Jonathan Pokluda believes there’s a danger to Satan’s attempts to “make himself an allegory or a parody,” expressing his belief that the devil seeks to minimize his existence in order to trick people into apathy.
“I think if we can believe that [Satan is a cherub, the chubby angel with a pitchfork in the taco stand] then … we can kind of sit in this, ‘No one can really know’ [mentality],” he said, calling the confusion that results “some of the enemy’s greatest work.”
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As CBN News has reported, Pokluda is on a mission to help people “identify spiritual warfare” and “defeat the enemy.”
As for why so many Christians avoid such issues, Pokluda said it’s clear there is a “Pentecostal thread” that is very comfortable with the unseen realm. These people are open to discussing demonic possession, oppression, and other related issues.
/**/Still, Pokluda said many churches simply don’t address these important spiritual issues, noting that these houses of worship choose to simply “live in the mystery.”
“And they would say, ‘Hey, that’s gray. There’s a lot we don’t know there,’” he said.
These folks might wonder if cases presented as possession are simply mental illnesses, and because of the rampant uncertainty around such matters, they refuse to speak with clarity on the issues.
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