Uh-Uh, Satan!: You Had Me for a While, but No More . . .

By W. J. Timmerman

Do you believe in Satan? Why is he called the prince of the world? How do most modern movies portray him? What is Satan really like?

Uh-uh, Satan! will tell you more about the evil one than you probably ever knew before. You will learn what Satan actually has said to famous saints, like Padre Pio, and during an American exorcism sanctioned by the church.

The book details the strategy and basic tactics Satan used on Adam and Eve, with Jesus in the desert, and most likely again, with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. The author maintains Satan employs the same plan of attack on us today. He openly shares how Satan got a hold of him, which led to a crippling spiritual infection. Then he explains how he has safeguarded himself from relapse and describes his specific plan of protection from evil.

Learn more about the mysterious 3:00 a.m. window phenomenon, the noxious odor demons give off, plus the strange case of Diane, who was in healing ministry, training with the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524581381

W. J. Timmerman

W. J. Timmerman holds a PhD in Counseling and Diplomate, American Psychotherapy Association. He has served as an adjunct professor at Bowling Green State University and the Medical College of Ohio. He founded A Quiet Place in Ohio as a Christian healing, counseling and prayer center open to the community for no charge. He received an Open Arms award from Bishop Leonard P. Blair, Diocese of Toledo, Ohio in 2007. He and his wife have six children and thirteen grandchildren.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

1. What Does Satan Really Look Like?

2. Satan: Prince of the World

3. Satan Speaks

4. Satan Uses 3 Basic Enticements

5. The 3 a.m. Window

6. When You’re Up, You Still Aren’t Safe

7. Devotees to Satan or Lucifer

8. The Battlefield

9. Diane

10. Demons and Foul Odors

11. A True Confession

12. Addiction to Pornography

13. Satan and Children

14. Protection from Satan

Epilogue

Addendum

Bibilography

FOREWORD

THE TITLE

Uh-uh. One must be very careful in proofreading lest the total meaning be changed due to minor oversights. For example, at Christmas time, 5 year-old Hannah drew a picture of Santa Claus with the note I love you Satan! When her mother showed her the spelling mistake, the little girl was appalled and angrily ripped up her letter. After her mother calmed her down, Hannah took another piece of paper and this time corrected her mistake.

The title of this book was doubly proofread for accuracy. The Uh-uh is spelled correctly and means a weak No, No, Satan! Adding just one letter like an h can change the whole meaning from Uh-uh to Uh-huh. The Uh-huh in this case means Ok, Satan! A bad mistake indeed.

I learned later in my life that there were many times when I failed to morally proofread my thoughts. I let too many errors or mistakes get by without stopping them. Sometimes I consciously allowed them to happen and other times I was asleep at the wheel. When I permitted them to occur I cannot escape the fact that I realized at some point what I was doing or had done was not excusable even if I had been tired, mad, sick or sad at the time.

If I were a prize fighter or boxer, it was like I had thrown the match. That is, I purposively allowed my opponent to win. If my opponent in the ring had been Satan I was decidedly overmatched to begin with and never should have gotten into the ring in the first place.

I admit that Uh-uh as a response to Satan or anybody else is a weak negation. I also will admit that too often that was my response to the Evil One. And, there certainly were those times when I non-verbally said Uh-huh thereby giving into evil thoughts that led to sinful action. Later, I will confess how I gave into his seduction.

The title of this book clearly cites Satan. Let me state at the outset I believe that Satan exists and is active in the world we live in. An alternate title for the book could rightly be Uh-oh, it’s Satan!

G.K. Chesterton believed in the devil before he believed in God-Vann

A 2001 Gallup poll found that sixty-eight percent of Americans believe in the devil, 20% said they don’t, and 12% were unsure.

A survey by YouGov in 2013 found that 57 percent of respondents in America believe that the devil exists. The devil can be taken to be Satan. It would be interesting to take a poll today since Pope Francis frequently has stated his belief in the living presence of Satan as did emeritus Pope Benedict XVI and the late Pope John Paul II.

When John Paul II was told by a cardinal that some bishops do not believe in the devil he responded: Then they do not believe in the Gospel.

On one occasion Pope Francis said during a Mass right before Halloween, This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil. But the devil exists and we must fight against him. Francis has repeatedly spoken about Satan to the extent that a recent headline flashed on the Internet: Why is Pope Francis So Obsessed with the Devil?

In his homily during a Mass celebrated with the Vatican security police force and the Swiss Guard, Pope Francis said that Satan sows snares and is a seducer. He seduces with charm, with diabolical charm, he leads you to believe everything. He knows how to sell with this charm, he sells well, but he pays badly in the end.

Until Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, the Catholic Church’s medieval history of exorcism ministry had flown under the radar of public vision mainly because church leaders did not want to deal with the confrontation of modern medical science. Benedict issued updated guidelines and encouraged more exorcisms. He set the most recent path for the church to be more open about exorcism that Pope Francis has pursued.

Pope Francis’s repeated focus on Satan has led to a definite uptick in the use of the Rite of Exorcism. In an article by Dennis Lynch in the International Business Times, he cited a Catholic On-Line report that Francis and the Vatican are endorsing a weeklong exorcism conference at the Pontifical University of Regina Apostolorum in Rome being attended by 160 priests from around the globe. Lynch added that Father Cesare Truqui, a Switzerland-based exorcist, told The Telegraph that a third of calls received by Catholic officials in Rome are requests for exorcisms.

You might expect that most people in modern society would describe exorcisms as black magic or some sort of ancient voodoo yet according to that YouGov 2013 survey nearly half of the respondents gave the following response to this item:

Some churches have a ceremony called exorcism, which is designed to drive the Devil or evil spirits out of a person. Do you believe in the power of exorcism or not? Yes, I believe in the power of exorcism … … … … … … … … … … … … . . . 46%

The movie The Exorcist came out in 1973 and was a gigantic success. One blogger put it this way: "A brilliant, but scary movie that you will never, ever forget". I know it scared the heebie-jeebies out of me. More recently there were movies like The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), and The Rite (2011). One guy on the Internet listed 13 exorcism related movies in 2011 before The Exorcism of Molly Hartley was released in 2015. Using the Rotten Tomatoes ten-point rating scale (http://www.rottentomatoes.com) The Exorcist received an average score of 8 from critics followed by The Exorcism of Emily Rose that received a 5.5 and The Rite only 4.3. The early returns on the Molly Hartley movie were not good. Only 22% of the audience liked it at the time of this writing with no critic feedback as yet.

Three of these movies on exorcism came out before or about the time of the YouGov 2013 survey. The spotlight by Pope Francis on Satan being a real and dangerously active being in today’s world has been since the YouGov 2013 survey (his papacy began in 2013). How his obsession with the devil has influenced public belief in exorcisms would be most interesting to resurvey.

Earlier it was mentioned that the church in Rome receives a third of the calls connected to the topic or need for exorcisms.

The increased call for exorcisms is not limited to Rome. It has increased in other regions and countries as well. In the Philippines Father Jose Francisco Syquia said, There is a great dramatic increase of possessions right now. More and more the demons are gaining a foothold into this society. Fifteen years ago he was the only priest doing exorcisms in the Philippines now there are at least ten and likely more to come.

GK Chesterton said, The exorcist towers above the poet and even the prophet-Vann

Probably the most renowned exorcist was Father Gabriele Amorth, a ninety-year-old priest in Rome who recently passed away. He claimed to have performed thousands of exorcisms that count the related prayerful actions rather than actual number of individual cases. He and other priests founded the International Association of Exorcists in 1990 that presently has over 250 members. He spoke often about Satan. More recently he claimed Satan was ISIS. Some people asked for an explanation. Are you talking about ISIS the movement or Satan being in control of it? On another occasion he stated that Satan has a foothold in the Vatican itself. In 2010 he told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that Satan’s influence has affected the highest ranks in the Church with "cardinals who do not believe in