While writing a post exposing the supernatural world of psychics and mediums, something began burning across my back. Nothing touched me. But when I looked in the mirror, the scratches were there.
The Dark Fights Back
I was sitting at my kitchen table, typing a blog post about psychics and mediums, when a burning sensation suddenly began moving across my back. At first, I wondered what I was feeling. But as the burning continued across my skin, the sensation became unmistakable.
I was being scratched.
There was only one problem. Nothing had touched me.
At the time, I had been working for only about two weeks on a blog called Expose the Dark. Apparently, the dark didn’t appreciate the exposure.
One way to know if you’re impacting an enemy is how hard that enemy fights back. The dark fights back, and I have the scratches to prove it.
The Dark Fights Back
Think about what happens when someone feels threatened but has no good response. Reason can give way to frustration. Frustration can become anger. Words can become insults, and sometimes anger even becomes physical.
I believe the dark side of the supernatural responds to opposition in much the same way.
When deception is exposed, the dark fights back.
Our World Reflects the Battle
Look at the world around us. Anger increasingly replaces persuasion. Disagreement becomes hostility. Hostility becomes rage, and sometimes rage becomes violence. We watch it play out every day on our televisions, computers and phones.
Something deeper is happening than ordinary human disagreement. I believe the visible conflict around us often reflects an invisible spiritual conflict.
This is one of the ways the dark responds to opposition: it fights, and it fights dirty.
So who do I mean when I refer to “the dark”? Satan, fallen angels and demons. These are the spiritual enemies Scripture describes as rulers, powers and forces of darkness, deceivers, tormentors and tempters operating in a realm most of us cannot see.
And the last thing the dark wants is for someone living in darkness to realize that there is another side.
The Demon I Believe Physically Attacked Me
The dark does not want its influence exposed. So what happened while I was creating a blog literally named Expose the Dark did not feel coincidental to me.
If you have read some of my other posts, you know that being attacked by the dark has not been uncommon in my life, especially once I started heading towards the light.
I believe the dark attacks all of us, although most attacks are far more subtle than what happened to me that day.
Just two weeks into creating this blog, I was sitting at my kitchen table typing the post Are Psychics and Mediums Real? when the burning began.
It started as a burning sensation moving across my back. At first I wondered what it was. But it continued, traveling across my skin with the unmistakable feeling of being scratched by something sharp.
What made it so strange was that I never felt an object touching me. I felt only the scratching and the burning it left behind.
I didn’t touch my back. I immediately left the kitchen table and went into the bathroom to look in the mirror. By then, I had a strong sense of what I was going to see.
Sure enough, there were visible scratches across my back.
I called one of my children over and asked them to take a photograph. This is the actual picture taken immediately after the experience:
So what did I do? Was I scared? Did I back off?
No.
I rejoiced.
To me, the attack meant that I had struck a nerve. If the purpose of this site was to expose darkness, then darkness apparently didn’t enjoy being exposed.
Instead of frightening me into stopping, the attack had the opposite effect. I praised God, worshiped Him and continued the spiritual warfare I engage in daily, covered in the full armor of God. In the days that followed, I felt more spiritually alive than I had before the attack.
The Dark Fights Authority
The dark sows rebellion and fights authority.
But the experience also taught me something about authority.
Who usually has to fight harder: the one who possesses authority, or the one who doesn’t?
Someone without authority often has to rely on intimidation, anger or force because he cannot simply command the outcome he wants.
I began to see the attack on my back in that light. It looked less like a display of power and more like an act of frustration.
But no matter how hard the dark fights, it will be defeated if it meets true authority. You see, the light fights too. But the light fights from a position of authority.
How Did the Dark Get to Me?
Am I surprised that a demon was able to enter my home?
Yes.
Years earlier, I had commanded demonic spirits to leave my home, and they left. So I was genuinely surprised that something like this could happen there again.
There were several other people in the house at the time. Some guests of one of my son’s had also brought a sweet gift, and the attack occurred within minutes of me sampling it. I’ve wondered ever since whether one of the guests, the gift itself, or something associated with it somehow provided an opening.
That remains only my theory. I cannot prove how the spirit gained access, and I don’t want to claim certainty about something I don’t know.
What I do know is how I responded. I declared God’s protection over my house and commanded any demonic presence to leave.
Now in all honesty, was this attack that bad?
No.
To me, it showed the lack of authority that the dark has. I received worse scratches that same weekend playing with a puppy, no joke.
And think about it: what kind of enemy attacks you from behind? In an old Western, what would you call a gunfighter who shot someone in the back?
A coward.
But there was one very strange difference between these scratches and ordinary scratches.
The visible marks were about 95% gone by the next morning, yet I could still feel the burning sensation where they had been. The intensity diminished, but the sensation remained for another day or two.
Finally, I declared the blood of Jesus over my back and declared the light and glory of God over the place where I had been scratched.
The burning stopped.
Completely.
After feeling it lingering for a day or two, the sensation was simply gone.
What Does an Attack From the Dark Look Like?
Most spiritual attacks will never leave visible scratches. Darkness can work in much quieter ways through fear, temptation, anger, despair, division, deception and other areas of weakness in our lives.
That does not mean every illness, anxious thought or period of depression has a spiritual cause. We live in physical bodies, and there are physical and psychological causes for many things we experience. But neither do I believe we should automatically dismiss the possibility that a spiritual battle can sometimes be taking place alongside the natural one.
Could something be fighting to keep you from discovering or fulfilling your purpose?
Choose the Light
That day at my kitchen table taught me something I haven’t forgotten.
Darkness may fight. It may threaten. It may deceive. It may even leave scratches. But fighting violently and possessing true authority are not the same thing.
The dark fought back while I was trying to expose it.
I kept writing because I had learned which side actually holds the authority.
And ultimately, every one of us faces the same choice.
You are either moving toward the light or remaining in the dark. The dark does not want you to see the difference.
Choose the Light.
Subscribe to My Blog for Updates on new Posts!
Relevant Scripture:
Ephesians 6:11-12 – Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Also:
John 1:5 – The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend [overcome, absorb] it.
Matthew 10:27 – What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.
John 12:46 – I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.
Matthew 5:14 – “You are the light of the world.
Recent Comments