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Robin Williams Acknowledged He Channeled Demonic Spirits For Comedic Power

Robin Williams acknowledged that he had opened himself up to transformative demonic powers that aided him on stage. Without the aid of such demonic powers, it is likely that you would have never have heard of Robin Williams and many other famous celebrities.

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August 14, 2014

Geoffrey Grider

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Fame in Hollywood often comes with a deadly price

“And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.” Mark 5:9

Suicide is not the unpardonable sin, neither is murder, divorce, fornication, homosexuality, drug addiction or anything else you could possibly do. No, the only sin that God cannot forgive is the one of rejecting the free gift of salvation that is found only in Jesus Christ. The generic “higher power” many meet in rehab may get you sober for a time, but will damn your eternal soul if you die without meeting Jesus in particular, and not just “god” in general.

Don’t make the fatal mistake of confusing sobriety with salvation.

(Start article as taken from Good Fight Ministries)

Everybody is currently talking about Robin Williams and his tragic suicide. Many are puzzled as to how a man, who made so many people laugh, could be so depressed that he would violently end his life. What people are not learning is the deeper truth about the insidious forces that tormented Robin Williams and drove him to suicide.

Robin Williams acknowledged that he had opened himself up to transformative demonic powers that aided him on stage. Without the aid of such demonic powers, it is likely that you would have never have heard of Robin Williams and many other famous celebrities.

“Yeah! Literally, it’s like possession ‑ all of a sudden you’re in, and because it’s in front of a live audience, you just get this energy that just starts going…” – Robin Williams

Williams also recognized that these powers had manifested a very evil influence on stage and that there could be a hefty price to pay for their assistance. Williams told James Kaplan of US Weekly:

“Yeah! Literally, it’s like possession ‑ all of a sudden you’re in, and because it’s in front of a live audience, you just get this energy that just starts going…But there’s also that thing ‑ it is possession. In the old days you’d be burned for it…But there is something empowering about it. I mean, it is a place where you are totally ‑ it is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, where you really can become this other force. Maybe that’s why I don’t need to play evil characters [in movies], ’cause sometimes onstage you can cross that line and come back. Clubs are a weird kind of petri dish environment. I mean, that’s where people can get as dark as they can in comedy ‑ in the name of comedy, be talking about outrageous stuff and somehow come out the other side. I mean, that’s one place where you really want to push it” (Robin Williams, “Robin Williams,” by James Kaplan, US Weekly, January, 1999, p. 53).

Williams’ last statement quoted above answers the question as to why the demonic powers use entertainers. Their goal is to promote evil and darkness and increase mankind’s rebellion against God.

Williams went on to say on the heels of that admission:

“The people I’ve admired ‑ Jonathan Winters, in his best days, was out. Gone. But the price he paid for it was deep”

Sadly, it seems that the price Robin Williams has now paid is just as deep as that of his idol, Jonathan Winters. In fact, in the same US Weekly Interview, James Kaplan says:

“With a gift for mimicry and improvisation that verged on demonic possession, Williams could even approach the artistry of his idol Jonathan Winters—a man whose genius took him, once or twice, over the edge into mental illness. Williams’ own version of hell has been extensively chronicled”.

Like Robin Williams, Jonathan Winters had to contend with the tormenting demonic powers he utilized for fame and fortune. “These voices are always screaming to get out,” Winters told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, further admitting “They follow me around pretty much all day and night.”

At the height of Winter’s success, he voluntarily committed himself to a psychiatric hospital for eight months. Winters would later claim that if he were not careful, the authorities would put him back in the “zoo,” an obvious reference to the mental institution. Winters, like Williams, often fell into deep depression and struggled with heavy drinking.

While many only knew Robin Williams to be what they considered a somewhat “family friendly” actor, he was one of the most successful crude stand-up comics who ever lived. It was during his stand-up where he was most able to tap into what he calls “possession…Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde… that’s where people can get as dark as they can in comedy ‑ in the name of comedy” .

It was in Williams’ stand-up where he would go into his manic, stream-of-consciousness rants filled with vulgar language, perverse sexuality and the glorification of illicit drugs and drunkenness. Many people express shock after seeing Williams’ stand-up, not knowing his act was so perverse. Comedians, like many famous musicians, pay the price for their fame by becoming enslaved to the demonic forces that possess and torment them.

Jim Morrison, the frontman of America’s most successful band in the 60’s, admitted that he had to drink “to silence the constant voices of the demons” (James Riordin, “Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison,” p. 23). The Door’s photographer, Frank Lisciandro, stated that,“Jim drank to quiet the ceaseless clamor of the demons, ghosts and spirits. He drank because there were demons and voices and spirits shouting inside of his head and he found that one of the ways to quell them was with alcohol”

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“I have someone else that takes over when it’s time for me to work and when I’m on stage, this alter ego that I’ve created that kind of protects me and who I really am,” – Beyonce is pictured here wearing the classic goat’s head symbol used exclusively in Satan worship.

Brian Wilson, considered the musical genius of the Beach Boys, claimed that he has been harassed by several different demonic spirit entities that so tormented him that he was bed ridden for years. Rolling Stone describes Wilson’s possession-like experience in ways that are reminiscent of scenes of Linda Blair from The Exorcist:

“Brian Wilson hears voices. They talk to him. They frighten him, distract him, confuse him…the voices are calling. His eyes roll toward the ceiling; they’ve gone blank. His brow is furrowed with thick worry lines. He is silent. Gone. He looks up, jerks his head back and forth for a few seconds, as if physically shaking away the voices” Former Warner Brother Records President, Larry Waronker, claims to have met at least five different entities possessing Brian Wilson’s body (Rolling Stone, August, 1988, p. 51-52).

Superstar Beyonce freely admitted to channeling a demonic spirit named Sasha Fierce, and that Sasha actually took over during her performances.

Ozzy Osborne admitted, “I’ve got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels” (Harry Shaw, “Ozzy Talking,” p. 126). Ozzie further admitted, “I remember sitting through the Exorcist a dozen times, saying to myself, ‘Yeah, I can relate to that” (Hit Parader, Nov. 1984, p. 49).

Most people are blind to this diabolical pattern of celebrities giving themselves over to satanic power for fame and fortune, only to be exploited, used and abused, and then spit out after Satan is done with them.

Heath Ledger’s life ended prematurely not long after he accepted the evil role of The Joker in The Dark Knight. While Ledger’s depression began after starring in the gay promotional film, Brokeback Mountain, after his death, headlines from Australia’s Herald Sun like, “Tragic Death: Heath Ledger Battled His Demons” and The Star, stating “If it was personal demons that conspired to destroy Heath Ledger, they were already making their presence felt many years before,” underscored the fact that Ledger was dealing with some dark forces.

Ledger said of The Joker character he would portray in The Dark Knight,“He’s a psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy.” However, to properly play the role to his satisfaction, Ledger would open himself up to evil spirits with even less empathy. “Well,” said Jack Nicholson, who had also played The Joker, “I warned him” (Source).

Unfortunately, Nicholson’s warning went unheeded and Ledger overcame his fears and ended up even meditating on becoming the evil Joker he would portray:

“I definitely feared it…Although anything that makes me afraid I guess excites me at the same time. I don’t know if I was fearless, but I certainly had to put on a brave face and believe that I have something up my sleeve. Something different…just closing my eyes and meditating on it…it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath — someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts” (Source).

Ledger told the New York Times that he “had trouble sleeping while portraying the Joker,”and that, “Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night.” Ledger seems to have been so tormented that he told the Times, “I couldn’t stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.” He went on to state that he took drugs, which would quell the unrest for only an hour (The Associated Press, January 23, 2008). Sadly, Ledger, died of a drug overdose shortly after the filming of The Dark Knight.

Robin Williams, like Morrison, Winters, Ledger and so many others who resort to drugs or alcohol in their attempt to quell the demonic voices that torment them, fail to realize – until it’s too late – that such drugs only draw one deeper into Satan’s insidious web.

Sadly, Robin Williams must have felt like he was in a no win situation. When he sought sobriety, the demonic voices which he admits he had opened himself up to likely tormented him to no end. When he sought to drown out the clamoring voices with a deluge of alcohol, he ended up poisoning himself and teetered on the throes of death. He had tried “professional help” a number of times, but the arm of the flesh, no matter how noble the intentions, cannot overcome the demonic world.

Robin Williams felt enslaved to the industry and to the very dark powers that brought him fame in the first place. An intimate friend of Williams told the Telegraph that Williams had been working on new projects and dreaded making more films to pay the bills, as they “brought out his demons” and “left him drained and particularly vulnerable to depressive episodes.”

(End article as taken from Good Fight Ministries)

Demonic oppression and enslavement is real, and what happened with Robin Williams and many others is proof of that. The bible says that Jesus came to set the “captives free”. A general belief in a generic god of your own making, a higher power, has never and will never save anyone’s soul. If the “god” you meet in rehab is not the Lord Jesus Christ, you have met a powerless idol who cannot help or save you. Don’t ever make the fatal mistake of confusing sobriety with salvation. But believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, and asking Him to wash you clean in His shed blood from Calvary’s cross will save you for all eternity.

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Orange County Corrections Chaplain Wesley Hooker Writes To Tell Us They’ve Just Handed Out The 32 Cases Of KJVs We Sent And Need More As Soon As Possible

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December 11, 2025

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Our inbox is filled with requests from jails and prisons across America from chaplains in desperate need of King James Bibles in English and Spanish

Chaplain Hooker at the Orange County Corrections in Florida wrote to us earlier to say ‘thank you’, first and foremost, for the 32 cases of KJVs we sent them last year. They see an average of 30 people getting saved per week, and our large print KJV is the most-requested Bible they have. He then asked could we send him some more as soon as possible? We just finished processing his request right before I started writing this article. My inbox is full of emails from chaplains who desperately need Bibles, and we’re sending them out as quick as we can, and we need your help.

“The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.” Psalm 68:11 (KJB)

In addition to that, we are sending 300 RVG Spanish KJVs to our friend Chaplain Bob at the Harris County Jail in Texas. We just sent pocket-sized Spanish New Testaments to the Willacy County Regional Detention Facility, and 100 Ruckman Reference Bibles for the ADA County Jail in Boise, Idaho. We are still looking to send Bibles to the Franklin County Regional Jail in Frankfort, Kentucky. Chaplain Dean at the Sierra Conservation Correctional Center wrote to say he was overwhelmed when they received the 160 KJVs we sent to them. 2025 will go down as the year we went out the most Bibles to jails and prisons than we ever have. Come help us to fulfill this amazing course the Lord has given us to do!

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Why Are None Of The Celebrity Church Pastors Warning The Jews And Israel About The Coming Time Of Jacob’s Trouble That’s Written In The Prophets?

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December 11, 2025

Geoffrey Grider

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Why are Christian pastors in the church and pro-Israel social media influencers silent on the coming time of Jacob’s trouble for the Jews and Israel spoken of by the prophets?

The other day, I read about 1,000 American Christian pastors and social media influencers going enmasse to Israel to show support for the Jews in an event orchestrated by the Friends of Zion initiative in collaboration with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ok, that’s great, I have no problem with that at all. At NTEB, we’ve been showing support for the Jews and Israel for the past 17 years, but with a noticeable difference. Along with our support, we also warn them of the coming holocaust that will soon envelope them. Why is no one else doing that?

“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” Matthew 24:21 (KJB)

Can you imagine, as a Christian, getting to address Jewish leaders in Israel, or better yet, being in the same room as Benjamin Netanyahu and be able to speak with him face to face? Many Christians pastors in America, like John Hagee, have had those opportunities and continue to have them, and stay strangely silent about Jesus Christ and Bible prophecy. These men and women say how much they love and support Israel and the Jews, I don’t doubt that, and are unafraid to publicly declare their support for them. But underneath all that bluster they are cowards, afraid to tell the Jews the truth about their current estranged condition with God, about the coming time of Jacob’s trouble, about how the majority of the Jews will worship Antichrist in the Tribulation, and all the other things the Old and New Testaments declare are coming for them. Why won’t they tell them? For one reason, many pastors in churches today know very little about Bible prophecy, and you can’t speak of what you don’t know. But the other reason, and I believe the larger one, is that they know if they tell the Jews the truth, whatever relationship they have with them, in many cases financial, will be immediately severed. Money talks, and loudly at that.

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So let us take a moment through our platform, to send a message of love, and warning, to the nation of Israel and the Jewish people. In love, everyone at Now The End Begins loves the Jewish people, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and we are Zionists in the truest, and most biblical sense. In warning, we bring to your remembrance what the prophets and apostles have declared to be true about the coming time of Jacob’s trouble that will see the rise of Antichrist and the destruction of Jerusalem. But please don’t take our word for it, see for yourself the things that must shortly come to pass, saith the LORD God of Jacob.

A Biblical Outline of Warning to The Jews and Israel About the Coming Time of Jacob’s Trouble

I. Israel’s Present Moment of Unbelief Foretold

Israel remains in partial blindness until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
- “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.” Romans 11:25 (KJB)
This blindness is temporary, but it leaves Israel currently unprepared for the coming deception.
Israel today stands at the threshold of prophetic fulfillment, not revival — that comes after the Tribulation (Ezek. 36–37).

II. The Rapture Removes the Church and Opens the Final Countdown for Israel

After the Church — the Body of Christ — is caught up (1 Thess. 4, 1 Cor. 15), God’s prophetic clock for Israel restarts.
This begins Daniel’s 70th week — a seven-year period specifically decreed upon “thy people” and “thy holy city.”
- “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” Daniel 9:24 (KJB)
The Rapture will leave Israel religious but deceived, vulnerable to signing a covenant with a man they will believe is their Messiah.

III. The Man of Sin Will Deceive Israel Through a Covenant of Peace

Israel will enter a false peace treaty with the Antichrist.
- “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.” — Daniel 9:27
This peace will not be peace from God but a trap, luring the nation into trusting a Gentile world leader.
The Antichrist will allow the rebuilding of the Temple and the restoration of sacrifices (2 Thess. 2:3-4; Rev. 11:1-2).

IV. Mid-Tribulation Betrayal: The Abomination of Desolation

At the midpoint of the seven years, the Antichrist will break the covenant.
He will enter the Temple and declare himself to be God.
- “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” Matthew 24:15 (KJB)
- “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:4 (KJB)
This moment begins the Great Tribulation, the fiercest part of Jacob’s Trouble.
Jesus warned the Jews to flee immediately, not debate, negotiate, or stay behind May 14th, 1948 was not the prophesied regathering of the Jews, the Second Advent will be.
- “Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:” Matthew 24:16 (KJB)

V. The Time of Jacob’s Trouble: A Warning of Unprecedented Distress

Jeremiah prophesied a time of terror coming upon Israel.
- “For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.” Jeremiah 30:5-7 (KJB)
God Himself describes it as a time of refining, not annihilation.
Two-thirds of Israel will perish during this period (Zechariah 13:8).
Israel will face:
- Global military assault
- Persecution under the Beast system
- Forced worship of the Antichrist
- Divine judgments poured out (Revelation 6–19)

VI. God Will Use This Time to Bring Israel to Repentance

The purpose of Jacob’s Trouble is purging and restoration, not destruction.
During the Tribulation, God will raise up 144,000 sealed Jewish evangelists (Revelation 7), as well as the Two Witnesses (Revelation 11).
Through fiery trial, Israel will finally recognize their rejected Messiah.
- “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.” Zechariah 12:10 (KJB)
The remnant of Israel will cry out nationally for the return of Jesus, but at tremendous cost.
- “For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.” — Matthew 23:39 (KJB)
- “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” Zechariah 13:9 (KJB)

VII. The Second Coming: Israel’s Deliverance at Armageddon

When Jerusalem is surrounded and on the verge of destruction, the Lord Himself will descend.
- “Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.” Zechariah 14:3,4 (KJB)
His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4).
Israel will be rescued, the Antichrist destroyed, and the nations judged (Revelation 19).
The remnant of Israel will enter the Millennial Kingdom, where prophecy finds fulfillment and the promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are realized.

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.” Zechariah 8:23 (KJB)

This is not my opinion, my interpretation, or the ‘historic view of eschatology’. What I have told you here will absolutely come to pass as it is written in the scripture of truth. The Jews are God’s chosen people, but many of them will choose Antichrist over the Lord and wind up in a burning, fiery Hell. And right, here in the Church Age, every single Jew on the face of the Earth can only be saved by trusting the shed blood of Jesus on the cross. The prophets all point to what the New Testament declares to be true. I believe that all Christians should love the Jews and pray for Israel, but to not tell them this vital truth is tantamount to depraved indifference over their lost spiritual condition. Don’t just say you love the Jews, don’t just say you support Israel, tell them the truth, Pastor.

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DEP’T OF WAR: US Commandos Storm Venezuelan ‘Terror Tanker’ In Breathtaking Airborne Takedown As Tensions Rocket Toward Open Military Conflict

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December 10, 2025

Geoffrey Grider

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US commandos from the Department of War stormed a Venezuelan oil tanker in a breathtaking airborne takedown amid ratcheting tensions in the Caribbean.

The breaking news that U.S. commandos stormed and seized a Venezuelan oil tanker is not simply another geopolitical dust-up — it is a visible sign of the times, a reminder that the world’s great powers are now moving pieces on the prophetic chessboard with increasing speed and intensity. The Department of War is open for business.

“In your patience possess ye your souls.” Luke 21 :19 (KJB)

When President Trump announced that U.S. forces had taken control of what he described as a “very large tanker” operating off the Venezuelan coast, the world caught a glimpse of something Washington hasn’t shown in decades: the willingness to use force decisively, swiftly, and without apology. And make no mistake, while the modern bureaucracy insists on calling it the “Department of Defense,” what you saw on full display was the Department of War, doing exactly what it was renamed from in 1949, projecting American power upon the seas. But where does all this lead, and more importantly, where does it all end?

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President Trump orders seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker with stunning attack by US commandos at the Department of War

FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: Footage released by the Trump administration on Wednesday showed American forces swooping on the tanker in helicopters and rappelling down ropes. Troops with guns drawn darted up stairs to the bridge to take control of the vessel off the coast of Venezuela.

Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a statement on X: ‘Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.

‘For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.’

The release of the video comes hours after it was reported on Wednesday that the tanker had been seized, sparking fears of a potential blockade and sending oil prices sky-rocketing. No name was given for the ‘stateless’ vessel, nor was it confirmed precisely where off the coast of Venezuela the raid unfolded.

Trump called it ‘the largest one ever seized’ and warned that ‘other things are happening.’

The capture sent oil prices climbing sharply, with Brent crude rising 1.21 percent to $62.69 a barrel amid fears the escalation could disrupt global supply. Venezuela is one of the largest suppliers of oil to China, which has been the destination of between 55 percent and 90 percent of the country’s oil exports.

A Bloomberg report called the move ‘a serious escalation’ after Trump demanded Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro step down. Caracas did not immediately respond to the seizure.

When asked about what the US will do with the oil seized from the Venezuelan tanker, Trump said, ‘We keep it.’

This week’s seizure marks the first time the Trump administration has moved to interfere with the country’s oil distribution amid the hostile pressure campaign. When a reporter on Wednesday asked Trump about who owns the seized oil tanker, the President responded, ‘You’ll get that information later.’ READ MORE