Crackpot Prophet, Exorcisms In Africa and Demonic Visitations In America

 

How is it that the greatest Church of God to ever exist in human history is being beset by demon problems? Oh, wait. It's because they are the one true church, and Satan is angry. How quickly we forget.

Demons are supposedly being cast out in Africa and have allegedly visited our favorite Crackpot Prophet at his place of work. Of course, since this is the one true Church of God, our crackpot prophet takes this as another sign that Satan is angry at his so-called truth.

God's greatest gift to the church has a post up today about how his church hopping right-hand man in Africa is busy casting out demons. Then, not to be upstaged by his African evangelist, he tells us about supposed demons visiting him in his office where he peddles overpriced herbs and homeopathic novelties.

Let's hop on a plane and head over to Africa and visit with the church hopping exorcist, Evans Ochieng 

The Great Bwana has this letter from Evans Ochieng, who is traipsing around Africa, reportedly baptizing people and claims to have baptized a demon, unawares.

Yesterday, I received the following email and photo from Continuing Church of God evangelist Evans Ochieng who is in Malawi on a baptizing tour: 

 

At 1pm we started our journey to the river where baptism was conducted. I baptized 25 people. Since most of them were not understanding English, Molozowa went with me in the water to translate for them the question which I was asking during baptism. The baptism went very well and out of 25 most of them were women. 

 

During the ceremony, I baptized one lady who had demons. We didn’t know this till I immersed her in water. When coming out she started saying foreign languages and start beating people and she wanted to run. It forced me to pray for just in the water till the demons left her and she became normal. After that she went out joined others who were already baptized. We show the power of GOD in the water. It was a miracle.

This supposedly is not the first time that Ochieng has battled with demons. Since he has been a church hopping member of the SDA's, WCG, GCG, LCG, COGIW, and now in the improperly named "continuing" Church of God, he is well-versed in demonism since these are the entities talked about in these groups more than Jesus himself.

I asked Evans Ochieng for more about the demon matter, and he sent the following today (April 25, 2025):

Pastor Dr Bob,

Greetings from Malawi.

Yes I commanded demons to leave and they left the lady and go. But this is not my first time to command demons to leave. When demons caught my daughter in school where they were learning in Kadika secondary school. I found when pastor of SDA was praying for them but demons didn’t go. And I reached and commanded them to leave, they went and the daughter remained safe. The other day when we went to preach in certain home I and Richard Opiyo from Kobwai. We found a man who was a witchcraft and was using demons to do miracles. When we reached in that home, that man rain away and told his brother that he can’t come where we are because the demons he was having are afraid of us because we are holy Men. And so many. That’s the reason why I noticed very first demons in her. Its good that they left her and the lady remained safe. …

Evans

Then, not to be upstaged by his African exorcist, let's hop back on our plane and fly to California, where the Great Bwana will tell us about his visitations with demons. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride!

Understand that demonic encounters are not limited to Africa or the Middle East. 

 

I have had several encounters with people with demons. 

 

Many years ago, a man came to my office who was a part-time minister of a Pentecostal sect I was unfamiliar with. He told me the Holy Spirit led him to call me. After his appointment, he told me that the Holy Spirit told him to follow my advice. If that is where it stopped I would have thought nothing of it. I had long been in a non-medical branch of the health profession, and many had commented that they believe that God led them to see me. But this man was different. 

 

One of the things he mentioned to me was that another minister in his sect once told all their members to throw all their medications into a pile, which was then burned (somewhat reminiscent of Acts 19:19). He told me that the medications let out various howls while they were burning. He also told me that those howls were demons which possessed those medications (he also stated that the medications themselves were named after demons). 

 

As there are no biblical examples of non-living materials being demon possessed, I was not doubting there were demons at the “ceremony” he mentioned, but I did doubt that the medications themselves were possessed. He also said, “The Holy Spirit told me that God is well pleased with you” and “You know more about the Bible than all the televangelists.” These two statements concerned me greatly as we had not discussed the Bible in any depth.

A little later, he says this:

Now, this is not the first time I believe demons were involved in sending someone to see me. On at least two other occasions I feel it happened before. In those two occasions, the individuals basically told me that some type of psychic (and they were different psychics) told them to see me by name. As I do not believe these psychics actually knew me, I believe they were influenced by demons or were perhaps demon possessed themselves.

The Great Bwana, the world's foremost peddler of homeopathic remedies, then claims a demon sent some possessed people to see him so that they could live longer lives by taking homeopathic snake oil than if they took evil medicine. 

The demons probably know who are Christians as Acts 19:13-16 suggests,

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. 

 

I have wondered if perhaps demons send some to me so that those they wish to possess may live longer. 

 

The first time I suspected a possible demonic presence, was when in the military I attempted to attend a Church of God (COG) on a military base. I had read some old Worldwide Church of God literature and felt that since this particular COG service was on Saturday, that it was probably just fine. However, after several minutes the pastor, associate pastor, and most of the few attendees started to say, “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,” etc. Since Jesus taught, “And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words” (Matthew 6:7), I left during that part of the service. I also decided right then that one should be careful about which “Church of God” one attends–as that one was obviously not truly one.

If that isn't bat-shit-crazy enough, he adds this next visitation:

Perhaps the last time I directly dealt with a demon was when a man telephoned the CCOG and said he had one. While I did believe he had one, when he claimed he did not know why, I did not believe him–eventually (after several phone calls) he admitted that he did have certain sins that brought this on–and he did not seem to want to repent. 

 

My several experiences showed me personally that demons are still around and influencing many.

Who said Armstrongism was ever boring!!!!!! 

Passover is Over, The Slate Is Clean And UCG Members Are Already Wallowing In The Sin Of Lawlessness

 

Work, work, work! 

Passover and Unleavened Bread are over, and sin has already entered their lives. Imagine that!

Why is it that COG members are ALWAYS doing something wrong? You never hear a sermon on "well done, thou good and faithful servants!" Members are always doing something wrong. Jesus' return keeps getting delayed because of the sinning COG members. After all, it is NEVER the leadership's fault because they are above reproach.

Overcoming lawlessness 

Before getting into that, let’s first focus on the Days of Unleavened Bread. We live in times that can be considered tumultuous and uncertain, exemplified by the U.S. economy and what is going on with the talks of tariffs and other issues that dominate our news. 

 

But, we remember, too, that we are living in a time of “lawlessness,” as has become more fully evident over the past four years. But, while there seems to be a trend (in the United States at least) toward an ideology of traditional law, order and “morality,” we know there are forces at work which strongly oppose that. 

 

If we are not careful and watchful, these attitudes of “lawlessness” can pervade even those in the Church. It is not that any of us think that we would intentionally disregard or speak against what the Bible says. But our words, supported by our actions, must always reflect commitment to the Bible and its principles.

As we rehearsed during the Feast days just passed, the clear message God gives to His people is to examine ourselves, repent and “overcome” our sins, pride, elevated views of self, wrong attitudes, and even the attitude that just because we have remained in the faith for decades, that we are now immune to the dangers of Satan’s and the world’s influence. “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall,” God reminds us in 1 Corinthians 10:12.

Christ's messages to the seven churches in Revelation are instructive. Every single one of the warnings applies to any one of us. We often speak of the “Laodicean” attitude where, in concert with favorable world and economic situations, we may feel spiritually “rich and increased with goods” and “have need of nothing.”

 

But there are warnings to the other churches we need to consider as well. For example, God warns Ephesus to return to their first love. He warns Pergamos and Thyatira of being lured by doctrines from the world and being guilty of sexual immorality. (Of course, God is speaking of spiritual harlotry, which we can be guilty of, as so many of His people down through the ages have been.)
Of note in Revelation 2:20, when speaking to Thyatira, Jesus cautions: “Nevertheless, I have a few things against you, because you [tolerate your wife (those words being the correct translation)] Jezebel…to teach and seduce My servants.” 

Passover was supposed to wipe the slate clean for UCG members, but apparently it did not. They are no better than lawless worms wallowing in the pits of sin!  Sin must have entered UCG members the second they walked out of the hall on Passover eve.

We might ask ourselves, in an age where lawlessness has invaded our societies, do we “tolerate” sinful actions, attitudes, behaviors and words of those who might have influence over us? Do we excuse those things—perhaps in the name of “love” in the sense that the world’s Christianity uses that word? 

 

Do we excuse and tolerate because it is easier to do that than to heed what the apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 5? There, he clearly wrote if we truly love (using God’s definition of agape) our brother, we will admonish him and correct him. We should not tolerate continuing, unrepentant sinful actions. 

 

We are the Church of God, and called to live by every word of God. Don’t forget the lessons of the Days of Unleavened Bread. Put the word of God in your minds daily, not the attitudes, tolerance of sin, and the world’s interpretation of why Christ gave His life.

LCG: "...poor and of a contrite heart, humble, willing to change"

 

Who could ever have imagined LCG being of a "poor and of contrite heart? A church willing to change? A church that is humble?

The Real Key to Success: Does success depend on who you know or what you are? The Bible offers some valuable advice. Jesus stressed the importance of humility and teachability when He said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit” and “Blessed are the meek,” because they will inherit the Kingdom of God and reign on this earth (Matthew 5:3–5). God was able to use Moses because he was humble and teachable (Numbers 12:3). Jesus was exalted because He humbled Himself and followed God’s instructions (Philippians 2:8–11). Solomon understood that “before honor is humility” (Proverbs 15:33), and the Apostle James recorded, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6–10). Isaiah summarizes what God is looking for in those He will reward: “But on this one will I look: on him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word” (Isaiah 66:2). These scriptures describe someone who is humble, willing to change, and ready to be taught by God. These attributes are the real key to spiritual growth and ultimate success. Let’s use this key!
Have a profitable Sabbath,
Douglas S. Winnail