From Darkness to Light

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A short time later, about nine in the morning she arrived home but she wouldn’t enter the house. Hector was extremely angry and told her he wanted to hit her for doing this not only to herself but to her distraught mother. He talked about girls and bars and prostitutes and his anger built. His brother Hosea stepped in, preventing any further altercation.

Hector is a good-sized man, a tri-athlete 10 years ago. Hosea has more of a bodybuilding physique and is certainly stronger than Hector or most men his age. As he stepped in to prevent Hector from acting out on his frustrations, they both noticed the voice coming from their sister Raquel. It was masculine and certainly not Raquel’s, and the things that were being said were vile, foul things. Raquel stood up to leave, her face strangely disfigured as her brothers restrained her.

Immediately they both knew something was up as she was stronger than the both of them together and it was all they could do to hold her down. Her mother immediately went to call their pastor at the Baptist church for help as the brothers struggled to force her on the bed. Raquel exhibited incredible strength and all Hector could think about was to pray out loud and ask for God’s help. This immediately invoked further rantings from what I will call from here forward the evil spirit or demon possessing her.

After a short time the pastor, along with his son-in-law Pedro, one of our trusted San Juan 10:10 workers arrived on scene. What they found was truly hard to believe. Nonetheless they immediately assisted Hector and Hosea in restraining Raquel.

“She’s mine,” said the evil spirit from somewhere deep inside what was Raquel just a short time before. The slightly drunk, feminine 17-year-old was transformed into an incredibly strong, abusive being. And the more they talked about Jesus Christ and God the more abusive the talk became and the greater the struggle to be free.

This started at approximately 10 o’clock in the morning and lasted into the late afternoon. Finally, exhausted, Raquel went limp and fell to sleep on her bed around four o’clock in the afternoon. The men left to prepare for the church service, which started at approximately 6:30 that night, leaving Raquel in the hands of her mother and brothers.

Things were somewhat peaceful while Raquel slept. Calls went out to several family members who were Christians, brothers of Raquel’s father who agree to come over that night and the family settled down for the Sunday evening church service. Upon awakening Raquel was herself and agreed to attend the service. This was very confusing to the family as they had no idea what they were dealing with.

Everything seemed normal in the church service which ended at about nine o’clock. Raquel immediately got up and said she had to get home but when they arrived, she would not enter. She began changing again, somehow aware that the other two Christian uncles were inside waiting for her.

About this time Hector recalled a dream he had had a week prior. He had walked to the River and found a house in disrepair that appeared to have been burned in the past. A black woman came out of the house to confront him and told him to tell Raquel that the money was dirty. He had not thought more about the dream since.

Hector confronted his sister in the patio about the dream, wanting to know what she knew. He kept asking her about the money, what did it mean? Raquel got very upset and began thrashing about wildly. Once again her brothers and several of the men wrestled her inside the kitchen, yet she refused to go inside her room.

Hector and his brother left to speak with their uncles while Hector’s sister-in-law remained in the kitchen with Raquel. In the midst of the conversation they were startled to hear the sister-in-law screaming that Raquel had a knife and was trying to kill herself. They rushed in and found Raquel and the knife and wrestled it away from her. They then forced her into the bedroom on the bed where once again each of the brothers and now both of the uncles forcibly held her down. The pastor and several more men were sent for and showed up shortly thereafter.

What followed was hour after hour of talking, praying, singing, fighting and wrestling. What started on Sunday morning and lasted for hours began anew on Sunday night around 10 p.m. and again lasted until two o’clock in the morning. Characteristic in Raquel was a very different voice, a man’s voice emanating from her mouth. Her eyes would roll back into her head until only the whites showed. From time to time when the demon spoke directly to a person the head would go down until the chin touched the chest and then the eyes would roll back to the top of the socket. The head would then turn without the body moving to look at a specific person and the demon would direct comments while pointing at them.

“You are a hypocrite,” the demon screamed in a gravelly voice, head sunk low to the chest and eyes barely visible to the recipient. The pointing finger sent all eyes looking at the person to whom this comment had been directed.

“Forgive me Lord,” was all the person could say.

“Raquel, listen to me, the blood of Christ has cleansed you and you don’t have to accept this,” Hector would say.

“She’s mine!” yelled the demon. “She’s the bride of Satan and you can’t have her.”

Stunned and amazed, the men continued praying and quoting scriptures. By now there were some 40 to 50 people gathered outside, trying to peer in the window and straining to hear every word that was being said. Neighbors and friends were awed by this incredible demonstration of good versus evil.

“David’s mine too!” the demon gloated with an immature laugh.

David is the brother of Hector and Raquel and was out side listening to this exchange. When he heard this he immediately broke down into tears. The pastor and Hector left to talk with David in his room, to tell him he had to accept Christ, that it was the only way. David refused, saying he needed to think about it. Incredible!

Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night and Wednesday night the sessions continued. Many times Raquel would try to speak but found that she couldn’t. The people in the room would be aware of her attempts to speak at the demon would bind her mouth shut and eventually take over and begin speaking himself.

Finally, Raquel was able to speak on her own behalf, little by little. She explained to me in my interview that she was not aware of what would happen in the sessions. When she would come to she would try to speak but it was impossible. And then she would blackout again. But as she fought this she began telling the men to destroy things. She directed them to where she had buried articles at the demons direction. And each time they would destroy something by burning it, Raquel gained a little more power.

In the end, after five nights and some 20 plus hours of prayer, fasting, singing and preaching by numerous Christians, Raquel seemed to take control. All of her possessions, her bedding, her hair; even her two dogs were destroyed and burned. She renounced all the activities she had participated in and gave her life to Jesus Christ. Raquel plans eventually to talk to other young people as God directs to enlighten them as to the dangers of the occult.

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