The serpent is being openly promoted on television.
2013 saw a sharp rise in the blatant promotion of the occult, black
magic and satanic witchcraft in mainstream pop culture. What was once
reserved for late night television or R-rated movies, has now become
prime time viewing. No better example of this is seen than in
American Horror Story: Coven,
the primetime cable series on the F/X Network that has become a runaway
ratings success as it openly promotes some of the most violent,
depraved and satanic imagery on television. As society continues to move
away from God, shun the name of Jesus Christ and reject the Bible, it
is swiftly descending into satanic rebellion. And this year’s television
season is an indication that the deception of the Devil is now becoming
mainstream, especially for young adults and children.
American Horror Story: The Most Satanic Show on Television?
With Baphomet symbols on full display, the show does not hide its spiritual agenda.
From the show’s website:
“American Horror Story: Coven tells the secret
history of witches and witchcraft in America. Over three hundred years
have passed since the turbulent days of Salem and those who managed to
escape are now facing extinction. Mysterious attacks have been
escalating against their kind and young girls are being sent away to a
special school in New Orleans to learn how to protect themselves.
Wrapped up in the turmoil is new arrival, Zoe, who is harboring a
terrifying secret of her own. Alarmed by the recent aggression, Fiona,
the long-absent Supreme, sweeps back into town, determined to protect
the Coven and hell-bent on decimating anyone who gets in her way.” (source).
Coven tells the story of a group of young girls who have
been recruited to a witch’s coven with fronts as a prestigious all-girls
boarding school. The purpose of the coven is to train the young women
to hone their occult powers and skill and protect them from the world
which seeks to destroy them. There are various factions of witches who
are both for and against the coven and as a result numerous conflicts
ensue. The show uses this plot to show some of the most gruesome,
violent and blatantly satanic scenes and imagery ever on television.
Numerous animals are cut open, bled and burned for witchcraft and voodoo
rituals. Eyes are gouged and burned out. Throats are slashed. Witches
use telekinesis to smash the heads open of men they do not like (with
the shattered skull and brain in full view). In just the first several
episodes,
American Horror Story: Coven features:
- A teenage witch using her powers to cause a bus accident the leaves
the young men on the bus dismembered and dead (with their dismembered
bodies and severed heads shown up close).
- A flashback scene focuses on Madame LaLaurie
(who is one of the many historical references on the show), a wealthy
slave owner, keeping slaves chained in the attic of her mansion where
they are tortured. They have the skin peeled from their faces and
organs dug out of their bodies with a metal hook. The “Madame” then uses
their blood as make up on her face to maintain her youthful look and
for an enchantment spell to keep her husband faithful.
Madamae LaLaurie applies blood to her face to cast a spell.
- Two of the witches enact a spell that requires a pledge to Satan in
order to resurrect a young man who had inadvertently died in the bus
crash. They take his severed limbs and parts from other victims of the
crash to reassemble his body (all shown on-screen).
- A mother sexually abuses her injured son in extremely graphic fashion while he is laying in bed.
- A young witch in the coven has sexual relations with an undead human-animal hybrid.
- Zoe, the star of the show, has the ability to kill any man she has
intimate relations with as they suffer violent brain aneurysm and their
eyes explode in a bloody mess (shown on-screen). She uses this ability,
(again shown in graphic fashion) to murder a young man while he is in a
coma in the hospital.
All the while the power of the witches and their air of superiority
are on full display. The show makes every attempt to show that witches
are genetically and intellectually superior to normal human beings and
have no need to regard society’s rules. And certainly God has no role or
say in anything they do in their lives. Because they are playing
“goddess” themselves.”
Promotion of Sinful Rebellion
The young witches use a ouija board to contact the dead.
Throughout the Bible, in particular in the Old Testament, a battle
was constantly waged between the spiritual forces under Satan’s
leadership, who sought to bring humanity into sinful rebellion and away
from God and eternal life in Heaven. The occult was and is a major lure
by Satan to seduce people into sin. Trying to access the spiritual realm
in any way, apart from God (through prayer to the Lord, saving faith in
Christ, etc) is witchcraft and a clear sin. In the book of Deuteronomy,
the Bible goes into great detail is describing all the practices that
are an “abomination” to The Lord:
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those
nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son
or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or
an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a
consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all
that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of
these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before
thee. Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God. – Deuteronomy 18:9-13.
The “Minotaur” character on the show bears a strong resemblance to the Baphomet.
Practicing witchcraft, using tarot cards and speaking with the dead
are just some of the sins listed above that are all shown repeatedly on
American Horror Show: Coven. The Bible is clear that demonic forces are
real. And contacting them is an easy route to not just pull a person
into sinful rebellion, but to being possessed by a demon themselves.
Spirit beings are far older than human beings and this allows the Devil
to use the same tricks over and over again to entice people into trying
“magic.” But any temporary power or experience a magic practitioner may
have is not worth spending eternity in hell and the Lake of Fire. This
is why in the Old Testament law, practicing witchcraft was a capital
offense:
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” (
Exodus 22:18). This is how dangerous the practice of witchcraft, Wicca, or any black magic truly is.
Making The Occult Cool
American Horror Story: Coven connects witchcraft to women’s empowerment.
Satan’s fate has already been cast. He will be judged and suffer
forever. And now he is seeking to take as many people with him. 1 Peter
5:8 says:
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” Satan
wants to destroy humanity and though he does not have the power to do
that outright, he does have limited authority to set up a system of
sinful temptation. And pop culture has provided a powerful weapon for
the Devil to make the occult, magic and rebellion “cool” and “what’s
hot” right now. And to no surprise, young people are tuning into the
show in droves. The first two episodes of
American Horror Story: Coven were
2 of the top 3 broadcasts in the F/X network’s history.
Additionally, it broke the record for any F/X broadcast ever in the
highly-coveted 18-34 demographic. Young people are tuning into the show
by the millions. Scripture says:
“Woe unto them that call
evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (
Isaiah 5:20). Hollywood is bombarding society with darkness and making it fun, exciting and even morally good.
The Supreme, the lead witch, tells her students to wear black when they are outside.
And the more entranced by the occult a person comes, the easier it is
to move away from God. In Scripture, King Saul, the first divinely
appointed monarch of the nation of ancient Israel, was in constant sin
against The Lord. His jealousy towards a young man named David (who
would grow up to usurp him as King David) after his defeat of the
Nephilim giant Goliath started his descent into evil. He plotted on
numerous occasions to kill David, was willing to have his own son killed
in his maniacal pursuit, performed divine sacrifices that were only
supposed to be done by priests from the tribe of Levi (Saul was from the
tribe of Benjamin) and repeatedly disobeyed God’s commands. The prophet
Samuel, who served as a spiritual advisor to the king, reprimanded him
sharply saying:
“For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected
the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.” (
1 Kings 15:23).
So Scripture is clear that rebelling against God and witchcraft go
hand in hand. After God’s Divine protection left him and the prophet
Samuel died, Saul, who never repented for his sin, went to see a witch
to help him rule his kingdom. It was this action that was the final
straw and led to his death in the days following. And this is where
coven wants to take its fanbase. The show encourages its many fans to
send in their own photos of themselves dressed in black (as the witches
in the show are instructed to do by the Supreme, the highest ranking
witch). The pictures are then posted on the show’s Facebook page:
Fans of the show show their support for the “United In Black” movement.
A fan photo at the mansion of one of the real life historical characters on the show.
The Meaning of The Number 13
Many of the rituals on the show are based on real witchcraft.
A
coven is defined in the
dictionary
and the occult as a meeting of 13 witches. Why is there such an occult
obsession with 13? God created all numbers, but that has not stopped
Satan taking what God created and distorting it for his own purposes.
And the Bible reveals all the “wiles of the Devil” for the reader to
know and be warned. The number thirteen in Scripture is often aligned
with spiritual rebellion. In fact the first time the word “rebel”
appears in the Bible it is linked to the number: Genesis Chapter 10
describes the wicked Nimrod, the first emperor after the Flood, founder
of Babylon and leader of the Tower of Babylon rebellion:
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said
one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And
they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said,
Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto
heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the
face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the
tower, which the children of men builded.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one
language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and
there confound their language, that they may not understand one
another’s speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the
face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore
is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the
language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them
abroad upon the face of all the earth. – Genesis 11:1-9.
The Tower of Babel was no normal building. It was an attempt to try
and reach Heaven and replace God through occult means. And Nimrod was
the King as the founder and ruler of Shinar (where the tower was
located) was at the center of this effort. Nimrod’s name literally means
“let us rebel.” And when you count the generations of humanity
from Adam, the first man (the genealogy is provided in Chapter 10 of
Genesis), Nimrod is in the 13th generation.
Some may find it odd to count generations of Old Testament
patriarchs, but the Bible does it itself. Enoch, a Biblical patriarch
who lived in the pre-flood world, was a believer in the Lord and was the
first man to never die. Scripture tells us:
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch
were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and
he was not; for God took him. – Genesis 5:21-24.
Enoch was the first “Rapture.”
Hebrews 11 confirms this:
“By
faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not
found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had
this testimony, that he pleased God.” And what is the numerical significance attached to him? We are told in
the book of Jude:
“ And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,”
So Enoch was a righteous believer, prophet and as raptured for his
great faith. And the Bible makes the point of noting that he was in the
7th generation from Adam. Seven is a number repeatedly linked with God’s
righteousness in Scripture. So we have a Biblical precedent for looking
at the significance of numbers, even in generations. And Nimrod, who
was in the 13th generation from Adam was clearly in strong rebellion
against The Lord. He was the first conqueror, shedding blood in the
post-flood world to establish his empire. He also made the first attempt
at global government with the Tower of Babel project (a foreshadow of
the Antichrist who will also set up a world government in the end
times). His actions were so evil, that The Lord personally intervened
and ended them.
One of the many rituals shown on American Horror Story: Coven.
In Genesis chapter 13 we see the first mention of Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities in open spiritual rebellion against The Lord.
Genesis 13:13 says:
“But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.”
In Genesis 14, the first use of the world “rebel” is also linked to the number:
“Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.” (
Genesis 14:4).
The Antichrist, the satanically-empowered false Messiah who will rule
over the Earth for the final 3 ½ years before the Second Coming of
Christ, is described in detail in Revelation Chapter 13. And his city of
operations, also known as “Mystery Babylon”, has the full name
“MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” (
Revelation 17:5),
which just happens to be 13 words. While it may seem like coincidence,
consider that in the occult there is a major emphasis put on the number
13. To no surprise, real-life witches are celebrating the occult
explosion in Hollywood.
Here is an excerpt from an article published in the Huffington Post, from a practicing witch:
“The numerological symbolism [of the year 2013] was
obvious of course: 13 moons in a year, 13 fertility cycles, 13 witches
in a coven. It’s a number considered unlucky and unlovely for so long,
we’ve seemed to have forgotten why, while still obliterating it from our
tallest buildings. And so it’s a number inherently bound up in feminine
magic, and thus represents a deification of something persecuted; a
profanity resacralized, unsullied and crowned.
The archetype of the witch is long overdue for celebration.
Daughters, mothers, queens, virgins, wives, et al. derive meaning from
their relation to another person. Witches, on the other hand, have power
on their own terms. They have agency. They create. They praise. They
commune with nature/ Spirit/God/dess/Choose-your-own-semantics, freely,
and free of any mediator. But most importantly: they make things happen.
The best definition of magic I’ve been able to come up with is
“symbolic action with intent” — “action” being the operative word.
Witches are midwives to metamorphosis. They are magical women, and they,
quite literally, change the world.
Amazingly, though not surprisingly, as soon as I named 2013 the
Year of the Witch, I began to see synchronicities and sympathetic signs
all around me. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and
the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique, two of the past century’s
most quake-making reclamations of female power.” (source).
Grossman goes on to praise the new TV shows and movies promoting satanic witchcraft:
“And witch stories are being told all around us this year. Hansel
& Gretel: Witch Hunters, Beautiful Creatures, Oz the Great and
Powerful, American Horror Story, Salem, and Witches of East End are just
a few films and TV shows with 2013 releases. It’s not that we haven’t
had centuries of these stories preceding us, but it seems we are
witnessing a witchly tipping point.” (source).
These comments underscore a primary seduction of witchcraft and Wicca: it is seen as women’s empowerment.
American Horror Story: Coven
goes out of its way to emphasize a “women’s rights” angle to
witchcraft. Equality in the workplace, politics and socioeconomic sphere
is a valid and noble cause (as women have been historically denied
this), but it should not come by being yoked with demonic forces. Jesus
Christ said:
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in
exchange for his soul?” (
Matthew 16:26).
Many women and young girls alike have been attracted to the occult for
its offer of giving power and a means of leveling the playing field in a
male-dominated world. However, this is all a lie as the cost of being
yoked with the Devil is eternity in hell. Do not be deceived.
The Creators Of American Horror Story: Coven – Against Christianity
Coven creator Ryan Murphy, here receiving an Emmy Award, has used his shows to mock Christianity.
Ryan Murphy is the creator and writer of
Coven. And he makes
no bones about his stance against Biblical Christianity. We previously
covered Murphy’s work as the creator of the hit musical show
Glee
and “The New Normal”, a sitcom about a gay married couple seeking to
adopt a surrogate baby. Both shows have made blasphemous attacks on
Christianity in particular
The New Normal, whose episode
“The Godparent Trap” devoted an entire show to mocking the Christian faith and blaspheming the name of Jesus Christ.
The lone Christian character ends up favoring witchcraft over The Lord.
On
American Horror Story, the lone Christian character, a
neighbor named Joan Ramsey, is portrayed as an angry, semi-delusional
woman who is mean to the ladies of the Coven from the onset and comes to
their home clutching a Bible and telling them stay far away from her
and her son. And once her son falls into a coma, she quickly abandons
her faith and embraces one of the teen witches who has psychic abilities
and is able to communicate with her unconscious son. The show in very
clear fashion shows the lone Christian character giving up on prayer and
her Bible in order to seek help from a witch who she then lovingly
embraces and thanks for helping her.
More Witchcraft On The Way
Witches of East End has been a smash hit for the Lifetime Network.
As quoted above by the real life witch, there are indeed a number of
occult-related programs debuting or set to debut in the near future.
Witches of East End,
a Lifetime show, which premiered in 2013, is about 2 sisters who
discover in their 20s that they are powerful witches born into a family
of witches. For centuries the two women repeatedly die and come back to
life, forgetting their past history, as a result of a “curse of
fertility” that was put on their mother. Though not as violent or vulgar
as
Coven, Witches of East End employs a great deal of real
witchcraft, incantations and spells. To no surprise, the show has been a
ratings success for Lifetime Network, and has been the network’s
highest rated show ever in the 18-34 demographic.
The
WGN Network is currently producing “Salem”
a new TV series set in the 17th century during the time of the Salem
witch trials. Like Coven, it uses real, historic witches as its basis.
The lead character is
Mary Sibley,
a key player in the accusations which led to the witch trials, a series
of trials and persecutions in Massachusetts in the 17th century that
resulted in the execution of 19 alleged witches and one priest. Oz: The
Great and Powerful a film released earlier in the year, starred James
Franco who has strong connections to Satanism and the occult (as we
detailed our article on his video for the song “Love In The Old Days”
which features practicing warlocks and satanic rituals). The CBS Network
is also
planning a remake of the show Charmed.
Tune Out The Year Of The Witch
Actress Emma Roberts, a star on American Horror Story: Coven (and niece of Julia Roberts), off of the set, wearing a shirt promoting the number of the Antichrist.
The Bible is clear that Satan will use any means to deceive and
destroy humanity. In the midst of all of this occult promotion, the
light of the Gospel still shines. God’s message is clear: no matter how
deep a person has fallen into the occult, nature worship, Wicca or any
type of mystical practice, they can be forgiven. While Satan wants
believers to follow his Antichrist or burn in Hell,
the Bible says that God:
“…is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” TV shows like
Coven and
Witches of East End
show powerful, intelligent, attractive women and young ladies who defy
death through spells and incantations. All this ignores the truth: we
are all going to die. The reason why reincarnation has to be constantly
promoted in these programs is so that the viewer does not think about
their sin and God’s impending judgment. The Bible says:
“it is appointed unto men once to die, and then the judgment.” This life is our only chance to either
choose God and eternal life or die in sinful rebellion like the many who have devoted their lives to the occult.
There is
a way to eternal life
and it does take supernatural power. But that power belongs to Jesus
Christ. Christ took on human form to offer Himself, the just dying for
the unjust, as a sacrifice to take the punishment we all deserve, not
just for the occult, but for lying, stealing, blaspheming God’s name,
racism, sexual sin and all the other ways we have violated God’s law.
Jesus Christ chose to suffer on the cross and endure God’s wrath so that
we would not. And it does not take any action on our part to receive
this
blessing of forgiveness. It just takes a humble heart to recognize our own sin and faith to believe in God’s way of restoring us.
