She never goes to work without a bottle of consecrated olive oil, which she uses to anoint her desk, chair and even the bottom of her shoes before entering corporate meetings.
*Tina Johnson is a highly qualified professional, but she knows that knowledge of spiritual warfare is even more important than book knowledge when navigating today’s workplaces, as witches, warlocks and those aligned to the masonic lodge have waged an undeclared war against true Christians.
Johnson still recalls the prophecy she got from a pastor during one of her most challenging periods at work. At the time, several of her co-workers were dying and God had revealed that their deaths were a sacrifice. There were attempts to get rid of her, but the Lord would always reveal the plans of the emissaries of Satan, some of them being top level executives at her organisation who were known Freemasons.
“He said, don’t for a moment believe that it is a regular rank of demons attacking you, or are coming up against you. The Lord said these are principalities and powers,” she recounted the pastor telling her.
A few days later, another pastor from a different denomination in another parish made similar revelations and assured her of God’s protection.
Freemasonry refers to the beliefs and practices of a number of fraternal organizations worldwide that are oath-bound secret societies. Today many of the organizations are known for their charitable activity. Freemason meetings are kept at several locations across the island, including at secondary schools in the corporate area and they are attended by several prominent persons from a wide across section of the society. This includes pastors.
Johnson prays daily while at work and home. She takes nothing for granted, as members of the lodge or the brotherhood as they are called, stopped at nothing to intimidate her, even turning up at her house in the wee hours of the morning.
“There was one night when a particular individual left his body and came to my property,” she told the Freedom Come Rain.
“He came and he was cussing me. He is a very senior person and a member of the lodge. He said, you chat too much, you see too much. He was threatening me, saying they are going to blind me, I am seeing too much and I’m hearing too much. I said who sent you here, and I rebuked him, and I said, never you ever come back.”
She easily recognised the person as someone from her workplace. He made several attempts to come inside her house, but he was blocked, so he stayed outside and hurled insults at her. He was upset, because the Lord had showed her that he had made several attempts to kill a manager at the place they worked and that he often visited her at her house.
“I didn’t know that he had been going there all this time, tormenting her. She didn’t understand certain things, so the Lord would have showed it to me, and I said it her,” Johnson said, before adding, “She [the manager] said she had been praying for two years, asking the Lord who from her workplace was trying to kill her?”
Johnson said she does not share her experiences with everyone, since some people would be more inclined to form the view that those who get these spiritual revelations are insane. However, those who disregard spiritual warfare do so at their own peril as it has intensified in Jamaican workplaces. As such, she does not eat from anyone at work. Despite the intensity of the attacks, she pointed to God’s promises to protect the righteous.
*Lisa Smith, who has been a Christian for many years, has also had several encounters with freemasons and those who dabble in the occult at her workplace. Her work environment seems like the most ideal place to work, but for her, it’s the place she experiences the most warfare.
“When the demonic missiles cannot lodge at you and they can’t attack you, what they do is to try and frustrate you out of the job,” said Smith who is a manager.
She said they also use their “foot soldiers” to create challenges by encouraging them to openly defy your authority or they deprive you of benefits, so you can get frustrated and walk away from the job. This is done with the intention of getting someone of their choosing in the position.
“Do not open any evil portal. You have to live a life of consecration and confession daily,” Smith advised.
She said God usually shows her those who are engaged in occultic practices.
“At first, I used to feel hurt and bitterness, because I’m saying, these are the people that you are seeing everyday, they laugh with you, they ask you how you are doing, and yet they are throwing daggers to destroy you,” Smith told Freedom Come Rain.
After several attempts to get rid her her failed, Smith said “high level” demons were released to investigate her past. They visited her childhood home and other places she had lived over the years to see if anything was available that could be used to destroy or shame her. However, the Lord always revealed the plans and told her what actions should be taken.
“One of them from the workplace sent a demon to my house and the demon told me what they used to pay him before they sent him to me and what they fed him with,” she recounted.
“He said before he died, he liked steam calaloo, and so they gave him meat and steamed calaloo and I said, your diet is very cheap, and he laughed. He said, I told them to leave you alone because you are a good person.”
While those who consider themselves progressive might laugh at the notion of demons and the occult, both Smith and Johnson say they pray and fast regularly as part of their battle strategies to counter the spiritual attacks of Satan. They have witnessed the gradual efforts to demystify freemasonary and both have cautioned Jamaicans against being accepting of secret societies that are not engaged in the worship of the true and living God.
“It is deceptive,” warned Smith.
Freemasons are increasingly being featured by traditional media engaging in charitable endeavours. Just this week, they handed over a commercial washing machine to a school in St Andrew and last year they had a blood drive which was endorsed by Minster of Health and Wellness, Dr. Christopher Tufton.
The Vatican confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons last year November, following concerns of the increasing number of Catholics in the Philippines that were joining Masonic Lodges.
“Active membership in Freemasonry by a member of the faithful is prohibited, because of the irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry,” the Vatican’s doctrinal office said at the time. The late Pope Benedict XVI had stated that Catholics “in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy Communion”.
*Names changed to protect privacy
