Voo Doo Curses | Gateway Layoffs | Pope Appoints Controversial Preacher | Celebrity Witches

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Voodoo doll curses pastor. Celebrities admit to practicing witchcraft.

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Pope Francis appoints a pro-LGBTQ preacher, and Gateway Church is facing layoffs.

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I'm John Madarazzo for CharismaNews.com and this is your Midweek Rundown.

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Pastor Greg Locke burns a voodoo doll found on his property. He says your witchcraft will not work.

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Pastor Greg Locke is no stranger to spiritual attacks against him and physical ones too,

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as he was the target of a gunman just a couple months ago. He's now under another spiritual

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attack from someone trying to place a curse on him by using a voodoo doll. During a Facebook Live,

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Locke shared with the world how this spiritual attack came about. Others have shared about this

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incident as well, to some very interesting responses. Malachi, thanks for joining again

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to talk about what happened over the weekend with Pastor Greg Locke. You posted this video,

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so tell us about some of the response that you got. I was with Greg Locke when he told me about

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this happening. I was actually there in person with him. And when I posted this video, I did

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not expect the level of just visceral hate. I got two things. One was encouraging responses of people

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saying, we're going to pray, we're going to pray. But the other was like demonic hatred on X of

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four-letter words. I mean, galore people basically cursing us for posting this kind of content and

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exposing the darkness. And then honestly, the other type of content, I assume maybe be from Christians,

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was people just going, this doesn't even exist. This is just a gimmick to get views or clicks or

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like, which nothing could be further from the truth. So I was actually quite surprised, to be

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honest with you, at the level of hate and then just the level of cynicism, but was encouraged

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by the people saying, hey, we're praying for you, we're with you, and mainly praying for Pastor Greg

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Locke. That's who I asked them to pray for and they did. Yeah.

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...up a whole made voodoo doll, complete with a upside down cross hanging on the bottom

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and a little hair looking thing hanging out of it. And so, get the legs, the whole deal. They had it

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wired up close to our bell box at the end of our driveway on our fence post for the world to see.

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And it is literally a voodoo curse that these people have placed at the end of our driveway

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to curse our family and curse our home and curse our house, apparently. And so it's interesting

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that these witches and these Satanists and these God deniers, the links that they will go to

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to do stupid stuff like this right here. Let me tell you something. People are like,

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oh, you shouldn't hold it. You shouldn't put it in your hand. It'll burn you. No, I'm going to burn it

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and send it back to hell where it belongs. And the person who put it there needs to repent or

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you're going to burn in hell as well. But you know, I love how like he's just not afraid of

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this thing, this item, this curse or whatever. He knows his rightful authority. He knows his

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rightful place as a son of the most high God. He knows that he's covered in the blood of Jesus

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and he doesn't have to be worried about these curses. Where does that boldness come from?

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Well, I think it simply comes from the revelation and the reality that, you know, okay, so that

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voodoo doll was tied to a fence post at the end of his driveway. It comes from the revelation that

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our Lord Savior Jesus Christ was nailed to a cross where our sins died rose again. And I think Greg

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just lives in the revelation of the power of the blood and the reality that Satan's under our feet

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and having seen and experienced demons be cast out of people. And so the confidence comes from

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one, knowing what Jesus done for us. But number two, Pastor Greg knows that we have to go out

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and confront this evil with truth. And so I kind of thought it was hilarious that he said, you know,

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you can repent or you'll burn in hell. And so, I mean, again, we've lost in America fiery preachers.

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They're coming back in a lot of ways. I mean, interesting after this election, some stuff is

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happening, but we need more bold preachers like that that won't, we'll just call it for what it

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is. And Greg did just that. Yeah, you said about fiery preachers and Greg definitely is. And, you

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know, the political season is we're still on the tail end of it. But in 2020, Pastor Greg Lock was

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a fiery Baptist preacher that was more Republican, maybe than anything else. And he had basically an

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encounter with the Lord. And now he's more about deliverance and Jesus and the same voting, the same

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political stances there. But that's because of what he's of the revelation that he has and, you

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know, being submitted to Jesus, as opposed to this is what I believe. I'm going to make everything

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line up with that. I just love to see the firebrand shifted. And he's fiery for the right

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reasons. And there's a righteous anger as opposed to the craziness that was happening about four

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years ago. But let's see what happens here as he finishes with this thing.

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The word is upon us and I say to this voodoo curse, you will not prevail. You won't prevail.

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You're not going to prevail. We're not going to be afraid. We're not going to give up. We're not going to give in.

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It's going up quick. That's how we do it. Yep. We'll burn the rest of that hellish demonic witchcraft

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and just let it burn for a while. But I'm here to tell you, we're not quitting. We're not stopping.

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Okay. You little witchcraft. Don't scare me. Never has, never will. Never has, never will. You know why?

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We are covered in the red royal crimson flow of the blood of Jesus Christ and your witchcraft will

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not work. Jesus is Lord. I love that. He's so powerful and just very, very bold. And

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witchcraft will not work. So he's under attacks all the time. You know him personally very well.

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And people are threatening him all the time. I would love to because, and again, I say he's one

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of my best friends known for 20 plus years. And I would encourage everyone who's watching this video

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as we pray now to pray, leave a comment to pray because we need to lift up these bold preachers

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in this hour in prayer. That's the greatest gift we can give them is intercede for them. So Lord Jesus,

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Holy Spirit, we pray for Pastor Greg Locke. We pray for Pastor Ty. We pray for all of the Locke

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family. We pray for Global Vision Bible Church. Well, we just pray for angelic protection around

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them. Yes, on the outside, but on the inside. On the inside where Satan knows where to shoot his

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sharpest and most fiery arrows, God. And I pray that all these supposed curses would just turn into

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unbelievable, exponential blessing, God. I pray blessing and I speak. When someone makes a curse,

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we speak life. We speak hope. So we all of us together right now, Lord, we speak life over

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Pastor Locke and favor over that church and blessing over everything they put their hands to do and use

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them to reach millions of people around the world for the gospel. And Lord, I pray for everybody

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watching this video that they don't have to live in fear. The blood of Jesus is greater. The blood

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of Jesus speaks a better word than even the blood of Abel, God, as Hebrews says. And so we just thank

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you for Greg. Bless them and help us to live boldly and courageously because Satan is under our feet

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and no weapon formed against us or our friends or our family. Lord, we'll succeed. They will all fail.

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And we praise in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Dr. Malachi, thanks so much for joining us and giving

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us this update. Continuing on with the witchcraft theme, celebrities admitting to witchcraft

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practice. In a world where we see the rise of the occult, we are seeing more and more celebrities

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admitting to being part of the witchcraft scene. As Christians, we need to press in and pray for

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these people to have their lives changed. Now, one of these people that was exposed by Nick Jones was

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Kendall Jenner, who has 290 million followers on Instagram. She shared about being a witch on her

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birthday and actually posted on one of her cakes that witches don't age. Another major celebrity who

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recently admitted to being a witch is Ariana Grande. Now, Ariana Grande is starring in the new Wicked

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film and is apparently more than just an onscreen witch, but is a literal practicing one as well.

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In an interview, Grande discussed her love for tarot cards and doing readings for people when

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she is on set. She says that I am the witchiest witch. Pray for celebrities like Jenner and Grande

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to find the true hope of Jesus Christ. Next, we have Pope Francis appointing a pro LGBTQ preacher.

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Pope Francis has sparked controversy among Catholics by appointing a pro LGBTQ

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Father Roberto Pasolini as the preacher of the papal household. Concerns about Father Pasolini stem

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from past statements in which he speculated that same-sex relationships in biblical narratives.

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In one instance, he encouraged imagining a homosexual relationship between Jonathan and King David.

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He suggested that the Roman centurion's concern for his servant could have hinted at a romantic bond,

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rhetorically asking, why was he so dear to him? Why was he working well? Maybe there was a

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relationship between the two of them. Pasolini went even further, suggesting that homosexuality

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might have existed within the circle of the disciples between Jesus and the disciples,

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Jesus and Lazarus, citing strong expressions of love in scripture, such as when it was written

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that Jesus loved Lazarus. He also encouraged Catholics to engage with gay culture, recommending

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watching Brokeback Mountain, reading gay novels, living with our gay friends, and listening to them

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as they would listen to the Lord. Definitely keep our Catholic brothers and sisters in the Lord

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in prayer. With this person coming to influence in a more prominent position, be careful.

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And an update on Gateway Church. Layoffs are coming amidst the massive tithing drop.

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Robert Morris resigned from the church after the truth about his past affair with an underage girl

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came to light, and the church has been dealing with the fallout ever since. Gateway has announced

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that layoffs for staff members are on the horizon amid drop in tithing. Gateway elder Kenneth

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Fambro gave an update on the financial status of the church last week. He says that we have in fact

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seen our tithes reduce between 35 and 40 percent. As a result, we really need to go and start

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looking at the ministry itself and looking into some staff reductions. He says, if you're

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department is dissolved or reduced, you will receive the same severance package as those who

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took the voluntary severance. That is one month for every year of service, up to four months.

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Continue to pray for Gateway and all who have been affected by the swift changes that have taken

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place this year. I'm John Madarazzo for CharismaNews.com. Thank you.