by Evan Ansot
Joan was adamant. “Mommy, I’m scared, don’t let him go away! You’ve got to tell him to stop from going!”
“Honey, he has been planning this for months, I’m not going to tell him not to go,” stated Elizabeth. There was no way she is going to tell Eddie that he couldn’t go to this music festival that he had been eagerly looking forward to going to for months. For the last few days, it was all he had talked of.
“They’ll come back!” Joan shouted and then ran off to the twin’s bedroom, putting her head in her pillow to cry. Mommy just doesn’t understand. Then she prayed to her angels, Please, God, send me your angels to protect me while Daddy is gone. Amen.
Elizabeth could only watch her run off and wonder just what has gotten into her child.
True to Joan’s prophecy, they did return four days later.They did so with a vengeance as they tormented the children through howling voices, screaming, ranting, and taunting during the day and with nightmares in the evening. They threw threats: “We are going to kill your daddy,” followed up with sickly laughter, and “We are going to take your mommy away from you,” with more laughter. Images were shown to the twins of their daddy being in a car wreck with his mangled body lying on the ground. Another image shown was him being hung with a noose around his neck.
Elizabeth was frantic; it was four days of living hell for herself and her children as dark, negative forces made these three their number 1 priority. The twins wouldn’t sleep for fear of the nightmares returning. Since they wouldn’t sleep, neither could she. When they did nod off for a few hours, it was a horror show complete with gruesome images of their daddy.
Joan woke up screaming one evening with visions of her crucified father in her head. “Mommy, they did it to him upside down!” was all she could mumble as she sat on the bed, shaking for an hour afterward. “All because he killed a giant snake,” she said later.
As those grey demons were busy tormenting the children, Baphomet returned on the fourth night of Eddie’s absence. All three of them saw his image standing at the foot of their bed.
At his appearance, the three of them screamed in terror. All were huddled together on the bed, shaking for fear of their lives.
“Mommy, save me!” screamed Joan.
Jessica, with a death grip around her mother’s waist could just sob and whisper, “Please, no,” followed by “Bye, bad guy, bye.”
“No need to be frightened,” he began. His voice was immensely deep.
Elizabeth managed a whisper, “What do you want from us?”
Baphomet leaned his head back, roared laughter that had the sound of rushing waters, and when he did, the entire house shook. With that, the three let out screams. Then he spoke, “I want nothing from you, dear Elizabeth.”
“What about my children?” she inquired. Her fear was so great, she could barely mouth the words. She looked over at her nightstand to see if she could grab the lamp and swing at him, then she remembered what happened the last time she tried that.
“It’s my mission to stop them,” he answered. His gaze upon the twins was intense.
“Stop them from what?” she couldn’t stop the shaking. I really need to get a gun, she thought.
“A gun wouldn’t do you any good. And to answer your question, to stop them from their destiny,” Baphomet responded.
Great, he can read minds too. She gathered her strength enough to think for a second and asked, “What destiny? And how can you stop destiny?”
“Simple. By killing them. And to answer your first question, the destiny of the prophecy of John.”
“The prophecy of John? What are you talking about?”
“Read the eleventh chapter of the Book of Revelations. The prophecy of the two witnesses,” he answered.
“No,” she screamed, “I won’t allow it!” Now she was pissed off. No one in earth or in heaven was going to touch her daughters. She didn’t care whom made the threat. She was about to move toward him when she felt that invisible dark force surround her.
“You won’t be able to,” he began, but at that moment, the phone rang.
That must be Eddie! He must have returned from his music festival, Elizabeth thought. As soon as Elizabeth picked it up, Baphomet disappeared.
“Eddie, thank God it’s you!” Where did Baphomet go? Did he leave because of Eddie?
“What’s wrong, sweetheart?” he asked.
“Oh, you wouldn’t believe it.” She began, but then Joan asked for the phone with a look that said she needed to talk to her daddy right then. Elizabeth handed the phone to Joan.
“Daddy, is that you?” Joan’s voice was urgent.
“Yes, honey, are you okay?” Eddie wondered, What the hell is going on in Australia? Elizabeth and Joan both sound like they had just seen a ghost.
“Thank God it’s you, Daddy, I’m okay now. Please talk to Jessica,” Joan said. A wave of relief flushed through Joan as she handed the phone to her sister who also spoke briefly with Eddie. Jessica then gave the phone back to Elizabeth.
“What the hell is going on over there?” asked Eddie. Their breathing was quickened, and the girls sounded like they had just been through hell.
She relayed to him the last four days of the hell they had been put through. How the children had been thoroughly tormented by these beings who wouldn’t leave them alone. Upon hearing all this, Eddie couldn’t help but feel guilty for being away those four days and vowed never to leave them again. He also couldn’t help but be curious as to this power he seemed to hold over these demons. They told me that as soon as I called, he left. What kind of power is this that I have? Where did it come from?
The next day, Elizabeth’s parents, Bob and Helen, were over for a visit.
Joan described to them what happened the night before while her grandparents just listened in shock and amazement.
“And then my daddy just pulled the head off this one and yanked the arms off that one. He killed them all.” Joan was showing them with arm-waving motions of the proceedings and gritting her teeth while she talked about it all.
“Dear child,” began Helen, “I think your imagination is running away with you.”
“No, Nanny, it’s true,”objected Joan.“Daddy killed them all. Well, all except the one with the goat head. He crushed them and pulled all their arms and legs off them! He’s like a championship wrestler! The champion of the world!”
Helen looked over at Elizabeth, who answered her mother’s questioning looks, “She’s speaking the truth mother, and I’m just as amazed as you are.” Then she thought to herself, This Eddie is a very remarkable man.
True to his word, Eddie called them every night and promised he would never leave them for an extended period again.
During the July 1 phone call between Elizabeth and Eddie, he told her what he had found out in his research about the strong Jesus connection and the number five.
“The only thing I came up with was the apostle Philip. He’s always listed fifth,” said Eddie.
“Eddie, my grandmother came to me last night and confirmed that you are Philip, but you had to find out for yourself first or it would be some kind of spiritual violation according to the angels she talked with,” said Elizabeth.
“This blows my mind.How can I be Philip?”asked Eddie.
“Honestly, I don’t know, but it’s true.”
Eddie thought for a moment. To him, there was something deeper happening here, and he just couldn’t put his finger on it. “I know a lot about the Bible, sweetheart. I’m having a hard time wrapping myself around the idea of me being one of Jesus’s chosen twelve apostles. That I actually walked around with him for three years. It’s beyond my belief.”
“What does the Bible say about Philip?” she inquired.
“Not a whole hell of a lot. There’s more written about him in scriptures that aren’t included in the Bible. I wonder why that is the case.” Eddie went silent for a moment thinking, Yeah, why would there be more about him not in the Bible than is in the
Bible? Good question, I must find that out. “Elizabeth, it looks like I’m going to have to do some research on this guy.”
Elizabeth could understand why Eddie was having a hard time with this. When a person thinks of a saint, they don’t think of someone who is just another guy. But then again she knew that Eddie wasn’t your average fellow; he just destroyed a bunch of demons according to her daughters. “Eddie, do you believe what Joan said about you killing all those monsters?”
“Sure, why wouldn’t I?” It seemed strange to him, but he knew those twins don’t lie.
“Does it say anything about the apostles having special powers?” she asked.
“Oh, that’s right! They do! I forgot all about that!” Eddie was excited now. Elizabeth was on to something here.
“Well, what is it, Eddie?” She knew she just jarred his memory over something very important.
“They had the ability to cast out demons!” said Eddie. “It was a gift given to them by Jesus. It all makes perfect sense now!”
August 7, 2014
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Thirty-seven days after the demons left the twins, they
returned, yet this time they were different.
“Elizabeth, slow down and tell me what happened,”
pleaded Eddie. Twice Elizabeth had tried to relay the story
of the previous night with Eddie, but due to her being so
anxious and excited, she had failed.
“Well, according to Joan they were both sleeping in her
bed together. Then she awoke and saw a whole bunch of
what she calls giant lizards at the foot of her bed. They
reached out to grab the twins when she says she saw a
blinding, bright light show up behind the lizards,” she
started and then hesitated.
“Yes, go on,” said Eddie while guiding her through
this process.
“Then Joan said the bright light reached out with two
hands from behind the lizards and yanked them off the twins. She said it was like they were going to take or abduct them, and this light shows up and stops them,” said
Elizabeth.
“Okay, sweetheart, keep going,” said Eddie.
“You don’t believe this do you?” asked Elizabeth. “Oh yes, I do. So then what happened?” asked Eddie. “She said this light reached from behind the lizards and
then threw them. Like tossed them aside or something. Do
you know what I mean?”
“Yes, honey, and then what?” asked Eddie.
“She said she had a look at the light, and it was you,”
said Elizabeth.
“Me?” asked Eddie.
“Yes, you. That you was the light. And then she said that
you proceeded to beat them all up,” said Elizabeth. “I was the light? How many were there?” asked Eddie. “Joan said there were dozens of them and that four got
away,” said Elizabeth.
“How did they disappear?” he asked.
“She said they just disappeared before you could get
your hands on them,” she replied.
“Hmm, she said that the light looked like me, eh?” “Yes, that you was the light,” said Elizabeth. “Did she say anything else?” he asked.
“No, that was pretty much it,” she answered. “Is she around? Can I talk to her?” Eddie asked. “Yes, let me go get her.” Elizabeth put down the phone
and went off to fetch Joan.
While that was happening Eddie was thinking, Giant
lizards! What the hell are giant lizards? She said they came to
abduct the twins. Why would they want to do that? What kind
of threat would these twins be that they would want to do that?
Are these beings aliens or demons? His thought process was
interrupted by Joan.
“Hi, Daddy! How are you?” said Joan.
“I’m doing well, honey.” He paused and then spoke,
“Your mommy tells me that giant lizards came last night
and tried to take you?”
“Yes, Daddy, but you beat them up and killed them all.
Well, not all, four got away.” Joan told the story like she
would tell a story from an event at school, like it was not a
big deal. It seemed that Joan was handling the event much
better than her mother had.
“What did they look like?” asked Eddie.
“Giant lizard men. Scaly like crocodiles, and their color
was green like the trees,” said Joan.
“You said I killed them?” inquired Eddie. This was the
part that was really blowing his mind.
Now Joan was getting excited. “Yes, Daddy! You was
pulling them all apart and kicking and punching them.
They sounded like cats when you hit them!”
“Like cats?” asked Eddie. This story’s getting better
every minute.
“Yes, the way cats sound when they screech and get into fights. Daddy, can I go play now?” Joan was already bored by this whole thing, and her favorite show was due to come on the Disney Channel.
“Sure, honey, run along, put your mom back on the phone,” said Eddie.
Joan handed the phone back to Elizabeth.
“Hello,” she said.
“Hell of a story, I’d say,” said Eddie.
“Eddie, there is one other thing we haven’t told you yet,” said Elizabeth.
“Oh yeah, what is that?” he asked.
“The twins have bruises on their legs and arms from where these giant lizard men tried to take them,” she spoke.
“What? Bruises? You mean this wasn’t a dream she had?” He was incredulous at this latest news. Bruises? They did try to abduct them after all!
“I’ll text the pictures to you,” Elizabeth said.
Ten minutes later, Eddie received the images of the bruises along the girls’ legs and arms. There were bruises along the forearms and the calf muscle regions. Like something had grabbed them and was ready to take them away but was interrupted from doing so.
All day long he couldn’t stop thinking about the event. These giant lizard men had tried to abduct the twins for some reason, and he showed up as some brilliant white light and annihilated them. What could it all mean? After hours of thinking about it he thought that maybe Elizabeth’s friend Charlotte was correct, that he was the Apostle Philip in a past life and that he had this amazing ability to cast out or to kill demons.
This was definitely a lot for Eddie to take in. The apostle Philip? This guy was a saint in pretty much every Christian denomination out there, he thought. He decided then and there that he would read everything about this apostle whether it be in the Bible or not. He had to find out more about this Saint, and then maybe he would begin to find answers to what is going on with the twins.
That night, Eddie had another dream.
He saw a great leopard came out of a forest, and it ran and threw himself at his feet.
Then it spoke to Eddie, saying, “I worship you, servant of the divine greatness and apostle of the only-begotten Son of God. Command me to speak perfectly.”
Eddie then said, “Okay, speak to me.”
Then the leopard said, “Hear me, Eddie, groomsman of the divine word. Last night, I passed through the flocks of goats and seized a kid. Then when I went into the forest to eat it, after I had wounded it, it took a human voice and wept like a little child. Then it said to me, ‘Oh, leopard, put off your fierce heart and the beastlike part of your nature and put on mildness, for the apostle of the divine greatness is about to pass through this desert.’”
The leopard continued, “At these words of the kid, I was perplexed, and gradually my heart was changed, and my fierceness turned to mildness, and I did not eat it. And as I listened to its words, I lifted up my eyes and saw you coming and knew that you were the
servant of the good God. So I left the kid and came to worship you. And now I ask you to give me liberty to go with you everywhere and put off my beastlike nature.”
Eddie said, “Where is the kid?”
The leopard said, “It’s under an oak tree where I left it.” The leopard guided him to where the kid lay.
Then they went to the oak tree, and once he saw the kid, Eddie said, “Let these animals forsake their nature of beast and cattle and come unto tameness, that the Leopard no longer eat flesh, nor the kid the food of cattle. But that men’s hearts may be given them, and they may follow me wherever I go and eat what I eat, to the glory of Jesus, and speak after the manner of men, glorifying his name.”
Then the leopard and kid rose, lifted themselves up, and followed him.
When Eddie awoke, he thought to himself, These dreams are getting more and more intense, someone is trying to tell me something.
September 1, 2014
Bald Eagle Bluffs, Michigan
Fifty-year-old Edward Dudley was at a crossroads in
his life. This woman, Elizabeth, had entered his life and radically changed it. It wasn’t that long ago—a few months to be precise—that his plans for the rest of his existence was to work until retirement then just relax with his dogs for the rest of his days. He knew long ago that there wasn’t going to be any long-term relationship plans on his part. He was too old to get involved with anything new, and it was always a pain in the ass getting to know someone. One had to tell them all about their history, and Eddie just couldn’t be bothered with it. Settling himself into a nice routine of work, eat, sleep, and a few hobbies, life had become quiet, just the way he liked it.
Eddie was good at short-term relationships but to hell with those long-term ones. They always wanted too much; they wanted his soul. Well, screw all that, I’m not about to change for anyone. And why is it that every time I met one, they wanted to fix me? he often wondered. In Eddie’s mind, there was nothing there that needed repairing. I’m happy with my life, why isn’t everyone else?
Life had been good since he gave up that eternal demon, alcohol. It had been years ago, and he didn’t miss it one bit. Eddie had grown to be an older, wiser man, and that contented life was well within his grasp.