Witchcraft for Teens

As I mentioned in my blog of Tuesday, I’m currently in New York City doing face-to-face Personal Encounters sessions. After a long day of dealing with demons, I decided that, with my wife Laura who is helping me minister this week, we’d head down to Times Square, the epicenter of the City; you know, where they drop the big ball every New Year’s Eve. (RIP Dick Clark.) If you’ve never been there, it’s a 360 degrees panorama of advertising with huge electronic billboards by the dozens advertising every imaginable product: movies, car, cell phones, Broadway shows, and M & M’s, to name a few. If I’d come to escape the rigors of fighting Satan, I’d run into him smack dab in the middle of Times Square. There, on a billboard at least 60 feet high, were a series of revolving promos for a new Nickelodeon teen TV series called “Every Witch Way.” The photos above, that I personally shot, tell it all. Fresh-faced, good-looking mid-teens advertise that, “At this school magic spells trouble.” “Spells,” get it? How could you miss this not-so-subtle appeal to the demonic? Thank you, Harry Potter. You paved the way well for your minions.

The show, which actually premiered last January, features a 14-year-old witch named Emma, a so-called “Chosen One.” (Of course, witchcraft is a generational curse.) She has inherited a Hexoren Book of Spells from her late mother. The youthful sorcerer has to stave off a rival witch (also with generationally passed down powers) and an evil Principal (Naturally, aren’t all Principals evil?).  And, naturally, Emma has a post-pubescent love interest. In TV Land, why would anyone be shocked that a 14-year-old is capable of understanding “true love?” According to the ratings, last TV season it was the most viewed show by kids ages 4 to 11! Now, that’s really scary.

Just a few blocks up the street, a couple of hours earlier, I dealt with real demons of voodoo in a showdown with Satan. Here, amongst thousands of mostly tourists, I was faced with the devil’s deeds trivialized on a big screen. This is what America has come to: the demonic indoctrination of sub-teens by the millions, sitcom style. Unless the Christian church gets serious about dealing with demons, our children don’t stand a chance. God help the church to get its head out of the proverbial sand and wake up before the next generation is forever lost to Satan and the occult.