demon spirits are continually defiling Christian churches through the avenue of necromancy, by using a form of spirit worship that involves hundreds of millions of Christians into idolatry without their being aware of it.
Necromancy is the belief that one can conjure the spirits of the dead so you can speak with someone who has died. Now, the priest says that the super deception is brought about in only one way, through the deceptive belief that man has an immortal soul that lives on after death. And he said that constitutes idolatry through necromancy. So he says there are hundreds and millions of Christians that are practicing idolatry while they think they are glorifying God.
Contrary to popular belief, necromancy does not consist of conjuring the spirits of the dead, the reason being that man is totally mortal, and does not possess an immortal soul, so who are they talking to? He says, the friendly demon spirits have always found over the centuries, great delight in impersonating apparitions, departed love ones and persons of great renown.
There are three main divisions of demon spirits and then there are divisions within those divisions. You have the friendly demon spirits; that seem to have the finesse and the refinement and they’re not upset about what happened when they were thrown out of heaven, from what I gather. Then you have warriors; they like to bring misery and destruction in the lives of people. Then you have the oppressors; and the oppressors are the real wicked spirits that hate God, the Creator, with all of their might.
So he went on explaining, necromancy is in reality a belief, a religious belief. People believe that the dead have entered into a higher plane of existence then they had when they were alive; also that they are in a position and have the capacity to help the living here on earth. Then, he said, this is where things get really interesting. He said, according to the great master, a person does not have to supposedly call upon the spirits of the dead to receive help, to be involved in necromancy. All he has to do is to believe in life after death, because, he said, necromancy is the belief that man has an immortal soul. So anybody that believes that man has an immortal soul is involved in necromancy. It’s that simple, that’s the way he explained it.
So by people believing that they are either talking to the saints, the spirits of the dead, the dead saints; or a dead relative; or a dead person of some type; you take for instance, Loretta Lynn, she says on national television, and I have the date that I heard it myself. She said that she was made successful in her singing career by a dear friend of hers, that was the same age as she, and died when she was eighteen years of age. And Loretta was trying to get into the singing world but she said, “I had no success at all; until one night I was sitting in bed reading a book and who walks right through the wall but my friend, the spirit of my friend! And she said, ‘Loretta, I’m going to make you a very famous person in singing country music; and I will be with you all the time; trust me!’” And she had a big concert once and she was coming down with this bad cold, and she thought that her voice was going to give. She talked to her spirit and felt that she was going to be helped. And she got out on the stage and she started to sing and right in the middle of where she really needed the power; no power at all! And her spirit-friend tapped her on the shoulder and started to sing for her. She said, “Her voice went through me, the power!” This was, I believe 1976, this took place.
Now the priest explained that when people believe in this business; they are actually opening themselves to be completely deceived by demon spirits, because it gives the demon spirits an opportunity to impersonate the dead and for people to believe their lies. And the priest says that first of all it brings the great master the respect and the reverence that is due to his great name; and it makes all the other spirits exceedingly happy because they are the ones that have worked to lead people to believe in life after death and they rejoice.
Friendly spirits are the ones that specialize in impersonating the dead. I saw this done many times but one time in particular fascinated me; it was unique in one way. The priest told us that there was a French historian, who was affiliated in the University of Montreal, which is the French university; the English University is McGill. This man was from Paris, and he wanted to have some details in regards to Napoleon Bonaparte and one of his generals. By the way, there are also in other parts of the world elite spirit worshippers like the group that we had in Montreal. He said, when my friend and I went in, that you guys are fortunate, you are right in time to see something very interesting. My friend there is having his devotions in the worship room of the gods and he will use a trance-medium to converse with certain demon spirits which will inform him in regards to ancient history, about Napoleon.
And sure enough, we went down there and somebody came up and said he’s ready for the session and he said he would need three people. He would need three people but he wanted five people to volunteer to be the channel for the spirits. So three of them were chosen there and the others went back and sat down. The man shook his head a little bit; his eyes went glazed and he stayed like that for a half hour and the spirits spoke through him.
He said, “I’m a spirit counselor; what would you like to know?” The voice changed and everything. The historian had a clipboard and started asking him questions about detailed information about Napoleon Bonaparte and one of his generals. There was a certain question that was asked, and the spirit counselor said, “I will have lord Reamy and lord Alphonse duplicate the dialogue that had taken place.” Two other men then fulfilled what he was looking for.
But the one thing that was interesting was the mayor of Montreal, Camilean Houde , during the world war II at the beginning of the war, he was very controversial in regards to the war effort. He would tell the French speaking boys not to go into the armed service, you see, because you have to go and shed your blood for the British and we’re their servants so to speak and all that and didn’t want them to go into war. They put him in prison; he was jailed for the length of the war. Now this man said, “I would like to have you tell me, “ he said to the spirit, “ to give me part of the speech that was given by Camilean Houde on the steps of the Montreal City Hall”; on a certain date. “There are different versions of what has taken place and you, lord, would know the exact one.” This Mayor was still alive.
The spirit counselor said, “I’m sorry, I can’t help you, all of my activities and my people have taken place in Europe. However, after our departure, other spirits will come and help you.” And sure enough, the guy vibrates a little bit, and then he was back. “How long?” he asked, Twenty minutes he was a channel.
So then again a spirit entered into him, and this spirit said that he was a spirit counselor that could give him the information that he was looking for.
Again it was given verbally and it was the voice of Camilean Houde. I was a youngster in those days and just about ready to go into the army and Camilean , we used to listen to the radio, and all the speeches of Camilean was on the radio all the time. In those days they had no tape recorders such as we have now. So Camilean would have to go the Canadian Broadcasting studio where they made a record, a phonograph record and then they played it over and over. So I knew his voice real good. I said to George that was sitting there, “Isn’t it amazing?” He said, “If you think that’s amazing, wait until the spirits impersonate one of the departed people that you know personally, like an uncle or a brother or sister or something like that. That is unique!” But that is the way it was; they are able to reproduce a voice just to perfection.
The spirits are exceedingly proud of this; and this also was right up my alley, the priest said that as the times on this planet gets more and more difficult and calamities of all kinds are striking the planet more and more frequently, demon spirits are going to impress people with the importance of Sunday sacredness.
NEW AGE
The idea of “New Age” was a big thing that was coming up, one of the major deceptions of the last days; and the priest talked to us for quite a while, and then he said, “could I have a bit more of your time, I want to tell you something really fascinating; the masters Grand Plan for harvesting the multitudes of the earth into his cause, just before the close of the Great Controversy between the forces of good and evil.”
So after we had expressed our interest to know more about the activities of the spirits, he continued, “It’s going to be done in an unique manner, this grand plan, people are going to eat this stuff! Demon spirits will declare themselves to be inhabitants of far distant planets of the galaxies; that are coming to warn the inhabitants of planet earth of the impending destruction of the planet, unless something seriously proper is done to avoid it.”
Then he went on, “They will claim to have out of body experiences, that is some persons are supposed to be able to go into different places and come back and write all about it. They believe their immortal soul can do this. So, due to the fact that the millions of the earth believe in people having an immortal soul, this is readily accepted, when the spirits will through a trance-medium converse with influential people. A trance-medium is known today as a channeler.
Shirley McLean’s experience in getting involved with spiritism and with the supposed inhabitants of far distant planets and galaxies? I taped the whole thing, it was three hours, and I was hearing the fulfillment of what this priest had said 45 years ago!
So, he went on explaining about the fact that the spirits will show themselves willing to give valuable guidance that will not only help people avoid the destruction of the planet, but it will cause it to enter into a higher state of existence. For instance, he said the spirits will promise that if their recommendations are followed carefully they will usher in a glorious new age of peace and prosperity and there’ll be no more wars; there’ll be no more famines; there’ll be no more people getting unhappy with one another; neighbor will love neighbor; and social unrest will not take place no more; there’ll be perfect happiness for a thousand years; that’s what the spirits are going to promise.
Now we find a lot of preachers preaching the glorious New Age of victory; victory over war; victory over social unrest, victory over famines; and victory over all kinds of things. It would be a glorious New Age, the priest said. This is exactly what the movement is all about today.
Sunday Sacredness
He went on and said, that as life on this planet becomes more and more difficult, and calamities will strike the planet more and more frequently; the spirits at that time are going to put all their effort to impress religious leaders to bring before the masses of the earth, the sacredness of Sunday; they will teach Sunday sacredness. With the religious leaders looking forward to a thousand years of peace on earth, they will put all their effort into it.
Some people asked, “What’s going to happen to people who don’t believe in the spirits recommendations?” The priest said, “That will be no problem at all; laws will be passed by governments that will force people to go along with it regardless of whether they believe in it or not. And the law enforcement officers will explain to people, make it clear, that such a law is necessary to assure the well being of all people. The laws will be passed with no effort at all.
He went on to explain the fact that the ‘Venerable Day of the Sun’ which in ages past was such an irritant to the Creator, these nations in the past were all involved in sun worship. And in those centuries the Creator found that teaching of the worship of the sun, a terrible irritant. And he said, “It is going again to take place. But not in worshipping the sun; in remembering Sunday to keep it holy!” He made a statement I’ll never forget; he said, “By the observance of the day on which the master, Satan, has placed the unction of his authority and power, he receives homage, regardless of who people think they are worshipping.”
Seventh-day Adventists
So can you understand now why I had twenty-eight Bible studies in one week and started to go to church on Sabbath? And I never missed since, until I became too sick to attend.
The priest mentioned the fact that Satan has chosen Sunday as his day; the Creator has chosen the Seventh day of the week, Lucifer has chosen to call his day the first day of the week, Sunday. And regardless of what people claim to worship; worship God, the Creator, by observing that particular day, they are bringing homage and respect to Satan.
At that time I had never heard of a Seventh-day Adventist in my life; the priest didn’t talk about Seventh-day Adventists, he talked strictly about Adventists. The priest was telling us that necromancy, as I mentioned earlier is the belief that the dead have entered into a higher state of existence etcetera; he says, for centuries friendly demon spirits have worked diligently to establish and uphold in the religious convictions of all people the belief that man has an immortal soul. Then he boasted about the fact that the master was so smart in that he had deceived the whole world even in this age of great scientific knowledge and understanding.
Then one person put his hand up and the priest says, “Yes, do you want to say something?” He said, “What about the Adventists? You can’t count them deceived regarding the state of the dead. And I got a question, How come they can’t be brought under the Great deception?”
The priest said, “You’re right; I apologize, here I made a mistake. When I said all the millions of the people living on the face of this planet, everybody was honoring the great master; I forgot the Adventists. They are so few in number when you think of all the billions, I didn’t even think to mention them, so I’m sorry.” Then he says, “secondly, the reason why they can’t be brought under the great deception? Let me explain about it. Now, my next statement is going to upset some of you, but what I am telling you is the honest truth; it is factual; it is reality. The fact that Adventists observe the Biblical Sabbath of creation and reverence the Creator that day, it makes it impossible for the spirits to deceive them. They are given very special help and great spiritual insight. Under these conditions they are not ordinary people.”
And that stayed with me, and when I heard the word ‘Adventist’ when Cyril told me, I asked him what denomination you belong to? He said, “I’m a Seventh-day Adventist”. I said, “Is that the same thing as an Adventist?” “Oh yah”, he said, “A lot of people calls the Adventists, they don’t talk about the seventh-day, it’s the same thing.” Boy I was interested! I wanted to know what his Bible said.
A few weeks later that unique experience was instrumental in helping me make a decision for Christ. Also, I had no hesitation to join myself to God’s commandment keeping people because of the fact that I knew what kind of people they were. And after having 28 Bible studies in one week, I started to keep the Sabbath forever. But you see the time that I had these Bible studies, four hours per evening, we started at seven o’clock and finish at eleven o’clock at night. The Bible studies were about an hour, there were questions and then you looked up the verses that they give you in the Bible and you had your answer; it was so fantastic! The Spirit of God was really ministering to me the graces of redemption; every moment of all those Bible studies was precious, precious, precious!
I first had the Bible studies in Oct. 1946, in April of 47 I was baptized into the church, in Sept 47 I got married and the French church in Montreal gave us as a wedding gift the ‘Conflict of the Ages’ series. Then I read the ‘Great Controversy’ and I said, “This person is inspired! This person has knowledge that nobody else has on the face of the earth except the spiritists that I was mentioning. The spiritists feel free to share information freely in the group because nobody is going to get out of their alive.
Their plan is you don’t have to worry about saying anything about the great master because as soon as anyone strays some, the spirits will tell the high priest right away what’s taken place. They did with my Bible studies by Wednesday night. I started Monday, Tuesday, by Wednesday night the spirit counselor appeared to the high priest and said, “You have one of your defectors, that Morneau guy? You gotta get rid of him, because he’s out their studying the Bible with the Adventists! The people that the master hates most on the face of the earth.” And the high priest nearly had a heart attack; “Because I kind of liked him.” is what he told my friend because I didn’t see him again after that, he sent my friend to try and convince me to go back to spirit worship.
The Rescue!
I should really go back a couple weeks in time; as the high priest had talked to us about the advantage of getting initiated in the society on the 31st of October, that night I came home and went to bed and I couldn’t sleep until about 3 o’clock in the morning because I had all of this experience of the supernatural I had gone through for so many months now and my Catholic upbringing that I had and questions about God. Now I knew there was a God, the spiritists made me well aware of that! I was in a state of terrible unrest, I could not have slept.
Without even giving it a thought, somehow I said as I was laying on my bed, “If there is a God up there who cares for me, help me!” That’s all I said, next thing I knew, the alarm clock rang, it was 6:30 and it was time for me to get up and go to work.
At that time I had changed employment, I had taken a course in embroidery for the manufacturers of ladies dresses in Montreal. There’s an embroidery company that makes piping and sequins work and all this fancy designs for ladies dresses and that’s where I was working.
I was working for a Jewish firm, And the bosses, one kept the Sabbath and the other didn’t; and Harry which was the one that didn’t; as I was going out to have my cigarette in the afternoon break, he said, “Roger when you come back in, come to my office I want to talk to you.”
I came back in and he said, “close the door”. I closed the door. He said, “I want you to do be a favor.” “OH? What do you mean?”
“Well, I’ll tell you what, did you notice yesterday or a couple days ago there was a fellow here that I showed around the shop? Well he’s going to be starting to work here Monday and he’s not just an average guy, he’s a Christian but keeps the Bible Sabbath!”
I said, “Go over that again?”
He said, “Yes, like the Jewish people, he keeps the seventh-day Sabbath. Saturday is the seventh day of the week.”
“Well,” I said, “Let me tell you sir, the nuns have told us that there has been a mistake made in the calendar, actually what it shows as Sunday, is the seventh day of the week.”
“Oh, no,” he says, “there was no mistake made in the calendar, Saturday is the seventh day of the week as you see it on your calendar; it never was changed. Sunday is the first day of the week.”
I said, “That’s interesting, I’m going to have to go to the library and chick this out.”
“Oh, you don’t have to,” he says, and he pulled his desk drawer open and pulls out his big dictionary and he looks up Saturday, it said “the seventh day of the week”; looked up Sunday; “the first day of the week”.
“Well,” I said, “That’s pretty interesting.”
“Now here’s what I’d like you to do for me, first of all, I’m going to have this man work next to you; don’t tell him that I want to know what denomination he belongs to! You be very tactful, you have all the time in the world, even if it takes a month. I tell you what,” he says, “It’s the craziest thing that I’ve been thinking about this guy and I can’t get him out of my mind. About the fact he’s a Christian and keeps the Seventh-day Sabbath! The Bible Sabbath; and you know I’ve got more important things to think about, than stuff like that.” So he said, “I want to find out what denomination he belongs to and I just…”
I said, “Why don’t you ask him?”
“No, I couldn’t do that! It’s too personal.”
So Monday morning came and the new fellow came in and the boss introduced him to the people. There were about fifty people working there. He said, “Cyril is an accomplished embroiderer, we’ll be very happy to have him here with us.” Then he walks him to his machine and said, “Roger, meet Cyril.” And I shook his hand and we started to work.
It was not more than about twenty minutes that I was working that my machine started to skip stitches, so what happens is you have to stop and back up. I was working on sequins, they’re on a spool and they come up then the needles put them in there. And when it skips, you’ve got to stop, back up, start over again where it left off. It wasn’t too long that I had done this two or three times; and I was mad! As a French person, usually they don’t go easy on the saints and God’s name; I was using some language that was not all that great for Cyril.
Anyway, I called the boss over, said, “Come see this machine, I’m having trouble with it.” Checked it; worked on it for five minutes; beautiful!
I sit down again and start to work, the same thing happens over again. And after we tried it two or three times, he said, “Joe, come over.” He’s an old guy that knows everything about everything in the shop. So he looks at the tensions and adjusts things and said, “It’s working beautiful.”
Well, I started to work again and another twenty minutes after, the same thing! By then it was time to go out for our coffee break. So I started walking out and I told Cyril, “Have you ever seen such a crazy thing as this, the trouble I’m having with this machine?”
“No”, he said
“It’s a new machine just a month old”. He said, “That’s very unusual.”
So we go down stairs and I says, “Do you have any suggestions how to fix this problem?”
“No, not really, but I have a suggestion that might help.” He says, “I heard you calling upon God, but it was not in the way I would have liked to hear you talk. Go easy on God”, he says.
It did not offend me and I said, “Thank-you. I’m sorry if I offended you with my language.” I said, “By the way, you’re quite a religious man I understand?”
“Yah”, he said, “I read the Bible and go to church.”
I said, “That’s great! What denomination do you belong to?” “Well, I’m a Seventh-day Adventist”.
“Excuse me? Repeat that again?” “I’m a Seventh-day Adventist”
The word ‘Adventist’ shocked me. I had heard so much about the Adventists. But, Seventh-day Adventists, I had never heard the name before. I said, “What does it signify?”
He said, “Well, we’re seventh-day observers, and we believe in the Bible Sabbath; that God has blessed a particular day of the week and has sanctified it, and put a special blessing on there and we ought to count our blessings on the Seventh day and give God the honor that is due to His holy name.”
“Is that any difference between what some people call the ‘Adventists?”
“Oh, no,” he said, “same people, most people just talk about the Adventists and they don’t talk about the Seventh-day Adventists”.
Now, I said to myself, Man what a unique thing to have happen to me that I meet one of these guys!
So we talked about a number of things, and after lunch, I told him I wanted to see him at three o’clock. “I have another question for you.”
So three o’clock came a long, we had coffee break, many things had passed through my mind. I knew if I got involved with religion, the spirits would destroy me. We’d all been assured of that; you don’t deviate from the will of the spirits, otherwise you’re history.
So I told him, I said, “Cyril, would you show me out of the Bible the things you told me today, if I went to your house?”
He said, “Yah, I’d be glad to; when, next week sometime?” “No, no, not next week; tonight?”
He said, “What’s the big hurry?”
I said, “I can’t tell you why, but it has to be tonight, or never!” He said, “Are you serious?”
I said, “Yes!”
“And you can’t tell me why it has to be tonight? I’ll tell you the reason why,” he said, “I’d like to have you come on another night because I my collection of jazz records that somebody’s coming to look over. I’ve been collecting jazz record for years and I have somebody that’s interested to buy them.”
I said, “Well, forget about it then”.
He said, “Man, you really mean what you say? You want to see these things in the Bible?” I said, “Sure.”
“OK”, he says, “come to my place at seven o’clock.” He gave me his address. So that evening, seven o’clock sharp I rang the doorbell.
I took 28 Bible studies in a period of one week, seven days, four hours per evening. Now they didn’t plan this. So as we chatted, and I had met Cynthia, Cyril explained to me, “Now I’ve got to explain things a little bit. I am not a baptized member of the Seventh-day Adventist church. I’m just studying the church doctrines with the minister. My wife is Seventh-day Adventist. But now I think I’m soon going to be baptized and be a Seventh-day Adventist. My wife is the one that really knows the Bible. I think she has the right study for us tonight; it’ll take about an hour. Can you spare that much time?”
“Oh”, I said, “the evening is yours.”
Well she had a set of Bible studies were entitled ’28 Bible studies for busy people’, that was the title of the series. She pulled one out and there were different questions; the first one was on the Word of God. She said, “I’ll read the question and you can find the answer in the Bible, would you like that?”
I said, “Beautiful, let’s go!” Cyril was sitting next to me with his Bible, because I had never opened a Bible before in my life, never! And that’s where it started; On the Word of God.
After the Bible study was over he said, “Well, did you find it interesting?”
I said, “Most interesting, very interesting”, I said “what’s the next study coming up?”
“Oh, that is on Daniel 2, the prophecy of Daniel the prophet on the world events, predicting the great world empires that were to come into existence in times ahead.”
I said, “Really! That’s very interesting; how long would that one take?”
“Well”, she said, “it would take about an hour. You have between twenty to twenty five questions.” So I said, “Let’s have it now!”
“Oh. No,” she said, “When could you come back?” I said, “Why come back?”
She looked very surprised and she looked at her husband and he looked at me. I said, “Hey, you guys like the Bible or are you getting tired?”
“No, No we like to study the Bible,” they said.
“Then let’s have another Bible study, it’s only 8 o’clock.”
At that time I was a chain smoker, and when I had accomplished something worthwhile, I used to reward myself with a cigar, two, three times a week. This is what the power of the love of God operates in the lives of those He is trying to bless and in the lives of those who are bringing the blessing.
When it came to nine o’clock, we had Daniel 2 over with. I said, “What is the next Bible study?” She said, “Well”, she said, “Can you come on the weekend?”
I said, “Yah, I can come on the weekend. What is the title?”
She gave me the title; “Man,” I said, “It sounds interesting! It’s only nine o’clock, let’s have it now.” Cyril looks at her with a very surprised look on his face, and Cynthia she looked at him.
I said, “What’s going on between the two of you? It’s like you have a conspiracy that we’re not going to study the Bible more than an hour or two? ”
Then she said, “Let me be honest with you, our minister, pastor Taylor has been giving us instruction on how to give Bible studies, because we wanted to be able to give Bible studies when people ask us the reason for the hope that is in us, and he’s told us exactly how to do it, you have one Bible study per week. If the people are exceedingly interested, you could have one in the middle of the week, but never more than that. We’ve already passed our quota.”
Later they told me that they felt there was an urgency, something very unusual about me, Cynthia told her husband because they went to get me a glass of water. She went in the kitchen to get something, and she said to him, “What do you think?” and Cyril said, “There’s something very unusual about this man; he wants to study the Bible, let’s study the Bible! Let’s not say a word to Elder Taylor.” The minister had said that you’ll give people spiritual indigestion and they’ll never want to open the Bible again.
They had prayed about this thing now, Cyril had told his wife, “this man is coming for Bible studies seven o’clock tonight and he smokes; he’s a smoke fiend; what are we going to do? Should we tell him not to smoke in our home? If we do that, I’m afraid he’s not going to stay for the Bible study.”
If they had asked that, I would have said, “I’m sorry, you’re not my kind of people, and you’re too reserved for me.” Still to this day I thank God for the leading of His Holy Spirit at that crucial time moved in there and inspired these people to say, “Wouldn’t you die to save a soul for Christ?” Cynthia said to her husband. He said, “Yes.”
“It’s not going to kill us even if we inhale all the smoke that he puts out, right?” Because they had prayed about it. Then at quarter to seven he asked, “What are we going to do about the smoking, shall we tell him not to smoke?” She said, “Let’s put up with it.”
Well we had that third Bible study, now it’s ten o’clock; I said, “What’s the next title?” she told me about it. I said, “My, that’s a beautiful Bible study, let’s have it.”
He said, “Really Roger, we’ve studied too much tonight, we’re never going to be able to remember these things.”
“Oh”, I said, “You’d be surprised! I’ve got a mind like a sponge for the things that I like.” He said, “You’re enjoying yourself!”
I said, “I never heard anything so nice in my life. Let’s have another study; what time you people go to be, first off? I don’t want to infringe on your regular habits of rest”
“Well”, he said, “We go to bed at eleven o’clock.”
“Beautiful,” I said, “Go on Cynthia.”
Cyril said, “Go on Cynthia”, and we had another Bible study.
When the Bible studies were over, I said to myself if I am still alive, I want to be here tomorrow night. I felt sure I was going to be killed, be destroyed in some kind of accident; because I’d heard of so many cases; so I knew; this is the way I felt, I was not going to be alive tomorrow night. If for some reason I am alive, I want to be back here and study the Bible with these people. So I said, “What are you people doing tomorrow night?”
“Not too much.”
“What about seven o’clock, another Bible study?”
She looks at him and he looks at her and he said, “Hey, we won’t tell Elder Taylor, we won’t tell him a word about it. We’ll be here at seven o’clock waiting for you. ”
The next night I was there, four more Bible studies and more smoke.
SHOW ME A SIGN
There’s more to this in regard to Cyril; he was working for a real nice embroidery firm and he was studying the Bible with Pastor Taylor who had brought him now to the point were he said. “You should observe the Seventh-day Sabbath, if you’re going to serve the Lord all the way. The Lord says, ‘if ye love me keep my commandments.’ The fourth commandment says, ‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy’ and the Lord says why He wants us to keep it holy, because He’s God and we’re the creatures and we ought to be counting our blessings so to speak. ”
Now Cyril was pondering this thing in his mind and he said to himself and he prayed about it and said, “Lord I want some kind of a sign that you are really with me in this, that you want me to start keeping the Seventh-day Sabbath now. But Lord there’s something missing; I tell you what, if you make it possible for me to meet someone who doesn’t know about the Sabbath because not too many people know about it any way, and that I’m able to convince him of the importance of the Biblical Sabbath of creation then I’ll know that you want me to start keeping the Sabbath now instead of next year or some other time.”
And do you know that prayer was answered in two weeks. We figured out the time and by the time I said “if there is a God who cares about me help me”, I think it was a couple days after that that he made a decision “Lord, show me, I’d just like to have the experience of knowing that you’re listening to me and that you’re doing something special for me and I’m doing something special for you because I’m obeying.”
Cyril’s Decision
At a later time, Roger had told Cyril that he was having a problem with someone rapping at his door and when he would open it there was no one there; so Cyril, who had a permit at that time to carry a gun came over to scare away whoever was doing this. He thought it was some union men who were causing problems at that time. So he waited with Roger in his room and at twelve o’clock they heard footsteps coming down the hall, where Roger’s room was at the end.
Cyril said, “Roger, put your hand on the door knob and be ready to pull it open.” So with all the bravado that he could muster with a gun, he waited for the rap on the door, there it came. Roger continues his story, I opened the door and there was nobody there. The color of Cyril’s face changed, he was expecting union people and there wasn’t anybody there. He looked like he was almost like a statue of salt. I said, “Hey, let’s sit down, man, they’re not going to harm us.”
So we sat down and we talked some more and there was no problem and about ten minutes later the spirit knocked on my balcony door. The glass was loose a little bit and it rattled very badly; by then he jumped right out of his seat! At that time he said, “Roger, I think it is time for me to get rid of the gun and get baptized.”
Hope Arises
The Holy Spirit was inspiring me, ministering to me the graces of redemption and to be able to put it into words, I don’t have that kind of vocabulary because it’s a mystery type thing; the Holy Spirit recreates you as He ministers to you. He cleans your mind and gives you understanding and you see things in a different light that you never thought about before. Life becomes a meaningful thing all of a sudden. And you’d be willing to die for it, you see, for what you’ve learned.
That’s what I said to myself the second night as I went back home, I had about an hour on the streetcar to my place; I got home at twelve o’clock. I said, “If they do me in tonight, I have the beautiful experience of having learned these great, wonderful things about God.”
So on Wednesday night, there I had the first hope, I can’t remember exactly what verse of scripture it was but this one says, “He came unto his own and his own received him not; but as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God.” Cynthia explained what it meant.
I knew I was going to be worked over by the spirits; either through one of their boys or some accident or something, you see. This is the way I felt. I said, “This is very unusual that nothing has happened yet.” And I’m going home on Wednesday night with another appointment for Thursday seven o’clock. I had been at the Bible study instead of the spirit praise service where I was supposed to make my full commitment.
Now, I said this will be the end of it, Wednesday night they’ll have a praise session to the gods and that will be it; but nothing happens! Thursday morning I was alive. And I went back for another Bible study, that is four more and by then I realized that the Creator was taking care of things. Because these people never give God the glory but they always refer to higher powers. They pride themselves on the fact that they respect authority. So therefore, they recognize the Creator for who He is. But of course the master, fallen Lucifer is just as smart as God is and he’s got it worked out so that he’s going to have a kingdom to himself for eternity and you don’t have to worry about things.
So I realized that the power of God was intervening. Now I became brave, and the Spirit of God gave me the strength to do that, because I said, God gave me the strength to be able to die for these things I just learned. That’s what happened, I got those Bible studies on Friday and on Saturday I kept my first Sabbath.
Friday evening before I left, Cyril said, “Did you enjoy the Bible studies?”
I said, “Oh, yes! Very, very much! Tomorrow, you people are going to church? ” He said, “Yes, would you like to come with us?”
I said, “Yah!” because I had the Bible study on the Sabbath already. I said, “Sure, if I’m still alive.” He said, “What do you mean, if you’re still alive?”
Well I said, “You know, you say, if I’m still alive I’ll be here, I’ll do this or that.” But I knew what I said, if I’m still alive; and they said, “Would you join us here and we’ll walk to church, it’s not that far, we’ll walk a few blocks and it’ll be a nice day tomorrow.”
I said, “Yes, sure, I’ll meet you here.”
We walked to church and we were welcomed at the door and there was a rack of brochures on the wall; I walked over and looked at some of them and put a couple in my pocket. And we were in Sabbath School and I thought it was great.
A Smoking Victory!
On Sabbath evening, Pastor Taylor talked for quite a while and it got to be about quarter to seven in the evening; I was getting very distressed because I got a tremendous urge for smoking about an hour before and I said “Oh, I gotta have a cigarette, I just can’t stand it anymore!” and as the pastor continued explaining what I had asked him to explain, it was difficult for me. As he left I told Cyril, “I’m sorry, but I just got to smoke.”
On the way home in the streetcar I said to myself, this is going to be, excuse the expression, hell on earth, to give up smoking! Then I said, “No, it’s not going to be, because I’m going to have help!” I got to my apartment and I opened the clothes closet and I had two cartons of cigarettes on the shelf and I opened up all the packs and threw the cigarettes in the toilet and flushed them down the drain.
Then I knelt by the little table I had there with my Bible on it and I had started to read the crucifixion of Christ which I have read for forty-five years now, every morning Matthew 27:22-54, every day God willing I always read it, well know I can have my devotions at night and I don’t have to put the light on because I know it by heart see?
There I placed my trust and my life in the care of the Lord of glory who had shed His precious blood on Calvary to acquire legal right to be able to redeem me from where I was and where I was going. So that was the end of smoking, I never had a desire to smoke again! I told Him to take the desire away, to recreate me. I realized that if He is the Creator, He can recreate.
The Spirits Fight Back!
I didn’t have to wait too long for the demons to try to prevent my full commitment to God. During the week the Spirit of God held back the demon spirits so they could not have access to me; I realized that from Wednesday night on. Then as I came home at midnight on Saturday night, there was a note on my door from my buddy; He said, “It is urgent that I talk to you tonight! I don’t care if you call me in the middle of the night. I’ve got to talk to you, we’re facing a terrible disaster!”
So, I thought well Roland must have got some real static, you know. Sure enough! First of all I wanted to review something that we studied that night. I had a book, they had given me a book, Cynthia and Cyril, and I opened the book up and I started to read, and there was a marker, a sheet of paper that had been cut in half and I had put it on the table; and the piece of paper started to levitate and move around the room. It didn’t bother me; I knew what was doing it. Then the sheet of paper came and stood about a foot above my book, then it was slapped down on the book, and the book fell onto my lap and almost onto the floor, I picked it up.
I felt like telling the spirits to buzz off! But I had understood that I would not again talk with spirits; I made up my mind on that. So I picked up the book again and started to read and then the spirit picked up the book and threw it across the room against the wall with tremendous force. So I decided, Well I’m going to go and phone my buddy.
There was a public phone in the hallway; I didn’t want to use it. I went down to a diner down the block and I called him up. “How things, Roland?”
He says, “Man, don’t you care for my life, Morneau? What kind of a friend are you? I’ve been suffering since Wednesday trying to get hold of you. I’ve been waiting at your door. What time did you come home?”
I said, “I came home at midnight.”
He said, “You’re in real trouble! Because the high priest says the spirit appeared to him on Wednesday night and told him you were studying the Bible with some Christians; but you weren’t just studying the Bible with Christians, you were studying the Bible with Seventh-day Adventists! The people the master hates most on the face of the planet. How in the world did you get yourself involved with something like that? Don’t you care for your life?”
I said, “Sure.”
“Beside that…” and he told me other things that the spirits had told the high priest. The conversation went on for a while and I said, “Now listen, It’s not possible for me to explain to you over the phone what has taken place in my studying the Bible four hours per evening through the week. Why don’t you come to see me tomorrow sometime and I’ll give you the real reasons why I did what I did.”
He said, “OK”. So we made an appointment for some time Sunday morning.
After my phone call I went back to my apartment. Then I decided I might as well get to bed, it’s late. I was not sooner in bed then the lights went on. I got up and went and turned the lights off. Came back to bed; the light goes on again. I said to myself, “there’s no use getting up and turning the lights off, they’re going to put them back on again. So I’m going to decide to go to sleep with the lights on.
So after a while things start moving around the place. A picture on that wall goes and sticks itself on the other wall where there is nothing to hold it up; and the light that was on the table moved and stand in mid air, it stays there. I wasn’t at all afraid at this time because of the fact, you see, human beings get accustomed to a lot of things and you get supernatural strength either from good or evil. The Lord was seeing me through this thing. I knew I was going to have a terrible struggle somewhere along the way somehow. They were going to try and destroy me, no question about it.
So after this nonsense had gone on quite a while, I went off to sleep, I said. “Hey, I’m going to get my rest, I’m tired. Lord, bless this fellow to get some rest from these spirits,” and I went to sleep. They woke me up about two o’clock in the morning again, and about four o’clock.
Now at four o’clock in the morning I sat up in bed, pushed my pillow in the back and I said to myself, “What in the world am I going to do?” Because the Lord doesn’t clear them out from me. Then I got a thought that maybe the Lord just wants me to know from the spirits exactly how I’m standing with them. And I said to the spirit, “You want to talk to me.”
The spirit said, “Yes, Finally! I’m able to talk to you. What in the world do you think you’re doing?” You see the Lord had held back even on the spirits that the spirits could not talk to me. I realized that they were under very special control. So I got talking with the spirit and I realized that he was a spirit counselor. Because he said, “The master has tremendous plans for your life. Fame, honor, respect, wealth, don’t you value any of these things?”
I said, “I want you to know spirit that ten days ago, I would have grabbed your offer, but now you’re talking to a former spirit worshipper and I’m educated to the reality of life, especially the reality of eternal life; especially the reality of eternal life.” I said, “I’m not interested”.
For about two or three minutes maybe four minutes, and that’s a long time in a conversation, there was no response to what I had said. Then when the spirit spoke again he had a tremor in his voice, in other words, you know when a person gets really desperate in a crisis situation? Your voice changes; and it gave me the impression that he had a hard time expressing himself and that was a very clever individual.
“Well,” he said, “We’ve worked so long over the years to prepare you for the master’s work and what are you doing?” He told me, “OK. You’re turning down the offer of the master?”
I said, “Definitely”.
He said, “From now on, poverty will be the lot of your life. That is, if you can manage to stay alive!” and he said, “That I doubt if you’ll have much of, your days are numbered!”
I said, “You know, spirit, the high priest mentioned about higher powers? I’m affiliated now with the higher powers. I don’t have to concern myself with you or your master or any of the other spirits because you’re all losers. I am the winner! A hundred million years of perfect life, recreated, translated, or resurrected, my years will be counted into the millions of years. If I take the offer of the master, what do I have? I’m twenty years of age, even if I live to be a hundred, how can you compare that to a hundred million years? And I’ll have all the gold that I want and the silver that you’re offering me and more, so I’m not a loser anymore, I’m a winner!”
And the spirit says, “We’ll destroy you!” and he laughed, this was frightening, he had this laugh that caused me to think immediately of the laugh that Nero must have had on his face when the lions were tearing the Christians apart. I said, “This is the way Nero must have laughed when the lions were tearing Christians apart in the arena of the Coliseum in Rome.”
When he finally left he almost took the door with him, he left through the balcony door and the door was slammed open and the doorknob almost went through the plaster of the wall. I commanded him in the Name of the Lord Jesus to leave my place and come no more. And he left, and instead of slamming the door shut behind him like a person would, he slammed the door open as he went out and you could see the imprint of the doorknob in the plaster, The house was fifty years old so the plaster had been settled a long time.
I went back to sleep and I woke up in the morning and I said, “My, it’s time to get up” and my Bible on my night table was to my left, I put my hand on my Bible and then I started to shuffle the pages, and I was thinking about many things while I was doing this and all of a sudden I opened the Bible wide open. Then I got thinking again, never realizing what I had done.
I got up and after I straightened myself out a little bit, I looked at the Bible, and my eyes fell on this chapter of Isaiah the prophet; and I got reading and it was the experience of Hezekiah when Sennacherib the great general of the armies of the Assyrians had compassed the city of Jerusalem and he was telling Hezekiah that he might as well give up and open the gates. “You’re not going to survive this because we’ve destroyed all the nations that we’ve gone through before getting here.”
I was very impressed with the fact that Hezekiah took the letter that the General had sent him and went in the temple of the Lord and placed it before the Lord and he talked to the Lord about the letter. And asked for His guidance and he had not yet returned to his castle when Isaiah came, the prophet, and he said, “The Lord has sent a message to you. The way that Sennacherib has come, that’s the way that he’s going to return.”
I loved that prayer, that Hezekiah prayer; I memorized that, a beautiful prayer, because from that moment on I got an inner desire to fortify myself with the Word of God. Because every time that I read a verse in the Bible that applied to my condition, I received encouragement and strength. I said, “This is what I need to do. I’m going to fortify myself with the Word of God. I’m going to memorize the Word of God.” and right then and there I took a piece of paper and I underlined those verses of the prayer of Hezekiah in red in the Bible; I wrote down on a piece of paper and put it in my coat pocket. When I traveled on the tramway, I could memorize that. I have done that now for 45 years and I’m still memorizing things.
My wife once said to me, “Are you still memorizing?” I said, “Yes.”
She said, “Why are you memorizing? You know so much of the Bible already?” I said, “Yes, but I need some more! I’ve got to keep feeding myself spiritually.”
I saw there a beautiful deliverance and then I read the rest of the chapter and it shows that during the night, the angel of the Lord went out so when the general and his officers woke up in the morning, they look over the camp and all their soldiers were dead! And they took off for home before they were done in. Sennacherib went to the temple of Nishrob his god, and while he was worshipping there his sons came in and put a dagger in his back. And they fled to the land of the Iranians. I was very impressed with that and I left the Bible open there. I had my worship.
When my friend came over, the Bible was still there. He came in and sat himself down and said, “ Of all people, not Morneau, would do a stupid thing like daring the spirits. You’re an intelligent man aren’t you? You got a choice; the high priest tells me that if you come to see him with me now, no problem! Everything’s going to be straightened out with the spirits. He promised him that already. He got that assurance. Let’s do the right thing. Why gamble with your life?”
I said, “Well, I’ll tell you what; I don’t feel like going to see the high priest now or ever!” we conversed about a number of things and he said, “Well, I hate to have to tell you this, but seeing that you’ve decided that you’re not going to have anything to do with the master and his people; the high priest told me that a price has been put on your life. A medical doctor, a member, has placed ten thousand dollars to have you done in.”
This surprised me a little, but I had prepared myself for something worse; so it didn’t bother me too much, the strength of the Lord, the way the Spirit of the Lord was giving me strength. As we talked, and now he decided that he was losing the battle, he became very nervous and he got up and went to the door, put his hand on the door and we talked there.
He said, “Morneau, please! If it’s not for your sake, do it for me. Do you realize what’s going to happen to me if something happens to you? I don’t know how they’re going to treat me.”
I said, “Hey, man, let me tell you something, I’ve got a suggestion for you. You come with me. I guarantee you all the protection that you need to live to a ripe old age! And besides that, I’ll tell you what, you should go back and tell the high priest and all his boys to come to our church. I’ll arrange with my minister to have a hundred spaces there right off the center aisle.” I felt like making them an invitation.
“Well”, he says, “I would never say a stupid thing like that!” “Well, that’s your responsibility. Things are settled”.
He lit a cigarette, and as he lit the cigarette, I saw his hand shake. I said, “You’re quite nervous?”
“Let me tell you”, he says, “There’s a power here, a presence that I’m not accustomed to. I’m very uncomfortable.”
I said, “Do you know what it is? It’s the presence of the Spirit of God! The Spirit of the Creator, the Life-giver. Every other power is subject unto that higher Power. You’re aware of that.”
Then he decided to go.
“My friend”, I said, “I’ve got some news for you; not so much for you as it is for the high priest.” Now the Spirit of God gave me very special righteous indignation, that when I heard that they were going to have me shot, I said, “Look, I got some news for the high priest and his boys, the day that they wipe me out will be the day that the Life-giver is going to pull the breath of life on all of them except the high priest and they’ll be dead cadavers there in the temple. And tell the high priest this, don’t call funeral directors, because they don’t have enough hursts; you better call the fire department they can pile them all up there, the whole hundred of them.” I said, “This is going to be what takes place.”
He said, “You’re a fool!”
“Do you think so? Let me show you something”. I picked up the Bible and I said, “I’m going to tell you a little story.”
“Make it short”, he said, “because I’m going!”
“Listen to this, I just read it this morning, there’s a man by the name of Hezekiah that believed in the Creator a few hundred years back and let me tell you what happened to him. Sennacherib came with his armies, he went before the Lord and prayed about it. And the Lord said, ‘The way that Sennacherib came is the way he is going to go home.’ And during the night a hundred and eighty-five thousand men were destroyed by a mighty angel of the Lord! So”, I said, “Don’t tell me that I don’t know what I’m talking about. I can assure you, that if they put a bullet in me, they’re all going to loose out! The Creator will remove the breath of life.” And I felt as sure of that as if it was a prediction and I think the Lord would have backed up my word.
“Well”, he said, “I guess I’ve lost my time. Before we part I don’t even want to shake your hand, because you’re not a friend of mine no more. If ever we meet one another, anywhere, don’t you ever look at me like you know me because I’ll ignore you and embarrass you where ever we are.”
I said, “Fine, have it your way; I have no problem with that at all.”
CONCLUSION AND SUMMARY HARASSMENT
After the spirit left that evening the interference was not over instantly; every night the spirits knocked on the walls; knocked on the doors; I was awakened two or three times a night. They were trying to reopen conversation with me. The Lord would not allow them to bother me in any ways except that they tried to have communication with me.
You see, the Creator has given us freedom of choice; you can choose good or choose evil you see; that’s your prerogative. It’s a freedom that He has given us which is beautiful; freedom of choice. Well of course the enemy of the Lord says, “Hey, I want access to him; at least you can allow me to knock on the door; if he responds, You lost him! He’s mine.” So I knew that very well, and it went for six months that the spirits knocked every night. I said, “Hey, Thank You Lord, that’s all You allow them to do!” They would love to destroy me; bring the ceiling down and the whole building on me in that manner. But I figured to myself, this is a thorn in my flesh; you see I’d read 2 Corinthians, the apostle Paul says because of the abundance of the revelations that he had received from God, and all that, there is given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
Because the fallen human heart just loves to think good of itself and becomes proud and vain and sins against its Creator. The apostle Paul says, “I’m going to pray about it”, he said “For this thing I sought the
Lord Thrice.” And the Lord told him, “My grace is sufficient for thee, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Isn’t that beautiful? So the apostle said, “Therefore, most gladly will I rejoice in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” And I said the same thing to the Lord, “Lord if you want these critters to be after me all the days of my life and knock and wake me up every night that’s OK with me. That’s the least I could put up with.”
One prayer meeting, the minister says, “How’s things going with your Christian walk?” I said, “Sir, couldn’t go any better.”
He said, “I’m glad for you! No problem with the spirits at all, eh?”
“Oh,” I said, “Well, yah, they try to reopen communication with me all the time. They knock every night and wake me up.”
“They do? How can you put up with that? “ “There’s no other way.”
“No, no, no,” he said, “wait a minute, it’s my fault, I didn’t tell you this. The spirits have an open avenue to you that God can not close as long as you have in your place literature or things that have to do with spirit worship. Do you have anything like that at your place?”
“Oh, yah, I got three books, and I got some incense and I got some candles.”
“Well,” he said, “Get rid of all this mess and you’re not going to be bothered with spirits any more. I’m sure of that!”
So I did exactly what he told me- solved completely!
Now today a lady wrote me from California said, “It’s very urgent that I get your phone number because I have to talk to you, I cannot tell you everything in writing. I need to talk with you because I am being spirit oppressed.” I got the letter and she gave me her phone number and immediately I called and left my number. She called back and told me what she was up against. She said, “You’ve got to help me! Brother Morneau, the ministers can’t help me over here and even the president of the conference thinks I’m crazy.”
I said, “Exactly what’s the problem?”
She told me, “I’m reading my Bible the spirit picked up the Bible and threw it against the wall! And when I read your book, I said, this is it! This is the same thing!”
She told me about being bounce up on her bed three o’clock in the morning, from the ceiling down to the bed. Things move around the house, she hears a man’s voice downstairs, she goes down, there’s nobody. The doors open and shut and when she checks they are locked. The windows open and shut. I told her, “Lady, you are being demon spirit oppressed.”
“What can we do about it? My minister won’t even talk to me anymore about anything. He says, ‘Hi sister, how are you today’, and tries to get to talk to somebody else as soon as possible.”
I said, “Lady, with God’s blessing, you got your problem solved.” And I gave her the recipe. I said, “Now you’re going to have to do something very special.”
“I’ll do anything you tell me to do that is in the will of the Lord!”
“You’re going to have to acquaint yourself with the redeeming power of the Blood of Christ and what He can do for you that you can’t do for yourself. Besides saving you for eternity He can save you from this oppression. First”, I said, “you have a taint of demon spirit defilement; the demon spirits have direct access to you and the Lord cannot really help you there because you have in your home something that belonged to someone that’s involved with the supposed spirits of the dead, which are real demon spirits. Has anyone that you know been involved with the spirits of the dead?”
She said, “Yes, the blind lady I’ve been taking care of for the last three years; three days per week. She’s given me a scarf, a Bible, she’s given me different other things.” She said, “Do you think that could be the thing?”
After she told me the experience of the old lady, the blind lady, that was it. She didn’t want a Bible because the Bible was giving her trouble. She prays to her mother, converses with her dead mother. The blind lady said to her, “That Bible is giving me trouble, would you like the Bible?” Well she said that she had one already but the blind lady told her, “I got to give it to somebody, why don’t you take the Bible?” When she brought the Bible home that was the beginning of the whole thing.
Now the spirits were really moving in, then she gave her a scarf and gave her other things. Now we were talking at ten o’clock that night and I said, “Do you want some peace tonight? Take everything and put it in the garage. Then sit yourself down with your Bible and read Matt. 27:24-54, the crucifixion of Christ, very attentively and prayerfully and respectfully; then you talk to the Lord about it and your problems are over.”
Sure enough, she called me back the next day, no problem at all, no noise all gone, it has not returned except once, she called me up and said, “There’s a problem, I hear the walking again. But I’ve been thinking, there was this man I dated (She was a widow) once or twice and he believed in the spirits of the dead. He used to talk to his dead cousins.” He had given her a lawnmower and I told her to take the lawnmower and put it outside. She called back, everything was fine.
Now many people are afraid of people that would put a ‘hex’ on them because they take a piece of your hair or something that belongs to you… that’s baloney. The Lord takes care of all these things. But when a spiritist or someone who is involved with demon spirits in some form or other gives you anything and you bring it to your home, the spirits have access to your home openly at all times and the Lord can not help you until you voluntarily remove those items. But this does not mean that He does not hold them in check because they would love to destroy you.
“Earnest, persevering supplications to God in faith. ..can alone avail to bring men the Holy Spirit’s aid in the battle against principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, and wicked spirits in high places” (The Desire of Ages, p. 43 I).
Many of those who have turned to prayer with a full understanding of what they were up against are now enjoying glorious victories over what had once been crushing problems. We must take seriously Satan’s attacks on believers. Ellen White writes that “there is little enmity against Satan and his works, because there is so great ignorance concerning his power and malice, and the vast extent of his warfare against Christ and His church. Multitudes are deluded here. They do not know that their enemy is a mighty general who controls the minds of evil angels, and that with well-matured plans and skillful movements he is warring against Christ to prevent the salvation of souls.
“Among professed Christians, and even among ministers of the gospel, there is hardly a reference to Satan While men are ignorant of his devices, this vigilant foe is upon their track every moment. He is
intruding his presence in every department of the household, in every street of Our cities, in the churches, in the national councils, in the courts of justice, perplexing, deceiving, seducing, everywhere ruining the souls and bodies of men, women, and children, breaking up families, sowing hatred, emulation, strife, sedition, murder. And the Christian world seems to regard these things as though God had appointed them and they must exist” (The Great Controversy, pp. 507, 508).
While the servant of the Lord set forth the immensity of Satan’s activities against the human family, she also gave us words of encouragement in our struggle against him. “The power and malice of Satan and his host might justly alarm us were it not that we may find shelter and deliverance in the superior power of the Redeemer. We carefully secure Our homes with bolts and locks to protect our property and Our lives from evil men; but we seldom think of the evil angels who are constantly seeking access to us, and against whose attacks we have, in our own strength, no method of defense.
“If permitted, they can distract our minds, disorder and torment our bodies, destroy our possessions and our lives. Their only delight is in misery and destruction But those who follow Christ are ever safe under His watchcare. Angels that excel in strength are sent from heaven to protect them. The wicked one cannot break through the guard which God has stationed about His people” (ibid” p, 517; italics supplied).
The Lord has given us beautiful minds, and blessed us with the capacity to form images in our minds of things not present to the senses. God has endowed us with the ability to create new ideas or to combine old ones in new ways. That crowning element is our imagination. Let us always watch and pray over it with all possible diligence so that the enemies of our Lord will not do it any injury. Only through divine help can those tragic men and women who write to me overcome the terrible discouragement and misery that Satan and this sin-filled world heaps upon them.
Temcat’s note: I would like to urge all Christians to think seriously about whether you are leaving any back doors open so that Satan has access to tempt or harass you or your family. Here are a list of things you should consider, Do you have fictional books and novels in your home, maybe you no longer read them but they are there; are there videos, musical recordings, pictures, magazines, games or other items that you know Jesus would not wish you to have. Have you been given or perhaps acquired as a souvenir any images, statues or pictures associated with heathen customs; Native American spiritual objects like ‘dream catchers’, and other items are popular these days. I know from my own personal experience that any of these things that we hang onto can be used as an avenue of temptation and harassment in our lives. Clean house! Get it all out and destroy it and you will be blessed with peace and a closer walk with your Lord.
Epilogue from Roger Morneau
Over (fifty) years have passed since my involvement with the supernatural world of evil spirits. I am now advancing in age and in the …seventh decade of my life. The fact that I am still alive, I believe, is because I have been under the care of the Life-giver, Christ the Lord of glory. To decide for Christ at the age of 21, when the spirits were offering me wealth, fame, and power, was the wisest choice I have ever made. And to have a solid relationship with Christ, and like the apostle Paul, to “be found in him, not having mine own righteousness but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God
by faith: that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection “-all this has brought into my life a wealth of peace, contentment, and joy in the Lord that no amount of money could ever buy.
As I told in my recent book, More Incredible Answers to Prayer, were it not for His power of love, cancer would have sent me to the grave in 1989. In addition, God has been blessing in glorious ways the prayer ministry He has led me into. The Spirit of God has been transforming lives, remedying seemingly impossible situations, and providing solutions and victory for the hopeless. Let me give just one example. ‘”, A friend wrote to Hilda and me and asked us to pray for her husband, who was facing surgery for the removal of a kidney. Because of the man’s age and the fact that he had suffered a stroke six months before, the doctors feared that he might not survive the operation. Yet they could not allow the cancerous kidney to remain in the body.
As so many times before, the Spirit of God sustained my faith in the power of Christ’s resurrection, and I asked my Lord that if it would be to the glory of the Godhead, would He please cause the power of the “Spirit of life in [Him]” (Rom. 8:2) to permeate our friend’s body and drive away the elements of death that were destroying his kidney.
When the man woke up the day before the operation, he felt so well that he wondered out loud if he really needed the surgery. After a series of tests, the physician found, to his great surprise, that the kidney showed no sign of disease, and the large tumor that had been attached to it was gone. The following day he was discharged from the hospital.
Having such prayers answered is worth far more than anything the spirits could have offered me. All I can still say is, Glory to God in the highest!
Note from Temcat: Brother Morneau fell asleep in Jesus in late 1999.
“If evil angels have such power over the children of men in their disobedience, how much greater power the good angels have over those who are striving to be obedient. When we put our trust in Jesus Christ, working obedience unto righteousness, angels of God work in our hearts unto righteousness. SM Vol. 1, 94
Temcat’s Note: I wish to add a section from Brother Morneau’s book regarding “Deliverance Ministries” as this is such a dangerous deception that has come among us!
Deliverance Ministries
One of the most frequent questions I receive is for my opinion of the so-called deliverance ministries. Many of the writers have had relatives who have become involved with such organizations. Individuals belonging to deliverance ministries have convinced the loved ones that they were demon-possessed, and whether they actually were before, now the relatives find themselves continually harassed by demonic spirits. Because I have seen so much grief and injury, I feel that I must respond to these letters.
To begin with, I will recount the experience of a Christian woman by the name of Doherty, whose daughter Clara requested exorcism after listening to a sermon by someone active in deliverance ministries. The daughter became convinced from the sermon that she too was demon-possessed.
As Mrs. Doherty told me over the phone, the sermon totally ruined Clara’s faith in Christ, and her life has been nothing but misery ever since. She hears voices almost continually, and they wake her up some nights, refusing to let her sleep until the early hours of the morning. One exorcist minister even told the daughter that she had better get used to hearing the voices of demons because they would be with her forever.
Mrs. Doherty had obtained a copy of Incredible Answers to Prayer and read it in her bedroom one night without her daughter’s knowledge. Then she prayed that God would help her be able to write me about Clara’s problem. A short while later the daughter bounced out of her bedroom in great distress and said, “Mother, who is Roger Morneau?”
Mrs. Doherty asked why she wanted to know. The girl replied that a voice had warned her, “Don’t let your mother phone Roger Morneau. We hate him with a passion, and besides, he can’t help you anyway. If your mother phones him, we won’t let you sleep for days.”
According to Mrs. Doherty, when her daughter commands in the name of Jesus for the spirits to leave her, they laugh and say that there is no way she can make them go away. The problem soon reached the point where the girl was thinking of killing herself to stop the demonic oppression.
“Some individuals have taken upon themselves to do the work of the Holy Spirit,” I wrote back to Mrs. Doherty, “and a harvest of misery has been produced. As a result, a great many Christians have become victims of satanic cruelty.
“My own experience of having been at one time a spiritist has helped me to understand the dangers of what your daughter has become involved in. It has unmasked to me the nature of the power that propels these so-called deliverance ministries.
“First, let me draw your attention to the fact that some of those who will find themselves among the wicked below the walls of the New Jerusalem will have had active careers of casting demons out of people. Listen to the words of Jesus:
” ‘Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? …Then I will profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity’ Matthew 7:22,23.
“I understand Jesus to mean here that some of those who appear to cast demons out of people are not really doing the work of Christ, but of the devil. Many wonder how such a thing could be. But when you focus on them the light of the Word of God, as well as the lesser light, the writings of the Spirit of Prophecy, you will recognize that these self-proclaimed exorcists have been taken in by a powerful deception.
“Deuteronomy 18: 10.12 gives a list of nine activities that will bring people into contact with the supernatural. Moses declared being involved in these activities especially disturbs God because He knows how dangerous they are.
“Verse 10: ‘There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.’
“Verse 11: ‘Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.’
“Verse 12: ‘For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.’
“The surrounding nations performed such occult practices, and God forbade the Israelites to have anything to do with them. I would like to bring your attention back to verse II and the phrase ‘a consulter with familiar spirits.’
“My French Bible reads ‘a consulter with friendly spirits.’ During my affiliation with demon worshipers I was amazed to discover that they classified spirits into three distinct groups. The ‘friendly’ spirits were those who specialized in deceiving people. Lying spirits, they love to appear as the supposed spirits of the dead.
“The other two groups they named were the ‘warriors’ and the ‘oppressors.’ The ‘warriors,’ they said, concentrate on causing discord in families, hatred among classes of society, and outright wars among nations. The last group, the oppressors,’ find their greatest delight in inflicting misery and destruction on people.
“Now let us see how long a minister of the gospel conversing with a ‘friendly’ spirit would have remained alive among the people of Israel. Leviticus 20:26, 27 tells us, ‘Ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be
put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.’
“The gospel ministers who have been conversing with demonic spirits through possessed individuals should count themselves fortunate that they did not live during Bible times if they had, their careers would have been short ones.
‘Satan is seeking to overcome men today, as he overcame Our first parents, by shaking their confidence in their Creator. (The Great Controversy, p. 534). Satan’s most effective way undermining people’s confidence in God is through spiritual leaders.
“For example, when a minister of the gospel tells a person that he or she is possessed with a demon of fear (or any other ‘kind’ of demon), he has in essence told that person that s will spend the rest of his or her life in a spiritual prison.
“Instantly one of Satan’s demons brings the thought mind that Jesus has failed the person completely. That He, whom he or she had placed complete trust to save, has been able to protect him or her from demon possession. As happened to your daughter, such a thought shatters confidence in Christ. Now the way is wide open for a demonic spirit to move in and possess, taking complete control of the faculties.
“Let me assure you, however, that all is not lost with your daughter. Here is a seven-step recovery program that I have given to a number of persons victimized by the so-call deliverance ministries.
” 1. Throw out or destroy all literature that exalts deliverance ministries. Demonic Spirits have aright to stay with objects that bear their taint of defilement.
“2. Do not speak to demonic spirits even to command them to depart in the name of Jesus. Let the Holy Spirit do the Work. Even Jesus said that He depended on the Spirit of to cast out demons (Matthew 12:28).
“3. Early every morning read the account of Christ’s crucifixion found in Matthew 27:24-54. It only takes about four minutes to read, and will greatly bless your life.
“4. Ask God for forgiveness of sin whether it be in thought, words, or deeds.
“5. Plead the merits of the blood that Christ shed Calvary as the reason the Holy Spirit should fight Your Spiritual battles. ‘Earnest, persevering supplication to God in faith can alone avail to bring men the Holy Spirit’s aid in the battle against principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world, and wicked spirits in high places’ [The Desire of Ages, p.431).
“6. Pray for God to restore the faith that you once had in Christ’s power to save so that you will once again have an unfaltering trust in our great Redeemer.
“7. Memorize the Word of God in order to live a victorious, successful Christian life. Fill your mind with passages of Scripture that will give you hope, encouragement, and joy in the Lord.
“I know from personal experience how the above steps can help us escape the harassment of demonic spirits.”
In my letter to Mrs. Doherty I also gave additional details about her personal needs as an intercessor in behalf of her daughter, and how to lift Christ in all His glory before Clara so that the girl could regain her faith in Him.
Besides God’s express command not to converse with spirits, there is still another reason we should avoid dealings with deliverance ministries. To rebuke spirits as such people do is to take onto oneself a divine attribute. Those who practice deliverance ministries are actually putting themselves in the role of God Himself. Only God has the right or power to rebuke demons.
Let me explain by sharing with you a few passages of Scripture. If you go to a concordance and look up the use of the word “rebuke” in the Old Testament, you will notice an interesting thing: God is the one who does the rebuking. Often He rebukes the sea, an Old Testament symbol of the evil or anything else that opposes God (some examples include Psalm 18:15; Psalm 104:5-7; Psalm 106:9; Exodus 15:4-10; Isaiah 50:2; and Nahum 1:3, 4).
God continues to rebuke the sea even in the New Testament, as we see in Matthew 8:23-27. After Jesus rebuked the stormy Sea of Galilee (verse 26), they exclaim to each other, “What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” (verse 27). Because they were steeped in Scripture, they sensed that Jesus had done something that only the Lord God Himself could and had the right to do. But besides rebuking the sea as a symbol of evil, God in the Bible rebukes something else: Satan and those forces the devil employs against God and His people (Zechariah 3: I, 2; Psalm 76:9; Isaiah 17:13). A careful study of those passages in which the Bible shows God rebuking something shows that He alone has the authority and power to deal with those forces that try to block His will, especially on the supernatural level.
Mark 9: 14- 29 tells how Jesus heals a boy after rebuking the demon that possessed the child. Although Jesus, being fully God like the Father, could have employed His divine authority to cast such a demon out, here in His human nature He links it with intercessory prayer (verse 29). In His perfect humanness He called upon the Holy Spirit to drive the demon out.
Jesus also rebukes demons in Mark I: 21- 28, and in Mark 8:33 He specifically rebukes Satan as the instigator of Peter’s rebuke (verse 32). Jesus casts out demons in Matthew 8:28- 34. Although He does not use the verb “rebuke,” the incident does immediately follow His rebuke of the storm on the sea.
What does this mean? Jesus has the right to rebuke demons and the forces of evil. It is His divine attribute. The disciples cast out demons because Jesus had commissioned them to do so for a time. But to take the attribute upon ourselves is to put ourselves in the place of God. Adam and Eve sought to have attributes of God, and He had to cast them out of the Garden of Eden. Deliverance ministries are also trying to put themselves into the role of God, and that can lead only to confusion and destruction. When anyone tries to take God’s responsibility of casting out demons, they are committing Adam and Eve’s sin again. Naturally Satan and his agents rejoice when we attempt to exorcise evil spirits, because we are playing into demonic hands.
The Lord of glory who at creation could speak and “it was so” has the power to protect us from all evil spirits. We need never fear their power or threat when we remember that Jesus has given us His word: “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5). Paul triumphantly declared, “For 1 am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38, 39).
Jesus claims the capacity “to present you faultless before .the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever” (Jude 24, 25).
From personal experience I have learned that the Christ who shed His blood for us on Calvary will never fail us. Those who stand in the pulpit and claim that if anyone feels anxiety he or she could be possessed by a demon are insinuating that Christ has failed to protect and save that person. Flee from those people before they totally destroy your faith in God, and thus separate you from God both now and for eternity. They can never deliver you from Satan, because they have become agents of evil themselves.
To illustrate the harvest of misery produced by those who have taken upon themselves the responsibility and work of the Holy Spirit in casting out demons, I recount the experience of a woman in her 30s who had her faith in Christ’s power to save totally destroyed. The following excerpts are from a very long letter.
“My husband and I,” she wrote, “joined the SDA church in the fall of 1987, and observing the Sabbath was a most delightful experience. Belonging to God’s commandment- keeping people was most rewarding, and I can honestly say that our joy in the Lord was perfect.
“Like many other individuals, I have been anxious about many things. I worried about the children if they were late getting home from school and was uneasy about my mother’s health. At times I feared that my husband may have had an accident when he did not get home at the usual time.
“I have always been tense while riding in someone else’s car. Electrical storms frightened me greatly, and a number of other things caused me concern in my life.
“Then one day as I listened to a sermon by a minister active in conducting exorcisms, I was amazed to hear how many demon-possessed Christians had the same anxieties that I experienced. The more I listened, the more I became convinced that I was also demon-possessed.
“The preacher was so convincing. Because he appeared to be such a man of God, I didn’t question anything he said. And it greatly distressed me when I thought that Jesus in whom I had placed all my trust had not been able to keep demonic spirits from possessing my body. Devastated, I agreed to go through a deliverance service as a means of getting rid of the evil spirits.
“The service lasted many hours, and as the demons came up, the minister took authority over each one of them. The spirits told how they had controlled my life-they confessed it all.”
The woman states in her letter that for a short while she felt released from her anxieties. In fact, she found herself not caring much about anything, a strange reaction for her. Before long her life became a tangled mess, and at times she thought about ending it all. The experience had greatly damaged her mind.
“It’s hard for me to finish anything that I have started,” she comments. “My memory is fading. Things that I once could remember well, now takes such effort to recall. It disheartens me to the point that I don’t care what happens to me. I feel like I want to commit myself to an insane asylum, as I can’t stand the pressures of life.
“My mind is under constant attack from some unseen force. The harassment, the oppression that I have been under-no one can understand. I feel like the Lord has turned away from me, and I am powerless to do anything about it. I have no desire to pray, and when I try, I get nowhere.
“My husband left me two years ago, and I can’t blame him for it. I hate myself for being this screwed up. All my hopes and dreams have been dashed.”
She claims that SDA ministers have not been of help to her. Not knowing what to do in her situation, they feel uncomfortable around her and avoid her. The woman closed her long letter with the plea “Mr. Morneau, I need help! I need to be at peace.” How God will help her, I do not yet know. But I do know that others can escape such grief and misery by avoiding the dangers of the deliverance ministries.
Temcat’s note: I urge any among my readers who may have been involved in so called “deliverance ministries” to flee from this deception and destroy all literature about such things. These things are nothing to take lightly, souls are at stake!
May God Bless you all and keep you by His mighty grace and power!
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Roger Morneau is a man of remarkable faith. When he prays, things happen. Some miracles have saved him from certain death. But most are in response to prayers for others. Patients dying in a hospital get well. Shattered families are reunited. Addicts find freedom. And hearts are changed. Every year Roger Morneau received thousands of calls and letters requesting intercessory prayer. As he shared God’s amazing answers, he showed how you too can take hold of the incredible power of prayer.