Are you getting SMS messages from demons? Catholic priests say it happens all the time
Quote:‘Demonic texts’: The enemy can use technology, says exorcist
Demonic spirits can send text messages to cell phones and use modern technology to harass or lure people to the dark side.
Fr. Jose Francisco Syquia, chief exorcist of the Archdiocese of Manila, also says receiving messages from demons is an experience common to priests helping possessed persons liberate themselves.
“We did not expect [demons] could do so but if you ask other exorcists, they would tell you the same experience. Usually [the demons would swear at you] or say, ‘This person will never get away from us,’” he says in an interview.
Syquia, president of the 170-strong Philippine Association of Catholic Exorcists (PACE), has been performing exorcisms since 2002.
His most memorable encounter with demonic texts happened in 2003 when the office cell phone used by the Archdiocese of Manila Office of Exorcism (AMOE) received menacing messages from the phone of a female ex-satanist referred to him by a Cavite-based priest. The priest earlier reported seeing the woman levitate.
As “Gina,” Syquia’s secretary and AMOE coordinator, remembers it, the priest was in his office speaking with the possessed woman and her companion when the companion’s phone began receiving messages from the possessed’s phone that was in another room, near Gina’s desk.
The messages were all in Filipino. “Don’t believe Father,” one read. Another claimed that Syquia was a sinner and a liar, and that he wouldn’t be able to help the woman at all.
“I erased the messages right away after our conversation. We don’t keep records of them. We believe it is not okay to keep them,” Gina says.
“The devil has power over anything electrical,” Syquia says. “If this place is infested, for example, and they want their presence known, usually the lights would flicker. If I give a talk and use a certain gadget, the devil would easily shut it down because he is an expert in anything electrical.”
Syquia says the Vatican has alerted Catholic exorcists to occult websites that put a curse on anyone who opens them.
“[Vatican] said this second beast is actually the virtual world that the devil Satan is creating,” he says. “While we have the real world, the red dragon that is the devil would have two beasts come from him. One of these will have powers to create a virtual world that is different from the world of God. It has its own rules, and once people start to live there more than in the real world, it will be an escape from the struggle to become holy in this world.”
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