Tucker Carlson Claims He Was Attacked in Bed by Demons
It sounds pretty crazy, if you think about it. Conservative firebrand, Tucker Carlson, posted a video in which he claims that a demon, or perhaps demon(s), attacked him in his sleep.
Carlson claims he was “attacked, mauled, physically mauled by a demon…” nearly a year and a half ago. He claims that his wounds, or marks, are still present on him to this day, appearing like “four claw marks.”
“I’m not from a world where things like that happen. I never heard of anything like that happening before. I had no idea what that was. I did not it was spiritually immediately,” Carlson added.
He also acknowledges that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to him.
Carlson said, “I’m not from a faith tradition that talks about things like that or even acknowledges its existence.”
Later, Carlson said that he received a very intense desire to study the Bible afterward. Although he doesn’t say it in the video, this fits completely with Carlson’s previous statements regarding a timeline of about 1.5 years ago that he read the whole Bible for the first time.
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JD writes in the post, The Devil Ain’t Dead and He Ain’t In Your Head…
Our spiritual experiences have to submit themselves to Scripture, but sometimes our spiritual experiences make specific scriptures pop-out to us a little bit more. I think the Cessationist is more likely than he ought to be to suppress his senses – both spiritual and physical – for fear of getting weirder than what we are permitted to be in our respectable Christian circles.
He goes on…
Demons, the demonic, and the devil are largely perceived as being real by modern Americans, and perhaps in greater numbers than those who believe in God (and certainly at higher levels than those who believe Jesus is God).
Ignoring the topic of the supernatural spirit world, as we proclaim Christ and him crucified, is a profoundly dumb strategy. They already believe in spirits, so why are we acting like talking about it is going to scare them away from us?
Perhaps we are ashamed of the supernaturality of God.
Some might take exception with Carlson’s claims that he was physically attacked by a spiritual creature. But, as JD points out in his Substack, Satan apparently had the power to make Job physically ill in Job 1-2, and the gospel accounts repeatedly demonstrate that demonic affliction could have physical consequences in places like Matthew 12:22. Somehow, demonic possession by an evil spirit gives increased physical strength to the possessed, as demonstrated in Acts 19:13-16, which one wouldn’t intuitively think a spiritual being could provide.
Some evangelical gatekeepers have already begun to mock Carlson for the claim. But we would caution them about tacitly denying that evil spirits exist or that they can afflict humans. While we cannot know for sure the validity of his claims, only an argument from silence in the Scripture about the particulars of demonology can negate his claims outright.
Regardless, this is a learning opportunity for evangelical Christians. As we quoted JD above, more people believe in the devil than believe in Jesus (presuming everyone who believes in Jesus also believes in the devil, that’s a no-brainer).
Something odd, spiritually, seems to be taking place in the Western world. We can laugh and scold, or we can use it as an opportunity to profess to the world that indeed, there is a devil. His name is Satan. He is real. He hates you. He wants to hurt you. And without God’s hand of protection, he certainly can.
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You could write volumes of books on this subject, and still barely touch the surface. JD is spot-on in his assessment of Cessationists. And the reason, as we all know, and what this website is about in the first place, is because the Devil’s attacks are always multi-pronged. He will attack from every angle, using every tactic imaginable, and every trick in the book. While he has a fake healer working from one angle, he’s got skeptics working from another, a host of minions applying pressures high and low, and the combination of all sorts of assaults on the mind and conscience, manipulations of the heart, you name it. We have to stay steadfast and stand on the solid rock of God’s word. And remember what is conveyed in the last sentence of the article above. If we faithfully put on (and keep on) the whole armor of God, we are protected (Eph. 6:10-18).
I’ll get carried away and start trying to preach. But the reason I posted was to expound a bit on why I believe Cessationists over-react and begin to deny the existence of the supernatural altogether. It’s a matter of leaning on our own understanding, and our own contrived strategies to defend and protect the church against those who are making us all look bad, as well as going along with the secular world. The intent may very well be good, but in doing so, we’re not putting on the Lord’s armor. Verse 14 begins “Stand therefore …”. That’s all we have to do. Just stand firm, and trust the Lord, knowing that His strategies are far superior to our own. Stick with the scripture no matter what. It is vitally important.
Probably one of the sneakiest tactics is to get us overwhelmed, worried, and so on, believing it is difficult. It’s not difficult at all. It is very easy. His yoke is easy, and His burden is light. His commandments are not grievous or burdensome. We’ve all read the end of the book. We know who wins.
The deniers expose themselves. I read a book once by a a psychiatrist who was atheist, who examined a man that he diagnosed as having no organic cause for his set of behaviors, and had said he had to accept that it was possession. a bishop had referred the man to him to find the truth.
Ah, like all the others whom JD Hall criticized, after succumbing to scandal, took about a year before their inevitable return, so Hall has followed this same exact routine. Hall shamefully disqualified himself from public teaching and ministry, and ought to bear his shame with humility as a private individual, not seeking to return to the spotlight with a public platform again.