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NEFARIOUS: PREACHING DOCTRINES OF DEVILS
CHARLO, New Brunswick, August 6, 2023 – Full disclosure here: I did not see the movie. I didn’t even make it all the way through the trailer. But I did skip through a few interviews given by the directors and read enough comments and reviews to get a good whiff of what the film was about. Let me put it another way – if I’m walking down the road and see a steaming pile of brown goop a few yards ahead, I don’t need to march right up to it and stick my face into it to know it’s poop. I can tell from a safe distance that it is what it is and detour around it. In the same way, I don’t need to watch even one minute of a movie headlined by a demon, starring a demon, to know it’s the spiritual equivalent of a steaming pile and therefore needs to be avoided. To do otherwise – to purposely kneel down and study it – would be the same as putting Jesus back up on the cross.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.”
The last time I checked, Christians are to be taught by God and his Word, not by demons (even fictional ones). We betray God and Jesus when we turn our back to them and go to the devil for knowledge.
I am appalled by the sheer volume of Christians who are not only cheering this film on, but are urging their family, friends, and strangers to go see it. Some even claim it should be mandatory viewing in seminaries and Bible schools.
I can only think that these people have been bewitched, somewhat along the lines of the “O foolish Galatians” that Paul chewed out for falling such easy prey to liars.
Because have no doubt – the devil and his demons (even and especially the fictional ones) are liars. That’s all they are. They mix in enough facts to gain your trust, but their arguments are based on lies and delivered through seduction and deception.
Seduction and deception.
Sound familiar?
O foolish Christians! You are Eve all over again. You have a Bible to learn God’s Truth from – you have a direct line to God in prayer, courtesy of Jesus – but you look instead to a fictional “dark gospel” dictated by a fictional emissary of hell. And it’s not enough that you yourself fall under the spell – you have to drag others down with you. You gush over the demon. You are in awe of the demon. You secretly admire the demon’s intellect. “Such a wise demon!”, you say to yourself. “If only everyone could learn from this demon!” And then you go and do the devil’s bidding and promote the film – even to children – as a Christian film, and you do it for free.
Hear that noise? That horrible sound? It’s the devil and his demons laughing at you.
Abominations come in all shapes and sizes. This film is an abomination. And like all abominations, it has no place in the heart, mind, home, or playlist of a follower of Jesus.
We are not to talk to demons. We are not to be curious about demons. We are not to “study” demons or take a course on them. We are to do as Jesus did when it comes to demons, which means we are to have no conversation with them at all other than to ask their name and then to state their name when we cast them out. That is the only interaction we’re to have with demons.
If you’ve been bewitched and beguiled by the movie, get down on your face and repent. Get down on your face right now and repent. You are loved by God and hated by the devil, and yet you’ve become a cheerleader for Satan. Give your head a shake, O foolish Christian! Open your eyes, O foolish Christian!
Get down on your face and repent, O foolish Christian, before it’s too late!
NEFARIOUS: CHRISTIAN OR ANTI-CHRIST?
CHARLO, New Brunswick, July 27, 2023 – A trailer for the film Nefarious popped up in my YouTube feed the other day. I didn’t know anything about the movie, but the thumbnail looked interesting, so I clicked.
I’m not sure I’m glad that I did. It had the typical “horror” genre feel that feeds demons’ need to be feared. Horror films, as we well know, have been a gateway to the demonic for many a lost soul. This movie doesn’t look like it’s much different in that regard.
Jesus didn’t fear demons. He didn’t like them, but he didn’t fear them. In none of his teachings did he warn us to fear them. If you’re genuinely born-again (which you should be if you’re reading this) – if you’re genuinely born-again, you know there’s nothing to fear in the spirit realm except God, and demons are obviously not God.
So right off the bat, I’m wondering what’s “Christian” about a “horror” movie that features demonic possession? In fact, after watching the trailer and then reading several reviews and interviews about the movie, I was surprised that Nefarious is even being plugged as a Christian film. By their very premise, horror movies aren’t Christian. They’re the opposite: They make people fear what Jesus taught us we have no reason to fear. In other words, horror movies are textbook anti-Christ.
Another aspect that jumped out at me was how the movie (again, based on the trailer) was sensationalizing demonic activity. This is unfortunate because demonic activity is actually quite ubiquitous. There’s nothing sensational about it. Everyone who isn’t born-again (that is, everyone who doesn’t have God’s Holy Spirit in them) has the spirit of the world in them, which is of the demonic realm. So that’s a lot of people who have demons either infesting, oppressing, or possessing them (at last count, nearly 8 billion people) and we’re around those people all the time. Do they look like the character in the movie (or like Linda Blair’s character in The Exorcist)? No, of course not, because demonic activity is the world and the world is demonic activity. Jesus taught us that the world is under the authority of Satan, so everything that is of the world (including the movie industry) is demonic. The film sensationalizes and attempts to make us fear (and therefore give power to) something that is actually quite widespread and banal.
Jesus didn’t fear or sensationalize any of the demons he encountered; he just shut them up and cast them out. The major portion of Jesus’ healing ministry was casting out demons. He performed thousands of exorcisms during his three-year ministry. Nearly everyone he interacted with had some level of demonic activity in them or around them, including some of his followers. Again – people who are not born-again have the spirit of the world in them, and the spirit of the world is demonic. There’s no such thing as a spiritual vacuum, so everyone has either God’s Spirit or demonic spirits. You can’t have both and you can’t have neither. This is a spiritual fact of life.
Furthermore, based on the trailer, the movie appeared to want to incite the audience not only to fear the demonic but to be curious about it. This follows the trend nowadays of demons coming out of the anonymity closet, whereas for the past several decades they’ve been trying to hide behind diagnoses of mental disorders, flights of fancy, and artistic expression. For years, demons worked hard to be considered non-existent, as it gave them the opportunity to infiltrate people’s lives without those people knowing what they’d gotten themselves into. I guess it was easier for parents to claim that their child’s atrocious behavior is due to autism or ADHD rather than demons. But now the demons want everyone to know about them and be curious about them. They want to preach their “Dark Gospel”, as the movie informs us.
Not having seen Nefarious, I can’t offer a critique beyond saying that if it makes Christians fear demons or makes them curious about demons, it’s not a Christian movie. Christians are not to have anything to do with demons, other than to give them the command to leave a soul they’re tormenting. Like Jesus showed us, the only interaction we’re to have with demons is to ask their name and then to tell them to leave in Jesus’ name. No further interaction is advised. This is another major flaw in the movie, from what I saw in the trailer. I read later in some reviews that the demon is given the spotlight and holds the stage for most of the film. Contrast that with how quickly demons are dispatched in the Gospels and how little they’re permitted to say.
Considering the above, I don’t think anyone can honestly call this movie Christian.
Ultimately, I question the motivation of the people behind Nefarious. I’ve read some interviews given by the directors (Konzelman and Solomon), and not once did they mention the name of Jesus. They mention “the Lord”, but they don’t mention Jesus by name. It seems odd to me that the name of Jesus is absent from their interviews, if in fact this movie is supposed to be Christian.
Demons shouldn’t be headlining movies meant for a Christian audience. We’re to cast demons out and silence them, not give them a platform to preach their satanic agenda. Demons and demonic activities are not entertainment, not for Christians. Everything you need to know about demons you can learn from Jesus and God; anything beyond that is unholy curiosity that needs to be stopped in its tracks, as it will only lead you down a very dark path.
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
A BORN-AGAIN BELIEVER 