mURDAUGH mURDERS

 mAYBE IT'S NOT WORTH MAKING A POST OUT OF THIS, BUT OH WELL, i'M DEVELOPING AN OPININ ABOUT THE aLEC mURDAUGH MURDER CASE IN sOUTH CAROLINE AND i CAN'T P[OST IT ON THE CHAT FEATURES SO i'LLL WRITE IT OUT HERE.  i DISCOVERED THE FULL COURT CASE WAS BEING STREEAMED AT yOU tUBE AND IT'S ODDLY COMPELLING, AND THEN i WATCHED THE WHOLE TESTIMONY BY aLEC HIMSEDLF TODAY, WHICH WILL CONTINUE TOMORROW.  

aS i'VE BEEN COLLECTING MY IMPRESSIONS i'VE BECOME CONVINCED THAT THE EVIDEN CE SHOWS HIM TO BE GUILTY OF MURDERING THEM, ALTHOUGH i CAN ALSO SEE HOW THE DEFENSE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ARGUE THAT IT'S NOT BEOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.  

i THINK HE WAS/IS VERY ATTACHED TO HIS FAMILYSO THAT ALTHOUGH i THINK HE COMMITTED THE MURDERS i THINK IT HAD TO BE MOTIVATED BY A CONFUSED OR TWISTED AIM OF PRESERVING WHAT WAS LEFT OF IT.  hIS OWN BEHAVIOR HAD PRETTY MUCH DESTROYED THE REPUTATION OF THE FAMILY ALTHOUGH IT DIDN'T ALL COME UPOUT UNTIL AFTER THE MURDERS, BUT ALSO HIS SON pAUL'S BOAT ACCIDENT HAD TAKEN A BIG BIT E OUT OF THE FAMILY REPUTATION.  mAGGIE AND pAUL BOTH KNEW ABOUT HIS ADDICTION AND mAGGIE WAS STARTING TO FIND OUT ABVOBOUT HIS FINANCIAL MISDEEDS.  hE HAD BEEN CONFRONTED ONLY THAT MORNING BY AN ACCOUNTANT AT HIS FIRM CONCERNING FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES.  tHE FAMILY NAME WAS TEETERING ON THE BRINGK.  tHE MOTIVATING OFFERED BY THE PROSECUTION WAS THAT HE WANTED TO COVER ALL THAT UP AND GAIN SYMPATHY THROUGH THE MURDERS AND THAT SEEMS TO HA E BEEN A PART OF IT.  yOU'D THINK THAT SACRIFICING PEOPLE WHO LOVE TO SUCH A MOTIVATION WOULD BE UNLIKELY BUT IF YOU SEE HIM AS TRYING TO PRESERVE WHAT IS LEFT OF THE FAMILY LEGACY, THE BIGGER PIRCTURE, AND SAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF ITS CONTINUING IN HIS SON bUSTER, THEN ERADICATING THE EVIL FRUITS OF HIS ADDITIONS TO OPIODS AND HIS STEALING FROM HIS CLINETS AND HIS LAW PARTNERS IS PARAMOUNT.  aLSO THE CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST HIS SON pAUL HAD TO GO.  hE LOVED mAGGIE AND pAUL, THAT'S HOW IT LOOKS TO ME, BUT THE FAMILY NAME LOOMED LARGER IN HIS MIND.  tHAT'S WHAT i'M THINKING.  sAVE THE mURDAUGH LEGACY AT ALL COSTS.  aN D AT THE SAME TIME PROTECT HIMSELF FROM HIS OWN FAMILY'S TURNING AGAINST HIM PERHAPS.  aLL HIS HOPES OR AON bUSTER, THE SURVIVING SON.  

sOMETHING LIKE THAT.

wHY ISN'T MORE KNOWN ABOUT DEMONIC ACTIVITY IN SOCIETY AND IN THE CHURCH?

iN MY LAST POST i GIVE A FEW LINKS TO TALKS BY dEREK pRINCE ABOUT DEMONIC ACTIVITY AND HOW TO DEAL WITHIT.  hE TAUGHT IN THE NINETIES AND EARLIER, WAS A CHARISMATIC, MEANING HE ACCEPTED THE IDEA OF THE PERSEVERANCE OF THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, AND HAD DEVELOPED A MINISTRY PREDIMONOMINANTLY ADDRESSED TO PROBLEMS OF DEMON INFLUENCE AND ASSAULTS ON cHRISTIANS.  sINCE HE DOESN'T SAY MUCH ABOUT HIS CHARISMATIC BELIEFS i DON'T HAVE ANY REASON TO MAKE AN ISSUE OF THEM, AND WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT DEMON ACTIVITY IS STRONLY BACKED UP WITH SCRIPTURE SO i'M MOSTLY FAVORABLE TOWARD HIS TEACHINGS.  

nEVERTHELESS i WISH THERE WERE TEACHERS FROM THE REFORMED AREA OF THE cXHURCH WHO STUDY DEMON ACTIVITY AND HOW TO FREE PEOPLE FROM IT.  i DON'T SEE ANY REASON TO RELEGATE THIS AREA OF CONCERN TO THE CHARISMATIC CONTEXRT, IT'S NOT A SPIRITUAL GIFT OF THE SORT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN MERFELY TO AUTHENITICATE jESUS' IDENTITY AS THE mESSIAH, AND IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THE cHURCH WOULD HAVE NEEDED THROUGHOUT ITS EXISTENCE.  i HAVE NO DOUBT THAT aMERICA IS FULL OF DEMONIZED PEOPLE TODAY AND i THINK IT POSSIBLE THAT AS pRINCE TAUGHT THERE IS DEMON INFLUENCE ON cHRISTIANS THAT COULD AND SHOULD BE ERADICATED BY THE NAME OF cHRIST WITH REPENTANCE OF SIN AND ALL THE OTHER CONDITIONS NEEDED TO FREE PEOPLE.

wHEN pRINCE SAID IN ONE TGALK THAT THERE IS NO REASON WHY ALL cHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT BE HEALED HE LOST ME COMPLETELY.  tHERE IS AT LEAST ONE AND i THINK MAYBE TWO INSTANCE OF cHRISTIAN VANGELISTS BECOMING SICK AND NOT BEING HEALED OR EVEN SEEKING HEALING AS REPORTED IN THE BOOK OF aCTS.  tHAT IS ENOUGH TO TELL ME THAT HEALING WAS NOT EXPECTED IN ALL CASES IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE cHURCH SO WHY SHOULD WE EXPECT IT NOW?  bUT SURELY DEMONIC ACTIVITY, WHICH SOMETIMES DOES INVOLVE DEMONICALLY CREATED SICKNESS, NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH IN ALL TIMES.

aT THE VERY LEAST THERE ARE CERTAINLY MANY WHO ARE NOT cHRISTIANS WHO ARE DEMON IZED OR EVEN DEMON POSSESSED.  sINCE SCIENCE SO CALLED DOESN'T RECOGNIZE SUCH A THINKG WE CAN BE SURE MAN;Y CASES OF MENTALL ILLNESS AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR ARE MISDIAGNOSED.  i THINK i MENTIONED ON MY BLOG A FEW YEARS AGO THAT MY INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE CRIMES OF TED bUNDY CLEARLY SHOWED A DEMONIC PRESENCE, SOMETHING THAT WOULD COME OVER HIS FACE AT TIMES, SOMETHING THAT CAUSED ONE YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS NO DOUBT ABOUT TO BECOME ONE OF HIS VICTIMES, TO FLEE BEFORE HE ENTICED HER INTO HIS CAR.  sOMETHING THAT ONE INVERVIEWER SAY SCOME OVER HIS FACE.  bUT ALSOO AN EVIL PRESENCE FELT BY A YOUNG WOMAN IN A DORM WHERE HE WAS IN HIDING BEFORE MURDERING TWO OF THE RESIDENTS, WHICH CAUSED HER TO SHUT AND LOCK THE DORR TO HER ROOM, AND THE SPOOKED BEHAVIOR OF THE CAT IN THAT SAME HOUSE WHICH HAD IT ALL BRISTLED OUT AND WALKING ON ITS TOES BEFORE IT BOLTED FROM THE HOUSE AS SOON AS THE DOOR WAS OPENED, THE NIHGT BEFORE THE MURDERS OCCURRED.  aLSO THE BEHAVIOR OF SOME DOGS WHEN HE WAS AROUND THEM.  aLL THAT SHOWED THAT HE WAS DEMON POSSDESSED.  bUT OF COURSE NONE OF THAT EVER GOT MENTIONED IN ANY OF THE ACCOUNTS.  wELL, THE EVIL PRESENCE WAS MENTIONED AND THE SPOOKED CAT AND THE LOOK ON HIS FACE, ALL WERFE MENTIONED WUT NOT THE OBVIOUS EXPLANATION THAT HE HAD A DEMON.

oF COURSE THERE IS NO POINT IN CASTING OUT DEMONS FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT cHRISTIANS BECAUSE EVEN IF YOU CAN DRIVE THEM AWAY THEY HAVE LEGAL GROUND TO RETURN, AS THEY DO NOT WITH A cHRISTIAN.  tgHE ONLY REMEDY IS FAITH IN cHRIST AND BEING BORN AGAIN.  bUT THE GENERAL DENIAL OF DEMONIC ACTIVITY GIVES THEM COVER AND PERMITS THEM TO PROLIFERATE IN SOCIETY.  

aNYWAY i HAVE AN UNPLEASANT REASON TO WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT DEMON ACTIVITY AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM AND i CAN'T FIND ANY REALLY TRUSTWORTHY INFORMATION ABOUT IT.