Deliverance minister Isaiah Saldivar, who is quickly becoming one of the prominent and visible representations of the charismatic right due to a rapidly growing social media presence, continues to teach weird and wonky things to justify his raison d’être.
In a recent YouTube video, Isaiah claims that the police officer who shot Sonya Massey in her home was 1000% inhabited by satanic spirits, with one of the indications being repeated throat-clearing, a sure sign there are demons afoot.
“As a pastor, as an exorcist, I cast out demons; I believe in the power of the Holy Spirit, I believe in the casting out of demons, and so this 1,00% was a demonic manifestation. This man was being controlled by a demonic spirit in so many ways.”
Isaiah Saldivar claims that the police officer who shot Sonya Massey in her home was 1000% inhabited by satanic spirits, with one of the indications being repeated throat-clearing, a sure sign there are demons afoot. https://t.co/JlANUqiHPjpic.twitter.com/yn1KNii9hZ
Deliverance minister Isaiah Saldivar, who is quickly becoming one of the prominent and visible representations of the charismatic right on account of a rapidly growing social media presence, continues to teach weird and wonky things to justify his raison d’être.
During a recent ‘Breaker Conference’ that saw nearly 3000 people attend, Saldivar and his fellow ministers led folks to breathe out and scream out their possessing spirits, including those demons that were passed down in the womb and ostensibly entered the body when demon-inhabited eggs encountered demon-inhabited sperm from either of their parents.
“Every ancestral spirit. Every spirit that got passed down to you in the womb from your mom or your dad, I command every ancestral spirit that’s been there since the womb, Loose them! There it is. Come out in Jesus’ name!”
This was followed up with a declaration that every spirit of voodoo, Obeah (a type of spellcasting and sorcery found in the Caribbean), or witchcraft “in the bloodline” be severed as well.
Deliverance minister Isaiah Saldivar, who is quickly becoming one of the prominent and visible representations of the charismatic right on account of a rapidly growing social media presence, continues to teach weird and wonky things to justify his raison d’être.
He’s a 34-year-old revivalist and full-time social media influencer and content creator with 250k friends on Facebook, 642k subs on YouTube, 100k followers on Instagram, and another 350k followers on TikTok, where he has 3.5 million likes.
In a recent post on YouTube, he reiterated his belief that Christians couple and their children can be inhabited by demons all the time, and so families should cast demons out of each other every few months.
Question: How can a Christian who has the Holy Spirit also have a demon?
Saldivar: Yeah, so this is a major question that we can probably go long on. We won’t take a lot of time on it, but I tell people all the time; ‘a Christian could have whatever they want’. Like they say a Christian can’t have a demon and I’m like, ‘what else can they not have? Are they not allowed to have a donut? Are they not allowed to have a coffee? Like, a Christian can have whatever they want. When you get saved, you don’t all the sudden get a license to live however you want and be protected. In fact, God never protects people in disobedience.
So, if you open a door, like, if I opened my front door right now, I don’t get to say, if a fly flies in, “you’re not allowed to fly in here.” Because the door’s open. A fly can come in, a wasp can come in, a rat can come in. If you leave the door open, stuff can come in whether you’re Christian or not.
So couple things we have to ask ourselves. Number one, is there any scripture that says a Christian can’t have a demon?… So is there a place in scripturew here the Bible says a Christian can’t have a demon? And the answer is no, there’s nowhere in the Bible where it says a Christian can’t have a demon. In fact, the Bible would point to and allude to the fact that deliverance is actually for Christians, actually for the believer. And then let me also bring up another point.
Deliverance would be pointless if Christians can’t have demons. And the reason why I say that is, if a Christian can’t have a demon, all we need to do is get the person saved and automatically all the demons will leave, making deliverance unnecessary.
….So, yes, absolutely a Christian can have a demon. ‘Well, how could the Holy Spirit and a demon live together?’ They don’t. The Holy Spirit lives in your spirit, you become alive in Christ, and your soul, which is your mind, will and emotion-Second Thessalonians talks about this- this is the place where demons live.
The Bible also says nothing good lives in your flesh. So God does not live in the flesh, demons are able to also live in the flesh.
Salvidar then gives his thoughts on how often Christians should get delivered from demons by comparing the believer to a car getting an oil change, suggesting every few months.
Question: How often would you recommend to go in for a session?
Saldivar: I mean, I change my oil in my car every 3,000 miles so it’s no problem getting the oil changed every few months. I would go through deliverance every couple months. Every six months. It depends on how free you want to be. I mean, if you’re okay with….I would recommend every few months. And here’s the thing, once you learn how to do deliverance, once your husband or wife knows, your wife could deliver you.
…. So don’t be afraid to deliver your kids. Like, if you’re out here in the chap, you watch these videos, you get trained. You should be able to do deliverance on your kid. It’s like, it’s not that bad, it’s not that hard. So I would recommend, man, make sure that your wife, your spouse, your kids train them up, train them up. So in case you need deliverance in the middle of the night, you don’t have to go in the deliverance (unintelligible) . You can get delivered right there.
Isaiah Saldivar says Christians should undergo exorcisms and 'deliverance' every few months- as often as you change your car's oil, because they're basically always letting demons in. https://t.co/yBHu0Ym1UNpic.twitter.com/amS0yfBR9p
Deliverance minister Isaiah Saldivar, who is quickly becoming one of the prominent and visible representations of the charismatic right on account of a rapidly growing social media presence, continues to teach weird and wonky things to justify his raison d’être.
He’s a 34-year-old revivalist and full-time social media influencer and content creator with 250k friends on Facebook, 412k subs on YouTube, 100k followers on Instagram, and another 350k followers on TikTok, where he has 3.5 Million likes.
In a recent video, Saldivar came out against anyone who might criticise the ‘Asbury Revival’ saying that he questions the salvation of anyone who might say something bad about it.
Let’s be clear on this. These are thousands of young college students gathering. Not for a concert, not for a secular movie, not for a rave, not to come do drugs, not to come see a celebrity, they’re literally gathering to experience the presence of God. This is what America needs.
If you are a pastor or a leader that has anything negative to say about this, I don’t, I would even question if you’re even saved or not. I don’t even know what to tell you, because this is beautiful.”
Isaiah Saldivar says if you have anything negative to say about the 'Asbury Revival', you might not be saved pic.twitter.com/NMOFXRs4oQ
Deliverance minister Isaiah Saldivar, who is quickly becoming one of the prominent and visible representations of the charismatic right on account of a rapidly growing social media presence, continues to teach weird and wonky things to justify his raison d’être. We’ve written about him previously after he claimed that a gospel presentation without signs and wonders is inadequate, and due to his bizarre beliefs on demons impregnating humans and in a literal incubus and succubus.
This time, he teaches that the Apostle Peter was actually demon-possessed when Jesus told him in Matthew 16:23, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
“Matthew 16, Jesus said to Peter, ‘Satan and get behind me’ because Satan had influence and had entered Peter, Peter being a believer. That’s in Matthew 16. John 13, the Bible says that ‘Satan entered Judas’, another Christian, another believer, another follower of Jesus.
Now, some of you right now in the comments, you’re gonna say, Isaiah, okay, you gave us two definitions you gave us Peter, you gave us Judas. But what about after they received the Holy Spirit? What about in the book of Acts, there’s no believers in the book of Acts that had a demon.’ Wrong. Let’s go to Acts 4:6…Ananias and Sapphira.”
His interpretation of this is very novel, and this isn’t something that’s been taught in church history, particularly because a few verses back, Peter just confessed to Jesus after being asked who he and the people think he is; ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’ and Jesus, in turn, calls him blessed and gives him the keys to the kingdom of heaven and tells him about the rock that he will build h
Deliverance Minister Isaiah Saldivar says the Apostle Peter was Demon Possessed pic.twitter.com/mhnfHbSGXh
Months after claiming that ‘Signs and Wonders are Required to Preach the Gospel’ prompting ministries like ours to take him to task for his false and abusive gospel presentation, deliverance minister Isaiah Saldivar has come out swinging against discernment ministries writing negative things about him, saying they’re lying about him being a false teacher and offering all the reasons why this is.
Saldivar has quickly grown his social media empire over the last few years and is frequently platformed by Ruslan KD. He’s a 34-year-old revivalist and full-time social media influencer and content creator with 260k friends on Facebook, 480k subs on YouTube, 100k followers on Instagram, and 400k followers on TikTok, where he has 3.5 Million likes.
Isaiah says he was saved after, as an atheist, he was sitting in a pew when Jesus spoke to him in an audible voice and told him, “I am going to use you to preach the gospel to every nation.” He claims that shortly after, he had a vision of people praying at his house and concluded, “We need to pray, and people will gather.” As a result, “people began to gather, and gather, and gather. Soon enough, signs, wonders, and miracles began to occur effortlessly” until there were 500 people there.
He specializes in deliverance ministry and casting out demons, as he has a whole demonology thing going on, teaching the how and why to cast out demons, giving them all sorts of wacky names.
One of the hallmarks of this unbiblical and warped theology is his insistence that Christians can have demons inside of them that need to be exorcised, and he will teach on the need and importance for believers to cast demons out of each other, which is something he can frequently be seen doing in his videos.
He also has some bizarre ideas about so-called ‘spiritual spouses’: teaching that a person’s spouse can have a demon inside of them, claim you as their husband or wife, and then destroy your life and try to keep you from God because they are a jealous demon. He believes that demons can have sex with people- that occasionally they can rape people while they sleep, and believes in literal incubus and succubus.
Thankfully, Revealing Truth does a great job of reviewing his video and showing why Saldivar is being dishonest and false-teachery with his video, such as exposing Saldivar’s ludicrous and nonsensical stawmanning claim that :
“Every person that’s ever called me a false teacher or false prophet on this platform YouTube has been non-charismatics and non-pentecostals that don’t believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, don’t believe in deliverance and don’t believe in miracles.
And all the videos I’ve watched calling me a false teacher, they’re all not really mad at me, they’re mad I believe Jesus still casts demons out of people, Jesus still heals people, and the Holy Spirit is for today
You’ve probably seen Isaiah Saldivar somewhere on social media. He’s a 34-year-old revivalist and full-time social media influencer and content creator that has 250k friends on Facebook, 412k subs on YouTbe, 100k followers on Instagram, and another 350k followers on TikTok, where he has 3.5 Million likes.
Isaiah says he was saved after, as an atheist, he was sitting in a pew when Jesus spoke to him in an audible voice and told him “I am going to use you to preach the gospel to every nation.” He claims that shortly after, he had a vision of people praying at his house and concluded, “We need to pray, and people will gather.” As a result, “people began to gather, and gather, and gather. Soon enough, signs, wonders, and miracles began to occur effortlessly” until there were 500 people there.
He specializes in deliverance ministry and casting out demons, as he has a whole demonology thing going on, teaching the how and why to cast out demons, giving them all sort of wacky names. He also believes that Christians can have demons inside of them that need to be expelled, and that Christians need to cast demons out of each other.
He also has some bizarre ideas about ‘spiritual spouses’: which is when your spouse has a demon inside of them and they claim you as their husband or wife, and then destroy your life and try to keep you from God because they are a jealous demon. He believes that demons can have sex with people- that occasionally they can rape people while they sleep, and believes in literal incubus and succubus.
In a recent video, he preaches another gospel by making the following claim:
Anyone who says signs and wonders don’t matter or isn’t required in presenting the gospel is completely wrong. Paul says this; signs and wonders gave him full confidence that he fully preached the gospel and without them the gospel is not full.
Here’s what the NLT says. ‘They were convinced by the power of miraculous signs and wonders and by the power of God’s Spirit, in this way’- in what way? by the mark of signs and wonders- ‘in this way, I have fully presented the good news of Christ from Jerusalem, all the way to Illyricum.
In today’s era of Christianity, we’ve lost the convincing factor. The thing that was convincing people in Paul’s day was the signs and wonders, and today we use programs, gimmicks and nice buildings, but Paul used signs and wonders. He didn’t need to play, a performance, a gimmick. It was the raw power of God that convinced them. The Bible says they were convinced by the miraculous signs and wonders. So the world doesn’t need a new definition of Christianity. They need a new demonstration of Christianity.
Because Saldivar is a false teacher, a quick examination of the scriptures, in context, shows that he has it wrong an dis just making stuff up, like his demon beliefs.
For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. And in this way I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already known by name, so that I would not build on another person’s foundation. Romans 5:18-20 NASB.
Paul is not saying that without signs and wonders the gospel is not full, that they are in some way necessary for the gospel to be preached, or that a signs-and-wonder-less gospel is deficient. Instead, by saying he has “fully preached the Gospel” in verse 19, he means he has preached the full counsel of God all through the area. He faithfully preached all across the region, “from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum” which is a ministry area of some 1400 miles. It’s about where he preached, not the substance of what he preached. Extent, not content.
Here is the gospel. There is nothing about the necessity of accompanying signs and wonders for this to be true. The scriptures recount instances of people being saved by Peter or Paul where signs and wonders are not present. Based on Saldivar’s teaching, however, sharing this good news about is only a small part of the equation and should not be shared unless miracles are going to happen also. (Beyond the miracles of regeneration and a heart of stones becoming a heart of flesh). It is definitional of what it means to preach a false gospel.
Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures .1 Corinthians 15:1-4 NASB.
Lastly, for someone so big on the insistence of miracles 24/7, like most false teachers who claim to daily walk in the supernatural, any evidence or proof of his miracle-making and wonder-walking is conspicuously non-existent and absent. Would love to see some videos where he’s doing sign gifts like Jesus, Paul, Peter, Moses, Elijah, Elisha, but we’re not holding our breath.
