Sid Roth - Exorcist Comes Face to Face with Satanist. Then This Happens...
My guest, a professional exorcist. You will actually see him cast demons out of two people. Next on this edition of It's Supernatural.
Sid Roth: Hello. I'm Sid Roth your investigative reporter. I'm here with Bob Larson. Bob, what is an exorcist.
Bob Larson: Well simply said, it's someone who casts out demons. It's someone who confronts the devil who has invaded someone's life and tells him to leave, and restores that person to some normal functioning capacity that they haven't had because of the demon's intrusion.
Sid Roth: Now how does a nice man like you end up being a professional exorcist? How did you even find out about this? Most people think it's all a boogie monster. It's all a fairytale, Christians, non-Christians, Jews, Muslims. But some people think it's real.
Bob Larson: Well or they think it's someone in clerical garb. All of the Roman Catholic Church was used in the most visible component of it, waiving a crucifix and flailing holy water away.
Sid Roth: We've all seen the Dracula movies.
Bob Larson: Yeah. The movie "The Exorcist" and people bouncing off walls and spitting green pea soup, it's really not like that at all. I got interested in this as a young man traveling overseas and seeing in societies, in cultures where self-mutilation and torture rituals are practiced, amazing supernatural phenomena. And I came back.
Sid Roth: Give me a glimpse, one thing you saw that you...
Bob Larson: One of the first things that I saw, as a very young man, I traveled to Asia. There are only actually two places left on Earth where they're allowed to do, it's called the Thaipusam ceremony of Hinduism. That's in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in Singapore, and it's a self-mutilation torture ritual. For example, they'll take a hundred three-foot long skewers sharp as a pin, thrust them into their body and support them on a large device called a kavadi that holds them in places if they're a human pin cushion. They slice their tongues. They'll put big meat hooks into their back and drag idols down the street, put spikes shoes on their feet.
Sid Roth: What's the motivation? Why do they do this?
Bob Larson: Devotion for the gods to be forgiven of sin, to thank the gods for what they believe is an answer to prayer or as a petition to get something done by the gods.
Sid Roth: Doesn't this hurt them?
Bob Larson: Absolutely not. They feel no pain and they never shed any blood.
Sid Roth: You're telling me they, wait a second, they don't feel no pain and they don't shed blood. How come they don't shed blood?
Bob Larson: Well they say it's the power of their god being demonstrated. What happens is that the priest walks up, does an incantation, touches them on the forehead, boom, they're out. They're in a trance. And for the next several hours while they go through the mutilation they're in a state of oblivion. They have no idea what happened. So I saw this. I mean, it's a very raw demonstration of the supernatural. I came back to America. I said a simple prayer: God, if this happens in America, not like that, but if this raw expression of the demonic happens and you'd like me to do something about it I'm available. And it started coming my way. I mean, I didn't, you don't look for this stuff. Nobody wants to take Exorcism 101. Nobody really wants to do this. You need to be called. And so it happened spontaneously.
Sid Roth: You believe that God called you to do this.
Bob Larson: Well I really didn't have a choice. What happened is that I would be traveling. I would be public speaking. I did a lot of public speaking and so on and people would just walk up to me to share a problem. And they'd look at me and they'd say, "I feel like I want to kill myself all the time. I mean, I feel like I want to jump off bridges". And I would start to talk to them. And as I would be speaking with them another voice would speak out of their body sometimes.
Sid Roth: I'll tell you what, stop right there. Let's take a look at an actual deliverance right now.
Sid Roth: What is going through your mind when something like that is going on?
Bob Larson: I've done it so many times. I'm kind of on automatic pilot. I'm just, I'm strategically thinking, what is the devil doing, how do I need to counter it with the truth of God and get this person to a place of freedom. See, when someone has a demon there is a reason. The grace of goodness of a loving God protects us from the devil unless we step over a line. In this case, in this particular woman's instance, she had been deeply wronged, and instead of just getting some therapy, some counseling, some help to process through that she allowed it to become a deeply embedded hatred.
Sid Roth: Out of curiosity, do witches or Satanists ever show up at your meetings?
Bob Larson: Oh yes, many times, many times. But you know, this is kind of interesting. Not a lot of Satanists and witches have demons. I know all the leaders of the councils.
Sid Roth: You see, my peanut brain would say they all do.
Bob Larson: No. For example, I know all the leaders of the Satanic movement in America. I've sat down with the Council of 13 with the Church of Satan. I know these people have been around.
Sid Roth: Do you have any fear of them?
Bob Larson: Oh absolutely not, none whatsoever.
Sid Roth: Why?
Bob Larson: Because God in me is greater than anything that they have. I mean, God's got the upper hand. The devil is a loser. God's the winner. I don't fear any of that because of God. Not me. In the natural I would. But my confidence is in God. But my point is those people don't need demons. You see, philosophically they're doing evil. Why waste a demon on somebody who's going to do what the devil wants them to do anyway? But a good person who would do the right thing unless they were impeded, that's who Satan goes after. I tell folks he goes after the good stuff.
Sid Roth: Are there doors that people innocently open up?
Bob Larson: Yes. This woman, for example, hatred. It isn't just anger. It's want I call anger over the edge. It's getting even anger and they harbor it.
Sid Roth: All right. There are called demons.
Bob Larson: Yes.
Sid Roth: What is a demon?
Bob Larson: A demon is an angel who fell in the original rebellion that the Jewish Scriptures talk about in the Old Testament, going way back millennia ago. When Satan Lucifer rebelled against God these demons went along with him and they all got kicked out of Heaven. And now they're trying to destroy all of God's purposes by seizing control of people. You see, the devil, just like God, we are God's hands. We are his feet.
Sid Roth: I'll tell you what, hold that thought. I want to see what happens when a Satanist that has this evil spirit, this demon inside of them, shows up to harass Bob at his meeting. Don't go away. Be right back.
Sid Roth: Hello. Sid Roth your investigative reporter. I'm here with Bob Larson. Bob is a professional exorcist. Now most of you think that exorcism is imaginary. As a matter of fact, Bob, psychiatrists will tell us people can divide their brain up and that's how they have multiple personalities. Obviously, you would say something different. But how do you know?
Bob Larson: No I wouldn't.
Sid Roth: You wouldn't.
Bob Larson: Oh no, absolutely not. I deal with multiple personalities all the time. In fact, it's 90 percent of what I do is dealing with multiple personalities. Ten percent is dealing with demons. Oh you have to know how to deal with multiple personalities or you can't deal with demons.
Sid Roth: But how do you know the difference between a demon and just a psychological phenomenon?
Bob Larson: Well almost all people with multiple personalities have demons. That's why the psychiatrists are missing it. The demons hide in the multiple personalities. See, people disassociate or have multiple personalities because of trauma. But when trauma causes the mind to split the thing that created the trauma also allows the opening for the demon. For example, let's suppose someone was violently sexually abused. They disassociate. That's a psychological phenomenon. But because there's the potential to hate the abuser then the demon will pick on that what we call the associative identify of multiple personality and demonize that psychological part of the person. So in fact, the majority of what a good exorcist does is Psychology 101. It's as you process through the psychological issues you get to the demonic issues.
Sid Roth: A witch or a Satanist showed up at one of your meetings.
Bob Larson: Yes.
Sid Roth: We're going to take a look at this. Tell me. Set the stage a little.
Bob Larson: Well I didn't know who this person was and they just stood up in the middle of the meeting and confronted me, and interrupted and tried to stop me. And there was, it was in a public hall and they literally gave a Satanic salute and set off the fire alarm, and it just was like that. It just freaked everybody out. Very supernatural. Another case one time like that where there was a Satanist and there was an earthquake. Literally an earthquake shook the building. In fact it was recorded on the Richter scale. I mean, strange things happened.
Sid Roth: Do you have compassion for people like that? I mean, it must be awful for someone to have a personality inside of them and not even realize it's someone beyond themselves. I mean, what drives you? What keeps you going?
Bob Larson: I think the first thing that keeps me going, I carry these pictures with me wherever I go. I have a precious family. That's our new little baby. I have three little girls. Every day I think, what kind of world are they going to grow up in? Am I going to make a difference in their world? Is evil going to have less of an opportunity to destroy people because I made a difference? And then also Jesus Christ said, he stood up in the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he read from the scriptures, and he said, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has sent me to preach the Gospel, to heal the broken-hearted". To heal the broken-hearted. If he came to do that, if that's God's purpose for humanity, that should be my purpose, too.
Sid Roth: Well there's a lot of broken-hearted people. But when a Satanist or a witch shows up to disrupt what you're doing, let's take a look at that right now.
Sid Roth: Hello. Sid Roth your investigative reporter. We just watched some footage. Bob Larson was having a meeting and a Satanist came in and tried to take over everything. What was that alarm that went off?
Bob Larson: That was actually an alarm in this public facility.
Sid Roth: What causes the alarm to go off? I saw her do something with her hands.
Bob Larson: Well that all depends what you believe. You could believe it was a coincidence, it just happened. Or you can believe as she later claimed that the power of the devil set off that alarm just to demonstrate that he was there. But the good news is this woman is now a child of God. She has a family. She has children. She's a fully functioning member of society. Subsequent to what you saw. We met with her on other occasions and did a series of exorcisms.
Sid Roth: I'll tell you what, I want to see what happens to her. I mean, here she thinks she's in control. She thinks she's made that fire alarm go. She thinks she's disrupted the entire meeting. Don't go away. We're going to see the results of what happens. Who's going to win? I mean, it's like a war between evil and good. Who's going to win? We'll find out. Be back right after this word.
Sid Roth: Hello. Sid Roth investigative reporter here with Bob Larson, exorcist. We just saw a Satanist that showed up to one of his meetings and tried to disrupt it. Literally she did some incantation, caused the fire alarm to go on, thought she won. Now the battle starts. Let's go to the rest of that clip right now.
Sid Roth: You know, it's real and how do I know it's real? Because as a Jewish man, almost 30 years ago I had that same problem and I didn't know where to go. I didn't know a Bob Larson. I didn't know where to go for help. And some of my Christian friends said, if you would pray to the King of the Jews, Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah, he'll set you free. And I figured, what have I got to lose. I mean, it was awful. I knew there was something evil inside of me. This is my story. I can tell you, I cried out and I said, "Jesus, help". Nothing classic. Help. And this is what happened to me. The evil that was in me, it left because the name of Jesus was stronger than that evil. I was set free. God restored my mind, my marriage, my family. He gave me a reason to live. I didn't have a reason to live. Some of you are like that now. And I would urge you to think for yourself. I would urge you to say, God, I'm sorry for the mistakes I've made in my life. I believe the blood of Jesus washes them away. I make Jesus my Messiah and Lord.